Revisiting Race and Ethnicity in the Context of Emerging Genetic Research
Jointly Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Humanities Graduate Research Workshop and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) Research Network
The seminar-including guest speakers-is open to Stanford students, staff, and faculty. It will meet 4 times per quarter. All meetings will be held in the Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom located at 424 Santa Teresa Street. Directions
Revisiting Race Workshop Schedule Winter 2005
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This inter-disciplinary workshop will focus on the "genetic turn" in scholarship on human genetic variation and its implications for the study of "race" and ethnicity. Thus far scholars in the humanities and social scientists have given little attention to the rapid growth in the development of "high-throughput" technologies for genetic analysis, a technical change that has led to achievements such as the completion of the human genome sequence. Human genetic variation research-focused on differences across human populations-has emerged as a major trajectory in the scientific study of health and disease. Consideration of the implications of this emerging research for our understanding of the category of "race" has been minimal. Scholars have expressed a sense of urgency in addressing the potential social consequences of such research. As a forum for inter-disciplinary dialogue, this workshop will offer a unique opportunity of bringing together faculty and graduate students concerned with the nature of human difference. The workshop will include speakers and participants from a range of disciplines, including Genetics, History, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology.
Faculty Coordinator
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D.
School of Medicine/Center for Biomedical Ethics/CCSRE
Graduate Student Coordinator
Sarah Richardson
Modern Thought and Literature
For more information: Contact the graduate student coordinator, Sarah Richardson, at ssr21@stanford.edu.
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