Subject: Join us: Talking Biopolitics with Robert Wilson and Milton Reynolds
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 21:16:05 +0000

Exploring the History of Eugenic Sterilization
in Western Canada

An Online Conversation

Robert Wilson and Milton Reynolds
Thursday, November 19
11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 GMT
( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s1ebd1lgPtyF )

Dear Subscriber,

Please join us on Thursday, November 19 (11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 GMT) for the next Talking Biopolitics, a series of live online conversations with cutting-edge thinkers about the social meanings of human biotechnologies.
Robert Wilson ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s12dd0lgPtyN ) will talk with Milton Reynolds ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s12410lgPtyS ) &ndash; and with you &ndash; about his film, Surviving Eugenics ( http://eugenicsarchive.rsvp1.com/s12390lgPtyY ).
Surviving Eugenics explores the history of eugenic sterilization in Western Canada and its ongoing impacts today. Featuring narratives by survivors about their experiences in public institutions for the treatment of &ldquo;feeble-mindedness,&rdquo; the film also raises broader questions about disability, human variation, and contemporary social policies.
Daniel Kevles, professor of history at Yale University and author of In the Name of Eugenics, calls Surviving Eugenics &ldquo;a sensitive tour de force -- the rare documentary that both movingly presents the human faces of a social movement&rsquo;s victims and trenchantly conveys the flawed thinking and politics that produced such horrendous consequences.&rdquo;
This online event is free and open to the public, but registration ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s1ffd0lgPtz6 ) is required!
Feel free to forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues, and join the Twitter discussion at #TalkingBiopolitics.

Looking forward,

Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director
Center for Genetics and Society ( http://geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s100d1lgPtzb )
( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s10311lgPtzg )

About the Filmmaker

Robert Wilson ( http://edpolicystudies.ualberta.rsvp1.com/s1cd90lgPtzq ) is professor in the Departments of Philosophy ( http://www.philosophy.ualberta.rsvp1.com/s10ad1lgPtzz ) and Educational Policy Studies ( http://www.edpolicystudies.ualberta.rsvp1.com/s1db10lgPtzG ) at the University of Alberta, Canada, and founding director of Philosophy for Children Alberta ( http://www.philosophy.ualberta.rsvp1.com/s114d1lgPtzR ) and of Eugenics Archives ( http://eugenicsarchive.rsvp1.com/s1d390lgPtzY ). His areas of specialization include the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, philosophy of biology, and disability studies. Rob is the author or editor of six books, including Boundaries of the Mind ( http://www.cambridge.rsvp1.com/s1cfc3lgPtA6 ) (2004) and Genes and the Agents of Life ( http://www.cambridge.rsvp1.com/s1f3c3lgPtAf ) (2005), and is currently completing book projects on eugenics and on kinship.  He is an Australian, born in Broken Hill and growing up there and in Perth, and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Cornell University. Surviving Eugenics ( http://eugenicsarchive.rsvp1.com/s1f443lgPtAl )is his first venture into the world of film-making.

About the Interviewer

Milton Reynolds is Senior Program Associate at Facing History and Ourselves ( https://facinghistory.rsvp1.com/s1fb43lgPtAx ). Before joining Facing History he spent over ten years as a middle school teacher, a diversity/communications consultant, and a curriculum design specialist, and has over 25 years of counseling experience. The American eugenics movement has been a particular area of interest in Milton&rsquo;s studies and in the work of Facing History and Ourselves. Milton serves as Vice Chair of the San Mateo Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission ( http://bnc.smcgov.rsvp1.com/s1e8c3lgPtAB ), and is a longstanding advisory board member of The Working Group ( http://www.theworkinggroup.rsvp1.com/s12a82lgPtAE ), producers of the award-winning PBS series Not In Our Town ( http://www.pbs.rsvp1.com/s12f82lgPtAI ).

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