[Hamp-law] Unnatural Selection: Eugenics, Race, and Ideas of Biological Value (UMass)

[Jennifer Hamilton]

    Please join us for the next event in the 2008-09 Feinberg Family
    Lecture Series:


    Unnatural Selection: Eugenics, Race, and Ideas of Biological Value

    <http://blogs.umass.edu/thevalue/2008/08/21/unnatural-selection-eugenics-race-and-ideas-of-biological-value/>

Wednesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m., The Commons, 2nd floor, Studio Arts 
Building <http://www.umass.edu/visitorsctr/downloads/campusmap.pdf>

RICHARD LEWONTIN, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard University
DIANE PAUL, Associate of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 
University
LAURA LOVETT, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst


    Sponsored by the Department of History, UMass Amherst --- Feinberg
    Lecture Series
    <http://blogs.umass.edu/thevalue/2008/08/25/2008-feinberg-lecture-series-web-log/>

The 2008-09 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by the 
Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will 
take as its theme "Measuring the Value of Human Life," which will engage 
scholarship in history, bioethics, legal studies, the arts, and other 
realms to explore how value has been ascribed to human lives in 
courtrooms, labs, archives, boardrooms, and universities. Public 
lectures, panels, and film screenings will consider subjects ranging 
from the role of war and sacrifice in ancient societies to contemporary 
reparations movements. Events will examine efforts to compensate 
individuals and families for lives and limbs lost on the battlefield and 
in the workplace. We will consider attempts (from the religious to the 
technological) to purchase eternal life, and reflect on ways in which 
historians have measured and valued life stories. In sum, this exciting 
series investigates the many and varied approaches to the questions, 
what is life worth?

The series is grounded in the work of University of Massachusetts 
Amherst alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg, Special Master of the Federal 
September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 and author of the book 
What is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims 
of 9/11 
<http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1586483234>. 
Mr. Feinberg's distinguished and wide-ranging career in mediation has 
included cases involving Agent Orange and the Dalkon Shield; most 
recently he oversaw Virginia Tech's Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund.

This program is affiliated with The Feinberg Institute 
<http://www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute/>, a center for research and 
scholarship that will guide policymakers, the legal community, 
decision-makers and others as they grapple with the question, "How Much 
is a Life Worth?" To learn more about this initiative, see: 
www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute <http://www.umass.edu/feinberginstitute/>

Dr. Jennifer A. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Franklin Patterson Hall 208
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

(413) 559-5578 (o)
(413) 559-5620 (f)
jhamilton at hampshire.edu
http://www.hampshire.edu/ss/7410.htm

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