Tech Futures: 52 Conversation Starter Card Deck
The Science & Justice Research Center is co-sponsoring a project with the Center for Public Philosophy to create a deck of playing cards that will catalyze conversations about ethics and technology, and we want your ideas. Cards will not tell players what to think. They are a playful way to stimulate dialogue on some of… Continue Reading Tech Futures: 52 Conversation Starter Card Deck
SJTP fellow awarded AAUW fellowship
Science and Justice Training Program Fellow, Vivian Underhill, awarded a 2020-21 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowship for work on intergenerational environmental-justice activism around fracking and groundwater in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Continue Reading SJTP fellow awarded AAUW fellowship
World Records Journal Vol. 4 | In The Presence of Others
Using Hannah Arendt’s writings to rethink the role of documentary in visualizing and producing common worlds, The World Records Journal has launched Vol. 4 In The Presence of Others. This issue of World Records puts Arendt’s work into counterpoint with documentary media and cultures. Included is Conditions: Warren Sack in conversation with Jenny Reardon and Bonnie… Continue Reading World Records Journal Vol. 4 | In The Presence of Others
Forthcoming Book release! Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (PM Press, 2021)
About the Book Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press, forthcoming) brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the San Francisco Bay Area and act as a roadmap to counter-hegemonic knowledge making and activism. Compiled by the Anti-Eviction… Continue Reading Forthcoming Book release! Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (PM Press, 2021)
Covid-19 Pandemicene Podcast
The Pandemicene Podcast aims to produce knowledge that can help all of us – scholars and scientists, students and activists – imagine and enact just futures both in our home state of California and in our communities worldwide. Podcast Episodes Each new episode airs Sunday evenings, 6:30 – 7 pm, on KZSC Santa Cruz. Episode 1:… Continue Reading Covid-19 Pandemicene Podcast
Forthcoming Book release! Hillary Angelo on How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
About the Book As projects like Manhattan’s High Line, Chicago’s 606, China’s eco-cities, and Ethiopia’s tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developments draw huge crowds thanks to the considerable efforts of city governments. But why are greening projects so widely taken… Continue Reading Forthcoming Book release! Hillary Angelo on How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Science & Justice Training Program celebrates 10-year anniversary
The Science & Justice Training Program (SJTP) celebrates its 10th anniversary! The SJTP is creating the next generation of path-breaking researchers who have the tools needed to not only be powerful stewards of socially robust science, engineering, and technology but to become more engaged as citizens concerned with racial, gender, and economic justice. Next offered Winter 2022! Continue Reading Science & Justice Training Program celebrates 10-year anniversary
Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South
The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz is recruiting the first in a series of PhD students to begin in the fall of 2021 to pursue research on the history of science, the history of medicine, and/or environmental history in the Global South. Applicants may specialize in the study of the… Continue Reading Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South