Thursday, February 13, 2014 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM EST
Buchanan Hall, D005
The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project
The science of human heredity, reaching its apotheosis with the Human Genome Project, implicitly recasts social pathologies as pathologies of gendered and radicalized bodies. This talk traces the roots of such “hereditarianism” to the political and economic worldview of eugenics; it will also describe the specific discourses of gender and race that contemporary medical and public health genomics make possible.
Kelly Happe is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia, where she teaches and conducts research in the areas of cultural studies, rhetoric, feminist theory, and science studies. Her recent book is The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project (2013), from which this talk is drawn.
Hosted by Cultural Studies Colloquium.
Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies Program, University Life, & Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborative.
