Events
Science & Justice Research Center
Envisioning Central Coast Water in 2030: Ecology, Equity, Ingenuity
Oakes College 231Governor Jerry Brown's recent move to implement mandatory state-wide drought restrictions re-affirms growing uncertainties about California's water future. Images of dwindling rainfall and worsening drought often re-enforce popular perceptions of impending shortages as chiefly physical phenomena, restricting possibilities for robust and innovative responses through the social sphere. In the Central Coast, in particular, seemingly intractable […]
Development From Below: Supporting Indigenous Innovations and Knowledge Justice in Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe
Oakes College 231Join us for a conversation with Alice Ndlovu about the community-based research and indigenous innovations currently blossoming in Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe. Alice will give us examples of creative farming practices, water harvesting techniques, and household innovations. We will discuss how participatory research is helping to fight data poverty and empowering the community. What does […]
Fixing the Pathological Body
Engineering 2, Room 399The medical industry leans heavily upon a distinction between the “normal” and the "pathological.” Panelists Janette Dinishak (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCSC) Kelly Ormond (Professor of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine) and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC) will discuss how and why we continue to define this distinction, and for whom are these […]
Algorithms, Mobility, and Justice
Engineering 2, Room 599 Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAre moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral […]
Rescheduled to MARCH 12: Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Kresge Town HallTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 12. Please join us then. The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are […]
Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Kresge Town HallPlease note: this event was rescheduled from February 12 The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, […]
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJessica Kolopenuk will talk with Science & Justice and the Crown College about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women database. For resources, news articles, tool-kits and webinars that frame the issues, refer to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center's page on the special collection. Read or Listen to: Native American Activists Look To Next Steps […]