[Ssnet_list] IAS Research Colloquium with Gwen Ottinger, May 3, 4-5:30pm (fwd)

[Gwen Ottinger]

Colleagues,

I'll be presenting my work on the politics of expertise at the fenceline of an oil refinery in the IAS Colloquium series next Tuesday, May 3, on the Bothell campus (see announcement below).  I hope that you can attend - I'd be delighted to have fellow members of the STS community in the audience.

Gwen Ottinger
Assistant Professor
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
University of Washington-Bothell
Box 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE
Bothell, WA 98011-8246
425-352-3785
ottinger at u.washington.edu

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:07:42 -0700
From: Lisa Olason <LOlason at uwb.edu>
To: ottinger at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Nball] IAS Research Colloquium with Gwen Ottinger, May 3, 4-5:30pm


Dear UWB community,

 

Please join us for the next Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) Research Colloquium presentation~

 

Tuesday, May 3

4:00 – 5:30pm

UW1-280
“The Biopolitics of the Fenceline”
With Gwen Ottinger, Assistant Professor, IAS

 

In communities located on the fencelines of the nation’s oil refineries, residents worried that pollution is making them ill have a tense
relationship with refinery scientists and engineers, who assure them that it is not. Drawing on ethnographic research in a Louisiana fenceline
community, this talk looks at the ways that contemporary cultural values of individual responsibility and self-care shape the resident-expert
relationship--and, in particular, how these values make the costs of challenging expert knowledge prohibitively high for poor and
working-class residents.

 

 

All are welcome!  More information on the IAS Research Colloquium series, including our final colloquium of the quarter with Jin-Kyu Jung, may
be found at: http://www.uwb.edu/ias/ma/colloquium

 

We hope to see you,

Lisa

 

 

Lisa Olason, Community Relations Manager
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences – Graduate Programs

University of Washington Bothell

18115 Campus Way NE | Box 358511 | Bothell, WA 98011-8246 | USA
Email: lolason at uwb.edu | Web: www.uwb.edu/ias/ma

Phone: 425 352 3136 | Fax: 425 352 3462
Office location: UW2-340

 


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