The International Symposia on Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights promote interdisciplinary dialogue about genital cutting practices of male, female, and intersex children, and on strategies for protecting children from medically unnecessary genital alteration. The Symposia offer an informational and practical platform for effecting social change and are designed to be of interest to legal, medical, and mental health professionals; scholars, educators, and students; policy makers and the media; activists and the general public.
Abstracts are currently being accepted for 20-minute plenary presentations. We welcome presentations in the areas of:
• genital alteration of male, female, and intersex infants and children
• medicine, anatomy, sexuality
• psychology, sociology, anthropology
• religion, history
• law, ethics, human rights
• activism and social change
The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2013.
See the Call for Abstracts
Please email your abstract to nocirc@cris.com by December 15, 2013.
You can find more information on the programs of previous Symposia at http://nocirc.org/symposia. The presenters’ papers will be published in an e-journal by Springer publishing.