Superfest | International Film Festival
Superfest, the world’s longest running disability film festival, celebrates disability as a creative force in cinema and culture. It features films with fresh ideas and images that inspire thought and meaningful conversation. Continue Reading Superfest | International Film Festival
Reading Group: Eben Kirksey on Emergent Ecologies
Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find possibilities in the wreckage of ongoing disasters, as symbiotic associations of opportunistic plants, animals, and microbes are flourishing in unexpected places. Continue Reading Reading Group: Eben Kirksey on Emergent Ecologies
Just Data? Justice, Knowledge and Care in an Age of Precision Medicine
The “Just Data?” meeting at UCSC aims to broaden the public discussion about big data and health from ethical and legal questions about privacy and informed consent to more fundamental questions about the right and just constitution of care, trust, and knowledge in an age of biomedical data. Continue Reading Just Data? Justice, Knowledge and Care in an Age of Precision Medicine
A Book Talk with Donna Haraway
The Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies together with the Science and Justice Research Center will host a conversation with Donna Haraway and Cary Wolfe on the recently released Manifestly Haraway (University of Minnesota Press). Continue Reading A Book Talk with Donna Haraway
Digital Dreams and Their Discontents: Where do we go from here?
A conversation with Erin McElroy (PhD Candidate, Feminist Studies, UCSC) and Sara Tocchetti (SJRC Visiting Scholar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France) on Digital Dreams and Their Discontents. Continue Reading Digital Dreams and Their Discontents: Where do we go from here?
The Quants of Wall Street: Risk and the Ethics of New Financial Technologies
Who wins and who loses as Wall Street transforms from sweaty bodies on the stock exchange floor to quants and physicists designing swift, sleek stealth modes of moving financial data at a distance? What new opacities and inequalities accompany the rise of new financial technologies—such as Bitcoins, roboadvisers, and laser-linked data centers — the new coin and conduits of financial realms? The Science and Justice Research Center in collaboration with the Center for Analytical Finance will host a discussion with industry, academic and NGO leaders on these critical questions about who benefits and who loses in the high tech worlds of today’s financial markets. Continue Reading The Quants of Wall Street: Risk and the Ethics of New Financial Technologies
Graduate Training Program Informational Meeting
The Science and Justice Research Center will host an Informational Meeting on our internationally recognized interdisciplinary Graduate Training and Certificate Program. Continue Reading Graduate Training Program Informational Meeting
Reading Group and Conversation with Lesley Green
The Science & Justice Research Center will host a reading group and conversation with Lesley Green with the theme of the post-colonial challenge to environmentalism. Continue Reading Reading Group and Conversation with Lesley Green
Soil Health and its Maladies: Field Notes with Farmers in the Global South
We draw upon our research with small farmers in Uganda and Colombia to discuss the way emergent ideas about “soil health” may serve to build collaborations between soil scientists, agricultural extensionists, and farmers in the global South. We also explore how a concern for soils pushes us beyond human-centric frameworks, and towards understanding the shared ecological nature of justice, ethics, well-being, and food production. Continue Reading Soil Health and its Maladies: Field Notes with Farmers in the Global South
Communicating Science to the Public: How does the experience of long-term nuclear waste disposal prepare us to think about climate engineering?
A conversation between Jane Long (California Council on Science and Technology’s California’s Energy Future committee) and Joseph Masco (University of Chicago, Anthropology). Continue Reading Communicating Science to the Public: How does the experience of long-term nuclear waste disposal prepare us to think about climate engineering?