Past Events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
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
4 Apr 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Josh Roebke
OHST Visiting Scholar
Physics in Manchester and Vienna before WWI: Modern Ideas, Culture, and Place
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Apr 2012
Tuesday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Special Event

Trans/Formations: Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Trans Medicine and Healthcare
Wurster 102, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2012
Wednesday
6:30pm -8:30pm
Special Event

STS @ Berkeley Undergrad Group Film Series: Minority Report
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Asaf Darash
OHST Visiting Scholar
The Third Mode of Action: Computer Languages, Computer Networks and Human Action
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
20 Mar 2012
Tuesday
6:00pm -7:30pm
Special Event
JC Orton
Shelter Director of Night on the Streets Catholic Worker (NOSCW)
& Julie Miller
MSW student/filmmaker
Aging and Homelessness
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
15 Mar - 16 Mar 2012
Thursday - Friday
Non-CSTMS Event

Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science, & Survival
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Chris Jones
STSC Visiting Scholar
Energy as Politics: Power and U.S. Political Economy, 1820-1930
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Mar 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
live-stream
youtube Ozzie Zehner
STSC Visiting Scholar
Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy Future
29 Feb 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Walter Valdivia
STSC Visiting Scholar
& Samuel A. Evans
CSTMS Visiting Scholar & Academic Coordinator
Academic Freedom and National Security Export Controls
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
22 Feb 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Samuel A. Evans
CSTMS Visiting Scholar & Academic Coordinator
Technology control and imagined international orders or 'Military technology is what states make of it'
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
15 Feb 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Crispin Barker
OHST Visiting Scholar
The Beginning of the End: The Role of the Media in Popularizing the Telomere Theory of Aging and Cancer
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
8 Feb 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Merav Katz-Kimchi
OHST Visiting Scholar
Screening Science, Producing the Nation: Popular Science Programs on Israeli Television, 1968-1988
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
26 Jan 2012
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Special Event
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Spring 2012 Reception
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Jan 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Terence Keel
STSC Visiting Scholar
Religion and the Scientific Study of Race in the US: Conflict or Cooperation?
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Dec 2011
Friday
10:00am -4:00pm
Workshop

BerkeleyDesignSTS
David Brower Center, 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
30 Nov 2011
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Deirdre Loughridge
UC Berkeley, Department of Music
Kant’s Telescope, Beethoven’s Telephone
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
16 Nov 2011
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Robert Chester
Comstock Creations: The Properties of an Industrial Watershed
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
10 Nov 2011
Thursday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Brownbag
Miguel Sánchez Romero
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
The Change of the Role of Technology in International Exhibitions at the Beginning of Twentieth Century: Europe and Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915)
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Nov 2011
Thursday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Performance

Readers Theater :: On Aging
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
26 Oct 2011
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Mary Murrell
UC Berkeley
"Access" and the Digital Library
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Oct 2011
Tuesday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Special Event

Launch Party :: Sciences and Society Undergraduate Course Thread Launch
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
11 Oct 2011
Tuesday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Mary Sunderland
Alden Miller and Collections-Based Research at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley
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 Sep 2011
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
Alessandro Mongili & Paolo Magaudda
Università di Padova
Tecnoscienza
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 May 2011
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Marita Huebner
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in History of Science, California Institute of Technology
Orientalism and Volcanism: Travelers’ Accounts and Scientific Explanations of Persepolis and the Pyramids around 1800
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Apr 2011
Wednesday
6:00pm -7:30pm
Working Group in HPLMS
Helen Longino
Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
A Pluralist Stance towards the Sciences of Human Behavior
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Apr 2011
Monday
12:00am -12:00am
Brownbag
Elke Heckner
Gaming Culture, War, and Therapy
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
28 Mar 2011
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Anne MacLachlan
Senior Researcher, Center for Studies in Higher Education University of California, Berkeley
Federal Support for Science in the Research University: The Social Consequences between 1947 and the Present
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
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