Experiments with Life in China's Experimental City: BGI, DNA, and Shenzhen

Bios: The Sciences of Life Seminar Series 

Hallam Stevens, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, James Cook University 

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Organized by Rijul Kochhar with Elizabeth Karron and Alex Halberstam 

About the speaker: Hallam Stevens is an historian of science and technology whose work examines the intersections between the life sciences and information technologies. He is the author ofLife Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics (2013), Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction(Chicago, 2016), and the co-editor of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Life After the Genome (Duke, 2015) andCrafting Everyday Food: Traditional, Taste, and Technology in Modern East Asia (Hawaii, 2025). He is currently completing a book about electronics manufacturing titledTropics of Silicon: Labor and the Making of Global Electronics in Southeast Asia (under contract, Johns Hopkins).