Podcasts about human difference

Episode No. 668 is a summer clips episode featuring historian and author David Bindman. Bindman's most recent book is ‘Race Is Everything': Art and Human Difference. It examines nineteenth and early twentieth-century racializing science (sometimes referred to as pseudoscience) and how European art both influenced it, and was itself influenced by it. The book pays special attention to the racialization of people of African and Jewish descent. It considers the skull as a racializing marker, Darwin and Darwinism, the construction of the Mediterranean ‘race,' Anglo-Saxonism, the racializing debate over Egyptians, and plenty more. ‘Race is Everything' was published by Reaktion Books. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for about $30-37.

Welcome to Episode 70 of The Wellbeing Rebellion, where we dive into the transformative power of authenticity in the workplace. Today, we're thrilled to have Sunaina Kohli, a global speaker and thought leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion. With over 15 years of experience across multiple industries and countries, Sunaina shares her insights on how embracing your true self at work can lead to personal and professional growth. Get ready for an enlightening conversation about creating cultures where everyone can show up as their best selves. Here are the highlights: (5:50) Diversity, equity and inclusion in society(11:19) Creating inclusive cultures for diverse talent to thrive(25:26) Valuing and appreciating employees (30:07) The key to creating inclusive workplaces(36:35) Respecting well-being as a strategic priority in businessFind out more: The Human Difference website HERE.You can follow Sunaina on LinkedIn HERE.Take the Aurora 360 Quiz: How Effective Is Your Company's Wellbeing Strategy? Click HereConnect with us here:Website: aurorawellnessgroup.co.ukLinkedIn: NgoziLinkedIn: ObehiBook a Call here

In this episode, Chris and Shaun welcome Angela Saini, award-winning journalist and author of The Patriarchs, Inferior and other science-based books. Angela and the guys discuss pseudoscience, the origin of the patriarchy, teaching at Harvard and MIT, menopause, the role of the sexes, Canadians and more.You can find Angela's books: The Patriarchs here and Inferior hereThis episode is brought to you by Half Acre Brewery. Check out the wonderful beers on Half Acre's website.

Episode No. 615 features historian and author David Bindman, and artist Nicki Green. Bindman's new book is 'Race Is Everything': Art and Human Difference. It examines nineteenth and early twentieth-century racializing science (sometimes referred to as pseudoscience) and how European art both influenced it, and was itself influenced by it. The book pays special attention to the racialization of people of African and Jewish descent. It considers the skull as a racializing marker, Darwin and Darwinism, the construction of the Mediterranean 'race,' Anglo-Saxonism, the racializing debate over Egyptians, and plenty more. 'Race is Everything' was just published by Reaktion Books. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for about $37. Bindman is an emeritus professor at University College London, and a fellow of the Hutchings Center, Harvard University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century. Green's work is included in "What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection" which runs through July 7, 2024 at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. The exhibition was curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm with Anthony Graham. Green is a transdisciplinary artist who works primarily in clay. Her work explores topics such as history preservation, conceptual ornamentation, and aesthetics of otherness. She has exhibited at the biennial in Lyon, France, at the New Museum, New York, and at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. Next spring she'll be included in "New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.

The concept of distinct races came from European naturalists in the 1700s and it's now recognized as a social construct, rather than a biological classification. Nonetheless, genetics researchers sometimes use race or ethnicity to stand in for ancestry. This practice has been criticized for creating discrete categories where none exist and for underemphasizing the ways that environment and other nongenetic factors can contribute to ill health. In March, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine weighed in with a consensus report. It documented the problems of using race as a biological category in genetics studies and suggested more appropriate approaches. One of the report's authors is Ann Morning, a professor of sociology at New York University. Over a decade ago she wrote the book The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference. She spoke with Issues editor Monya Baker about why race is a poor—but persistent—shorthand in genetics studies.   Resources Read the National Academies' consensus report Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research: A New Framework for an Evolving Field.   Books by Ann Morning: The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference and An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States (coauthored by Marcello Maneri).

Ann Morning, Professor of Sociology at NYU joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career studying race and her two books on the subject "The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference" and "An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States"

When was the last time a story took you completely by surprise? Danielle Trussoni’s The Ancestor ambushed me into loving it. What seems a standard Gothic fiction turns into something wholly weirder … and wilder … as a young American woman inherits a creaky European castle, and the monstrous baggage that comes with it.Dani came on the show – somehow finding time between writing her new novel and being the New York Times’ horror columnist – to talk about The Ancestor’s paperback release. We tiptoe around the book’s many, many secrets, and somehow find ourselves all the way to a discussion about Bigfoot. It’s that kind of chat.We also discuss how her own roots and heritage inspired the novel, why there are so many double standards about women authors and horror, how she fits existing myth and lore into her stories so well … and I regale her with one of my favourite pieces of British legend. She’s kind enough to pretend that she doesn’t obviously know more about horror than me – and she also exposes me as someone who mentions that I have a degree a little too much.It’s interesting, enlightening, and more than a little bit shocking. Enjoy!The Ancestor is out in paperback from Custom House on April 13th.Other books we discussed include:Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (2016), by Colin DickeyThe Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters and our Obsession with the Unexplained (2020), by Colin DickeySapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), by Yuval Noah HarariFlowers in the Attic (1979), by V.C. AndrewsThe Historian (2005), by Elizabeth KostovaSupport the show by donating: https://ko-fi.com/talkingscaredpod Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com.

This week, I am joined by my good friend, curator, journalist and teacher Paolo Ferrarini (@paolostyleops). Paolo started his career in trend forecasting before becoming a design journalist and teacher at several of Europe's most prestigious schools. He writes for the Cool Hunting and Italian design title Interni as well. We met a few years back in Milan and were lucky to have the opportunity to spend more time together during a couple of press trips (which I organised), back in the days when we could, you know, travel!Paolo indulged me first by telling me about his career, which as it turns out I didn't know so much about, his passion for great craftsmanship and photography, including a course in self-portraiture, pre-selfies. He offers bold thoughts on the future of fashion and how companies should create content out of love, making authenticity a company strategy, rather than merely a philosophy. Paolo, a podcaster himself, tells me about interviewing one of his idols Debbie Millman (the podcast is out this week) for Edit Naples, and his new talk project, the Human Difference talks.We finish on my favorite questions: What is your favorite word? "Incantevole" - enchanting in English - like the song by the band SubsonicaWhat brings you happiness? My family and the people on quick dial in my phone, that's what brings me the most joy. Enjoy!***Show Notes:You can check out all of Paolo's work and projects on his website:  http://paoloferrarini.it/On Instagram @paolostyleops and on Twitter : https://twitter.com/paolostylopsAnd check out his podcast Parola Progetto Interni MagazineThe Cool HuntingRenato Barilli Francesco Morace & Future Concept Lab Elio FiorucciPier Luigi NerviCourreges Salvatorre FerragamoAcademia Costume e ModaMarangoni Institute https://www.polimi.it/en/Cottonificio Albini Cristina NunezThe Self Portrait ExperienceInstagram https://www.instagram.com/The article I quote about limits to growth Documentary : Margiela in his own words https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/movies/martin-margiela-in-his-own-words-review.htmlFear of God : https://fearofgod.com/Pyer Moss https://pyermoss.com/Virgil Abloh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_AblohLee Broom Hay Brera Design Days Milan Design Week Base MilanoDebbie MillmanPaolo's interview of Debbie for Cool Hunting and his interview on the new podcast for Edit Design IndabaEdit Napoli MorosoFoscarini Giorgia LupiHuman Difference talksRavi Naidoo Karim RashidJerry Lorenzo Sara Sozzani MainoThe song that best represents Paolo: Sunshine ReggaeIncantevole by Subsonica ***If you enjoyed this episode, click subscribe for more, and if you are so inclined, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts! thank you for listeningFor all notes and transcripts, please visit Out Of The Clouds on Simplecast. Sign up for Anne's email newsletter for more from Out of the Clouds at https://annevmuhlethaler.com.Follow Anne:Twitter: @annvi IG: @annvi 

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography's seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young's inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. In The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between 'new' worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between 'north' and 'south.' This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or 'artes,' deployed in mapping the 'whole' world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the 'southern climes' of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it. Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King's College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. In The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it. Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. In The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it. Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. In The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it. Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. In The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it. Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. In The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it. Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. In The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it. Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to a new season! With Covid-19 restrictions still in place, we bring you another Zoom panel! For this reason, the audio quality will be a little different to our usual studio sound. This week, we are joined by Sophie Chao, who we interviewed previously about her use of multispecies ethnography during her time with the Marind People and our very own Deanna Catto! Firstly, our guest this week Sophie Chao [01:49] starts us off by thinking about what we do as anthropologists in relation to the global pandemic. Sophie has had to alter her ethnographic practices because of how things have become “suspended” in the face of Covid-19. She asks us to consider how we as ethnographers and anthropologists need to adapt our methods and our ethics to suit this strange new world. How have you had to adapt your ethnographic methods? Simon [06:49] then reflects on human difference through exploration of the Yezidi creation stories. The Yezidi people are an ethnic and religious minority in Northern Iraq who have two different creation stories which result in two different “peoples”. Simon poses questions of how we, as anthropologists, are able to work with people who have varying world views about themselves and their relationship to others. How do we navigate working with people that have different world views that might be contrary to our own? Deanna [11:36] reflects on how Covid-19 has affected shared spaces, such as her dojo where she practises Karate and how her practise has been forced online. She mentions Durkheim's Collective Effervescence and how she has been able to train online with Karate masters who ordinarily are invited to large yearly gatherings. The group reflects on how Dee's virtual dojo has created an “e-effervescent” landscape. Have you had to do the awkward goodbye at the end of a zoom call? Finally, Alex [16:45] discusses the problems with field notes. He notes that as time progresses, the memories, the sights and the sounds attached to his field notes start to fade. Alex also discusses how easy it is to plant false memories. Dee mentions that even the memories of our interlocutors can be flawed and that we need to be aware of how we as anthropologists are seeing the world. Head over to our website to check out the links and citations from this episode! Don't forget to head over to our Facebook group The Familiar Strange Chats. Let's keep talking strange, together! If you like what we do and are in a position to do so, you can help us to keep making content by supporting us through Patreon. This anthropology podcast is supported by the Australian Anthropological Society, the ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific and College of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and is produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com Shownotes by Matthew Phung Podcast edited by Alex D'Aloia and Matthew Phung

Today we spoke about a few fundamental, and philosophical differences between humans and animals. Listen in! (Podcast.Existential@Gmail.com for Qs, Comments, Episode Suggestions, or Hellos!) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/etai-shachar0/support

2019.02.19 What can the mapping of the human genome tell us about who we are? The twentieth century ended with the consensus in the social sciences and humanities that our group identities are constructed through social interaction rather than biologically determined. Does the mapping of the human genome in the twenty-first century challenge that consensus? This panel discussion brings together leading public intellectuals to discuss this question. Speakers Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU; Author of "The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity" (Profile, 2018), Individuals Jonathan Marks, Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of North Carolina Charlotte; Author of "Is Science Racist?" (Polity Press, 2017) Moderated by Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology, NYU; Author of "The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference" (University of California Press, 2011) In Collaboration with Division of Social Sciences and Division of Science

We discuss a list of 10 ways of how to engage difference published by our friend Nolan McCants.

Public debate on genetic research often assumes that conservatives will prefer genetic explanations for human differences, while liberals will point to environmental factors—perhaps exacerbating political divides on race. But Stephen Schneider finds that conservatives prefer explanations based on personal choice; attributing individual differences to genetics is associated with liberalism and higher tolerance. But when asked to explain racial group differences, Elizabeth Suhay finds that conservatives are attracted to genetic explanations if they are exposed to media messages on genetics and race. Both say people choose their political views first and then select the explanations that fit them.

02/24/2015. Sermon by Rev. Nichole Phillips, Asst. Prof. of Religion and Human Difference. "Pardon the Interruption." Scripture Reading: Mark 8:31-38. Black Church Studies Worship Service.

We are all unique individuals, and differences exist between us, which is a beautiful thing. But society is also structured in ways that categorize us according to our differences, which can have really harmful effects. Join Radio Uprising this week as youth producers Jake, Vivianna, Rachael and Jeremy take on the topic of society's organization into categories based on human difference such as age, race, gender, and more. We talk about the status quo and being "normal." as well as our own interpretations of the term "social separation." We talk about historical instances where social separation was enforced by law, such as Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and later apartheid and the Holocaust. Next, the youth talk about their identities using Allan G. Johnson's "Wheel of Diversity," and discuss the ways in which our differences are used to divide us -- and what we can do to break down the barriers and make more meaningful connections with people from whom we've been separated somehow. The youth also share times when they used their differences to defy people's expectations and proved to the world that they're more than people assumed. All this, plus the most inspiring and transformative listener call ever, and--gasp!--Yankees saying Y'ALL!

1/29/2015. Dr. Nichole Phillips, Asst. Prof. of Religion & Human Difference, Delivers an Office Hours seminar titled "Redeeming Memories: From the Trauma of Collective Pasts to the Hope of Resurrection"

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. In the inaugural lecture for the new annual RISE Faculty Lecture on Diversity and Excellence, Adam Green makes the case for understanding diversity—the premise that our civil society should be founded on pluralism, respect, and access—as a transformative creed derived from traditions of struggle and an intentioned sense of equity. Drawing on personal experience as well as scholarship, Green examines the ways that diversity has been understood in the past and how it is regarded today—a time of unprecedented correspondence as well as deeply disconcerting disparity and inequalities. Adam Green is Associate Professor in History and the College, and Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. The event took place on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at Mandel Hall.

In this talk, Jones traces an extensive historical overview of the theories behind human difference, from ancient Greeks to the eugenics movement to modern day scientists, in order to better inform how we answer the question: If genetics shows how we are all different, does it matter?

David Jones, a Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University, delivers a talk titled “Genetic (Mis)understandings – The Modern Science of Human Difference” as part of Facing History’s Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.”  Jones traces an extensive historical overview of the theories behind human difference, from ancient Greeks to the eugenics movement to modern day scientists, in order to better inform how we answer the question: If genetics shows how we are all different, does it matter?