September 30, 2020 | Giving Day
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 All-Day Join the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday September 30th, for Giving Day, a 24-hour online fundraising drive! Help us celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our Science & Justice Training Program (SJTP) by supporting our graduate student researchers through the Science & Justice campaign. Incentives to… Continue Reading September 30, 2020 | Giving Day
Summer Science & Justice Writing Together
Wanting to establish a regular writing routine exploring science and justice? Join SJRC scholars over Zoom for open writing sessions! Open to all students, faculty, researchers and visiting scholars. For more information, the Zoom link and password, or to express interest, please contact SJRC Graduate Fellow Dorothy Santos (film and digital media).
June 24, 2020 | V is for Veracity
On June 24, 2020, SJRC Founding Director Jenny Reardon joined Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication) for a conversation on Science & Justice, and to explore our intersecting work on democracy, justice, information, and truth. As Reardon’s recently written in relation in… Continue Reading June 24, 2020 | V is for Veracity
June 05, 2020 | UCHRI The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point
Hosted by David Theo Goldberg and UCHRI on Friday, June 05, 2020. UCHRI gathered Angela Y. Davis (Emerita, UC Santa Cruz), Herman Gray (Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz), Gaye Theresa Johnson (UC Los Angeles), Robin D.G. Kelley (UC Los Angeles), and Josh Kun (USC) to think differently together about the structural conditions and explosive events shattering… Continue Reading June 05, 2020 | UCHRI The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point
April 24, 2020 | Theorizing Race After Race
Friday, April 24, 2020 2:30-3:30 PM Join Science & Justice scholars for an open discussion of Theorizing Race After Race! At this session, we’ll read and think with Alondra Nelson’s, “Society after Pandemic”: https://items.ssrc.org/insights/society-after-pandemic/ (Links to an external site.), and Ruha Benjamin’s, “Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability & Refuting Black Pathology”: https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-refuting-black-pathology. We’ll also discuss a collective… Continue Reading April 24, 2020 | Theorizing Race After Race
April 24, 2020 | STS Approaches to COVID-19: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday, April 24, 2020 11:00am–12:30pm PST A livestream conversation of STS approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic, moderated by Saul Halfon, Virginia Tech Department of Science, Technology, and Society. This roundtable brings together scholars from a range of STS specializations (cultural studies, sociology, history, politics, policy, and anthropology) to help us think through the COVID-19 pandemic.… Continue Reading April 24, 2020 | STS Approaches to COVID-19: A Roundtable Discussion
April 20, 2020 | Book Launch! Vital Decomposition Soil Practitioners and Life Politics
Monday, April 20, 2020 1:30 pm PST / 4:30pm EST online: https://sasupenn.zoom.us/j/767737043 Celebrate the launch of Kristina Lyons’ new book, Vital Decomposition Soil Practitioners and Life Politics (Duke University Press, April 2020). Kristina M. Lyons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.
April 08, 2020 | Theorizing Race After Race
Wednesday, April 08, 2020 2:00-4:00 PM Join Science & Justice scholars for an open discussion of Theorizing Race After Race! At this session, we will brainstorm how the COVID-19 pandemic might shift the work we are doing as a collective. We will also discuss our funding proposal, and continue our conversation from last quarter about next… Continue Reading April 08, 2020 | Theorizing Race After Race
Spring Science & Justice Writing Together
Tuesdays 10:00AM – 12:00Noon Wanting to establish a regular writing routine exploring science and justice? Join SJRC scholars over Zoom for open writing sessions! Open to all students, faculty, researchers and visiting scholars. For more information, the Zoom link and password, or to express interest, please contact SJRC Graduate Student Researcher Dennis Browe (sociology).
March 09, 2020 | Personalizing medicine through genomics in Denmark
Monday, March 9, 2020 12-1:30 PM UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Westside Research Park: 2300 Delaware Ave., Santa Cruz Double Helix Conference Room In this talk, Iben M. Gjødsbøl (Assistant Professor Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen) draws upon ethnographic research carried out in Denmark to give an account… Continue Reading March 09, 2020 | Personalizing medicine through genomics in Denmark