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Conference Keynote: Michelle Murphy - What is an Anti-Colonial Relation to Pollution on the Great Lakes?

Join us for Dr. Michelle Murphy’s Keynote address. Moderated by Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo and Raka Sen.

Michelle Murphy is a technoscience studies scholar whose research concerns decolonial approaches to environmental justice; reproductive justice; Indigenous science and technology studies; infrastructures, data studies; race and science; and finance and economic practices. Murphy's current research focuses on the relationships between pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes. Murphy is a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which hosts a lab and is home for social justice and decolonial approaches to Science and Technology Studies. She is the author of three books: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, Seizing the Means of Reproduction, The Economization of Life, all published by Duke University Press. She is Métis from Winnipeg with a Métis and French Canadian family.

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