Archive for 2016

Affiliate News

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Affiliate News

The Center welcomes faculty members, student, visiting scholar and fellows to submit activities to be reported in affiliate news each month. Please email a brief description of what you have been doing to cstmsnews@berkeley.edu.  Recent News This summer, Jane Flegal spent a month at the OECD in Paris, France, working on international science policy with her dissertation… Read more

4S Barcelona 2016

September 7th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on 4S Barcelona 2016

4S Barcelona 2016

Congratulations to all the CSTMS affiliates who presented last week in Barcelona, Spain, at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and EASST annual meeting. Attendees collectively explored the ways in which science and technology are increasingly performed ‘by other means’, in a variety of exploratory activities that include the articulation of collectives that do… Read more

Cathryn Carson Awarded Prestigious Siebel Chair

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Cathryn Carson Awarded Prestigious Siebel Chair

UC Berkeley leadership recently announced the appointment of Cathryn Carson, Associate Professor in the Department of History, to the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science.  Carson will be the inaugural holder of the chair, created by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation to “recognize and support scholarly and research activities of… Read more

Registration now open: Advancing Science for Policy Through Interdisciplinary Research in Regulation (ASPIRR)

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Registration now open: Advancing Science for Policy Through Interdisciplinary Research in Regulation (ASPIRR)

The University of California Berkeley’s Center to Advance Science in Policy and Regulation (CASPR) together with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS) and co-sponsors the Innovative Genomics Initiative (IGI) and the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research will host a Workshop on Advancing Science for Policy through Interdisciplinary Research in Regulation (ASPIRR). This workshop is supported by the… Read more

STS Summer School: Framing the Infinite

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STS Summer School: Framing the Infinite

BERKELEY HST/STS WORKSHOP & SYMPOSIUM: Framing the Infinite: the Social Sciences of Space and Cosmology The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at U.C. Berkeley is delighted to offer a summer school on our campus in August 20-21, 2016.  This event will bring together students and scholars in the integrated fields of History of Science and Science, Technology,… Read more

Affiliate News

April 13th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on Affiliate News

Affiliate News

The Center welcomes faculty members, student, visiting scholar and fellows to submit activities to be reported in affiliate news each month. Please email a brief description of what you have been doing to cstmsnews@berkeley.edu.  RECENT NEWS: Jameson Karns & Angelo Caglioti Angelo and Jameson both presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting (AAG). Angelo’s talk was… Read more

Ann Keller Receives NSF SciScip Workshop Grant

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Ann Keller Receives NSF SciScip Workshop Grant

Arthur Reingold (Public Health) and CSTMS affiliate Ann Keller (Public Health) have been awarded an NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy grant to convene a Workshop for Advancing Science for Policy through Interdisciplinary Research in Regulation (ASPIRR) in fall 2016. Scientific evidence is a critical consideration in the process of creating regulatory policies and laws that promote technological… Read more

CSTMS faculty present at Pacific Sociology Conference

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CSTMS faculty present at Pacific Sociology Conference

CSTMS Director Massimo Mazzotti and faculty member Charis Thompson participated in last week’s 87th annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association Linking Theory and Practice: The Conduct of Sociology. Massimo Mazzotti provided commentary on a panel examining Rebecca Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed’s books, Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States, and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist… Read more

CSTMS welcomes new DE students

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CSTMS welcomes new DE students

The Designated Emphasis (DE) in Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a program of training in the social studies of science, technology, and medicine for Berkeley and UCSF PhD students from any home department. CSTMS welcomes six new DE Students in Spring 2016: Jameson Karns – History Julia Lewandoski- History Kathleen Gutierrez- South and Southeast Asian Studies… Read more

CSTMS Receives Townsend Center Representations Grant

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CSTMS Receives Townsend Center Representations Grant

Representations Grant:  Representations seeks to transform and enrich the understanding of cultures. Our central interests lie in the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice. CSTMS project: While algorithms are a foundational concept in computer science, there is increasing interest about the roles algorithms play in politics, media, science, organizations, and identity… Read more

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Thoughts about the medical humanities by Program members.

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Find out more about upcoming and past events sponsored by PMH.

PMH sponsors interdisciplinary courses on such topics as aging and old age, suffering, and death. See syllabi of select courses.


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