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STS Speaker. Satisfied Callers: Police and Corporate Customer Service Technology in India
Matthew Hull, U-M Department of Anthropology
State organizations are infamous for their insatiable appetites for documentation, but sometimes they refuse to produce documents. In India,...
STS Speaker. Dissonant Infrastructures: Tensions between Science and Public Health Embedded in Sickle Cell Disease in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Melissa Creary, U-M School of Public Health
Epistemic authority for knowledge production about sickle cell disease (SCD) in Brazil lay mostly at the feet of elite scientists associated...
STS Speaker. The Matter of Black Lives: Hauntology, Infrastructure, and the Necropolitics of History in the American South
Erica James, MIT
In this talk I ask how scholars can deepen and expand, but also trouble, the field of hauntology. Originating in Derrida’s Spectres of...
STS Speaker. Translating the Cell Biology of Aging? On the Importance of Choreographing Knowledge
Tiago Moreira, Durham University, UK
This talk draws on ethnographic study in a cell biology of ageing laboratory that explored how the articulation between basic and clinical...
STS Speaker: Indigenous Climate Change Studies and Justice: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Kyle Whyte, Michigan State University
Indigenous peoples are creating an STS-related field to support their own capacities to address anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change....
STS Distinguished Speaker. Making Postcolonial Bodies: Tales from An"Other" Enlightenment
Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
This talk explores how science and religion come together in in contemporary Hindu nationalism to create a very particular and powerful...
STS Speaker. Labeling rules for genetically modified (GM) food in India: Power and Pressure within the Federal Government
Aniket Aga, U-M School for Environment & Sustainability
The issue of labeling of genetically modified (GM) food provokes strong reactions from opponents and advocates. At issue are political...
STS Speaker. Credibility Struggles in Times of Tectonic Upheaval: Rethinking Civic Epistemologies around Indian Nuclear Power Politics
Monamie Bhadra, Ohio State University
Sheila Jasanoff conceptualized civic epistemologies as stable, socio-institutional forms of vetting, producing, and using policy-relevant...
