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
STS Colloquium 2018-19
STS Colloquium 2018-19 All sessions to be held on Thursdays, from 5-6:30pm, unless otherwise indicated. September 20 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 September 27 Nancy Tuana Pennsylvania State University “Bringing Values to Science: Climate […]
Daniel Steel STS Colloquium March 22
Daniel Steel The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics School of Population and Public Health University of British Columbia “Gender and Scientists’ Views about the Value-Free Ideal” Thursday, March 22. 5-6.30pm. BuTo 1197 *Note the date of this talk has been moved from March 15th to March 22nd Dr. Steel received his PhD […]
STS Colloquium March 1st
Edward Jones-Imhotep York University “Theatres of Machines: Reimagining Histories of Technology and the Self” Thursday, March 8th. 12:30-2pm, Buchanan Tower 1197 co-sponsored with the Department of History
STS Program’s Annual Straker Lecture 2018
David Bates Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley “Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence” […]
Richard Stanley 2018 STS Colloquium
Richard Staley University of Cambridge “Sensory Studies, or When Physics was Psychophysics: Ernst Mach and Physics between Physiology and Psychology, 1860-71” STS 2018 Winter Colloquium Series Thursday, February 1st 5-6:30 pm Buchanan Tower 1197
Winter 2018 STS Colloquium Schedule
STS Colloquium Series 2018, Term II Thursdays 5-6:30 in BuTo 1197 (unless otherwise specified) * denotes unusual place and/or time February 1 Richard Staley, University of Cambridge, “Sensory Studies, or When Physics was Psychophysics: Ernst Mach and Physics between Physiology and Psychology, 1860-71” *March 1 Edward Jones-Imhotep, York University, “Theatres of Machines: Reimagining […]
STS Colloquium Nov. 30
Prof. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at UBC “’We stand in this storm of adaptation’: Karl Escherich and the (De)Nazification of Universities and Social Insects”. Thursday, 30 November, in Buchanan Tower 1197, from 5-6:30pm. UBC Science and Technology Studies Fall 2017 Colloquium
STS Colloquium Nov. 7th Steven Meyer
Tuesday, November 7th Steven Meyer, Washington University, Title TBA co-sponsored by the Belkin Art Gallery Steven Meyer is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Washington University
STS Colloquium Oct. 26 Jesse Oak Taylor
Thursday, October 26th 5-6.30pm Buto 1197 “Conrad’s Earth System Poetics” co-sponsored by Department of English and the Oecologies group Jesse Oak Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington.
