June 3, 2019 | Book Release! Warren Sack on The Software Arts
Monday, June 3, 2019 3:00PM – 4:30PM (Poster) Communications 139, UC Santa Cruz The Department of Film and Digital Media invite you to a book party to celebrate the release of The Software Arts (MIT Press, 2019) by Warren Sack, S&J Faculty Affiliate, Professor and Chair of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. With his… Continue Reading June 3, 2019 | Book Release! Warren Sack on The Software Arts
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
May 10, 2019 | The Futures of Critical Food Studies
The Futures of Critical Food Studies Friday, May 10, 2019 12:00-5:00pm Namaste Lounge “The Futures of Critical Food Studies” is a collaborative event organized by graduate students Erica Zurawski and Halie Kampman with the support of the UCSC Science & Justice Research Center’s Training Program, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and College’s… Continue Reading May 10, 2019 | The Futures of Critical Food Studies
May 08, 2019 | Works-in-Progress with James Doucet-Battle
Wednesday, May 08, 2019 4:00-5:30 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join SJRC scholars in the SJRC Common Room for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas, and support our own internal work. At this session, we will hear from Assistant Professor of Sociology, James Doucet-Battle… Continue Reading May 08, 2019 | Works-in-Progress with James Doucet-Battle
May 07, 2019 | Theorizing Race After Race
4:00-6:00 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join Science & Justice scholars for an open discussion of Theorizing Race After Race! At this meeting, we will return to the NYT article about Reich with the implications of ancient DNA research for contemporary contestations over the category “race” with Lars Fehren-Schmitz. We will also juxtapose the Reich article with the… Continue Reading May 07, 2019 | Theorizing Race After Race
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
May 02, 2020 | Global Health Day Symposium
Saturday, May 02, 2020 9:00-11:00am PST – registration UC Santa Cruz Join SJRC researcher and SJTP fellow Dennis Browe (Graduate student, Sociology) on Saturday, May 02, 2020 at UC Santa Cruz, for a poster session at the UC Global Health Day (UCGHD). Browe will present the work of the collaborative project Just Biomedicine on Third Street? Health & Wealth Inequities… Continue Reading May 02, 2020 | Global Health Day Symposium
May 01, 2019 | Works in Progress with Jenny Reardon
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 4:00-5:30 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join SJRC scholars in the SJRC Common Room for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas, and support our own internal work. At this session, we will hear from Professor of Sociology and SJRC Center… Continue Reading May 01, 2019 | Works in Progress with Jenny Reardon
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 17, 2019 | Visiting Scholars Roundtable
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:00-5:30pm SJRC’s Common Room (Oakes 231) S&J will welcome two new visiting scholars to the Science & Justice community. This will be a great chance for everyone to connect with the visitors of the Center, learn about their work and foster emerging collaborations! Interested in visiting Science & Justice? Visit our website… Continue Reading April 17, 2019 | Visiting Scholars Roundtable