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for cross-posting*<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Dear
colleagues, <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">All
are welcome at this upcoming event organized by the Centre for the Humanities
and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. Details below and poster attached.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">*****<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">HKU Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar Series<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Trans-Speciated Thinking: Rat Training as
Epistemological Practice in Tanzania<span></span></span></i></b></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Wednesda</span>y,
March 30 @ 9pm Hong Kong<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Other
Time Zones:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">9am
EST (New York) / 2pm GMT (London) / 3pm SAST (Cape Town) / 4pm EAT (Dar es
Salaam)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red" lang="EN-HK"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Delivery:
via Zoom<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Registration
Weblink: <a href="https://bit.ly/3ux08No" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://bit.ly/3ux08No</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Please
register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Speaker:
<b>Jia Hui Lee, PhD </b>(Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant
Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College)<b><span></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Discussant:
<b>Susan Levine, PhD </b>(Professor and Head of Anthropology, University of
Cape Town)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Moderator:
<b>Laura Meek, PhD</b> (Assistant Professor, Centre for the Humanities and
Medicine, HKU)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red" lang="EN-HK"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Abstract:<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">This
talk positions rodent trainers in Tanzania as philosophers of the mind who
explore, propose, and critique the experiences of being human through their
speculation of rodent minds. Rodent trainers in Tanzania speculate about rodent
minds as a way to understand how best to train them to detect landmines as part
of an international humanitarian project. I draw on these trainers’ experiences
of working with rats to analyze how they participate in a long,
cross-disciplinary history of thinking about cognition that depend on careful
observations of rodent behaviors. In speculating about rodent learning and
cunning, rodent trainers subsequently reflect on the importance of “hekima,” an
intelligent ability to understand and participate in social relations that
foster solidarity and social wellbeing in Tanzanian society. I further situate
this “working theory of mind” within the social inequalities that Tanzanian
trainers confront while working for an international NGO. This work forms part
of a larger research project that builds on ongoing critiques in Black studies,
anthropology, and science and technology studies about “post/humanism,” and
suggests that scholars begin to look to Africa for “counterhumanisms.”<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Speaker Bio:<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jia Hui Lee </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">is a Mellon
Post-Doctoral Fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
Haverford College. His research project, <i>Interstitial Intelligence: Human-Rodent
Sensing, Cognition, and Work in Morogoro, Tanzania</i>, is an historically
informed ethnography of various human-rodent encounters in zoological research,
animal training, and pest management schemes. He examines how rodent
researchers, trappers, and trainers produce new knowledges, sensory capacities,
and technologies, and their entanglements with colonial legacies, global
inequities, and speculations about the future. More broadly, his research
argues that such more-than-human encounters are crucial sites for generating
theories and critiques that offer a counterhumanist vision of being “human” in
21st-century Africa. Dr. Lee has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge.<b><span></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discussant Bio:<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK">Susan Levine</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK"> is Professor and
Head of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. She is a medical
anthropologist whose research focuses on toxic landscapes, children and
childhoods, virological and biomedical science, and with new work in vaccine
hesitancy in South Africa. Dr. Levine leads a new MA program called Health
Humanities and the Arts, which brings artists, medical workers, and social
scientists into conversation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-HK"><br><span></span></span></p>
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