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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
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<b>Date: </b>Friday, January 6, 2023 at 3:39 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>IAP Biology Offerings -- Monday, January 9, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#D400FF">Skills to Find Your Path</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h4 style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#00A793">Delivering an Engaging Scientific Presentation</span><span style="color:#00A793"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:15.6pt;box-sizing: inherit"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#103551">Britt Glaunsinger, PhD </span><o:p></o:p></h4>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#103551">Associate Chair of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley<br>
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#103551">Back by popular demand! Come hear from Professor Britt Glaunsinger on how to design and deliver an effective and engaging scientific presentation. This seminar will be interactive, so attendees are encouraged to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#D400FF">Science and Society Seminar Series</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#D400FF">1st talk in the Series</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#00A793;background:#FEFFFE">“Constitutions selection”: Darwin, race and medicine</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">of Man, Charles Darwin suggested that darker skin might be correlated with immunity to certain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">to disease could be understood as a hereditary racial trait. This paper aims to show how fundamental<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">was the idea of ‘constitutions selection’, as Darwin would call it, for his thinking about<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">period of more than thirty years. At the same time and more broadly, following Darwin’s conceptual<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">resources on this question helps explicate relationships between conceptions of disease and conceptions of race in the nineteenth century. That
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">determinist racism, which increasingly manifested itself in medical writings. The reverse was also<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">true: medicine was a crucial site in which race was forged. The history of what has been called<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#103551">‘race-science’, it is argued, cannot and should not be written independent of the history of ‘racemedicine’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FEFFFE"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:black">Hybrid 68-181 |</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:#DD18FF"> <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/93339545255" target="_blank" title="https://mit.zoom.us/j/93339545255">https://mit.zoom.us/j/93339545255</a></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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