Society and Technology

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Sep 7, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

Power of Public Research and Teaching in a Technological Society | S+T at UW Symposium

Friday, Oct 2, 2026, 4 – 8 p.m. PDT

On October 2, 2026, Society + Technology at UW is thrilled to be hosting a symposium, The Power of Public Research and Teaching in a Technological Society, at the Burke Museum from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Research and teaching have their greatest impact when this work fosters understanding and empathy, strengthens intellectual community and creativity, and contributes to human well-being. Society + Technology at UW's Fall Symposium is designed with this impact in mind. Our fall convening will elevate UW's work at the critical juncture of society and technology in areas such as governance and trust, communication and meaning, bioethics and embodiment, and more. Would you like to join us? Space is limited. RSVP today.

Event interval: Single day event
Campus room: Burke Museum | Cascade Room
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars, Special Events
Target Audience: UW and Public
More info: docs.google.com…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Oct 5, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

Data Are Made, Not Found | Town Hall | danah boyd with Ron S. Jarmin

Monday, Oct 19, 2026, 6 – 8 p.m. PDT

danah boyd with Ron S. Jarmin
Data Are Made, Not Found
By any metric, a lot was going on in 2020, and looking back at it now, the census may have seemed like a fairly brief blip. Behind the scenes, however, the 2020 census was more than a decade in the making. Implementing phone and online responses for the first time and navigating countless real-time developments, this iteration required nearly a quarter of a million temporary workers to collect data about the American public. Data that would in turn be used to help determine years of federal funding and political power. In many ways, the US census is one of the government’s largest non-wartime operations and the world’s oldest, biggest data-making endeavors — and researcher and educator danah boyd has dug deep into how 2020’s census was like none that had come before it.
In her newest book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, boyd explores what it really took for the 2020 Census Bureau to pull it all off. With rare insider access to the Census Bureau itself, boyd observed and interviewed hundreds of the civil servants involved. By documenting these first-hand perspectives, Data Are Made, Not Found provides an insightful glimpse into what it takes to make democracy’s data. Census data make politics, and consequently, politics make census data. Amidst a global pandemic, natural disasters, and political forces that laid hurdles for budget, schedule, and even the statisticians’ methods themselves, 2020 proved an unprecedented effort. Each chapter of Data Are Made, Not Found aims to reveal a different challenge — ranging from the last-minute fights about a citizenship question to the unwittingly counterproductive help of well-intended stakeholders attempting to avoid undercounts — and shows how civil servants responded to each problem and controversy.
boyd calls many of these challenges the Census Bureau faced in 2020 the result of “Jenga politics.” She posits that decades of political operatives, data users, and various stakeholders getting strategically involved weakened the administrative state for short-term political gains. Data Are Made, Not Found argues that civil servants saved the 2020 census, but future censuses — and other data-making efforts related to elections, health, and the economy — are still precarious. boyd argues that protecting democracy must include protection for the institutions and the working people that produce this data.

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Town Hall and The Wyncote Northwest Forum
More info: ticketing.townhallseattle.org…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Nov 2, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Dec 7, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Jan 4, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Feb 1, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Mar 1, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Apr 5, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, May 3, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Jun 7, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Jul 5, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…