Alondra Nelson (Colombia, Sociology)
Monday March 12, 2012
College 8, 301
Time: 12:30-2:00PM
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known (read the rest…)
Past Events
February 29th, 2012
February 29th, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
4-6:00 PM in Engineering 2, 599
Narratives of scientific progress are often paired with narratives about political progress, suggesting that the expansion of scientific knowledge always—or at least generally—leads to the betterment of humankind as a whole. But many socially disadvantaged and oppressed peoples contend that such “progress” is distributed unevenly and often (read the rest…)
January 18th, 2012
Hannah Landecker (UCLA Center for Genetics and Society)
Thursday January 26, 2012, 3:00-5:00 PM
Engineering 2, Room 399
Epigenetics has turned food and its metabolism into a problem that is not just about how the body turns food its basic components–carbohydrates, fat, protein-but how food acts as a signal of the environment–both biological and political. Hannah Landecker will (read the rest…)
January 18th, 2012
Bia Labate
Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 4-6pm
Engineering 2, 599
Beatriz Labate has studied the scientific and social features of psychoactive substances for over 15 years. In this meeting we will discuss the situation surrounding the compound ayahuasca, a psychedelic used in both medical and spiritual contexts throughout the Americas. By exploring the frontiers and limits between “therapeutic” and (read the rest…)
January 18th, 2012
Priscilla Wald (Duke, English and the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy)
Monday, February 6, 2012
Engineering 2, 599
4:00-6:00 PM
This event is co-sponsored with Cultural Studies, Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering—Research Mentoring Institute, and the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department.
October 27th, 2011
Another World is Plantable! Part 4
Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010
Thursday 10/27, 4:30-6:30 PM, Studio C (Room 150 in Communications Building)
Director: Ella von der Haide
In a series of four documentaries, Ella von der Haide features urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa, Argentina, Germany (read the rest…)
October 25th, 2011
Andro Hsu with discussion by Ted Goldstein and Whitney Boesel
November 9, 2011
Engineering 2, Room 599
4:15-6:15 PM
Andro Hsu (VP of Products at GigaGen and former science writer and policy advisor at 23andMe) will join us for a discussion of what we are learning—both about policy/society and biology—as increasing resources are put into turning the ever growing (read the rest…)
October 19th, 2011
Modelling pigs and humans: Exploring the practices of models across sciences
Wednesday October 19, 2011
Engineering 2, Room 499
PhD Fellow Vibeke Pihl, Medical Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.
Vibeke Pihl’s research addresses how connections between humans and animals are shaped in contemporary biomedical research on human health. During an ethnographic (read the rest…)
October 12th, 2011
Comparative Tinkering: A Roundtable
Tuesday, October 25th, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
UCSC Campus, Social Sciences 1, Room 261 (Anthropology’s Colloquium Series room)
Speakers: Karen Barad (UCSC, Feminist Studies), Alan Christy (UCSC, History), Lawrence Cohen (UC-Berkeley, Anthropology), Andrew Matthews (UCSC, Anthropology), Danilyn Rutherford (UCSC, Anthropology), Warren Sack (UCSC, Film & Digital Media), Anna Tsing (UCSC, Anthropology)
Facilitators: Peter Lutz (read the rest…)
October 4th, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, at our normal time and place (Eng 2 599. 4:15-6:15).
John Kadvany will join us to discuss the concept of risk. Oxford University Press recently published John’s book on risk, entitled Risk: A Very Short Introduction. Given that so many of us in the group are interested in thinking well about risk–whether in the context (read the rest…)
June 2nd, 2011
Dates: June 2-3, 2011
Location: UCSC University Center
The Science & Justice Working Group announces the upcoming conference The State of Science and Justice: Conversations in Honor of Susan Leigh Star. The conference will broadly discuss the role of justice in the topics and methods of Science & Technology Studies. The themes of the conference are organized (read the rest…)
May 25th, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
4:30-6:30 PM
Engineering 2, Room 599
Why is climate change a hot button issue? Through an interdisciplinary conversation, this panel will explore the heated dynamics of climate politics. We will discuss many dimensions of climate science and politics and their relation to one another, e.g.: ideological polarization, climate ontology and epistemology, climate communication and scientific (read the rest…)
May 11th, 2011
Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a eugenic past
Banu Subramaniam (UMass Amherst)
May 11, 2011, 4:30-6:30
Engineering 2, 599
What do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk, I trace the genealogies of ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how histories of gender and race (read the rest…)
March 9th, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 4:15-6:15 pm
599 Engineering 2
Michael Mateas runs the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz, which explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, art, and design. Their goal is to create compelling new forms of interactive art and entertainment that provide more deeply autonomous, generative, and dynamic responses to interaction. A major thrust of this (read the rest…)
March 8th, 2011
Standardization on the Hoof: Pedigrees, Genetic Disease, and Genomic-Enhanced EPDs
Scout Calvert (Wayne State University)
April 13, 2011
Engineering 2 599, 4:30-6:30
The SJWG is very pleased to welcome back Scout Calvert, who was one of our original members and earned her PhD from History of Consciousness.
Abstract: For decades, beef breed associations have been gathering performance data on registered (read the rest…)
March 2nd, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 4:15-6:15 PM
Engineering 2, Room 599
Hosted by Ben Roome (Philosophy)
The development of new pharmacological therapies for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders requires an intricate lattice of practices. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has pursued the application of various compounds for therapeutic use for over 20 years. The group’s (read the rest…)
February 24th, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 12:00 p.m. E2 Room 599
Climate change science is attracting an exceptional amount of public interest, yet debates over the merit and implications of climate change research seldom unpack the complex set of practices and networks that make up this field. This panel will explore the multiple realities of conducting climate change (read the rest…)
January 25th, 2011
New date and place: Tuesday, 1/25/11, 12:00-1:30 PM, Humanities I room 320
The second cohort of our Science & Justice Training Program begins in Spring 2011! We are hosting an information session on January 25 in Humanities I 320, 12:00-1:30 PM. A pizza lunch will be provided. Graduate students from all campus departments are welcome in (read the rest…)
January 19th, 2011
January 19, 2011
Engineering 2, Room 599
4:15-6:15
November 3rd, 2010
A Conversation with Steve Sturdy
Engineering 2, Room 599. 4:15-6:15
Steve Sturdy, Deputy Director of the Genomics Forum in the UK (see bio below), will be joining us to discuss recent experimentation with science and society relations. The Genomics Forum (http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/) was created by the UK government in 2005 to foster greater exchanges between the social and (read the rest…)