Professor Catherine Jackson became a member of the Holtz Center last fall, because she saw the Center as a “very good fit” between her intellectual interests and other members of the Holtz Center. She looks …
Year: 2019
Pharmacy’s Olufunmilola Abraham Joins the Holtz Center
The Holtz Center for Science and Technologies welcomed Professor Olufunmilola Abraham to its membership last fall. Professor Abraham describes the Center as “well-aligned” with her research in the School of Pharmacy. Her interdisciplinary research interests, allow …
Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students
All spring graduate student awards have been combined into a single application process for spring. You may still apply for more than one award. Please indicate all of your choices on the Graduate Student Awards Cover Sheet and …
Nominations for Holtz Center 2019-20 Visiting Speakers
Holtz Center Members, Students and Friends, The Holtz Center Steering Committee is beginning to plan a year of dynamic, provocative and engaging speaker visits and needs your input. Please nominate speakers for next year’s Visiting Lecturer series. To …
Call for Participants: March 8, Rosemary Collard Workshop
Geographer Rosemary Collard will be visiting UW-Madison on Friday, March 8th to participate in a writing workshop hosted by the Environmental Justice in a Multispecies World research group. We’re looking for participants interested in having their work-in-progress discussed …
Call for 4S Papers: A New/Old Technology for Governance? Questioning Big Data Surveillance
Driven by deterministic assumptions that the mere presence of information leads to positive social transformation (Srinivasan, Finn, & Ames, 2017), the era of big data has arrived (boyd & Crawford, 2012), bringing with it a …
Call for 4S Papers: Diagnosing Death: Critical STS Perspectives
Advances in life-sustaining and monitoring technologies unavoidably problematize our understandings of dying, death and the range of conscious states in between which, increasingly, are defined through the use of technologically mediated assessments (e.g., coma, persistent …