14, 15 & 17th DECEMBER 2020
The Global Race project (2016-2020) investigates the reconfigurations of the race concept since 1945 in the scientific realm, state policies, and social movements.
The 3-day final conference of the project will gather French and international scholars who will examine various theories and practices regarding the use of racial and ethnic categories and will explore how controversies around race have unfolded in Europe and the Americas.
PANEL 2 | THE RACE ISSUE IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Chair: Juliette GALONNIER, Sciences Po - CERI.
Claude-Olivier DORON, Université Paris Diderot.
“Historicizing the durability of race in genetics and biomedicine: the French case (1940s-1980s)”
Michael HARDIMON, UC San Diego.
“Is there a Defensible Biological Concept of Race?”