CSTMS Events
All events affiliated with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) listed here are free and open to the public. No registration is required.
To receive regular notices of our events, please contact ohst@berkeley.edu.
Spring 2012:
Wednesday,
January 25 |
Terence Keel |
Brownbag: "Religion and the Scientific Study of Race in the US: Conflict or Cooperation?" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Thursday,
January 26 |
CSTMS Community |
Reception |
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
February 8 |
Merav Katz-Kimchi |
Brownbag: "Screening Science, Producing the Nation: Popular Science Programs on Israeli Television, 1968–1988" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Thursday,
February 9 |
Jan Golinski |
Colloquium: "Sublime Astronomy and the End of the Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion" |
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
February 15 |
Crispin Barker |
Brownbag:"The Beginning of the End: The Role of the Media in Popularizing the Telomere Theory of Aging and Cancer" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Thursday,
February 16 |
Christopher Kelty |
Colloquium: "The Fog of Freedom" |
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
February 22 |
Samuel A. Evans |
Brownbag: "Technology control and imagined international orders or ‘Military technology is what states make of it’" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Thursday,
February 23 |
Vittorio Gallese |
Colloquium: "The Body in Aesthetic Experience: A Neuroscientific Perspective"
|
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
February 29 |
Walter Valdivia & Samuel A. Evans |
Brownbag: "Academic Freedom and National Security Export Controls" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Wednesday,
March 7 |
Ozzie Zehner |
Brownbag: "Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy Future" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30
|
Wednesday,
March 14 |
Chris Jones
|
Brownbag: "The Politics of Power: Energy and Political Economy, 1820–1930" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30
|
Thursday,
March 15 |
Emily Martin |
Colloquium: "Steps Toward an Anthropology of Experimental Psychology" |
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
March 21 |
Asaf Darash |
Brownbag |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Wednesday,
April 4 |
Joshua Roebke |
Brownbag: "Physics in Manchester and Vienna Before WWI: Modern Ideas, Culture and Place" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Thursday,
April 5 |
Rachel Prentice |
Colloquium |
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
April 11 |
Mark Robinson |
Brownbag: "Speculation and Health: Some Reflections on Innovation in Translational Neuroscience" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Wednesday,
April 18 |
Veronica Sanz |
Brownbag: "A Feminist Constructivist Approach to the Design of Computing
Technologies"
| 470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Thursday,
April 19 |
Hannah Landecker |
Colloquium: "American Metabolism" |
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
April 25 |
Michele
Pridmore-Brown |
Brownbag: "The Evolving Concepts of the 'Natural' and the 'Unnatural': Making Cells, Humans and Moral Systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries"
| 470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
Thursday,
April 26 |
Robert Brain |
Colloquium |
470
Stephens Hall
4-6 |
Wednesday,
May 2 |
Frank Stahnisch |
Brownbag: "The Making of a New Research Field: On the Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity in the German Neuromorphological Sciences, 1910–1945" |
470
Stephens Hall
12-1:30 |
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