What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led interdisciplinary, monthly STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. In Fall 2024, the group will meet from 11:30 am -12:20 pm PD/ST.
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 (IAS), program manager for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the program, 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.
If you want to 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