Winter 2011 STS-related talks in Greater Los Angeles

For your information: some winter 2011 STS-related talks

@ Claremont Colleges, UCLA, USC.

+ Some STS talks at the University of Southern California [USC]

http://college.usc.edu/sts/news-events/

Sun 16 Jan: CategoricallyNot! On the Topic of NANO

Tues 22 Feb: The Infrastructural Human: Transportation Systems

+ Some STS talks at Claremont Colleges http://sts.pomona.edu/

http://sts.pomona.edu/news-2/

February 22 or March 1: Noel Swerdow, Emeritus, Univ of Chicago, and Visiting

Professor, Caltech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Swerdlow

http://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/swerdlow/profile

Details to follow.

March 8: Ed Krupp, Director, Griffith Observatory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krupp

Times Up a talk about the Maya calendar. Details to follow

March: Jarita Holbrook, Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona

http://www.cmes.arizona.edu/faculty/detail.php?id=148

Details to follow.

+ Some STS-related talks at UCLA Winter Quarter 2011

* Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium Series

Anderson School of Management http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x32769.xml

1-3pm Friday 28 Jan 2011, Entrepreneurs Hall, 3rd Floor, Room C301, UCLA David

Goodstein, Emeritus Professor, Physics & Applied Physics, Caltech

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/

_On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science_

[Princeton, 2010] See table of contents and Chapter One at

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9148.html

* Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence

http://pulse.law.ucla.edu/events/2010-11/implicit-bias-in-courtroom/

Thur 3 March Symposium on Implicit Bias in the Courtroom

* Center for Society & Genetics events

http://www.socgen.ucla.edu/Calendar.html

3:30pm Thur 13 January at 2125 Rolfe Hall

Jennifer Reardon, Sociology, UCSC

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=34

Reflections on the Science and Publics of Personal Genomics

3:30pm Thur 3 February at 2125 Rolfe Hall

Koichi Mikami, Sokendai Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/alumni/Pages/koichimikami.aspx

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/About/Pages/default.aspx

4-7 Friday; 10-3 Saturday, February 25 & 26, Fowler Auditorium

Symposium: Made for Each Other? Dog and Human Co-evolution

* Information Studies Colloquium Series, all in GSEIS Building, room 111

http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/colloquia/index.htm

3-5 Thurs 24 Feb Sharon Traweek, Women's Studies/History, Ucla

http://www.womensstudies.ucla.edu/faculty_traweek.html

http://www.history.ucla.edu/traweek/

Intersectionality and Border Crossings in Databases

3-5 Thurs 10 March Kavita Phillip, Women's Studies, and Director, Critical

Theory Institute, UC Irvine

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/kp/index.html

http://www.faculty.uci.edu/Scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/humanities/ws/index.cfm?faculty_id=5256

Technoscience and the Postcolonial Question

* History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Colloquium Series

http://www.history.ucla.edu/academics/fields-of-study/science-1/calendar-of-events

http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/historyofscience

All in Bunche Hall 5288 at 4pm.

January 24 Tanja Paulitz, Sociology, University of Graz

http://www.uni-graz.at/en/cfs1www/cfs1www_projekte/cfs1www_gender_nawi.htm

http://www.uni-graz.at/en/cfs1www_cv_paulitz_english.pdf

The Origin of Technological Man? Gendered Tales of the Modern Engineer's

Prehistory

January 31 William Rankin, History of Science & Medicine Program, Yale

http://hshm.yale.edu/rankin From Representation to Infrastructure:

International Mapping Projects and the Logic of Territory after World War II

February 7 Tiago Saraiva, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

http://www.histech.nl/tensphase2/AboutToe/CVData.asp?id_name=370

http://www.ics.ul.pt/instituto/?doc=31809901062&ctmid=04&mnid=1&ln=p&mm=2

F.J. Turner for Fascists:

The Production/circulation of Standardized Sheep and Frontier Settlement in the

Empires of Hitler, Mussolini and Salazar

February 14 Chloe Silverman, STS/Bioethics/Women's Studies,

Pennsylvania State University http://www.sts.psu.edu/faculty/cbs14

Love Is Not Enough: Bruno Bettelheim, Infantile Autism and Psychoanalytic

Childhoods (co-sponsored by UCLA Medical Classics)

February 28 Marta Macedo, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics & University of

Lisbon http://www.ciuhct.com/index.php/pt/doutorados/278-marta-macedo.html

http://www.history.ucla.edu/academics/fields-of-study/science-1/current-students-alumni

Inventing the Cocoa Islands: Science and the Portuguese Colonial Landscape

March 7 Norton Wise, History, UCLA

http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=747

"Pegasus and the Muses of Art, Science, and Industry" pre-circulated paper