September 6, 2012
STS at UBC: A Sampler of Topics and Perspectives
Judy Segal, Department of English, UBC
“What Can Rhetorical Scholarship Contribute to the Critical Study of Medicine?”
Alexei Kojevnikov, Department of History, UBC
“The Big Bang Theory: The Cultural Meanings of Modern Physics”
Margaret Schabas, Department of Philosophy, UBC
“What Kind of Science is Economics? The Case of Victorian Bioeconomics”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with reception to follow
September 13, 2012
Andrea Tone, Department of the Social Studies of Medicine, McGill
“Spies & Lies: Ewen Cameron, the CIA, and Cold War Psychiatry”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
September 20, 2012
Neil Gross, Department of Sociology, UBC
“Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
September 24, 2012
Steven Shapin, Department of the History of Science, Harvard
“The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History of Sense and Value”
Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture
Location: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory 120
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm, with reception to follow
September 27, 2012 No colloquium. Meeting of STS Affiliated Faculty in 1197 Buchanan Tower.
October 11, 2012
Adam Frank, Department of English, UBC
“Vis-à-vis Television: Andy Warhol’s Therapeutics, Part Two”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
October 18, 2012
Alirio Rosales, Department of Philosophy & Biodiversity Research Centre, UBC
“Scientific Theories as Narratives”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
October 25, 2012
Candis Callison, School of Journalism, UBC
“Co-producing Care: Navigating Climate and Media Change”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
November 1, 2012
George Reisch, Northwestern
“The Paranoid Style in American History of Science: On the Cold War Origins of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with reception to follow
November 2, 2012
Ian Hacking, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
“On Logic”
Richard and Dorothy Sikora Lecture, Department of Philosophy
Location: Irving Barber Learning Centre, Victoria Learning Theatre 182
Time: 3:00 – 5:00pm
November 8, 2012
Patrick Slaney, Department of History, UBC
“Scientific Freedom and the Limits of the Administrative State: Don K Price and the Bureau of the Budget on Science and Government”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
November 15, 2012 No colloquium. (History of Science Society and Philosophy of Science Association Meetings in San Diego this week.)
November 22, 2012
Alejandra Bronfman, Department of History, UBC
“In Search of the Radiolette, In the Grip of Invisible Rays”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
November 29, 2012
Monica Brown, Department of English, UBC
“What Does Hand Washing Mean in the Twenty-First Century?”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
January 3, 2013
Tod Chambers, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program, Northwestern
“In Praise of Navel Gazing, or An Argument For and Against Bioethics Studies”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with reception to follow
January 10, 2013 No colloquium. Meeting of STS Affiliated Faculty in 1197 Buchanan Tower.
January 17, 2013
Leah Ceccarelli, Department of Communication, University of Washington
“At the Frontiers of Science: An American Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
January 31, 2013
Angus Livingstone, University-Industry Liaison Office, UBC
“Academy-Industry Relations: A Tale of Great Fears and Great Expectations”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
February 7, 2013
Jennifer Alexander, History of Science & Technology, University of Minnesota
“The Radical Religiosity of Ellul’s Technological Critique”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with reception to follow
February 21, 2013 No colloquium. Spring break.
February 28, 2013
Deanna Kreisel, Department of English, UBC
“‘The Insides of Things’: Higher-Dimensional Geometries and Victorian Theories of Space”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
March 7, 2013
Lisa Cartwright, Dept of Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego
“Infrastructures of Power: New Topographies of Wind in Kansas”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with reception to follow
March 14, 2013
Michael Ruse, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
“Debating Darwin: Mechanist or Romantic?”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
March 21, 2013
Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC
“The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in the Early Modern Period”
Presented in partnership with Green College
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
March 28, 2013 No colloquium. Meeting of STS Affiliated Faculty and students.
April 4, 2013
Evelyn Fox Keller, History and Philosophy of Science, MIT
“What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture?”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Room 130, Liu Institute, 6476 North West Marine Drive
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with refreshments from 4:30 – 5:00 pm
