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“its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology

February 17, 2018

Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington, moderated by Anthony Ureña at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance:…

Natural Product Synthesis : A Platform for Discovery in Chemistry and Biology

Sarah E. Reisman

August 28, 2014

The chemical synthesis of natural products provides an exciting platform from which to conduct fundamental research in chemistry and biology. Dr. Reisman’s laboratory has…

October 14, 2013

Like the symposium, this special issue foregrounds scholarship at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist and queer studies, and race and postcolonial…

Dorothy Roberts: Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

October 15, 2012

Full-length video of Dorothy Roberts' lecture, "Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen."

Dorothy Roberts

October 15, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

A Global History of the Paternity Test

Nara Milanich

August 8, 2012

For millennia, Western legal tradition relied on the assumption “pater semper incertus est” (“the father is always uncertain”). But beginning in the early twentieth…

Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

Dorothy Roberts

June 20, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

Doubting Sex: How Bodies Changed and Selves Appeared in Nineteenth Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories

Geertje Mak

May 2, 2012

Anna Barbara Meier and Emma R. both grew up as females in Germany, and were in their adult lives both medically declared to be…

“Predictable Failures” in the Trayvon Martin Story: Excerpts from The Private Bodies, Public Texts Salon

March 21, 2012

Excerpts from Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway, featuring Alondra Nelson, Karla FC Holloway, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Tina…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

March 21, 2012

The second event in BCRW’s newly inaugurated Salon Series features Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson.…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson

March 21, 2012

For the second event in BCRW’s newly inaugurated Salon Series, we have assembled a group of scholars whose expertise lies at the cross-section of…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

March 21, 2012

Panel discussion featuring Karla FC Holloway, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson. Moderated by Tina Campt.

From the Front Line: Sustainability, Land Rights, Women’s Rights and Climate Change in Papua New Guinea

Rachel Sapery James

March 6, 2012

Rachel Sapery James is a marine scientist who is currently working as the Social and Environmental Management Systems Officer for the Bank of the…

Marion Nestle: What to Eat – Science vs. Politics

March 1, 2012

Full-length video of Marion Nestle's lecture "What to Eat: Science vs. Politics."

What to Eat: Science vs. Politics

Marion Nestle

March 1, 2012

Advice about diet and health is extraordinarily controversial for reasons of science and politics. Human nutritional science is difficult to conduct and interpret. Advice…

Marion Nestle

March 1, 2012

Advice about diet and health is extraordinarily controversial for reasons of science and politics. Human nutritional science is difficult to conduct and interpret. Advice…

What’s on Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

Hilary Callahan, Kim F. Hall, Deborah Valenze, and Paige West

November 1, 2011

How much do you know about the food you eat? Food production and the politics surrounding it have an enormous impact on our environment…

What’s On Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

November 1, 2011

Panel discussion featuring Hilary Callahan, Kim F. Hall, Deborah Valenze and Paige West. Moderated by Elizabeth Castelli.

What’s On Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

November 1, 2011

How much do you know about the food you eat? Food production and the politics surrounding it have an enormous impact on our environment…

Rebecca Jordan-Young

October 11, 2011

Since the women's health movement blossomed in the 1970s, there has been an ever-increasing trend toward examining all aspects of human health for evidence…

“Sex” is Not a Mechanism: Making “Sex-Specific Medicine” More Scientific

Rebecca Jordan-Young

October 11, 2011

Since the women’s health movement blossomed in the 1970s, there has been an ever-increasing trend toward examining all aspects of human health for evidence…

May 2, 2011

Contributors include Gwendolyn Beetham, Claudia Castañeda, The Center for Bioethics and Culture, Wendy Chavkin, Jeanne Flavin, Sarah Franklin, Ana María García, Faye Ginsburg, Michele…

Diversity and Disease Ecology in Plant Communities

Alison G. Power

March 22, 2011

This year's Distinguished Women in Science lecturer, Alison G. Power, is an expert in the ways in which the diversity of hosts, vectors and…

Current Cravings, Strange Desires, and Frightening Things: The Effect of the Frontal Lobe and Amygdala on Affect and Actions

Elisabeth A. Murray

November 10, 2010

Dr. Elisabeth Murray's laboratory studies the neural basis of learning, memory, emotion and action. One topic of particular interest is the neural bases of…

Citizenship, Labor and the Biopolitics of the Bioeconomy: Recruiting Female Tissue Donors for Stem Cell Research

Catherine Waldby

November 6, 2009

Catherine Waldby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Sydney, Australia. In this presentation, Professor…

Catherine Waldby: Citizenship, Labor and the Biopolitics of the Bioeconomy

November 6, 2009

Catherine Waldby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Sydney, Australia. In this lecture, delivered…

Small Talk: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria

Bonnie Bassler

March 11, 2009

Bacteria, primitive single-celled organisms, communicate with chemical languages that allow them to synchronize their behavior and thereby act as enormous multicellular organisms. This process…

Sarah Franklin: NRT and the Paradox of Choice (Excerpt)

February 28, 2009

An excerpt from Sarah Franklin's keynote lecture at the 2009 Scholar & Feminist Conference, "The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life."

Sarah Franklin: The Sex/Gender System in the Age of Biology (Excerpt)

February 28, 2009

An excerpt from Sarah Franklin's keynote lecture at the 2009 Scholar & Feminist Conference, "The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life."

Sarah Franklin: Keynote Lecture at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 2009

February 28, 2009

Full-length video of the Sarah Franklin's keynote lecture at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 2009, "The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life."
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