Event Archive

STS Events Archive

October 13, 2011
The Crucial Experiment that Wasn’t: Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate, 1957-1997
SOS 250 Naomi Oreskes Professor of History and Science Studies, UCSD Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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October 3, 2011
Science and Its Publics: Bridging the Divide
Doheney 240 Panelists: Antonio R. Damasio, David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience Professor of Psychology and Neurology K. C. Cole, Professor, Annenberg School of Journalism Deborah Harkness, Professor of History Discussant: Michael Quick, Executive Vice Provost Professor of Biological Sciences Sponsored the Dornsife Commons Program
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September 30, 2011
The Social Life of DNA
KAP 345 Alondra Nelson Associate Professor of Sociology Columbia University Sponsored the Sociology Department, USC
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September 23, 2011
Documenting the World: Photography, Film, and the Scientific Record
Lunch Workshop and Roundtable Conversation Huntington Library Munger Building, Seaver 1 Gregg Mitman Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Research Cluster with collaboration from the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate and the History Department
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September 22, 2011
A Journey Without Maps: Film and the Cartography of Subjectivity
SOS 250 Gregg Mitman Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Research Cluster with collaboration from the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate.
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March 11, 2011
Designing the Technological Future: The Landscape of Science in Postwar Southern California
Huntington Library Overseers' Room Co-sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
For more details, please see the program here.
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February 22, 2011
The Infrastructural Human
October 19, 2010 Doheny, Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
A panel of USC faculty members will reflect on how our systems of transportation - whether by air, land or sea - shape us as individuals and as members of a collectivity. Speakers: Robbert Flick (Roski School of Fine Arts, USC) Vanessa Schwartz (Department of History, USC) Lisa Schweitzer (USC School of Policy, Planning and Development)
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October 30, 2010
Global Visions: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern World
Saturday October 30, 2010 Huntington Library Overseers' Room Funded by the USC Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute with the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate (USC).
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October 19, 2010
The Infrastructural Human
October 19, 2010 Doheny, Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Speakers: Elizabeth Dunn, University of Colorado-Boulder “The Pasteurized State: Raw Milk, Public Health, and the Making of Modern Governance” Christopher Otter,Ohio State University “Planet of Cows: Cattle Breeding and the Emergence of the Global Meat Complex” Discussant: Susanna Hecht, University of California, Los Angeles
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