On November, 6, 2015, UC Berkeley’s Humanities and Social Sciences Association (HSSA) will hold a symposium, Crowdsourcing and the academy: Exploring promises and problems of collective intelligence methods in humanities and social science research on the UC Berkeley campus.  The purpose of this event is to explore the premises, promises, and risks of crowdsourcing in the social sciences and humanities. … Read more

In April 2015, CSTMS hosted a two-day interdisciplinary conference on “Faking It:” Counterfeits, Copies, and Uncertain Truths in Science, Technology, and Medicine. Over the past several decades, science studies scholars have explored the ways in which scientific knowledge and practice is socially constructed, debated, contested, and deemed credible by the public.  Others have turned their… Read more

CSTMS is thrilled to announce three of our graduating STS Designated Emphasis students have accepted new positions! Rachel Carmen Ceasar, PhD in Medical Anthropology, is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work examines the intersection of forensic archaeology, the dead body, and hierarchies of heritage and knowledge… Read more

A direct result from the workshop on Valuation Studies, hosted by CSTMS in December 2014, an open session at 4S has been accepted and is now open for submissions! Please see 4S Open Session #56: “Valuation Studies: The Processes and Politics of Valuing in the World.”  This session is co-organized by Freyja Knapp (CSTMS, University of California, Berkeley) Claes-Fredrik… Read more

Abstracts and panel proposals due: February 13, 2015. Conference held: April 10-11, 2015 Hosted by: The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at The University of California, Berkeley We invite colleagues to join us for a two day symposium at the University of California, Berkeley on “faking it”–here construed broadly as fudging, imitating, juking, playing the trickster,… Read more