Call for Papers | Imaginactivism: A Speculative Fiction Workshop on Environmental Justice, Flourishing and Cohabitation
Expressions of interest by: September 29, 2017 Deadline for submissions: October 2, 2017 Workshop: October 18, 2017 (1:00 -4:00PM, DARC Light Lab) Organization: UCSC Science and Justice Research Center Contact email: jharan@uoregon.edu and cmasseng@ucsc.edu In this workshop we will take inspiration from Starhawk and Donna Haraway. In their writings since the later 1970s we can trace both the influence of a web of feminist… Continue Reading Call for Papers | Imaginactivism: A Speculative Fiction Workshop on Environmental Justice, Flourishing and Cohabitation
UCSC Genomics Institute: We Stand for Equality
In response to actions taken in Charlottesville, VA over the last week, the UCSC Genomics Institute together with SJRC has issued a statement standing up for equality. See also, the below Call for Action first issued following the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Read and Sign: a message from the UCSC community reaffirming our shared… Continue Reading UCSC Genomics Institute: We Stand for Equality
Call for Action: Community Relief Aid for Putumayo, Mocoa
From Kristina Lyons, SJRC Affiliate in Feminist Science Studies: The capital city of Putumayo, Mocoa, where I have been engaged in research and accompanying agro-life popular processes since 2004, suffered a devastating avalanche in the early morning hours after three rivers, the Mocoa, Mulato and Sancoyaco, flooded and overtook 17 neighborhoods. At least 236 people have been killed, more than 250 more… Continue Reading Call for Action: Community Relief Aid for Putumayo, Mocoa
Spring Course | UCSC FDM 225: Software Studies
UCSC Science & Justice affiliate Warren Sack, Professor of Film & Digital Media and Digital Arts & New Media, will offer FDM 225: Software Studies this coming spring term. Continue Reading Spring Course | UCSC FDM 225: Software Studies
Jenny Reardon receives Humboldt Foundation award
(Originally posted on Sociology@UCSC) Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology and director of the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz, is the winner of the 2017 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. The award recognizes scholars who have earned lifetime achievements in research. In addition, award recipients are invited to spend a year collaborating with… Continue Reading Jenny Reardon receives Humboldt Foundation award
The Anthropology and Environment Society has awarded its Junior Scholar Prize to Kristina Lyons
Congratulations to Science & Justice Professor Kristina Lyons! Lyons, Assistant Professor of Feminist Science Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz was awarded the 2016 AES Junior Scholar award for the article “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Selva, and Small Farmers under the Gun of the U.S.- Colombia War on Drugs” is published in Cultural Anthropology (Volume 31, Number 1:… Continue Reading The Anthropology and Environment Society has awarded its Junior Scholar Prize to Kristina Lyons
Call for Action: UCSC community reaffirms commitment to shared #UCSCvalues
The UC Santa Cruz community is committed to social justice. It has rich ties among the arts, natural and social sciences, and humanities. Inquiries based on science-and-fact are supported in a robust natural world. This is our mission. Read and Sign: a message from the UCSC community reaffirming our shared values During a time when current… Continue Reading Call for Action: UCSC community reaffirms commitment to shared #UCSCvalues
In the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election of Donald Trump: a Statement from the UCSC Science and Justice Research Center
Dear Science and Justice Friends, Colleagues, Allies and Communities, Like many of you, all of us at SJRC have been reflecting, re-grouping and gearing up for action in light of the November 2016 US presidential election. We are re-committing to our core values and standing in solidarity with all those threatened by state… Continue Reading In the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election of Donald Trump: a Statement from the UCSC Science and Justice Research Center