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Science, Knowledge, and Technology Workshop (SKAT)

Workshop | ongoing

The Trust Collaboratory hosts the Science, Knowledge, and Technology workshop (SKAT) that gathers social scientists interested in how knowledge is created, distributed, drawn upon, and collectively understood. The workshop brings together diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the social studies of SKAT. These include sociology of expertise, sociology of professions, organizational analysis, actor-network theory, medical sociology, and science studies, among other approaches. The workshop is primarily designed to assist advanced graduate students with their ongoing research projects. The workshop aims to expose participants to original approaches to social studies of science and technology and expose students to solutions to common challenges of academic work. We aim to provide a supportive environment offering feedback and advice on all aspects of academic work, from devising and conducting research to producing written texts (grant applications, dissertation proposals, and publications).

Coordinators: Elizaveta Sheremet & Yanze Yu

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Workshop Schedule 2025-26

  • “Public Trust” as Moral Vocabulary of Science
    Zoom | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • The Costs of Climate Change
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Building a Field of Counter-Disinformation Expertise: East-Central European Experts in the Globalization of the Disinformation Threat
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • The Moral Economy of Using Real-Time Driving Data to Price Car Insurance
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Seeing Like Many States: Economic Policy Paradigms and the Remaking of the Chinese State in the Reform Era (Book Talk)
    Knox Hall 509 | 12:30-02:00 PM

  • Selling Live: Metrics Architecture and the Reorganization of Service Work in China
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Humanities and Social Sciences in National Scientific Projects: Mental Health, Avatars, and the "ELSI" of Japan's Moonshot Program
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Cyberbotany and the Enclosure of Underground Knowledge
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Asymmetrical Intimacy: How People Form Emotional Relationships with AI Companions
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Governing Psychology: Circuits of Intervention in the History of Transnational Science
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Automated Expertise? Transformations of Professional Expertise with Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Systems
    Zoom | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition

    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Lay Performance of Meta-Expertise: Using Informal Credentialing to Connect and Redistribute Technical Knowledge Across Siloed Professions
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM