Past Events
Date/Time | Event Type | Speaker | Event |
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21 May 2013 Tuesday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
Massimo Mazzotti History, UC Berkeley & Susan Schwartz Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz |
Putting Earthquake Prediction on Trial: Lessons from the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake Oakes Mural Room, Science Justice Research Center, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 |
9 May - 10 May 2013 Thursday - Friday |
Conference |
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Funny Kinds of Love: The Ethics and Affects of Human-Animal Relationships 3335 Dwinelle & 9 Lewis, Berkeley CA |
9 May - 26 May 2013 Thursday - Sunday |
Non-CSTMS Event |
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Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn Osher Studio, Berkeley CA |
8 May 2013 Wednesday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium |
![]() Professor of Humanities, York University; Editor, Isis |
Science at the Metaphysical Society: Defining Knowledge in the 1870s 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
8 May 2013 Wednesday 12:00pm -12:00pm |
Brownbag |
Miwao Matsumoto Professor of Sociology, University of Tokyo |
CANCELED: A Hidden Accident Long Before Fukushima: From the Viewpoint of "Structural Disaster" 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 |
26 Apr 2013 Friday 11:00am -6:00pm |
Conference![]() |
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(Un)certain Boundaries: Visualizing the intersections of science & society 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
25 Apr 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
John Naccarato |
Augmented Reality: Towards the Augmentation of a Brave New World 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
24 Apr 2013 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:00pm |
Brownbag |
![]() Preston Hotchkis Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley |
Special Talk: Kuhn, the Quotidian, and the Question of God's Death 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
13 Apr - 14 Apr 2013 Saturday - Sunday |
Conference |
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Vital Signs: The State of the Art and Science of Medicine and Society |
12 Apr 2013 Friday 1:00pm -5:00pm |
Conference |
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Structural Competency: New Medicine for Institutional Inequalities that Make Us Sick 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
12 Apr 2013 Friday 9:00am -1:00pm |
Conference |
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Let's Have An Awesome Time Doing Science! A Discussion on Maintaining Happiness in a Challenging Career |
11 Apr 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
![]() 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 |
8 Apr 2013 Monday 3:30pm -5:30pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
Ruha Benjamin Assistant Professor, Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University |
People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier |
5 Apr - 6 Apr 2013 Friday - Saturday |
Conference |
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Is There A New Development? The promise and politics of provincializing experts, models, and knowledge in the 21st century. Blum Hall B100, Bekeley CA |
3 Apr 2013 Wednesday 12:00pm -12:00pm |
Brownbag |
Rudolf Seising Adjoint Researcher, European Centre for Soft Computing |
On a History of Fuzzy Sets and Systems 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
2 Apr 2013 Tuesday 12:00pm -1:00pm |
STEP Talk |
Steve Lindow Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley |
From the lab to the field: history and regulation of biotechnological applications in agriculture 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
22 Mar - 27 Apr 2013 Friday - Saturday |
Non-CSTMS Event |
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Brecht's "The Life of Galileo" Masquers Playhouse, Richmond CA |
21 Mar 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
Michael Gordin Professor, History of Science, Princeton University |
The Russians Are Writing!: The Cold War Crisis of Scientific Translation 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
15 Mar - 16 Mar 2013 Friday - Saturday |
Non-CSTMS Event |
Center for Race and Gender |
Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science, and Survival 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
14 Mar 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
![]() Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Beyond the Bush Pump: Microworlds of Humanitarian Design 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
26 Feb 2013 Tuesday 12:00pm -1:00pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
Michael Meltzer |
STEP Seminar: "Influencing Policy Through Science Writing" 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
21 Feb 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
![]() 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 |
31 Jan 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Reception |
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CSTMS Spring Reception 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
24 Jan 2013 Thursday 6:30pm -7:30pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
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Regents Lecture: Genomic Medicine: The Development, Economic and Ethical Challenges of Translating Basic Research Into Clinical Practice 105 Stanley Hall, Berkeley CA |
24 Jan 2013 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
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![]() |
![]() 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 |
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Pedagogy and the "Animal Turn": A Workshop 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
1 Nov 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
![]() 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 |
![]() 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 |
22 Oct 2012 Monday 12:30pm -12:30pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
Duana Fullwiley Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University |
Berkeley Law Events, Center for the Study of Law & Society Philip Selznick Seminar Room, Berkeley CA |
20 Oct 2012 Saturday 11:00am -5:00pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
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One Struggle: Intersectionality and Critical Animal Studies Heller Room, MLK Student Union, 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 |
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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 5:00pm -7:00pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
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Fiat Mashup!: Appropriation, and Creative Interventions Using the Fiat Lux Photographs Geballe Room, 220 Stephens, Berkeley CA |