CSDE Seminar – Settler Love is Breaking our Hearts: Colonialism and Emergent Ecologies of Health on the Western Grassland Prairies
Posted: 12/22/2023 (CSDE Seminar Series)
Join CSDE for a seminar by Dr. Rick W. A. Smith on Friday, January 5th in PAR 360 and on Zoom (register here). There will be several opportunities to meet with Dr. Smith throughout the day. Interested individuals can sign up for 1-1 meetings here. CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass will also facilitate a graduate student discussion from 1:30-2:30 in Raitt 221. RSVP to Delaney (dglass1@uw.edu) to join the student discussion.
Dr. Smith is a geneticist and critical science scholar. He is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University (GMU). He is also an affiliate of the Women and Gender Studies Program at GMU, The Indigenous Science and Technology Studies Program at The University of Alberta, and SING Canada. Prior to his current appointment as an Assistant Professor, he received his PhD from The University of Texas – Austin and worked as a post-doctoral scholar at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. His work examines intersections of genomics, feminist, queer and Indigenous science to understand how power becomes molecular. His recent work involves understanding population histories and urban/ruralism, and colonial sex, kinship, and family in the American South.
CSDE will be hosting its regular seminar series on Fridays from 12:30-1:30. Check out our full winter schedule here!
Date: 01/05/2024
Time: 12:30-1:30PM
Location: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)