03/20- “Our Science Ourselves” Featuring Christa Kuljian in Conversation with Evelynn Hammonds

January 23, 2025 Amanda Rajnauth

“Our Science Ourselves” Featuring Christa Kuljian in Conversation with Evelynn Hammonds

March 20th, 2025 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM

Room 9205

Evelynn Hammonds and Christa Kuljian will be in conversation about Kuljian’s book Our Science Ourselves, which tells the story of a trailblazing network of women scientists in the Boston area in the 1970s, 80s and 90s including Hammonds, Ruth Hubbard, Rita Arditti, Evelyn Fox Keller, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Banu Subramaniam. Inspired by the social and political activism of the women’s movement, and organizations like Science for the People and the Combahee River Collective, they began to develop feminist and anti-racist critiques of science. The book tells the origin story of feminist science studies, and also illustrates how engaging with these critiques is often difficult for many women scientists, including Nancy Hopkins, initially a “reluctant feminist.”