Nov 28, 2018 | Theorizing Race After Race
2:30-3:30 PM Engineering 1 Room 599 Join Science & Justice scholars for an open discussion of Theorizing Race After Race!
Nov 28, 2018 | Algorithms, Mobility, and Justice
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:00-6:00 PM Engineering 2, Room 599 Are moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk, Nassim JafariNaimi (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology) engages the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into… Continue Reading Nov 28, 2018 | Algorithms, Mobility, and Justice
Nov 14, 2018 | Works-in-Progress with Lindsey Dillon
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 4:00pm – 5:30pm 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, Lindsey… Continue Reading Nov 14, 2018 | Works-in-Progress with Lindsey Dillon
October 17, 2018 | 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 October 17, 2018 | Meet & Greet
Fall 2018 | Science & Justice Writing Together
Monday’s 1:00-4:00pm SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Wanting to establish a regular writing routine exploring science and justice? Beginning October 8th, Join SJRC scholars in the SJRC Common Room on Monday’s from 1:00-4:00pm for open writing sessions! Engage in six 25-minute writing sessions (with a 5 minute break in between). Open to all students, faculty… Continue Reading Fall 2018 | Science & Justice Writing Together
March 5, 2018 | Can We Build a Trustworthy and Trusted Press: The Trust Project Challenge
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:00pm (reception to follow) Kresge Town Hall We all think we can tell the difference between information designed to deceive and journalism designed to inform. But how do we really know? Join Sally Lehrman in a discussion of this critical question in a climate of mistrust and misinformation. Lehrman, an award-winning… Continue Reading March 5, 2018 | Can We Build a Trustworthy and Trusted Press: The Trust Project Challenge
May 30, 2018 | WiSE’s Science on Tap | The Postgenomic Condition
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | The Crepe Place: 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (slideshare of presentation; begins about 10:55) SJRC Director and Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon will discuss with us her new book, The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice & Knowledge After the Genome. Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy… Continue Reading May 30, 2018 | WiSE’s Science on Tap | The Postgenomic Condition
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