Today@Dal

Congratulations to Department of Pediatrics' Janice E Graham on receiving the Canadian Anthropology Society’s Weaver-Tremblay Award. Dr. Graham will deliver her lecture this evening as part of the Society’s annual meeting, here in Halifax. The lecture is open to all.

5:00 – 6:15
McCain Scotiabank Auditorium

“Ecologies of Evidence: Fields of solidarities to speak trust to power”

What counts as acceptable and appropriate evidence in science and society? Whose version of truth matters in the compilation of evidence? As the collectors and purveyors of local knowledge, anthropologists attend to the logics and added value of multiple forms of expertise and types of knowledge. In this presentation, I reflect on how an engaged four-field anthropology builds circuits to realize ecologies of evidence and systems to counter the risk in trust. But how do we get policymaker elites to listen and value the evidence of a cosmopolitical parliament of constituents?