S&J Colleague Donna Haraway Receives Award from Yale and Discusses “Making Oddkin”
Recently, on October 23 and 27 2017, Science & Justice Research Center colleague and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita (History of Consciousness) Donna Haraway gave two lectures, one at Yale University and one at Duke University. Both lectures were titled “Making Oddkin: Telling Stories for Earthly Survival” and explored the possibilities of the intersection of… Continue Reading S&J Colleague Donna Haraway Receives Award from Yale and Discusses “Making Oddkin”
Hear SJRC Director Jenny Reardon on Radio Australia
Radio Australia recently aired an episode of its Big Ideas program featuring a talk by SJRC Director Jenny Reardon. The episode highlighted her research on genomics and justice, as well as her forthcoming book from the University of Chicago Press, The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After the Genome. Reardon specifically discussed the ways… Continue Reading Hear SJRC Director Jenny Reardon on Radio Australia
Science and Justice Courses offered Winter 2018
UC Santa Cruz offers a wide range of courses across its many disciplines whose curriculum questions the relationships between science, society and justice. The below list of courses (undergraduate and graduate, face to face and online) are taught across all five academic divisions. To add your course: email us at scijust[at]ucsc.edu Undergraduate Courses Anth 136… Continue Reading Science and Justice Courses offered Winter 2018
Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS | Lyons | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
In a double issue of Catalyst, curated and introduced by S&J Professor Kristina Lyons with Juno Salazar Parreñas and Noah Tamarin, is a critical perspectives piece on decolonization, decoloniality and STS. “Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS” includes wonderful contributions by the following scholars. Lesley Green on “Thinking Decoloniality with Perlemoen”… Continue Reading Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS | Lyons | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
Call for Undergraduate Individual Study (2017-2018)
The SJRC will host up to 4 Individual Study students to collaborate on research papers and proposals as well as Center events and programming for the academic year. Students can also work on senior thesis projects related to Center Themes (Genomics, Data Justice, Climate Justice) and/or assist SJRC Graduate Training Program Fellows in planning… Continue Reading Call for Undergraduate Individual Study (2017-2018)
Society for Cultural Anthropology Honors S&J’s Kristina Lyons and Anna Tsing
The Society for Cultural Anthropology has awarded Kristina Lyons (UCSC Feminist Science Studies) the 2017 Cultural Horizons Prize and Anna Tsing (UCSC Anthropology) receives honorable mention. Continue Reading Society for Cultural Anthropology Honors S&J’s Kristina Lyons and Anna Tsing
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