Past Events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
21 May 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Javier Armas
CSTMS Working Group Leader, UC Berkeley
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 May 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
STS Working Group
Katie Kung
Ph.D. Candidate, LMU Munich
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Apr 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Sonja Thiel
Department of German, UC Berkeley
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
26 Apr 2025
Saturday
9:00am -5:00pm
Conference

Agriculture 4.0: Revolution or Repetition?
Social Science Matrix, Berkeley CA
24 Apr 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
William M. Burton
Assistant Professor, Department of French, UC Berkeley
The Biomedical Sources of Rousseau’s Sexual Politics
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 Apr 2025
Wednesday
12:30pm -2:00pm
Lunch Discussion

STS DE Luncheon
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Apr 2025
Friday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Diane Tober
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama and Institute for Social Science Research
Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them
Berkeley Way West, Colloquia Room 1104, Berkeley CA
17 Apr 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Aro Velmet
Associate Professor of History, University of Southern California
Political Networks: Data Exchange as Revolution from Late Socialism to the Information Age in Eastern Europe
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Apr 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Henning Laux
Visiting Scholar, CSTMS and Professor of Sociological Theory at the Leibniz Center for Science and Society, University of Hannover
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Apr 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Jialiang Ling
Undergraduate Exchange Student, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Apr 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Ijeoma Kola
Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Fighting to Breathe: Asthma in Black Protest, Activism, and Survival
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Apr 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Peiting C. Li
Instructor of Chinese Calligraphy and Academic Specialist, UC Berkeley
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Mar 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Special Event

Remembering John L. Heilbron (1934 – 2023)
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Mar - 21 Mar 2025
Thursday - Friday
Conference
Hannah Zeavin
Assistant Professor & CSTMS Faculty Affiliate, UC Berkeley
& Ramsey McGlazer
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis
Maude Fife, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Mar 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Ximeng Chen
CSTMS and Associate Professor/Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2025
Friday
10:00am -12:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Fabian Offert
Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vector Media Graduate Student Workshop
188 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Mar 2025
Thursday
5:00pm -6:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Fabian Offert
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vector Media Lecture
188 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Mar 2025
Thursday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Scott C. Richmond
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Scott C. Richmond: The Critique of Instrumental Reason Circa 1976
142 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Mar 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Workshop
Nathaniel Comfort
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
"How to Read Like a Historian" Workshop 2
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Mar 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Workshop
Nathaniel Comfort
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
“How to Read Like a Historian” Workshop 1
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Mar 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Martijn Van Der Meer
Visiting Student Researcher, UC Berkeley
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Feb 2025
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group

STS / HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Feb 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Janina Kehr
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health
The Medicene. Global Medicine in Late Industrialism
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Feb 2025
Tuesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Janina Kehr
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health, University of Vienna
Baroque Austerity. Hospitals and Healthcare in Neoliberal Spain
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Feb 2025
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Reception

Spring 2025 Welcome Reception
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Feb 2025
Monday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Armen Khatchatourov
Associate Professor, University Gustave Eiffel
Artificial Intelligence and Its ‘Contexts’: Between Ethics and Politics
370 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Jan 2025
Tuesday
1:00pm -5:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Armen Khatchatouro
Associate Professor, Université Gustave Eiffel
& David Bates
Professor, UC Berkeley
AI and Social Normativity: Rethinking Error, Bias, and Truth
Dwinelle 7415, Berkeley
12 Dec 2024
Thursday
2:15pm -3:25pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Beth Semel
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Beth Semel: From Signal to Noise: Discernment and Debility in the Making of American Vocal Biomarker AI
202 South Hall, Berkeley California
11 Dec 2024
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Julia Tomasson
Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History, Columbia University
STS / HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Dec 2024
Tuesday
2:15pm -3:25pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Valerie Black
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF, Decision Lab
Terms of (Dis)Service: The Stakes of Human-Chatbot Relationships
210 South Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Dec 2024
Monday
3:30pm -4:30pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Dr. Hannah Murphy
Director of the Center for Early Modern Studies, King's College London
Inspection & Medical Epistemologies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Dec 2024
Monday
12:15pm -1:25pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Lilly Irani
Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Algorithms of Suspicion
202 South Hall, Berkeley California
5 Dec 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Marion Fourcade
Professor of Sociology and Director of Social Science Matrix
Marion Fourcade: The Ordinal Society
820 Social Sciences Building, Berkeley
5 Dec 2024
Thursday
2:15pm -3:25pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Benjamin Shestakofsky
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
202 South Hall, Berkeley California
4 Dec 2024
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Dan Kabella
Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Francisco
STS / HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Nov 2024
Thursday
2:15pm -3:25pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Kathryne Metcalf
Ph.D. Candidate, Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego
Health Data and the Politics of Classification
202 South Hall, Berkeley California
14 Nov 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Shreeharsh Kelkar
Continuing Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
Who Are the Data Scientists?: Evidence from the Field of Education Data Mining
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Nov 2024
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Faridah Laffan
Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
STS / HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Oct 2024
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:00pm
Working Group
Farnam Mohebi
Doctoral Candidate for Management of Organizations, Haas School of Business
STS/HST Working Group
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Oct 2024
Wednesday
3:30pm -5:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Nicholas Shapiro
Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Imagining the ends of structural discrimination beyond documentation
490 Illinois St. Rm. 208, San Francisco CA
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