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The STS Lectures: Science & Technology Studies Today

This lecture series showcases cutting-edge work by scholars from Science & Technology Studies, an interdisciplinary field encompassing history, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and other social sciences that address scientific and technological change.

Upcoming Events

Date
Wednesday, April 15, 2026. 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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…

Date
Wednesday, April 22, 2026. 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Luke Kemp is the bestselling author of

Past Events

Date
Thursday, February 26, 2026

A data-centric vision of women’s health is reshaping medicine, reproductive technology, wellness culture, and sports science.

Date
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

STS and the Department of Anthropology are pleased to co-sponsor a lunch talk by Maxime Polleri (Université Laval).

Date
Monday, September 29, 2025

Join us in celebrating Professor Paul Edwards, Director of STS and recipient of the prestigious 2025 John Desmond Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Date
Thursday, May 1, 2025

In areas where we must plan for an uncertain future—from climate adaptation to cybersecurity to pandemic preparedness—officials and experts draw on tools of anticipatory knowledge, such as models…

Date
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Since its emergence in 1960 as a subfield of psychology, behavior genetics has functioned primarily as what the historian of science Michael Gordin terms a “counter-establishment science.” While…

Date
Monday, January 13, 2025

This talk examines what biocentrism means to users of an urban park in Santiago, Chile, to advance theorizing on biocentrism – a philosophy or worldview in which nature comes first, alongside…

Date
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

How are avatars, drones and data infrastructure (re)shaping European liberal democracies? What do fully technologized borders mean for the liberal subject?

Date
Friday, October 18, 2024

In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.