On Refusal. Labor Tech Research Network, 2021.

Full transcript to be published in REFUSE: A Journal of Iconoclasms. Forthcoming, 2022. INTRODUCTION TRANSCRIPT This panel was built in parallel with the building of the Labor Tech Research Network as a 501(c)3 nonprofit. So congratulations to all of us! And congratulations to Winnie Poster for her hard work! As we began imagining, and manifesting…

Recipes for Technoutopia: On Hospitality and Infrastructure as Experimental Performance. Handbook on Art, Science and Technology Studies.

Jordan, S.B. Recipes for Technoutopia: On Hospitality, Hope and Infrastructure as Experimental Performance. Rogers, Halpern, Hannah, de Ridder-Vignone (Eds.) Handbook of Art, Science and Technology. Routledge Press. (in press). Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting for the Society of the Social Study of Science (4S) in New Orleans, September 2019. invited presenter at the University…

Matters of Emergenc/y: Breakdown, Crisis and the Production of Scientific Knowledge

Center for Gender in a Global Context and the Department of Sociology February 28, 2020 Environmental crisis, financial crisis, states of emergency and urgency: crisis forms the backdrop of contemporary debates about the role of science and technology in society. Sharing her ethnographic fieldwork in oceanographic and climate-oriented research endeavors over the better part of…

A Dance Around Racism: When Everyone Around You is White, 4S 2020.

A Dance Around Racism: When Everyone Around You is White. Panel on “Choreographies.” 4S 2020 New Orleans. What is the choreography of crisis? This dance can be radical and feminist like Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic or jess pretty’s dream[e]scapes or  I laugh to myself thinking that it can also be and often is something like Taylor Swift’s…

Moderator, Mowed Over: Community Governance of Public Space. Maintainers III.

Moderator of panel “Mowed Over: Community Governance of Public Space” at Maintainers III: Policy, Practice and Care conference October 7-9 in Washington, D.C.  More information available here. The goal of this workshop is to create a conversation among policy makers, activists and researchers about the different ways communities take on maintenance and stewardship responsibilities for…

“What People Talk About When They Talk About Diversity” AAAS

Steinhardt, S.B. What People Talk About When They Talk About Diversity Presenter on the panel “It’s Time for a Feminist Agenda for Science Communication” at the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS ‘19) Washington, D.C. – February 14, 2019