2019 Bishop Lecture featuring Ruha Benjamin, PhD

The 2019 Bishop Lecture in Bioethics was presented by Ruha Benjamin, PhD. Dr. Benjamin presented a talk entitled, “Black Afterlives Matter: Reimagining Bioethics for an Ailing Body Politic." The Bishop Lecture serves as the keynote address during the CBSSM Research Colloquium.

Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she serves on the executive committees of the Center for Digital Humanities and Center for Global Health and Health Policy, and is an Associate Faculty member in the Center for Information Technology Policy, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Program in History of Science, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and Department of Sociology.

Ruha’s work investigates the social dimensions of science and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power.

She is the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press 2013); Race After Technology (Polity 2019); and editor of Captivating Technology: Reimagining Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press 2019) among numerous other publications.

Ruha is also the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, and Institute for Advanced Study among others, and in 2017 she received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.

For more info, please visit ruhabenjamin.com

This year's Colloquium and Bishop Lecture was co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) and the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program.

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