Archived Events

If you have time, please join us for Data Studies Candidate Michael Castelle's job talk:

The Transaction and the Message: From Database to Marketplace, 1970-2000

In the 1980s, the audiocassette became iconic of new possibilities for participatory media, emerging through international “cassette cultures” that shaped the aesthetic languages and political imaginaries of popular music.

The UC Davis Bioethics Program, Health System Clinical and Translational Science Center, UC Davis Center for Science and Innovation Studies, and UC North Bioethics Collaboratory present:

CRISPR Technology: Responsible Discourse about Science and Bioethics

Frontiers is a leading Open Access scholarly journal publisher, with 55 journals in many disciplines and growing. In addition to rising journal Impact Factors, Frontiers is advancing article-level and author metrics as new ways of measuring the impact of research.

The lecture titled “Open Access, Piracy, and the Scholarly Publishing Market,” features Christopher Kelty.

GAMING METRICS:  INNOVATION & SURVEILLANCE IN ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT

UC Davis, February 4-5, 2016

Organized by the Innovating Communication in Scholarship Project (ICIS) with support from the Center for Science and Innovation Studies (CSIS)

A one day workshop on digital transformations in religious studies scholarship

Recent decisions of the US Supreme Court have revealed the persistence of an ambiguity in the definition of invention.

A one-day workshop on sharing, pooling and appropriating medical information

When you sent me off to see the world,
were you scared that I might get hurt?
Would I try a little tobacco,
would I keep on hiking up my skirt?

(Tracy Bonham: Mother mother)

Public health campaigns on HPV prevention in Sweden target girls and young women as well as their relatives and friends. Amongst other things, cervical cancer stories are used. In one campaign image, for example, a young adopted woman tells her cancer story as a relative.

Forests think. This is neither a metaphor nor is it a claim specific to any “ontology.” What kind of claim, then, is it? What right do we have in making it? And what might happen to our social theory –and the human– if we take it seriously?

Full conference schedule can be found here. 

Please join Science & Technology Studies (STS) and the Center for Science and Innovation Studies (CSIS) for a Round Table to discuss Prof. Cristiana Giordano's book Migrants in Translation (2014) published by UC Press.