Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

Date: 

Monday, November 18, 2019, 12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250

"Race and Biopolitics in Twenty-First Century America"

Speaker: 

Anne Pollock, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College, London.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. via our online form before Thursday afternoon, November 14:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu0kpmXh6oz11MgFw/viewform

Bio:

Anne Pollock is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London.

Prior to joining King's, Anne spent a decade on the faculty of Georgia Tech. She holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) and Brandeis University (BA).

She is the author of Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference (Duke 2012), and Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery (Chicago forthcoming). She is an Associate Editor of BioSocieties, and serves on the editorial boards of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience and Science, Technology and Human Values.

A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/