STS Colloquium Oct 19 Alison Wylie
Alison Wylie University of British Columbia “Knowledge that’s fit for purpose: a research prospectus.” October 19, 2017 BuTo 1197 5-6:30pm
Dr. Gregg Mitman Sept. 28th UBC History Department Colloquium Series
Dr. Gregg Mitman will be at UBC on Thursday, Sept. 28th to speak about his recent work, Forgotten Paths of Empire: History, Memory, and the Making of the Firestone Plantations Company in Liberia, and for a screening of the documentary that arises from this work. The event will take place from 4-6pm on Sept. 28th in LASR […]
STS Colloquium Sept. 14 Helen Tilley
Sept. 14th 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
STS Colloquium: Grad Student Presentations April 7
Join us April 7 at 4pm in BuTo 1197 to see STS graduate students present their work!
Stephen Straker Memorial Lecture: Charis Thompson, March 24
Charis Thompson, “Getting Ahead? Embodied Technologies, Democracy, and Inequality in the 21st Century.” Thursday, 24 March 2016, 4:30-6:00 pm in IBLC 182 Thompson’s talk looks at biometrics, egg freezing, gene editing, and bio-wearables, and compare and contrast elites’ and less privileged users’ interactions with these embodied technologies. She considers how these technologies both naturalize and trouble […]
STS Colloquium: Phillip Thurtle, March 10
On Thursday, March 10 at 4pm in BuTo 1197, Phillip Thurtle, Associate Professor, Department of History and Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington, Seattle. will be presenting “Losing My Wings: An Interactive Fable of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology.”
STS Colloquium: Jonathan Elmer February 25
Feb 25 at 4pm, Jonathan Elmer, Professor, Department of English; Director, College Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University. “Poe’s Ear.”
STS Colloquium: Heidi Tworek Feb 11
Feb 11 @ 4pm, Heidi Tworek (UBC) will be presenting “Communicating Quarantine: How Wireless Technology Helped to Create World Health.”
STS Colloquium: Miriam Solomon Jan 28
Thursday, Jan 28 @ 4pm, Miriam Solomon (Temple University) will be presenting “The Historical Epistemology of Evidence-Based Medicine.”
STS Colloquium Talk: Carla Nappi January 8
On January 8, 2015 @ 5 PM in Buchanan Tower 1197, join us for the first STS Colloquium Talk of Term 2. Carla Nappi will lead a book discussion devoted to Isabelle Stenger’s Thinking with Whitehead. **Please note the new time. Term Two presentations will generally start at 5 pm.**
