The Un/Contained Body: Performances and Forum 2008

The Un/Contained Body: Performances and Forum 2008

When:

Sunday, April 13th 4:00 to 5.30pm
Monday, April 14th 1:30 to 4:30pm

Where:

Studio 303
372 St. Catherine Ouest, 3rd. floor
www.studio303.ca
(514) 393-3771
Moses Tiepoh's Valedictorian Address

November 2006 Convocation Ceremony [download]
Invited speakers

The Humanities Doctoral Program hosts visiting speakers on a regular basis. Invited speakers have included Elizabeth Grosz, Susan Buck-Morss, Dominick La Capra, Kobena Mercer, Wanda Teays, Sander Gilman, Margaret Cohen, Anne Friedberg, Martin Jay, Alphonso Lingis, Jonathan Crary, Jackie Stacey, Will Straw, Manuel de Landa, Linda and Michael Hutcheon and Brian Massumi.
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Conferences

Humanities students, in collaboration with the Communication Studies program at Concordia, have hosted an annual student conference since 2002 called R/Evolution.

human-animal hybrid embryo amid political row

British researchers create human-animal hybrid embryo amid political row
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Tue Apr 1, 11:36 PM

LONDON (AFP) - For the first time in Britain, researchers at Newcastle University said Tuesday they had created human-animal hybrid embryos, amid a political row over a disputed embryo research bill in parliament.
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According to the northern English university, the research, which was first presented at a lecture in Tel Aviv on March 25, has yet to be published or verified, with a spokesman for the university telling AFP that the institution "wouldn't claim it to be final at all."

The revelation comes with British MPs engaged in a fierce battle over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which allows the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for medical research.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's governing Labour Party conceded in March that its party lawmakers with moral or ethical objections would be allowed to vote against parts of the proposed legislation when it comes before parliament this year.

The embryos were created by injecting DNA taken from human skin cells into eggs derived from cow ovaries with almost all their genetic material stripped away, and lasted for three days in a laboratory.

The Newcastle University spokesman said that the research would likely be published in "months rather than weeks".

At present, researchers wanting to create such embryos have to apply for a license from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which currently regulates the practice in Britain, and hybrid embryos have to be destroyed after 14 days.

The government says that the scientific advantages of allowing the creation of hybrid embryos for research purposes could help millions of people to recover from illness or disease.

Religious leaders, however, have argued against the bill, with the leader of Catholics in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, using his Easter Sunday sermon to brand the bill a "monstrous attack on human rights, human dignity and human life" which will allow experiments of "Frankenstein proportion".