Thanks to everyone who attended the workshop and helped make it such a success!
Here are some pictures:
(Updated: Feb. 8, 2018)
Here is our workshop schedule, with session times and locations. Our workshop is free and open to the public, but if you plan to attend, please register so that we have a good sense of how many people to expect.
The workshop schedule is also available as a PDF.
Questioning Science in Uncertain Times: A Workshop
Thurs. Feb. 15
8:30am Registration
Location: Suzanne M. Scherer Room, 3146 Ohio Union
9:00-11am Contributed papers: The politics of data and democracy
Chair: Monamie Bhadra (Dept. of Comparative Studies, Ohio State)
Participating in Open Data Governance: Visions of Citizen and STS Engagement
Caitlin Wylie, Sean Ferguson, Sharon Ku, Tolu Odumosu (Virginia)
Mobilizing Data for Critical Environmental Impact Assessments: Civic Informatics for Questioning Science in Pennsylvania’s Anti-Pipeline Movement
Kirk Jalbert (FracTracker Alliance, Visiting Research Professor, Drexel)
Exploring the Politics of Sensing Through Participatory Methods
Jennifer Mokos (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Discussant: Tijs van Maasakkers (City and Regional Planning Section, Ohio State)
11:30-1pm Lunch
1-2:30pm Keynote Address: Rayvon Fouché, Purdue University
Rethinking STS and Culture
3:00-4:30pm Contributed papers: Valuing science
Chair: Nancy Jesser (Dept. of Comparative Studies, Ohio State)
A Pragmatic Approach to Intregrating Values and Science
Will Kidder (Albany)
Feminist Philosophy of Science: How can we benefit from science in uncertain times?
Sahar Heydari Fard (Cincinnati)
Discussant: Corey Katz (Center for Ethics and Human Values & Dept. of Philosophy, Ohio State)
5:30-7:30pm Art workshop with Adam Zaretsky, DNA plus Microsushi combo lab (Hopkins Hall, Lobby)
8pm Conference Dinner (for presenters, discussants and chairs)
Location TBD
Fri. Feb. 16
9:00-11am Contributed papers: How to question science?
Location: Maudine Cow Room, 0145D Ohio Union
Chair: Christopher Pincock (Dept. of Philosophy, Ohio State)
With Friends Like These: Trustworthy Science Criticism in Distrustful Times
Benjamin Almassi (Governors State University)
Questioning and inspiring science: The case of Richard Lewontin
Eric Martin (Baylor University)
Consensus Change on Acceptable Uncertainty and its Implications in Doing STS: Lessons from a case study of a conservative movement targeting drug regulation
Sungwoo Ahn (Virginia Tech)
Discussant: David Horn (Dept. of Comparative Studies, Ohio State)
11am-12pm Artist talk and discussion: Adam Zaretsky
Location: Cartoon Room 1, 3145 Ohio Union
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:45pm Contributed papers: Questioning expertise
Chair: Nic Flores (Dept. of Comparative Studies, Ohio State)
Active Ignorance and the Rhetoric of Biological Race Realism
Nora Berenstain (Tennesee-Knoxville)
Reasonable Doubt: Deliberation, Unreliable Experts, and the Problem of Public Ignorance
Elizabeth Chatterjee and Greg Lusk (Chicago)
Discussant: Becky Mansfield (Dept. of Geography, Ohio State)
3-4:30 Keynote Address: Shobita Parthasarathy (University of Michigan)
The Role of STS in the Post-Truth Era: Doubling Down on the Politics of Knowledge
4:30 Concluding remarks