Past Events

October 16, 2019 | Ruha Benjamin on A New Jim Code?

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 2:00-4:00pm Merrill Cultural Center A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (PDF Flyer) From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. Benjamin… Continue Reading October 16, 2019 | Ruha Benjamin on A New Jim Code?

October 15, 2019 | Theorizing Race After Race

5:00-6:30 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join Science & Justice scholars for an open discussion of Theorizing Race After Race! At this meeting we will discuss our plans for this project, including a grant proposal we have been working on over the summer. More information on the cluster can be found at: https://scijust.ucsc.edu/2019/05/17/theorizing-race-after-race/.

June 6, 2019 | Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence  

Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence Thursday, June 6, 2019 7:00 PM (registration) UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College Seminar Room The Right Livelihood Laureate Lecture presents an evening with Nicanor Perlas, Right Livelihood Award Laureate, followed by panel discussion with UC Santa Cruz Faculty Anthony Aguirre (Associate Professor of Physics), Lise Getoor (Professor of… Continue Reading June 6, 2019 | Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence  

June 5-7, 2019 | Wrong at the Root: Racial Bias and The Tension Between Numbers and Words in Non-Internet Data

Wednesday, June 5 – Friday, June 7, 2019 Melvin Calvin Laboratory University of California Berkeley   Sponsored by the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and the Sloan Foundation Artificially intelligent systems extrapolate from historical training data. While the training process is robust to “noisy” data, systematically biased data will inexorably lead to biased… Continue Reading June 5-7, 2019 | Wrong at the Root: Racial Bias and The Tension Between Numbers and Words in Non-Internet Data

May 30-31, 2019 | Indigeneity and Climate Justice

Indigeneity and Climate Justice Thursday May 30 – Friday May 31 9:30-3:30pm – (schedule) (poster) Arboretum Horticulture Hall II The UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department presents a Feminist Science Studies Conference on Indigeneity and Climate Justice, organized by Professors of Feminist Studies Karen Barad (Science & Justice Director of Teaching) and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. Anthropogenic… Continue Reading May 30-31, 2019 | Indigeneity and Climate Justice