Event Details
When:
-
Location:
Online: Zoom
In-Person at WWU
Academic West, Room 204
Price:
Free
Brought to you by:
Psychology Department, WWU Alumni Office
Description
Check out this video to watch the Towards an Anti-Racist Neuroscience.
Issues of race/racism in and through science and technology will be discussed during this talk by qualitative sociologist Dr. Oliver Rollins. Dr. Rollins examines how racial identity, racialized discourses, and systemic practices of social difference influence, engage with, and are affected by neuroscientific technologies and knowledge.
Dr. Rollins traces the development and use of neuroimaging research on anti-social behaviors and crime, with special attention to the limits of this controversial brain model when dealing with aspects of social difference, power, and inequality in his book Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of The Violent Brain (Stanford University Press, 2021).
Featuring:
Oliver Rollins, PhD
Oliver Rollins earned his PhD in Sociology at the University of California in San Francisco in 2014. He is an Assistant Professor in American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He currently teaches courses on the social (racialized) implications of science & technology, theories of race and blackness, and bioethics and biopolitics of biomedical knowledge.
Accommodations and Other Details
Contact the WWU Alumni Office for this event if you have questions or need disability accommodations by calling (360) 650-3353 or emailing Alumni@wwu.edu.
Advance notice for disability accommodations and special needs is greatly appreciated. Please indicate your special needs on the registration form.
There will be auto-captions available for the Zoom webinar.
Limited paid parking is available in the C lots at the south end of campus and in lots 6V and 7G at the north end of campus. Western provides comprehensive parking details—including lot locations, applicable fees, and campus map. Please note that parking in the C lot and 12A by Fairhaven College is free after 4:30pm on weekdays and all hours on weekends.