As part of the “Biotechnologies, Nature and Society” colloquium hosted by Endre Dányi and Thomas Lemke, Dr. Jessica Kolopenuk will give a guest lecture entitled “Un/Seen Star People and Genomic Re/Iterations: A Cree Theory of Canada’s National Missing Persons DNA Program”.

Dr. Jessica Kolopenuk (Cree, Peguis First Nation) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD in Political Science. She is a co-founder and co-lead of the Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society Research and Training Program (Indigenous STS) at the University of Alberta, which supports capacities of Indigenous peoples to govern science and technology projects affecting them. She is also the co-founder and co-lead of the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics Canada (SING Canada) and, more recently, has become an instructor for Science Outside the Lab BC (SOtLBC). With Indigenous self-determination held at the core of her work, Dr. Kolopenuk’s research and policy advising address what technoscientific knowledge means for Indigenous peoples and, also, what Indigenous knowledge can mean for science and technology fields. The lecture draws on her doctoral research, which is programmatic for the subfield of Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society (I-STS) and won the Canadian Science Policy Centre’s award of Excellence in 2018. (For more information see: https://indigenoussts.com/principal-investigators/co-pi-dr-jessica-kolopenuk/.)

If you wish to participate please send an email to Paula Stiegler (stiegler@em.uni-frankfurt.de).