*The program will be followed by a business meeting of the CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee.

Why are tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel obsessed with babies, IQ, gender and race? How has an ideological system as disgraced as Eugenics returned to mainstream discourse? What role does it play in the rise of authoritarianism? How far does it go, and how do we fight it?

Join us for a presentation by professor Johnny Eric Williams, followed by a discussion and then a monthly statewide meeting of the CT civil liberties defense committee where we will plan organizing to defend our rights and oppose the rise of authoritarianism.

Speaker: Johnny Eric Williams is a professor of sociology at Trinity College and author of Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Lexington Books 2016). Which investigates the complex role racialized culture plays in delimiting how genome researchers think about human genetic variation. He is the author of numerous articles examining culture’s role in politics, social movement mobilization and scientific knowledge production.