CSTMS

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 Berkeley. For this seminar, she will be discussing her work provisionally titled: "What...

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...

STS/HST Working Group

Date/Time
Wednesday
5 November 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Working Group

The presenter for the upcoming working group on November 5th will be Javier Armas, Masters in History student, San Francisco State University. For this seminar, he will be discussing his work: "A History of the Mayan Zero."


The STS/HST...

STS/HST Working Group

Date/Time
Wednesday
12 November 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Working Group

The presenter for the upcoming working group on November 12th will be Lisa Walther, CSTMS Visiting Scholar, Postdoctoral Researcher at Leibniz Center for Science and Society,...

STS/HST Working Group

Date/Time
Wednesday
29 October 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Working Group

The presenter for the upcoming working group on October 15th will be Iris Wu, PhD Student, Department of History, UC Berkeley. For this seminar, she will be...

STS/HST Working Group

Date/Time
Wednesday
15 October 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Working Group

The presenter for the upcoming working group on October 15th will be Nathaniel Comfort, Professor, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins...

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...

CBS News Spotlight: Mayan Mam Language and Culture Preserved Through Efforts of CSTMS Affiliate Javier Armas and His Students

October 7, 2025

Javier Armas, STS/HST Working Group Co-Leader and current master's student in History of Science, was recently featured in a CBS News Segment highlighting his groundbreaking efforts to preserve the Mayan Mam language and culture.

Spotlighted in the CBS News report, Armas’s book Mam History: Oakland Notes on the History of Mayan-Mam Language, published on May 21, 2024, and winner of the 2024 Partners in Preservation Book Award from the Oakland...

The AI Con Book Roundtable

Date/Time
Thursday
2 Oct 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Roundtable Participants:
Alex Hanna

Director of Research at Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

Co-author of The AI Con, along with co-author Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, University of...

How LLMs Extrapolate

Date/Time
Thursday
16 Oct 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Xuenan Cao
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

This work argues that LLMs are machines of extrapolation. Extrapolation, a statistical function for predicting the next value in a series beyond the bound of the training data, contributes...