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SUMMARY:GES Minor Zoom Q&A
DESCRIPTION:GES Graduate Minor Program & Fellowship Information Session (Q&A)\nFriday\, March 1\, 2024 at 5:00 PM \nWatch the recording of the GES Minor Q&A Session\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload the PowerPoint presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe GES Center is now recruiting candidates for the Fall 2024 Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) graduate minor\, an interdisciplinary graduate program offering current Ph.D. and Masters students at NC State across multidisciplinary fields of study the opportunity to examine the technological\, societal\, and ecological issues surrounding the development and potential use of genetically engineered organisms. \nThe session was led by Dr. Fred Gould\, GES Minor Co-Director\, and Dr. Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, GES Program Coordinator\, with a brief presentation of the GES Minor program and then a discussion with attendees. \nPriority consideration will be given to those who apply by March 15\, 2024. \nLearn more about the program and apply at https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-minor
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/ges-minor-zoom-qa-2024-03-01/
LOCATION:https://ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcOGtpzgoHtzFjM-IakhXwVCvVlXqqP3M#/registration
CATEGORIES:GES Event,Training
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dawn Rodriguez-Ward":MAILTO:dtward2@ncsu.edu
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SUMMARY:Luisa Reis-Castro – The More-than-Human Politics of Transgenic Mosquitoes in Brazil [Zoom Only] | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nCaring for the Enemy\, Killing the Ally: The More-than-Human Politics of Transgenic Mosquitoes in Brazil \nLuisa Reis-Castro\, PhD\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California\nProfile | X | Bluesky\nThis talk\, based on ethnographic research with scientists and technicians working with transgenic mosquitoes in Brazil\, examines the class\, gender\, and regional issues present in the efforts to transform the mosquito from a “problem” into a “solution.” \nDownload seminar poster \nAbstract\nThe Aedes aegypti mosquito\, known as the vector for Zika\, dengue\, chikungunya\, and yellow fever viruses\, has historically been targeted by public health campaigns as an enemy to be eliminated. However\, new strategies\, such as the transgenic approach\, biologically modify the A. aegypti so that they can be deployed to control their own population—here\, mosquito breeding and mating are operationalized as an insecticide. In this case\, the insect must be simultaneously a friend and an enemy\, cared for and killed\, and it must establish encounters and nonencounters. \nDrawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a “biofactory” in the northeast of Brazil dedicated to mass-producing these transgenic mosquitoes\, this article investigates the new forms of labor and value produced through these contrasting human-mosquito relations. The author also examines how the project is implemented within the broader geopolitics of experimentation and more-than-human gendered conceptions. Analyzing the multispecies relationships engendered under the premise that it is possible to produce nonencounters\, she identifies the historical conditions and promissory claims of transforming the A. aegypti ’s reproductive capacity into labor for killing. Such recasting yields what the author calls the “nonencounter value” within the scientific remaking of mosquitoes\, their becoming and being. \nRelated links: \n\nLuísa Reis-Castro; Becoming Without: Making Transgenic Mosquitoes and Disease Control in Brazil. Environmental Humanities 1 November 2021; 13 (2): 323–347. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9320178. PDF\nVideo: Haedes & Aegypta e a abordagem da Oxitec (Anthropomophized mosquitoes depicting the male as a hero and the female as the villain)\n\nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Luísa Reis-Castro is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology. Reis-Castro’s research broadly explores the social\, cultural\, political\, and historical dimensions of scientific knowledge about human-animal relations\, particularly when harm to humans is involved\, as seen with mosquitoes transmitting pathogens. Her first project investigates techno-scientific projects in Brazil that\, rather than fight against the Aedes aegypti mosquito\, work to harness the insect to tackle the viruses it is known to transmit (Zika\, dengue\, chikungunya\, and yellow fever). By using ethnographic and historical research methods\, she explores what these projects can tell us about the geopolitics of knowledge production in an interdependent\, unequal world increasingly affected by human activity. She received her PhD from the Program in History\, Anthropology\, and Science\, Technology\, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \n\nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will be held in person in the 1911 Building\, room 129\, and live-streamed via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates. \nDownload Interactive PDF
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2024-03-05/
LOCATION:https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloq-zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,GES Event
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SUMMARY:Jen Rowland – Agricultural Biotechnology at USDA and Beyond [Zoom Only] | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nAgricultural Biotechnology at USDA and Beyond \nJen Rowland\, PhD\, Biotechnology Coordinator at USDA | LinkedIn\nUSDA supports the development\, use\, regulation\, and trade of agricultural biotechnologies through multiple agencies and programs. \nDownload seminar poster \nAbstract\nBiotechnology is an important tool to support continued and sustainable agricultural production in the face of multiple challenges\, including climate change. USDA supports agricultural biotechnology innovation through intramural and extramural research\, providing clear regulations\, and supporting the development of enabling policy environments around the world to support market access for all agricultural products. Many products of agricultural biotechnology have been in safe use for decades (e.g.\, herbicide-tolerant corn and soy\, or insect-resistant cotton)\, and new technologies like CRISPR and cheaper sequencing are allowing new developers to enter the field\, and introduce a wider variety of traits in a greater variety of organisms than ever before. \nRelated links: \n\nhttps://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-u-s/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption/\nhttps://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/81176/eib-163_summary.pdf?v=6539.5\nhttps://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/pdf/2023-stakeholder-meeting.pdf\nhttps://isaaa.org\nhttps://gain.fas.usda.gov/\n\nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Jen Rowland serves as the Biotechnology Coordinator for USDA\, facilitating cross-departmental and interagency engagement\, and serving as a point of contact for stakeholders. Until recently\, Jen was a science advisor in Foreign Agricultural Service New Technologies and Production Methods division. She worked with the New Tech division to maintain and expand global market access for products of agricultural biotechnology. Jen earned a Ph.D. in microbiology in 2014 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham\, studying tuberculosis. She then pursued postdoctoral research on Salmonella pathogenesis at the University of British Columbia. After many years at the lab bench\, Jen turned to a career in science policy\, first as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow sponsored by AAAS. During her fellowship\, Jen worked on the regulatory side of science at the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in the Pests\, Pathogens and Biocontrol Permits Unit. Jen has always had an interest in biotechnology and wishes she had a garden to grow the GE purple tomato that just became available directly to consumers in the U.S. \n\nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will be held in person in the 1911 Building\, room 129\, and live-streamed via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates. \nDownload Interactive PDF
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2024-03-19/
LOCATION:https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloq-zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,GES Event
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SUMMARY:Professional Development Workshop: Weaving Research & Society
DESCRIPTION:Professional Development Workshop: Weaving Research & Society\n\nMarch 22\, 2024 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am\, Witherspoon Student Center\, Room 201\n\n\n\nThe Global One Health Academy\, Genetics & Genomics Academy\, and Genetic Engineering & Society Center are co-hosting a workshop on Weaving Research & Society. This event will provide training on societal engagement in science. Attendees will be introduced to the why of societal engagement\, the trajectory of societal engagement (science co-production)\, and the next phases of societal engagement (deliberative science). A case study will allow attendees to explore in small groups how to frame research problems and explore the FAIR and CARE principles of responsible and inclusive research. \nThis workshop is part of a series of monthly Interdisciplinary Professional Development Workshops to help graduate students prepare for a career in interdisciplinary research. Graduate students from any disciplinary background are welcome to attend! \nPresenters: \n\nKatie Barnhill\, Senior Research Scholar\, Genetic Engineering & Society Center\nErin Seekamp\, Goodnight Distinguished Professor and Director of the Coastal Resilience & Sustainability Initiative\n\nSchedule: \n\n9:30-10:00am     Refreshments and networking\n10:00-11:30am   Presentation and group-based activity\n\nRegister
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/gga-pro-dev-2024-03-22/
LOCATION:Witherspoon Student Center\, Room 201
CATEGORIES:AgBioFEWS,Training
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SUMMARY:Anna Krome-Lukens – Eugenics and the Welfare State in North Carolina | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nEugenics and the Welfare State in North Carolina  + \nAnna Krome-Lukens\, PhD\, Teaching Associate Professor\, Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill\nProfile \nIn North Carolina\, social reformers and welfare officials relied on eugenics ideology as they built the welfare state before the New Deal\, with lasting effects for our contemporary definitions of citizenship. \nDownload seminar poster \nAbstract\nBetween 1929 and 1977\, North Carolina officials approved the surgical sterilization of over 7\,600 people under the aegis of the state’s eugenics program. To help explain the persistence of this program\, I turn to its roots\, since rationales for eugenics offered in the first three decades of the twentieth century shaped the course of the program for years to come. In this talk\, I analyze the growing appeal of eugenics to influential white North Carolinians who debated and promoted eugenics from 1900 onward. These social reformers honed their ideas about eugenic fitness and the need to preserve the Anglo-Saxon race while they built a statewide social welfare apparatus. Their statewide grid of welfare offices later became the basis for distribution of New Deal funds. \nIn building this statewide welfare system\, reformers and social workers eagerly explored eugenics as a solution to social problems\, then refashioned and interpreted eugenic principles for a broader audience. They linked principles of eugenics to ideas that already had broad support among white middle-class North Carolinians\, including Christian charity\, racial segregation\, and a celebration of the state’s Anglo-Saxon heritage. They also relied on eugenics-inspired metaphors to rationalize the unequal distribution of welfare services\, giving new force and apparent scientific legitimacy to longstanding prejudices about the undeserving poor. They trained a new generation of professional social workers to see eugenically “unfit” people as undeserving of social services\, and they promised that segregation and sterilization would curb the costs of social welfare programs. Ultimately\, North Carolina’s white social reformers built eugenics-inspired ideas of racialized fitness and restrictive definitions of citizenship into our contemporary institutions. \nSpeaker Bio\nAnna Krome-Lukens completed her Ph.D. in U.S. History at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the history of social welfare and public health policies\, particularly the history of North Carolina’s eugenics and social welfare programs in the early 20th century. Anna is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Reform and Regeneration: Eugenics and the Welfare State in the South\, which demonstrates the lasting influence of eugenics in shaping welfare policies and conceptions of citizenship. She directs UNC’s Public Policy Capstone Program and also teaches first-year courses on higher education and food policy. \n\nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will be held in person in the 1911 Building\, room 129\, and live-streamed via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates. \nDownload Interactive PDF
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2024-03-26/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,GES Event
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