Can the Subaltern Genome Code? Rethinking Race, Science, and Subjectivity

Monday, 30 June, 2014 - 15:30

WiSER and JWTC invite you to a public lecture by

Ruha Benjamin

Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Boston University and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Science, Technology, and Society Programme.

Can the Subaltern Genome Code? Rethinking Race, Science, and Subjectivity

This event is part of the 2014 Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. The theme of this year’s JWTC is Archives of the Non-Racial. A mobile workshop, it will travel from Johannesburg to Mbabane in Swaziland, Durban, Ginsberg in the Eastern Cape, and Cape Town. For the full programme, see here.

ALL PUBLIC EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.

30 June 2014

15:30-17:30

WiSER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus, Wits University

Please RSVP to Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za. This will not, however, guarantee a seat. Seating will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

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