2013 Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture October 21
Professor Barbara Herrnstein Smith of Duke University delivers the Seventh Annual Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture, titled “Dis/Integration: On the New Interdisciplinarity” on October 21 from 4:00-5:30 in Buchanan A104.
STS Colloquium Talk: Sylvia Berryman October 17
Professor Sylvia Berryman of the UBC Department of Philosophy delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “A Tale of Two (Social) Scientists: Milgram and Zimbardo” on Thursday, October 17, 5:00-6:30 in Buchanan Tower 1197.
PWIAS Downtown Lecture: Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour of Sciences Po Paris delivers a Peter Wall Downtown Lecture titled “War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict” on Monday, September 23 at 7:30 pm at the Vogue Theatre in downtown Vancouver.
Philosophy Colloquium Talk: Jean Gayon November 29
Professor Jean Gayon of the University of Paris delivers a talk titled “Population Genetics, Economic Theory, and Eugenics in the work of R. A. Fisher” on Friday, November 29, 3:00 to 5:00pm in Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 261.
STS Colloquium: Jessica Wang October 3
Jessica Wang of the UBC Department of History delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “The Telling of the Case: Rabies Narratives, Autopsy, and Medical Community in 19th-Century New York City” on Thursday, October 3, 5:00-6:30 at the Green College Coach House.
STS Colloquium Talk: Andrea Woody September 12
Professor Andrea Woody of the University of Washington Department of Philosophy delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “Chemistry’s Periodic Law: Rethinking Explanation and Representation through the Turn to Practice” on Thursday, September 12, 5:00-6:30 in Buchanan Tower 1197.
STS Colloquium: Michael Ruse Mar 14
Michael Ruse of the Florida State University Department of Philosophy delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “Debating Darwin: Mechanist or Romantic?” on Thursday, March 14, 5:00-6:30pm in Buchanan Tower 1197.
STS Colloquium: Anthony Grafton Mar 21
Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in the Early Modern Period” on Thursday, March 21, 5:00-6:30pm in Buchanan Tower 1197.
STS Colloquium: Lisa Cartwright Mar 7
Lisa Cartwright of the University of California San Diego Department of Communication and Science Studies delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “Infrastructures of Power: New Topographies of Wind in Kansas” on Thursday, March 7, 5:00-6:30pm at the Green College Coach House.
STS Colloquium: Deanna Kreisel Feb 28
Deanna Kreisel of the UBC Department of English delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “‘The Insides of Things’: Higher-Dimensional Geometries and Victorian Theories of Space” on Thursday, February 28, 5:00-6:30pm in Buchanan Tower 1197.
