[rohrpost] BERLIN American Academy Lecture: "The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race", November 4, 2014

[Laura Sager]

Dear Friends of the Academy, 
 
The American Academy in Berlin cordially invites you to the Bosch Public Policy Lecture entitled
 
The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race


by Myles W. Jackson, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science,
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University 
on Tuesday, November 4  at 7:30 p.m. 
at the American Academy in Berlin. 
The lecture is generously supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
 
In his lecture, Myles Jackson will explain how he has used the CCR5 gene as a heuristic tool to probe three critical developments in biotechnology from 1990 to 2010: gene patenting, HIV/AIDS diagnostics and therapeutics, and race and genomics. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Jackson ties together intellectual property, the sociology of race, and molecular biology by showing how certain patent regimes have rewarded different forms of intellectual property. The decision to patent genes was not inevitable, Jackson argues, nor 'natural.' Likewise, there is nothing inevitable about using race as a major category of human classification. As a historian, Jackson attempts to resurrect the past in order to illustrate the alternative paths not taken and explain why they were never chosen.
 
Myles W. Jackson served as the inaugural Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, from 2007-2012. Jackson earned his MPhil and PhD in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge (1991) and his BA in German literature and molecular and cell biology at Cornell University (1986). He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and University of Chicago, and was a senior fellow of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Myles Jackson is the 2015 recipient of the Reimar Lüst/Humboldt Prize from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation.
 
 
Please register 
online: http://www.americanacademy.de/home/program/upcoming/genealogy-gene-patents-hivaids-and-race 
fax: (030) 804 83-444,
or e-mail: program at americanacademy.de
 
 With warm regards,
 
The American Academy in Berlin
 
Program Department
Am Sandwerder 17-19 | 14109 Berlin
T: +49-30-80483 412
F: +49-30-80483 444
program at americanacademy.de
Find us on Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
visit our website at: www.americanacademy.de
 

American Academy in Berlin GmbH | Handelsregister Charlottenburg HRB 64272 | Geschäftsführer: A. Michael Hoffman, Gary Smith

This e-mail, and any attachment thereto, contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named on the e-mail. It may further contain information protected by intellectual property rights for the exclusive attention of the intended addressees named above. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, partial copying or disclosure of any of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.