Call for UC Graduate participants: "Indisciplines of Enlightenment: Firsts, Origins, Foundations" (seminar, July 19-22)

This seminar will be at UC Berkeley this summer.  Applications are due by May 1, 2012.  For details: http://uchumanitiesforum.org/exchange/research-collaboration/call-for-graduate-participants-indisciplines-of-enlightenment-firsts-origins-foundations-seminar-july-19-22/

UCSD Clinical Research Education Series

The Clinical Trials Office (CTO) Clinical Research Education Series

Presents Rachel Nosowsky, JD, CHRC, speaking on:

    "The Informed Consent Process and the HIPAA Privacy Rule"

Ms. Nosowsky  serves as Principal Counsel to the University of

California system specializing in the area of research and clinical

trials, focusing on human research protections.

Her presentation will be held Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 2:00 pm, Comer

Commons (2nd Floor), at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center.  The CTO invites

anyone who may be interested to attend.

For more information, please contact:

Kirsten Erickson, MPH

Assistant Director, Clinical Trials Office

Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center

858-822-5366_

_kderickson@ucsd.edu

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

Dibner Seminar

The Huntington is pleased to announce a new seminar series in conjunction with the Dibner History of Science Program. The first meeting will be held on Saturday, May 1, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in Classrooms 1 & 2 of the Munger Research Center at The Huntington. Coffee will be available starting at 9:30.

Our speaker will be Marga Vicedo, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, and her topic will be "Cold War Emotions: Mother Love and Human Nature in Post-War America." Following World War II, there was an explosion of research on human emotions and its biological underpinnings, instincts. Through scholarly and popular writings, psychoanalysts, ethologists, and psychologists studying child development succeeded in bringing instincts back into scientific and social debates. Dr. Vicedo will examine the work of Konrad Lorenz on geese, Harry Harlow on monkeys, and John Bowlby on children to find out whether children have an innate need for mother love and then explore the reception of their views in the United States during the Cold War era.

All scholars and graduate students with an interest in the history of science are cordially invited to attend. There will be no pre-circulated paper, and NO RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.


Please save the date for the following:

May 29, 2010

Antonio Barrera
Associate Professor of History, Colgate University
"Indian Doctors and Mexico in the Making of Early Modern Science"


June 12, 2010

Andreas Killen
Associate Professor of History, City College of New York
"What is an Enlightenment Film? Cinema and Social Hygiene in Germany between the Wars"


All seminars begin at 10:00 a.m. and will meet in Classrooms 1 & 2 of the Munger Research Center at The Huntington. An email with details will be sent a few weeks ahead of each seminar.

"Histories and Epistemologies of Transgenderism and Transsexuality, Eunichism, and Homosexuality in China" presented by Howard Chiang

SEMINAR BY HOWARD CHIANG: "Histories and Epistemologies of Transgenderism
and Transsexuality, Eunichism, and Homosexuality in China"

Thursday, January 14, 2010
4:00-6:50 p.m.
LGBT Center Fishbowl Conference Room

Howard Chiang is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. He is the Founding Editor of Critical Studies in History and the Coordinator for the History and Theory Reading Group, which meets regularly in New York City. In this seminar, we will read and discuss three of Howard's works in progress, on "China Trans Formed: An Overview," "The Demise of Eunuchism," and "Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China."

NOTE: The seminar is part of LTCS250 "Queer Chinese Cultures," offered by Larissa Heinrich, but this particular meeting is open to participants who do the reading in advance. If you'd like to attend the seminar, please contact Larissa for information and materials.

IHMS: Call for Applications

First European Seminar for Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Causation and Disease in the Postgenomic Era

Hermance (Geneva), Switzerland, September 6-11, 2010

The Brocher Foundation and a Consortium of five leading European institutions in the philosophy of the life sciences are inviting postgraduate, doctoral and early career postdoctoral researchers in the philosophy of life sciences to submit applications for participation in the First European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences, to be held on the premises of the Brocher Foundation in Hermance (Geneva), Switzerland, September 6-11, 2010. The deadline for applications is February 22, 2010.
For more details visit: http://www.brocher.ch/pages/sympvenir.asp