Spring 2019 | Science & Justice Writing Together
Thursday’s from 9am-12noon 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. Spring 2020 sessions… Continue Reading Spring 2019 | Science & Justice Writing Together
May 30-31, 2019 | Indigeneity and Climate Justice
Indigeneity and Climate Justice Thursday May 30 – Friday May 31 9:30-3:30pm – (schedule) (poster) Arboretum Horticulture Hall II The UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department presents a Feminist Science Studies Conference on Indigeneity and Climate Justice, organized by and Professors of Feminist Studies Karen Barad (Science & Justice Director of Teaching) and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer.… Continue Reading May 30-31, 2019 | Indigeneity and Climate Justice
June 5-7, 2019 | Wrong at the Root: Racial Bias and The Tension Between Numbers and Words in Non-Internet Data
Wednesday, June 5 – Friday, June 7, 2019 Melvin Calvin Laboratory University of California Berkeley Sponsored by the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and the Sloan Foundation Artificially intelligent systems extrapolate from historical training data. While the training process is robust to “noisy” data, systematically biased data will inexorably lead to biased… Continue Reading June 5-7, 2019 | Wrong at the Root: Racial Bias and The Tension Between Numbers and Words in Non-Internet Data
June 6, 2019 | Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence
Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence Thursday, June 6, 2019 7:00 PM (registration) UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College Seminar Room The Right Livelihood Laureate Lecture presents an evening with Nicanor Perlas, Right Livelihood Award Laureate, followed by panel discussion with UC Santa Cruz Faculty Anthony Aguirre (Associate Professor of Physics), Lise Getoor (Professor of… Continue Reading June 6, 2019 | Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence
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
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Details coming soon… Ruha Benjamin is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. Ruha is the founder of the JUST DATA Lab and the author of two books, People’s Science (Stanford) and Race After Technology (Polity), and editor of Captivating Technology (Duke). Ruha… Continue Reading October 16, 2019 | Ruha Benjamin
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 Location: TBD 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 and social… Continue Reading November 6, 2019 | Informational meeting for new cohort of Science & Justice Training Program
November 20, 2019 | Jessica Kolopenuk
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Location/Time: TBD Jessica Kolopenuk will talk with us about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database. For resources, tool-kits and webinars that frame the issues, refer to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. Jessica Kolopenuk (Cree, Peguis First Nation) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta and Ph.D. Candidate… Continue Reading November 20, 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 Location TBD 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, artificial… Continue Reading December 04, 2019 | Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
January 23-24, 2020 | Alondra Nelson
Thursday and Friday, January 23-24, 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 23-24, 2020 | Alondra Nelson