[SydPhil] Workshop: Coping with Future Life - Genomic Testing and the Challenge of Uncertainty

[Gabriel Watts]

*Coping with Future Life - Genomic Testing and the Challenge of Uncertainty*



*Date: *Tuesday 31 March 2026

*Location:* Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney

*Time*: 9am – 2.30pm

*Contact*: gabriel.watts at sydney.edu.au



This workshop brings together scholars working in and around genetic
ethics, philosophy of health, and history of philosophy for a day of
work-in-progress talks addressing the theme of *Coping with future life:
Genomic testing and the challenge of uncertainty*. The day will consist of
three panels.



09:00 AM* - *10:30 AM

*Panel 1 – Genomic Uncertainty*

Ainsley Newson (Sydney), Erin Turbitt (UTS), Stephanie White (UTS)



10:30 AM* - *10:45 AM

*Morning Tea*



10:45 AM* - *12:15 PM

*Panel 2 – The Psychosocial*

Julia Brown (Monash), Dominic Murphy (Sydney), Gabriel Watts (Sydney)



12:15 PM* - *01:00 PM

*Lunch*



01:00 PM* - *02:30 PM

*Panel 3 – The Good Life*

Kathryn MacKay (Sydney), Yves Saint James Aquino (UOW), Anik Waldow (Sydney)