Past Events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
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 -11:59pm
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
18 Nov 2004
Thursday
12:00am -12:00am
Life and Death Potluck Group Archive

Mothers' Living Stories Project
23 Apr - 25 Apr 2004
Friday - Sunday
Conference

Oppenheimer as Scientific Intellectual: A Centennial Conference
Faculty Club, Berkeley CA
4 Mar 2004
Thursday
12:00am -12:00am
Life and Death Potluck Group Archive

Two Death Bed Scenes: My Father in 1994 and Lord Byron in 1824
28 Jan 2004
Wednesday
12:00am -12:00am
Life and Death Potluck Group Archive

Factors That Influence End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes
15 Oct 2003
Wednesday
12:00am -12:00am
Life and Death Potluck Group Archive

Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice
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