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Rachel Adams - "Parenting, Narrative, and our Genetic Futures"

  • East Gallery, Buell Hall (map)

As part of the Heyman Center for the Humanities Disciplines Series:

Evaluation, Value, and Evidence, authors Alison Piepmeier, George Estreich, and Rachel Adams take up many of the questions raised in the November 2013 event on "Genes, Children, and Ethics" (featuring Michael Berube, Faye Ginsberg, and Rayna Rapp) in their discussion of "Parenting, Narrative, and Our Genetic Futures." Jordana Mendelson will chair.

Cosponsored by the Future of Disability Studies project.

Participants

Alison Piepmeier
Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies Program; author of "Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism" and other works.
College of Charleston

George Estreich
Author of "Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body" and "The Shape of the Eye"

Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Future of Disability Studies project
Columbia University