Colloquia

Colloquia are weekly events with an invited speaker. They are often live-streamed, and you are welcome to watch when they are.

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Past Colloquia

Date/Time	Event Type	Speaker	Event
8 May 2013 Wednesday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Bernard Lightman Professor of Humanities, York University; Editor, Isis	Science at the Metaphysical Society: Defining Knowledge in the 1870s 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 May 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Donna Jones Associate Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley	Cursed Immortality: Temporality and Crisis in Contemporary Speculative Fiction 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Apr 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	John Naccarato	Augmented Reality: Towards the Augmentation of a Brave New World 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Rob Iliffe Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science, University of Sussex	Self-experiment, Sex, and the Care of the Self: Newton's Private Life in the Age of the Web 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Michael Gordin Professor, History of Science, Princeton University	The Russians Are Writing!: The Cold War Crisis of Scientific Translation 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Peter Redfield Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Beyond the Bush Pump: Microworlds of Humanitarian Design 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Feb 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Maurice Finocchiaro Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas	The Galileo Affair and the Berkeley Para-clericals 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Jan 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Brian Rappert Professor, Sociology and Philosophy Department, University of Exeter	Estimating Ignorance: Revelations, Expertise, and Counts of the Dead 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Dec 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Book Launch + End of Semester Reception	Hélène Mialet Visiting Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric	Book Launch: Hélène Mialet, "Hawking, Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject" 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Nov 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Spyridon Koutroufinis Professor, Technical University of Berlin	Between Teleology and Mechanism: A Philosopher Looks at the History of the Concept of Organism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Nov 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Sven Dupré Professor, Freie Universität Berlin	Vitreous Pursuits 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Oct 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Philip Campbell Editor in Chief, Nature	Enhancing Value, Reproducibility, and Access: Challenges in Scientific Publishing 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Oct 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Robert Brain Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia	'A Medium is a Medium is a Medium': Ectoplasm and the Quest for a Supra-Normal Physiology 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Oct 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Jeffrey Bussolini Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, CUNY-College of Staten Island	Nuclear State of Exception: Nuclear Weapons, Sovereignty, and Geopolitics/Biopolitics 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Sep 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Hanna Rose Shell Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
12 Sep 2012 Wednesday 6:00pm -7:30pm	Colloquium	Martin Kusch Professor, Applied Theory of Science and Epistemology, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Austria)	Wittgenstein, Metrology, Certainties 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
26 Apr 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Robert Brain The University of British Columbia	CANCELLED: “A medium is a medium is a medium”: Ectoplasm and the Quest for a Supra-Normal Physiology 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Apr 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Hannah Landecker University of California, Los Angeles	American Metabolism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Apr 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Rachel Prentice Cornell University	Control in the Operating Room 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
15 Mar 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Emily Martin New York University	Steps Toward an Anthropology of the Human Subject in Experimental Psychology 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA

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