DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Interrogating Diversity: Race, Gender, and Class Across Time and Space

▪Oct. 12, 2010: Barbara A. Koenig, Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota

“The Meaning of “Race” in a Genomic Age”

▪Dec. 14, 2010: Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology, University of NC-Charlotte

“Why Be Against Darwin? Creationism, Racism, and the Roots of Anthropology”

▪Feb. 15, 2011: Joseph Watkins, Director of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma

“Lumpers and Splitters: the Archaeological Ethics of Diversity”

▪March 22, 2011: Anna Abge-Davies, Asst. Professor of Anthropology, University of NC-Chapel Hill

“Archaeological Diversities: the African Diaspora in Theory and Practice”

▪April 5, 2011: Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College

“Diversity in STEM Fields: A 20th century Problem and a 21st century Challenge”

▪April 19, 2011: Duana Fullwiley, Asst. Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

“The Political Cartography of Human Health: Risk, Race and Difference in American Genome Science”

▪Oct. 18, 2011: Sarah Tishkoff, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

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Funding for the series was provided in part by a grant from the Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Grants Program.

This lecture series draws on Anthropology’s core mission to study diversity in culture, gender, race, species, and class by provoking faculty and students from across the university to engage intellectually with important questions at the core of diversity initiatives.

Those questions include: What is diversity? What are its complex and contested meanings to specialists in human biological variation; to those who study gender, race, and class in contemporary cultures; and to archaeologists who focus on the distant past? How are we to understand race-based medicine in the context of disputes over the validity of the concept race?

 

Interrogating Diversity Lecture Series  

All events are free and open to the public. They will be held at 4pm in McMillan Hall 149, except for the April 5th lecture which will be in Lab Sciences 300. All receptions with the speakers will follow in McMillan Café. Please contact the Department of

Anthropology at 314-935-5252 or http://anthropology.artsci.wustl.edu for more information.