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Mar 09, 2023

Viral Justice: Pandemics, Police Violence & Public Bioethics

Talk

Event poster for Ruha Benjamin's lecture on viral justice, pandemics, and police violence, March 9, 2023, at Colby College.

March 9, 2023 at 6:00 P.M.

Ostrove Auditorium 

Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, the founding director of the Ida B. Wells JustDataLab, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, among many other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power.

Hosted by the Public Humanistic Inquiry Lab with many thanks to the co-sponsors: 

  • The Department of African-American Studies
  • The Department of American Studies
  • The Department of Anthropology
  • The Center for the Arts and Humanities
  • The Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  • The Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs
  • The Department of Science, Technology, and Society
  • The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies