Colloquia

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

Upcoming events

Date/Time	Event Type	Speaker	Event
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 5101 Berkeley Way West, Berkeley CA
7 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
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
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

Past Colloquia

Date/Time	Event Type	Speaker	Event
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
30 Nov 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Nasser Zakariya Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley	Final Stories, Scientific Syntheses 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Nov 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Shobita Parthasarathy Associate Professor, Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan	Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Oct 2017 Friday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Donald MacKenzie Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh	Jitter: “Making,” “Taking,” and How Trading Algorithms Interact 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
12 Oct 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Natasha Schüll Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University	Algorithmic Selves: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Sep 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Safiya Umoja Noble Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California	Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Sep 2017 Monday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Evan Michelson Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation & Ann Keller Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management	Emerging Technologies and the Role of NGOs: Exploring Anticipatory Governance in Practice 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Apr 2017 Thursday 4:00pm -5:30pm	Colloquium	Rebecca Lemov Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University	The Shadow of Brainwashing: A Short History of Coercive Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA

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