{"id":59420,"date":"2020-02-18T19:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59420"},"modified":"2020-02-20T22:49:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:49:53","slug":"penn-medicine-and-the-afterlives-of-slavery-pmas-presents-christianity-race-and-haunting-of-the-biomedical-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59420","title":{"rendered":"Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery (PMAS) presents: Christianity, Race, and Haunting of the Biomedical Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prss.sas.upenn.edu\/events\/christianity-race-and-haunting-biomedical-science-terence-keel-ucla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery (PMAS) presents: Christianity, Race, and Haunting of the Biomedical Sciences<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Pennsylvania<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.upenn.edu\/germanic\/about\/max-kade-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Kade Center<\/a><br \/>\n3401 Walnut Street<br \/>\nSuite 329-A<br \/>\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania<br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, 2020-02-19, 16:00-17:30 EST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afam.ucla.edu\/terence-keel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Terence Keel<\/strong><\/a>, Associate, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies and the UCLA Institute for Society &amp; Genetics<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prss.sas.upenn.edu\/events\/christianity-race-and-haunting-biomedical-science-terence-keel-ucla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prss.sas.upenn.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2020.2.19%20Keel%20Flyer.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea that so-called races reflect inherent biological differences between social groups has been a prominent aspect of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_philosophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western thought<\/a> since at least the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Enlightenment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enlightenment<\/a>. While there have been moments of refuting this way of thinking\u2014most notably, the social constructionist thesis emerging as a dominant framework in the aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWII<\/a>\u2014fixed biological conceptions of race haunt new genetic technologies, where race is thought to be measurable at the molecular level. Keel argues that the resilience of this naturalized understanding of race may stem less from overtly political motives on the part of scientists and more from our inherited theological traditions that predate the Enlightenment and continue to shape and limit the intellectual horizon of scientific reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/prss.sas.upenn.edu\/events\/christianity-race-and-haunting-biomedical-science-terence-keel-ucla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keel argues that the resilience of this naturalized understanding of race may stem less from overtly political motives on the part of scientists and more from our inherited theological traditions that predate the Enlightenment and continue to shape and limit the intellectual horizon of scientific reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,459,1196,13,8,820,20],"tags":[30634,30636,30637,25347,30635,2923],"class_list":["post-59420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-max-kade-center","tag-penn-medicine-and-the-afterlives-of-slavery","tag-pmas","tag-terence-keel","tag-the-max-kade-german-culture-and-media-center","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59422,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions\/59422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}