Nov 16, 2016 | The ‘Public Good’ of Genomics
The Science and Justice Research Center will host Steve Sturdy, Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh, in a Working Group event discussing the ‘public good’ within genomics. Continue Reading Nov 16, 2016 | The ‘Public Good’ of Genomics
Nov 09, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Food Security and the Data Deluge
Madeleine and Zenia will discuss their preliminary research into how the “data revolution” is reshaping efforts to address international food security on the part of development organizations, governments, and agribusinesses. Continue Reading Nov 09, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Food Security and the Data Deluge
Nov 02, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Making the Island Desert: Cotton Colonialism and the Long History of the Shrinking Aral Sea
4:00-5:30pm | SJRC Common Room (Oakes 231) The Science and Justice Research Center will host Maya Peterson, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California – Santa Cruz, in a Cocktail Hour discussion. The rapid disappearance of the Aral Sea over the years leading up to and since the collapse of the Soviet Union has been called… Continue Reading Nov 02, 2016 | Cocktail Hour: Making the Island Desert: Cotton Colonialism and the Long History of the Shrinking Aral Sea
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