Past Events

October 7-9, 2022 | Playing with Fire: a Hot Symposium

Friday, October 7th – Sunday, October 9th Digital Arts Research Center, DARC 108 (map) Playing with Fire: a Hot Symposium Exploring the pleasures, perils & politics of fire through art, theory, practice, science and activism.  Stay tuned to the E.A.R.T.H. Lab for more information. Confirmed speakers and participants include: Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle: Keynote and… Continue Reading October 7-9, 2022 | Playing with Fire: a Hot Symposium

February 23, 2022 | Ruha Benjamin: 38th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 5:30 PM Zoom Registration Professor of African American studies and founding director of Princeton University’s Ida B.Wells JUST Data Lab, Ruha Benjamin, will speak at the 38th annual UCSC Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation, which will take place on Wednesday, February 23, at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and… Continue Reading February 23, 2022 | Ruha Benjamin: 38th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation

February 23, 2022 | Global divisions of health: bioethical principles, practices and regulations on human genome editing in Latin America

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 4:00-5:30 PM Zoom Registration Join SJRC scholars for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas, and support our own internal work. At this session, we will hear from one of our visiting scholars, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda in a talk titled, “Global divisions of… Continue Reading February 23, 2022 | Global divisions of health: bioethical principles, practices and regulations on human genome editing in Latin America

February 07, 2022 | Book Launch! Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cárdenas

Monday, February 07, 2022 5:00 PM To celebrate the launch of micha cárdenas’ new book, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, forthcoming from Duke University Press, the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies along with Performance, Play and Design will host a book launch event on Monday, February 7th at the Cowell… Continue Reading February 07, 2022 | Book Launch! Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cárdenas

January 19, 2022 | Works-in-Progress with Daphne Martschenko and Sam Trejo

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Zoom Registration Join SJRC scholars for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas, and support our own internal work. At this session, we will hear from Daphne Martschenko, a Research Fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics… Continue Reading January 19, 2022 | Works-in-Progress with Daphne Martschenko and Sam Trejo

November 10, 2021 | Book Launch! Life As We Made It + SJTP Fellow Presentation

On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 from 4:00-5:30 PM we joined in celebrating the launch of SJRC affiliate faculty Beth Shapiro’s new book, Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic Books, 2021)! (poster – PDF) Science & Justice Training Program Fellows, Jonas Oppenheimer and Jenny Pensky presented findings from their… Continue Reading November 10, 2021 | Book Launch! Life As We Made It + SJTP Fellow Presentation