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Accueil > Archives > Journées et colloques des années précédentes > Journées et colloques 2018-2019 > Genes, Genealogies, and the Construction of Identity

Genes, Genealogies, and the Construction of Identity


Thursday & Friday May 2 & 3, 2019


by Lisa Gannett
(Saint Mary’s University, Halifax)




Salle Mondrian, 646A
University Paris Diderot, Building Condorcet, 75013 Paris *



Genealogy is all the rage, and DNA testing is increasingly used to trace branches of family trees and establish national, ethnic, and racial ancestral proportions. How do patterns of DNA differences contribute to the construction of identity ? What are the ethical and political ramifications of adopting and attributing group identities based on genetic genealogy ? Can the science deliver on the expectations of the growing number of consumers who purchase DNA ancestry tests ?



Interested Researchers and Students may get the studied texts by writing to Claude-Olivier Doron (Univ. Paris Diderot, HPS, SPHERE) : colivierdoron ( at ) gmail.com



Lisa Gannett is a historian and philosopher of science, a specialist in the genetics of human populations, genetic ancestry and the notion of "race" in biology. She is currently staying as a visiting professor at SPHERE.





University Paris Diderot – CNRS
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