2008-09 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 2008

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

October 6: Christian Wuthrich, UCSD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

October 13:
The In Vitro Condition: Nutritional Epigenetics and the Human Milieu
Hannah Landecker, Rice University, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

October 20: TBA

October 27: TBA

November 3: The same and not the same: Generic medicines and the pharma-politics of similarity
Cori Hayden, UC-Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology

November 10: Joel Braslow, UCLA, Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and History

November 17: A New Look at Comte's Positivism
John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of History of Science

November 24: Joseph Masco, University of Chicago, Associate Professor of Anthropology

December 1: Barry Brown, UCSD, Associate Professor of Communication

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Winter Quarter 2009

January 5: Science Studies Program Meeting
SSP faculty and students only

January 12:TBA
 

January 26: Robert McCauley, Emory University, University Professor of Philosophy

February 2: Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies

February 9: TBA
 

February 23: Monte Johnson, UCSD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

March 2: Jonathan Sterne, McGill University, Associate Professor of Communication Studies

March 9: Cathy Gere, UCSD, Assistant Professor of Histtory

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: Ian Hacking, University of Toronto, Emeritus University Professor of Philosophy

April 6: Mark Woods, University of San Diego, Associate Professor of Philosophy

April 13: Scott Curtis, Northwestern University, Associate Professor, School of Communication

April 20: Patrick McCray, UC-Santa Barbara, Professor of History

April 27: TBA

May 4: Sheldon Smith, UCLA, Associate Professor of Philosophy

May 11: Rebecca Lemov, Harvard University, Lecturer of History of Science

May 18: Mary Terrall, UCLA, Associate Professor of History

June 1: TBA

*Students' Choice Speaker

No Colloquium on May 25