All OHST events 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.
UC Berkeley Colloquia in History of Science and Technology
Fall 2009
Location: 470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley, 4-5:30 PMUnless otherwise announced
Monday, September 14, 2009
"Rationalizing Hegemony: How the Cold War Nuclear Standoff Naturalized the Game Theoretic Prisoner's Dilemma into the Common Model for Cooperation, Collective Avtion, and the Social Contract"
S.M. Amadae
The Ohio State University
Monday, October 5, 2009
"The Matter of Calculation: Early Modern Calculation Machines, Ideational Property, and Thinking about Thinking"
Matthew L. Jones
Columbia University
Monday, October 19, 2009
"Geographies of Knowledge in Assyria, Babylonia, and Cyberspace"
Eleanor Robson
University of Cambridge
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies
Monday, December 7, 2009
"The Woman Who Invented the Information Age: Grace Hopper and the Creation of Computer Programming"
Kurt Beyer
University of California, Berkeley
United States Naval Academy
Past OHST Events
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