Past Events



Race, Genetics, and Health in a Global Context - Charmaine Royal (Duke)

Nov 30, 2016 at | Location: Annenberg 111

Although studies of human genetic variation have long discounted the existence of biological human races, race and biology (genetics, in particular) continue to be linked in relation to humans. In various ways…



PRSS WORKING GROUP MEETING

Nov 22, 2016 at | Location: Africana Department Seminar Room, 330A (3401 Walnut Street)

Join us for the second Working Group Meeting of semester featuring Projit Mukharji (History and Sociology of Science) and…



KENYAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS: MACHARIA KAMAU

Nov 2, 2016 at | Location: Fitts Auditorium



PRSS WORKING GROUP MEETING

Oct 18, 2016 at | Location: Africana Department Seminar Room, 330A (3401 Walnut Street)

Join us for the first Working Group Meeting of the 2016-2017 school year, where we will discuss upcoming events and projects.



TRANSLATING RACE IN EURASIA

Sep 24, 2016 at | Location: Cohen Hall 402



There’s Just One Human Race - Ann Morning (NYU)

Sep 20, 2016 at | Location: Claudia Cohen Hall 402 (249 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

 'There’s Just One Human Race’: Notions of Biological Difference in a Color-Blind Italy



The Social Life of DNA - Alondra Nelson (Columbia)

Mar 3, 2016 at - | Location: Stiteler Hall B26 (208 South 37th Street. Philadelphia PA, 19104)

The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome



**Book Signing** The Social Life of DNA by Alondra Nelson

Mar 3, 2016 at - |

From 4:30pm to 5pm Professor Alondra Nelson will be available to sign copies of her new book The Social Life of DNA.  There will also be a limited number of copies of The Social Life of DNA for sale…



Unlocking the Violent Brain - Oliver Rollins

Feb 22, 2016 at - | Location: 337 Cohen Hall

HSS Workshop: Unlocking the Violent Brain: Managing Controversy and Uncertainty in Contemporary Biocriminology

Sponsored by the Department of History and Sociology of Science (HSS)



Dorothy Roberts - TEDMED Talk: Race Medicine is Bad Medicine

Nov 20, 2015 at |

PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts will give a TEDMED talk titled "Race Medicine is Bad Medicine" on November 20, 2015 in Palm Springs, CA…