Science and technology studies (STS) is a growing field of study that seeks to understand how science and technology shape human lives and livelihoods and how society and culture, in turn, shape the development of science and technology.

By focusing scholarly attention on science and technology as human institutions, situated in wider historical, social, and political contexts, STS provides insights into the relationship between science and technology and such basic categories of social thought as race and gender, poverty and development, trust and credibility, participation and democracy, health and pathology, risk and uncertainty, globalization, and environmental protection.

Spring STS seminars in Spring 2010:
STS 903 (Section 001): "Interdisciplinarity in the Modern Research University"

STS 903 (Section 002): "STS and Science Education: Schools, Museums, Media and the Public at Large"


New Undergraduate STS Certificate
The Holtz Center is pleased to announce the new Integrated Studies in Science, Engineering, and Society undergraduate certificate (ISSuES), which will start in Fall 2009.

Thursday, December 3
STS Brownbag Series:
Lynn Nyhart
Professor, Department of the History of Science, UW–Madison

BROWNBAG
"The Rise of the Biological Perspective: A Story of the Travels of Ideas and Values through German Society"
12:00 – 1:30 in 8411 Social Sciences Building


Thursday, December 10
What is Human? Biopolitics Seminar Series* featuring:
Heather Paxson
Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT

LECTURE
"Reverse-Engineering Terroir: Locating the Value of American Artisan Cheese"
4pm in University Club Building, Room 313

*Sponsored by both the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and the Center for the Humanities