Workshop Schedule

(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

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