Past Colloquia

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
14 Nov 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Shreeharsh Kelkar
Continuing Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
Who Are the Data Scientists?: Evidence from the Field of Education Data Mining
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Oct 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Laura Mamo
Professor of Public Health, San Francisco State University
Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Oct 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Gregory Radick
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Oct 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Kathryn Olivarius
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Apr 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Héctor Beltrán
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MIT
Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Bernard Geoghegan
Reader in the History and Theory of Digital Media, University of Gothenburg
Seeing and Seafaring: Maritime Navigation and the Scopic Regime of Computation
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Mar 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Stacey Van Vleet
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Potency, Effectiveness, Efficacy: Boundary Problems and the Making of “Minority Medicines” in 20th Century China
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Feb 2024
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Akash Kumar
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Science and Justice in Dante
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Nov 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Ksenia Tatarchenko
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Singapore Management University
How Genius Grows: Novosibirsk Specialized Physics and Mathematics School (FMSh), Non-Artificial Intelligence, and the Limits of Transformative Projects
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2023
Tuesday
3:30pm -5:00pm
Colloquium
Massimo Mazzotti
CSTMS Faculty Affiliate and Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of History
Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, “Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity”
Social Science Matrix, Berkeley
12 Oct 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Antoine Johnson
Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1997
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Apr 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Mar 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Margaret Jack
Postdoctoral Scholar at Syracuse University
Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2023
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Elizabeth Reddy
Assistant Professor of Engineering, Design, & Society at Colorado School of Mines
¡Alerta! Life with Earthquakes and Warnings
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Nov 2022
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
Book Talk

Authors Meet Critics: How the Clinic Made Gender
Social Science Matrix, Berkeley CA
20 Oct 2022
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Ayah Nuriddin
Race Hygiene: Black Eugenics and Health Inequality
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Oct 2022
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Sareeta Amrute
The Weapons of the Snake: Fugitive Cryptography in the Indian Activist Diaspora
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Sep 2022
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Anthony Ryan Hatch
Metabolism Cages for New World Animals, Small and Large
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Nov 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Soraya De Chadarevian
Professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Heredity Under the Microscope
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Oct 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Sarah S. Richardson
Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard
The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Sep 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Hannah Zeavin
Lecturer in History and English at UC Berkeley
Auto-Intimacy: Algorithmic Therapies and Care of the Self
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Mar 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Melina Packer
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside
From Medici to Macho 4.0: Masculinism and Militarism in Toxicology
11 Mar 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Silvia Lindtner
Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information
Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation
18 Feb 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Lilly Irani
Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
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
youtube 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
youtube 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
Marie 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
youtube 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
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
youtube 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
youtube 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
youtube 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
youtube 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
youtube 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
youtube 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
26 Apr 2017
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
youtube Dr. Jack Stilgoe
Senior Lecturer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London
Machine Learning, Social Learning and Responsible Innovation in Self-driving Cars
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Apr 2017
Thursday
5:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington
Technology and Forensic Evidence Chilean Human Rights Investigations
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Apr 2017
Tuesday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Elizabeth Roberts
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan
What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City
Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, Berkeley CA
23 Feb 2017
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Laura Nelson
Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies; Chair, Center for Korean Studies
Hopeful Burdens of Survival: Living Past Breast Cancer in South Korea
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2017
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Elizabeth Petrick
Assistant Professor, Federated History Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Becoming Users: People with Disabilities and Computer Technology
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Feb 2017
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
youtube Mario Biagioli
Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Law, & History, Director, Center for Science & Innovation Studies, Co-Director, Innovating Communication in Scholarship Project, UC Davis
After Fraud: Metrics and the New Scientific Misconduct
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Feb 2017
Friday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
youtube Dr. Niki Vermeulen
Lecturer in History/ Sociology of Science, Wellcome Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
Modeling Life: The Choreography of Systems Biology as a Scientific/Intellectual Movement
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Nov 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Sandra Eder
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Gender and Normativity: The Transformation of Sex in American Medicine
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Nov 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Jane Calvert
Reader in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Engineering life? The case of synthetic yeast
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Oct 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Carla Lois
Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Autonomous University of Entre Rios Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Mapping Revolutions: A New and Unstable Political Map for Latin America during Independencies in European and American Atlases (1800- 1860)
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Oct 2016
Friday
1:30pm -5:00pm
Colloquium
Paul N. Edwards
University of Michigan
& Bernard Stiegler
Centre de recherche et d'innovation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Oct 2016
Thursday
5:00pm -6:30pm
Colloquium
Bernard Stiegler
Head of Centre de recherche et d'innovation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens, Berkeley CA
22 Sep 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Dana Simmons
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
The Living Wage, 'that reproductive ferment': Science, Politics, Wages
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Apr 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Gretchen Gano
Associate Director of Research, CSTMS
The Megamachine: Lewis Mumford’s Critique of the Innovation Crowd
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Apr 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Carolyn Merchant
Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics, University of California, Berkeley
Autonomous Nature: The Prehistory of Chaos and Complexity Theory
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Apr 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Patrick McCray
Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
“…To Avoid the Waste of a Cultural Revolution”: Engineers & Artists in the Long 1960s
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
31 Mar 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Sergio Sismondo
Editor of Social Studies of Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Key Opinion Leaders: Choreographing the Pharmaceutical Two-Step
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Mar 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Francesca Rochberg
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Department of Near Eastern Studies and Office for the History of Science and Technology and Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology University of California, Berkeley
The Scientific Imagination in Cuneiform Antiquity
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Mar 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Sarah Davies
Marie Curie Research Fellow & Assistant Professor Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen
Hacking Is Doing: Mundane Engagement In Hacker and Makerspaces
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Feb 2016
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Nicholas Shapiro
Matter, Materials and Culture Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chemo-Capital Succession in the Contemporary U. S.: From Engineered Woods to Alter-Engineered Worlds
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Dec 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Londa Schiebinger
The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science; Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations Project; Stanford University
Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Nov 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Malte Ziewitz
Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies; Cornell University
Spectacular Algorithms
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Oct 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Nicolas Rasmussen
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science; University of New South Wales. Honourary Professor of the Charles Perkins Centre for Chronic Diseases
Goofball Panic: Drug Abuse and the Politics of American Public Health Circa 1950
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Sep 2015
Wednesday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Andrew Pickering
Professor of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology; University of Exeter
Sketches of Another Future: Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Sep 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Caitlin C. Rosenthal
Assistant Professor of History; University of California, Berkeley
Slavery's Scientific Management: Quantification on Plantations in the American South and the West Indies
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 May 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Paul Dourish
Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine
Representational Materialities in the Digital
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Apr 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Stephane Van Damme
Professor of History of Science; European University Institute
Thinking from Things: Metropolitan Grandeur and the Emergence of Urban Archaeology in Paris and London (17th-20th centuries)
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Apr 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Annemarie Mol
Professor of Anthropology of the Body; University of Amsterdam
Where is 'my eating body'? On Fluid Boundaries and Theoretical Consequences
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Feb 2015
Thursday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Cloud and the Crowd
live-stream
Christian Borch
Professor with Special Responsibilities, Copenhagen Business School
Close and Apart: On Crowds and Atmospheres
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
12 Feb 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
David Guston
Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Understanding 'Anticipatory Governance'
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Jan 2015
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Rebecca Langlands
Associate Professor in Classics; University of Exeter
Greek Pasts, Greek Futures, and the Making of Sexual Science
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Nov 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Janina Wellmann
Junior Director, Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana University Luneburg
Animating Embryos
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Nov 2014
Wednesday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Bruno Belhoste
Professor of History, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Event Canceled
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Oct 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Alexandra Hui
Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University
Listening to Nature and Standardizing Sound
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 Oct 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Jenna Burrell
Associate Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
On the Importance of Price Information to Fishers and to Economists
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Sep 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube David Bates
Professor and Chair of Rhetoric Department, University of California, Berkeley
Thinking Technologies: An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 May 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Dr Jessica Weir
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney
Life on the inside of Country
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Apr 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Andrew Pickering
Professor of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter
CANCELLED: Sketches of Another Future: Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Apr 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
youtube Steve Woolgar
Professor of Marketing and Director of Science and Technology Studies, University of Oxford
It Could Be Otherwise: Provocation, Irony, and Limits
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Apr 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Edward Jones-Imhotep
Associate Professor, History of Science and Technology, York University
Malleability and Machines: Glenn Gould and the Technological Self
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Mar 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Elihu M. Gerson
Scholar of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Sex and the Spotted Hyena
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Feb 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Trevor Pinch
Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Sociology, Cornell University
Goffman, Material Performativity and the Sounds of Economic Exchange
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Feb 2014
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Lochlann Jain
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Dec 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Carla Nappi
Associate Professor of History, The University of British Columbia
Last Night an Historian Saved My Life: Science, Sampling, and the Art of the DJ
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Nov 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Lisa Parks
Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Water, Energy, Access: Collaborative Research on Internet and Mobile Phone Infrastructures in Rural Zambia
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Oct 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Erika Milam
Associate Professor of the History of Science, Princeton University
Man the Hunted: Rethinking Aggression and Human Nature in the 1970s
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Joanna Radin
Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
Planning for the Past: Endangerment and Cryopreservation at the Millennial Farm, Zoo, and Museum
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Oct 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Emilie Cloatre
Senior Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School
& Martyn Pickersgill
Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Edinburgh
Two Special Talks on Pharmaceuticals, Science Studies, and the Law
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Sep 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Steven Shapin
Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
How Does Wine Taste?: Sense, Science, and the Market in the 20th Century
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
8 May 2013
Wednesday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
youtube Bernard Lightman
Professor of Humanities, York University; Editor, Isis
Science at the Metaphysical Society: Defining Knowledge in the 1870s
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 May 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Donna Jones
Associate Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley
Cursed Immortality: Temporality and Crisis in Contemporary Speculative Fiction
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Apr 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
John Naccarato
Augmented Reality: Towards the Augmentation of a Brave New World
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Rob Iliffe
Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science, University of Sussex
Self-experiment, Sex, and the Care of the Self: Newton's Private Life in the Age of the Web
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Michael Gordin
Professor, History of Science, Princeton University
The Russians Are Writing!: The Cold War Crisis of Scientific Translation
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Peter Redfield
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Beyond the Bush Pump: Microworlds of Humanitarian Design
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Feb 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Maurice Finocchiaro
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Galileo Affair and the Berkeley Para-clericals
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Jan 2013
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Brian Rappert
Professor, Sociology and Philosophy Department, University of Exeter
Estimating Ignorance: Revelations, Expertise, and Counts of the Dead
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
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
live-stream
youtube 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
1 Nov 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Sven Dupré
Professor, Freie Universität Berlin
Vitreous Pursuits
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Oct 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
youtube Philip Campbell
Editor in Chief, Nature
Enhancing Value, Reproducibility, and Access: Challenges in Scientific Publishing
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Oct 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
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
11 Oct 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube 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
27 Sep 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube 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
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
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
19 Apr 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Hannah Landecker
University of California, Los Angeles
American Metabolism
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Apr 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Rachel Prentice
Cornell University
Control in the Operating Room
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
15 Mar 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Emily Martin
New York University
Steps Toward an Anthropology of the Human Subject in Experimental Psychology
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 Feb 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube 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
16 Feb 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Christopher Kelty
University of California, Los Angeles
The Fog of Freedom
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Feb 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Jan Golinski
University of New Hampshire
Sublime Astronomy and the End of the Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Dec 2011
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Tiago Saraiva
Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department University of California, Berkeley and Research Fellow Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
Fascist Pigs: Genetics, Food, and Fascism
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Oct 2011
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Jimena Canales
Harvard University
A Tenth of a Second
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Oct 2011
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
live-stream
youtube Kristen Haring
Auburn University & Stanford Humanities Center
How to Knit a Popular History of Media
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Oct 2011
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Paolo Magaudda
Università di Padova
The Worm, the Apple and the "Consumerization" of Hacking Practices and Culture
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Sep 2011
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Professor Alastair Iles
Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Division of Society & Environment
"Greening" Chemistry: A Missing Affective Dimension
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Apr 2011
Thursday
12:00am -12:00am
Colloquium
Professor Gillian Einstein
Situated Neurology
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Apr 2011
Thursday
12:00am -12:00am
Colloquium
Professor Cathy Gere
UCSD
Utilitarian Neurology and the Reinvention of Autonomy, 1973 to 1978
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2011
Monday
12:00am -6:00pm
Colloquium
Peter R. Dear
Professor of the History of Science, Department of History, Cornell University
Natural Philosophy and the Cultural Status of Reason
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
9 Mar 2011
Wednesday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
youtube Mario Biagioli
University of California, Davis
Secrecy and Openness Revisited: A Genealogy of Priority in Science
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Mar 2011
Thursday
12:00am -12:00am
Colloquium
Professor Rayvon Fouché
University of Illinois
Merckx and the Machine: Governing Bodies, Banned Technologies, and the Future of Sport
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Feb 2011
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Antoine Hennion
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation Mines-ParisTech, France
From ANT to Attachment/Detachment - Bodies, Things, Collectives
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Feb 2011
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
youtube Mary Terrall
University of California, Los Angeles
Science in the Household: Collection and Experimentation in Eighteenth-Century Natural History
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
31 Jan 2011
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
youtube Tiago Saraiva
University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences
F. J. Turner for Fascists: The Circulation of Karakul Sheep and the Imperial Landscapes of Fascism
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Jan 2011
Thursday
12:00am -6:00pm
Colloquium
Professor Tanja Paulitz
University of Graz, Austria
Contested Knowledge of the Mechanical Machine and the Forming of German Academic Mechanical Engineering: Gender and the Nature/Technology Boundary around 1900
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Nov 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
David Kaiser
How the Hippies Saved Physics
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
15 Nov 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Peter Westwick
Aerospace and Surfing: Connecting Two California Keynotes
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Sep 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Roshid Rashed
Arabic Mathematics and the Modern Beginnings of Mathematics: Khayyâm - Descartes
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 May 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Ken Alder
Northwestern University
The Forensic Self: Identity and Personal Identification in France
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
26 Apr 2010
Monday
4:00am -6:00am
Colloquium
Laura Smoller
Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock
From Authentic Miracles to a Rhetoric of Authenticity: Examples from the Canonization and Cult of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Apr 2010
Wednesday
6:00pm -8:00pm
Colloquium
Professor Alan Richardson
Carnap's Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy, historisch-kritisch dargestellt.
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
12 Apr 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Rivka Feldhay
The Jesuits: Transmitters of the New Science?
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
8 Mar 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
J.B. Shank
University of Minnesota
Rethinking Enlightenment Science: A Media Approach
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Mar 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Colloquium
Lawrence Badash
UCSB
A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s.
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA

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