The Transformative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reading Group will be holding a meeting covering Katherine McKitterick’s multidisciplinary, embedded, and somatic approach to science and technology studies. This two-hour session will let participants engage talk about McKitterick’s scholarship in an open, low stress, and collaborative environment.  

Participants are requested to read the following texts ahead of time. They are available on Box.  

Selected Readings:  

McKitterick, Dear Science. “Curiosities (My Heart Makes my Head Swim)”, "Failure (My Head was Full of Mist Fumes of Doubt)", “Dear Science”. (Duke University Press: Durham, 2021). 

About this Session’s Readings  

Katherine McKitterick’s Dear Science and Other Stories highlights a multidisciplinary approach to science and technology studies born out of her work in critical geography. Entwining the scholarship of a wide range of critical humanistic scholars, from Sylvia Wynter to Franz Fanon to Edouard Glissant, McKitterick’s generative, embodied, impassioned scholarship displays how science is felt, engaged with, and made elastic through personal, cultural, and historical experience. 

About the Transformative Methods Reading Group  

The Transformative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reading Group is a bi-monthly conversation exploring new and emerging methodologies that address epistemic gaps in qualitative and quantitative research.  

The goal of this group is to introduce these methodologies to scholars from across the university. These approaches illustrate a different vantage point that can help reveal unseen problems in a variety of fields. The reading group will offer participants an onramp to these methods, enabling conversations across disciplines that can strengthen research into the social determinants of health, as well as research into the experiences of health and wellness.   

Co-sponsored by the Emancipatory Sciences Lab, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, and run as part of the Archives and Special Collections’ Digital Health Humanities program.  

UCSF welcomes everyone, including people with disabilities to our events and exhibits. To request a reasonable accommodation for this event, please contact Sean Purcell by emailing sean.purcell@ucsf.edu as soon as possible.