Summary
To celebrate Black History Month, join award-winning science journalist and author Angela Saini, as she explores the concept of race, both past and present in her new book, Superior: the return of race science. Angela will be dissecting the historical and political roots of race, why scientists can’t seem to look beyond it, and the disturbing ways in which scientific racism still exists today.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
About the Speaker
Angela Saini is an independent British science journalist and author of three acclaimed books. She presents science programmes on BBC Radio and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, Prospect, New Scientist, Vogue, Marie Claire, Science, New Humanist, Wired and the Economist. She has won national and international awards for her journalism.
Her first book, Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2011, and became a bestseller in India. In 2017 she published Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story. Described by the Guardian as “an important and necessary book”, it has been hugely influential in re-shaping public debate and Superior looks set to do the same.