SNU in the World Winter 2024 Schedule

Professor Yi along with 26 undergraduate and 2 graduate students will visit Santa Cruz beginning Sunday, January 21st for a two week visit! Select in-person lectures and activities allow for a few additional guests to join. Express interest by selecting which activities you are interested in attending by marking any that apply in this Google Form.

All activities are in-person at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences unless otherwise noted.

Day 1 Sunday, January 21: Free Exploration + Arrival to Santa Cruz

  • 2:00pm Check into Hampton Inn Santa Cruz West [map].
  • 2:30pm Meet Global Engagement students at hotel. Purchase bus passes [via Metro Phone Application].
  • 3:00pm Bus to Downtown for Santa Cruz Walking Tour with undergraduate students in Global Engagement. [Bus 18].
  • 5:30pm Dinner with Global Engagement. [Location: Abbott Square; map].
  • Travel to hotel. [Bus 18].

Day 2 Monday, January 22: UC Santa Cruz

  • Travel to the Institute of the Arts & Sciences. 100 Panetta Ave. [walk].
  • 10:00am-10:30am Welcome with Crown College Provost MANEL CAMPS on “Innovation at UC Santa Cruz.
  • 10:30am-11:30am Lecture with JENNY REARDON on “Welcome and Introduction to the Science & Justice Research Center: Origins of Science & Justice and Current Activities.” [recorded].
  • 11:30am Lunch + Reception.
  • 1:00-2:30pm Lecture with TIFFANY WISE-WEST and the UCSC SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE.
  • Travel to campus. [Bus 18 or 20].
  • 3:00pm – 5:30pm Orientation with Global Engagement + campus walking tour [Meet at Humanities 1-210, map].
  • 5:30-7:15pm Welcome Dinner with SNU + UCSC Participants and Organizers + The Everett Program Fellows [Namaste Lounge, map].

Day 3 Tuesday, January 23: UC Santa Cruz

  • Travel to the Institute of the Arts & Sciences. 100 Panetta Ave. [Bus 20].
  • 10:00-11:00 am Lecture: JAMES DOUCET-BATTLE: “Training the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers.” A conversation through a compounded STS, ELSI/bioethics, and health disparities lens, with allied reference to SJRC’s UC-HBCU work with North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and the UCSC Genomics Institute.
  • 11:00-11:45am Lunch break [options near IAS].
  • 12:00-1:30 Lecture with BEN BREENE and ROYA PAKZAD on “The History of Engineering Ethics and the State from Al-Jaziri to Generative AI”.
  • 1:45-3:00 pm Lecture: DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS and MARIA PUIG DE LA BELLACASA on Ecological Reparation, Community Technoscience, and Environmental Justice.
  • 3:30-5:00 pm Lecture with CHESSA ADSIT-MORRIS and JAMES KARABIN on Leadership in the Ethical and Equitable Design (LEED) of STEM Research.
  • 5:00-6:15pm  Dinner break + Travel to campus. [Bus 18 or 20] [options near IAS, options on campus].
  • 6:30-8:30, 9:00pm: Screening of Richland, a film by IRENE LUSZTIG, moderated by JENNIFER HORNE with a reception to follow. [Communications Building Studio C, map]. Co-sponsored by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research and the Film & Digital Media Department.

Day 4 Wednesday, January 24: UC Santa Cruz

  • Travel to campus. [Bus 18 or 20].
  • 10:00-11:00 am Lecture with KRITI SHARMA on “Building a Science and Justice Lab” [Location: Humanities 1-210, map].
  • 11:00am Get lunch to go from campus Colleges 9/10 Dining Hall and walk to BIOMED 200, map].
  • 12 noon-1:00 pm: Conversation with the UCSC IBSC Stem Cell Journal Club with CAMILLA FORSBERG, JENNY REARDON, LINDSAY HINCK on “Organoid Intelligence” [reading] [location: BIOMED 200, map].
  • 1:00-1:20pm Walk to Oakes College [map].
  • 1:30-3:30 pm Lecture with LEILANI GILPIN and CAROLINA FLORES on “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Justice” [Oakes College Mural Room; map].
  • 3:30-3:45pm Walk to the DARC Lab [walking map].
  • 4:00 pm LIVE PERFORMANCE of Strata: A Performance of Topography [Location: DARC Lab, map].
  • Dinner + Social Gathering Downtown with SJRC Affiliates [Abbott Square; map].

Day 5 Thursday, January 25: UC Santa Cruz

  • Travel to the Institute of the Arts & Sciences. 100 Panetta Ave. [walk].
  • 10:00 – 11:30 am Lecture with KAREN MIGA and JAMES DOUCET-BATTLE on Personalized Medicine, Biotechnology, Justice and Inclusion.
  • 11:30-1:00pm Lunch Break
  • 1:30-3:00: Lecture with KEVIN CORCORAN on and CONNIE ZHENG on Land and Site-Based Artistic Research Practices: Listening and Mapping moderated by ANNA FRIZ.
  • 3:00 pm Travel to Boardwalk with GLOBAL LEADERS from the Institute of Arts and Sciences.
  • 4:00 – 7:00 pm Social Gathering, dinner at the Boardwalk with GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT.

Day 6 Friday, January 26: Free Exploration in the greater Bay Area

  • Bay Area Free Exploration

Day 7 Saturday, January 27: UC San Francisco + Guided Exploration

  • 10:00 am “Welcome to UC San Francisco” by JULIE HARRIS-WAI (UCSF) [Location: UC San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus, Robertson Auditorium 1]
  • 10:15am-12:00pm. JENNY REARDON and DENNIS BROWE (UCSC), Introduction to the Just Biomedicine “SF Third Street Project”
  • 12:00-1:00pm. “SF Third Street Walking Tour” with JENNY REARDON and DENNIS BROWE. [Begins at UCSF Mission Bay campus, ends at TBD].
  • Lunch

Day 8 Sunday, January 28: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area

  • Field trip to TBD

Day 9 Monday, January 29: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area

  • Field trip to TBD

Day 10 Tuesday, January 30: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area + Stanford

  • 10:00-12noon Field trip to Stanford Hospital’s Paul Tang Lab

Day 11 Wednesday, January 31: Free Exploration at UC Berkeley and Travel back to Santa Cruz

  • Field trip to UC Berkeley and surrounding areas.
  • Travel back to Hampton Inn Santa Cruz West [map].

Day 12 Thursday, February 01: Student Presentation Prep

  • 12:00-1:00pm TBD Lunch + Graduate Student Meeting [Location: SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231]
  • 1:00-5:00pm Student Presentation Preparation [Location: SJRC Common Room, Oakes 231]
  • 6:00pm Dinner with DOOGAB YI, JENNY REARDON and JAMES DOUCET-BATTLE. [Location: Gabriella Cafe].

Day 13 Friday, February 02: UC Santa Cruz

  • Travel to the Institute of the Arts & Sciences. 100 Panetta Ave. [walk].
  • 9:30 am-1:00 pm. SNU Student FINAL PRESENTATIONS + Farewell Lunch with SNU + SJRC organizers and Participants.

Day 14 Saturday, February 03: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area

  • Field trip to TBD
  • Fly home