Past Events



Symbioses: A BioSocial Network Retreat - Rutgers

Feb 9, 2018 at | Location: Rutgers Institute for Health - 112 Paterson Streeet, New Brunswick, NJ

Please join us for our next meeting, February 9th at Rutgers. Details below, and please RSVP here



Genomic Sovereignty and Genetic Research on Jewish Populations - Yulia Egorova (Durham)

Nov 28, 2017 at - | Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
Location: Africana Seminar Room 331

Past two decades witnessed an intensification of genetic research which attempted to engage with different aspects of Jewish history – DNA analysis was thus employed to…



Marginalized Populations Conference: Under the Gun

Oct 19, 2017 - Oct 20, 2017 at - | Location: Perry World House
 

Date: October 19-20, 2017 

Description: This conference has two aims: to bring together scholars and activists from several highly diverse societies to examine the role of state and popularly organized…



Symbioses: A BioSocial Network Retreat

Jun 6, 2017 at - | New School, Starr Foundation Hall
University Center, Room UL 102

Join the BioSocial Network for their fifth annual retreat! At this meeting, three working groups will begin to design collaborative projects around a topic that has surfaced repeatedly in prior meetings. These…



Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt)

Mar 30, 2017 at - | Kade Center, Africana Studies Room 329
3401 Walnut Street

Of late, we’ve heard much about the rise of “alt-white supremacy” in the United States—with the assumption that supremacy is a system that places white people atop persons of color, immigrants, and other marginalized…



PRSS Working Group Meeting

Feb 21, 2017 at - | Location: Africana Seminar Room, 330A
3401 Walnut Street



SYMBIOSIS: A BIOSOCIAL RESEARCH NETWORK MEETING

Jan 27, 2017 at | Goddard Laboratories - 3710 Hamilton Walk, Room 200

PRSS is proud to host the first Symbiosis Meeting of 2017. For more information on the initiative, please visit: http://biosocialnetwork.org.

"Symbiosis is an…



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