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About Kim TallBear

Principal Investigator; Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment; Associate Professor; Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta

Symposium: Why the animal? queer animalities, indigenous naturecultures, and critical race approaches to animal studies – April 12th, UC Berkeley

By |2017-10-01T22:11:25-06:00May 8th, 2011|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

photo: jonathan goldberg-hiller On April 12, 2011 I organized (in concert with UC Berkeley's Science, Technology, and Society Center--STSC) this syposium that brought together animal studies scholars in queer and critical race studies with scholars working within longer-lived indigenous approaches to knowing “nonhumans.” Below are the opening remarks that I presented at the [...]

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Roderick R. McInnes, ASHG Presidential Address: “Culture, the Silent Language Geneticists Must Learn to Speak”

By |2017-10-01T22:11:25-06:00April 13th, 2011|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

Roderick R. McInnes I first wrote the blog entry below last November, a reaction to an important address given November 3, 2010 at the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) by outgoing president, Rod McInnes of McGill University. President McInnes's address, Culture: the Silent Language Geneticists Must Learn--Genetic Research with Indigenous Populations, was published in the March [...]

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Hegemonic STEM fields & Nancy Scheper-Hughes editorial on Berkeley frosh DNA testing

By |2017-10-01T22:11:25-06:00December 14th, 2010|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

In a guest editorial in Anthropology Today, UC Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes describes her experience and that of other faculty from across UC Berkeley who expressed concerns this past May when we first learned about the College of Letters & Sciences (L&S) 2010-11 "On the Same Page" (OTSP) program. Instead of the usual freshman experience centered around [...]

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Predictable press on PhysAnth article on Native American mtDNA in Iceland

By |2017-10-01T22:11:25-06:00November 26th, 2010|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

There have been sensationalist claims in the press during the last week following the publication in The American Journal of Physical Anthropology of Ebeneserdottir et al's A New Subclade of mtDNA Haplogroup C1 Found in Icelanders: Evidence of Pre-Columbian Contact? Following the press, I was prepared to read an article that way over-reached the evidence in its concluding [...]

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