Seminar

Name: Space Tech Oligarchs: Technology, Politics, Futures
Start: 2025-10-29T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-10-29T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Room 101AB, Sir Charles Wilson Building

May 2025
Social Innovation in Pharma
May 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Adam Smith Business School Adam Smith Building, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, United Kingdom
A Social Studies of Deep Tech (SSoDT) seminar with Dr Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek of University College Dublin, held at the Adam Smith Business School, in person and online. Dr Kleinhout-Vliek shared her work on social pharmaceutical innovations (SPINs) and the future of a more just pharma economy. SPINs are alternative approaches that address inequities in access […]
Free
October 2025
Space Tech Oligarchs: Technology, Politics, Futures
October 29, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Room 101AB, Sir Charles Wilson Building University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
A Social Studies of Deep Tech (SSoDT) seminar with Professor Richard Tutton of the University of York, on “tech oligarchs” and their exercise of power over people and places. In this talk, I explore how ‘tech oligarchs’ (Cohen 2025) are colonizing ‘extraplanetary imaginaries’ (Tutton 2020) and how their investment in space tech is implicated in […]
Free

May 2025

October 2025