Are you considering taking a Rhetoric course this spring? Have you ever questioned what art is? What science is? Are distinctions between the two–whether imagined, philosophical, historical, or practical–critical to any productive conception of them? This course probes literature from and about both art and science in order interrogate this operative distinction, in turn questioning… Read more

The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Science has admitted six graduate students to the Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies this year! Congratulations to Niklas Lollo, Evangeline Mcgylnn, Kaily Heitz, Savannah Cox, Nain Martinez, and Henry Schmidt! We look forward to introducing these students to the CSTMS community at the Spring Reception on Thursday, February 7, 2019.

CSTMS affiliates including Shreeharsh Kelkar, Lawrence Cohen, Sarah Vaughn, Alexei Yurchak, Aihwa Ong, Michael D’Arcy, Heather Mellquist Lehto, Charles Briggs, Mauricio Najarro, Morgan G. Ames, Jenna Burrell, and more are presenting this week at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose. See more here.

Three CSTMS affiliates are named as 2018 fellows at the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy: 1. DE student Anne Jonas for her project “Building tech capacity: Investigating tech philanthropy training and education programs for the ‘skilling up’ of youth.” Anne is a third year PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information, with a designated… Read more

Olivier Darrigol is a Research Associate at OHST / CSTMS and an associate editor of HSNS. His book, “Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann’s Statistico-Mechanical Writings – An Exegesis” was launched last week in the United Kingdom. He is the author of several books on the history of quantum physics, electrodynamics, hydrodyamics, and optics. Darrigol writes… Read more

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 cstms-news@berkeley.edu.   Recent News An essay written by CSTMS faculty affiliate Elena Conis has recently been published in Environmental History, Volume 22, Issue 4.… Read more

A foundational concept in computer science, algorithms – loosely defined as a set of rules to direct the behavior of machines or humans – have shaped infrastructures, practices, and daily lives around the world. The CSTMS research cluster on Algorithms in Culture explores the implications of their development and deployment in politics, media, science, organizations,… Read more