CSTMS

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,...

Authors Meet Critics: Charles Briggs' "Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine" 4/9/26

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:...

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...

Can we Disentangle AI from Governmentality? A Foucauldian Perspective

Date/Time
Tuesday
2 Dec 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location
Library of French Thought, Dwinelle 4229

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

Armen Khatchatourov
Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Dicen Lab, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France

This talk will raise the question of transition from one form of governmentality to another. Building up on a Foucauldian framework of historical...

Will AI produce works of extraordinary aesthetic value?

Date/Time
Thursday
6 Nov 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Thomas Hofweber
William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

It is tempting to think that AI will never produce any works of art that are of aesthetic value, let alone ones comparable to or even surpassing the greatest works produced by humans. However, it is not...

STS/HST Working Group

Date/Time
Wednesday
3 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 3rd will be Seyi Olojo, PhD Candidate, the School of Information at UC Berkeley. For this seminar, she will be discussing her work provisionally...