Science Studies Reading Group

All sessions will be held on Mondays, 12:15 - 1:15pm in room 423 Morrill Hall.

Fall 2025 Presentation Schedule

August 25First Day of Classes
September 1No SSRG (Labor Day)
September 8

Audrey Baker

What's at Stake with Cell-Grown Steak?

September 15

Ben Collier

The Edinburgh and Cornell Schools of STS

September 22

Yu Wang

Data Gain, Deaf Gain: The Making of Occupational Noise-induced Hearing Loss in Post-Socialist China

September 29

Stephen Hilgartner

Chats Between Bots: A Real-World Experiment in Writing, Recursion, and Reflexivity

October 6

Owen Marshall

How the Quartz Crucible Became the Crystal Singing Bowls 

October 13No SSRG (Fall Break)
October 20

Jingya Guo

Between Natural Variation and Medical Concern: The Contested Medicalization of Menstrual Irregularity during the Han-Song Period in China

October 27

Alena Zhang

Circulated Paper

November 3

Liang Wu

More-Than-Nonhuman? Seafaring Voyages, Social Infrastructures, and Social Logistics of the International Shipping Industry

November 10

Malte Ziewitz

Spurious Explanations: Sociology as Parody in Consumer Credit Scoring

November 17

Ranjit Singh

AI, Science, and the Future of Knowing

November 24

Rogelio Scott-Insua

The biogenetic conscription of Oedipus: Kinship, psychoanalysis, and neuromuscular dystrophies in Brazil

December 1

Elexis Trinity

Girls Is Playas Too: Mermaids, Missionaries, and Ladies with Spears

December 8

Rebecca Slayton

Hackers

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