Past Events
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4 May - 5 May 2012 Friday - Saturday |
Conference |
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What's new about New Materialisms? , |
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2 May 2012 Wednesday 6:00pm -8:00pm |
Special Event |
Mark Wilson Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh |
Is There Life in Possible Worlds? Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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2 May 2012 Wednesday 4:00pm -5:30pm |
Special Event |
Jenna Burrell School of Information |
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana South Hall, Room 210, Berkeley CA |
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2 May 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Frank Stanisch University of Calgary |
The Making of a New Research Field: On the Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity in the German Neuromorphological Sciences, 1910–1945 Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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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 Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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25 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Michelle Pridmore-Brown OHST Visiting Scholar |
The Evolving Concepts of the ‘Natural’ and ‘Unnatural’: Making Cells, Humans and Moral Systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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19 Apr 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium |
Hannah Landecker University of California, Los Angeles |
American Metabolism Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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18 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Veronica Sanz STSC Visiting Scholar |
A new tool for the epistemological analysis of “alternative paradigms” in Artificial Intelligence Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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11 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Mark Robinson STSC Visiting Scholar |
Speculation and Health: Some Reflections on Innovation in Translational Neuroscience Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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10 Apr 2012 Tuesday 6:30pm -8:30pm |
Special Event |
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STS @ Berkeley Undergrad Group Film Series: Children of Men 470 Stephens, Berkeley CA |
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5 Apr 2012 Thursday 6:30pm -8:30pm |
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Julie Christina Grew University of Copenhagen & STSC |
Fireside Conversations: Wireless ICD Patients and their Doubles Berkeley Free House, Berkeley CA |
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5 Apr 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium
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Rachel PrenticeCornell University |
Control in the Operating Room Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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4 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Josh Roebke OHST Visiting Scholar |
Physics in Manchester and Vienna before WWI: Modern Ideas, Culture, and Place Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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3 Apr 2012 Tuesday 4:00pm -5:30pm |
Special Event |
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Trans/Formations: Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Trans Medicine and Healthcare Wurster 102, Berkeley CA |
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21 Mar 2012 Wednesday 6:30pm -8:30pm |
Special Event |
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STS @ Berkeley Undergrad Group Film Series: Minority Report 470 Stephens, Berkeley CA |
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21 Mar 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Asaf Darash OHST Visiting Scholar |
The Third Mode of Action: Computer Languages, Computer Networks and Human Action Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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20 Mar 2012 Tuesday 6:00pm -7:30pm |
Special Event |
JC Orton Shelter Director of Night on the Streets Catholic Worker (NOSCW) & Julie Miller MSW student/filmmaker |
Aging and Homelessness , |
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15 Mar 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium
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Emily MartinNew York University |
Steps Toward an Anthropology of the Human Subject in Experimental Psychology Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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14 Mar 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Chris Jones STSC Visiting Scholar |
Energy as Politics: Power and U.S. Political Economy, 1820-1930 Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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7 Mar 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag
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Ozzie ZehnerSTSC Visiting Scholar |
Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy Future Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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29 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Walter Valdivia STSC Visiting Scholar & Samuel A. Evans CSTMS Visiting Scholar & Academic Coordinator |
Academic Freedom and National Security Export Controls Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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23 Feb 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium
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Vittorio GalleseUniversity of Parma & IIT (Italian Institute of Technology) Brain Center for Social and Motor Cognition |
The Body in Aesthetic Experience: A Neuroscientific Perspective Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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22 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Samuel A. Evans CSTMS Visiting Scholar & Academic Coordinator |
Technology control and imagined international orders or 'Military technology is what states make of it' Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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16 Feb 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium
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Christopher KeltyUniversity of California, Los Angeles |
The Fog of Freedom Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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15 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Crispin Barker OHST Visiting Scholar |
The Beginning of the End: The Role of the Media in Popularizing the Telomere Theory of Aging and Cancer Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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9 Feb 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium
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Jan GolinskiUniversity of New Hampshire |
Sublime Astronomy and the End of the Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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8 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Merav Katz-Kimchi OHST Visiting Scholar |
Screening Science, Producing the Nation: Popular Science Programs on Israeli Television, 1968-1988 Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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26 Jan 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Special Event |
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society |
Spring 2012 Reception Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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25 Jan 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Terence Keel STSC Visiting Scholar |
Religion and the Scientific Study of Race in the US: Conflict or Cooperation? Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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2 Dec 2011 Friday 10:00am -4:00pm |
Workshop |
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BerkeleyDesignSTS David Brower Center, Berkeley CA |
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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 Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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30 Nov 2011 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Deirdre Loughridge UC Berkeley, Department of Music |
Kant’s Telescope, Beethoven’s Telephone Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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16 Nov 2011 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Robert Chester |
Comstock Creations: The Properties of an Industrial Watershed Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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10 Nov 2011 Thursday 12:00pm -2:00pm |
Brownbag |
Miguel Sánchez Romero Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley |
The Change of the Role of Technology in International Exhibitions at the Beginning of Twentieth Century: Europe and Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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3 Nov 2011 Thursday 5:00pm -7:00pm |
Performance |
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Readers Theater :: On Aging Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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27 Oct 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium |
Jimena Canales Harvard University |
A Tenth of a Second Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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26 Oct 2011 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Mary Murrell UC Berkeley |
"Access" and the Digital Library Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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18 Oct 2011 Tuesday 5:00pm -7:00pm |
Special Event |
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Launch Party :: Sciences and Society Undergraduate Course Thread Launch Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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13 Oct 2011 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium
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Kristen HaringAuburn University & Stanford Humanities Center |
How to Knit a Popular History of Media Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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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 Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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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 Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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21 Sep 2011 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Alessandro Mongili & Paolo Magaudda Università di Padova |
Tecnoscienza Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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11 Apr 2011 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium |
Peter DearCornell University |
Natural Philosophy and the Cultural Status of Reason Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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9 Mar 2011 Wednesday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium |
Mario BiagioliUniversity of California, Davis |
Secrecy and Openness Revisited: A Genealogy of Priority in Science Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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7 Feb 2011 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium |
Mary TerrallUniversity of California, Los Angeles |
Science in the Household: Collection and Experimentation in Eighteenth-Century Natural History Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |
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31 Jan 2011 Monday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium |
Tiago SaraivaUniversity of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences |
F. J. Turner for Fascists: The Circulation of Karakul Sheep and the Imperial Landscapes of Fascism Stephens Hall 470, Berkeley CA |