The Science, Technology & Society Program thanks the following units for their generous support:

Anthropology Department | Center for the History of Medicine | History Department LS&A Dean's Office | Women's Studies
Program in Society and Medicine | Residential College | School of Information

Fall 2009 Events

Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30pm
Room 1014 Tisch Hall, unless otherwise noted

Tuesday, 22 September
Economization of Life
Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto

Tuesday, 27 October
The View from Everywhere and the View from Above: Using Science to Build a World Community after WWII
Perrin Selcer, University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar with UM-Science, Technology & Public Policy

Tuesday, 3 November
Complete Inventions: The Galilean Telescope and Its Rivals
Eileen Reeves, Princeton University
** Gallery Room, 100 Hatcher Graduate Library
Co-sponsored by Romance Languages and Literatures, Center for European Studies, Hatcher Graduate Library Special Collections, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Tuesday, 15 December
Law, Politics, and Activism in the Vaccine Debates
Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan

Related Events

STeMS Reading Group
The STeMS reading group is open to all UM faculty and grad students. It meets twice per semester, typically at the home of an STS faculty member.

Sunday, 6 December *DATE CHANGE*
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Memory Practices in the Sciences (2005)
Convenes at 6:00 pm. To attend, email Paul Edwards (pne@umich.edu).

Science, Technology & Public Policy Lecture Series
Betty Ford Classroom, Weill Hall, Rm 110, 4:00-5:30

Monday, 21 September
The Politics of Precaution: A Comparison of Consumer and Environmental Regulation in Europe and the United States, 1970-2008
David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley

Monday, 26 October
Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance
Michele Garfinkel, J. Craig Venter Institute

Monday, 16 November
Science and Technology Investments and Policy in the Obama Administration
Kei Koizumil, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President

Monday, 7 December
Bioequivalence: The Regulatory Carreers of a Medical Concept
Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University

Last updated October 2, 2009