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Northeast Intersex Panel at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
For many years the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has been a leader in sex education for medical students. In 2005, their annual "Sex Week" will kick off with a panel discussion on intersex, featuring ISNA board members Debbie Hartman (mother of child with intersex) and Alice Dreger (scholar), co-founder of Bodies Like Ours Janet Green (woman with an intersex condition), and clinician David Sandberg, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Buffalo. The panel will start at 8 a.m. on Monday, January 3, 2005, and is organized by psychologist Nina Williams, a member of ISNA's Medical Advisory Board and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. (Information courtesy of ISNA.)
Midwest Alice Dreger to Lecture at University of Michigan Medical School
On January 25, 2005, at noon (Eastern), ISNA's board chair Alice Dreger will speak to University of Michigan medical students about intersex. She'll screen for them the new film, "Total Patient Care" (available from ISNA's website), and talk with them about the changing treatment protocols for intersex. (Information courtesy of ISNA.)
SF Bay Area SF Human Rights Commission; Presentation in Berkeley and at UCSF
On January 27, San Francisco Human Rights Commission will vote on approving its findings and recommendations on human rights violations against intersex individuals. The meeting will be held in the room 416 of San Francisco City Hall at 4:30pm. (Intersex Initiative director Emi Koyama plans to be there, so come see her!)
There are two presentations earlier in the day: First, ISNA board member Thea Hillman will present "Intersex Makes for Great Dinner Table Conversation" at Pacific School of Religion from 10:45am-12 noon in Berkeley (510-849-8274); then, ethicist and medical historian Alice Dreger will give a lecture at the Health Sciences West 303 at University of California, San Francisco, from noon to 1:00pm.
California UCLA Gender & Genomics Symposium on Sex, Science & Society
On January 30, UCLA's Center for Society and Genetics will hold a public symposium on "Sex, Science and Society", which would explore the topic of intersexuality among others. Among the featured speakers are UCLA's own Dr. Eric Vilain, whose premature proclamation that he had found the genetic root of gender confused everyone, and Dr. Jenny Graves from Australian National University who once stated that intersex people might be the "saviours of humankind" as Homo sapiens separate into two distinct species. The event is held at Grand Horizon Ballroom at Covel Commons, Sunset Village UCLA Campus and free and open to the public, so we'd like someone in the area to attend and report back what they hear.