The symposium brought together an international group of biological and social scientists, historians, and legal scholars to analyze the global role of racial science in an effort to uncover how race as a unit of analysis is defined, operationalized, and reconstituted through scientific and biomedical practices.
INDIVIDUALS AND COMPOSITES
Amade M'charek, University of Amsterdam - Netherlands Carolyn Roberts, Yale University Shirley Sun, Nanyang Technical University - Singapore Commentator: Pamela Sankar, University of Pennsylvania
PURITY AND MIXTURE
Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania Ricardo Santos Ventura, FIOCRUZ - Brazil João Luis Bastos, UFSC - Brazil Vivette García Deister, UNAM - Mexico Commentator: Sebastián Gil-Riaño, University of Pennsylvania
STABILITY AND CIRCULATION
Julie Ringelheim, UCLouvain - Belgium Ambroise Wonkam, University of Cape Town – South Africa Pablo Gómez, UW-Madison Commentator: Michael Hanchard, University of Pennsylvania