Date:
Location:
"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:
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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/