Call for papers:
Perspectives on PGD: a one day seminar organised by the Postgraduate
Forum in Genetics and Society (PFGS)
Birkbeck College, University of London,
Friday 20th November 2009, 10:00 - 5:00

The PFGS invites postgraduate submissions (individual papers, panels or
roundtable discussions) for its Autumn Regional Meeting, to be held at
Birkbeck College, University of London. The day-long workshop aims to be
a participative and useful event for post-graduates, with an equal mix
of presentations and discussion.

Papers so far include:
Law's involvement with PGD & questions of enhancement: an alternative
stance. (Peter Lovett)
Saviour siblings & the law: has Luhmann anything useful to say? (Sharon
Persaud)

We welcome submissions from UK postgraduates with a research interest in
any area of genetics, particularly pre-implantatation genetic diagnosis
or other forms of genetic testing from a disability perspective.
Conference registration is free, and travel bursaries within the UK are
available for all participants, including carers. The Clore Management
Centre at Birkbeck is fully accessible.

Abstracts of 250 words for individuals and 250-350 for panels (including
participant names) should be sent to committee@pfgs.org by 31st October.
The PFGS is a volunteer postgraduate forum which seeks to bring together
researchers interested in how biosciences and society(s) intersect. Set
up in 1998 to explore questions directly related to developments in
genetics, it has now expanded to provide a common forum for the next
generation of academic researchers from a spectrum of fields including -
but not limited to: sociology, psychology, anthropology, science and
technology studies, law, philosophy, art and science. Overall, our aim
is to engage with each other in productive dialogue and build capacity
in the study of life sciences and
society.