Podcasts, true crime shows, family history documentaries and police procedurals all attest to a cultural obsession with, and a faith in, the potential of DNA to reveal some kind of truth. This seminar explored the cultural politics of DNA. What is behind the current fascination with DNA testing, and more generally, what does it say about truth, race and identity in the current era?
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Opening Remarks
M. Susan Lindee, PhD, Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania; she is author of Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine and The DNA Mystique: The Gene as Cultural Icon, presenting “The DNA Experience: Consuming Identity in the Twenty-First Century.”
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Kim TallBear, PhD, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment; she is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, presenting “American Progress Redux: Elizabeth Warren’s DNA and Settler Mythology.”
Jackie Stacey, PhD, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The University of Manchester and author of The Cinematic Life of the Gene, presenting “The Sexual Politics of Cloning Films.”
