This conference will examine how questions of justice inform the practices of science and engineering, bringing leading scholars into conversation with the upcoming generation, including graduate student Fellows from our Science & Justice Training Program.
Leigh Star, who passed away in March 2010, was a scholar of the sociology of science who lived in Santa Cruz and taught at a number of Bay Area institutions, in addition to being a friend and intellectual inspiration for many at UCSC. One of her lasting contributions to the field was the insistence that questions about the distribution of power in technoscientific systems be central to how we discuss and design these system. The conference is organized around the themes of her work.
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Schedule:
Thursday June 2, 4-6:30:
Keynote address: Geoffrey Bowker (Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship, University of Pittsburgh)
Respondents: Donna Haraway, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa , Jacob Metcalf
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Friday June 3:
9:30-10:00
Opening Remarks: Jenny Reardon
10:00-11:45
Cui Bono?
Chair: Karen Barad
Speakers: Katie King, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader
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11:45-1:00
Lunch, University Center
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1:00-2:45
Experiments in Collaboration: UCSC’s Science & Justice Fellows
Sponsored by the UCSC Division of Graduate Studies
Chair: Andrew Matthews
Speakers: Martha Kenney, Ruth Müller, Alexis Mourenza, Jennie Ohayon
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3:00-4:45
Values in Infrastructure and Design
Chair: Ellen Balka
Speakers: Cory Knobel, Katie Shilton, Fred Turner
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5:00-5:30
Closing Discussion
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Sponsors
The UCSC Science & Justice Working Group, Science & Justice Training Program, The National Science Foundation, the UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, the UCSC Division of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of Anthropology, Department of Environmental Studies, History of Consciousness Department, College 8, and the Digital Arts and New Media Department.
Getting there
The UCSC University Center is located near Colleges 9 & 10, at the center of campus (click here for a map). Parking is available near the Center and also a short walk away at the Core West parking structure. Guests will need to pick up a parking pass at the parking kiosk near the main campus entrance (at Bay and High streets).
Registration
The conference is free, but we do ask attendees to register due to limited space. Lunch on Friday will be provided free of charge at the University Center.
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For more information
Please email scijust.ucsc@gmail.com.
What’s with the onion?
Leigh was famously allergic to onions, having written about it movingly in the context of the asymmetric burdens of infrastructures. Her call for feminist science and technology studies to keep questions of justice at the center of its topics and methods helped shape the field.
