The Human Rights Institute of the University of Valencia (HDI) has organized a seminar given by Professor of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Verena Stolcke, which will reflect on human cloning. The session will be held on Thursday, 23 May, at 16:30 in the 4P12 classroom of the Western Departmental Building of the Tarongers Campus and is part of the seminar program of the Master's degree in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice which is given by the HDI and the Faculty of Law.
Professor Stolcke's seminar is titled “Clonation, kinship, culture and nature", current topic following the announcement last week by a group of American scientists (in which UV former student and biologist Nuria Martí Gutierrez participates) that they had succeeded for the first time to get embryonic stem cells from the same DNA (cloned) as an adult. For Professor Stolcke, "the desire to have a child perfectly designed with the genes to 'start a family' that expresses in a particularly literal way the old conventional notion of biological kinship, can hardly be considered as an individualist search. Rather, it is another manifestation of a modern world intensely competitive, achievement oriented but profoundly unequal, in which what individuals get is paradoxically attributed to innate abilities or failures."
Professor Verena Stolcke currently works in the research group AHCISP (Anthropology and History in the Construction of Social Identities and Policy) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, which is reviewing the construction of identities in its symbolic and political with special emphasis on the dynamics of group interrelations.
Currently led by Professor Consuelo Ramon, the HDI has received from the Ministry of Education an Excellence Mention for its doctoral program Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice. The HDI obtained in 2008 an aid within the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 program, as part of a project in which twelve Spanish universities participate. Consolider-Ingenio 2010 is the main method of financing for the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011 for high quality projects. It was the first time that a team of researchers from the legal field received aid of this kind, mainly aimed at scientific contexts away from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Last update: 22 de may de 2013 08:40.
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