Past Events



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…



Stigma of Political Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia - Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt)

Oct 22, 2015 at | Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall (249. S. 36th Street) 

Jonathan Metzl
The Stigma of Political Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Misperceptions that persons with schizophrenia are…



Structural Competency: New Directions in Medical Training - Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt)

Oct 22, 2015 at | 3401 Walnut St., Max Kade Center Rm 329-A

Jonathan Metzl
Structural Competency: New Directions in Medical Training

In the clinical setting, the impacts of…



Sorting Brains Out - Conference (Penn Department of History and Sociology of Science)

Sep 18, 2015 - Sep 19, 2015 at - | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor

Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests, and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences, 1890-2015

Since the late nineteenth century, scientists have devised an ever-increasing number of tasks, tests…



For Whom the Genome Tolls - Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz)

Apr 20, 2015 at | 3401 Walnut St., Rm 330-A

Jenny Reardon
For Whom the Genome Tolls: Race, Genomics and Justice in the American South at the Turn of the Millennium



The Past and Present Significance of Racial Mobility - Aliya Saperstein (Stanford)

Apr 8, 2015 at | 3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Room 286-287

Aliya Saperstein
The Past and Present Significance of Racial Mobility

In this talk, Professor Saperstein will…