Genetics—From Frankenstein to the Future
This fall the Iowa Institute of Human Genetics (IHG), the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences are collaborating to present several events that welcome the public to reflect on the responsibilities of science and scientists to the broader culture. Genetics—From Frankenstein to the Future will include an NIH exhibit called “Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature” and a public talk by Vanderbilt University professors Ellen Wright Clayton and Jay Clayton titled “Genetics in Literature, Life, and the Laboratory,” on November 1 at the Iowa City Public Library.
Other events include a screening on Tuesday, October 2 at 7 pm of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein at the Iowa City Public Library with an introduction by UI professor and director of the Institute for Cinema and Culture, Corey Creekmur, and a presentation by graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Genetics PhD program based on the TV program Mythbusters. The time and date of this event are to be announced.
In addition to the Genetics Cluster, the events are being co-sponsored by the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Public Health, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, the Interdisciplinary 18th-19th-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium of International Programs, the Center for Teaching, the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, UI departments of Biology, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, English, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, History, the Public Policy Center, and the Iowa City Public Library.