For our second event as part of the Diversity and Inclusion in the Information Sciences Speaker Series, we'll be hearing from Professors Michelle Murphy and Kristen Bos on their research, and their work at the Technoscience Research Unit.

Kristen Bos is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Science and Technology Studies in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She is an Indigenous feminist researcher trained in archaeological approaches to material culture as well as an Indigenous science and technology studies (STS) researcher, who is concerned the relationship between colonial, gendered, and environmental violence. Professor Bos is urban Métis based in Toronto, but her homeland is northern Alberta where prairie transitions into boreal forest. She is the Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit (TRU).

Michelle Murphy is a feminist technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent…