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
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…
Luke Kemp is the bestselling author of …
Past Events
A data-centric vision of women’s health is reshaping medicine, reproductive technology, wellness culture, and sports science.
STS and the Department of Anthropology are pleased to co-sponsor a lunch talk by Maxime Polleri (Université Laval).
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).
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…
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…
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…
How are avatars, drones and data infrastructure (re)shaping European liberal democracies? What do fully technologized borders mean for the liberal subject?
In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.