Biotech Symposium - "The Missing Girls of China and India: What Can Be Done?"

Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics will host a conference entitled "The Missing Girls of China and India:  What Can Be Done?" on Friday, February 26, 2010 in the Moot Court Room of Cumberland School of Law. This symposium will focus on one of the greatest, but barely-noticed, violations of human rights in the contemporary world - the large-scale elimination of females from the population of China and India. 

Scholarship on the problem of the missing girls of China and India has been increasingly successful in documenting the problem and pointing toward some of the most direct causes. The purpose of this Symposium is to gather together a small number of the leading scholars in the area, and urge them to point towards solutions and remedies to the problem.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

MORNING PROGRAM

8:50 A.M. Introductions and Welcome

9:00A.M. – 10:20A.M. Overview and India

Professor Valerie Hudson (Overview)
Professor Sunil Khanna (India)

10:30A.M. – 11:50A.M. China

Professor Susan Greenhalgh
Professor Feng Wang

Noon – 1:20: Lunch

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

1:30 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.: Discussion, Questions, Debate

A. Professor Smolin (Points of Agreement, Points of Dispute)
B. Professor Susan Greenhalgh,
Professor Valerie Hudson
Professor Sunil Khanna
Professor David Smolin
Professor Feng Wang

Professor David Smolin will lead off the afternoon session by noting points of agreement and points of dispute. Most of the afternoon session will be spent in a general discussion of the topic, including audience questions and comments; all of the conference speakers will participate.

This event is open to the public, and all students are invited and encouraged to attend.  Lunch will be served in the Great Room.