Science, Technology, and Society – Lunch Seminar
Spring 2023 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Modality |
| Jan. 20 | [no talk; introduction to course] | ||
| Jan. 27 | Joe Auner (Tufts University) | “Feedback as Interface” | in-person |
| Feb. 3 | Nick Rabb (Tufts University) | “Modeling Disinformation and How the Models Model Us” | in-person |
| Feb. 10 | Thuy Linh Tu (New York University) | “An Archive of Feet: Military Dermatology and the Science of Beauty” | via Zoom / audience is in-person |
| Feb. 17 | Christina Agapakis (Ginkgo Bioworks) | “Corporate STS: breaking silos and working sociotechnically” | in-person |
| Feb. 24 | Sarah Sobieraj (Tufts University) | “Digital Hate, Political Voice, and Social Inequalities” | in-person |
| Mar. 3 | D.E. Wittkower (Old Dominion University) | “What even are cats?: A phenomenological investigation” | via Zoom / audience is in-person |
| Mar. 10 | Tatiana Chudakova (Tufts University) | “Antiviral Viralities: Navigating Rumor, Shortage, and Drug Efficacies in Russia” | in-person |
| Mar. 17 | [no talk – free day!] | ||
| Mar. 24 | [no talk – Spring Break] | ||
| Mar. 31 | Anthony Kwame Harrison (Virginia Tech) | “From Hypodescent to Musical Segregation: The Racialized Stakes of Sonic Belonging and Estrangement” | in-person |
| Apr. 7 | Giulia Taurino (Northeastern University) | “Training ML Models for the Study of Culture” | in-person |
| Apr. 14 | Justin Hollander (Tufts University) | “First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet” | in-person |
| Apr. 21 | [no talk – substitute Monday’s schedule on Friday] | ||
| Apr. 28 | Hi’ilei Hobart (Yale University) | “Thermal Sovereignties” | via Zoom / audience is in-person |
COVID-19 Update:
This spring, our lunch seminar will be in-person. Some of our speakers will be in-person, and some will be virtual. We also have some long-awaited news: for the first time since March 2020, we are able to serve lunch at the lunch seminar!
About the lunch seminar
STS Lunch Seminar runs as an undergraduate course through the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts. We expect it to be attended by a mix of undergraduates, faculty, staff, and graduate students from nearby programs. The seminar meets Fridays from 12-1:15pm EST. This semester, we will be in Lincoln-Filene Hall, Room 201 (the old Rabb Room, as opposed to the new one in Barnum Hall). For an address, directions, and a campus map, click here.
Seminar format: speakers should expect to present for about 35-45 minutes, leaving at least 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Students who are enrolled in the course will be expected to write responses to the presentations each week.
All are welcome, whether enrolled or not, whether Tufts-affiliated or not.