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
Apr 20, 2016 | Digital Dreams and Their Discontents: Where do we go from here?
A conversation with Erin McElroy (PhD Candidate, Feminist Studies, UCSC) and Sara Tocchetti (SJRC Visiting Scholar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France) on Digital Dreams and Their Discontents. Continue Reading Apr 20, 2016 | Digital Dreams and Their Discontents: Where do we go from here?
Mar 03, 2016 | The Quants of Wall Street: Risk and the Ethics of New Financial Technologies
Who wins and who loses as Wall Street transforms from sweaty bodies on the stock exchange floor to quants and physicists designing swift, sleek stealth modes of moving financial data at a distance? What new opacities and inequalities accompany the rise of new financial technologies—such as Bitcoins, roboadvisers, and laser-linked data centers — the new coin and conduits of financial realms? The Science and Justice Research Center in collaboration with the Center for Analytical Finance will host a discussion with industry, academic and NGO leaders on these critical questions about who benefits and who loses in the high tech worlds of today’s financial markets. Continue Reading Mar 03, 2016 | The Quants of Wall Street: Risk and the Ethics of New Financial Technologies
Feb 24, 2016 | Graduate Training Program Informational Meeting
The Science and Justice Research Center will host an Informational Meeting on our internationally recognized interdisciplinary Graduate Training and Certificate Program. Continue Reading Feb 24, 2016 | Graduate Training Program Informational Meeting