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		<title>Biotech Hobbyism - Tinkering, Treacherous, or Transformative?</title>
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SSNet Colloquium: Biotech Hobbyism - Tinkering, Treacherous, or Transformative?
(led by Malia Fullerton (Bioethics and Humanities))
Monday, June 1st, 2009,  12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202
Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.
Recommended Readings:
James Bloom (2009) &#8220;The Geneticist in the Garage&#8221;, in the Guardian UK, March 19.
Eugene Thacker (2004) &#8220;Notes Towards a Sociology of Computer Hobbyism&#8221;, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Participatory, Transdisciplinary, and Indigenous Methodologies in Health and Environmental Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Intelligent Design - Policy and Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=92</link>
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		<title>Interest-group Liberalism, Stakeholder Politics and the Paradoxes of Democratization of Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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: &#8220;Pluralism and Capitalist Ideology,&#8221; and &#8220;The New Public Philosophy: Interest Group Liberalism&#8221;
Sheila Jasanoff (2005) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Digital Media Town Hall &amp; Planning Meeting for Spring Colloquium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Media   Town Hall &#38; Planning meeting for  Spring Colloquium
(with visitors Kathleen Woodward (Simpson Center), Bruce Burgett &#38; 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.
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		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=87</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Can You Fix My Computer?&#8221; Or, Science, Technology and the Participatory Question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Can You Fix My Computer?&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Democratizing Science and Social Justice: Case Studies and the &#8220;Who&#8221; and &#8220;How&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratizing Science and Social Justice: Case Studies and the &#8220;Who&#8221; and &#8220;How&#8221;
 (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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=75</link>
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		<title>The Politics of Nutrition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s developing on the politics of nutrition.
Listen to an audio recording (mp3) of the discussion.  You can also listen to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Genetic Testing and Social Identities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Curriculum Initiative &amp; Democracy in Science planning meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Curriculum Initiative &#38; Democracy in Science Planning Meeting
Monday, January 12th, 2009 12:00 – 1:20 pm, Communications 202
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		<link>http://blog.sciencestudiesnetwork.org/?p=61</link>
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