Jan 9 | The Land Beneath Our Feet
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene presents The Land Beneath Our Feet A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman Followed by a conversation with Gregg Mitman & Donna Haraway Monday January 9, 2017 5:30-7:30PM Digital Arts Research Center 108 The Land Beneath Our Feet follows a young Liberian man, uprooted… Continue Reading Jan 9 | The Land Beneath Our Feet
The ‘Public Good’ of Genomics
The Science and Justice Research Center will host Steve Sturdy, Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh, in a Working Group event discussing the ‘public good’ within genomics. Continue Reading The ‘Public Good’ of Genomics
Cocktail Hour: Food Security and the Data Deluge
Madeleine and Zenia will discuss their preliminary research into how the “data revolution” is reshaping efforts to address international food security on the part of development organizations, governments, and agribusinesses. Continue Reading Cocktail Hour: Food Security and the Data Deluge
Cocktail Hour: Making the Island Desert: Cotton Colonialism and the Long History of the Shrinking Aral Sea
4:00-5:30pm | SJRC Common Room (Oakes 231) The Science and Justice Research Center will host Maya Peterson, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California – Santa Cruz, in a Cocktail Hour discussion. The rapid disappearance of the Aral Sea over the years leading up to and since the collapse of the Soviet Union has been called… Continue Reading Cocktail Hour: Making the Island Desert: Cotton Colonialism and the Long History of the Shrinking Aral Sea
Cocktail Hour: Affect of Water in Colombia
Diana will share her work on the affects of water in Colombia in order to think about community based water management and the ways in which the water infrastructure built for the big agro-industries of banana and palm oil is constantly repurposed. Continue Reading Cocktail Hour: Affect of Water in Colombia
Cocktail Hour: Meet & Greet
Please join us for a beginning of quarter cocktail 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 Cocktail Hour: Meet & Greet
TJ Demos on Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
The Center for Emerging Worlds, The Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences present a book talk with TJ Demos, HAVC professor and influential art and visual culture historian critic at UCSC. Continue Reading TJ Demos on Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
Blum Center | SEEDS, SOILS and POLITICS: An Anthropology Roundtable
Twenty anthropologists and ethnographers from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America will discuss new forms of public and private governance over seeds and soils. Continue Reading Blum Center | SEEDS, SOILS and POLITICS: An Anthropology Roundtable
Paul Edwards
12PM-1:30PM | Humanities 1, rm 210 Paul N. Edwards (Professor, School of Information and Department of History, University of Michigan) will present ‘Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory’. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, the history of climate science, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast… Continue Reading Paul Edwards
SFSU Women’s and Gender Studies
Multiple Science and Justice affiliates scheduled to present at San Francisco State University’s Women and Gender Studies Lecture Series. Wednesdays from 12:35PM-1:50PM at Humanities 119, SFSU. Continue Reading SFSU Women’s and Gender Studies