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
23 Feb 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Vittorio Gallese University of Parma & IIT (Italian Institute of Technology) Brain Center for Social and Motor Cognition	The Body in Aesthetic Experience: A Neuroscientific Perspective 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Christopher Kelty University of California, Los Angeles	The Fog of Freedom 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Feb 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Jan Golinski University of New Hampshire	Sublime Astronomy and the End of the Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Dec 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Tiago Saraiva Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department University of California, Berkeley and Research Fellow Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon	Fascist Pigs: Genetics, Food, and Fascism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Oct 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Jimena Canales Harvard University	A Tenth of a Second 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Oct 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Kristen Haring Auburn University & Stanford Humanities Center	How to Knit a Popular History of Media 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Oct 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Paolo Magaudda Università di Padova	The Worm, the Apple and the "Consumerization" of Hacking Practices and Culture 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Sep 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Professor Alastair Iles Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Division of Society & Environment	"Greening" Chemistry: A Missing Affective Dimension 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Apr 2011 Thursday 12:00am -12:00am	Colloquium	Professor Gillian Einstein	Situated Neurology 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Apr 2011 Thursday 12:00am -12:00am	Colloquium	Professor Cathy Gere UCSD	Utilitarian Neurology and the Reinvention of Autonomy, 1973 to 1978 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2011 Monday 12:00am -6:00pm	Colloquium	Peter R. Dear Professor of the History of Science, Department of History, Cornell University	Natural Philosophy and the Cultural Status of Reason 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Mar 2011 Wednesday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Mario Biagioli University of California, Davis	Secrecy and Openness Revisited: A Genealogy of Priority in Science 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Mar 2011 Thursday 12:00am -12:00am	Colloquium	Professor Rayvon Fouché University of Illinois	Merckx and the Machine: Governing Bodies, Banned Technologies, and the Future of Sport 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Feb 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Antoine Hennion Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation Mines-ParisTech, France	From ANT to Attachment/Detachment - Bodies, Things, Collectives 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Feb 2011 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Mary Terrall University of California, Los Angeles	Science in the Household: Collection and Experimentation in Eighteenth-Century Natural History 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
31 Jan 2011 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Tiago Saraiva University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences	F. J. Turner for Fascists: The Circulation of Karakul Sheep and the Imperial Landscapes of Fascism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Jan 2011 Thursday 12:00am -6:00pm	Colloquium	Professor Tanja Paulitz University of Graz, Austria	Contested Knowledge of the Mechanical Machine and the Forming of German Academic Mechanical Engineering: Gender and the Nature/Technology Boundary around 1900 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Nov 2010 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	David Kaiser	How the Hippies Saved Physics 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
15 Nov 2010 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Peter Westwick	Aerospace and Surfing: Connecting Two California Keynotes 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Sep 2010 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Roshid Rashed	Arabic Mathematics and the Modern Beginnings of Mathematics: Khayyâm - Descartes 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 May 2010 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Ken Alder Northwestern University	The Forensic Self: Identity and Personal Identification in France 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
26 Apr 2010 Monday 4:00am -6:00am	Colloquium	Laura Smoller Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock	From Authentic Miracles to a Rhetoric of Authenticity: Examples from the Canonization and Cult of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419) 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Apr 2010 Wednesday 6:00pm -8:00pm	Colloquium	Professor Alan Richardson	Carnap's Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy, historisch-kritisch dargestellt. 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
12 Apr 2010 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Rivka Feldhay	The Jesuits: Transmitters of the New Science? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
8 Mar 2010 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	J.B. Shank University of Minnesota	Rethinking Enlightenment Science: A Media Approach 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Mar 2010 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Lawrence Badash UCSB	A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s. 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA