Spring | Science and Justice Writing Together
Tuesday 9:00-11:30am | SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Wanting to establish a regular writing routine exploring science and justice? Join SJRC scholars in the SJRC Common Room for open writing sessions! Engage in six 25-minute writing sessions (with a 5 minute break in between). Open to all students, faculty and visiting scholars. We will continue… Continue Reading Spring | Science and Justice Writing Together
April 11 | Visiting Scholars Roundtable
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 4:00-5:30pm SJRC’s Common Room (Oakes 231) S&J welcomes Katharine Legun, (Sociology Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago NZ) to the Science & Justice community. At this roundtable, we’ll hear from Katharine who will share an overview on her work in plants and aesthetic politics, farmers and… Continue Reading April 11 | Visiting Scholars Roundtable
May 1 | Reading Group with Lesley Green
Tuesday, May 01, 2018 11:30-1:30 PM Humanities 1, Room 402 Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions Email Kristina Lyons (krlyons@ucsc.edu) for the readings. Lesley Green | Fulbright Fellow, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town; Director… Continue Reading May 1 | Reading Group with Lesley Green
May 2 | “Sons and Daughters of Soil?” reflections on Life Sciences and Decoloniality in South Africa
Wednesday, May 02, 2018 3:30-5:30 PM Humanities 1, Room 210 Responding, as researchers, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist — at least, not in neoliberal discourses. In trying to research… Continue Reading May 2 | “Sons and Daughters of Soil?” reflections on Life Sciences and Decoloniality in South Africa
May 09 | Timescales, Memory, and Nuclear Geographies: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht and Julie Salverson
Wednesday, May 09, 2018 4:00-6:00 PM Humanities 1, room 210 Writers and activists researching nuclear things face “the challenge of rendering visible occluded, sprawling webs of interconnectedness” (Nixon 2011, 13). This discussion features two writers whose work traces the sprawling webs of nuclear geographies, binding uranium mining and its dispersed radioactive legacies. Julie Salverson (Professor… Continue Reading May 09 | Timescales, Memory, and Nuclear Geographies: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht and Julie Salverson
May 16 | Bioengineering in the Open
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 4:00-6:00 PM Engineering 2, room 599 Bioengineering is an ascendant and elite field. Advocates of “open” bioengineering propose to expand the participants, methods and scope of practices & ideas for intervening in biology. Drawing on the perceived innovative successes of Silicon Valley, these advocates often promote analogies to computer and information… Continue Reading May 16 | Bioengineering in the Open
May 30 | WiSE’s Science on Tap | The Postgenomic Condition
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 7:30 PM The Crepe Place: 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 SJRC Director and Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon will discuss with us her new book, The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice & Knowledge After the Genome. Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently… Continue Reading May 30 | WiSE’s Science on Tap | The Postgenomic Condition