Past Brownbags

Date/Time Event Type Speaker Event
8 May 2013
Wednesday
12:00pm -12:00pm
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Miwao Matsumoto
Professor of Sociology, University of Tokyo
CANCELED: A Hidden Accident Long Before Fukushima: From the Viewpoint of "Structural Disaster"
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Apr 2013
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
Brownbag
youtube David Hollinger
Preston Hotchkis Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Special Talk: Kuhn, the Quotidian, and the Question of God's Death
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Apr 2013
Wednesday
12:00pm -12:00pm
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Rudolf Seising
Adjoint Researcher, European Centre for Soft Computing
On a History of Fuzzy Sets and Systems
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
28 Nov 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
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Dieter Hoffmann
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Max von Laué (1879-1960): Champion of Freedom
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
31 Oct 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
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Mary Sunderland
Lecturer, Department of Nuclear Engineering
Understanding Species Formation: The Development of Ensatina eschscholtzii as a Model for Studying Evolution in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
24 Oct 2012
Wednesday
12:30pm -1:00pm
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Kenneth Bertrams
Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology
Recasting the Ideology of Scientific Internationalism: Impressions from the Solvay Conferences on Physics and Chemistry before, during, and after World War I
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
17 Oct 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Patrick Coffey
Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology
Napalm in World War II: Invention, Test, the Bat-Bomb, and Incinerating Japan
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
3 Oct 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Mark Schweda
Visiting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Society Center
Responsibilization of Aging? Socio-Empirical Findings and Bioethical Exploration
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
19 Sep 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -2:00pm
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Angelo Matteo Caglioti
PhD Candidate, History of Science
From Lombroso to Fascism: Race, Statistics and Eugenics in the Trajectory of Alfredo Niceforo’s Thought (1876-1960)
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
8 Aug 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -2:00pm
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Sinéad O’Sullivan
Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast
Deciphering and Encoding Knowledge in Carolingian Glosses on Martianus Capella
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
23 May 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:00pm
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Lucía Ayala
On the Plurality of Worlds: Images of a New Cosmos
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
2 May 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Frank Stanisch
University of Calgary
The Making of a New Research Field: On the Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity in the German Neuromorphological Sciences, 1910–1945
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
25 Apr 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Michelle Pridmore-Brown
OHST Visiting Scholar
The Evolving Concepts of the ‘Natural’ and ‘Unnatural’: Making Cells, Humans and Moral Systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
18 Apr 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Veronica Sanz
STSC Visiting Scholar
A new tool for the epistemological analysis of “alternative paradigms” in Artificial Intelligence
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
11 Apr 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Mark Robinson
STSC Visiting Scholar
Speculation and Health: Some Reflections on Innovation in Translational Neuroscience
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
4 Apr 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Josh Roebke
OHST Visiting Scholar
Physics in Manchester and Vienna before WWI: Modern Ideas, Culture, and Place
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
21 Mar 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Asaf Darash
OHST Visiting Scholar
The Third Mode of Action: Computer Languages, Computer Networks and Human Action
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
14 Mar 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Chris Jones
STSC Visiting Scholar
Energy as Politics: Power and U.S. Political Economy, 1820-1930
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA
7 Mar 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
Brownbag
live-stream
youtube Ozzie Zehner
STSC Visiting Scholar
Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy Future
29 Feb 2012
Wednesday
12:00pm -1:30pm
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Walter Valdivia
STSC Visiting Scholar
& Samuel A. Evans
CSTMS Visiting Scholar & Academic Coordinator
Academic Freedom and National Security Export Controls
470 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA

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