The third colloquium took place in the end of November at Cramton Auditorium. The speaker of the night was Dr. Fatima Jackson. My Freshman Seminar teacher told me that this colloquium would be especially good for Biology majors, which i am.
Dr. Jackson started off the lecture by saying, "anything that impacts African Americans is a part of African American studies." She then went on to say that, "Human heterogeneity and bio cultural variability presents a change to classical racial stratification models of epidemiology and public health." Dr. Jackson spoke about people needing a new approach to comprehensively capture the nuance of human biodiversity as it relates to health. She said "models must compare cultural behavioral diversity, genetic variation, non-genetic biological differences, and be contextualized by the appropriate biological linease histories." I didn't understand anything was she was trying to say, i knew she was talking about science and she sounded very educated. However, she didn't take the time to try and explain it to the college students in the room.
Towards the end of her lecture she stated that, "methods and materials include historical assessments, geographies, appraisals, cultural reconstruction, and genetic evaluations. In closing, Dr. Fatima said evidence from molecular anthropologist genetic reveals small differences between humans. As a suggestion for her next lecture at Howard students, I would say that she should take more time to explain what she is talking about instead of putting up a slide show written in jargon.
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