Past Events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
11 Mar 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Silvia Lindtner
Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information
Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation
25 Feb 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Roundtable
youtube John E. Lesch
Professor Emeritus in the Department of History
& Monica H. Green
Independent Scholar
Shapes of Epidemics Roundtable
18 Feb 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
live-stream
Lilly Irani
Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
11 Feb 2021
Thursday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Mixer

STS Graduate Student Happy Hour
4 Feb 2021
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Reception

CSTMS Virtual Spring 2021 Reception
9 Dec 2020
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
Special Event
Marilyn McEntyre, PhD
Fellow in the Program for Medical Humanities
Dear Doctor: What Doctors Don’t Ask, What Patients Need to Say
3 Dec 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Workshop

"From Dissertation to Book: The Art of the Book Proposal"
19 Nov 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Special Event

CSTMS Virtual End-Of-Semester Celebration and Chat
12 Nov 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Michael Mascarenhas
Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley
& Kelly Grindstaff, PhD
Research Associate at Lawrence Hall of Science
“No One Wants to Believe It”: Manifestations of White Privilege in a STEM-Focused College
29 Oct 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Jenna Burrell
Associate Professor in the School of Information and Co-Director of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group at UC Berkeley
On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon
22 Oct 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Ashton Wesner
CSTMS Research Fellow and Lead Researcher of Queer Ecologies | Feminist Biologies Collaborative
Counting Sturgeon: Settler Empirics and Moving Fish in the Columbia River
14 Oct 2020
Wednesday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Working Group

First PMH Working Group Meeting
8 Oct 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Aimee Medeiros
Associate Professor and Director of the History of Health Sciences Program at UC San Francisco
Pink and Blue: The Gendering of Pediatric Growth Charts
24 Sep 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Morgan Ames
Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley
& Jacob Gaboury
Assistant Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
17 Sep 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Symposium

CSTMS Undergraduate Symposium
10 Sep 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Special Event

CSTMS Virtual Welcome and Coffee Chat
19 Mar 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Lilly Irani
Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego
[CANCELLED] Chasing Innovation: Entrepreneurial Citizenship and the Subsumption of Hope
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Mar 2020
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Lilly Irani
Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UC San Diego
[CANCELLED] Can the Subaltern Innovate?
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Mar 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Fred Turner
Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University
Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Feb 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -7:00pm
Workshop

The Social History of Truth
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Feb 2020
Friday
5:00pm -7:00pm

Paloma Medina
PhD Candidate in Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
"Looking for Marla": The Story of a Fish's Transition
Social Science Matrix, Berkeley CA
13 Feb 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Special Event
Roi Livne
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care
Latinx Research Center, Berkeley CA
13 Feb 2020
Thursday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Colloquium
youtube Lucy Suchman
Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University
Demystifying AI as an Ethical Project: A Discussion
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Feb 2020
Friday
10:00am -5:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event

Science, Politics, and Faith in the Seventeenth Century: The World of the Galileans
Stanford History Building, Room 307, Stanford, California
6 Feb 2020
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Reception

CSTMS Spring 2020 Reception
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Dec - 12 Jan 2019
Thursday - Sunday
Arts & Science

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Berkeley City Club, Berkeley CA
10 Dec 2019
Tuesday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Film Screening
Bessie Young
UCSF Medical Student
Sensory Ethnography and the Experience of Dementia
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
5 Dec 2019
Thursday
5:30pm -8:00pm
Mixer

MEDS (Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences Working Group) Fall Mixer
Raleigh’s Pub, Berkeley CA
5 Dec 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Talk
Matthew Shindell
Curator of Department of Space History at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
The Life and Science of Harold C Urey: A Biography of Cold War Science
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
22 Nov 2019
Friday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Lunch Discussion
Giovanna Cifoletti
Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Research (EHESS)
Early Algebraic Language and the Algorithm: Preparing an Art of Thinking for People and Machines
442 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Nov 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Talk
Daniel Lewis
Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology at The Huntington Library
& Sylvia Tiwon
Associate Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley
A Guitar Too Far: Makassar Ebony & the Lust for Wood
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Nov 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Daniel Lewis
Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology at The Huntington Library
Research Methods in the History of the Natural Sciences
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Nov 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Book Talk
Adam Becker
Author, Journalist, and Astrophysicist 
The Trouble with Quantum Physics, and Why it Matters
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Nov 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Workshop
youtube Adam Becker
Author, Journalist, and Astrophysicist 
Adam Becker: Professional Development Workshop
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Nov 2019
Monday
8:00pm -10:00pm
Arts & Science

Staged Reading of “Farm Hall” by David Cassidy
The Bridge Church, Berkeley California
7 Nov 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
youtube Christopher Phillips
Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University
Scouting and Scoring: Baseball as a Data-Based Science
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Nov 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Christopher Phillips
Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University
Inference Rituals: Algorithms and the History of Statistics
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University
The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2019
Thursday
12:00am -12:00am
Reception
Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University
Ruha Benjamin Book Signing Reception
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Sep 2019
Friday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Lunch Discussion
Diane Tober
Assistant Adjunct Professor, U.C.S.F. Institute for Health and Aging
& Michele Pridmore-Brown
CSTMS Research Fellow and Science Editor of the LA Review of Books
Romancing the Sperm
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
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