The Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley seeks a non-tenure-track instructor for four courses on the history of science during the academic year 2013-14. Candidates able to teach two upper-division courses among history of American science, environmental history, or history of the life sciences are especially encouraged to apply. Along with undergraduate… Read more

  HSNS (Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, formerly known as HSPS) is an international quarterly journal published by the University of California Press for the Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley. It publishes scholarly articles, including intellectual, cultural, political, and institutional studies of the natural sciences in Western and… Read more

Two UC Berkeley graduate students and a post-doctoral fellow affiliated with CSTMS have secured tenure-track academic positions for the following year. Emily Redman, a History of Science PhD candidate, has accepted an Assistant Professorship in the University of Massachusetts Department of History. She will contribute to the history of science program within the department, focusing… Read more

The CSTMS Special Project on the Cloud and the Crowd was awarded funding to launch a Multicampus Research Group by the UC Humanities Network and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. The MRG brings together a range of humanistic scholars from throughout the system to examine the ways that innovations in media platforms, data… Read more

Date of Event: May 9-10 2013 Read more about the event Representations and expressions of love between humans and non-human animals suffuse contemporary U.S. culture. There is the love-at-a-distance of the feral cat rescuer, the often- deadly love of the cattle rancher, and the everyday love of the poop-scooping dog owner. There is the loving… Read more

CSTMS launches its newest Working Group exploring governing the future risky impacts of scientific advancement

Date: April 26, 2013 Time: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm. Location: 470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley, ADA accessible Find us on Facebook The Spring 2013 Sciences and Society Symposium strives to open up lively debate around new forms of knowledge, boundary-drawing practices, and aesthetics in part by experimenting with the form that undergraduate research and… Read more

The CSTMS community offers a wide range of courses in many departments, along with our own STS courses. Here is a selection of courses offered this Spring. If these look interesting to you, you will probably also like our PhD Designated Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies. Undergraduate Coursework History 30. Science & Society Monday… Read more

The promise and politics of provincializing experts, models, and knowledge in the 21st century Abstracts due: 1 February 2013 Development, understood as a set of aspirations, an organizational field, sets of expertise, or a guiding imaginary has shifted in response to the post-colonial growth of democracy in the South, the rise of multi-stakeholder partnerships and… Read more