The problem of the “Missing Girls” of China and India and possible solutions and remedies is the topic of this year’s biotechnology symposium at Â鶹¹û¶³ Friday, Feb. 26. The program will highlight human rights violations and the large-scale elimination of females from the populations of China and India, where sex-selective abortion is widely practiced.
The daylong program, hosted by the Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics at Â鶹¹û¶³’s Cumberland School of Law, will begin at 8:50 a.m. in the moot courtroom of Robinson Hall law building. The public is invited free of charge.
Speakers are scholars and specialists in a variety of areas related to the topic.
Participants are University of California-Irvine anthropology professor Susan Greenhalgh, whose research focuses on China’s population control policies; Brigham Young University political science professor Valerie M. Hudson, author of Bare Branches: Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population; Oregon State University anthropology professor Sunil K. Khanna, a specialist in the use of reproductive technology for prenatal sex determination and practices of sex selection in urbanizing north India; and UC-Irvine sociology department chair Wang Feng, a specialist in social and demographic change in China and social inequality in post-socialist societies.
Biotechnology center director and law professor David M. Smolin, will serve as facilitator and moderator. He is a specialist in issues such as intercountry adoption, child labor and children’s rights, constitutional reproduction issues, and law and religion.
The symposium’s co-sponsors, along with the biotechnology center, are Cumberland’s Christian Legal Society, Law Review, Women in Law, and the Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership at Â鶹¹û¶³.
For information, call Smolin at (205) 726-2418 or check the website at: www.Cumberland.Â鶹¹û¶³.edu/biotech.