Past Events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
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
14 Mar 2011
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Michele Pridmore-Brown
Visiting Scholar
Reproductive Timing and "The Biological Clock": Exploring the Feedback Loop among Culture, Science, and Politics
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
14 Feb 2011
Monday
12:00am -6:00pm
Brownbag
Chet Van Duzer
Two Geographical Puzzles on Fourteenth-, Fifteenth-, and Sixteenth-Century Maps
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
24 Jan 2011
Monday
12:00am -12:00am
Brownbag
Michael Schuering
Using a Database for Archival Research
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Dec 2010
Monday
12:00am -12:00am
Brownbag
David Barberá
Hora and Tempus in the Making: A Historical Approach to Technological Complexity
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Nov 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Merav Katz-Kimchi
Flamingos and pictures at an exhibition: Communicating the catastrophe of global warming at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
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
8 Nov 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Mario Wimmer
Paper Organisms: Provenance and Evolutionary Thinking in Historical Knowledge, 1881-1934
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
1 Nov 2010
Monday
12:00am -12:00am
Brownbag
Emily Redman & Lisa Onaga
"Calculating Empire: How Mathematics Education Standards Define Nationalism in 20th Century U.S." & "The Promise of Mutation in Japan’s Sericultural Empire"
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Oct 2010
Monday
12:00am -12:00am
Brownbag
Brian Hoffman
"A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body" American Nudism, Medical Representation and American Obscenity Law, 1929-1942
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Oct 2010
Monday
12:00am -12:00am
Brownbag
Natascha Gruber
Sex and Gender: A History of Two Concepts in Life Sciences and Gender Theory – From Old Essentialism to New Materialism
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Oct 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
OHST Community
Roundtable Discussion
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
20 Sep 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Special Event
Diana Wear
Academic Publishing
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
3 May 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Matt Sargent
Local Knowledge Meets Global Trade: Cross-Cultural Information Exchange during the Middle Ages.
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
19 Apr 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Dr. Alfredo Damanti
University of Bologna
The philosophical background of Galileo's 'Letter to Christina of Lorraine'
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
5 Apr 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Joshua Roebke
Abstraction and Expressionism: Physics and Art in Early Twentieth-century Munich and Paris.
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Mar 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Andrew Mamo
The Language of Thought Will be Calculable Like Mathematics: Engineers, Mathematicians, and the Writing of Computer Histories.
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
8 Mar 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Colin Elbasani
Acupuncture in California in the 1970s
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
22 Feb 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Lydia Barnett
Stanford University
A Sense of Place: Situated Knowledge in the Making of Earth Science
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
8 Feb 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Lisa Onaga
Cornell University
Disentangling Past from Present: Improving and conceiving Japanese silkworms during the early 20th century turn toward biological rationality.
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Jan 2010
Monday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Brownbag
Cathryn Carson
Historical perspective? Participant observation? Talking to nuclear engineers about the history of nuclear waste management
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 Mar - 25 Oct 2007
Friday - Thursday
Conference

The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis at the University of British Columbia
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 Jun - 26 Jun 2005
Thursday - Sunday
Conference
Richard T. von Mayrhauser
Cheiron XXXVII: International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
4 May 2005
Wednesday
12:00am -12:00am
Panel

Terry Schiavo Discussion
26 Jan - 24 Jul 2005
Wednesday - Sunday
Exhibit

Blind at the Museum
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
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