DOING THE BODY IN THE 21 ST CENTURY Michelle Mur ph y, Universit y of Toronto ALTERLIFE IN THE AFTERMATH Saturday April 2, 2016 324 Cathedral of Learning 6–7:30 p.m. Feminist technoscience studies scholar and historian Michelle Murphy discusses the theory that all life is enfleshed through industrial chemicals and environmental violence. Discover what the chemical consequences may be of industrial capitalism, militarism, and racism that stretch across bodies transgenerationally and mutate the material manifestations of race and sex. This keynote address is part of the international conference, Doing the Body in the 21st Century and is free and open to the public For more information, visit gsws.pitt.edu. About the Speaker Michelle Murphy is a professor in the History Department and Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the politics of technoscience; sexed, raced, and queer life; environmental politics; biopolitics and necropolitics; and critiques of capitalism particularly in contemporary, cold war, and postcolonial conjunctures associated with the United States. Sponsored by: Bioethics Program; Cultural Studies Program; Department of Communication; Department of English; Department of Sociology; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program; Humanities Center; Year of the Humanities

Michelle Murphy, University of TorontoMichelle Murphy, University of Toronto ALTERLIFE IN THE AFTERMATH Saturday April 2, 2016 324 Cathedral of Learning 6–7:30 p.m. Feminist technoscience

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DOING THE BODY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto

ALTERLIFE IN THE AFTERMATH

Saturday April 2, 2016

324 Cathedral of Learning6–7:30 p.m.

Feminist technoscience studies scholar and historian Michelle Murphy discusses the theory that all life is enfleshed through industrial chemicals and environmental violence. Discover what the chemical consequences may be of industrial capitalism, militarism, and racism that stretch across bodies transgenerationally and mutate the material manifestations of race and sex.

This keynote address is part of the international conference, Doing the Body in the 21st Century and is free and open to the public

For more information, visit gsws.pitt.edu.

About the SpeakerMichelle Murphy is a professor in the History Department and Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the politics of technoscience; sexed, raced, and queer life; environmental politics; biopolitics and necropolitics; and critiques of capitalism particularly in contemporary, cold war, and postcolonial conjunctures associated with the United States.

Sponsored by: Bioethics Program; Cultural Studies Program; Department of Communication; Department of English; Department of Sociology; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program; Humanities Center; Year of the Humanities