Oct 19, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Affect of Water in Colombia
Diana will share her work on the affects of water in Colombia in order to think about community based water management and the ways in which the water infrastructure built for the big agro-industries of banana and palm oil is constantly repurposed. Continue Reading Oct 19, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Affect of Water in Colombia
Oct 05, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Meet & Greet
Please join us for a beginning of quarter cocktail 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. Continue Reading Oct 05, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Meet & Greet
Sept 28, 2016 | TJ Demos on Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
The Center for Emerging Worlds, The Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences present a book talk with TJ Demos, HAVC professor and influential art and visual culture historian critic at UCSC. Continue Reading Sept 28, 2016 | TJ Demos on Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
Oct 22, 2016 | Superfest | International Film Festival
Superfest, the world’s longest running disability film festival, celebrates disability as a creative force in cinema and culture. It features films with fresh ideas and images that inspire thought and meaningful conversation. Continue Reading Oct 22, 2016 | Superfest | International Film Festival
Sept 13, 2016 | Blum Center | SEEDS, SOILS and POLITICS: An Anthropology Roundtable
Twenty anthropologists and ethnographers from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America will discuss new forms of public and private governance over seeds and soils. Continue Reading Sept 13, 2016 | Blum Center | SEEDS, SOILS and POLITICS: An Anthropology Roundtable
Sept 11, 2016 | Paul Edwards
12PM-1:30PM | Humanities 1, rm 210 Paul N. Edwards (Professor, School of Information and Department of History, University of Michigan) will present ‘Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory’. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, the history of climate science, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast… Continue Reading Sept 11, 2016 | Paul Edwards
Oct 19, 2016 | SFSU Women’s and Gender Studies
Multiple Science and Justice affiliates scheduled to present at San Francisco State University’s Women and Gender Studies Lecture Series. Wednesdays from 12:35PM-1:50PM at Humanities 119, SFSU. Continue Reading Oct 19, 2016 | SFSU Women’s and Gender Studies
May 24, 2016 | Reading Group: Eben Kirksey on Emergent Ecologies
Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find possibilities in the wreckage of ongoing disasters, as symbiotic associations of opportunistic plants, animals, and microbes are flourishing in unexpected places. Continue Reading May 24, 2016 | Reading Group: Eben Kirksey on Emergent Ecologies
May 18, 2016 | Just Data? Justice, Knowledge and Care in an Age of Precision Medicine
The “Just Data?” meeting at UCSC aims to broaden the public discussion about big data and health from ethical and legal questions about privacy and informed consent to more fundamental questions about the right and just constitution of care, trust, and knowledge in an age of biomedical data. Continue Reading May 18, 2016 | Just Data? Justice, Knowledge and Care in an Age of Precision Medicine
May 04, 2016 | A Book Talk with Donna Haraway
The Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies together with the Science and Justice Research Center will host a conversation with Donna Haraway and Cary Wolfe on the recently released Manifestly Haraway (University of Minnesota Press). Continue Reading May 04, 2016 | A Book Talk with Donna Haraway