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• Oct 16
  Clones, Zombies, and Serial Killers: How Genetic Privacy Might Save Your Life: Jay Clayton

  Clones, Zombies, and Serial Killers:  How Genetic Privacy Might Save Your Life

  This talk stems from a multi-year research project aimed at uncovering how culture affects people’s attitudes toward genetic privacy, and it illustrates our model of transdisciplinary collaboration among the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law. After outlining for humanists some of the reasons why one should be concerned about genetic privacy, I describe our model of collaboration and discuss the principal findings of the group tasked with assessing popular culture’s impact on public attitudes toward genetics.

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  About the Speaker:

  Jay Clayton, PhD

  William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English

  Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy

  Vanderbilt University

   

  Jay Clayton is author or editor of seven books and more than 35 articles and chapters, and he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and elsewhere. His published scholarship has ranged from Romantic poetry and the Victorian novel to contemporary American literature, film and digital media, science and literature, and medicine, health, and society. His book, Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture, focused on the depiction of computers, information technology, and cyborgs from the Victorian era to the twenty-first century. This study won the Suzanne M. Glasscock Humanities Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.  His recent work has concentrated on the ethical, social, and cultural issues raised by genomics.

  Jay Clayton received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He began his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was the first director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and received the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award.  At Vanderbilt, he teaches courses on Victorian literature, digital media, online gaming, genetics in literature and film, and contemporary American literature.  He served as chair of the English department from 2002–2010.

   

  The Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics at the URMC and the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester present this event as part of their year-long series on Privacy.

  Rush Rhees Library

  5pm EDT

   

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