CSTMS

Human Technology Futures

Human Technology Futures (HTF) brings together thirty-plus colleagues at UC Berkeley across the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences who are committed to shaping how computing and data science engage with human concerns and how our own fields take up and transform the opportunities that new technologies present. Over the last five years, we have come together to plan new transdisciplinary research efforts, envision new undergraduate and graduate programs, and help ensure that the social sciences, humanities, and arts continue to expand their impact and...

CSTMS Fall 2019 Reception

Date/Time
Thursday
12 Sep 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Reception

We invite you to join us as we begin a new academic semester! Reconnect with colleagues and meet new graduate students, visiting scholars and affiliates of CSTMS. We will be discussing our various Working Groups and highlighting this semester’s events. Light refreshments...

Hacking the Cis-tem

Date/Time
Thursday
19 Sep 2019
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Master Class

Mar Hicks
Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology

Please join us on Thursday, September 19th at 12:00 pm in 470 Stephens Hall for a discussion with Mar Hicks regarding an article...

Binaries and Beyond: Learning from Inequality in the History of Computing

Date/Time
Thursday
19 Sep 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Marie Hicks
Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology

This talk looks at how diverse actors helped build the field of computing, and connects computing’s past mistakes with some of the...

Romancing the Sperm

Date/Time
Friday
27 Sep 2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Lunch Discussion

Diane Tober
Assistant Adjunct Professor, U.C.S.F. Institute for Health and Aging

Michele Pridmore-Brown
CSTMS...

Ruha Benjamin Book Signing Reception

Date/Time
Thursday
17 Oct 2019
12:00 am

Location
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

Event Type
Reception

Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University

The...

The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Date/Time
Thursday
17 Oct 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to...

Inference Rituals: Algorithms and the History of Statistics

Date/Time
Thursday
7 Nov 2019
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Master Class

Christopher Phillips
Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University

Please join us on Thursday, November 7th at 12:00 pm in 470 Stephens Hall for a discussion with Christopher...

The Trouble with Quantum Physics, and Why it Matters

Date/Time
Thursday
14 Nov 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Book Talk

Adam Becker
Author, Journalist, and Astrophysicist

Quantum physics is arguably the most successful scientific theory ever devised. It explains an enormous variety of natural phenomena to an extraordinary...

Research Methods in the History of the Natural Sciences

Date/Time
Thursday
21 Nov 2019
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Master Class

Daniel Lewis
Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology at The Huntington Library

Please join us on Thursday, November 21st at 12:00 pm in 470 Stephens Hall for a...