Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

2020 Sep 28

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard (via Zoom)

12:15pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Online Only

“‘Alien Gesticulations’: Movement Science in Germany, 1928-1936” 

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Speaker:

Whitney Laemmli, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University.

Contact:

Paul Sherman
paul_sherman@hks.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

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2020 Sep 21

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard (via Zoom)

12:15pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Online Only

“Shaping Science: Organizations, Cultures, and Decision-Making on NASA’s Teams” 

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Speaker:

Janet VertesiAssistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.  

Contact:

Paul Sherman
paul_sherman@hks.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

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2020 Sep 14

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard (via Zoom)

12:15pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Online Only

“Imagining Responsibility, Imagining Responsibly: Reflecting on Our Shared Understandings of Science” 

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Speaker:

Matthew Sample, Senior Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard University.

Contact:

Paul Sherman
paul_sherman@hks.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

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2020 Mar 09

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Code Work: Hacking Across the Techno-Borderlands"

Speaker:

Héctor Beltrán, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator:

Shuang Lu Frost, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2020 Mar 02

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Critical Technical Practice Revisited: Towards 'Analytical Actors' in Data Science"

Speaker: 

Momin M. Malik, Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Shuang Lu Frost, PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology, Harvard. 

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2020 Feb 24

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Remaking the Regretful Agent: Cancer Surgery, Medical Harm, and the Role of Affect in Therapeutic Reversals"

Speaker: 

Jacob Moses, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Shuang Lu Frost, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2020 Feb 10

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Black Carbon, Climate, and Air Quality: An Unwinnable 'Win-Win' Situation"

Speaker: 

Jonathan Moch, PhD candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Shuang Lu Frost, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2020 Feb 03

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Queer Objects and the Rush to Rescue: The Materialities and Logics of Sexual Politics in Kenya"

Speaker: 

George Paul Mieu, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Shuang Lu Frost, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2020 Jan 27

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Moralizing Disruption: China's Ride-Hailing Revolution"

Speaker: 

Shuang Lu Frost, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2019 Dec 02

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Listening Like a Computer: Computational Psychiatry and the Re-coding of Psychiatric Screening"

Speaker: 

Beth Michelle Semel, PhD candidate, History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2019 Nov 25

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250

"The Way We Trust Today: Encryption as an Instrument of Decentralization"

Speaker: 

Gili Vidan, PhD candidate, Department of the History of Science; Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2019 Nov 18

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250

"Race and Biopolitics in Twenty-First Century America"

Speaker: 

Anne Pollock, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College, London.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2019 Nov 11

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Sin, Science and Seismic Shocks: The Jamaica Earthquake of 1692 and the Science of Disaster"

Speaker: 

Louis Gerdelan, PhD candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
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2019 Nov 04

Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"'To Enter Their Territory': Mosquitoes, Health, and Science in the Streets of Rio de Janeiro"

Speaker: 

Luisa Reis Castro, Martin Fellow and PhD candidate, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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2019 Oct 23

Science and Democracy Lecture Series

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Lecture Hall D

"Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculative Technologies"

Panelists:

Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jason Jackson, Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History & Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact: STS Program sts@hks.harvard.edu

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