Sources: Torry Dickinson, 785-532-7781, dickins@k-state.edu;
and Melinda Sinn, 785-532-5888 sinnpio@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Rosanna Vail, 785-532-2720, rvail@k-state.edu
Monday, April 28, 2008
PHYSICIAN AND ANTHROPOLOGIST SHOMARKA O.Y. KEITA TO PRESENT LECTURE AT K-STATE
MANHATTAN -- Dr. Shomarka O. Y. Keita will present the lecture "The Misconception of Human Variation as Race" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in the K-State Student Union's Forum Hall at Kansas State University.
Keita has a medical degree from Howard University and a doctorate from Oxford University, specializing in phenotypic and genetic human biological analysis variation.
The lecture is being organized as a "communiversity" event, open to K-State faculty, staff and students, as well as to members of the community. It will provide an analysis of race in relation to biology and lived experience. Keita will then lead an open dialogue on race and gender, which will help participants relate lecture materials to contemporary topics such as the Obama and Clinton presidential campaigns.
Keita will be in Manhattan April 30-May 2 to speak to a number of other groups on campus and in the community.
Sponsors of the lecture include K-State's American ethnic studies program, Campaign for Nonviolence, College of Agriculture and K-State Research and Extension, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Human Ecology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Division of Continuing Education, Dow Multicultural Resource Center, ACTION, leadership studies and programs, office of diversity and dual career development, office of the provost, and the women's studies program.
More information on the lecture is available by contacting Torry Dickinson at 785-532-7781 or dickens@k-state.edu.