Turning Points: Conversations in Global Media History
The Global Media Studies Initiative (GMSI) at the Department of Communication Studies is organizing a two-day symposium on key moments in...
STS Speaker. Alternative Facts and States of Fear: Reality in the Age of Climate Fictions
Joanna Radin, Yale University
This talk is concerned with the nature of reality in an age of “alternative facts.” It is a case study situated in the realm of mass...
STS Speaker. Unbalancing the Senses and Sciences of Moving Fascia: Practicing Research
Joseph Dumit, University of California-Davis
TBA
STS Speaker. Community as Ecofact or Artifact: Myths Of Meritocracy and ‘Fun Work’ in North-South American Field Science Collaborations
Mary Leighton, U-M Anthropology
Abstract: TBA....
STS Speaker. The Sentimental Body: Medical Humanitarianism and the Late Colonial Public in Indonesia
Kevin Ko, U-M History
This talk examines the role of medical humanitarianism in formations and fantasies of the native public in late colonial Indonesia. It looks...
Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation by Jennifer Robertson
Gender: New Works, New Questions book discussion
Discussants:...
