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) “The Geneticist in the Garage”, in the Guardian UK, March 19. Eugene Thacker (2004) “Notes Towards [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 — * 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.