Friday, April 12, 2013

Welcome (17.30)
Michael Hagner, Zürich
Rakefet Zalashik, New York/ Heidelberg

Panel 1 (17.45-19.45, Apéro)
Marianne Sommer, Lucerne
Making History: Practices of Identification in the Genographic Network

Keith Wailoo, Princeton
How Diseases Become Racial: Genetics, Cancer, and the Transformation of Jewish Identity

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Panel 2 (10-12.30)

Veronika Lipphardt, Berlin
Jews, Roma, Basks, Laps: How the Concept of ‚Isolates‘ Helped to Transfer Race Science Into Late 20th Century Human Population Genetics

Yulia Egorova, Durham
The Genetics of Emerging Judaisms: Power and Agency in DNA Research

Panel 3 (14-17.30)

Nadav Davidovitch, Beer Sheva
From Tay Sachs to Progressive Cerebellocerebral Atrophy: Broadening the ‚Ethnification‘ discussion on Jewish Genetic Screening

Petter Hellström, Uppsala
Genetic lineages: Y Chromosomes, Mitochondrial DNA, and the Quest for Jewish Genes

Tino Plümecke, Frankfurt/M
Old Differences in New PCR Tubes? What is New in the New Science of Race

Final Comment (17.30-18.30)
Carola Sachse, Vienna