Friday, April 25, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
J. Baskin Aud 101
On Friday, April 18 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk, Contesting Scientific Anti-Racism: Who Decides Its Meaning?, by Jenny Reardon.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Contact Colleen Stone (colleen@ucsc.edu) to request access.
Contesting Scientific Anti-Racism: Who Decides Its Meaning?
Description is forthcoming.
Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology, Founding Director, Science and Justice Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jenny Reardon is Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology, the history of biology, science studies, feminist and critical race studies, and the sociology of science, technology and medicine. She is the author of Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge After the Genome (Chicago University Press, Fall 2017). She has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, the Humboldt Foundation, the London School of Economics, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and the United States Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Recently, she started a project to bike over one thousand miles through her home state of Kansas to learn from farmers, ranchers and other denizens of the high plains about how best to know and care for the prairie.
Co-hosted by the UCSC Department of Biomolecular Engineering, the Genomics Institute, and the Science & Justice Research Center.
Readings
Small, Zachary. 2025 “Taking Aim at Smithsonian, Trump Wades Into Race and Biology.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/arts/design/trump-smithsonian-race.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Miriam, Frankel. 2015. “Rocks and racism? How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudice” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/16/rocks-and-racism-how-geologists-created-and-perpetuated-a-narrative-of-prejudice