Once again, congratulations to the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) on their J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA)! TRU member and Technology Lead Matthew Price traveled to Portland, Oregon to accept the award on July 26, 2017. For immediate release, June 2017/Society of American Archivists: “CHICAGO—The Environmental Data…
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Michelle Murphy’s book, The Economization of Life (Duke University Press 2017). This is Michelle’s third single-authored book but only her first launch! To kick-off the TRU’s 2017-18 events, many of her peers and collaborators want to celebrate her latest achievement, and to honor her as a colleague,…
The TRU is excited to announce that it is joining the shared space of the Semaphore Research Cluster on the 7th floor of Robarts. The TRU’s physical lab space will have a shared work table, 4 carrels for graduate students, white boards, and an office. We are grateful to the generosity of Semaphore in making…
We are thrilled to announce that TRU member Nicole Charles is now Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, with a graduate appointment in the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the St. George campus. Professor Charles’s research engages transnational feminism, Caribbean studies and…
We are thrilled to announce that the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) and the Technoscience Research Unit have received the J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award from the Society of American Archivists. This award recognizes the work of the TRU in hosting our Guerrilla Archiving event in December, which helped to launch over community…
Read TRU member Alessandro Delfanti’s work on “Distributed Biotechnology,” the new Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science (2017), edited by D. Tyfield R. Lave, S. Randalls, and C. Thorpe. Read Prof. Delfanti’s chapter on “Distributed Biotechnology” here. From the publisher “The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the…
Read TRU Member Nehal El-Hadi’s essay in The New Inquiry, “Death Undone.” The essay demands that new relations between death and social media technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life. Read the Excerpt: “ANOTHER Black man died on my feed. I didn’t know who Philando Castile was until July 6, 2016. Castile was in his…
