Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia by Professor Emma Kowal is an urgent account of the history of Western biological research on Indigenous Australians and its legacies in contemporary genomic research, including research conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Attentive to the materialities of blood, bones, and hair that have informed comparative anatomy as well as that of genetic samples, Kowal illuminates ghostly presences that are unresolved in the study of Indigenous biology in the 21st century.
This book event featured a short presentation by the author Professor Kowal (Deakin University), followed by responses from Dr Ros Williams (University of Sheffield) and Professor Amade M’charek (University of Amsterdam). The discussion was be chaired by Professor Anne Pollock, King’s College London.
The event was supported by the King’s-Australia Partnership Seed Fund. It is also co-sponsored by the King’s Race Research Network.
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10 апр 2024
