Throughout history, settler colonialism has endeavored to erase the lived experiences and histories of American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. Yet, Indigenous populations, particularly Indigenous women, remain strong and resilient pillars of communities. Oftentimes these [her]stories are missed in public health initiatives as a result of settler colonialism’s perpetual drive to erase and silence. In this talk, Dr. Walters will explore the latest advances in designing culturally derived, Indigenist health promotion interventions among American Indian and Alaska Native women.
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Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
On November 2, 2022, Prof. Albert Ortiz-Díaz delivered a talk that explored the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital, an insane asylum, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan.
Tahir Amin – Intellectual Property Wars: The Battle for Access to Medicines
On Oct. 18, 2022, Tahir Amin delivered the inaugural Sawyer Seminar talk on “Intellectual Property Wars: The Battle for Access to Medicines” at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Downtown Santa Cruz. Amin, LL.B., Dip. LP., is a founder and executive director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a nonprofit organization working to address structural inequities in how medicines are developed and distributed.
Tahir Amin to Speak About Unequal Access to Medications and the Global Fallout from Intellectual Property Wars
Amin is the inaugural speaker for the Sawyer Seminar series of public lectures, scholarly talks, and reading and discussion groups focusing on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine.” Amin will speak about how excessive vigilance about patents and intellectual property interferes with the distribution of life-saving technologies, especially in the poorest nations.
UC Santa Cruz Receives Mellon Foundation Humanities Grant To Investigate Race, Biomedicine
The award will support “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine,” a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, that, starting in Fall 2022, will bring scientists, physicians, and scholars of the humanities and social sciences together with students and members of the UC Santa Cruz community for a series of public lectures, reading groups, and research fellowships at the graduate and postdoctoral levels.