Past Events

January 27, 2023 | Sawyer Seminar: Kaushik Sunder Rajan on Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research

SAVE-the-DATEs! On Friday, January 27 at 12:15pm, we will host a reading group with Sawyer Seminar Speaker, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, in Humanities 1, 210. Then, on Wednesday, February 1, Rajan will present a talk titled, “Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research,” at 4:00pm. Continue Reading January 27, 2023 | Sawyer Seminar: Kaushik Sunder Rajan on Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research

Canceled – November 28, 2022 | Book Launch! Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean

On November 28th 2022, we will invite you to a book launch celebration for Associate Professor of Sociology Camilla Hawthorne’s new book, Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022)! Continue Reading Canceled – November 28, 2022 | Book Launch! Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean

Canceled – November 17, 2022 | Book Launch! Unsettled Borders: Militarized Border Technologies and Indigenous Sacred Science

On November 17th, join the book launch celebration for Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land (Duke University Press, 2022) by SJRC faculty affiliate Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Continue Reading Canceled – November 17, 2022 | Book Launch! Unsettled Borders: Militarized Border Technologies and Indigenous Sacred Science

October 26, 2022 | Works-in-Progress: Locating the Cloud

At this session, we will hear from Science & Justice Training Program Fellows Carrie Hamilton (Environmental Studies) and Kellie Petersen (Sociology) who are undertaking research on the system of servers and associated technologies that underpin the global shared network of computers, computing power, and data storage, commonly referred to as “the Cloud” or cloud computing. Continue Reading October 26, 2022 | Works-in-Progress: Locating the Cloud

October 19, 2022 | Sawyer Seminar Inauguration: Tahir Amin on Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health

On Wednesday, October 19, the Center for Cultural Studies will host Tahir Amin from 12:15-1:30pm in Humanities 1, room 210 on Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health. Continue Reading October 19, 2022 | Sawyer Seminar Inauguration: Tahir Amin on Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health