Fall 2024

October 8 (Tues): Joan Robinson (City College, CUNY) – Chapter 4: In Whose hands from The Home Pregnancy Test: Technology, Surveillance, and the Politics of Reproduction

December 13 (Fri): Larry Au (City College, CUNY) – Chapter 4: Hybrid Science from Dreams of Global Science: The Transnational Politics of Chinese Biomedical Innovation

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Spring 2025

All spring meetings will be held from 11 am to 12:30 pm at 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, at the CCNY Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. Please email Joan Robinson ([email protected]) to arrange for building access if you are not affiliated wth CUNY.

January 17: Prash Naidu (City College, CUNY) – Introduction in Sea Change: Sensory Practices and Environmental Relations in Oceania

Feb 28: Abigail Coplin (Vassar College): “Biopolitical Entanglements: The Political Economy of China’s Genetic Data Troves”

March 14: Alyson Spurgas (Trinity College): “The Biopolitics of “Previving”: Disability, Debility, & Reproductive Futurism”

March 28: Emily Vasquez (Wesleyan University): “Beyond Pharmaceutical Logic”

April 25: A.K.M. Skarpelis (Queen’s College, CUNY): Seeing Like a Nazi: Racial Vision and Scientific Selves in German National Socialist Portrait Photographic Practice, 1933-1945

May 2: Ke Li (John Jay College, CUNY)

May 16:  Peter Ore (Queen’s College, CUNY)

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Please contact Joan Robinson and Larry Au if you are interested in presenting your papers at TASKS.