Kari Brossard Stoos (HPPE) and Emily Avera (Anthropology) co-mentor student research at International Conference

By Deborah Wuest, July 10, 2022

Kari Brossard Stoos (HPPE) and Emily Avera (Anthropology) co-mentor student research at International Conference

Kari Brossard Stoos (Associate Professor, HPPE) and Emily Avera (former Assistant Professor, Anthropology) co-mentor former Health Sciences student, Julie Eaton's, research presentation, "Response-able translation in the context of blood services and decolonization in Africa" at the  Vereinigung fur Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland 2022 conference Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives, at the Albert Ludwig University  (Africa Centre for Transregional Research) Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  Julie presented her experiences and findings working to translate archived documents from the now-folded NGO, Safe Blood for Africa, into an open access database.  Julie translated documents from Cameroonian French into English and created metadata for each.  Her project also focused on researching the relationships between response-able translation and decolonization.