CSISP Salon
CSISP Salon is an ongoing event where CSISP members meet to debate issues within the field of sociology of science and technology and beyond. This year we explore devices, images and futures. In line with this theme, the CSISP Salon aims to accompany texts with context in the form of films, news articles, exhibitions etc.
The Salon takes place three times a term. We meet in seminar room WT1204 in the top floor of Warmington Tower. Texts are available to collect from room WT 1113.
The next meeting is:
CSISP Salon (On Scale):Wednesday December 14th, 5.00pm.
As the nights draw in, the CSISP salon continues its exploration of the practical and ethical implications of doing scale. In this session we will be showing Spiral Jetty, a 1970 film by Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt, and putting this into discussion with articles by Cindi Katz and Michelle Murphy.
If you missed the last Salon you can read a re-telling of the on the all new CSISP blog. To attend and obtain the texts please email t.nadim or j.deville.
For more information contact Ann-Christina Lange sop01al (@gold.ac.uk) or Tahani Nadim t.nadim (@gold.ac.uk)
Numbers Reading Group
The 'Numbers' reading group starts again this autumn term, with two sessions
planned between now and the winter vacation. The first session was at
5:30-7pm on Thursday, 3rd November in WT1204, and focused on two texts
that re-examined Garbriel Tarde's work, in particular his theories of
quantification and contagiontology. The second session will be 5:30-7pm on
Thursday, 8th December in WT1204, and will examine recent debates on
metrics and metrification within two different spaces, academia and social
media platforms.
THE SECOND SESSION
Dear CSISP
We would like to invite you to the next session of the Numbers Reading Group
which will take place next week Thursday 8th December from 5.30-7.00pm
in WT 1204. The focus will be on metrics and rankings and we will be
exploring their use in different spaces and in relation to concepts of
ordinal numbers.
Full details of the readings are on the announcement. All postgraduate and
PhD students and staff are welcome to join us.
If you have any questions about this reading group, please get in touch with Liam or
Carolin
best wishes
Liam & Carolin
Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Reading Group on HIV and Innovation (PIRGHI)
The group meets approximately every six weeks, at Goldsmiths between 3 - 4.30 pm on a Tuesday afternoon and discusses texts proposed by members of the group and/or individual members work in progress. Students currently undertaking a PhD on the topic of HIV are very welcome to participate.
For more information please contact Ulla McKnight u.mcknight@gold.ac.uk
Current membership:
Name: Sara Paparini
PhD title: HIV and Discrimination: an intersectional approach
Affiliation: School for Policy Studies, Faculty of Social Science and Law, University of Bristol; Terrence Higgins Trust
Name: Chrysanthi Papoutsi
PhD title: Integration of Electronic Patient Records and Information Privacy in HIV Clinics
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Name: Dr Shema Tariq
PhD title: Experience and outcome of pregnancy among women living with HIV in the UK: impact of ethnicity and African region of origin
Affiliation: MRC Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, City University London
PhD Title: Fieldworkers, 'ethics' and the medical research process in Western Kenya
Affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Name: Agata Pacho
Masters Dissertation Title: Lost in translation: HIV treatment and prevention in Polish context.
Affiliation: Goldsmiths College. Research will be conducted in cooperation with major Polish organization, National Centre AIDS, as well as with charity based associations.
PhD Dissertation title: Messiness in Practice: Pregnancy and HIV within the clinic.
Affiliation: Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London, Sociology Department
Name: Fadhila Mazanderani
PhD Thesis title (provisional): Information as care: reconnecting internet use, HIV and health
Affiliation: University of Oxford
PhD Working Title: The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides: towards a feminist imagination embodied
Affiliation Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London
Name: Richard Boulton
PhD Working Title: Children Living With HIV
Affliliation: Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London
Affiliation: Birkbeck University of London
Name: Lucy Stackpool-Moore
PhD Title: NARRATIVES OF HUMAN RIGHTS:Universal Concepts Brought into Focus Through Lenses of Life Stories'
Affiliation: SOAS and Birkbeck University of London
Name: Andy Guise
Affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Public Health and Policy.