On April 4, 2019 the Center for Science, Technology, and Medicine and the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley co-hosted the “Traditions and Technologies: Ethical Engagements and New Directions in the Study of South Asian Medicines Symposium.” The experimental day-long event—with both virtual and in-person panels— aimed create a space for scholars of… Read more

CSTMS Research Fellow Michele Pridmore-Brown has published a lead article in the Times Literary Supplement entitled “Sperm and Sensibility: the Modern World of Designer Children.” She argues that how women choose sperm donors is based upon age-old preoccupations. Pridmore-Brown also wrote a review for the London Review of Books entitled “Unfeeling Malice“.  She reviews a book about the origins… Read more

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This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Digital media profoundly shape our lives: social media, apps, software and networked devices have transformed almost every area of work and play. The Berkeley Center for New Media Summer Certificate provides students with skills and knowledge that are essential for a… Read more

Are you considering taking a Rhetoric course this spring? Have you ever questioned what art is? What science is? Are distinctions between the two–whether imagined, philosophical, historical, or practical–critical to any productive conception of them? This course probes literature from and about both art and science in order interrogate this operative distinction, in turn questioning… Read more

The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Science has admitted six graduate students to the Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies this year! Congratulations to Niklas Lollo, Evangeline Mcgylnn, Kaily Heitz, Savannah Cox, Nain Martinez, and Henry Schmidt! We look forward to introducing these students to the CSTMS community at the Spring Reception on Thursday, February 7, 2019.

CSTMS affiliates including Shreeharsh Kelkar, Lawrence Cohen, Sarah Vaughn, Alexei Yurchak, Aihwa Ong, Michael D’Arcy, Heather Mellquist Lehto, Charles Briggs, Mauricio Najarro, Morgan G. Ames, Jenna Burrell, and more are presenting this week at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose. See more here.