May 29th: Dusan Bjelic, "Molecular Colonialism: the Case of Cocaine"
Date & Time
May 29, 2018
from
12:10 PM to
02:00 PM
Location
STS Conference Room (1246 SSH Bldg)
Description
"Molecular Colonialism: the Case of Cocaine"
Professor Dušan Bjelić
Criminology and Science Studies, University of Southern Maine
Dušan I. Bjelić received both his B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1981) in Sociology from the University of Belgrade. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Boston University in 1989, joining the University of Southern Maine faculty in 1990. His areas of interest are ethnomethodology of science, Balkan Studies, and critical studies of psychoanalysis and psychiatry. His books include, Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation, co-edited with Obrad Savić (The MIT Press 2002); Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality and the Body-Instrument Link (SUNY Press 2003); Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (Ashgate in 2011; Routledge in 2016); Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis (Palgrave in 2017).