Past Events

Oct 25, 2012 | Enacting Multiple Salmon: Conversation across disciplinary practices

Science & Justice Working Group Meeting October 25, 2012 2:00-4:00 PM Oakes Mural Room This event brings together different accounts of salmon, some from social scientists and some from natural scientists who each will describe, and reflect upon how ‘their’ salmon is constituted, first in describing their particular research on questions of wild and domestic… Continue Reading Oct 25, 2012 | Enacting Multiple Salmon: Conversation across disciplinary practices

Sept 27, 2012 | Genomics Gets Personal: Property, Persons, Privacy

Tremendous advances in sequencing technologies have transformed genomes into a valuable new source of data about the biology of individuals. While these new data promise a revolution in medical care, more immediately they pose fundamental new ethical, social and legal questions about ownership and control of our bodies and their molecular constituents. Panel discussion with Gail P. Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D., Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D., John Wilbanks and Ryan Phelan. Introduction by David Haussler and panel discussion moderated by Jenny Reardon. Continue Reading Sept 27, 2012 | Genomics Gets Personal: Property, Persons, Privacy

Aug 19, 2012 | Modelling pigs and humans: Exploring the practices of models across sciences

Wednesday October 19, 2011 Engineering 2, Room 599 PhD Fellow Vibeke Pihl, Medical Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Vibeke Pihl’s research addresses how connections between humans and animals are shaped in contemporary biomedical research on human health. During an ethnographic multi-sited fieldwork, Vibeke has followed a group… Continue Reading Aug 19, 2012 | Modelling pigs and humans: Exploring the practices of models across sciences

Aug 18, 2012 | The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination

Alondra Nelson (Colombia, Sociology) Monday March 12, 2012 College 8, 301 Time: 12:30-2:00PM Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers… Continue Reading Aug 18, 2012 | The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination

May 22, 2012 | Authority, Expertise and Power in Mexican Forests: A Discussion with Andrew Mathews

Tuesday May 22, 2012 4-6:00 PM Engineering 2, 599 Join us for a discussion of Science & Justice member Andrew Matthew’s recently released book, Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise and Power in Mexican Forests (MIT Press). Greater knowledge and transparency are often promoted as the keys to solving a wide array of governance problems. In Instituting… Continue Reading May 22, 2012 | Authority, Expertise and Power in Mexican Forests: A Discussion with Andrew Mathews

May 08, 2012 | Are You My Data? Symposium

With a human genome sequenced and a map of variable sites in that genome created, governments and many other public and private actors now seek to make genomic data relevant to health, medicine and the society. However, to do so they must navigate the conjunction of two different approaches to data. Within the biomedical domain there are important, well-articulated infrastructures and commitments arising out of concerns about individual rights, patient privacy and the doctor-patient relationship that limit access to biomedical data. This stands in stark contrast to the culture of open access forged by those who worked on the Human Genome Project, and that has continued to be a central commitment of ongoing Human Genome research. Thus, architects of the genomic revolution face competing, complex technical and ethical challenges that arise from this meeting of these domains with substantially different ethos. Additionally, the rise of social media has led to a broad and contested discussion about the proper relationship between persons and data and who profits through access to it. Continue Reading May 08, 2012 | Are You My Data? Symposium

Mar 13, 2012 | Can Science Have Progressive Goals? A Discussion with Alondra Nelson

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4-6:00 PM in Engineering 2, 599 Narratives of scientific progress are often paired with narratives about political progress, suggesting that the expansion of scientific knowledge always—or at least generally—leads to the betterment of humankind as a whole. But many socially disadvantaged and oppressed peoples contend that such “progress” is distributed unevenly… Continue Reading Mar 13, 2012 | Can Science Have Progressive Goals? A Discussion with Alondra Nelson

Feb 06, 2012 | Cells, Race and Stories: A Discussion with Priscilla Wald about Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell Line

Priscilla Wald (Duke, English and the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy)Monday, February 6, 2012Engineering 2, 5994:00-6:00 PMThis event is co-sponsored with Cultural Studies, Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering—Research Mentoring Institute, and the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department. Priscilla Wald, “Cells, Race and Stories: A Discussion about Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa… Continue Reading Feb 06, 2012 | Cells, Race and Stories: A Discussion with Priscilla Wald about Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell Line