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Feb

4 2020

Anatomy of Antisemitism & Antisemitism in Anatomy

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Domont Auditorium, JFGI Education and Engagement Center 6705 Hoover Rd.
Door #1
Indianapolis, IN 46260

Contact Dr. Jason Organ
jorgan@iupui.edu

Dr. Jeffrey Laitman, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology, ICAHN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, will share his experiences as a Jewish researcher in the fields of anatomy and human paleontology. As an award winning anatomist and teacher, Dr. Laitman has travelled the word collecting data on our closest fossil relatives and he has trained thousands of physicians in the anatomical sciences. This unique perch atop two different fields has given Laitman considerable insight into the ethics of anatomy (in particular Nazi-derived anatomical knowledge) as well as personal antisemitic experiences. Dr. Laitman will tell the story of his road in academe, as a poor Jewish kid from Brooklyn wandering the gentile (and sometimes antisemitic) hallways of Yale and museums throughout the world, and ascending to the top of his fields—fields with dark histories in racism, antisemitism, and genocide.