Critical workshops dealing with the historic legacy of eugenics
Thinking and Doing Workshops - Thinking about the past, the present and the future. Doing something to change the mistakes of the past, to deal with the present, and to create an ethical future.
A series of workshops facilitated by Stephanie Dickinson and running as a student-staff partnership.
Blog update 30th January 2024
“We visited the Genetic Automata exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. During the session, we watched a few films and reflected upon human emotions when facing the complexity and intensity of science, race and identity. The exhibition was a great opportunity for us to learn from authors who were historically underrepresented.”
Research Partners: Zhuoyan Gong, Teresa Lee, Ray Wang, Nasrin Younga, et al.
Blog update 16th January 2024
"We are doing some workshops looking at eugenics from a historical angle and in relation to the subject of Statistical Science. We are reading Annals of Eugenics edited by Karl Pearson (pioneer of statistics and eugenics) and are developing our understanding of the historical and social contexts. Karl Pearson founded the department that we study in, the first statistics department in the world."
Research Partners: Zhuoyan Gong, Teresa Lee, Ray Wang, Nasrin Younga, et al.
For more information about the history of the department, see our webpage which explains the context.
These workshops are supported by the Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP) and are funded by UCL ChangeMakers.