Spring Quarter 2008
March 31
Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only
April 7
"The Science of Liberation: Alexander von Humboldt, the Age of Revolution, and Human-Caused Climate Change in South America"
Gregory T. Cushman, University of Kansas
Assistant Professor of International Environmental History
Abstract Flyer
April 14
“Knowledge Makers Building Pasts and Futures in Changing Ecologies:
Physicists, Anthropologists, and Historians in Japan, Europe, and the US”
Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies
Abstract Flyer
April 21
Under the Influence of Technology: DUI and the Legal Production of Objectivity
Jennifer L. Mnookin, UCLA
Vice Dean and Professor of Law
Abstract Flyer
April 28
Professional Development Workshop: Grant Proposal Preparation
SSP faculty and students only
May 2-3
Science Studies Program Workshop:
“Technology and Formations of Power”
View website
May 5
Ocean Critters, Nanophysics, and Questions of Scale
Karen Barad, UC - Santa Cruz
Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Philosophy
May 12 *
Moving Up the Slippery Slope: Mandated Genetic Screening on Cyprus
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of History & Sociology of Science
Abstract Flyer
May 19
"Genomics as a Technology of the Self?"
Charis Thompson, UC – Berkeley
Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies;
Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Society Center
Abstract Flyer
May 23 (Friday at 12:15pm)
The Uncertainty of Risk Analysis: Second Order Uncertainty in Food Safety
Akos Rona-Tas, University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor of Sociology
Abstract Flyer
June 2
"Impossible Engineering"
Chandra Mukerji, UC - San Diego
Professor, Department of Communication
Abstract Flyer
*Students' Choice Speaker
No Colloquium on May 26
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Fall Quarter 2007
October 1
Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only
October 8
Difference Mechanisms
James Tabery, University of Utah
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Abstract Flyer
October 15
Scientia Sexualis and U.S. Empire
Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine
Associate Professor and Director, Women's Studies
Abstract Flyer
October 22
== Postponed ==
Tal Golan, University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor of History
October 29
Expertise on Trial: Accounting for the Chernobyl Disaster
Sonja D. Schmid, Postdoctoral Fellow,
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford Univ.
Abstract Flyer
November 5
Trust in Drama: Economics in Business Magazines, 1955-1969
Tiago Mata, Post-doctoral Researcher,
Technical University of Lisbon and Duke University, Dept. of Economics
Abstract Flyer
November 19
Professional Development Workshop: Academic Placement
SSP faculty and students only
November 26
Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic
Reviel Netz, Stanford University
Professor of Classics
Abstract Flyer
December 3
Taphonomic Biography:
An Inverted Reading of Gunther von Hagens' Bodies Exhibit
Thomas S. Mullaney, Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History
Abstract Flyer
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Winter Quarter 2008
January 7
Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only
January 14
The Politics of Certainty and Causation in Risk Society
Tal Golan, University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor of History
Abstract Flyer
January 28
Biocapital Downstream: The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, UC – Irvine
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Abstract Flyer
February 4
Professional Development Workshop: Writing Reviews and Abstracts
SSP faculty and students only
February 8 (Friday at Noon)
Economies of Knowledge Production: International Projects, Division of
Labor and Local Research Capacity
Daniel A. Alexandrov, Higher School of Economics and European University at St. Petersburg
Professor of Sociology
Abstract Flyer
February 11
Evidence-based Policy: So, What's Evidence?
Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics and UCSD
LSE, Chair of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science;
Professor of Philosophy at LSE and UCSD
Abstract Flyer
February 25
Science Studies Program Students' Workshop
SSP faculty and students only
March 3 – 4
Dissent in Science Workshop: Origins and Outcomes
Institute of the Americas - Deutz Conference Room
Co-organized with the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
Web/registration Info Bios
March 7 (Friday at Noon)
Evolutions of Plague and Thought in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr., University of Glasgow
Professor of Medieval History
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of History
Abstract Flyer
March 10
Passing Time
Nick Huggett, University of Illinois at Chicago
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Abstract Flyer
No Colloquium on January 21 or February 18
