2009-10 Colloquium Series

The Science Studies Colloquium Series takes place every Monday of the quarter from 4:00p-5:30p in Room 3027, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Muir College campus, unless noted otherwise.

A reception for the colloquium speaker takes place before the talk from 3:30p-4:00p in Room 3005, Humanities & Social Sciences Building.

Fall Quarter 2009

September 28: Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only

October 5: Agnotology and Error: Privatives and Asymmetry
Jennifer Croissant, Associate Professor, Women's Studies/Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona
abstract            flyer

October 12: "Twitter Terrorists," "Cellphone Jihadists," and citizen Bloggers:
The global Matrix of War and the Biopolitics of Technoculture in Mumbai
Caren Kaplan, Chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group, UC Davis
abstract            flyer

October 19: Matters of Chance: Drift and Selection in Evolutionary Explanations
Robert Richardson, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati
abstract            flyer

October 26: How models give us knowledge
Mieke Boon, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Twente
abstract            flyer

November 2 : Professional Development Workshop
SSP faculty and students only

November 9: Copernicus and the Astrologers of Cracow and Bologna: Some Science Studies Themes
Robert S. Westman, Science Studies Program Director, Professor of History, UC San Diego
abstract            flyer

November 16: The national map and the republic of knowledge in late nineteenth-century America
Scott Kirsch, Associate Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
abstract            flyer

November 23: Participation as Post-Fordist Politics: Demos, New Labour, and Science & Technology Studies
Charles Thorpe, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego
abstract            flyer

November 30 : Varieties of Evidential Experience
Jacob Stegenga, Graduate Student in Philosophy & Science Studies, UC San Diego

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Winter Quarter 2010

January 4: Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only

January 11: Experimental Music, Cold War and Counter-Culture
Douglas Kahn, Professor of Technocultural Studies, UC Davis
abstract            flyer
 
January 25: Jane Maienschein, Director, Center for Biology and Society,
Arizona State University

February 1: Jennifer Reardon, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz

February 8: William Bechtel, Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego
 
February 22: Bart Simon, Associate Professor of Sociology, Concordia University

March 1: Carolyn Merchant, Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy and Ethics, UC Berkeley

March 8: Carolyn de la Peña, Associate Professor of American Studies, UC Davis

No Colloquium on January 18 or February 15

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Spring Quarter 2010

March 29: Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only

April 5: Kyle Stanford, Associate Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine

April 12: James F. Woodward, J.O. and Juliette Koepfil Professor of the Humanities, California Institute of Technology

April 19: Kelly Gates, Assistant Professor of Communication, UC San Diego

April 26: David Serlin, Associate Professor of Communication, UC San Diego

May 3 : Garland Allen, Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis

May 10: Gregg Mitman, William Coleman Professor of History of Science,
University of Wiconsin-Madison

May 17: Morana Alac, Assistant Professor of Communication, UC San Diego

May 24: N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of English, UCLA

*Students' Choice Speaker

No Colloquium on May 31