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” […]
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 […]
STS Colloquium: Apr 16, 2019 Mathias Møllebæk
April 16, 2019 – 5pm in Buchanan Tower 1197 Mathias Møllebæk University of Copenhagen “Tracing medical risk rhetoric from regulatory database to clinical judgment– an interview and protocol study” The risk-benefit balance of a drug is never finalized, and new risks may emerge after the drug has been approved for use. Making such emergent risks […]
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
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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”
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
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 […]
