CSAS Lecture Series | Understanding the New Credibility Regimes of Development: The Politics of Sanitary Pads as a Pro-Poor Technology in India
Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy, U-M
Technology has long played a central role in efforts to alleviate global poverty, with international NGOs and developed world governments...
Science, Technology & Society-Digital Studies Forum
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today: Tour and Discussion
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, on view at UMMA from December 15, 2018 to April 7, 2019, examines the radical impact of...
STS Speaker. Back to the Future: An STS Approach to Markets
Larry Busch, Michigan State University
As the late Leigh Star noted, infrastructure is that often invisible stuff all around us that is both relational and ecological. I employ...
STS Speaker. Just in Time: Chronopolotics of the Queue
Julie Chu, University of Chicago
This talk examines the politics of time as they play out through various problems of the queue—the organizational science and logistics of...
STS Distinguished Speaker: Race and Erasure: A People's History of the "Normal" Body
Laura Stark, Vanderbilt University
This talk explains how in the years after World War II, science leaders at the US National Institutes of Health set and expanded a second...
