Archive for 2014

CSTMS hosts Workshop on Valuation Studies

December 16th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news, Research highlights | Comments Off on CSTMS hosts Workshop on Valuation Studies

CSTMS hosts Workshop on Valuation Studies

CSTMS hosted the first of two “Valuation Studies” workshops, funded by the Peder Sather Center, from December 10-12, 2014. Co-organized with the University of Oslo’s Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), the workshop brought together scholars from Norway, Sweden, Canada, and Berkeley to discuss this emergent field focusing on the practices and politics of values and… Read more

New STS Course in Spring 2015

October 10th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on New STS Course in Spring 2015

New STS Course in Spring 2015

For the first time, CSTMS, in close collaboration with the undergraduate major in Interdisciplinary Studies, will be offering an undergraduate survey course in STS. Science, Technology, and Society Spring 2015 Lead Instructors: Massimo Mazzotti (History) and David Winickoff (ESPM) Guest lecturers: Freyja Knapp, Marissa Mika, Hélène Mialet, and Michele Pridmore-Brown. Be it bugs, buildings, or bits, what… Read more

Freyja L. Knapp joins the CSTMS Team

October 2nd, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on Freyja L. Knapp joins the CSTMS Team

Freyja L. Knapp joins the CSTMS Team

CSTMS is thrilled that Freyja Knapp is joining the Center this semester as a Graduate Fellow. As a long-term member of the CSTMS community, Freyja is excited to be working with the Center this semester and brings a passion for driving CSTMS forward. Freyja will be working on programmatic activity such as the Fall 2014 Colloquium… Read more

Assistant Professor Position in the History and Rhetoric of Science and Technology

September 19th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on Assistant Professor Position in the History and Rhetoric of Science and Technology

Assistant Professor Position in the History and Rhetoric of Science and Technology

The Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the History and Rhetoric of Science and Technology, for an expected start date of July 1, 2015. At the time of application, applicants must either have a Ph.D. or equivalent, or be near… Read more

CSTMS hosts Workshop on Geoengineering Governance

September 3rd, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news, Research highlights | Comments Off on CSTMS hosts Workshop on Geoengineering Governance

CSTMS hosts Workshop on Geoengineering Governance

In an NSF-funded initiative, bSTS Director David Winickoff and CSTMS partnered with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to produce a two-day workshop on geoengineering governance at UC Berkeley from July 21-22, 2014. The workshop was the most geographically inclusive discussion of its kind in this new field, featuring over forty mid-career environmental leaders from thirty countries… Read more

Sam Weiss Evans Presents at a UN Biological Weapons Convention Side Event

August 18th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on Sam Weiss Evans Presents at a UN Biological Weapons Convention Side Event

Sam Weiss Evans Presents at a UN Biological Weapons Convention Side Event

CSTMS Associate Director Sam Weiss Evans gave a talk to the United Nations’ Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of Experts in Geneva on August 6, 2014. He and several of his colleagues presented on work they have been doing as part of the British ESRC/AHRC/DSTL funded grant on The Formulation and Non-formulation of Security Concerns: Preventing… Read more

Faking Galileo

July 3rd, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on Faking Galileo

Faking Galileo

CSTMS Director Massimo Mazzotti writes “Faking Galileo” which examines a recent forgery of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, a landmark book in the history of science.  Mazzotti links this episode to larger questions about the role of scholars’ own projections and expectations on their interpretations.  “Faking Galileo” is a feature article in the Spring 2014 Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) Quarterly Journal.… Read more

CSTMS Receives Peder Sather Grant

June 20th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on CSTMS Receives Peder Sather Grant

CSTMS Receives Peder Sather Grant

The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study has awarded CSTMS Director Massimo Mazzotti and Professor Asdal of Norway $15,000 for their joint research project, The Berkeley-Olso Initiative in Valuation Studies. “Valuation studies” is an emergent field that focuses on the practices and politics whereby various entities (e.g. nature objects, market entities) are modified and ascribed with economic values in… Read more

CSTMS scholars in letter to Nature on synthetic biology

June 13th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on CSTMS scholars in letter to Nature on synthetic biology

CSTMS scholars in letter to Nature on synthetic biology

Led by Sam Weiss Evans, David Winickoff and 19 other Science and Technology Studies authors have commented on a recent Nature special issue on synthetic biology. Their letter to the editor focuses on replying to “Time to settle the synthetic controversy” by Volker ter Meulen. The full text of a preprint version of the letter is below. Synthetic biology: missing the point… Read more

Camilla Hawthorne Awarded 2014 Ford Foundation Fellowship

May 9th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Latest news, Research highlights | Comments Off on Camilla Hawthorne Awarded 2014 Ford Foundation Fellowship

Camilla Hawthorne Awarded 2014 Ford Foundation Fellowship

Camilla Hawthorne, STS Designated Emphasis student at Berkeley, has been selected as a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow for her project entitled, “There Are No Black Italians? National Belonging and the Nuovi Italiani.” This highly competitive fellowship grants her three full years of support for her PhD dissertation work. The awards are made to “individuals who,… Read more

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