STS Colloquium Series 2017-18, Term I
Thursdays 5-6:30 in BuTo 1197 (unless otherwise specified)
* denotes unusual place and/or time
September 14
Reading Seminar: Helen Tilley, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950, Intro, Ch.2, ch.6., conclusion
[This book is available online through the UBC library website.]
October 12
Alison Wylie, University of British Columbia
“Knowledge that’s fit for purpose: a research prospectus.”
October 26
Jesse Oak Taylor, University of Washington
“Conrad’s Earth System Poetics”
co-sponsored by Department of English and the Oecologies group
* November 7 (Please note this is a Tuesday)
Steven Meyer, Washington University
Title TBA
co-sponsored by the Belkin Art Gallery
*November 23
Catherine Malabou, Kingston University and UC Irvine
“Empty Square vs. Evolutionary Memory: The New Adventure of Signs”
6 pm, at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Dr., UBC. co–sponsored with the Belkin Art Gallery and the Department of Art History
November 30
Geoffrey Winthrop–Young, University of British Columbia
“‘We stand in this storm of adaptation‘: Karl Escherich and the (De)Nazification of Universities and Social Insects.”
