Book launch! Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cárdenas
About the Book In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets… Continue Reading Book launch! Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cárdenas
Mellon Foundation Humanities Grant To Investigate Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine
SJRC affiliated faculty receive Mellon Foundation grant to investigate “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine.” Continue Reading Mellon Foundation Humanities Grant To Investigate Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine
Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South
The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is recruiting two PhD students to begin in the fall of 2022 to pursue research on the histories of science, medicine, and/or the environment in the Global South. Applicants may specialize in the study of the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia,… Continue Reading Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South
Book release! Life as We Made It How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic Books 2021)
Life as We Made It How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic Books 2021) by Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Beth Shapiro. Continue Reading Book release! Life as We Made It How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic Books 2021)
Fall 2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity
The Science & Justice Research Center is pleased to announce we are now accepting applications for a: Undergraduate Individual Study The Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) invites undergraduate students to join a cohort of researchers for the Fall 2021 term. The Individual Study can range from 2-5 units and are part of a group.… Continue Reading Fall 2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity
Theorizing Race After Race: Metrics, Enumeration, and the Politics of Knowledge in Estimating Racial Health Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The second installment of a series of dialogues on COVID-19 and Racism of the SJRC’s Theorizing Race After Race (TRAR) Collective is now live on the UCHRI Foundry website! Check out “Metrics, Enumeration, and the Politics of Knowledge in Estimating Racial Health Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Dialogue with Alexis Madrigal, Co-Founder of The Atlantic’s COVID… Continue Reading Theorizing Race After Race: Metrics, Enumeration, and the Politics of Knowledge in Estimating Racial Health Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Book release! Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Continue Reading Book release! Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Book Release! Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world. Continue Reading Book Release! Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Normalizing Slow Science
Aisha Lakshman on “Normalizing Slow Science,” discussing the pace of scientific research and drawing on work with UCSC’s Center for Open Access Splicing Therapeutics and lessons learned from COVID-19. Continue Reading Normalizing Slow Science
SJRC Annual Report 2019-2020
Volume 13 Director’s Letter: Welcome to Science & Justice This was a challenging year. Fires, the strike, and the syndemic of COVID-19 and racial violence affected all of us, both here at UCSC and beyond. While there was much that was simply difficult and devastating, the year also found the Science & Justice community coming… Continue Reading SJRC Annual Report 2019-2020