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

Sensory Communication Symposium

You are invited to attend a two-day international symposium on Sensory Communication: Expressive Culture and Youth Media cosponsored by the UCSD departments of Communication and Visual Arts April 14-15. Please see schedule below, attached flyers and websites at:

http://youthmediasymp.ucsd.edu

http://youthmediasymp.ucsd.edu/accessible/

All daytime panels and workshops will be held at the Visual Arts Performing Facility (VAF) in the Visual Arts complex near the Gilman Parking Structure.

The screening of the film Chants of Lotus by Fatimah Tobing Rony will be in MCC 201 (Comm Building) at 7pm Wednesday. This event is sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies.

SCHEDULE

Sensory Communication: Expressive Culture and Youth Media

A two-day symposium sponsored by the Departments of Communication and Visual Arts, UCSD. Supported by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, UCSD.

Wednesday April 14 and Thursday, April 15

**All daytime events in Visual Arts Facility (VAF) Performance Space, evening screening in MCC 201**


Wednesday, April 14

10:00 AM-12:30 PM: VAF Performing Space: Sensory Mediation

· Yvonne Eriksson (Malardalen Univ., Sweden) “Children with visual impairment in a visually oriented world”

· Roberto Manduchi (UCSC) “Following Ariadne's thread: Sensing technologies for assisted mobility and way finding without sight”

· Moderated by Anna Sparrman (Linköping University, Sweden) and Barry Brown (UCSD)

1:30-2:00 PM VAF Performing Space: “Sing as the following objects pass through your throat: Sensory Modalities of the Everyday Voice” by Zeynep Bulut (UCSD)

2:00-3:30 PM VAF Performing Space: Workshop on Making Sensory Media. Moderated by Lisa Cartwright (UCSD), Yvonne Eriksson, and Roberto Manduchi

7:00 PM: Location: MCC 201
Screening, Chants of Lotus (2007), with discussion by Fatimah Tobing Rony (UC Irvine), moderated by Nour Al-Timimi, Lisa Fang, Hwan Lee, and Zheng Zhang (UCSD)

Thursday, April 15

10:00 AM-12:30 PM: VAF Performing Space: Self-Produced Youth Media and Cultural Conventions.

· Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College) “Faking Fred: The Formal Limits on Youth Self-Representation”

· Richard Chalfen (Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School) “Participant Media Research: Using Young Patient Visual Narratives to Better Understand Living with Chronic Illness”

· Moderated by Lauren Berliner, Elena Buenrostro and Andy Rice (UCSD)

2:00-3:30 PM: VAF Performing Space: Workshop on Media Practices to Work Through Affect and Experience. Moderated by Brian Goldfarb (UCSD), Trinity de Kervor (High Tech High International), Steven Rubin (Penn State University), Shannon Lowe (Lancaster University) and The AjA Project

Co-convenors:

· Lisa Cartwright, Professor of Communication and Science Studies, UCSD

· Brian Goldfarb, Associate Professor of Communication and Education Studies, UCSD

· Anna Sparrman, Associate Professor, Department of Child Studies, Linköping University, Sweden

UCLA Center for Society and Genetics Symposium, January 29-30

Dear Friends of the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics:

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics’ 8th Annual Public Symposium, “Outlaw Biology: Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio.” This two-day event will explore new forms of biological and engineering research beyond the university and the corporations and will feature an exhibition and bio/science fair for exploring new forms of participation, open science and do-it-yourself biology.

This event is free and open to the public. For additional information and to RSVP please visit us at www.outlawbiology.net.

SDSU Fall 2009 Symposium

From 20-22 November 2009, San Diego State University will host an academic symposium to mark 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species. Focusing on Darwin's impact on the Humanities and the Social Sciences, thinkers from various fields will debate and celebrate Darwin's enduring influence. For a complete schedule of events, visit http://www.darwin.sdsu.edu or contact Dr. Mark R. Wheeler, Symposium Chair.

Friday, November 20, 2009

San Diego Natural History Museum
1788 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101
Kaplan Auditorium
4:30pm– 6:30pm
Directions

FEATURING:

The Hidden Side of Female Desire
Martie Haselton (UCLA)

The Biological and Evolutionary Basis of Romantic Relationships: Are Social
Scientists and Humanists in Biological Denial?
Peter A. Andersen (SDSU)

Sex, Homicide, and the Meaning of Life: The Evolution of Darwinian
Psychology.
Douglas Kenrick (Arizona State University)

Sex, Love & Death: Socioevolutionary Theory & Science.
Brian H. Spitzberg (SDSU)

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182
Arts and Letters Building
9:00am - 4:30pm
Directions

FEATURING:

Keynote Speaker
Michael Ghiselin
California Academy of the Sciences
Natural Selection, Teleology, and Unintended Consequences
3:30pm in AL 101


Invited Speaker
James Mallet
University College London
Darwin and Today's View of Species
12:00pm in AL 101

Plus many more lectures by faculty!

Come back on Sunday to hear more lectures by graduate students.