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WHAT: |
"Who
Owns the Body?," a three-day international conference at
the University of California, Berkeley. It will include
discussions on the integrity of the human body - international
trafficking in human organs, state-sponsored terrorism and
the rights of Native Americans to reclaim the bones of their
ancestors. The public conference already is at capacity;
keynote event still open. |
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WHEN: |
Sept.
21-23, 2000, with keynote address Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m., in
Wheeler Hall. |
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WHERE: |
International
House, Bancroft Way and Piedmont Avenue, UC Berkeley. |
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WHO: |
Sponsored
by UC Berkeley's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research,
the conference includes scholars and human rights activists
from Bosnia, Croatia, South Africa, Argentina and Chile,
and Native American groups.
Participants
include: Amor Masovic, MP, Bosnia-Herzegovina; forensics
expert William Haglund, from Physicians for Human Rights;
Walter Echohawk, director of the Native American Rights
Fund: and Columbia University professor Karl Kroeber,
son of UC Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber.
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STORY
TIPS:
-Keynote
speaker and clinical professor of psychiatry Judith Lewis
Herman, of Harvard Medical School, will say that an international
traffic in forced labor, particularly of women and children,
rivals in size the market in drugs and armaments.
-More
than 4,000 victims have been exhumed from mass graves
in Srebrenica, but only 69 have been identified. Who owns
the human remains from this atrocity?
- Native
Americans and representatives of scientific inquiry will
debate claims to Kennewick Man, a 9,500-year-old skeleton
found in the Columbia River.
- New
information on brain death suggests that transplant organs
are being removed from people who are not completely dead.
-Ishi's
own voice will be heard speaking and singing in his native
Yana language.
Find
program at www.chance.berkeley.edu/research/
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