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Monday, April 01, 2013 Promoted: STS Distinguished Speaker 2012: "Nature's Revenge: Risk and Catastrophe in Historical Perspective" with Lorraine Daston 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM STS Distinguished Speaker 2012, Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute / University of Chicago [More]Monday, March 25, 2013 Monday, February 25, 2013 Promoted: The Tocqueville of Techniques: Michel Chevalier and the Cosmic Geography of the USA with John Tresch 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Monday, January 28, 2013 Promoted: What STS Can Learn from the Black Panther Party with Alondra Nelson 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. But the activists were also engaged in a broader struggle for social justice in health. [More]Monday, January 14, 2013 Promoted: Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women's Labor and the Gendering of Semiconductor Manufacture with Lisa Nakamura 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Contemporary digital media production centers on the Asia-Pacific region—Silicon Valley and China, sites where software and hardware are made. Asians and Asia have become racialized as digital; the \"nimble fingers\" of Asian women are a key resource in digital industries. However, this gendering and racialization of computer manufacture as women of colors\' work has a forgotten earlier history. [More] |
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