Science Studies Reading Group
All sessions will be held on Mondays, 12:15 - 1:15pm in room 423 Morrill Hall.
Fall 2023 Presentation Schedule
| August 28 |
Suman Seth Re-Writing Race: Robert Knox, Medical Statistics, and Polytelism |
| September 4 |
No SSRG - Labor Day |
| September 11 |
New works in STS |
| September 18 |
Lilly Muller and Rebecca Slayton Cyber threat intelligence: visions of intertwined social and technological order |
| September 25 |
Faculty and Students Themes from Trevor-Fest |
| October 2 |
Jiuheng He Immortal AI and mortal human expertise: how do human Go players think of themselves as a machine |
| October 9 | No SSRG - Fall Break |
| October 16 |
Martin Abbott, Lissette Lorenz, Amy Cheatle Growing Relations, Sowing Methods: Multispecies collaboration on a gardening zine |
| October 23 |
Jaco de Swart MIT STS Postdoc: Cleaning a Dark Matter Detector: Ontologies, Normativities, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments |
| October 30 |
Elexis Williams and Amanda Domingues 4S Hawaii: Practice Sessions |
| November 6 |
Amanda Domingues Ethics and Science: consent and universalism in Archaeology |
| November 13 |
Ron Kline AI as Infrastructure, in the Past and the Present |
| November 20 | Vishal Nyayapathi
TBD |
| November 27 | Faridah Laffan
The Chronology Question - dissertation prospectus and fellowship draft |
| December 4 |
Wanheng Hu Many Worlds of Trustworthy Machines: Technical, Regulatory, and Clinical Logics of Credible Machine Learning Systems in Medicine |