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

Winter 2012 Events

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

Monday, 23 January
Servant to Science: The Aspiration, Frustration, and Defiance of Saul Sithole of the Transvaal Museum
Nancy Jacobs, Brown University
Co-sponsored by the African Studies Workshop and the Anthro-History Africa Workshop

Monday, 13 February
The Child Toileth Not, But the Statistician Does: The Labor History of U.S. Labor Statistics, 1880-1930
Thomas Stapleford, University of Notre Dame
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and ICPSR

Monday, 5 March
Creation, Ontology, and Refusal in an Oncology Ward
Julie Livingston, Rutgers University
Co-sponsored by Anthropology and History Africa Workshop

Friday, 23 March
STS Distinguished Speaker of 2012
Place and Path-dependence in the Emergence of Automated Trading
Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh
**North Quad, Room 2435, 12:00 noon
Co-sponsored by the departments of Economics and Sociology, and the program in Science, Technology and Public Policy

Monday, 9 April
Digital Inequality and Its Implications for Internet Research
Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University

Related Events

Tuesday, 10 Januuary
Wastelands and Wilderness
Peter Galison, Harvard University
**Art & Architecture Auditorium, 6:00 pm
Presented by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Wednesday, 11 Januuary
Einstein, Clocks, and the Materiality of Time
Peter Galison, Harvard University
**Rackham Amphitheatre, 5:00 pm
Presented by U-M Institute for the Humanities

Friday, 10 February
Tales of the Evolution of Female Orgasm and Adaptationist and Sexists Biases in Research
Elisabeth Lloyd, Indiana University
**2239 Lane Hall, 12:00-1:30 pm
Feminist Science Studies Series presented by Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Tuesday, 20 March
Feminist Interventions in the Sciences and in Epistemology: Significant Parallels
Phyllis Rooney, Oakland University
**2239 Lane Hall, 4:00-5:30 pm
Feminist Science Studies Series presented by Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

Last updated September 14, 2011