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~Workshop Schedule~


Friday, May 2, UCSD Geisel Library Seuss Room

8:45 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop

Government, Governmentality

 

9:15 - 10:45  Session I: Gabrielle Hecht
Moderator: Naomi Oreskes

9:15 - 10:00

Presentation: African Bodies and Nuclear Things: Scenes from the Transnational Production of Uranium

10:00-10:10

Graduate student respondents:
Martha Poon and Matt Shindell

10:10-10:45

Discussion

 

 

10:45 - 11:00 

~Break~

11:00 - 12:30 

Session II: Rebecca Herzig
Moderator:  Naomi Oreskes

11:00-11:45

Presentation: Inhuman Labors: Governmentality and the Global Cosmetic Services Industry

11:45-11:55

Graduate student respondents:
Marisa Brandt and Monica Hoffman

11:55-12:30

Discussion

12:30 - 2:00

~Lunch~

Arts of Technology  

2:00 - 3:30

Session III: Jessica Riskin
Moderator: Steve Epstein

2:00 - 2:45

Presentation: Mechanical Christs, Hydraulic Brutes and the Invention of Consciousness

2:45 - 2:55

Graduate student respondents:
Liz Petrick and Jacob Stengenga

2:55 - 3:30

Discussion

3:30 - 4:00 ~Break~
4:00 - 5:30 Session IV: Fred Turner
Moderator: Steve Epstein
4:00 - 4:45

Presentation: Art, Automation and the Open Self in Cold War America

4:45 - 4:55

Graduate student respondents:
Bradley Burge and Kevin Walsh

4:55 - 5:30

Discussion

7:15pm

Buffet dinner and party for all workshop attendees and Science Studies Program members

Saturday, May 3, UCSD Geisel Library Seuss Room

10:15 am

Continental Breakfast

Technologies and Rationalities  

10:30 - 12:00

Session V: Andrew Feenberg
Moderator:  Charlie Thorpe

10:30 - 11:15

Presentation: Marxism and the Critique of Rationality: From Surplus Value to the Politics of Technology

11:15 -11:25

Graduate student respondent:
Tom Waidzunas

11:25 - 12:00

Discussion

 

 

12:00 - 1:30

~Lunch~

1:30 - 3:00

Session VI:  Ravi Rajan
Moderator:  Charlie Thorpe

1:30 - 2:15

Presentation: Science Studies and Environmental Studies - Toward a New Antithesis

2:15 - 2:25

Graduate student respondents:
Krystal Tribbett and Kim De Wolff

2:25 - 3:00

Discussion

3:00 - 3:15

Wrap-up