Oct 11, 2017 | Meet & Greet
Please join us for a beginning of quarter social hour. In addition to a chance to celebrate the new academic year and enjoy each other’s company over nice food and drink, we will be welcoming new members of our community, and welcoming back others. This will be a great chance for everyone to meet the… Continue Reading Oct 11, 2017 | Meet & Greet
Fall 2017 | Science and Justice Writing Together
Wanting to establish a regular writing routine exploring science and justice? Join SJRC scholars Wednesday mornings from 9:00am-12:00pm in the SJRC Common Room beginning Oct 4th through Dec 5th for open writing sessions! Engage in six 25-minute writing sessions (with a 5 minute break in between). Open to all SJRC graduate students, faculty and visiting… Continue Reading Fall 2017 | Science and Justice Writing Together
Oct 03, 2017 | Epigenetics, Trauma, and Restorative Justice
Post-genomic scientific research practices are shifting conceptualizations of the relationships between bodies & environments over human lifetimes and generations (Lappé & Landecker 2015; Darling et al. 2016). Epigenetics has recently generated a set of frameworks & methods for linking environmental & social exposures to molecular effects. Ruth Müller and Martha Kenney are investigating how the… Continue Reading Oct 03, 2017 | Epigenetics, Trauma, and Restorative Justice
May 18-19, 2017 | Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium
A multi-disciplinary gathering to explore our relationships with the environment and social justice, engage in human/non-human collaboration, critique ideologies and debate new sexualities. Let’s examine where our “bodies” end and “nature” begins. What happens when we posit the Earth as our lover? Schedule to include keynotes by Kim TallBear (Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Alberta) on Decolonizing Settler… Continue Reading May 18-19, 2017 | Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium
May 10, 2017 | CRISPR Cas9 and Justice
Sponsored by the CRISPR User Group, SJRC Director Jenny Reardon (Professor of Sociology) will present a talk, to divert our gaze from the spectacular—we will cut out deadly genes; we will fundamentally alter the human species—to focus on the more mundane, but more profound changes of which CRISPR technologies are apart—changes that that call into question how… Continue Reading May 10, 2017 | CRISPR Cas9 and Justice
May 9, 2017 | Telling the Truth: Objectivity and Justice
The terms “post-fact”, “post-truth”, and “post-reality” are now being used to label the new era we have entered. We are already seeing the erasure of climate data from servers and websites, and purveyors of the truth, including climate scientists, journalists, and academics are being put on warning. (The Climate Scientists witch-hunt and the Professor Watchlist… Continue Reading May 9, 2017 | Telling the Truth: Objectivity and Justice
May 02, 2017 | What’s Left of Progressive Politics?
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents a Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Vijay Prashad, Dr. Lisa Rofel, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Asad Haider Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University… Continue Reading May 02, 2017 | What’s Left of Progressive Politics?
April 26, 2017 | Seeing Like a Valley
Seeing like a Valley seeks to bring together scholars, policy makers, artists and practitioners to understand the place of the Valley in shaping not just new technologies, but moral visions. It will explore how these visions help and hinder abilities to see and respond to today’s pressing issues and problems: growing inequalities and entrenched forms… Continue Reading April 26, 2017 | Seeing Like a Valley
April 25, 2017 | Lunch with Uppsala
‘… what happened in Sweden last Friday’. Mythologies and Methods in post-fact times Tuesday April 25, 2017 12:00-1:00 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join Science & Justice in welcoming “Knowledge production beyond the norms” a transdisciplinary research node from Uppsala university, Sweden. Core of their scope of interest are the effects of political realities and epistemological assumptions that structure knowledge production, as well… Continue Reading April 25, 2017 | Lunch with Uppsala
April 19, 2017 | Food For Thought’s Unequal Healthscapes in California’s “Biohub”
Wednesday, April 19th 5:30-7:30 pm Namaste Lounge Hosted by the College Nine and Ten CoCurricular Programs Office, SJRC Assistant Director, Kate Weatherford Darling will present her research centering social justice and health inequalities in the discussion of biomedicine and US healthcare and policy. Asking the question: What would it take to build new California “healthscapes” (Clarke… Continue Reading April 19, 2017 | Food For Thought’s Unequal Healthscapes in California’s “Biohub”