Past Events

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
12 Apr 2019
Friday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Lecture
Mark Schiefsky
C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics
Confronting Chance: Models of Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus
370 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Edward Jones-Imhotep
Associate Professor of History at York University
Unreliable Humans, Failing Machines: The Lost Histories of the Technological Self
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Edward Jones-Imhotep
Associate Professor of History at York University
Strangelove’s Machines: Space Probes, Island Geographies, and Suspect Reason in the Global Circuits of the Cold War
442 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2019
Thursday
11:00am -2:00pm
Talk / Discussion
Joel Braslow
Professor of History and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Medicalization and Demedicalization of the Homeless Mentally Ill
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Apr 2019
Thursday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Stefanos Geroulanos
Associate Professor of European Intellectual History at New York University 
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
142 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Apr 2019
Thursday
8:30am -4:00pm
Conference

Traditions and Technologies: Ethical Engagements and New Directions in the Study of South Asian Medicines
470 Stephens Hall / 10 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Apr 2019
Tuesday
5:00pm -7:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Robert Morrison
George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College
Robert Morrison: Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
340 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 Apr 2019
Tuesday
5:00pm -6:30pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Sven Reichard
Professor of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Fascism’s Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s
201 Moses Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
youtube Jenny Reardon
Professor of Sociology, U.C. Santa Cruz
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After the Genome
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Jenny Reardon
Professor of Sociology, U.C. Santa Cruz
The Postgenomic Condition
442 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Elizabeth Hoover
Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University
"We're not going to be Guinea Pigs"; Community-based Research in Environmental Health and Food Justice with Native American Communities
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Elizabeth Hoover
Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University
Water Protectors, Garden Warriors, and Windigo Slayers: The Fight for Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty in Indian Country
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Mar 2019
Wednesday
6:00pm -7:30pm
Talk
Georg Schiemer
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Vienna
How Geometry Became Structural
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Mar 2019
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Jekaterina Novikova
EU Fellow at the IES
The Future of European Research via the lenses of the Horizon EU research and innovation programme 2021-2027
201 Moses Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Feb 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Samuel Roberts
Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
Drugs, Politics, and Pariahs: Or, How to Think Historically About Race and Harm Reduction in an Opioid Epidemic
Berkeley Way West Building, Room 5101, Berkeley CA
28 Feb 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Samuel Roberts
Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
The Impact of the Drug War on U.S. Communities of Color: Politics, the Carceral State, and Collateral Damages
108 North Gate Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Feb 2019
Thursday
5:00pm -6:30pm
Endowed Elberg Series
Dr. Jennifer Doudna
Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Professor in Biomedical and Health, Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley
Editing the Code of Life: The Future of Genome Editing
International House, Chevron Auditorium, Berkeley CA
14 Feb 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Colin Milburn
Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Digital Media, UC Davis
How to Do Things with Science Fiction: Hackers, Gamers, and Technopolitics
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Feb 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Colin Milburn
Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis
Applied Science Fiction
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Feb 2019
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Reception

CSTMS Spring 2019 Reception
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Feb 2019
Thursday
12:00pm -1:15pm
Arts & Science
Edward Morris
Co-Director of The Canary Lab
CSTMS Art+Science Resident Film Screening
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
6 Feb 2019
Wednesday
4:10pm -5:30pm
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of Artificial Intimacy
International House, Chevron Auditorium, Berkeley CA
5 Feb 2019
Tuesday
4:10pm -5:30pm
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
The Assault on Empathy: The Promise of a Friction-Free Life
International House, Chevron Auditorium, Berkeley CA
29 Nov 2018
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Virginia Eubanks
Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor
Banatao Auditorium, Berkeley CA
29 Nov 2018
Thursday
12:00pm -2:00pm
Master Class
Virginia Eubanks
Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY
Bringing Academic Rigor to Longform Journalism
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
15 Nov 2018
Thursday
9:30am -4:30pm
Conference

Situated Knowledges Thirty Years Later
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
8 Nov 2018
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Suman Seth
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
8 Nov 2018
Thursday
3:30pm -5:30pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Shoshana Zuboff
Professor, Harvard Business School
2018 11th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture
Bancroft Hotel, Berkeley CA
8 Nov 2018
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Suman Seth
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Seasoning Sickness and the Imaginative Geography of the British Empire
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
29 Oct 2018
Monday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Book Launch
Audra J. Wolfe
Writer, Editor & Historian
Book Talk: Audra J. Wolfe's Science, Freedom, and the Cold War
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Oct 2018
Friday
9:00am -5:00pm
Conference

Techno-Optimism Within and Beyond Silicon Valley
Social Science Matrix, Berkeley CA
11 Oct 2018
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Colloquium
Elena Aronova
Assistant Professor of History of Science at UCSB
The Past Futures of the History of Science: the Many Worlds of Nikolai Vavilov
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Oct 2018
Thursday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Master Class
Elena Aronova
Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara
Osiris, Volume 32: Data Histories
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
27 Sep 2018
Thursday
4:00pm -5:30pm
Book Launch
Caitlin Rosenthal
Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley Department of History
& David Henkin
Professor, U.C. Berkeley Department of History
Book Launch: Caitlin Rosenthal's Accounting for Slavery
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
13 Sep 2018
Thursday
4:00pm -6:00pm
Reception

CSTMS Fall Reception
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
30 Aug 2018
Thursday
5:30pm -7:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event

"Habeas Data" Panel Discussion
202 South Hall, Berkeley California
8 Jun - 10 Jun 2018
Friday - Sunday
Non-CSTMS Event

STS Summer Retreat 2018
Marin Headlands, Fort Cronkhite
29 May 2018
Tuesday
1:00pm -5:00pm
Non-CSTMS Event
Sandro Galea
Dean, Boston University School of Public Health
Guns, Obesity, and Opioids: A Population Health Science Approach to Contemporary Concerns
HSW-300 Auditorium, San Francisco California
4 May 2018
Friday
8:30am -3:30pm
Conference

Postcolonial STS Symposium
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 May - 4 May 2018
Wednesday - Friday
Workshop

France Berkeley Fund workshop: “Mapping controversies and conspiracies: Exploring conceptual boundaries and pedagogical practices”
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