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Who is a Jew? Genetics, Identity and Ethnicity

Wednesday, August 25, 2004
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Purdue Room
Norris University Center
1999 Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois 60208

Sponsored by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program and Center for Genetic Medicine. This program features internationally renowned bioethicists, rabbis, researchers and community leaders reflecting on how identity, ethnicity, citizenship and family are altered by new understandings of genetics.

Moderator: Rex Chisholm, PhD
Director, Center for Genetic Medicine

Closing Remarks: Laurie Zoloth, PhD
Medical Humanities and Bioethics

No Charge for Admission
Parking Available on Campus Drive near the Norris Center
Light Refreshments · Dietary laws observed

For more information contact Karen Litwack at the Center by phone (312) 357-4718, email at jewishgeneticsctr@juf.org or visit Northwestern University’s Center for Genetic Medicine online at www.cgm.northwestern.edu

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Claims of Identity: Jewish Identity, Ethnicity, Family and Citizenship After the Human Genome Project. Conference is funded by a generous grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Genome Research Institute, Center for the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (NIH-ELSI)

Partial funding for the Who is a Jew? Genetics, Identity and Ethnicity Lecture is provided by the Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine Herman M. and Bea L. Silverstein Medical Research Fund for Genetic Medicine