Priscilla Wald Will Deliver Lecture on "Human Being After Genocide"

The Duke University Professor of English and Women's Studies will be on campus on Wednesday, April 21.

Wald will be delivering a lecture titled "Cells, Genes, and Stories: Human Being after Genocide." The talk will be on Wednesday, April 21 at 10:00AM in 1100 Tawes Hall.

The talk takes as its starting point the revolution in cell biology research in the 1950s and its implications for the definition of human being. Wald will examine postwar "challenges to familiar definitions of the human posed both by scientific research and by the new conceptualizations of the nature of humanity that emerged from the seismic geopolitical changes registered on the ever-changing world map."

Following her talk, Wald will meet with graduate students in Tawes 2115 for an informal discussion her recent work and current projects.

Wald is the author of numerous articles and several books, including, most recently, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Duke 2008).

Download the abstract for Wald's talk here.