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Photos from BIOS: Life, Death, Politics, 4/30 - 5/1/2010

Image removed.Priscilla Wald (Duke) opens the conference with her keynote address, "Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories."


April 30 - May 1, 2010


Image removed.Timothy Campbell (left) and Cesare Casarino (below) follow with a panel addressing Tekhne and the Life-Image, respectively.

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Neni Panourgia (Columbia), Baris Karaagac (York), and Elizabeth Dauphinee (York)consider comments from the audience during the second panel.
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The first day concludes with a keynote by Paul Kahn (right) on the distinction between criminal and enemy.






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The second day opens with a keynote
address by Paul Rabinow (left).



Susan Greenhalgh (UC, Irvine), Sharad Chari (London School of Economics), and Jonathan Inda (Illinois) present papers on the obesity 'epidemic', the remains of apartheid in South Africa, and the intersection of race and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Right: Cesare Casarino poses a question to the panel.
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Above Left: The conference concludes with a roundtable featuring short presentations by (pictured left to right) Emanuel Rota, Gilberto Rosas, A. Naomi Paik, and Jennifer Baldwin.