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American Studies Conference 2008
Courses in American Studies
Honors Projects
Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Crosslisting Courses
Urban Faculty Seminar
Department Conception (5/7/2003)
Department of Multicultural Life
Student Organizations
Fall 2007
American Studies Open House Photos
Guidelines for First-Year Students
Consortium
for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges
Digital Commons at Macalester
Mahmoud El-Kati Distinguished Lectureship in American Studies
Politics of Difference: U.S./Mexican Border-Class Project
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NINTH ANNUAL
AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
February 29–March 1 , 2008
"RACISM IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE"
Featuring Keynote Speaker:
Journalist and Bioethicist,
HARRIET A. WASHINGTON
Ms. Washington's book "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present", which Publishers Weekly selected as one of the "Best Books of 2006," is an unique social history of medical research with African Americans. She is also the author of "Parkinson's Disease", a monograph published by the Harvard Publications Group, of "Living Healthy with Hepatitis C" and is co-author of "Health and Healing for African Americans". She has been a Research Fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School and at its School of Public Health as well as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked as an editor for USA Today and other publications and has written extensively for popular magazines such as Health and Essence and for five years wrote a monthly medical column for Emerge magazine and has recently publiched several Op-Eds on medical policy in the New York Times.
She has also written for journals such as the Harvard Public Health Review, the American Journal of Public Health, Nature and the New England Journal of Medicine, and was the founding editor of the Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health.
She has written and edited award-winning health education supplements for American Legacy and Black Enterprise magazines. Ms. Washington's journalism awards include investigative journalism awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, two first-place Unity Awards, the Congressional Black Caucus Beacon of Light Award, and the 2007 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award for Advancing Human Rights.
The Conference will include an exhibit at the
Science Museum of Minnesota
"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race"
A traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race is organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, presented locally at the Science Museum of Minnesota in partnership with the University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The exhibit features 200 photographs, videotaped survivor stories and several dozen artifacts to trace eugenics' development as a perversion of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to its Nazi justification for genocide.
The exhibit also looks at eugenics in other countries, including Norway, Spain, Brazil, Japan and the United States, where nearly 300 "eugenic sterilizations" were done at Mendocino State Hospital between 1909 and 1935. It's important that people understand the history of eugenics, given advancements in science and ethical questions they raise. The traveling exhibit will be at the Science Museum of Minnesota from February 23 through May 2008.
Penumbra Theater Workshops at the Science Museum
The Science Museum of Minnesota and Penumbra Theatre Company present a series of workshops to extend the impact of the remarkable exhibit Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. The workshops encourage thought, dialogue and action in response to a "killing culture" that denies human empathy and defies moral reasoning.
Dates:
Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday March 8, 2008 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday March 22, 2008 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday April 19, 2008 1:00pm - 4:00pm
2008
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, February 29
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Conference Launch
and Reception
A gathering before the keynote address
Weyerhaeuser Board Room, Macalester
7:00 p.m.
Keynote address
Harriet A. Washington
Kagin Ballroom, Macalester |
Saturday, March 1
9:30–10 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
10:00–11:30
a.m.
Panel Discussion on
Racism and
Science
Moderator: Professor
Lin Aanonsen, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biology at Macalester
John
B. Davis Lecture Hall,
Ruth Striker Dayton Campus Center
Panelists:
Harriet A. Washington,
(see bio above)
Daylanne English, Assoc. Professor and Chair, Dept. of English at Macalester and author of "Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance".
Beverly Propes, RN, public health nurse and board member of North Point Health & Wellness Center.
Carl S. Smith,
M.D., President of the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice,
chief of urology at the Hennepin County Medical Center, and
member of the graduate faculty in the biomedical engineering
program at the University of Minnesota.
12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Lunch and speaker
Weyerhaeuser Board Room
"From Racism in the Name of Science
to Health Disparities"
Dr. Kirk Allison
Executive Director of the Program in Human Rights and Health at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health
Introduction by Professor Jim Dawes,
Assoc. Professor of English and Coordinator, Concentration in Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
at Macalester
1:30 p.m. *
Catch the bus for the
Science Museum of Minnesota
Macalester Street in front of Weyerhaeuser 2:00–3:30 p.m. *
"Deadly Medicine" Exhibit
at the Science Museum of Minnesota
*Note: Transportation and a limited number of complimentary tickets to the Science Museum of Minnesota are available for Macalester students, faculty and staff only, on a first-come basis in Humanities 114. |
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