2017-18 Colloquium Series

October 2, 2017

Science Studies Program Meeting

SSP faculty and students only

October 9, 2017

Rebecca Herzig

Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Bates College

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Banu Subramaniam

Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

UMass Amherst

(Be)laboring Biopolitics: Genealogies of Labor in STS

Labor has been and continues to be an indispensable category of analysis for understanding asymmetrical social relations in and across post-industrial settings, as evidenced by the proliferation of new terms deployed by activists and scholars: “affective” labor, “immaterial” labor, “digital” labor, and so forth. In this talk, we trace the recent advent of a concept alternately referred to as “biological,” “biomedical,” or “clinical” labor, and consider how it might be used to rethink the politics of academic labor.

October 16, 2017

Lilly Irani

Assistant Professor, Communication & Science Studies

UC San Diego

Entrepreneurial Citizenship: Promising Knowledge and the Subsumption of Hope

“How do you get acquainted with 4 billion people?” This is a question posed by a “clean water" NGO that partnered with DevDesign, the studio where I conducted ethnographic fieldwork for 14 months. In this talk, I explain the rise of entrepreneurial citizenship in India — a call to citizens to take up the developmental work of a liberalizing state. I then turn to the work of DevDesign as they combined ethnography and design to produce not facts, but “opportunities" for global health public-private partnership. I outline how the entrepreneurial ethos and mode of development subsumes hope and disciplines development. The talk draws from my forthcoming book Innovators and their Others (Princeton University Press).

October 23, 2017

Robert Johnson

Professor of History, College of Letters and Sciences, Social Sciences

National University

The Titanic and the Stokehold:  Fossil Capital, Climate Change, and the Sociology of Collapse

The RMS Titanic was modernity's premier achievement, the purest symbol of what we might call fossil capitalism before it sunk to the bottom of the seafloor in a spectacular and nonlinear example of technological and social collapse.  This talk uses the RMS Titanic as a case study to exemplify the starkly stratified world of pleasure and risk, of Turkish steam baths and sweaty stokeholds, of hungry miners and engorged elite passengers bound to one another in a fossil economy, on the brink of collapse. 

October 30, 2017

Rafael Nuñez

Professor, Cognitive Science

UC San Diego

Does Cognitive Science (still) exist?

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1980s brought the exciting prospect of investigating "the mind" scientifically, in a well-integrated multidisciplinary field with a coherent subject matter, common research questions, complementary methods and theoretical developments (largely motivated by the unifying tenet that "cognition is computation" and that the mind is a computational entity). Over the decades, however, failures in some areas (e.g., classic artificial intelligence), difficulties in integrating certain domains (e.g., anthropology), and developments in new directions (e.g., neuroscience), has led this "common" effort to become a rather eclectic group of academic practices that no longer seem to have clear common goals, research questions, methods, and theories. Contrary to enthusiastic initial predictions, after the creation of the first department of cognitive science at UC San Diego in the 80's, only a handful of other departments have been created since; cognitive neuroscientists and many other cognition-related practitioners do not tend to publish in "cognitive science" journals; and, importantly, in many universities and research institutions around the world, exciting and successful multidisciplinary cognition/mind-related work seems to be taking place outside (or without the need) of "cognitive science". In this talk I will analyze the question of whether "cognitive science" (singular) still exists as an academic/intellectual field with a well-defined and coherent subject matter. To inform this question, and based on a graduate seminar I conducted last Spring, I will analyze material involving the history of relevant ideas and theories, professional practices, methods, publication patterns and venues, academic and professional institutions, and undergraduate and (the few) graduate "cognitive science" curricula, among others.

November 6, 2017

Akos Rona-Tas

Professor, Sociology

UC San Diego

Knowing What We Don’t: Uncertainty in Food Risk Science in the United States and the European Union

The relationship between scientific knowledge and uncertainty in science has been a central question in risk analysis. There have been several conceptualizations of uncertainty but most have been normative efforts to construct an ontology based on theoretical considerations. There have been few empirical attempts to build and test such an ontology through textual analysis. Methods assisted by machine learning we do not know of.

We developed empirically an ontology to investigate uncertainty in risk assessment in food safety, comparing the EU and the US, and the two main domains of food safety: biohazards and contaminants over the period 2000-2010 with a four year grant from the French National Science Foundation (ANR), and support from the US FDA, and EFSA. The ontology gauges expressions of uncertainty in two ways: one classifies the content of the uncertainty expressed in the documents, the other looks for stylistic clues of judgment. We built a large database of English language risk assessment documents issued by the agencies responsible for food safety, double coded by humans using our ontology. We also used machine-learning algorithms to reproduce and correct our coding and to test its internal consistency. (http://www6.inra.fr/holyrisk )

 We ask four questions: Is scientific uncertainty different in the US and the EU? Are there different epistemic cultures of perceiving uncertainties across different subfields of science? Do uncertainties decrease with more research? And, finally, do policy makers act differently when scientific evidence is weak?

November 13, 2017

Kristopher Nelson

PhD Candidate, History & Science Studies

UC San Diego

Reform & Resistance: Protecting the Private by Policing the Public (1860s-1960s)

In this talk, a subset of a larger look at the historical impact of technology on American privacy law, I will examine the results of several new technologies (telephonic wiretaps, surgical sterilization, and contraception) on the desire and the reality of attempts to use governmental power to protect the “sacred domestic home” by increasing regulation and control of the public sphere—and the fuzzy and impermeable boundaries between these two supposedly separate zones. I will look at the rise of such attempts (including some of the Victorian and Progressive moral reformers and medical experts involved) and then the establishment of new restrictions on these interventions (which also invoked the home and family as a justification), ending with the Supreme Court cases of Griswold, Katz, and Berger.

November 20, 2017

James Delbourgo

Associate Professor, History of Science & Atlantic World

Rutgers University

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

In 1759 London’s British Museum opened its doors for the first time – the first free national public museum in the world. But how did it come into being? This talk recounts the overlooked yet colorful life of the museum’s founder: Sir Hans Sloane. Born in 1660, Sloane amassed a fortune as a London society physician, became president of the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians, and assembled an encyclopedic collection of specimens and objects – the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time – which became the foundation of the British Museum. Slavery and empire played crucial roles in his career. Sloane worked in Jamaica as a plantation doctor and made collections throughout the island with help from planters and slaves. On his return to London, he married a Jamaican sugar heiress, adding to his wealth and his ability to collect. He then established a network of agents to supply him with objects of all kinds f rom Asia, the Americas and beyond: plants and animals, books and manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin, the head of an Arctic walrus, slaves’ banjos, magical amulets, Buddhist shrines, copies of the Qur’ān and more. The little-known life of one of the Enlightenment’s most controversial luminaries provides a new story about the beginnings of public museums through their origins in encyclopedic universalism, imperialism and slavery. The lecture is based on Delbourgo’s new biography of Sloane entitled Collecting the World, published by Penguin in the UK and the Belknap Press in the US, which has been named Book of the Week in The Guardian, The Times (London), the Daily Mail and The Week (UK).

November 27, 2017

Arthur Petersen

Professor of Science, Technology and Public Policy

University College London

Values in Science Advice: The Case of the IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviews scientific literature on climate change in an attempt to make scientific knowledge about climate change accessible to a wide audience that includes policy makers. Documents produced by the IPCC are subject to negotiations in plenary sessions, which can be frustrating for the scientists and government delegations involved, who all have stakes in getting their respective interests met. This seminar draws on the work of Bruno Latour in order to analyze the role of different values in science advice and the need for ‘diplomacy’ between them.

December 4, 2017

Ramya Rajagopalan

Visiting Scholar, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Testing DNA: Pharmacogenomics and the Pursuit of Precision Medicine

In the 1950s, medical researchers began to postulate that genetic differences might explain patients’ variable responses to prescription drugs. Recently, the search for such “pharmacogenomic” differences has become a central vein of inquiry in American biomedicine, supported by the development of DNA sequencing and analysis tools. These have underpinned an emerging enterprise of “precision medicine,” which aims to decipher and use each patient’s unique DNA sequence to tailor health care and treatment. Drawing on fieldwork in research and hospital laboratories, I examine the knowledge-making and evidentiary practices through which biomedical researchers have attempted to frame and extract meaning and value from genome sequence data, as part of their efforts to make DNA variation useful to routine clinical practice. I use as a case study the blood thinner warfarin, a decades old drug, which was revived as an experimental object of study and transformed into a torchbearer for pharmacogenomics. I show how, enmeshed in the sociotechnical, political, and regulatory contexts of biomedicine, the epistemic negotiations that sought to render genomic data about warfarin into clinically actionable information have instead been complicated by contested views of DNA’s predictive and economic value for routine clinical decisions.

December 11, 2017

No Colloquium

Finals Week

January 8, 2018

Science Studies Program Meeting

SSP faculty and students only

January 15, 2018

No Colloquium

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 22, 2018

Allen Tran, Anthropology'12

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Bucknell University

Writing the self and cognitive-behavioral therapy in post-reform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

This paper examines the role of writing technologies and practices in the construction of emerging forms of subjectivity and affect in psychological counseling centers in post-reform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Popular interest in affective life and the psychological sciences in Vietnam has increased dramatically since marketizing reforms were implemented in 1986. The earliest psychotherapeutic services in Ho Chi Minh City provided concrete and instrumental advice and encouraged proper morality according to established work and family roles. However, the growing influence of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has made counseling centers the site of an intensive reconfiguration of the interior self. While many clients prefer CBT’s customizable focus on problematic behaviors over psychoanalysis’ more comprehensive approach, the very work of self-compartmentalization requires a broader questioning of personal and cultural identity as counselors negotiate the cultural forms that assist and resist the application and internalization of CBT principles. The writing practices involved in CBT techniques and "homework" cultivate self-reflexive identities for the sake of being recognizable to others, especially other similarly self-reflexive individuals. 

January 29, 2018

Elena Aronova'12

Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Earthquake Prediction, Biological Clocks, and the Cold War Psy-Ops: Using Animals as Seismic Sensors in the 1970s California

A familiar image of seismology in the 1970s is that of a field focused on global studies of the earth’s deep interior via sophisticated instruments and transnational networks of seismological stations.  Against this backdrop, this essay offers a complementing story, highlighting the significance of local circumstances and disciplinary agendas that were contingent not only on the transformations in the geophysical sciences during the Cold War but on the concurrently changing biological sciences. Using two examples of the studies of unusual animal behavior prior to earthquakes conducted under the auspices of the US Geological Survey in the West Coast of the United States in the 1970s, this essay examines a variety of motivations behind these studies, which tagged earthquake prediction to the concerns over the use of seismological data, a pioneering research on biological rhythms, and a troubled military brain studies.

February 5, 2018

Harun Küçük'12

Assistant Professor, History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Leisureless Science: Inflation and Genres of Natural Knowledge in Seventeenth Century Istanbul

Monetary distress at the medrese altered the meaning of natural science in Istanbul. The Price Revolution of the sixteenth century reduced the purchasing power of the Ottoman professoriate to one tenth of what it was in the early sixteenth century. This led to a number of changes in the disciplinary structure of natural knowledge. In the seventeenth century, Istanbul produced no anatomy, no theoretical astronomy, no natural philosophy and no textbooks for teaching natural knowledge – disciplines that attach to schooling and to leisure. While theoretical texts that historians most commonly associate with Islamic science almost completely disappeared in the seventeenth century, the number of texts that addressed naturalistic practices rose to unprecedented levels. Istanbul became the main producer of almanacs, pharmaceutical texts and works dealing with gems and metals in the entire empire. This state of affairs brings up a host of related questions: What did it mean to practice science in the complete absence of theory? Who were the producers of knowledge in fields where no one was committed, even nominally, to producing natural knowledge for the sake of knowledge? How do we periodize Istanbul’s practical naturalism in the absence of the very genres that often inform our periodization of early modern science? In this talk, I hope to broach these questions through a comparative overview of the social and economic constitution of scientific fields in seventeenth-century Istanbul.

February 12, 2018

Alan Richardson

Professor, Distinguished University Scholar, Philosophy

University of British Columbia

The Social Function of Scientific Philosophy: Logical Empiricism and Politics

One of the issues that has arisen in the re-evaluation of logical empiricism is whether logical empiricism could be said to have a political project embedded within it. This issue is confused by the inchoateness and polysemy of the notion of "political" within it. I propose not to untie but to cut through this Gordian knot by using J.D. Bernal's notion of "the social function of science" as a resource for interpreting logical empiricism and asking after the social function for scientific philosophy one can find argued for in the work of Rudolf Carnap and, especially, Hans Reichenbach.

February 19, 2018 

No Colloquium

President's Day

February 26, 2018

Steve Epstein

Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities

Northwestern University

The New Truths of Sex: Operationalizing Sexual Health

In recent decades, the idea that people may aspire to something called “sexual health” has traveled widely in both professional and lay domains. My book project examines the rise of new conceptions and formal definitions of sexual health in the 1970s; the remarkable proliferation and diversification of sexual health meanings and projects beginning in the 1990s; and the implications of these new ways of conjoining sexuality and health for science, politics, and selfhood. My talk draws on material from a chapter of the book that considers scientific and bureaucratic projects that seek to operationalize the concept of sexual health in formal ways—in particular, to measure, standardize, survey, and classify it. I focus on one salient example involving the remaking of diagnostic categories related to sexuality in the forthcoming eleventh edition of the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases. The example demonstrates both how sexual politics affects classification practices and how sexual truth-making is transformed by its conjunction with the imperative of health.

March 5, 2018

Nancy Cartwright

Distinguished Professor, UC San Diego and Professor of Philosophy, Durham University

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Lucy Allais

Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy, UC San Diego and Professor, Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand

Medical trials: Some Methodological and Some Ethical Issues

Nancy Cartwright on Methodology: What’s wrong with pragmatic trials?

In principle nothing is wrong with pragmatic trials. Here is a typical account of what they are and what they are supposed to do for us: ‘[P]ragmatic trials …  ask “we now know it can work, but how well does it work in real world clinical practice?”’ So, pragmatic trials allow patients of different ages and with co-morbidities, clinicians with less familiarity administering the treatment or who provide less thorough monitoring, etc. The trouble comes with the concept ‘how well does it work?’. Positive results in trials, no matter how well-conducted, warrant that the treatment has worked on some members of the study population. They cannot warrant that it works in general nor what other factors help or hinder. Similarly, pragmatic trials can warrant that the treatment worked in some particular set of ‘real world’ settings, not that it works in ‘real world clinical practice’.  So, what can they do? This talk will explore what we can and cannot learn from pragmatic trials and how to milk them for information about what factors matter for treatment success.

Lucy Allais on Ethical Issues:

The requirement to secure informed consent from subjects in clinical trials is widely regarded as a necessary condition of trials being ethically permissible; however, some philosophers have argued that the standards of increasingly long and complicated ‘informed consent’ forms are likely to secure less informed consent rather than more. We interviewed participants in a non-inferiority study of tenofovir to evaluate how much they understood of the ‘informed consent’ form they signed, as well as to evaluate their motives for participating in the study in the light of principles governing what counts as undue pressure to participate. I will briefly discuss these results.

March 12, 2018

Aaron Panofsky

Associate Professor, Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology

UCLA

When Genetics Challenges a Racist's Identity

Since the advent in the mid-2000s of genetic ancestry tests (GATs) available directly to consumers, researchers have considered what their effects would be on individuals’ conceptions of their own identities and their understanding of race and ethnicity. Studies have focused especially on the impact on African Americans and more recently on differences in reception among individuals from diverse backgrounds. This study focuses on a different population: white nationalists posting and discussing GAT results on the web forum Stormfront. This is a self-selected population that ostensibly has strong ideological commitments to notions of racial distinctiveness, purity, and hierarchy and where genetic information might put individual identity at risk. Despite their essentialist views of race, Stormfront posters infrequently use GAT revelations as occasions for individuals to denigrate each other’s identities. Instead they expend considerable energy and employ considerable ingenuity to repair individuals’ identities by rejecting or reinterpreting GAT results. At the same time, however, some Stormfront posters use the particular relationships made visible by GATs to re-imagine the collective boundaries and constitution of white nationalism. This combination represents a particular twist on the “affiliative self-fashioning” observed in other populations’ uses of GATs. Stormfront posters do not interpret genetics in the same way professionals do, but their interpretations cannot be dismissed as simply ignorant.

March 19, 2018 

No Colloquium

Finals Week

March 26, 2018

Spring Break

April 2, 2018

Science Studies Program Meeting

SSP faculty and students only

April 9, 2018

Don Everhart

PhD Candidate, Sociology & Science Studies, UC San Diego

Procedures and their problems in routine laboratory work

A molecular biology laboratory provides a perspicuous setting for the study of how lab members negotiate their experiments and other everyday tasks. In this study, I explore situations related to instruction, similarity and difference, and methods of interpretation in the lab. The inhabitants of these situations make use of their embodied, worldly familiarity with one another, their materials, and the instruments of the laboratory as they figure out how to proceed with routine laboratory tasks and novel experiments. In exploring cases where lab members adjust their courses and trajectories of action, I attempt to further expand how ethnomethodologists and sociologists of science think about instructed action and science as a socio-material process.

April 16, 2018

Michael Hardimon

Professor, Philosophy, UC San Diego

The Place of Race in Race

'Race' in the first position refers to “minimalist race.”  'Race' in the second position refers to “Race, more broadly construed.” Minimalist race is race conceived of as groups exhibiting patterns of visible physical features corresponding to geographical ancestry. Race, more broadly construed includes racialist race and social race.  The concept of racialist race is the empirically refuted, traditional, pernicious, hierarchical and essentialist race concept, commonly but mistakenly taken to be the race concept. The concept of social race (closed compound) captures the idea of race as a social construction. It is the concept of a social group that is taken to be a racialist race. So, the question is:  What is the place of minimalist race in race, more broadly construed?

April 23, 2018

Brynna Jacobson

PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC San Diego

Geoengineering’s Move from the Margins to Mainstream: The Politics of Representation and the Construction of Legitimacy

The entrenchment of certain discursive strategies can ameliorate public reception and political support for contested technologies, influencing the future prospects of the technology.  Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, is a unique example of a contested emerging technology.  It stands out in the degree to which both its scope of possibilities and its premise are characterized by global existential risks.  Despite controversy due to inherent and perceived risks, this field has been shifting toward mainstream consideration. Drawing upon the concepts “politics of representation” and “the politics of unsustainability,” this research applies critical discourse analysis to three genres of geoengineering discourse: science policy reports, journalism, and Congressional hearings. In particular, discursive strategies and trends recurrent in these genres construct notions of normalcy, legitimacy, and imperative around the notion of geoengineering.  The three genres ultimately reinforce one another in reflecting and advancing the mainstreaming of geoengineering.

April 30, 2018

Dan C. Hallin

Professor, Communication, UC San Diego

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Charles Briggs 

Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Boundary-Work and Biomediatization in News Coverage of Pharma and Biosecurity

Social research on contemporary biomedicine often makes reference to the role of media and communication.  Adele Clarke and her colleagues, in their well-known 2003 article on "biomedicalization" cite the "growing heterogeneity of production, distribution and access to biomedical knowledges" as a central part of the process by which the social organization of medicine is transformed and its cultural impact widened.  But few works in STS or the anthropology and sociology of medicine--or, for that matter in communication--actually look in detail at the process of what we would call "biomedicalization"--the joint production of biomedical objects and subjects by the media and by biomedical professionals and many other actors who interact with the media in this process.   Building on our book Making Health Public: How News Coverage is Remaking Media, Medicine and Contemporary Life, we explore the process of biomediatization here through two examples:  news coverage of pharma and biotech, and reporting of the flu pandemic of 2009 and the current flu season.  In developing these examples we draw, among other works, on Joseph Dumit's Drugs for Life and Andrew Lakoff's work on biosecurity. 

May 7, 2018 

J. Rogers Hollingsworth

Professor Emeritus, History, University of Wisconsin

Creativity and Excellence in the Basic Biomedical Sciences of American Research Universities 

This presentation provides an analysis of the rise and decline of excellence and creativity  of American research universities in the basic biomedical sciences since 1925.  This is the first systematic ranking of the quality of biomedical research over a long period of time.  It is quite unlike most recent rankings, such as those by the U S News and World Report, the Financial Times, etc.

Most of the data used for this analysis was compiled by the American Council of Education and the National Research Council, with the cooperation of numerous universities. The presentation will describe six micro-patterns into which the ranked universities fall, and offer an explanation as to the distribution of universities into these patterns.

Hollingsworth is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where he directs a small research program. Since 1996, he has been a visiting scholar at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, and at UC San Diego in the Institute for Non-Linear Science and the BioCircuits Institute.  He is the author/editor of 20 scholarly books.

May 14, 2018 

Rebecca Hardesty

PhD Candidate, Communication & Science Studies, UC San Diego

Let’s Get Real: Analyzing Ontological Commitments in Modeling Practice

STS’s critical project of revealing the local and situated nature of science has productively challenged the notion that scientific claims are disconnected from the messy social contexts in which they are made. Through doing so, scholars have illuminated how scientific work and knowledge can legitimize and sanitize oppressive institutions and practices. By using localist approaches, scholars have shown how it is erroneous to think that the natural sciences have ultimate authority on the nature of reality. However, recently, groups outside of the academy that are using similar methods of critique as those in STS have gained increased prominence. Some of these groups include those denying climate change and those opposing vaccination. Like some STS scholars, these groups have used tactics such as emphasizing the capitalistic context in which these scientific enterprises are embedded as well as questioning the taken-for-granted justifiability of scientific knowledge. In light of this, a question emerges: how can STS distinguish their projects and methods from those with whom they disagree? This talk seeks to provide one possible approach to address this problem. In this talk, I will advocate a kind of realism that enables one to take seriously the ontological commitments of practitioners and illuminate how they are significant features of scientific practice. This approach is inspired by philosopher Michael Weisberg’s conception of working at the “epistemic level” of analysis, which is an attempt to provide analytical categories related to, but distinct from, members’ own categories for the purpose of understanding how the members’ practices work.

I will deploy this approach by analyzing a case of how a laboratory of neurobiologists use mouse models to represent phenomena in humans and, thereby, make claims about reality. My focus will be on how this lab reveals its ontological commitments and justifies its claims about reality. Crucially, the foundational way in which the lab makes these claims is through their material acts of manipulating mice in ways that renders them as behavioral, neural, and genetic models for the purpose of understanding cognition in Down syndrome. By taking seriously the lab’s ontological commitments, I will show that the acts in which a lab member materially engages with the mice (e.g., dissection, culturing neurons, etc.) are contemporaneous with their acts of defining their representational capacity. I will conclude by reflecting on the role of ontological commitments in STS and its methodologies.

May 21, 2018 

Benoit Berthelier

Postdoctoral Scholar, Transnational Korean Studies, UC San Diego

Computing Power: The Transnational Politics of Digital Technology in North Korea

Discussions of digital technology in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are generally limited to the topics of cyberwarfare or the state’s attempts to control Internet access and digital media flows. In the first case, technology is framed within a process of securitization which constructs the DPRK as a threat. In the second one, techno-optimism and regime change rhetoric converge in a depiction of the socialist state as a relic of the past soon to be toppled by a wave of digital modernity unfurling from the “free world”. This talk offers to question the assumptions and the Cold War manichaeism informing these perspectives, and to historicize the development of digital technology in the DPRK in order to assess its economic, political and cultural impact.

The first part of the talk maps the transnational networks in which early North Korean computer science was embedded. Highlighting the complex assemblage of intra-bloc conflicts, technology transfer regulations, competing business interests, and developmental nationalism that shaped North Korean computing, it questions the methodological value of concepts such as importation, innovation and adaptation for the history of technology in the global periphery.

The second part of the talk focuses on the interaction between state ideology and digital technology, from the relationship between computers and economic planning to the recent confluence between capitalistic entrepreneurial discourse and the national ideology of self-reliance (Juche) in the government’s support of technology ventures.

May 28, 2018

No Colloquium

Memorial Day

May 31, 2018

Student Choice Speaker: Ruha Benjamin

Assistant Professor, African American Studies, Princeton University

The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

June 4, 2018

OPEN