2012 Events

Date/Time	Event Type	Speaker	Event
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
28 Nov 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:00pm	Brownbag	Dieter Hoffmann Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin	Max von Laué (1879-1960): Champion of Freedom 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Nov 2012 Friday 1:00pm -4:00pm	Workshop		Pedagogy and the "Animal Turn": A Workshop 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
31 Oct 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:00pm	Brownbag	Mary Sunderland Lecturer, Department of Nuclear Engineering	Understanding Species Formation: The Development of Ensatina eschscholtzii as a Model for Studying Evolution in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 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
24 Oct 2012 Wednesday 12:30pm -1:00pm	Brownbag	Kenneth Bertrams Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology	Recasting the Ideology of Scientific Internationalism: Impressions from the Solvay Conferences on Physics and Chemistry before, during, and after World War I 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
17 Oct 2012 Wednesday 5:00pm -6:00pm	Special Event		STS PhD Designated Emphasis meet and greet 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Patrick Coffey Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology	Napalm in World War II: Invention, Test, the Bat-Bomb, and Incinerating Japan 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
5 Oct - 7 Oct 2012 Friday - Sunday	Workshop		Bioethics and Sciences of Aging: The Case of Dementia 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Oct 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Mark Schweda Visiting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Society Center	Responsibilization of Aging? Socio-Empirical Findings and Bioethical Exploration 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
19 Sep 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -2:00pm	Brownbag	Angelo Matteo Caglioti PhD Candidate, History of Science	From Lombroso to Fascism: Race, Statistics and Eugenics in the Trajectory of Alfredo Niceforo’s Thought (1876-1960) 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Sep 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Special Event		CSTMS Fall Reception 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
8 Aug 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -2:00pm	Brownbag	Sinéad O’Sullivan Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast	Deciphering and Encoding Knowledge in Carolingian Glosses on Martianus Capella 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Jun 2012 Thursday 3:00pm -5:00pm	STS Working Group	Samuel A. W. Evans Academic Coordinator, CSTMS	Discussion of upcoming NSF Proposal 543 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 May 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:00pm	Brownbag	Lucía Ayala	On the Plurality of Worlds: Images of a New Cosmos 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 May 2012 Friday 3:00pm -5:00pm	Special Event	Cathryn Carson	NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant Workshop 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
4 May - 5 May 2012 Friday - Saturday	Conference		What's new about New Materialisms? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 May 2012 Wednesday 6:00pm -8:00pm	Special Event	Mark Wilson Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh	Is There Life in Possible Worlds? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 May 2012 Wednesday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Special Event	Jenna Burrell School of Information	Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana South Hall, Room 210, Berkeley CA
2 May 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Frank Stanisch University of Calgary	The Making of a New Research Field: On the Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity in the German Neuromorphological Sciences, 1910–1945 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
25 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Michelle Pridmore-Brown OHST Visiting Scholar	The Evolving Concepts of the ‘Natural’ and ‘Unnatural’: Making Cells, Humans and Moral Systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries 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
18 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Veronica Sanz STSC Visiting Scholar	A new tool for the epistemological analysis of “alternative paradigms” in Artificial Intelligence 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Mark Robinson STSC Visiting Scholar	Speculation and Health: Some Reflections on Innovation in Translational Neuroscience 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Apr 2012 Tuesday 6:30pm -8:30pm	Special Event		STS @ Berkeley Undergrad Group Film Series: Children of Men 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Apr 2012 Thursday 6:30pm -8:30pm		Julie Christina Grew University of Copenhagen & STSC	Fireside Conversations: Wireless ICD Patients and their Doubles Berkeley Free House, 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
4 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Josh Roebke OHST Visiting Scholar	Physics in Manchester and Vienna before WWI: Modern Ideas, Culture, and Place 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Apr 2012 Tuesday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Special Event		Trans/Formations: Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Trans Medicine and Healthcare Wurster 102, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2012 Wednesday 6:30pm -8:30pm	Special Event		STS @ Berkeley Undergrad Group Film Series: Minority Report 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Asaf Darash OHST Visiting Scholar	The Third Mode of Action: Computer Languages, Computer Networks and Human Action 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Mar 2012 Tuesday 6:00pm -7:30pm	Special Event	JC Orton Shelter Director of Night on the Streets Catholic Worker (NOSCW) & Julie Miller MSW student/filmmaker	Aging and Homelessness
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
14 Mar 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Chris Jones STSC Visiting Scholar	Energy as Politics: Power and U.S. Political Economy, 1820-1930 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Mar 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Ozzie Zehner STSC Visiting Scholar	Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy Future
29 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Walter Valdivia STSC Visiting Scholar & Samuel A. Evans CSTMS Visiting Scholar & Academic Coordinator	Academic Freedom and National Security Export Controls 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
22 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Samuel A. Evans CSTMS Visiting Scholar & Academic Coordinator	Technology control and imagined international orders or 'Military technology is what states make of it' 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
15 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Crispin Barker OHST Visiting Scholar	The Beginning of the End: The Role of the Media in Popularizing the Telomere Theory of Aging and Cancer 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
8 Feb 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Merav Katz-Kimchi OHST Visiting Scholar	Screening Science, Producing the Nation: Popular Science Programs on Israeli Television, 1968-1988 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
26 Jan 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm	Special Event	Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society	Spring 2012 Reception 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Jan 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm	Brownbag	Terence Keel STSC Visiting Scholar	Religion and the Scientific Study of Race in the US: Conflict or Cooperation? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA

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