The STS Reading Group is now part of UBC Okanagan’s STS Collective

The UBC Okanagan STS Reading Group ran from 2019-2023 and was intended to bring together faculty and graduate students across the disciplines whose research and teaching is related to Science and Technology Studies (STS).

In our inaugural year (2019-2020), the STS Reading Group was convened by Heather Latimer (Gender & Women’s Studies) and Natalie Forssman (Anthropology), and focused on texts that challenged the naturalization of Kinship, as defined through hereditary, biological relations and legal regimes. In 2020-2021 our theme was Nature/Artifice and the group was led by Heather Latimer and  Margaret Carlyle (History & Sociology). For 2021-2022 our theme was Reproductive Technologies and the group sessions included several guest speakers , such as:

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