Global Currents Archives | Contending Modernities

From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

Gil Hochberg
May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps even desperate laughter.

Reading Frankenstein in a Time of Germline Editing

Daniel Daly
May 6, 2019May 16, 2019

Personal and collective experience shows us that children rightly desire to be received and accepted by their parents as gifts, regardless of their abilities or genetic makeup.

Muslim Jurists’ Contribution to Islamic Bioethics

Mohammed Ghaly
April 22, 2019April 23, 2019

How can Muslim jurists gather the necessary information to approach new medical technologies? Interdisciplinary approaches to bioethical ijtihād may come with their own challenges.

Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

Jacqueline Hidalgo
April 11, 2019April 15, 2019

Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.

Producing Motherhood? Uterus Transplantation for Infertility

Aasim Padela
April 1, 2019April 3, 2019

Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine.

Precision Earth Medicine

Natalie Kofler
March 22, 2019

Decisions to gene edit the environment require a new environmental ethic.

Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

Gil Hochberg
January 26, 2019February 20, 2019

Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?