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Race & Gender, State & Capital: A Symposium on the Work of Dorothy Roberts, 5/4/12

The Program in African American Studies is pleased to present

RACE & GENDER
STATE & CAPITAL
A symposium on the work of Dorothy Roberts

Friday, May 4, 2012
McCormick Screening Room - Humanities Gateway 1070

Professor Roberts is the award-winning author of three books and over eighty scholarly articles and essays. The symposium is centered on a discussion of her latest book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 2011), and will explore the relationship between policy, law, and biomedical research as each shapes questions of public health, social justice and racial equality today.

Symposium Schedule
10:00am-12:30pm: PANEL I - Reproductive Rights | Child Welfare
Linda Blum, Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Khiara Bridges, Professor of Anthropology & Law, Boston University
Shani King, Professor of Law, University of Florida
Robin Levi, Human Rights Director, Justice Now
Jennifer Reich, Professor of Sociology, University of Denver
France Widdance Twine, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

12:30-2:00pm: Lunch Break

2:00-4:00pm: PANEL II - HIV/AIDS | Biomedicine
Kenyon Farrow, Former Executive Director, Queers for Economic Justice
Adam Geary, Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Sujatha Jesudason, Executive Director, Generations Ahead
Sandra Lee, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Harriet Washington, Medical Ethicist & Author of Medical Apartheid

4:00-4:30pm: Book Signing
Robin Levi, Inside this Place, Not of It
Harriet Washington, Deadly Monopolies
Dorothy Roberts, Fatal Invention

4:30-6:00pm: KEYNOTE - "Race and the New Bio-Citizen"
Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Northwestern University

6:00-6:30pm: Closing Reception


Sponsored by
The Humanities Center - The Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs - The Center for Law, Society & Culture - The Schools of Biological Sciences, Law, Medicine, and Physical Sciences - The Departments of Anthropology; Asian American Studies; Criminology, Law & Society; Sociology; and Women's Studies - The Program in Public Health