Participatory, Transdisciplinary, and Indigenous Methodologies in Health and Environmental Research
(led by Sara Breslow (Anthropology) )
Monday, May 18th, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

Readings:

Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London:

Zed Books: pp 1-6.

Louise Fortmann (2008) “Introduction: Doing Science Together.” In Participatory Research in

Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together, ed. Fortmann. London: Wiley-

Blackwell: pp. 1-9.

Gerald V. Mohatt, Kelly L. Hazel, James Allen, Mary Stachelrodt, Chase Hensel, and Robert Fath

(2004) “Unheard Alaska: Culturally Anchored Participatory Action Research on Sobriety With

Alaska Natives.” American Journal of Community Psychology 33.3-4: 263-273.

Benrita ‘Mae’ Burnette and Judy DeHose (2008) “The Land has Wisdom.” In Participatory Research

in Conservation and Research Livelihoods, ed. Fortmann. London: Wiley-Blackwell: pp. 84-97.

Intelligent Design - Policy and Politics
(led by Julie Homchick (Communication) and Mott Greene (Earth and Space Sciences))
Monday, May 4th, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

This session will serve as part II of the winter quarter session on Intelligent Design and Pluralism. In this previous session, we read work by intelligent design advocate John Angus Campbell and ID opponent Kenneth Miller. Based on these readings, we explored how science is characterized by each side of this debate in terms of democracy and pluralism. Moving from these readings, this quarter’s session will explore how ideas of science and democracy have played a part in policy and politics concerning evolution and intelligent design. We will focus on the development of the Wedge Document by the Discovery Institute and the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial in 2005.

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

Readings:

The Wedge Document: http://ncseweb.org/creationism/general/wedge-document
(This is the famous leaked document that outed the Discovery Institute’s strategies for integrating ID into schools and other venues.)

Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch. ‘Intelligent Design’ not accepted by most scientists. National Center for Science Education. August 12, 2002.
http://ncseweb.org/creationism/general/intelligent-design-not-accepted-by-most-scientists
(In this reading, Scott and Branch criticize the efforts of the Discovery Institute and explain why ID should not be taught in schools.)

Kitzmiller v. Dover timeline. National Center for Science Education. October 17, 2008. http://ncseweb.org/creationism/legal/kitzmiller-v-dover-timeline
(In 2005, Judge John E. Jones ruled that teaching intelligent design in public school classrooms was unconstitutional. Here is a brief outline of events leading up to the trial.)

Please read the introductory paragraph and listen to the presiding judge of the Kitzmiller v. Dover case, John E. Jones III, read excerpt from his decision: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/judge.html
(click hyperlink ‘audio highlights’ and listen to the six short files).

(For the full text of the 139 page decision, see “Tammy Kitzmiller et al v. Dover School District Memorandum Opinion.”Judge John E. Jones. Case no. 04cv2688. Dover Pennsylvania. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2005. Sections A-E. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/kitzmiller_v_dover_decision.html)

John G. West. “Dover in Review.” Discovery Institute: January 6, 2006. Section I. http://www.discovery.org/a/3135
(In a lengthy review of Jones’ decision, the Discovery Institute responds with this writing (among many others). Please read section I and skim the rest of the document.)

Interest-group Liberalism, Stakeholder Politics and the Paradoxes of Democratization of Science
(led by Mott Greene (Earth and Space Sciences))
Monday, April 6th, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

Readings:

Theodore J. Lowi (1979) The End of Liberalism: “Pluralism and Capitalist Ideology,” and “The New Public Philosophy: Interest Group Liberalism”

Sheila Jasanoff (2005) Designs on Nature: chapter 10: Civic Epistemology.

James Madison: Federalist #10 http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

Digital Media Town Hall & Planning meeting for Spring Colloquium
(with visitors Kathleen Woodward (Simpson Center), Bruce Burgett & Deborah Kelley (Keywords for American Cultural Studies))
Monday, April 6th, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

View the meeting agenda (pdf) or the Keywords Presentation (ppt).

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

“Can You Fix My Computer?” Or, Science, Technology and the Participatory Question
(led by Jentery Sayers)
Monday, March 9th, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

What are the potentials and limitations of nonexpert participation in science and technology? Focusing particularly on the notion of innovation, this session explores how shaping and being shaped by technologies figure into the everyday disconnects between technology professionals and nonexperts. How do these disconnects influence the diversification and democratization of science? And how is participatory technology articulated in the first place, by whom, and for whom? The readings, both of which unpack STS approaches to understanding technology and democracy, should facilitate conversations about distinguishing technology from science (if that’s possible), team expertise (or collaboration), displaced politics, and participatory technocultures.

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

Readings for this session:

Martin Lengwiler, “Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 33/2 (2008): 186-200.

Roel Nahuis and Harro van Lente, “Where Are the Politics? Perspectives on Democracy and Technology.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 33/5 (2008): 559-581.

Democratizing Science and Social Justice: Case Studies and the “Who” and “How”
(led by Angela Ginorio)
Monday, February 23rd, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

The focus of this session will be on the social sciences. Flyvbjerg argues for the importance of values and power as central to analysis in the social science, and the need for case studies for deep understanding of both structure and process. In Ch. 10 Flyvbjerg provides a case study of decision making in urban design (from an expert perspective) while Simpson provides a case study of the clash between expert decision makers and grassroot activists. Sclove’s critique of STS (as of 1996) provides a disciplinary context for this discussion.

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

See Prof. Ginorio’s handout (pdf).

Readings for this session:

Bent Flyvbjerg, Making social science matter: Why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

-Ch 9: Methodological guidelines for a reformed social science, 129-140

-Ch 10: Examples and illustrations: Narratives of value and power, 141-161.

Richard Sclove, “STS on other planets.” In the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology: http://www.easst.net/review/june1996/sclove (1996).

Andrea Simpson, “Who Hears Their Cry? The Case for Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee.” The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Eds. Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein. (University of Arizona Press, 2002).

The Politics of Nutrition
(led by Kelly Moore (University of Cincinnati))
Monday, February 9th, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

This session is a discussion with visiting speaker, Kelly Moore (Sociology, University of Cincinnati), about a new project she’s developing on the politics of nutrition.

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.  You can also listen to an audio recording (mp3) of Kelly Moore’s February 10th Visiting Speaker talk on her book, Disrupting Science.

Readings for this session:

Mudry, Jessica, Quantifying an American Eater: Early USDA Food Guidance, and a Language of Numbers. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 9, No. 1. (2006), pp. 49-67.

Elam, Mark, and Margareta Bertilsson. Consuming, Engaging and Confronting Science: The Emerging Dimensions of Scientific Citizenship. European Journal of Social Theory Vol. 6, No. 2 (2003), pp. 233-251.

Genetic Testing and Social Identities
(led by Sareeta Amrute)
Monday, January 26th, 2009, 12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

How do communities use genetic testing to map out, verify and reconceptualize who they are?  What happens when scientists try to anticipate the needs of the communities from whom they sample?  This session explores what happens when genetic testing meets other, sometimes conflicting ways of investigating and managing identities.

Readings for this session:

Alondra Nelson, “BioScience: Genetic Genealogy Testing and the Pursuit of African Ancestry.” Social Studies of Science 38 (2000).

Jenny Reardon, “Democratic Mis-Haps: The Problem of Democratization in an Age of Biopolitics.” Biosocieties 2/2 (2007).

Curriculum Initiative & Democracy in Science Planning Meeting
Monday, January 12th, 2009 12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

Food Politics
(led by Simon Werrett)
Monday, December 20, 2008 12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion Readings for this session:

Steven Shapin, “How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England,” in Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene, ed. Charles E. Rosenberg (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003),
 pp. 21-58.

D. Winickoff, S. Jasanoff, L. Busch, R. Grove-White and B. Wynne, “Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk and Democracy in World Trade Law”, The Yale Journal of International Law, Vol 30 (2005):81.

* The tag clouds posted in this blog are comprised of keywords submitted by participants of each colloquium. Scroll down for a tag cloud view of SSNet core concepts and diverse interests spanning over a year of biweekly meetings. This tag cloud was created at wordle.net.

Eugenics in Democratic Contexts
(led by Joanne Woiak)
Monday, November 17, 2008 12:00 – 1:20 pm
Communications 202

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion

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* The tag clouds posted in this blog are comprised of keywords submitted by participants of each colloquium. Scroll down for a tag cloud view of SSNet core concepts and diverse interests spanning over a year of biweekly meetings. This tag cloud was created at wordle.net.

This week’s Graduate-Faculty Colloquium on “Democratizing Science” is led by Monica Aufrecht

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 12:00 – 1:20 pm
Communications 202

* The tag clouds posted in this blog are comprised of keywords submitted by participants of each colloquium. Scroll down for a tag cloud view of SSNet core concepts and diverse interests spanning over a year of biweekly meetings. This tag cloud was created at wordle.net.

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On 20 October, the first session in the Democratizing Science seminar was led by Leah Ceccarelli, Associate Professor in Communication.

Discussion was based on having read the following articles:

Leah Ceccarelli, “Manufactroversy: The Art of Creating Controversy Where None Existed,” Science Progress (Spring/Summer 2008): 82-84.

David Michaels, “Knowing Uncertainty for What It Is: In Reporting on the Science of Global Warming, Journalists Contend with Powerful, Well-Funded Forces Using Strategies Created by Tobacco Companies,” Neiman Reports (Winter 2005): 75-77.

Naomi Oreskes, “Anti-Realism in Government. Book Review of Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science,” Science 310 (7 October 2005): 56.

Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

*Tag cloud generated from participant generated keywords — created at wordle.net.

Monday, 02 June 2008

Guest Speaker: Paul Wouters,
Programme Leader Virtual Knowledge Studio
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences

listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

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Monday, April 21-

Presenters:

Simon Werrett, History (text of presentation)
Stephanie Andrews, DX Arts

listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

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UWSSNET Colloquium - Monday, 10 March 2008

Special Guest: Nancy Cartwright (Philosophy, London School of Economics)

Papers for discussion (by Nancy Cartwright):
- The Rational Structure of Physics (pdf)
- In Praise of the Representation Theorem (pdf)
- Against ‘The System (pdf)

listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.

[this tagcloud was created from keywords submitted by attendees of the above colloquium. the visualization represents research interests of the participants. variation in size of keywords represents relative strength of a particular interest. this tagcloud was created at tagcrowd.com]

Key Note 08 March 2008- Tenth Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Washington, Seattle

Listen to keynote (mp3)

Key Note 07 March 2008- Tenth Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Washington, Seattle

Listen to keynote (mp3)

Following Charles Mills’ keynote, Alison Wylie hosted a dinner and celebration of the tenth anniversary of the roundtable.

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22 February 2008

Panelists:

Sara Jo Breslow (Anthropology)
- IGERT presentation slides (ppt)
Brian Brown (Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics)
Suraya Afiff (Karsa Institute)
Celia Lowe (Anthropology)
- A Rough Guide to Interdisciplinarity (pdf)

listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the presentations.

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Monday, 11 February

Panelists:

Walter Ruzzo (Computer Science & Engineering)
Gina Neff (Communication)
Clifford Tatum (Communication)
David Stearns (University of Edinburgh)

-listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the presentations.

[this tagcloud was created from keywords submitted by attendees of the above colloquium. the visualization represents research interests of the participants. variation in size of keywords represents relative strength of a particular interest. this tagcloud was created at tagcrowd.com]

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Monday, January 28

Panelists:

Sarah Elwood (Geography)
Mott Greene (Science, Technology & Society, UPS)
Mark Purcell (Urban Design and Planning)
- presentation (ppt)
Alison Wylie (Philosophy and Anthropology)

-listen to the audio recording (mp3) of the presentations.

Panelists:

Vladimir Chaloupka, Physics
- Weinberg’s “against philosophy” (pdf)
Neil Banas, Oceanography
Maynard Olsen, Medical Genetic/Genome Science
- presentation text (pdf)
- million year curriculum (pdf)
Woody Sullivan, Astronomy

-listen to the audio recording (mp3) of the presentations.

at the last digital working group meeting we discussed ways to connect people through their research/intellectual interests. at the beginning of winter quarter we’ll solicit key words from everyone to facilitate construction of a tag cloud.

in the meantime, here’s a demo tag cloud created from the full text of the SSNET proposal. shown below is a visualization of the top 50 words (out of ~6000) weighted by frequency of use.

Panel Speakers:

Panel Speakers:

Kelly Fryer-Edwards (website)
Angela Ginorio (website)
Suzanne Ortega (Graduate School)
Matthew Weinstein (website)

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Comments and questions are welcome by all! To read and/or add comments simply click on the “comments” link directly below this post.

Panel Speakers:

S. Malia Fullerton, Medical History & Ethics (presentation notes)
Phillip Thurtle, CHID and History (presentation notes)
Ann Anagnost, Anthropology (presentation notes)

Listen to the audio recording (mp3) of the presentations

Comments and questions are welcome by all! To read and/or add comments simply click on the “comments” link directly below this post.

Summary of panel: (tbd)

History and Philosophy of Science Presenters:

Arther Fine, Philosophy (website)
Simon Werrett, History (presentation)
Andrea Woody, Philosophy (handout)

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comments and questions are welcome by all! simply click on the comment link below.

summary of panel: (tbd)