Date

October 24, 2022

Time

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PT / 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET

About

The Collaboratory for Black Feminist Health & Healing invites you to the second talk in their New Book Lecture Series, titled "Writing Health Through Black Feminist Theory." During the October 24th talk, Dr. Natali Valdez will speak about her recent book, Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era. Valdez is a medical anthropologist and science and technology scholar who studies how race, gender, and power are enveloped into scientific knowledge production. She draws from Black feminism and postcolonial feminist science studies to critically examine epigenetic and postgenomic conceptions of ‘the environment’ in biosocial reproduction. Her book is the first ethnography of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and United Kingdom. The event is sponsored by the UCLA African American Studies Department and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health. You are welcome to attend in person at the UCLA Hershey Hall Salon (room 158 Hershey Hall), or via Zoom.