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Location: University of York, Wentworth College, W/222Monday 25 June 2018, 4.00PM to 5.00pmSpeaker: Professor Jenny Reardon, University of CaliforniaAt the end of the last millennium, the proposal of the Human Genome DiversityProject and the publication of The Bell Curve sparked new worries that studiesof human genetic variation would reignite scientific racism. Since WWII, humangeneticists had labored to distance the study of human genes from eugenics andNazi science. Would that work, and the possibility of a genomic account ofhuman differences, be undone before the research had even really begun?  Toavert this possibility, in the wake of the sequencing of the human genome - orthe postgenomic era - genome scientists and their supporters proposed a new‘democratic’ approach to genomics.  In several high profile cases, theyattempted to give power back to “the people” to define themselves, and tocontrol use of their DNA.  Yet the problem of race and racism persisted.  Fromthe International HapMap Project, to David Reich’s recent editorial in the NewYork Times, this talk explores how and by what means debates about ‘race’ andracism remain central and formative of the postgenomic condition.Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of theScience and Justice Research Center at the University of California, SantaCruz.  Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice anddemocracy 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 ofRace to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (PrincetonUniversity Press, 2005) and The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice,Knowledge After the Genome (Chicago University Press, Fall 2017).  She hasbeen the recipient of fellowships and awards from, among others, the NationalScience Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, the Humboldt Foundation, theLondon School of Economics, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and theUnited States Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology.Admission: Free - Eventbrite ticketS'inscrire ici:https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/department/2018/justgenomes/&#160;