CSTMS

Engineers in the Anthropocene

Date/Time
Wednesday
1 Apr 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
3335 Dwinelle Hall

Event Type
Book Talk

Edward (Ted) Beatty
Professor of History and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

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The New Leisure: Amusement Parks, Automation, and the Redefinition of Recreation

Date/Time
Thursday
9 Apr 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Roland Betancourt
Chancellor’s Professor of Art History, UC Irvine

This talk traces the convergence of the amusement parks’ rehabilitation after WWII and the revitalized “problem of leisure” reframed around the automation panic of the 1950s. While intellectuals debated what meaningful leisure should look like, often...

STS Undergraduate Minor Application Deadline: 4/6/2026

March 10, 2026

Applications are now open for the STS Undergraduate Minor, with a deadline of April 6, 2026!

Application decisions will be made by the STS faculty committee after this date. Please note that you do NOT have to enroll and/or complete the minor core course, STS C100 / History C182C / HIST C182A / ISF C100G, before applying to the minor. See instructions below, or click here for the application.

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Authors Meet Critics: Charles Briggs' "Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine"

Date/Time
Thursday
9 April 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location
Social Science Matrix

Event Type
Book Talk

Please join us on Thursday, April 9th from 12 pm - 1:30 pm for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book Incommunicable:...

STS/HST Working Group

Date/Time
Wednesday
11 March 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Working Group

The presenter for the upcoming working group on March 11th will be Cameron Tracy, Senior Research Scholar, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. For this seminar,...

CSTMS x Schmidt Sciences Convening

January 29, 2026

On November 7, 2025, UC Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, in collaboration with Schmidt Sciences, hosted a convening on Human Futures in the Age of AI. Co-organized by Hale Sirin and Nina Begus, the event brought together leading researchers from AI, neuroscience, psychology, the...

Accountable Democracy: Rethinking United States Political Representation in the Twentieth Century

Date/Time
Thursday
5 Mar 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Alma Steingart
Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

In the second half of the twentieth century the theory of political representation bifurcated. On the one hand were political theorists, who continued to debate the concept of representation, its compatibility with...

Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America

Date/Time
Thursday
19 Feb 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Mary Fissell
Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Abortion only rarely went to court in early-modern England or the American colonies. Before 1803, there was...

CSTMS Spring 2026 Reception

Date/Time
Thursday
12 Feb 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Reception

Join us in welcoming the CSTMS community back to campus with a reception to kick off the new semester! It's a great opportunity to reconnect with colleagues, meet new graduate students, Visiting Scholars, Visiting Student Researchers, and CSTMS Faculty Affiliates. We'll...

STS/HST Working Group

Date/Time
Wednesday
10 December 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Working Group

The presenter for the upcoming working group on December 10th will be Karly Ortega-Ross, Staff Research Associate at Health Research for Action, School of Public Health, UC...