January 23rd, 2024 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for their 2024 SIGCIS Conference, SYSTEM UPDATE. Their keynote for the event is Anita Say Chan, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The SIGCIS Conference is the leading annual international… Read more
December 21st, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry is now accepting applications for 2024–2025 fellowships. Submissions are due January 15, 2024. The Beckman Center offers several fellowships and travel grants for scholars doing research in the history and social studies of chemistry and related sciences, technologies, and industries using the Institute’s collections. Their fellows are encouraged to… Read more
November 16th, 2023 | by Audrey Colocho | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
It is with deep sadness that we share the death of John L. Heilbron, Professor Emeritus of History of Science and former Vice Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. John passed away in Padua, Italy, on Sunday morning, November 5, 2023, at the age of 89. A prolific scholar of prodigious range, John Heilbron was born… Read more
November 2nd, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Applications for the STS Undergraduate Minor are now open. The deadline to apply is November 17th, 2023! As our students enter into a world of accelerating change, it has become ever more important that these future scientists, engineers, computer and data scientists, health care practitioners, social scientists, teachers, policymakers, and more be able to reason… Read more
October 24th, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Application deadline approaching: November 1st The DE in STS is a program of training in the social studies of science, technology, and medicine for Berkeley PhD students from any home department. Students who are accepted into the program, and who complete its requirements, will be in a strong position to excel within STS-related fields. Students… Read more
September 25th, 2023 | by admin | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
CSTMS Faculty Affiliate Cathryn Carson recently interviewed with Berkeley News, delving into the intricate dynamics of artificial intelligence (AI). Drawing on her expertise in 20th-century policy on nuclear power and weapons, Carson considers AI’s potential to improve lives, alongside the essential examination of downstream consequences. In the discussion, Carson highlights historical technological transformations and parallels… Read more
September 5th, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Professor Sandra Eder is an Associate Professor of History here at UC Berkeley. Professor Eder has been the Director of CSTMS since July 2023. Her research interests include the History of Medicine and Science, and Gender & Sexuality. She is interested in the emergence of modern ideas about the self and formulations of identity through scientific knowledge production… Read more
July 24th, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Editors: Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger Published by the Office for History of Science and Technology (OHST) / CSTMS University of Berkeley, California Standing at the pivot of the twentieth century, J. Robert Oppenheimer holds our imagination in his grip. From otherworldly aestheticism to the leadership of Los Alamos, from the corridors of power… Read more
July 5th, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
The June 2023 HSNS special issue, Making Animal Materials in Time, highlights both how the creation and use of animal materials changes over time, and also how continuously extractive that relationship is. The editors of this special issue are Lisa Onaga and Laurence Douny. Onaga and Douny write: “This special issue, ‘Making Animal Materials in Time’,… Read more
June 9th, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
CSTMS Faculty Affiliate and UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Film and Media, Jacob Gaboury, is the recipient of the 2023 CBI Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Award for his 2021 book Image Objects: An Archeology of Computer Graphics (MIT Press). Gaboury’s Image Objects offers the first comprehensive history of the University of Utah’s path-breaking human interaction research in computing from… Read more
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