Representations Grant:  Representations seeks to transform and enrich the understanding of cultures. Our central interests lie in the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice. CSTMS project: While algorithms are a foundational concept in computer science, there is increasing interest about the roles algorithms play in politics, media, science, organizations, and identity… Read more

Science Communication in Theory in Practice is an interdisciplinary summer school for international and Danish Master’s students at the University of Copenhagen. When: Online: July 2016 (part time) and On Campus: 1-12 August 2016 (full time) The two-week intensive summer school (1-12 of August) will be supported by a programme of online teaching, readings, and short tasks,… Read more

Please join us for a plenary session of the History of Science, Environmental Sciences and Science and Technology Studies working groups this Thursday, March 10th from 12:00-2:00pm. We will be meeting in 470 Stephens Hall. Food and beverages will be provided. If you are interested in the history of science, STS, and the history of… Read more

The Center welcomes faculty members, student, visiting scholar and fellows to submit activities to be reported in affiliate news each month. Please email a brief description of what you have been doing (pictures and links are cool!) conferences, talks, publications, teaching and other kinds of engagement and off the grid experiences in the field to cstmsnews@berkeley.edu.  RECENT… Read more

AAAS 2017 Annual Meeting on the theme – Serving Society Through Science Policy will be held in Boston February 16-20, 2017. The deadline for submission of Scientific session proposals is Friday, April 22, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Decisions will be announced in early July 2016 after the completion of external review and final selection by the… Read more

Call for Abstracts: 15th Annual Meeting in London, June 23-25, 2016  University College London (June 23-24) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (June 25) The Science and Democracy Network (SDN) was established in 2002 to enhance the quality and significance of scholarship in science and technology studies (STS) by training young professionals… Read more

History 100S, Section 001 LEC Instructor:     Gretchen Gano Special Topics in the History of Science MTWT 12:00P – 02:00P | CCN: 31522 Session Dates: 07/05-08/12/16 In a 2008 article for Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson predicted the “end of theory,” stating “this is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace… Read more

Charis Thompson spoke at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Scientific and Medical Accountability Standards Working Group of The California Institute For Regenerative Medicine. In light of recent science-policy initiatives, the Scientific and Medical Accountability Standards Working Group is, specifically, being asked to review CIRM policies associated with gene editing of human germ cells and embryos. One objective of… Read more

CSTMS Associate Director of Research, Gretchen Gano is a panelist at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC from February 11-15. On Thursday, February 11, 2016 Gretchen will speak at the Communicating Synthetic Biology Seminar along with panelists Kristala Prather (MIT), Natalie Kuldell (BioBuilder Educational Foundation), and Dietram Scheufele (UWISC). Her talk, “Building Civic Engagement with Biological Engineering” focuses… Read more

PMH Fellow, Marc Pollack, blogs on medical questions about gender identity: Over the next week I wonder about how to appropriately ask about gender identity in the context of the patient interview.  I know what gender dysphoria is, but l have to admit I haven’t given much thought to any of this before. My intuition… Read more