Programme 

10h00 Welcome and introduction: António Amorim, IPATIMUP, Portugal.

10h15 Helena Machado “Practices of individuals’ identification: Which guidelines?
(I)”, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal.

10h30 Angel Carracedo “Practices of individuals’ identification: Which guidelines?
(II)”, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

11h00 Discussion

11h30 Thomas Lemke  “DNA testing for family reunification: The geneticization of
family in immigration policies”,  Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany.

12h00 Lyn Turney  “Contested paternity  and the imperative of genetic testing”,
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology,
Australia.

12h30 Discussion

13h00 Lunch

14h30 Claúdia Fonseca “The new legal technologies and the production of family
life: Anthropology, law and subjectivity”,  Federal University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil.

15h00  Susana Silva  “Is it important to do a paternity genetic test? Towards a
gendered lay assessment”, University of Porto Medical School, Portugal.

15h15  Torsten Heinemann  “A commentary on the lay assessment of paternity
typing ordered by law courts”, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

15h45 Discussion

16h15 Coffee break

16h30 Round-table (chair: Susana Costa, Centre for Social Studies, University of
Coimbra, Portugal).

17h30 Final remarks (António Amorim). End of seminar.