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STS Speaker Series. From Biosociality to Biomythography: Toward a Postgenomic Contemporaneity of African Ancestry
Victoria Massie, Rice University
For the past two decades, genetic ancestry testing has become one of the quintessential examples of biosociality, providing scholars in the...
STS Speaker Series. Count me in: how quantification shapes knowledge politics in contemporary higher education
Juan Paolo Pardo Guerra, University of California, San Diego
How is knowledge organized in higher education? In recent decades, the adoption of market-oriented logics within institutions of research...
STS Speaker Series. In the Flow: Affect and Protocol in US Medical Practice
Scott Stonington, U-M Anthropology / Medical School
Why do biomedical clinicians sometimes practice contrary to their own expertise? Medicine is often described as a modernist project in...
STS Speaker Series. A History of 'Impairment'
Mara Mills, New York University
“Impairment” is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or...
