2013/14 STS Colloquium Series

September 12
Andrea Woody, University of Washington
“Chemistry’s Periodic Law: Rethinking Explanation and Representation through the Turn to Practice”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

September 23
Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris
“War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict”
Presented by Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Wall Exchange Series
Location: Vogue Theatre
Time: 7:30pm, sold out but there will be a standing line.

September 25 
Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris, and Philippe Descola, Collège de France
“Approaches to the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour”
Presented by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Location: Museum of Anthropology, Grand Hall
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
REQUIRES REGISTRATION: http://events.pwias.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info?id=87&reset=1

October 3 
Jessica Wang, UBC
“The Telling of the Case: Rabies Narratives, Autopsy, and Medical Community in Nineteenth-Century New York City”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

October 17
Sylvia Berryman, UBC
“A Tale of Two (Social) Scientists: Milgram and Zimbardo”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

October 21 
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke University
“Dis/Integration: On the New Interdisciplinarity”
Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture
Location: Buchanan Building, Block A, Room 104
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

November 7 
Richard Gold, McGill University
“Myriad Genetics and Beyond: The Fallout of the US Supreme Court Decision”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

November 14 
Carla Nappi, UBC
“Sample and Mix: The Body Sonic in Qing Science and Medicine”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

November 21 History of Science Society Meetings in Boston

November 27 
Jean Gayon, University of Paris
“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Enhancement”
Presented by the Peter Wall Institute and the French Consulate
Location: Buchanan Building, Block A, Room 103
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

November 29 
Jean Gayon, University of Paris
“Population Genetics, Economic Theory, and Eugenics in the work of R. A. Fisher”
Presented by the UBC Department of Philosophy
Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 261
Time: 3:00-5:00pm

January 9
Alan Richardson, UBC
“Signal Achievements: Hans Reichenbach on Radio and on Radio”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

January 16 
Eric Johnson, UBC
“A Historical Epistemology of Empathy”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

January 28
Jacalyn Duffin, Queen’s; Susan Squier, Penn State
“Integrating Critical Health Studies: New Sources and New Perspectives from Medicine, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities”
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor Talk
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

January 30 
Panel Discussion with Professors Duffin, Squier, Segal, Nappi & Bryson
“Critical Conditions: Lessons for Health Studies at UBC and Beyond”
Jacalyn Duffin, Queen’s; Susan Squier, Penn State; Judy Segal, UBC; Carla Nappi, UBC; and Mary Bryson, UBC
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor Talk
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

February 3 
Cindy Patton, SFU
“The Press and the Press Release: Inventing the Crystal Meth-HIV Connection”
Sponsored by the SSSHRC Situating Science Cluster; “Lives of Evidence” Lecture Series
Location: Buchanan A201
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

February 6 
Susan Mattern, University of Georgia
“Galen’s Anxious Patients: Lupe as Anxiety Disorder”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

February 13 
Jill Fellows, UBC
“Parrhesia, Pluralism and Polar Bears”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

February 27 
Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University
“The Concept of ‘Race’ and/in the History of Science and Medicine”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 12:30-2:00pm

March 13
Piers Hale, University of Oklahoma
“Malthus or Mutualism? A Reassessment of the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

March 27 
Matthew Nisbet, American University
“Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals and their Arguments for Action on Climate Change”
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

April 3 
Yi-Li Wu, University of Westminster
“Technologies of Trauma: Assessing Wounds and Joining Bones in Late Imperial China”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Coach House, Green College
Time: 5:00-6:30pm

2012/13 Colloquium Series Schedule