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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
Thursday, February 20, 2025. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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
Thursday, May 1, 2025. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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…

Past Events

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.