Colloquia

Colloquia are events with an invited speaker.

Upcoming events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
4 Apr 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Héctor Beltrán
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MIT
Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Bernard Geoghegan
Reader in the History and Theory of Digital Media, University of Gothenburg
Seeing and Seafaring: Maritime Navigation and the Scopic Regime of Computation
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA

Past Colloquia

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
7 Mar 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Stacey Van Vleet
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Potency, Effectiveness, Efficacy: Boundary Problems and the Making of “Minority Medicines” in 20th Century China
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Feb 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Akash Kumar
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Science and Justice in Dante
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Nov 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Ksenia Tatarchenko
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Singapore Management University
How Genius Grows: Novosibirsk Specialized Physics and Mathematics School (FMSh), Non-Artificial Intelligence, and the Limits of Transformative Projects
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2023
Tuesday
3:30pm -5:00pm
Colloquium
Massimo Mazzotti
CSTMS Faculty Affiliate and Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of History
Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, “Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity”
Social Science Matrix, Berkeley
12 Oct 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Antoine Johnson
Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1997
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Apr 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Mar 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Margaret Jack
Postdoctoral Scholar at Syracuse University
Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Elizabeth Reddy
Assistant Professor of Engineering, Design, & Society at Colorado School of Mines
¡Alerta! Life with Earthquakes and Warnings
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Nov 2022
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
Book Talk

Authors Meet Critics: How the Clinic Made Gender
Social Science Matrix, Berkeley CA
20 Oct 2022
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Ayah Nuriddin
Race Hygiene: Black Eugenics and Health Inequality
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Oct 2022
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Sareeta Amrute
The Weapons of the Snake: Fugitive Cryptography in the Indian Activist Diaspora
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Sep 2022
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Anthony Ryan Hatch
Metabolism Cages for New World Animals, Small and Large
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Nov 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Soraya De Chadarevian
Professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Heredity Under the Microscope
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Oct 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Sarah S. Richardson
Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard
The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Sep 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Hannah Zeavin
Lecturer in History and English at UC Berkeley
Auto-Intimacy: Algorithmic Therapies and Care of the Self
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Mar 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Melina Packer
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside
From Medici to Macho 4.0: Masculinism and Militarism in Toxicology
11 Mar 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Silvia Lindtner
Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information
Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation
18 Feb 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Lilly Irani
Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
12 Nov 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Michael Mascarenhas
Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley
& Kelly Grindstaff, PhD
Research Associate at Lawrence Hall of Science
“No One Wants to Believe It”: Manifestations of White Privilege in a STEM-Focused College
29 Oct 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Jenna Burrell
Associate Professor in the School of Information and Co-Director of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group at UC Berkeley
On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon

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