Science, Knowledge, and Technology Workshop (SKAT)

Workshop | ongoing

The Trust Collaboratory hosts the Science, Knowledge, and Technology workshop (SKAT) that gathers social scientists interested in how knowledge is created, distributed, drawn upon, and collectively understood. The workshop brings together diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the social studies of SKAT. These include sociology of expertise, sociology of professions, organizational analysis, actor-network theory, medical sociology, and science studies, among other approaches. The workshop is primarily designed to assist advanced graduate students with their ongoing research projects. The workshop aims to expose participants to original approaches to social studies of science and technology and expose students to solutions to common challenges of academic work. We aim to provide a supportive environment offering feedback and advice on all aspects of academic work, from devising and conducting research to producing written texts (grant applications, dissertation proposals, and publications).

Coordinators: Anna Thieser & Dian Sheng

Workshop Schedule 2024-25

  • Industrial Distraction
    Zoom | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • It’s hard to say good-bye: Humanoid morality and the problem of closing in human-robot interaction
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • The Implications of Digital Platform Mediation for Qualitative Research
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Data Values: Behavioral Data and the New Epistemology of Psychiatry
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • When Whiteness Fails: Mixed-Race Germans and Conflicting Ontologies of Race in Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Evaluative Expertise in the Making: Understanding the Proliferation, Power, and Resilience of Rankings
    Knox Hall 207 | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • The political economy of surveillance-for-hire: Israel’s military-industrial complex and the making of a private cyber-attack market
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Failure by Design - The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning (Book Talk)
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Beyond Ethos: Reconstructing Morality of Scientists
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • The Hack and Leak and the Rise of a New Hacktivist Tactic
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM