October 09, 2019 | Meet & Greet
Wednesday, October 09, 2019 4:00-5:30 PM SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231 Please join us for a beginning of quarter social hour. In addition to a chance to celebrate the new academic year and enjoy each other’s company over nice food and drink, we will be welcoming new members of our community, and welcoming back others.… Continue Reading October 09, 2019 | Meet & Greet
October 16, 2019 | Ruha Benjamin on A New Jim Code?
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Location and Time coming soon… A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Benjamin… Continue Reading October 16, 2019 | Ruha Benjamin on A New Jim Code?
November 6, 2019 | Informational meeting for new cohort of Science & Justice Training Program
The Science and Justice Research Center will host an Informational Meeting on our internationally recognized interdisciplinary Graduate Training and Certificate Program: Wednesday, November 06, 2019 12:00-1:30PM Graduate Student Commons 204 Our Science and Justice Training Program (SJTP) is a globally unique initiative that trains doctoral students to work across the disciplinary boundaries of the natural… Continue Reading November 6, 2019 | Informational meeting for new cohort of Science & Justice Training Program
November 21, 2019 | Jessica Kolopenuk
Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:10-8:45pm Cultural Center at Merrill With an introduction from Kim TallBear, Jessica Kolopenuk will talk with Science & Justice and the Crown College Core Course (Ethical and Political Implications of Emerging Technologies) about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database. For resources, tool-kits and webinars that frame the issues, refer to… Continue Reading November 21, 2019 | Jessica Kolopenuk
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). Book Description In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots,… Continue Reading December 04, 2019 | Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
January 22-23, 2020 | Alondra Nelson
Wednesday and Thursday, January 22-23, 2020 Times/Locations: TBD Details coming soon… Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology at Columbia University. A scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the author most recently of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. Her publications also… Continue Reading January 22-23, 2020 | Alondra Nelson