Where Does Science Live?: Rebridging Trust Between Science, Technology & Society (STS)
Lochlann Jain, PhD | Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Tuesday, April 29 at 6 p.m.
Saints Tekawitha and Serra Hall, Room 215
While we are living in an era of unprecedented scientific breakthroughs, public trust in science is at an all-time low. Join us in our exploration of how understanding the social, cultural, and historical contexts of STEM–through an emerging field called Science, Technology, & Society (often referred to as STS)–can pave the way to restoring trust and forging a more collaborative future.
About the speaker:
Lochlann Jain, PhD is an award-winning author and Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, Visiting Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, and a Research Affiliate at VIAD, University of Johannesburg. His work aims to unsettle some of the deeply held assumptions about objectivity that underlie the history of medical research. Jain is the author of Injury (Princeton UP: 2006); Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (UC Press: 2013); and a book of drawings, Things that Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity (U of Toronto Press: 2019).
This event counts for one point in Compass, Passport and Connect.