Presentation

Citizen scientific racism: White nationalist appropriations of genetic research Aaron Panofsky UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology This talk presents research from a study about white nationalists and their efforts to appropriate genetics research for their own ideological and identity projects. Using historical sources and online data and interpretive methods, I […]

The human language system in the mind and brain Evelina Fedorenko McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT The goal of my research program is to understand the computations and representations that enable us to share complex thoughts with one another via language, and their neural implementation. A decade […]

A metaphysical mapping problem for race theorists and human population geneticists Quayshawn Spencer Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy and Race, Science, & Society Working Group, University of Pennsylvania In this talk, I identify and clarify a metaphysical mapping phenomenon that’s almost twenty years old. The phenomenon is that the populations at a […]