Past Events

Elon Musk. A troubled dreamer. A power-hungry, vengeful bungler. A hero who became a villain; a villain who became a hero. What if he isn’t any of these things? What if he was more like an idea? An…

Luke Kemp is the bestselling author of Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University…

Join the Stanford Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for research presentations that explore how questions of gender, sexuality, and power shape environmental knowledge and…

An Engineered World, published by MIT Press, examines how engineering, as a modern profession, emerged as a global phenomenon—and why its development and expansion are critical to our understanding…

A book launch organized by Professor Mikael Wolfe, featuring Co-Editors Edward Beatty, (Professor of History and Global Affairs, U. of Norte Dame), and Israel Solares, (Inst. for research and…

Register Here Trying to choose a major? Interested in both technology and the humanities? Curious about what Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is all about? Maybe you’re wondering how to…

A data-centric vision of women’s health is reshaping medicine, reproductive technology, wellness culture, and sports science. From sex-stratified clinical algorithms to consumer wearables and…

The consensus that innovation drives American progress has cracked. For over half a century innovation served as a universal good. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to…

STS and the Department of Anthropology are pleased to co-sponsor a lunch talk by Maxime Polleri (Université Laval). Professor Polleri is an anthropologist of technoscience whose research examines…

Please join STS for our upcoming Prospective Honors Information Session/Workshop on Thursday, February 5, from 2:00–3:15 PM in Building 200 (Lane History Corner), Room 124. This session will be led…