{"id":992,"date":"2026-04-14T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/?p=992"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:12:07","slug":"after-hours-event-on-genetic-risk-in-tacoma-so-youre-genetically-at-risk-now-what-may-18-2026-at-530-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/2026\/04\/14\/after-hours-event-on-genetic-risk-in-tacoma-so-youre-genetically-at-risk-now-what-may-18-2026-at-530-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"S+T After Hours on living with \u201chigh risk\u201d | Monday, May 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM in Tacoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Society + Technology at UW is pleased to host the next\u00a0<strong>After Hours<\/strong>\u00a0conversation at Peaks &amp; Pints Taproom and Eatery in Tacoma,\u00a0<em>Living \u201cAt Risk\u201d\u00a0<\/em>with anthropologist\u00a0<strong>Lisa Hoffman<\/strong>\u00a0(Urban Studies, UW Tacoma) and computer scientist\u00a0<strong>Josh D. Tenenberg<\/strong>\u00a0(Engineering, UW Tacoma) in conversation about the stakes, technologies, and stories of high risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if you\u2019re living with \u201chigh risk\u201d for future disease? Maybe it is a genetically identified risk, maybe it is family history risk.&nbsp; What do you do with that knowledge\u2014and who decides what disease risk means and how you should live?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Monday, May 18, 2026 | 5:30 PM<\/strong><br \/><strong>Peaks &amp; Pints Taproom<\/strong> (21+ only)<br \/>3816 N. 26<sup>th <\/sup>Street<br \/>Tacoma, WA 98407<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:Trumba.EA2.showWindow('actions\/atmc\/g47xc0zfp4vd8h0u97r26z7749')\">Add to Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Topics include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does it mean to live with a \u201chigh\u201d disease risk in our contemporary moment\u2014and how does it differ from earlier formations of \u201crisk factors\u201d?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>How genetic risk scores are shaping screening, reproduction, and everyday decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Who interprets risk data? What is at stake in continuous recalculations of risk with new technologies?<\/li>\n<li>What happens when you resist or refuse?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faculty, students, community members, and curious citizens are welcome. Free and open to the public. No registration required.e stakes\u2014and the stories\u2014we tell about our genetic pasts and possible futures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free and open to the public. No registration required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Lisa Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lisa-hoffman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1435\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9977777006146047;width:211px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.tacoma.uw.edu\/employee\/hoffmanl\">Lisa Hoffman<\/a> is a Professor in the School of Urban Studies at UW Tacoma. An anthropologist, Hoffman&#8217;s current research focuses on Seattle&#8217;s biotech community, precision medicine, and the shape of contemporary practices of living in relation to genetic risk. Her work offers attunement to place, power, and subjectivity. Previously, Hoffman&#8217;s major projects included work on professionals and volunteers in contemporary China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Josh D. Tenenberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/josh-tenenb-pencil.png\" alt=\"placeholder\" class=\"wp-image-1480\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.tacoma.uw.edu\/employee\/jtenenbg\">Josh D. Tenenberg<\/a>&nbsp;is a Professor in the Department of Engineering at UW Tacoma. His expertise is in what he calls the \u201cborderlands\u201d of technical and humanistic approaches. Trained in computer science, Tenenberg\u2019s empirical research has been about computing and engineering education, software development, human-computer interaction, design research, semiotics, and technical communication. His publications include&nbsp;<em>Narratives of Qualitative Research: Making Praxis Visible<\/em>, published by Routledge (2024). He teaches human-oriented aspects of computing at the undergraduate and graduate levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Crossposted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu\">Society + Technology at UW<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Society + Technology at UW is pleased to host the next\u00a0After Hours\u00a0conversation at Peaks &amp; Pints Taproom and Eatery in Tacoma,\u00a0Living \u201cAt Risk\u201d\u00a0with anthropologist\u00a0Lisa Hoffman\u00a0(Urban Studies, UW Tacoma) and computer scientist\u00a0Josh D. Tenenberg\u00a0(Engineering, UW Tacoma) in conversation about the stakes, technologies, and stories of high risk. What if you\u2019re living with \u201chigh risk\u201d for future disease? Maybe it is a genetically identified risk, maybe it is family history risk.&nbsp; What do you do with that knowledge\u2014and who decides what disease&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/2026\/04\/14\/after-hours-event-on-genetic-risk-in-tacoma-so-youre-genetically-at-risk-now-what-may-18-2026-at-530-pm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S+T After Hours on living with \u201chigh risk\u201d | Monday, May 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM in Tacoma<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-stss-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}