Past Events

May 02, 2019 | Hallam Stevens on the Starting-up of Biology

Thursday, May 2, 2019 11:00am – 1:00pm Engineering 2, room 599 The BGI group, based in Shenzhen, China, is one of the world’s largest and most successful genomics companies. Most commentaries on BGI have focused, quite narrowly, on the organization’s ambitions for scaling-up biology into a high-throughput production line. Drawing on ethnography, performance studies, and… Continue Reading May 02, 2019 | Hallam Stevens on the Starting-up of Biology

April 20, 2019 | “No Really, What Percentage are You?” Race, Identity & Genetic Ancestry Testing

Saturday, April 20, 2019 1:00-5:00pm Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (705 Front St. Santa Cruz) Free and open to the public; refreshments provided; no registration needed Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com are rapidly becoming a cultural touchstone, a mainstream phenomenon with significant implications for common notions of race… Continue Reading April 20, 2019 | “No Really, What Percentage are You?” Race, Identity & Genetic Ancestry Testing

April 16, 2019 | Theorizing Race After Race

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5:00-6:00 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join Science & Justice scholars for an open discussion of Theorizing Race After Race! At this meeting, we discussed submitting an application for SSRCs Scholarly Borderlands program to continue the work of the group and support the development of some related projects.

Mar 12, 2019 | Safiya Umoja Noble on The Algorithms of Oppression and Theorizing Race After Race

Professionalization Workshop: Career Building with Safiya Umoja Noble Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Time: 11:40 – 1:00pm Location: Rachel Carson College 301 As part of their Professionalization Workshop Series, the Sociology Department will host a discussion with Safiya Umoja Noble, faculty and graduate students on various aspects of career building, such as: creating public platforms for your… Continue Reading Mar 12, 2019 | Safiya Umoja Noble on The Algorithms of Oppression and Theorizing Race After Race

March 6 and 13, 2019 | SJTP Op-ed Workshops with Sally Lehrman

Wednesday, March 6 and March 13 10:30am – 12:30pm SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 As part of the Science & Justice Training Program, the Science & Justice Research Center has organized a two-part workshop on writing Op-Eds about science and society issues. Sally Lehrman, Science & Justice’s Visiting Professor, teaches science journalism and has extensive experience… Continue Reading March 6 and 13, 2019 | SJTP Op-ed Workshops with Sally Lehrman