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Charis Thompson interviewed on New Books in Science, Technology and Society

September 10th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on Charis Thompson interviewed on New Books in Science, Technology and Society

Charis Thompson interviewed on New Books in Science, Technology and Society

This summer the New Books Network interviewed CSTMS’ Charis Thompson about her book Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research (MIT Press, 2013). In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for “good science.” She traces political,… Read more

A Conference in Honor of Thomas Laqueur

September 8th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on A Conference in Honor of Thomas Laqueur

A Conference in Honor of Thomas Laqueur

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Professor Thomas Laqueur, Co-Director of the Program for the Medical Humanities, was honored for his decades of contributions to a wide range of academic communities in an event at the Social Science Matrix. Professor Laqueur is a historian of immense range and creativity who has set intellectual landmarks across a… Read more

New Cloud and Crowd Reading Group

September 5th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on New Cloud and Crowd Reading Group

New Cloud and Crowd Reading Group

This fall the Center’s Special Project area “The Cloud and the Crowd” convenes a new reading group. Following on from Cori Hayden’s course by the same name offered last year we will expand the exploration of relevant texts in literary, social and political theory and data science. Among those texts will be the newly published A Prehistory of… Read more

Gretchen Gano Joins the Center as Associate Director of Research

September 4th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Comments Off on Gretchen Gano Joins the Center as Associate Director of Research

Gretchen Gano Joins the Center as Associate Director of Research

Gretchen Gano joins the Center this fall as the new Associate Director of Research and the Interim Director for the Ph.D. Designated Emphasis in STS. She is a scholar of Science, Technology and Society with research and practitioner experience in participatory technology assessment of emerging technologies. Her research explores the practices, dynamics, and structures of sociotechnical innovation systems. She is interested… Read more

CFP for CSTMS Co-Sponsored Symposium: Crowdsourcing and the Academy

September 3rd, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »

CFP for CSTMS Co-Sponsored Symposium: Crowdsourcing and the Academy

On November, 6, 2015, UC Berkeley’s Humanities and Social Sciences Association (HSSA) will hold a symposium, Crowdsourcing and the academy: Exploring promises and problems of collective intelligence methods in humanities and social science research on the UC Berkeley campus.  The purpose of this event is to explore the premises, promises, and risks of crowdsourcing in the social sciences and humanities. … Read more

TIK, University of Oslo, Hosts Second Valuation Workshop with CSTMS

June 29th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news, Research highlights | Leave A Comment »

TIK, University of Oslo, Hosts Second Valuation Workshop with CSTMS

CSTMS scholars attended the second of two “Valuation Studies” workshops, hosted by the University of Oslo’s Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), and funded by the Peder Sather Center. On June 8, participants discussed a wide range of in-depth research presentations, showcasing the diversity of approaches and research topics within the emergent field focusing on the practices and… Read more

CSTMS hosts conference on “Faking It:” Counterfeits, Copies, and Uncertain Truths in Science, Technology, and Medicine

May 7th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »

CSTMS hosts conference on “Faking It:” Counterfeits, Copies, and Uncertain Truths in Science, Technology, and Medicine

In April 2015, CSTMS hosted a two-day interdisciplinary conference on “Faking It:” Counterfeits, Copies, and Uncertain Truths in Science, Technology, and Medicine. Over the past several decades, science studies scholars have explored the ways in which scientific knowledge and practice is socially constructed, debated, contested, and deemed credible by the public.  Others have turned their… Read more

Hélène Mialet Publishes Review of “The Theory of Everything” in Scientific American

April 21st, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news, Research highlights | Leave A Comment »

Hélène Mialet Publishes Review of “The Theory of Everything” in Scientific American

Hélène Mialet, visiting professor in the STS program at UC Davis, visiting scholar with CSTMS at UC Berkeley, and author of Hawking Incorporated (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), published an essay in Scientific American reflecting on the The Theory of Everything and her experiences with Stephen Hawking and his network. She challenges the notion that scientific thought… Read more

STS-DE Graduates Accept New Positions

April 21st, 2015  |  by  |  published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »

STS-DE Graduates Accept New Positions

CSTMS is thrilled to announce three of our graduating STS Designated Emphasis students have accepted new positions! Rachel Carmen Ceasar, PhD in Medical Anthropology, is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work examines the intersection of forensic archaeology, the dead body, and hierarchies of heritage and knowledge… Read more

Winickoff Joins OECD in Science Policy Post

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Winickoff Joins OECD in Science Policy Post

STS Program Director David Winickoff will take a temporary post as Senior Policy Analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris where he will lead the new Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies. In this role, David will work with country officials drawn from relevant government ministries to develop international… Read more

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