Edmond J.Safra Center For Ethics conference: DNA, Hegemony and Counter- Hegemony: Uncovering the Truth about Political Crimes after the Genetic Turn

The impact of genetic technologies on historical and legal debates and procedures in societies that attempt to redefine their perspective on the past is the focus of this conference. Bringing together legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, historians and geneticist, this interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect upon the claim of genetics to provide a truth about collective crimes of the past that is both indisputable and counterhegemonic. Among other issues, we will explore the question of whether a seemingly incontrovertible biological truth, to be discovered by scientific means rather than negotiated in legal and historical debate, may not have turned into a new hegemonic form of truth, constricting the space of personal testimony, political discussion and plural visions of history .This conference is in collaboration with the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University.