BIO[X]: New Iterations of Lively Bodies
SCIENCE STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Friday, February 23 / 9AM - 5PM / Humanities 210

This conference will provide a location for advanced graduate students to present their research in Science Studies and establish networks across the Northern California UC campuses.

The theme of the conference, Bio [X], stands for interactions of the biological, biosocial, biopolitical, bioethical, and biocapital. Our exploration of Bio[X] aims to address the scientific making of bodies and meanings that affect articulations of bodies and their materialities, mobilities, and tangibility. New iterations of lively bodies may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: the role of “new” technologies in biological practices, the movement and constitution of whole and partial bodies across international and national boundaries, human/non-human determinations and relations, apparatuses of information development and codification, questions of temporality and material agency in biological practice, and governance and justice in the making of bodies and bodily practice.

The conference will consist of the following panels, each with a faculty respondent:

_ MOBILE BODIES AND TRANS-REGIONALITIES
_ TRANS, SPECIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES
_ BIOCAPITAL, GOVERNANCE, AND JUSTICE
_ CLASSIFICATION PRACTICES, ONTOLOGIES, AND ETHICS
_ AFFECTS & EPISTEMES
_ THE POLITICS OF LIVELINESS

Download a copy of the conference program

Please contact Astrid Schrader (schrader@ucsc.edu) or Mary Weaver (mweaver@ucsc.edu) with questions or comments.

Sponsored by the Science Studies Research Cluster, the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and the University of California Science, Technology, and Society Network

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