The 16th Annual STS/ STP Conference in Washington, DC is at the National Academy of Science and American Association for the Advancement of Science building on April 8-9, 2016. The STGlobal Consortium is a group of universities with students interested in science & technology studies (STS), science & technology policy (STP), and other related topics.… Read more

Morgan researches how the ideologies of computing cultures lead to specific design choices, policies, usage patterns, and other cultural and material articulations. Morgan‘s current projects investigate the role, and limitations, of technological utopianism in education and development projects. Based on eight years of archival and ethnographic research, she is writing a book on One Laptop per Child which… Read more

  CSTMS welcomes two new visiting scholars. Please introduce yourselves to them! Tomoko Kitagawa Tomoko is an author of five books in Japanese, including a national bestseller (2012) and the most recent one on the history of mathematics (2015). Her current research is in the history of mathematics, global history. Lina Ingeborgrud Lina is a… 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

CSTMS affiliates and collaborators are organizing a thematic track on Critical Data Studies for the 4s/EASST Conference BCN-2106 Science + technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures in Barcelona, August 31 – September 3, 2016. We invite papers investigating data­ driven techniques in academic research and analytic industries and the consequences of implementing data­ driven… Read more

Books Inc. in Berkeley presents Thomas Laqueur discussing his book The Work of the Dead on Thursday, January 28 at 7pm. The event will take place at 1491 Shattuck Ave. For more information call (510) 525-7777 or visit the website.

4S/EASST Conference Barcelona 2016 Valuation Practices at the Margins Conveners: Kristin Asdal, C-F Helgesson, Freyja Knapp, Francis Lee, Steve Woolgar The growing interest in the study of valuation has resulted in a plurality of studies exploring by what means and procedures values are established, by whom, to what ends, and to what consequence (see, e.g.,… Read more

CSTMS offers its flagship course for undergraduates again this spring, cross listed with History and Interdisciplinary Studies. STS 100 / History 182C / ISF 100G Science, Technology, and Society Mazzotti and staff 102 Moffitt Tue-Thu 9:30-11:00 Be it bugs, buildings, or bits, what humans imagine and construct is tightly interconnected with the societies they live… Read more

Here is a list of STS oriented courses on offer for the Spring semester at the undergraduate and graduate levels. STS 100 / History 182C / ISF 100G Science, Technology, and Society Mazzotti and staff 102 Moffitt Tue-Thu 9:30-11:00 Be it bugs, buildings, or bits, what humans imagine and construct is tightly interconnected with the… Read more

Melville J. Herskovits Award The ASA annually presents the Melville J. Herskovits Prize to the author of an outstanding original scholarly work published on Africa in the previous year. The ASA is grateful to the selection committee for its service. The committee was chaired by Adeline Masqulier and included Peter Limb, Allen lsaacman, Adeleke Adeeko,… Read more