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
Feb 28, 2018 | Giving Day
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 ALL DAY – ONLINE Join SJRC on February 28th for the third annual UC Santa Cruz Giving Day! Giving Day is a 24-hour online fundraising campaign where we will raise funds for undergraduate researchers. Your support creates a vibrant future for science and justice researchers. With your help, we can offer… Continue Reading Feb 28, 2018 | Giving Day
Feb 15, 2018 | Can We Build a Trustworthy and Trusted Press: News from The Trust Project
We all think we can tell the difference between opinion, advertising and accurate news. But how do we really know? Join Sally Lehrman in a discussion of this critical question of our times. Lehrman, an award-winning journalist and Visiting Science & Justice Professor, directs the The Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies that… Continue Reading Feb 15, 2018 | Can We Build a Trustworthy and Trusted Press: News from The Trust Project
Feb 07, 2018 | Graduate Training Program Informational Meeting
NOTE: As of Feb 23: the course time has been revised to Tuesday 4:00-7:00pm. The Science and Justice Research Center will host an Informational Meeting on our internationally recognized interdisciplinary Graduate Training and Certificate Program: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 12:30 – 2:00PM Graduate Student Commons Room 204 (flyer) Our Science and Justice Training Program (SJTP)… Continue Reading Feb 07, 2018 | Graduate Training Program Informational Meeting