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2008 - 2009

Fall Quarter 2008

September 29
Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only

October 6
Who wants to take a ride on a time machine?
Christian Wuthrich, UCSD

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Abstract           

October 13
The In Vitro Condition: Nutritional Epigenetics and the Human Milieu
Hannah Landecker, UCLA

Associate Professor of Sociology at the Center for Society and Genetics

Abstract          

October 20
Samples and Specimens at Antarctic Biosecurity Borders
Jessica O'Reilly, UCSD

Postdocotral Scholar, Science Technology and Environmental Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson School
Abstract
   

    October 27
Professional Development Workshop: Academic Placement
SSP faculty and students only
         

November 3
==Postponed==
Cori Hayden, UC Berkeley

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology

       

November 10
Consuming Patients: Schizophrenia in the Age of Psychopharmacology
(1950-2000)

Joel Braslow , UCLA
Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and History

Abstract

November 17
August Comte in Paradise: The Ecole Polytechnique, Temporal Series, and the Birth of Sociology

John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Professor of History of Science

Abstract

November 24
Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis

Joseph Masco, University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Abstract

December1
Sightings and Seeing: Public Discussions of NASA's UFO Footage

Barry Brown , UCSD
Associate Professor of Communication

Abstract

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Winter Quarter 2009

January 5
Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only

January 12
Drawing the Straight Line: Scientific Knowledge Struggles over Corrective Treatments for Homosexuality
Thomas Waidzunas, UCSD
Graduate Student in Sociology/Science Studies

Abstract      

January 26
The Role of Maturationally Natural Cognition in Science and Religion
Robert McCauley, Emory University

Director, Center for Mind, Brain and Culture

Abstract

February 2
==Postponed==
Nick Dyer-Witheford,
University of Western Ontario

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies

February 9
Professional Development Workshop: Writing Reviews and Abstracts
SSP faculty and students only

February 23
Aristotle's Explanation of the Halo
Monte Johnson,
UCSD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Abstract

February 25
Science Studies Program Students' Workshop
SSP faculty and students only

March 2
Sound Reproduction After Noise: Perceptual Coding and the Homology of the Fields, 1955-1979
Jonathan Sterne, McGill University

Associate Professor, Department Chair, Art History and Communication Studies
Abstract

March 9
The Neurology of Regicide: Decapitation, the brain, and the problem of revolutionary violence, 1664 and 1803
Cathy Gere, UCSD

Assistant Professor of History
Abstract      

No Colloquium on January 19 or February 16

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Spring Quarter 2009

March 30
Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only

April 3*
Where Homeostasis Comes From And Where It Should Go
Ian Hacking
, University of Toronto
Emeritus University Professor of Philosophy

Abstract


April 6
Three Perspectives on an Event of Middling Importance: The Transcontinental Excursion of 1912
Mark Hineline
, UCSD
Sixth College Practicum and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
Abstract

April 13
Photography and Medical Observation
Scott Curtis, Northwestern University

Associate Professor, School of Communication

Abstract

April 20
Of Futures and Fringes: California's Technological Enthusiasts, 1970-1990
W. Patrick McCray, UC-Santa Barbara

Professor of History

Abstract

April 27
The same and not the same: Generic medicines and the pharma-politics of similarity
Cori Hayden, UC-Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Abstract

May 4
The Misguided Sociology of Causal Action in Classical Physics
Sheldon Smith, UCLA

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Abstract

May 11
New Encyclopedias Will Appear: Mid-Twentieth Century
social-science archives of human materials
Rebecca Lemov, Harvard University

Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science
Abstract

May 13 (Wednesday, 10:30am-12pm)
Professional Development Workshop: Grant Proposal Preparation
SSP faculty and students only

May 18
Following Insects Around: The Practice of Natural History in 18th-Century France
Mary Terrall,
UCLA
Associate Professor of History
Abstract

June 1
==Postponed==
Kelly Gates, UCSD

Assistant Professor of Communication

*Students' Choice Speaker

 

 

1997-1998
Steven Epstein, UCSD Sociology
Mara Harrell, UCSD Philosophy
Mark Hineline, UCSD History
Pauline Sargent, NSF
Margaret Garber, UCSD History
Allison Winter, California Institute of Technology
Marta Hanson, UCSD History
Diane Vaughan, Boston College
Stephen Toulmin, University of Southern California
Jim Moore, UCSD Anthropology
Chandra Mukerji, UCSD Sociology/Communication
Barbara Hernstein-Smith, Duke University
Martin Rudwick, UCSD History
Ben Sims, UCSD Science Studies
Peter Dear, Cornell University
Joseph Gusfield, UCSD Sociology
Elizabeth Bates, UCSD Cognitive Science
Judith Halberstam, UCSD Literature
Shirley Strum, UCSD Anthropology
Adrian Cussins, UCSD Philosophy

1998-1999
Linda Liu, UC Berkeley
Naomi Oreskes, UCSD History
Francesca Bray, UC Santa Barbara
Angela Lakwete, UCSD
Ira Livingston, State University of New York, Stoneybrook
Val Hartouni, UCSD
Myles Jackson, Willamette University
Adrian Johns, UCSD
Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford University
Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics
Paul Teller, UC Davis
Pamela Smith, Pamona
Ted Porter, UCLA
Suzanne Kessler
Luce Giard, UCSD History
Margaret Meredith, UCSD
Susan Davis, UCSD Communication
Fred Spiess, UCSD
Vince Rafael, UCSD Communication
Eric Scerri, Purdue University
David Palumbo-Lui, Stanford University
Charlotte Furth, University of Southern California
Deb Harkness, UC Davis
Paolo Mancosu, UC Berkeley
Robert Adams, USD, Anthropology
Michael Shank, University of Wisconsin


1999-2000
Kathleen Walen, University of London, UC Davis
Geoffrey Bowker, UCSD Communication
Jeffrey Bub
Ronald Giere, University of Minnesota
Bogi Anderson, UCSD, Medicine
Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame
Pat Churchland, UCSD Philosophy
Andrew Feenberg, San Diego State University
William Freudenburg, University of Wisconsin
Stephan Fuchs, University of Virginia
Sigrid Schmalzer, UCSD
Lawrence Cohen, UC Berkeley
Leigh Star, UCSD Science Studies Program/History Department
Andrew Warwick, Imperial College, London
Nancy Nersessian, MIT
Joan Fujimura, Stanford


2000-2001
Ricahrd Boyd, Cornell University
John Helly, SD Supercomputer Center
Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M University
Larry Schneiderman, UCSD
Greg Bantick, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
Rick Jonasse, UCSD
JoAnne Yates, MIT
Joseph Gogien, UCSD
Rogers Hollingsworh, University of Wisconsin
Peter Galison, Harvard University
James Fleming, Colby College
Scott Miles, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Region Earthquake Hazards Team
Jean Lave, UC Berkeley
Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh.
John Kadvany, Principal, Policy and Decision Science, Menlo Park
Helen Rozwadowski
Kaspar Elkildsen, Graduate student at Freie Universitaet, Berlin.
Craig Callender, UCSD
Rick Grush
Fernando Elichirigoity, Long Island University
Lawance Badash, UC Santa Barbara
Peter Reill


2001-2002

Ed Hutchins, UCSD
Paul Churchland, UCSD
Chandra Mukerji, UCSD
Patricia Churchland, UCSD
Steven Quartz, Cal Tech
Geoffrey Bowker, UCSD
Benjamin Sims, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael Root, University of Minnesota
Helena Karasti, Visiting Post Doctoral Researcher
Linda Strauss, Pacific Northwest College of Art
Dominique Bouiller, Universite' de Technologie
William Clark, UCSD Affiliate and NSF Scholar
Kasper Eskildsen, Freie Universitat
Robert Brain, Harvard University
Wenda Bauschpies, Penn State Univeristy
Aaron Mauck, UCSD
Evelyn Fox Keller, Cal Tech/MIT
David Kaiser, MIT
Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and
Richardson, University of British Columbia
Martha Poon, UCSD
Bruno Latour, Center de sociologie de 1novation at the Ecole nationale superieuere de mines
Charles Briggs, UCSD
Warwick Anderson, UCSF


2002-2003
Robert Engler, UCSD
John Cloud, 2002 SIO Ritter Fellow and Cornell University
Michael Curry, UCLA
Caitlin Zaloom, Berkeley
Robert Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Rabinow, Berkeley
Steve Jackson, UCSD
Miriam Padolsky, UCSD
Cathryn Carson, UC Berkeley
Nancy Cartwright, UCSD/London School of Economics
Anat Leibler, UCSD
William Bechtel, UCSD
Norton Wise, UCLA
Derek Jensen, UCSD
Mauricio Suarez ,Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain


2003-2004
Sigrid Schmalzer, UCSD
Jim Fleming, Colby College
Adele Clark, UCSF
Fran Berman, UCSD San Diego Supercomputer Center
Lisa Cartwright, UCSD
Jed Buchwald, Cal Tech
Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History
Sal Restivo, Harvey Mudd College
Robert Northcott, London School of Economics
Mary Morgan, London School of Economics
Grischa Metlay, UCSD
Ted Porter, UCLA
Andrew Hamilton, UCSD
Robert Nye, Oregon State University
Nadine Kozak, UCSD
Michael Bernstein, UCSD
Neil Thomason, University of Melbourne
Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Zara Mirmalek, UCSD Science Studies Program/History Department
Martin Rudwick, University of Cambridge, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, UCSD
Mordechai Feingold, Cal Tech
Ernan McMullin, Notre Dame
Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University
Bernard Lightman, York University
Carmel Finley, UCSD

2004-2005
Klaas van Berkel, University of Groningen
Michael Evans, UCSD
Matt Crawford, UCSD
Grace Davie, UCSD
Richard C.J. Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ron Rainger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Patrick Carroll, UC Davis
Joel Braslow, UCSD
Jesse Richmond, UCSD
David Hollinger, UC Berkeley
Jonathan Erlen, University of Pittsburgh
James Griesemer, UC Davis
Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Indiana University
James Evans, University of Puget Sound
Natalie Jeremijenko, UCSD
Minakshi Menon, UCSD
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, University of Hanover (Germany)
Robert Westman, UCSD

Jessica Riskin, Stanford
John Beatty, University of British Columbia
Emily Thompson, UCSD
Paul Edwards, Michigan
Samuel Randalls, University of Birmingham (UK)
Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University
Joan Richards, Brown University
Martin Bunzi, Rutgers University
Ken Alder, Northwestern University
Stefan Timmermans, Harvard
Erich Conrad, UCSD
Monika Gisler, UCLA

2005-2006
Thomas Hughes, University of Pennsylvania
Simon Cole, UCI
Wendy Parker, UCSD
Maureen McNeill, University of Lancaster
Alison Wylie, University of Washington
Steve Luis, UCSD
Sophia Efstathiou, UCSD
Francis Longworth, University of Pittsburgh
Jon Guice, Green Mountain Engineering
F. Sherwood Rowland, UCI
Steve Huntsman, Naval Postgraduate School
Lesley Cormack, University of Alberta
Florence Millerand, UCSD
Robert F. Benjamin, Los Alamos Laboratory
Eden Medina, Indiana University
Kasper Eskildsen, UCSD
Erik Conway, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Tom Waidzunas, UCSD

Ray Chou, UCSD
Roger Bohn, UCSD
Lyn Headley, UCSD
Joan Cadden, UC Davis
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard
Heather Flowe, UCSD
Christopher Smeenk, UCLA
Chris Mooney, author of "The Republican War on Science"
Dan Metlay, US Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
Ev Meade, UCSD
John Heilbron, UC Berkeley
Pamela Long, Independent historian and Getty Scholar 2006-07

2006-2007
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan
Joseph Gabriel, UCSD
Sarah S. Lochlann Jain, Stanford University
Laura Harkewicz, UCSD
Sean Cadigan, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Kwan Min Lee, University of Southern California
Steven Epstein, UCSD
Morana Alac, UCSD
Brian Lindseth, UCSD
Eric Martin, UCSD
Adrienne Mayor, Stanford University
Matt Shindell, UCSD
Alper Yalcinkaya, UCSD
Bruce T. Moran, University of Nevada at Reno
Roddey Reid, UCSD
Margaret Garber, California State University Fullerton
Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Peter Galison, Harvard University
Andrea Westermann, Technikgeschichte der ETH Zurich
Elizabeth Dunn, University of Colorado
Emma Johnson, UCSD
Cynthia Schairer, UCSD
Simon Werrett, University of Washington
Daniel Garber, Princeton University
Lindley Darden, University of Maryland