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Jenny Wills Guest Lecturing at University of California, Santa Barbara

Tue. Mar. 1, 2016

Jenny Wills will give a guest lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara on April 20, 2016. The topic of the presentation will be white liberalism, scientific racism, and genetics.

While she is on research leave, Dr. Wills delivering a number of other presentations:

She will be a guest speaker on a panel entitled: “What Really Hurts: A Photo Gallery Depicting Racial Stereotypes at Stanford and Beyond” on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 @ 18:30-20:00 at Stanford University.

She will present a paper entitled “Asian Adoption in Crime Novels by Don Lee and Bharati Mukherjee: Country of Origin and Leave it to Me” at the American Comparative Literature Association conference at Harvard University on March 27, 2016.

She will present a paper entitled "The Language of Genes: Asian Adoption and DTC DNA Services" at the Doing the Body in the 21st Century conference at the University of Pittsburgh on April 2, 2016.

She will present a paper entitled “Rethinking Asian North American Multilingualism through Francophone Literature: Ru and Les Lettres Chinoises” at the Association of Asian American Studies conference in Miami on April 30, 2016.

She will present a paper entitled “Technologies of Return: DNA Databasing, Biologism, and Transnational Asian Adoption” at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science conference in Calgary in May, 2016. (Date TBA).