BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20090308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20091101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T163000 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20230420T164511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T165024Z UID:10006118-1682431200-1682440200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen Feldman - The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg\, Felski\, and Bottomless Critique DESCRIPTION:–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. \nPlease see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-feldman-the-reality-of-suspicion-on-blumenberg-felski-and-bottomless-critique/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20230204T044821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T192930Z UID:10007196-1679407200-1679410800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Taija McDougall – Plantations Derivations DESCRIPTION:Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/taija-mcdougall-plantations-derivations/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20230204T044616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230302T173341Z UID:10007197-1678197600-1678201200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elena Vasiliou – Queer Pleasure\, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives DESCRIPTION:Queer pleasure\, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series.  \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elena-vasiliou-queer-pleasure-resistance-and-pain-in-ex-prisoners-narratives/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230221T150000 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20230204T044242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T174857Z UID:10007198-1676988000-1676991600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism DESCRIPTION:Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christina-heatherton-making-internationalism/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20190501T174832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T183144Z UID:10005611-1559229300-1559235600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 - Thi Nguyen: "The Gamification of Public Discourse" DESCRIPTION:The pleasures of games include\, among other things\, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games\, our goals and values are clear\, quantified\, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm – a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends\, for the sake of the pleasure of the experience of play. This is morally acceptable in games\, because the ends in games are temporary and disposable. Instrumentalizing our enduring epistemic ends\, on the other hand\, invites bad faith reasoning. Social media encourages the instrumentalization of our epistemic ends\, by offering highly salient quantified targets: Facebook Likes and Twitter Likes and Retweet numbers. It invites us to shift the ends of public discourse from some more subtle value towards\, say\, maximizing retweet numbers. We would thereby increase the pleasures of value clarity from engaging in discourse. Importantly\, among those pleasures are: the pleasures of the simplified experience of moral outrage\, and the pleasures of being part of a united epistemic community. But changing one’s epistemic aims for the sake of these pleasures is bad faith reasoning. And the form of the pleasures may help us to understand the relationship between social media and the formation of echo chambers. \nThe gamification of public discourse is an example of what I call “value capture”. Value capture occurs when: 1.) our values are naturally rich and subtle; 2.) we are placed in a social or institutional setting with simple\, explicit\, typically quantified representations of those values; 3.) we internalize those simple representations of our values; and 4.) things get worse. Some other examples include being value captured by FitBit’s step counts\, academic citation rates\, and GPA’s. The gamification of public discourse helps us see how we can understand the problem of value capture: it’s the inappropriate instrumentalizatio of an end. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-nguyen-gamification-public-discourse/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T134500 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20190520T191644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T191737Z UID:10006743-1558701000-1558705500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond DESCRIPTION:The Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma \nAndeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma\, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru\, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is one of very few Indigenous Peruvian voices that exist in the literary record\, and as we have pored over his words and line drawings\, very few of us have focused on color. This paper analyzes the use of the color blue in the Galvin Murúa\, as it diplicts the rocks as animate\, similarly to water\, and exists as a hidden code to Indigenous readers of this work. \nKatie Ligmond is a second year PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her work focuses on the empires of the Andes\, including the Warm. Inka\, and Spanish imperial forces with a focus on their gendered dynamics and the maintenance of  ethic identities. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. \nFor questions email: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-katie-ligmond/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T003000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T134500 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20190227T210053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T212604Z UID:10005585-1552609800-1552657500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman DESCRIPTION:World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions \nHow do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot’s behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included to create the best possible robots for children. \nElizabeth Goldman is a fourth year doctoral student in the developmental psychology. She works in the Infant and Child Development Lab. Her current line of research focuses on how children interact with robots. Many robots are being designed and marketed towards children. This research focuses on answering questions about how these robots impact children developmentally/ \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-elizabeth-goldman/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190301T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190301T134500 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20190222T185808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T205943Z UID:10006719-1551398400-1551447900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet DESCRIPTION:“Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies\, death\, and Western cultural practices” \nAccording to Norse mythology\, two male goats\, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr\, pull Thor’s chariot. Once they have completed their labor\, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter\, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes the focus of this dissertation\, which will engage with the ways in which Western societies and culture negotiate animal depth and engage with the materiality of the animal body. This dissertation explores this relationship by focusing on the representation and cultural digestion of the animal body\, specifically on the instances in which animal bodies are\, like in the Norse myth\, “brought back to life\,” in order to serve human needs. Once dead\, their bodies are rearranged-as in the case of taxidermy -so that’s Ann illusion of life can be represented to serve human needs-of knowledge and education\, wonder and discovery\, entertainment\, and amusement. Consequently\, this research focuses on how the animal body is used to mediate its own loss\, in what seems to be a system created for human pleasure. \nAlessia Cecchet is an experimental filmmaker and PhD candidate whose work is invested in the representation of non-human animals. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-alessia-cecchet/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T134500 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20190222T184759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T190035Z UID:10006718-1550838600-1550843100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina DESCRIPTION:Between Two Africas: “Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination” \nThis paper explores the region and anthropologized people\, of Nubia\, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa “proper.” By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes\, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic concerns with representing Nubian people\, Alirio Karina explores how the disavowal of the ethnographic (in all of its racial and cultural senses in Sudan and Egypt is an attempt to narrate of capitalist modernity in terms of ancient lineages\, and against any sense of relation to the rest African continent\, Karina argues that\, in resurfacing the ethnographic\, we may find a resistant frame through which to think Africanity north of the Sahara. \nAlirio Karina is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department\, with designated emphasis in the Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Alirio’s dissertation examines ethnographic photographs\, objects and text representing British Africa\, exploring how these materials produce ideas of race\, culture and continent that have shaped and may yet transform African political possibility. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/two-africas-nubia-ethnographic-imagination/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120412T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120412T163000 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20120328T202740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120328T202740Z UID:10004680-1334242800-1334248200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Charles Post: "The American Road to Capitalism" DESCRIPTION:University Press Books and the 2430 Arts Alliance invite you to join\nCharles Post for a reading and discussion of his new book: \nThe American Road to Capitalism:\nStudies in Class Structure\, Economic Development and Political Conflict\, 1620-1877\n\n“Charles Post’s new book\, The American Road to Capitalism\, is sure to become a reference point for debates among historians and Marxists about the transformation of the English colonies into the fully developed capitalist United States. […] it should be widely read\, appreciated for its insights and rigor\, and also debated.” —Ashley Smith\, International Socialist Review \n“This is a thoughtful\, learned\, stimulating\, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century. The book is anchored in a wide-ranging study of (and it duly credits) the work of generations of historians.” —Bruce Levine\, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War\, in Against the Current \n“Explaining the origin and early development of American capitalism is a particularly challenging task. It is in some ways even more difficult than in other cases to strike the right historical balance\, capturing the systemic imperatives of capitalism\, and explaining how they emerged\, while doing justice to historical particularities… To confront these historical complexities requires both a command of historical detail and a clear theoretical grasp of capitalism’s systemic imperatives\, a combination that is all too rare. Charles Post succeeds in striking that difficult balance\, which makes his book a major contribution to truly historical scholarship.” —Ellen Meiksins-Wood\, York University\, author of The Origins of Capitalism: A Long View. \nUnable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S.\, most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots\, Post applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the U.S. to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism. \nCharles Post Ph. D. (1983) in Sociology\, SUNY-Binghamton\, is Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. He has published in New Left Review\, Journal of Peasant Studies\, Journal of Agrarian Change\, Against the Current and Historical Materialism. \nSponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the History Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-post-the-american-road-to-capitalism-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101020T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101020T190000 DTSTAMP:20260530T040725 CREATED:20101012T180820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101012T180820Z UID:10004608-1287595800-1287601200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ruth Mueller: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself? Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist” DESCRIPTION:Ruth Mueller is a contract researcher at the Department of Social Studies of Science and a lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. \nShe will present: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself?  Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist\,” at UCSC on Wednesday\, October 20\, 2010. \nDonna Haraway has argued that “the exclusion of the non-independent person” (Haraway 1997) has been constitutive for the social organization of the emerging modern sciences\, practically excluding everyone but the bourgeois white man from participating in scientific knowledge production\, in part because the multiple others were perceived as socially and emotionally bound\, attached and tied. Drawing on recent research work in Austria and the US\, this talk will look into how independence\, tielessness and detachment are essential features of the scientific self in the contemporary socio-epistemic configurations of the academic life sciences. It look at how the ideal scientific person – especially in fast growing\, highly global and increasingly commercialized fields such as the life sciences – is still imagined as being tied to nothing but science itself\, happily subordinating other interests in life to the scientific vocation. \nAgainst a backdrop of rising competition for academic positions\, it seems that in the life sciences and in academia beyond\, increasingly normative ideas are emerging about what a scientist’s life course should look like in order to qualify for a career in science. Central elements of this normative vision include engaging in international mobility and global competition\, as well as submitting to ongoing procedures of evaluation\, application and selection. Together\, these requirements constitute a kind of “blueprint” for measuring the quality of the scientists’ work and the suitability of their lives for careers in research – a blueprint which has become institutionalized in the employment and assessment policies of contemporary academic institutions. \nThese contemporary career rationales both draw on and rework the notion of the detached\, independent\, tieless scientists on a number of levels\, participating in the shaping of a nomadic\, disposable research scientist who is accumulating nothing “but the absence of inhibition\, a sort of free energy prepared to invest itself anywhere.” (Latour 1984) \nHowever\, at any given moment in time\, these scientists are also part of specific local collectives – such as research group\, project teams – in which they work and live. This paper will explore how young scientists make sense of these different forms of collectivity in their local research environments\, given the current career rationales that emphasise individualism\, competition\, mobility and tielessness. I will argue that what we are currently witnessing is a trend towards the institutionalization of highly fragile and exploitative social relations in academic settings and of a “devil-may-care” mentality towards colleagues\, groups and institutions that young scientists increasingly consider an obligatory trait for making a career in the life sciences today. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ruth-mueller-bound-to-nothing-but-science-itself-academic-life-science-careers-and-the-nomadic-disposable-research-scientist-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR