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SUMMARY:Kalindi Vora: “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
DESCRIPTION:Transnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary disparities in medical and legal protections to bear upon reections on recent innovations in articial uterine environments\, this talk suggests that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science. The techno-fantasy of the isolated womb is part of the originating conditions for the structure and discourse of Indian surrogacy as “wombs for rent\,” and the notion of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientic and medical practice allows for alienating logic of the “gestational carrier” as a functional role in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) practices. Given these ongoing histories and metaphors\, it is important to consider the unequal positions of participants in transnational fertility exchanges when evaluating recent articulations of the relationship between governance\, medicine\, and transnational ART markets in the debates about draft ART legislation in India. \nKalindi Vora is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and aliate faculty of the Critical Gender and Science Studies Programs at UC San Diego. Her book\, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (University of Minnesota Press\, 2015)\, examines domestic work\, customer care\, the commodication of human organs\, gestational surrogacy and knowledge work as representing a global economy of vitality that relies on aective and biological labor of feminized workers. Her research and publications have focused on gendered labor\, globalization\, South Asian area and diaspora studies\, postcolonial studies\, and feminist theory.\n  \nUpcoming Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kalindi-vora-life-support-legacies-of-imperial-science-and-surrogate-technologies-of-racialized-reproduction-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Informational Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an informational session on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars on Thursday\, January 8th from noon to 1:00 PM where we can address questions\, think about budgets\, and possible collaborations. \nSawyer Seminar information: http://www.mellon.org/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship-humanities/fellowships/sawyer-seminars/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mellon-foundation-sawyer-seminar-informational-session-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
DESCRIPTION:Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not\, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior\, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models of the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (boosterism\, epiphenomenalism\, rationalization\, and inert discovery). I then present convergent evidence from studies of about a dozen different types of moral behavior. The results suggest that ethicists behave no morally better on average or any more consistently with their espoused values\, compared to other groups of professors. Using a combination of direct observation and self-report measures\, I examine: the misappropriation of library books\, voting in public elections\, courtesy at professional meetings\, responsiveness to student emails\, charitable donation\, organ and blood donation\, staying in touch with one’s mother\, vegetarianism\, honesty in responses to surveys\, nonpayment of conference registration fees\, Nazi party membership in the 1930s\, and peer evaluation of overall moral behavior. The overall results will be compared with the predictions of the four models. \nEric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. He has written extensively on consciousness\, self-knowledge\, attitudes\, and moral psychology. His most recent book is Perplexities of Consciousness. He blogs at The Splintered Mind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-schwitzgebel-the-moral-behavior-of-ethics-professors-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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