[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, January 23rd - Catherine Bliss - (Please RSVP)

[STS]

*STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Catherine Bliss*
*Brown University, Africana and STS*
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*Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice*
Monday, January 23rd
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts
<sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>by 5pm
Thursday, January 19th.
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*Abstract:* In 2000 with the success of the Human Genome Project,
scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But within
five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and embarked
upon a new hunt for the meaning of race. In *Race Decoded,* Catherine Bliss
takes us into the world of Francis Collins, Craig Venter, Spencer Wells,
and other elite genomicists to show why today’s scientists are
formulatingnew ways of thinking about race.



Bliss reveals a paradigm shift from colorblindness to racial consciousness,
both at the level of science and society. She demonstrates that, as
scientists have fought older understandings of race in biology, they have
also promoted a grand-scale program of minority inclusion based on their
own personal knowledge and experience of race. Identity politics is a
central feature of this process for all scientists, even those of the most
privileged racial and social backgrounds.


*Biography*: Catherine Bliss is Brown University’s Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedicine, Medical Humanities, and
Science and Technology Studies. Her research examines the construction and
naturalization of race and gender categories in contemporary
biomedicine. Catherine’s
interests include health controversies, emergent science, racial identity,
and the science of sexual difference. She is the author of *Race Decoded:
The Genomic Fight for Social Justice *(Stanford University Press 2012).
This book provides a first look at the racial views and practices of the
world’s leading genome scientists, exposing how scientists draw on
commonsense ideas, norms, and values about race to formulate their research.


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