Colloquia

Colloquia are weekly events with an invited speaker. They are often live-streamed, and you are welcome to watch when they are.

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Past Colloquia

Date/Time	Event Type	Speaker	Event
7 Nov 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Christopher Phillips Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University	Scouting and Scoring: Baseball as a Data-Based Science 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Ruha Benjamin Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University	The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Sep 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Mar Hicks Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology	Binaries and Beyond: Learning from Inequality in the History of Computing 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Edward Jones-Imhotep Associate Professor of History at York University	Unreliable Humans, Failing Machines: The Lost Histories of the Technological Self 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Jenny Reardon Professor of Sociology, U.C. Santa Cruz	The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After the Genome 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elizabeth Hoover Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University	"We're not going to be Guinea Pigs"; Community-based Research in Environmental Health and Food Justice with Native American Communities 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Feb 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Samuel Roberts Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University	Drugs, Politics, and Pariahs: Or, How to Think Historically About Race and Harm Reduction in an Opioid Epidemic Berkeley Way West Building, Room 5101, Berkeley CA
14 Feb 2019 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Colin Milburn Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Digital Media, UC Davis	How to Do Things with Science Fiction: Hackers, Gamers, and Technopolitics 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Nov 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Virginia Eubanks Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY	Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor Banatao Auditorium, Berkeley CA
8 Nov 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Suman Seth Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University	Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Oct 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elena Aronova Assistant Professor of History of Science at UCSB	The Past Futures of the History of Science: the Many Worlds of Nikolai Vavilov 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Sep 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Book Launch	Caitlin Rosenthal Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley Department of History & David Henkin Professor, U.C. Berkeley Department of History	Book Launch: Caitlin Rosenthal's Accounting for Slavery 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Apr 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Hector Postigo Associate Professor of Media & Communication and Media Studies & Production, Temple University	Resisting the Digital Labor Management Robot : Learning to Game The YouTube Search Algorithm from Video Game Commentary Makers 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
12 Apr 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Judy Wajcman Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; 2017-2018 Mellon Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University	The Digital Architecture of Time Management 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
5 Apr 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Henry Cowles Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	When Science Was a Habit 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Mar 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Florence Hsia Professor of History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison	The Problem of 20(k): What's Chinese Astronomy Good For? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
15 Mar 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Deborah Coen Professor of History, Yale University	Climate Science in the Age of Empire 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Mar 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Zeynep Tufekci Associate Professor of the School of Information and Library Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Power of Algorithms and Algorithmic Power: Conceptualizing Machine Intelligence and Social Structure 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
15 Feb 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Chad Wellmon Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Virginia	The University as Technology 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA CA
25 Jan 2018 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Elena Conis Professor at the School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley & Aimee Medeiros Assistant Professor of History of Health Sciences, UCSF	Vaccination, Culture, and Politics Since the Sixties 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA

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