CSTMS aims to promote rigorous cross-disciplinary inquiry at the intersection of Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, and to generate critical engagement with our findings within academia, industry and policy arenas, and society at large.
Beginning in January, the Center will be streaming our Colloquium live here on our website. For scholars and members of the public who are not able to attend our events in per...
How can we analyze and resolve the ethical issues inherent in engineering? This seminar-style, discussion-based course developed and taught by CSTMS Postdoctoral Scholar Mary Sund...
The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) at UC Berkeley has begun a new Special Project to explore the social and cultural dynamics of contemporary design....
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 25, Issue 4, pages 650–678, November 2010 This essay by CSTMS Fellow Jake Kosek examines the rise of the honeybee as a tool and metaphor in the U.S...
The Fog of Freedom
Christopher KeltyUniversity of California, Los Angeles |
Sublime Astronomy and the End of the Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
Jan GolinskiUniversity of New Hampshire |
How to Knit a Popular History of Media
Kristen HaringAuburn University & Stanford Humanities Center |
Natural Philosophy and the Cultural Status of Reason
Peter DearCornell University |
Secrecy and Openness Revisited: A Genealogy of Priority in Science
Mario BiagioliUniversity of California, Davis |
Science in the Household: Collection and Experimentation in Eighteenth-Century Natural History
Mary TerrallUniversity of California, Los Angeles |