Event Calendar

Fall Quarter / Winter Quarter / Spring Quarter
Calendar Archive 2011-12/ Calendar Archive 2010-11

Local events appear in blue, Regional events appear in red.

Spring Quarter 2013

April 2: IAS Research Colloquium: Ben Gardner (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"Buying and Selling the Serengeti: Safari Tourism and the Cultural Politics of Global Land Grabbing in Tanzania"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
April 4: UBC STS Colloquium: Evelyn Fox Keller (History and Philosophy of Science, MIT)
"What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture?"
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
5:00 - 6:30 pm with refreshments at 4:30 pm, Room 130, Liu Institute, 6476 NW Marine Drive (Vancouver)
April 15: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Kelly Kistner (UW Sociology PhD Candidate)
"A Dictionary without Definitions: Romantic Science and the Production and Presentation of the Grimm Brothers’ ‘Deutsches Wörterbuch,’ 1838-1863”
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 306
April 17: Philosophy of Science Reading Group: Carole Lee (Philosophy, UW)
"Correcting Publication Bias in Medicine: The Power and Limits of Prestige"
3:30 pm, Savery 408
April 22: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Bruce Hevly (History, UW)
"A Social History of the Minute Man Missile"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 306
April 29: Biological Futures in a Globalized World Colloquium
Panelists Malia Fullerton (Bioethics and Humanities); Gwen Ottinger (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell); and Christopher Wade (Nursing and Health Studies, UW Bothell)
"What Counts as Consent?"
Lunch will be served: please RSVP to suzelong@uw.edu
12:00 - 1:30 pm, Communications 202
April 29: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Bruce Balick (Astronomy, UW)
"Hubble's First 20 years: the Top-Five Science Discoveries"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 306
May 1: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Discussion of Joseph Rouse's "Articulating the World: Experimental Systems and Conceptual Undersanding"
3:30 pm, Savery 408
May 6: Biological Futures in a Globalized World Colloquium
Gaymon Bennett and Roger Brent (Center for Biological Futures, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"New Belmont: Knowledge, Power, and the Ethics of Biological Security"
Lunch will be served: please RSVP to suzelong@uw.edu
12:00 - 1:30 pm, Communications 202
May 6: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Antony Adler (History, UW)
"Did Oceanography Fail in France?"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 306
May 7: IAS Research Colloquium: Jeanne Heuving (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"What Are Poetics?"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
May 13: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Bruce Hevly (History, UW)
"Slipping Back to Norway: Terrestrial Physics and Polar Currents"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 306
May 15: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Discussion of Sally Haslanger's "On Being Objective and Being Objectified", the first chapter from her book Resisting Reality (Oxford University Press, 2012)
3:30 pm, Savery 408
May 20: Biological Futures in a Globalized World Colloquium
Panelists Steve Gardiner and Lauren Hartzell Nichols (Philosophy, Program on Values and Program on the Environment); Wylie Burke and Kelly Edwards (Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine); Alison Wylie (Philosophy and Archaeology/Anthropology)
"Stewardship…of what, by whom, in whose interests?"
Lunch will be served: please RSVP to suzelong@uw.edu
12:00 - 1:30 pm, Communications 202
May 20: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Amy Fisher (University of Puget Sound, STS Program)
"Mimicking Nature: Electrical Technology in the Enlightenment"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 306
May 29: Philosophy of Science Reading Group: Joe Ricci (Philosophy, UW)
Discussion of how wave and ray optics are employed in an analysis of the rainbow.
3:30 pm, Savery 408
June 3: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 306
June 4: IAS Research Colloquium: Amoshaun Toft (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"Contextualizing Technology Use: Communication Practices in a Local Homeless Movement"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)

Fall Quarter 2012

September 6: UBC STS Colloquium
"A Sampler of Topics and Perspectives"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Coach House, Green College, UBC (Vancouver)
September 13: UBC STS Colloquium: Andrea Tone (Social Studies of Medicine, McGill)
"Spies & Lies: Ewen Cameron, the CIA, and Cold War Psychiatry"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
September 20: UBC STS Colloquium: Neil Gross (Sociology, UBC)
"Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
September 24: Research Ethics Exposed!: Laura Harkewicz (Biological Futures and the Program on Values) "Conflicted Interests: Scientific Uncertainty and Public (Dis)Trust with a Historical Perspective"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
September 24: UBC STS Colloquium: Steven Shapin (History of Science, Harvard)
"The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History of Sense and Value"
4:00 - 6:00 pm, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory 120, UBC (Vancouver)
October 1: Research Ethics Exposed!: Celia Lowe (Anthropology and International Studies)
"Recognizing Scholarly Subjects: Ethical Issues in Transnational Collaboration"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
October 1: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Bruce Hevly (History, UW)
"DuPont and the Scientific Politics of Marksmanship in 1900"
12:30 - 1:20 pm, Smith 306
October 2: IAS Faculty Research Colloquium: Nives Dolsak (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"The Role of Civil Society in Environmental Policy"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
October 4: UBC STS Colloquium: Tod Chambers (Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Northwestern)
"Taking Bioethics Personally"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Coach House, Green College, UBC (Vancouver)
October 8: Research Ethics Exposed!:Tom Ackerman (Atmospheric Sciences) and Lauren Hartzell Nichols (Program on Values and Program on the Environment)
"Ethics Issues in Geo-engineering"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
October 8: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: David Stroupe (PhC, Education, UW)
" "I didn't know science was real" - Redefining epistemic communities in science classroom spaces"
12:30 - 1:20 pm, Smith 306
October 10: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Discussion of "What Is Empiricism and What Could It Be?": Lecture 2 from Bas C. van Fraassen’s The Empirical Stance
Topics and readings are available on the PhilSci Reading Group GoPost:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/gopost/board/aw26/26063/
3:30 pm, Savery 359
October 11: UBC STS Colloquium: Adam Frank (English, UBC)
"Vis-a-vis Television: Andy Warhol's Therapeutics"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
October 15: Research Ethics Exposed!: Sara Goering (Philosophy and the Program on Values)
"Thinking About Neuroethics: Ethics Engagement in the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
October 15: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Kelly Kistner (Sociology, UW)
12:30 - 1:20 pm, Smith 306
October 18: UBC STS Colloquium: Alirio Rosales (Philosophy & Biodiversity Research Centre, UBC)
"Scientific Theories as Narratives"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
October 22: Research Ethics Exposed!: Gaymon Bennett (Center for Biological Futures, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"The H5N1 Controversy"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
October 22: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Alyson Roy (History, UW)
12:30 - 1:20 pm, Smith 306
October 24: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Topics and readings are available on the PhilSci Reading Group GoPost:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/gopost/board/aw26/26063/
3:30 pm, Savery 359
October 25: UBC STS Colloquium: Candis Callison (Journalism, UBC)
"Co-producing Care: Navigating Climate and Media Change"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
October 29: Research Ethics Exposed!: Woody Sullivan (Department of Astronomy)
"Ethical issues raised in astrobiology concerning the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
October 29: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Jessica Peyton (PhC, History, Arizona State University)
"The Role of Naval Technological Expertise in Russian Expansion, 1802-1905"
12:30 - 1:20 pm, Smith 306
October 31: Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand)
"Legacies of Migrant Labor, Masculinity, and Violence: The Crisis in the South African Mining Industry"
2:00 - 3:30 pm, Communications 202
November 1: Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand)
"Science of Empire: The South African Origins of Galtonian Eugenics"
3:30 - 5:00 pm, Communications 226
November 1: UBC STS Colloquium: George Reisch (Northwestern)
"The Paranoid Style in American History of Science: On the Cold War Origins of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Coach House, Green College, UBC (Vancouver)
November 2: UBC STS Colloquium: Ian Hacking (Philosophy, University of Toronto)
"Ontological Absolutism"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, location TBA (Vancouver)
November 5: Research Ethics Exposed!: Karen Moe (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Medical School) and the Director of the Human Subjects Division (Office of Research))
"Human Subjects and the IRB Process"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
November 5: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Antony Adler (History, UW)
Science, Internationalism, and the Making of a Pacific World during the Interwar - Period: 1915 -1939
12:30 - 1:20 pm, Smith 306
November 6: IAS Faculty Research Colloquium: Deborah Caplow (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe: An International Collaboration between Artists and Writers, Mexico City, 1943"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
November 7: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Topics and readings are available on the PhilSci Reading Group GoPost:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/gopost/board/aw26/26063/
3:30 pm, Savery 359
November 8: UBC STS Colloquium: Patrick Slaney (History, UBC)
"Making a Scientist Out of a Child: The Problem of Scientific Manpower in the Early Cold War"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
November 19: Research Ethics Exposed!: Malia Fullerton (Bioethics and Humanities)
"From Bench to Bioethics: Grappling With the Implications of Human Genetic Research"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
November 22: UBC STS Colloquium: Alejandra Bronfman (History, UBC)
"In Search of the Radiolette, In the Grip of Invisible Rays"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
November 26: Research Ethics Exposed!: Gwen Ottinger (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"Understanding Emerging Technology: Obligations for Proactive Knowledge Production"
10:30 - 11:20 am, Mary Gates 271
November 26: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Katie Zimmerman
"The Marianne North Gallery at Kew: Mobilizing Botanical Knowledge"
12:30 - 1:20 pm, Smith 306
November 28: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Topics and readings are available on the PhilSci Reading Group GoPost:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/gopost/board/aw26/26063/
3:30 pm, Savery 359
November 29: UBC STS Colloquium: Monica Brown (English, UBC)
"What Does Hand Washing Mean in the Twenty-First Century?"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
December 4: IAS Faculty Research Colloquium: Alan Wood (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"Fire, Water, Earth, Sky: Global Systems History and the Human Prospect"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
December 4: UBC Green College Environment and Society Series: Jacob Hamblin (History, Oregon State University)
"Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Coach House, Green College, UBC (Vancouver)

Winter Quarter 2013

January 3: UBC STS Colloquium: Tod Chambers (Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program, Northwestern))
"In Praise of Navel Gazing, or An Argument For and Against Bioethics Studies"
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
5:00 - 6:30 pm with reception to follow, Coach House, Green College, UBC (Vancouver)
January 8: IAS Research Colloquium: Crispin Thurlow (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"Why I Also Hate New Media: The Synthetic Rhetorics of Web 2.0"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
January 9: Philosophy of Science Reading Group: Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (Graduate Student, Philosophy)
"On the Causal Efficacy of Natural Selection: A Response to Richards' Critique of Darwin's Analogy"
3:30 pm, Savery 408
January 11: UBC Philosophy Department Colloquium: Mary Domski (University of New Mexico)
"Descartes’ Mathematical Physics: A Reassessment"
3:00 - 5:00 pm, Buchanan A201, UBC (Vancouver)
January 14: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Ross Coen (PhD Student, History, UW)
"Icebreaker Hull Configurations: A Brief Technological History"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 203
January 17: UBC STS Colloquium: Leah Ceccarelli (Communication, University of Washington)
"At the Frontiers of Science: An American Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
January 23: Philosophy of Science Reading Group: Tyler Hildebrand (Philosophy, UW)
"Modeling Metaphysics on Scientific Practice"
3:30 pm, Savery 408
January 31: UBC STS Colloquium: Angus Livingstone (University-Industry Liaison Office, UBC)
"Academy-Industry Relations: A Tale of Great Fears and Great Expectations"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
February 4 : Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Steven Beda (Doctoral Candidate, History, UW)
"'Ain't It a Damn Shame': Timber Workers, Logging Technology, and Environment in the Pacific Northwest, 1915-1929"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 203
February 5: IAS Research Colloquium: Colin Danby (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"Community, Knowledge, Economy"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
February 6: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Discussion of Hasok Chang's "Contingent Transcendental Arguments for Metaphysical Principles"
3:30 pm, Savery 408
February 7: UBC STS Colloquium: Jennifer Alexander (History of Science & Technology, University of Minnesota)
"The Radical Religiosity of Ellul's Technological Critique"
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
5:00 - 6:30 pm with reception to follow, Coach House, Green College, UBC (Vancouver)
February 8: Flu Forum, sponsored by Biological Futures in a Globalized World
Panel moderated by Matt Sparke (Geography, UW)
"The Ethics and Politics of Influenza Research in a Global Context"
2:30 - 4:00 pm, Communications 202
February 11: Biological Futures in a Globalized World Colloquium: Rob Wallace (Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota)
"Are we researching our way into a deadly pandemic?"
Noon - 1:30 pm, Communications 202
February 11: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Jessica Peyton (PhC, History, Arizona State University)
"Uncle Sam and the Russian Imperial Navy: A Shipography of Aleksandr Nevskii, 1861-1868"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 203
February 15: Flu Forum II, sponsored by Biological Futures in a Globalized World
Roger Brent (Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"The H5N1 Research Moratorium Suspended"
9:30 - 11:20 am, Denny 211
February 22: Philosophy of Science Reading Group: Ian Chase (former UW student)
"'The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science': Fifty years later"
12:00 - 2:00 pm, Savery 359
February 25: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Laura Harkewicz (Program on Values, UW)
"Activism and the Mobilization of the Nuclear Legacies of the Marshall Islands”
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 203
February 28: UBC STS Colloquium: Deanna Kreisel (English, UBC)
"'The Insides of Things': Higher-Dimensional Geometries and Victorian Theories of Space"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
March 4: Monday Colloquium in History of Science and STS: Eleanor Mahoney (Graduate Student, History, UW)
"Interpreting Industrial History in the United States: Lessons Learned from the National Heritage Areas Program"
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Smith 203
March 5: IAS Research Colloquium: Jennifer Atkinson (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Bothell)
"Comedies of Surplus: Representing the Garden in Contemporary American Literature"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)
March 6: Philosophy of Science Reading Group
Discussion of Hasok Chang's "The Philosophical Grammar of Scientific Practice"
3:30 pm, Savery 408
March 7: Biological Futures in a Globalized World colloquium: Ron Eglash (Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Ethics from the Bottom-Up: Recursive depth in technosocial networks"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, Communications 202
March 7: UBC STS Colloquium: Lisa Cartwright (Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego)
"Infrastructures of Power: New Topographies of Wind in Kansas"
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
5:00 - 6:30 pm with reception to follow, Coach House, Green College, UBC (Vancouver)
March 14: UBC STS Colloquium: Michael Ruse (Philosophy, Florida State University)
"Debating Darwin: Mechanist or Romantic?"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)
March 21: UBC STS Colloquium: Anthony Grafton (History, Princeton)
"The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in the Early Modern Period"
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 1197, UBC (Vancouver)