Past Events
Date/Time | Event Type | Speaker | Event |
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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 |
11 Oct 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
![]() 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 |
5 Oct - 7 Oct 2012 Friday - Sunday |
Workshop |
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Bioethics and Sciences of Aging: The Case of Dementia 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
4 Oct - 5 Oct 2012 Thursday - Friday |
Non-CSTMS Event |
UC Davis Law Review UC Davis Law School |
Brand New World: Distinguishing Oneself in the Global Flow 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
3 Oct 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Mark Schweda Visiting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Society Center |
Responsibilization of Aging? Socio-Empirical Findings and Bioethical Exploration 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
1 Oct 2012 Monday 12:00pm -1:45pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
David Winickoff Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management |
Private Assets, Public Mission: Life Science, Technology Transfer and the New American University Philip Selznick Seminar Room, Berkeley CA |
27 Sep 2012 Thursday 5:00pm -6:00pm |
Non-CSTMS Event |
Margaret Race Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute |
Planetary Protection... on Earth and Beyond 421 Stanley Hall, Berkeley CA |
27 Sep 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Colloquium![]() |
![]() 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 |
19 Sep 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -2:00pm |
Brownbag |
Angelo Matteo Caglioti PhD Candidate, History of Science |
From Lombroso to Fascism: Race, Statistics and Eugenics in the Trajectory of Alfredo Niceforo’s Thought (1876-1960) 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
13 Sep 2012 Thursday 4:00pm -6:00pm |
Special Event |
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CSTMS Fall Reception 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 |
8 Aug 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -2:00pm |
Brownbag |
Sinéad O’Sullivan Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast |
Deciphering and Encoding Knowledge in Carolingian Glosses on Martianus Capella 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
21 Jun 2012 Thursday 3:00pm -5:00pm |
STS Working Group |
Samuel A. W. Evans Academic Coordinator, CSTMS |
Discussion of upcoming NSF Proposal 543 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
23 May 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:00pm |
Brownbag |
Lucía Ayala |
On the Plurality of Worlds: Images of a New Cosmos 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
18 May 2012 Friday 3:00pm -5:00pm |
Special Event |
Cathryn Carson |
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant Workshop 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
4 May - 5 May 2012 Friday - Saturday |
Conference |
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What's new about New Materialisms? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
2 May 2012 Wednesday 6:00pm -8:00pm |
Special Event |
Mark Wilson Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh |
Is There Life in Possible Worlds? 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
2 May 2012 Wednesday 4:00pm -5:30pm |
Special Event |
Jenna Burrell School of Information |
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana South Hall, Room 210, Berkeley CA |
2 May 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Frank Stanisch University of Calgary |
The Making of a New Research Field: On the Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity in the German Neuromorphological Sciences, 1910–1945 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 |
25 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Michelle Pridmore-Brown OHST Visiting Scholar |
The Evolving Concepts of the ‘Natural’ and ‘Unnatural’: Making Cells, Humans and Moral Systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries 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 |
18 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Veronica Sanz STSC Visiting Scholar |
A new tool for the epistemological analysis of “alternative paradigms” in Artificial Intelligence 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
11 Apr 2012 Wednesday 12:00pm -1:30pm |
Brownbag |
Mark Robinson STSC Visiting Scholar |
Speculation and Health: Some Reflections on Innovation in Translational Neuroscience 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |
10 Apr 2012 Tuesday 6:30pm -8:30pm |
Special Event |
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STS @ Berkeley Undergrad Group Film Series: Children of Men 470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA |