2022-23: The STS Reading Group is currently on a break! However, please join us on March 23rd for this talk:

Contact me at heather.latimer@ubc.ca for info.

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

STS approaches the study of science and technology from perspectives and intellectual traditions associated with the humanities and social sciences. STS challenges deeply entrenched ideas about the autonomy of science and technology, encouraging the development of innovative cross-disciplinary approaches to the interplay between technoscience and society, politics, culture, materiality, and history.

In our inaugural year (2019-2020), the STS Reading Group was convened by Heather Latimer (Gender & Women’s Studies) and Natalie Forssman (School of Engineering), 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 session included several guest speakers