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Peanut Panacea: The Medical Ideas of George Washington Carver- Natalie Shibley

Feb 28, 2019 at | Center for Africana Studies, 
3401 Walnut Street, Room 329A

Natalie Shibley will discuss the health politics of George Washington Carver, including ideas about nutrition, cough medicine, and peanut oil massage.



Race, Medicine, and Justice- Dorothy Roberts

Jan 23, 2019 at - | Medical Alumni Auditorium, 1 Maloney Building,
 
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Dorothy Roberts will deliver the keynote address, "Race, Medicine, and Justice," for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. 



When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity - Aaron Panofsky (UCLA)

Feb 13, 2018 at - | Location: Cohen Hall 237
 

Abstract: Since the advent in the mid-2000s of genetic ancestry tests (GATs) available directly to consumers, researchers have considered what their effects would be on individuals’ conceptions of their own…



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…



KENYAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS: MACHARIA KAMAU

Nov 2, 2016 at | Location: Fitts Auditorium

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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



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…



How do we Study Racial Disparities in Health - Jay Kaufman (McGill University)

Mar 25, 2015 at - | 3601 Locust Walk, The ARCH, room 108

Jay Kaufman 2014-2015 PRSS Visiting Scholar. 
"How do we Study Racial Disparities in Health and What Have we Learned?"

Traditionally, the…



Big Data, Race, and Communication - Peter Chow-White (Simon Fraser)

Feb 4, 2015 at | 3401 Walnut St., Max Kade Center, Rm 329-A

Peter Chow-White 
Big Data, Race, and Communication: What are Challenges, Opportunities, and Risks for Genomics and…