The HUGERA’s Lecture Series is a platform for new academic work at the intersection of genomics and society. The series brings together scholars from different disciplines to reflect on the social dimensions of contemporary genomics, promoting empirically and ethically sound science.
Talks will be online via Zoom. Below you find the schedule and registration for each talk individually.
October 21st, 2025 (17:00 London, UK) – Register Here
Prof. Katharina Schramm (Universität Bayreuth) – “We are all Africans! Antiracist projects and racializing practices in South Africa post-apartheid genomics”
November 4th, 2025 (17:00 London, UK) – Register Here
Dr. Sarah Abel (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) – “Should genomic knowledge change our personal conceptions of race? (And, if so, how?)
December 2nd, 2025 (17:00 London, UK) – Register Here
Dr. Yasmin Haddad (Université du Québec à Montréal) – “When Imprecision is a bad thing: the case of Ancestry”
February 3rd, 2026 (18:00 London, UK) – Register Here
Prof. Duana Fullwiley (Stanford University) – “Into the Lab: Racial World Building and its Discontents”
March 3rd, 2026 (17:00 London, UK) – Register Here
Prof. Jim Tabery (University of Utah) & Dr. Hannah Allen (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley) – “Lessons from Stateville: Race, Genetics, and the Biological Search for a Social Kind”