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  • April 11: 2019-20 Graduate Colloquium

    April 11, 4pm-6:30pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 Schedule: 4:00pm Heidi Rennert, “Cycling, Print Culture, and Aesthetics in Late-Victorian England” 4:20pm Leo Chia Li Chu, “Planning for Socio-Ecological Systems: Simulation, Environmental Management, and the Development of the Resilience Concept in British Columbia, 1970-79” 4:40pm Emma Riek, “Chronic Pain and Rhetoric: An Analysis of One Public Talk” […] Read More

  • STS Colloquium: March 28, 2019 Mary Terrall

    March 28, 2019 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 Mary Terrall University of California, Los Angeles “Indigo Trials and Tribulations: Michel Adanson’s Encounter with Africa” Co-Sponsored by the History Department, Early Modern Studies Group, and the Department of French, Italian, and Spanish The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in pre-colonial Senegal in the […] Read More

  • STS Colloquium: March 21, 2019 Fabiano Bracht

    March 21, 2019 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 Fabiano Bracht University of Sao Paulo, Brazil “On the rhythm of the monsoons: Medicine, pharmacy, natural history and knowledge production in 18th Century Portuguese India” Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Studies Cluster and UBC History Read More

  • Straker Lecture: Sergio Sismondo

    February 7, 2019 – 5pm in Buchanan A104 Sergio Sismondo Queen’s University The themes for this talk are drawn from Professor Sismondo’s recent book, Ghost-Managed Medicine, about the regimes of knowledge and power in the modern medicine. Here’s a portion of the description of the book: “Most agents for drug companies aim to tell the […] Read More

  • Colloquium with Kyle Powys-Whyte

    January 31, 2019 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 Kyle Powys-Whyte Michigan State University “Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Decolonizing Justice, Science and the Anthropocene” Co-Sponsored by the Indigenous/Science Collective and Prof. Alison Wylie *Prof. Powys-Whyte will lead a special seminar with the Indigenous/Science Collective the following day. Read More

  • Colloquium with Andrea Tone

    December 4, 2018 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 Andrea Tone McGill University “Dangerous Drugs: Doctors, Pain and the Politics of Blame” The opiate epidemic has claimed hundreds and thousands of lives and put clinicians on the defensive as “enabling” doctors are blamed, in the news and in court rooms, for overprescribing dangerous drugs.  This talk explores how this narrative of blame has framed responses […] Read More

  • Colloquium with T’ai Smith

    November 22, 2018 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 T’ai Smith University of British Columbia “Notes Toward a History and Theory of the Trend” Read More

  • Colloquium with Mi Gyung Kim

    November 6, 2018 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 Mi Gyung (Mimi) Kim North Carolina State University “A People-Machine: Visualizing the Nation in Revolutionary France” Co-Sponsored by the History Department, and Early Modern Studies Cluster Read More

  • Colloquium with Michael Wintroub

    October 25, 2018 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 How does one credit someone or something as reliable and trustworthy? By what measure can honesty be adjudicated and dishonesty punished? How can one confidently approach strangers who could not be vouchsafed by any accepted criteria of reliability and trustworthiness? What was the measure of trust […] Read More

  • Colloquium with JD Fleming

    September 20, 2018 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 JD Fleming Simon Fraser University “’The more Navigation increaseth’: Sir Francis Bacon’s idea of discovery and the origins of scientific naturalism” Co-Sponsored by Early Modern Studies Read More


ABOUT STS

UBC offers coursework leading either to an MA in Science and Technology Studies, or to an MA or PhD in English, History, Philosophy, and Sociology with a Research Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies. STS students at UBC can choose from a wide variety of courses that bear on the conceptual foundations, practices, institutions, social significance, and values of science and technology. Designed to give students opportunities to develop their understanding of the roles of science and technology in the contemporary world, our graduates work in fields such as science and technology policy, science journalism and communication, or curatorial positions in science and technology museums. Our MA graduates also pursue further studies in a Ph.D. program; recent graduates have gone on to York, Cornell, Harvard, and Cambridge.

UBC is especially strong in history and philosophy of science and technology; rhetoric and communication of science and technology; science, technology and values; and science and technology policy. In addition to these opportunities, the STS Colloquium features prominent scholars from around the world (e.g., Stephen Shapin, Bruno Latour, Lorraine Daston, Isabelle Stengers, and many more; see “Colloquium and Events” in the navigation bar).

UBC is a world-class educational and research institution, located in one of the world’s great cosmopolitan cities, Vancouver, British Columbia. We enjoy a vibrant arts and cultural scene, in a beautiful ocean and mountain setting, with a temperate climate. Vancouver is on Canada’s Pacific Coast, just north of the Canada-US border (two and a half hours from Seattle).

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Mexican Gothic, a novel written by a formal STS MA student, is currently on the New York Times best seller list! Sylvia wrote an MA thesis on HP Lovecraft and eugenics under the direction of Margery Fee.  Here is an interview she did with PEN America that explains some of the connection between the novel and the STS MA: 
NEW 2019-20 STS Colloquia Schedule here
NEW To view the new 2019/2020 STS Courses click here!
For this year's annual Straker Lecture David Bates will be speaking on “Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence". The lecture will take place Tuesday March 6th, 5-6:30pm in SWING 122. Find more information here!
Find the Winter 2018 STS Colloquium Schedule here!
Alison Wylie joins the Philosophy Department! Alison is a major figure in philosophy of social science and feminist philosophy of science. STS students are strongly encouraged to take her PHIL 560A Philosophy of Science in 2017W Term 2
Find our 2017/18 Term 1 Colloquium Schedule here!
2017/18 Winter Term STS-related New Courses Open for Registration
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Signal to Noise, a novel written by STS MA student Silvia Moreno-Garcia, has been named by Barnes and Nobles as one of the 25 best sci fi or fantasy books of 2015!
DIGITAL CRITICAL EXHIBITS A Project by UBC STS Graduate Students R. Baldwinson, S. Deutsh, J. Howell, A. Lou & S. Moreno-Garcia, and supervised by Dr. Alan Richardson, have constructed online “digital critical exhibits” which seek to engage with science education institutions, and their knowledge-making networks, productively.
Check out Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives in Science and Technology Studies, which was published by Springer in early 2015 as part of the series, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Co-edited by STS faculty Alan Richardson (Philosophy, UBC) with Flavia Padovani, and Jonathan Y. Tsou, and featuring writings by Ian Hacking, Sandra Harding, Peter Galison, and STS faculty Judy Segal (English, UBC), this collection of STS essays emerges out of the Objectivity in Science conference hosted at the University of British Columbia in 2010.
UBC Philosophy Colloquium

Be sure to check out the Philosophy Department's colloquium! Many of the speakers and topics will be of interest to STS students.

Schedule here!


2018 Stephen Straker Memorial Lecture

For this year's annual Straker Lecture David Bates will be speaking on “Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence". The lecture will take place Tuesday March 6th, 5-6:30pm in SWING 122. Find more information here!


UBC History Colloquium

Be sure to check out the History Department's colloquium! Many of the speakers and topics will be of interest to STS students.

Find out more about this event here!


Thursday Sept 14 @ BuTo 1197, 4-6:30 pm

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

Find out more about this event here!


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