{"id":1797,"date":"2023-02-14T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/edi\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2023-12-05T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:19:52","slug":"distinguished-public-lecture-fighting-racial-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/2023\/02\/14\/distinguished-public-lecture-fighting-racial-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Public Lecture: Fighting Racial Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Biology Anti-Racist Committee (BARC)<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>School of Biology EDI Committee<\/strong>\u00a0are extremely excited to announce that award-winning journalist and author\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.angelasaini.co.uk\/\"><strong>Angela Saini<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will be visiting St Andrews to give a\u00a0<strong>Distinguished Public Lecture<\/strong>\u00a0titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/events.st-andrews.ac.uk\/events\/angela-saini-fighting-racial-myths\/\"><strong>Fighting Racial Myths: the biological meaninglessness of race and the inappropriation of science to support this flawed premise<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at\u00a0<strong>1:30pm to 3pm, Friday 10 March<\/strong><strong> 2023, in\u00a0Purdie Lecture Theatre A<\/strong>. The event is\u00a0<strong>free to attend<\/strong> and open to the public, but seating is limited so you must register in advance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7292\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Saini-Poster_small.jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Saini-Poster_small.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"612,792\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Saini-Poster_small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Saini-Poster_small.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7292\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Saini-Poster_small.jpg\" alt=\"Event poster fo Angela Saini: Fighting Racial Myths - The biological meaningless of race and the innapropriation of science to support this flawed premise.\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Angela will also be discussing her most recent book <em>The Patriarchs<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toppingbooks.co.uk\/events\/st-andrews\/angela-saini-2023\/\">8pm on Friday evening at\u00a0Topping &amp; Co Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Biology Anti-Racist Committee (BARC)\u00a0and the\u00a0School of Biology EDI Committee\u00a0are extremely excited to announce that award-winning journalist and author\u00a0Angela Saini\u00a0will be visiting St Andrews to give a\u00a0Distinguished Public Lecture\u00a0titled: Fighting Racial Myths: the biological meaninglessness of race and the inappropriation of science to support this flawed premise. The event will be held at\u00a01:30pm to 3pm, Friday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equality-diversity-and-inclusion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/angela-saini-featured-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}