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ITS VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES 2025-2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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ITS Virtual Seminar Series with Dr. Sarah Blacker (Counting herons, photographing melting ice: Public participation in climate change research)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Register here<\/a> and join us for an ITS virtual talk \"Counting herons, photographing melting ice: Public participation in climate change research\" with Dr. Sarah Blacker<\/a> (快播视频) on April 22, 2026 from 12:00 pm till 1:30 pm..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sarah Blacker is a Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at 快播视频. Her current book project, Warding off Disease: Racialization and Health in Settler Colonial Canada, investigates the relationship between biomedical pronouncements on race and their social repercussions, including ongoing colonial and systemic racist practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Amidst cuts to research funding for climate science and the weakening of environmental regulation, public participation in climate change research through citizen science projects -and the data they produce- can provide a critical resource to climate scientists. Public participation in science can address data gaps and counter hierarchies by centering the experiential knowledges of historically marginalized communities; it can also extend a false promise of agency to participants. This talk discusses the study design and methods used by three participatory climate science projetcs, including a community-led project practicing data sovereignty, non-profit, and a public-private partnership. I argue that while these projects can support environmental education and climate justice, the data collected through these projects is sometimes used towards ends that run counter to the aims of the participants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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UPCOMING Seminar Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Register here<\/a> to join us for an ITS virtual talk \"Counting\u00a0herons, photographing melting ice: Public participation in climate change research\" with Dr. Sarah Blacker (快播视频) on April 22, 2026 from 12:00 pm till 1:30 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past Seminar Series 2025 - 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Iv\u00e1n Chaar Lopez<\/a>,<\/strong> (University of Texas at Austin), \u201cThe Cybernetic Border\u201d September 9, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uahikea Maile<\/a>,<\/strong> (University of Chicago), \"On Being Late: Cruising Mauna Kea and Unsettling Technoscientific Conquest in Hawai\u02bbi\" October 15, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver Haimson<\/a><\/strong>, (University of Michigan), \"Trans Technologies\" November 5, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Jeff Nagy<\/strong><\/a> (快播视频), \"Big Blue: Depression from the DSM to AI Psychodiagnostics\" December 3rd, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lina Beatriz Pinto Garc\u00eda<\/a> <\/strong>(快播视频), \u201cBeyond the Cure: Integrating Science and Care in Alzheimer\u2019s Research in Colombia\u201d January 28th, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yousif Hassan<\/strong><\/a> (University of Michigan), \"The politics of memory: Language technologies and decolonization in South Africa\" February 26, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suze Berkhout<\/a> <\/strong>(University of Toronto), \"Mediation, Curation, Materialization: Art-Science Collaborations, Feminist STS, and the Invisible, Contested, and Ephemeral in Biomedicine\" March 12, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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