Thursday, April 11, 2019
4 - 5 p.m.
Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center

Dr. Brigitte Baptiste, director of the Humboldt Institute of Biological Resources, presents the Annual J. Jobe and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Lecture, sponsored by the Human Rights Program.

About the Lecture
The conventional approach for queering ecology has been developed more from the side of queer theory than from the ecological thinking. However, biological evolution, based on a continuous arrangement of DNA texts, allows and even benefits from the existence of many "queer" species and behaviors. To many scholars "there is nothing more queer than nature", meaning that biological relationships among living beings are ecological narratives which produce queerness and innovation. The potential of such enquiry may help us understand and be prepared for the next generation of emerging, mutant or even cyberecosystems.

About Dr. Brigitte Baptiste
Brigitte Baptiste is biologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota and M.Sc. in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. She worked as a researcher at the Unit for Rural Studies from the Faculty of Economics of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she began her teaching career at the Program of Rural Development and Environmental Management. She participated in many national conservation projects and worked in diverse disciplines, such as environmental planning, cultural landscapes, process analysis of the transformation of the territory,ecological and economic history of productive systems, multicultural use and management of biodiversity analysis, biocomplexity, biospeleology and biopolitics. Since January 2011 Brigitte is the General Director of the Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt. She has been a representative of Colombia and Latin America in different multilateral organizations such as IPBES or IAI.

About the Annual Lecture
The Soffa lecture supports regular lectures on contemporary issues of global significance. Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa (‘46 BA L&S) established this fund to support an annual public lecture on a contemporary issue of global significance by a distinguished woman in international public life. For more than a decade this fund has brought renowned women from across the globe to lecture and meet with classes. Holders of the lectureship have included well-known “grassroots” leaders in the struggle for human rights and international understanding.

Submitted by Law School News on April 11, 2019

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