Spring 2018 Schedule

Jan 19

 Grace Kim
(MIT HASTS)		 Using Microbiology to Restore Art and Cultural Heritage

Jan 26

 Ben Wurgaft
(MIT Anthro)		 Laboratory-Grown Meat and the Future of Food

Feb 2

 [no meeting – see Feb 14]

Feb 9

 Deborah Levine
(Providence College Health Policy)		 Weight Loss, Biometrics, and Citizenship in U.S. History
Weds Feb 14 at 3:15 Cathy O’Neil
(mathbabe.org)		 Algorithms and Their Discontents — special location: Alumnae Lounge

Feb 16

 Jean-Michel Molenaar
(Tufts Biomed Eng)		 Maker Culture

Feb 23

 Floor Van de Velde
(Tufts/SMFA Sculpture)		 Computation, Art, and Creativity

Mar 2

 Stéphanie Pache
(Lausanne/Harvard Hist Sci)		 Gender, Violence, and Psychology: A Feminist History

Mar 9

 Dwai Banerjee
(MIT STS)
Pharmaceutical Rights: The Struggle for Cancer Drugs in Contemporary India

Mar 16

 Damien Williams
(Virginia Tech STS)
Experts, Algorithms, and Bias

Mar 23

 [spring break]

Mar 30

 Mary Gray
(MSR Social Sciences)		 What STS Can Teach Us about the Future of Work in the Shadow of AI

Apr 6

 [no meeting – see Apr 9]
Mon Apr 9 at 5pm Michelle Jones
(NYU American Studies)		 Infrastructures of Imprisonment: Invisible Women and the Carceral State

Apr 13

 Tina Eliassi-Rad
(Northeastern CS/Network Science)		 Just Machine Learning

Apr 20

 Moya Bailey
(Northeastern CSGS/WGSS)		 Black Feminist Health Science Studies

Apr 27

 Adam Leeds
(Harvard International & Area Studies)		 Technology and Politics in the Soviet Union