Thursday, March 24, 2022
5:30 PM
Keynote Address
Zoom link for Keynote Address: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/95632186543?pwd=VldvR01RTTM4djRsOEJ1SUFWa2I1UT09
Keith Wailoo, Ph.D.
Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs,
Princeton University
Title: “Spectacles of Difference: The Racial Scripting of Epidemic Disparities and the Future of Health”
Friday, March 25, 2022
5:30 PM
Panel: Land and Repair in Ecologies of Health
Zoom Link for Panel: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/94633062309?pwd=MEtVQ1RydjFzVXNXbEFxOG1lRURlZz09
Panelist: Ashanté Reese, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies,
University of Texas at Austin; Visiting Scholar at Wesleyan
Title: “Sweetness in an Anti-Black World”
Panelist: Zaira Simone-Thompson, Ph.D.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies,
Wesleyan University
Title: “COVID Caribbean: Lessons on Repair”
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Zoom Link for all of Saturday's Events: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/99788979003?pwd=NG1iVVZyek5YTXhLK1dUNnh3SXlmUT09
12:00 PM
Lecture
Nayan Shah, Ph.D.
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History,
University of Southern California
Title: “Whose Public, Whose Health?”: A Century of Contagion, Race and Vulnerability”
1:00 PM
Lecture
Hil Malatino, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
Penn State University
Title: “Faux-Woke Vectoralism: Trauma-Ordinariness and Trans Healthscapes”
2:00 PM
Lecture
Rene Almeling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology,
Yale University
Title: “Reproductive Health, Reproductive Risk”