In the early 21st century, we witness a re-emergence of discourses on Jews as a race in both the social sciences and in the fields of medicine and genetics. These discourses embody contradictory arguments: whereas some try to undermine the religious and Zionist ideologies, which argue that Jews are historically one people, others attempt to anchor the claim of Jewish particular genetic and racial commonalities using
medicine and genetics. Our workshop aims to examine this new phenomenon
by bringing together social and political scientists, historians of science and scholars from Jewish studies.
Schedule
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
Venue
Zentrum "Geschichte des Wissens"ETH Zürich
Clausiusstrasse 59 RZ, F 21
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