Science & Justice Writing Together
Tuesdays 10:00am-1:00pm SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Wanting to establish a regular writing routine exploring science and justice? Beginning Tuesday October 8th, join SJRC scholars in the SJRC Common Room from 10:00am to 1:00pm for open writing sessions! Engage in six 25-minute writing sessions (with a 5 minute break in between). Open to all students,… Continue Reading Science & Justice Writing Together
November 15, 2019 | Looking for Marla’s Bilingual Book Launch
Friday, November 15, 2019 7:00-9:00PM Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History Join us at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to celebrate the diversity of sex and gender in nature! Science & Justice Training Program Fellow and Marla’s visionary Paloma Medina will launch a bilingual version of Looking for Marla. The Marla… Continue Reading November 15, 2019 | Looking for Marla’s Bilingual Book Launch
November 19, 2019 | Theorizing Race After Race
5:00-6:30 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join Science & Justice scholars for an open discussion of Theorizing Race After Race! In thinking about how we might incorporate the upcoming discussion with Herman Gray and Alondra Nelson at Kuumbwa on January 22 into our work, we will be reading some pieces from both scholars: The… Continue Reading November 19, 2019 | Theorizing Race After Race
November 21, 2019 | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:10-8:45pm Cultural Center at Merrill Hosted by the Crown College Core Course (Ethical and Political Implications of Emerging Technologies) and the Science & Justice Research Center, with an introduction from Kim TallBear. Jessica Kolopenuk will talk with Science & Justice and the Crown College about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database.… Continue Reading November 21, 2019 | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
November 21/22/23, 2019 | FRANKENCON 2019
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, November 21/22/23, 2019 All Day – check official website for more information For two hundred years, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has haunted our days and chilled our dreaming nights. Delve into the enduring legacy of the first science-fiction horror story with FRANKENCON! Kicking off the three days is a back-to-back film screening… Continue Reading November 21/22/23, 2019 | FRANKENCON 2019
December 03, 2019 | Forensic Genomics for Investigators Panel
Wednesday, December 03 4:00-6:00pm Namaste Lounge Science & Justice Visiting Scholar and UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Alum, Cris Hughes, reunites academics and forensic practitioners to discuss historical and current field training, genomic technological applications in forensic investigations, the problems and limits of interpretation, the resources available, and the incentives practitioners face tied to case resolution. In addition, the… Continue Reading December 03, 2019 | Forensic Genomics for Investigators Panel
December 04, 2019 | Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Wednesday, December 04, 2019 4:00-6:00 PM Engineering 2, 599 Co-authors Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Feminist Studies, CRES) and Kalindi Vora (UC Davis Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) will present on their new book Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke University Press, March 2019), with responses by CRES Director Christine Hong and SJRC Director Jenny Reardon. A dessert reception… Continue Reading December 04, 2019 | Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
January 22, 2020 | Racial Reconciliation and the Future of Race in America
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Doors open 6:00pm; talk at 7:00pm Kuumbwa Jazz Center (320 Cedar St, Downtown, Santa Cruz) Join us for a vibrant, stimulating, and challenging conversation on race in America with Alondra Nelson (President, Social Sciences Research Council) and Herman Gray (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz) as moderated by Jenny Reardon (Professor of… Continue Reading January 22, 2020 | Racial Reconciliation and the Future of Race in America
January 29, 2020 | Works-in-Progress with Anjuli Verma
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00-5:30 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join SJRC scholars in the SJRC Common Room 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 UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Politics,… Continue Reading January 29, 2020 | Works-in-Progress with Anjuli Verma
February 5, 2020 | Lukas Rieppel on Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12noon-1:30pm Humanities 210 4:00-5:30pm SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Join the SJRC and the Center for Cultural Studies for a noon talk and an evening book discussion with Lukas Rieppel. During the 1920s, a large team of researchers from the New York natural history museum spent nearly a decade exploring the… Continue Reading February 5, 2020 | Lukas Rieppel on Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition