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Eugenics in California and the World: Race, Class, Gender/Sexuality, and
Disability
A Virtual Symposium, Friday & Saturday, June 4-5, 2021
Webinar: Zoom - https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89876633951
Livestream: YouTube - https://youtu.be/9tKLzCzE9Ak
ASL & Live Captioning
https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/california-eugenics-legacies-symposium-june-4-5-2021/
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2021
1:00-1:15 pm Welcome
Miroslava Chávez-García, UCSB & Susan Schweik, UCB
Special dedication to Theresa Martínez
Land Acknowledgement by ASUCSB
1:30-2:45 pm Opening Plenary
Alexandra M. Stern, U Michigan, “Reparations, Memory, and History”
Paul Spickard, UCSB, “Renaming California State Parks”
David McIntosh, UCSB, “The Legacy of Madison Grant in State Histories”
Q & A: The Audience
3:00-4:15 pm PANEL I: Eugenics, Institutions, Golden California
Jess Whatcott, SDSU, “Maternalist Eugenics and the Research of Grace
Fernald”
Tony Platt, UCB, “Misanthropology and Eugenics at Berkeley,”
Isidro González, UCSB, “Constructing the Defective at Sonoma State Home,”
Han Koehle, UCSB
Miroslava Chávez-García, “Garret Hardin’s & Cordelia Scaife May’s Mutual
Passions: Population, Environment, and Immigration Control”
Q & A: The Audience
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2021
9:30-10:45 PANEL II Sterilization and the Social Justice Lab
Juan Gudino, MPH, University of Iowa College of Public Health
Marie Kaniecki, MPH, University of Michigan
Natalie Lira, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign
Nicole Novak, Assistant Research Scientist, Iowa College of Public Health
Kate O’Connor, MPH, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, American Culture
Q & A: The Audience
11:00-12:15 PANEL III Ableism, Anti-Blackness, and Racism: Eugenics in the
Present
Ella Callow, UCB, Lucy Sirianni, UCB, & Nate Tilton, UCB, “Eugenics &
Child Welfare: Preventing Civil Death Penalty for Disabled Adults & their
Children”
Aimee Medeiros, UCSF, “The REPAIR Project, Anti-Blackness & Racism in
Medicine,
Science, & Health”
Carlos Martínez, UCSF, The REPAIR Project
Q & A: The Audience
12:15-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:15pm PANEL IV Reparations for California Forced Sterilization
Survivors Campaign
Aminah Elster, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Carly Meyers, Disability Rights Education Defense Fund
Cynthia Chandler, Bay Area Legal Incubator (BALI)
Lorena García Z., California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
Q & A: The Audience
2:30-3:45pm PANEL V Reproductive Genetic Technologies & Social Justice
Implications
Marcy Darnovsky, Center for Genetics, Berkeley
Osagie Obasagie, UCB
Q & A: The Audience
4:00 – 4:30pm Reflections & Moving Forward: Transitional Justice Movements
Milton Reynolds, Reynolds Consulting, International/Educational Working
Group
Closing: Susan Schweik, Miroslava Chávez-García, and Audience
For information and access needs, contact: Isidro González
isidrogonzalez@ucsb.edu
Co-sponsored by the University of California Office of the President
Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding, and the UC
Humanities Research Institute
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Susan Schweik
Professor of English
UC Berkeley
sschweik@berkeley.edu
Pronouns: she/her