Past Events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
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
30 Oct 2024
Wednesday
3:00pm -4:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event

Jakob Vogel (Sciences Po Paris) "Forming an Elite for the French Empire. Colonial Sciences at the Ecole Libre de Sciences Politiques in Paris (1880-1960)"
The Library of French Thought, Berkeley CA
24 Oct 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Laura Mamo
Professor of Public Health, San Francisco State University
Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
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