Jan 24, 2017 | Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:40-1:15 PM Rachel Carson College 301 (Sociology) As emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock, water is a foundational element—biophysical, epistemological, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. Dr. Karen Bakker discusses how this crucial life source has come under increased threat due to the claimed necessity of extractivist development projects which… Continue Reading Jan 24, 2017 | Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
Jan 23, 2017 | Film Screening: KONELĪNE: our land beautiful
Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs 2016 “TRANSCENDENT… epic spectacle. […]She lets the camera hunt for art in every frame, mining veins of abstract beauty rather than sharp nuggets of political narrative” Brian D. Johnson, Maclean’s “ASTONISHING, stunningly beautiful. […] Equal parts sigh, song and cry.” Linda Barnard, Toronto Star “BREATHTAKING, gripping. […] Finds beauty in… Continue Reading Jan 23, 2017 | Film Screening: KONELĪNE: our land beautiful
Jan 13, 2017 | Retro Policies and Ongoing Fights: Thinking the Present through HIV Activisms Then and Now
Science and Justice Visiting Scholar and UCSC alum Alexis Shotwell, an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University joins S&J Faculty Affiliate Debbie Gould (Associate Professor of Sociology) and S&J Assistant Director Kate Weatherford Darling in conversation about HIV/AIDS activisms. Since the 1980s, HIV activists across the U.S. and Canada have deployed diverse survival strategies, tactics, policy… Continue Reading Jan 13, 2017 | Retro Policies and Ongoing Fights: Thinking the Present through HIV Activisms Then and Now
Jan 09, 2017 | The Land Beneath Our Feet
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene presents The Land Beneath Our Feet A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman Followed by a conversation with Gregg Mitman & Donna Haraway Monday January 9, 2017 5:30-7:30PM Digital Arts Research Center 108 The Land Beneath Our Feet follows a young Liberian man, uprooted… Continue Reading Jan 09, 2017 | The Land Beneath Our Feet
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