May 17, 2018 | Caring for Prairies: A Conversation with Wes Jackson
The ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Inaugural Gathering of Changemakers for Social and Environmental Justice Tues-Thursday, May 15-17, 2018 (Recording) The Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’—was established in 1980 to honor and support courageous people and organizations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. In addition to presenting… Continue Reading May 17, 2018 | Caring for Prairies: A Conversation with Wes Jackson
May 16, 2018 | Bioengineering in the Open
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 4:00-6:00 PM Engineering 2, room 599 (BitO poster) Bioengineering is an ascendant and elite field. Advocates of “open” bioengineering propose to expand the participants, methods and scope of practices & ideas for intervening in biology. Drawing on the perceived innovative successes of Silicon Valley, these advocates often promote analogies to computer… Continue Reading May 16, 2018 | Bioengineering in the Open
May 16, 2018 | Assembling Precision Medicine
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 1:30-3:30pm Engineering 2, Room 599 Join S&J Visiting Scholars Declan Kuch and Matthew Kearnes in an informal discussion on how proponents of the bio-nano sciences, centered around polymer chemistry, have promised a new generation of targeting agents that will carry drug payloads to diseased cells with greater accuracy. Alongside these promises, proponents of precision… Continue Reading May 16, 2018 | Assembling Precision Medicine
May 09, 2018 | Timescales, Memory, and Nuclear Geographies: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht and Julie Salverson
Wednesday, May 09, 2018 4:00-6:00 PM Louden Nelson Center, Room 1 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Writers and activists researching nuclear things face “the challenge of rendering visible occluded, sprawling webs of interconnectedness” (Nixon 2011, 13). This discussion features two writers whose work traces the sprawling webs of nuclear geographies, binding uranium mining… Continue Reading May 09, 2018 | Timescales, Memory, and Nuclear Geographies: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht and Julie Salverson
May 02, 2018 | “Sons and Daughters of Soil?” reflections on Life Sciences and Decoloniality in South Africa
Wednesday, May 02, 2018, 3:30-5:30 PM, Humanities 1, Room 210 Responding, as researchers, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist — at least, not in neoliberal discourses. In trying to research and support… Continue Reading May 02, 2018 | “Sons and Daughters of Soil?” reflections on Life Sciences and Decoloniality in South Africa
May 01, 2018 | Reading Group with Lesley Green
Tuesday, May 01, 2018, 11:30-1:30 PM, Humanities 1, Room 408 Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions Email Kristina Lyons (krlyons@ucsc.edu) for the readings. Lesley Green | Fulbright Fellow, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town; Director of Environmental… Continue Reading May 01, 2018 | Reading Group with Lesley Green
April 11, 2018 | Visiting Scholars Roundtable
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | 4:00-5:30pm | SJRC’s Common Room (Oakes 231) S&J welcomes Katharine Legun, (Sociology Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago NZ) to the Science & Justice community. At this roundtable, we’ll hear from Katharine who will share an overview on her work in plants and aesthetic politics, farmers and… Continue Reading April 11, 2018 | Visiting Scholars Roundtable
Spring 2018 | Science and Justice Writing Together
Tuesday 9:00-11:30am | SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Wanting to establish a regular writing routine exploring science and justice? Join SJRC scholars in the SJRC Common Room for open writing sessions! Engage in six 25-minute writing sessions (with a 5 minute break in between). Open to all students, faculty and visiting scholars. We will continue… Continue Reading Spring 2018 | Science and Justice Writing Together
Mar 15, 2018 | Making Worlds with Crows: A Multispecies Ethics Workshop with Thom van Dooren
Thursday, March 15, 2018 | 3:15-5:15 PM | Humanities 1, Room 202 Thom van Dooren will present an overview of his new book, Making Worlds With Crows; we will then discuss its final chapter, “Provisioning Crows: Cultivating Ecologies of Hope. Please email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for the chapter. Ubiquitous in their global presence, crows are now found almost everywhere… Continue Reading Mar 15, 2018 | Making Worlds with Crows: A Multispecies Ethics Workshop with Thom van Dooren
Mar 14, 2018 | Reflexivity Isn’t Enough: (Re)Making ‘Place’ in Ethnographic Practices
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 | 4:00-5:30 PM | SJRC Common Room This presentation consists of two parts. First, Hernández will present a talk that draws on their forthcoming journal publication which narrates an embodied and experiential ethnographic approach, one that reimagines ethnography and ethnographic practices, and works to contribute to healing and Indigenous survivance. Second, Hernández, who… Continue Reading Mar 14, 2018 | Reflexivity Isn’t Enough: (Re)Making ‘Place’ in Ethnographic Practices