April
5, 2002
"From
Cyborgs to Companion Species: Kinship in Technoscience":
Donna Haraway to Speak April 9
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Donna J. Haraway
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As part of the Women’s
Studies Program’s Feminism + Science: Environmental Justice
and Kinship in Technoscience lecture-seminar series, Donna
J. Haraway will give a talk titled "From Cyborgs to Companion
Species: Kinship in Technoscience" Tuesday, April 9, at 7:30
pm in Gamble Auditorium.
In her lecture, Haraway
will explore issues of health, genetics activism, and international
biodiversity through debates about canine breeding, dog cloning
and cryopreservation projects in science, technology, media, and
business, and contested molecular biological evolutionary stories
linking dogs and human beings.
Haraway is the author
of numerous books and articles on science, technology, gender,
and race, including Modest_Witness@Second_ Millennium.FemaleMan
Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (1997), which
received the 1999 Ludwig Fleck prize of the Society for Social
Studies of Science. She is also the author of Simians, Cyborgs,
and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991) and Primate
Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
(1989). In 2000, Haraway received the J. D. Bernal Prize for outstanding
contributions to the field of science and technology studies.
She teaches in the Department of History of Consciousness at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. Her areas of expertise include
feminist theory, biology, animal behavior studies, science studies,
and dog-human sports.
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