Past Colloquia

Date/Time	Event Type	Speaker	Event
4 Apr 2024 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Héctor Beltrán Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MIT	Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2024 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Bernard Geoghegan Reader in the History and Theory of Digital Media, University of Gothenburg	Seeing and Seafaring: Maritime Navigation and the Scopic Regime of Computation 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Mar 2024 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Stacey Van Vleet Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley	Potency, Effectiveness, Efficacy: Boundary Problems and the Making of “Minority Medicines” in 20th Century China 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Feb 2024 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Akash Kumar Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley	Total Eclipse of the Heart: Science and Justice in Dante 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Nov 2023 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Ksenia Tatarchenko Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Singapore Management University	How Genius Grows: Novosibirsk Specialized Physics and Mathematics School (FMSh), Non-Artificial Intelligence, and the Limits of Transformative Projects 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2023 Tuesday 3:30pm -5:00pm	Colloquium	Massimo Mazzotti CSTMS Faculty Affiliate and Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of History	Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, “Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity” Social Science Matrix, Berkeley
12 Oct 2023 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Antoine Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University	More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1997 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Apr 2023 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra	Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Mar 2023 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Margaret Jack Postdoctoral Scholar at Syracuse University	Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2023 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elizabeth Reddy Assistant Professor of Engineering, Design, & Society at Colorado School of Mines	¡Alerta! Life with Earthquakes and Warnings 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Nov 2022 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:00pm	Book Talk		Authors Meet Critics: How the Clinic Made Gender Social Science Matrix, Berkeley CA
20 Oct 2022 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Ayah Nuriddin	Race Hygiene: Black Eugenics and Health Inequality 3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Oct 2022 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Sareeta Amrute	The Weapons of the Snake: Fugitive Cryptography in the Indian Activist Diaspora 3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Sep 2022 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Anthony Ryan Hatch	Metabolism Cages for New World Animals, Small and Large 3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Nov 2021 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Soraya De Chadarevian Professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine	Heredity Under the Microscope 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Oct 2021 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Sarah S. Richardson Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard	The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Sep 2021 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Hannah Zeavin Lecturer in History and English at UC Berkeley	Auto-Intimacy: Algorithmic Therapies and Care of the Self 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Mar 2021 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Melina Packer Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside	From Medici to Macho 4.0: Masculinism and Militarism in Toxicology
11 Mar 2021 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Silvia Lindtner Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information	Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation
18 Feb 2021 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Lilly Irani Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego	Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
12 Nov 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Michael Mascarenhas Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley & Kelly Grindstaff, PhD Research Associate at Lawrence Hall of Science	“No One Wants to Believe It”: Manifestations of White Privilege in a STEM-Focused College
29 Oct 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Jenna Burrell Associate Professor in the School of Information and Co-Director of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group at UC Berkeley	On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon
22 Oct 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Ashton Wesner CSTMS Research Fellow and Lead Researcher of Queer Ecologies \| Feminist Biologies Collaborative	Counting Sturgeon: Settler Empirics and Moving Fish in the Columbia River
8 Oct 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Aimee Medeiros Associate Professor and Director of the History of Health Sciences Program at UC San Francisco	Pink and Blue: The Gendering of Pediatric Growth Charts
24 Sep 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Morgan Ames Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley & Jacob Gaboury Assistant Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley	The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
19 Mar 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Lilly Irani Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego	[CANCELLED] Chasing Innovation: Entrepreneurial Citizenship and the Subsumption of Hope 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Mar 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Fred Turner Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University	Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Feb 2020 Thursday 12:00pm -2:00pm	Colloquium	Lucy Suchman Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University	Demystifying AI as an Ethical Project: A Discussion 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Nov 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Christopher Phillips Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University	Scouting and Scoring: Baseball as a Data-Based Science 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Ruha Benjamin Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University	The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Sep 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Mar Hicks Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology	Binaries and Beyond: Learning from Inequality in the History of Computing 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Edward Jones-Imhotep Associate Professor of History at York University	Unreliable Humans, Failing Machines: The Lost Histories of the Technological Self 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Jenny Reardon Professor of Sociology, U.C. Santa Cruz	The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After the Genome 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elizabeth Hoover Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University	"We're not going to be Guinea Pigs"; Community-based Research in Environmental Health and Food Justice with Native American Communities 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Feb 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Samuel Roberts Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University	Drugs, Politics, and Pariahs: Or, How to Think Historically About Race and Harm Reduction in an Opioid Epidemic Berkeley Way West Building, Room 5101, Berkeley CA
14 Feb 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Colin Milburn Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Digital Media, UC Davis	How to Do Things with Science Fiction: Hackers, Gamers, and Technopolitics 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Nov 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Virginia Eubanks Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY	Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor Banatao Auditorium, Berkeley CA
8 Nov 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Suman Seth Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University	Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Oct 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elena Aronova Assistant Professor of History of Science at UCSB	The Past Futures of the History of Science: the Many Worlds of Nikolai Vavilov 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Sep 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Book Launch	Caitlin Rosenthal Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley Department of History & David Henkin Professor, U.C. Berkeley Department of History	Book Launch: Caitlin Rosenthal's Accounting for Slavery 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Apr 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Hector Postigo Associate Professor of Media & Communication and Media Studies & Production, Temple University	Resisting the Digital Labor Management Robot : Learning to Game The YouTube Search Algorithm from Video Game Commentary Makers 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
12 Apr 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Judy Wajcman Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; 2017-2018 Mellon Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University	The Digital Architecture of Time Management 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
5 Apr 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Henry Cowles Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	When Science Was a Habit 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Mar 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Florence Hsia Professor of History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison	The Problem of 20(k): What's Chinese Astronomy Good For? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
15 Mar 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Deborah Coen Professor of History, Yale University	Climate Science in the Age of Empire 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Mar 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Zeynep Tufekci Associate Professor of the School of Information and Library Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Power of Algorithms and Algorithmic Power: Conceptualizing Machine Intelligence and Social Structure 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
15 Feb 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Chad Wellmon Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Virginia	The University as Technology 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
25 Jan 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elena Conis Professor at the School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley & Aimee Medeiros Assistant Professor of History of Health Sciences, UCSF	Vaccination, Culture, and Politics Since the Sixties 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Nov 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Nasser Zakariya Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley	Final Stories, Scientific Syntheses 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Nov 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Shobita Parthasarathy Associate Professor, Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan	Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Oct 2017 Friday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Donald MacKenzie Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh	Jitter: “Making,” “Taking,” and How Trading Algorithms Interact 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
12 Oct 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Natasha Schüll Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University	Algorithmic Selves: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Sep 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Safiya Umoja Noble Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California	Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Sep 2017 Monday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Evan Michelson Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation & Ann Keller Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management	Emerging Technologies and the Role of NGOs: Exploring Anticipatory Governance in Practice 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Apr 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Rebecca Lemov Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University	The Shadow of Brainwashing: A Short History of Coercive Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
26 Apr 2017 Wednesday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Dr. Jack Stilgoe Senior Lecturer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London	Machine Learning, Social Learning and Responsible Innovation in Self-driving Cars 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Apr 2017 Thursday 5:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Eden Medina Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington	Technology and Forensic Evidence Chilean Human Rights Investigations 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Apr 2017 Tuesday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elizabeth Roberts Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan	What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, Berkeley CA
23 Feb 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Laura Nelson Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies; Chair, Center for Korean Studies	Hopeful Burdens of Survival: Living Past Breast Cancer in South Korea 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elizabeth Petrick Assistant Professor, Federated History Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology	Becoming Users: People with Disabilities and Computer Technology 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Mario Biagioli Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Law, & History, Director, Center for Science & Innovation Studies, Co-Director, Innovating Communication in Scholarship Project, UC Davis	After Fraud: Metrics and the New Scientific Misconduct 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Feb 2017 Friday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Dr. Niki Vermeulen Lecturer in History/ Sociology of Science, Wellcome Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh	Modeling Life: The Choreography of Systems Biology as a Scientific/Intellectual Movement 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Nov 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Sandra Eder Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley	Gender and Normativity: The Transformation of Sex in American Medicine 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Nov 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Jane Calvert Reader in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland	Engineering life? The case of synthetic yeast 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Oct 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Carla Lois Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Autonomous University of Entre Rios Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council	Mapping Revolutions: A New and Unstable Political Map for Latin America during Independencies in European and American Atlases (1800- 1860) 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Oct 2016 Friday 1:30pm -5:00pm	Colloquium	Paul N. Edwards University of Michigan & Bernard Stiegler Centre de recherche et d'innovation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris	Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Oct 2016 Thursday 5:00pm -6:30pm	Colloquium	Bernard Stiegler Head of Centre de recherche et d'innovation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris	Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene Geballe Room, 220 Stephens, Berkeley CA
22 Sep 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Dana Simmons Associate Professor of History, University of California, Riverside	The Living Wage, 'that reproductive ferment': Science, Politics, Wages 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Apr 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Gretchen Gano Associate Director of Research, CSTMS	The Megamachine: Lewis Mumford’s Critique of the Innovation Crowd 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Apr 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Carolyn Merchant Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics, University of California, Berkeley	Autonomous Nature: The Prehistory of Chaos and Complexity Theory 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Apr 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Patrick McCray Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara	“…To Avoid the Waste of a Cultural Revolution”: Engineers & Artists in the Long 1960s 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
31 Mar 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Sergio Sismondo Editor of Social Studies of Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada	Key Opinion Leaders: Choreographing the Pharmaceutical Two-Step 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Mar 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Francesca Rochberg Professor of Near Eastern Studies Department of Near Eastern Studies and Office for the History of Science and Technology and Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology University of California, Berkeley	The Scientific Imagination in Cuneiform Antiquity 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Mar 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Sarah Davies Marie Curie Research Fellow & Assistant Professor Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen	Hacking Is Doing: Mundane Engagement In Hacker and Makerspaces 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Feb 2016 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Nicholas Shapiro Matter, Materials and Culture Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation	Chemo-Capital Succession in the Contemporary U. S.: From Engineered Woods to Alter-Engineered Worlds 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Dec 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Londa Schiebinger The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science; Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations Project; Stanford University	Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Nov 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Malte Ziewitz Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies; Cornell University	Spectacular Algorithms 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Oct 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Nicolas Rasmussen Professor of History and Philosophy of Science; University of New South Wales. Honourary Professor of the Charles Perkins Centre for Chronic Diseases	Goofball Panic: Drug Abuse and the Politics of American Public Health Circa 1950 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Sep 2015 Wednesday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Andrew Pickering Professor of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology; University of Exeter	Sketches of Another Future: Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Sep 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Caitlin C. Rosenthal Assistant Professor of History; University of California, Berkeley	Slavery's Scientific Management: Quantification on Plantations in the American South and the West Indies 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 May 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Paul Dourish Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine	Representational Materialities in the Digital 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Apr 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Stephane Van Damme Professor of History of Science; European University Institute	Thinking from Things: Metropolitan Grandeur and the Emergence of Urban Archaeology in Paris and London (17th-20th centuries) 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Apr 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Annemarie Mol Professor of Anthropology of the Body; University of Amsterdam	Where is 'my eating body'? On Fluid Boundaries and Theoretical Consequences 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Feb 2015 Thursday 5:00pm -7:00pm	Cloud and the Crowd	Christian Borch Professor with Special Responsibilities, Copenhagen Business School	Close and Apart: On Crowds and Atmospheres 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
12 Feb 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	David Guston Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University	Understanding 'Anticipatory Governance' 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Jan 2015 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Rebecca Langlands Associate Professor in Classics; University of Exeter	Greek Pasts, Greek Futures, and the Making of Sexual Science 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Nov 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Janina Wellmann Junior Director, Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana University Luneburg	Animating Embryos 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Nov 2014 Wednesday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Bruno Belhoste Professor of History, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne	Event Canceled 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Oct 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Alexandra Hui Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University	Listening to Nature and Standardizing Sound 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 Oct 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Jenna Burrell Associate Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley	On the Importance of Price Information to Fishers and to Economists 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Sep 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	David Bates Professor and Chair of Rhetoric Department, University of California, Berkeley	Thinking Technologies: An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 May 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Dr Jessica Weir Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney	Life on the inside of Country 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Apr 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Andrew Pickering Professor of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter	CANCELLED: Sketches of Another Future: Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Apr 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Steve Woolgar Professor of Marketing and Director of Science and Technology Studies, University of Oxford	It Could Be Otherwise: Provocation, Irony, and Limits 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Apr 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Edward Jones-Imhotep Associate Professor, History of Science and Technology, York University	Malleability and Machines: Glenn Gould and the Technological Self 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Mar 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Elihu M. Gerson Scholar of Sociology, UC Berkeley	Sex and the Spotted Hyena 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Feb 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Trevor Pinch Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Sociology, Cornell University	Goffman, Material Performativity and the Sounds of Economic Exchange 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Feb 2014 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Lochlann Jain Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University	Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Dec 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Carla Nappi Associate Professor of History, The University of British Columbia	Last Night an Historian Saved My Life: Science, Sampling, and the Art of the DJ 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Nov 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Lisa Parks Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara	Water, Energy, Access: Collaborative Research on Internet and Mobile Phone Infrastructures in Rural Zambia 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Oct 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Erika Milam Associate Professor of the History of Science, Princeton University	Man the Hunted: Rethinking Aggression and Human Nature in the 1970s 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Joanna Radin Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine	Planning for the Past: Endangerment and Cryopreservation at the Millennial Farm, Zoo, and Museum 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Oct 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Emilie Cloatre Senior Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School & Martyn Pickersgill Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Edinburgh	Two Special Talks on Pharmaceuticals, Science Studies, and the Law 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Sep 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Colloquium	Steven Shapin Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University	How Does Wine Taste?: Sense, Science, and the Market in the 20th Century 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
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

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