Colloquia

Colloquia are events with an invited speaker.

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Past Colloquia

Date/Time	Event Type	Speaker	Event
12 Nov 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Michael Mascarenhas Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley & Kelly Grindstaff, PhD Research Associate at Lawrence Hall of Science	“No One Wants to Believe It”: Manifestations of White Privilege in a STEM-Focused College
29 Oct 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Jenna Burrell Associate Professor in the School of Information and Co-Director of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group at UC Berkeley	On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon
22 Oct 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Ashton Wesner CSTMS Research Fellow and Lead Researcher of Queer Ecologies \| Feminist Biologies Collaborative	Counting Sturgeon: Settler Empirics and Moving Fish in the Columbia River
8 Oct 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Aimee Medeiros Associate Professor and Director of the History of Health Sciences Program at UC San Francisco	Pink and Blue: The Gendering of Pediatric Growth Charts
24 Sep 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Morgan Ames Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley & Jacob Gaboury Assistant Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley	The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
19 Mar 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Lilly Irani Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego	[CANCELLED] Chasing Innovation: Entrepreneurial Citizenship and the Subsumption of Hope 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Mar 2020 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Fred Turner Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University	Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Feb 2020 Thursday 12:00pm -2:00pm	Colloquium	Lucy Suchman Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University	Demystifying AI as an Ethical Project: A Discussion 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
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

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