Events Archive

The Havens Center/STS Program

Spring 2005 Visiting Scholar Program

THE POLITICS, CULTURES, & ECONOMICS OF
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

MICHAEL LYNCH February 16-18
Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
SCIENCE, LAW, AND CRIMINAL IDENTITY
"DNA Testing, Fingerprinting, and the Credibility of Expert Evidence"
Wednesday ˜ February 16 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science
"Administrative Objectivity: Settling a Legal/Scientific Controversy with Administrative Proxies"
Thursday ˜ February 17 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science
Seminar for Students and Faculty
Friday ˜ February 18 ˜ 9:30 am ˜ 4314 Social Science

EMILY MARTIN March 2-4
Anthropology, New York University
BIPOLAR EXPEDITIONS: TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF MOODS
"Taking the Measure of Moods"
Wednesday ˜ March 2 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science
"Transcribing Emotions in Everyday Life"
Thursday ˜ March 3 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science
Seminar for Students and Faculty
Friday ˜ March 4 ˜ 9:30 am ˜ 4314 Social Science
PETER GALISON March 31
History, Harvard University
"Lecture title"
Thursday ˜ March 31 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science

ASHIS NANDY April 11
Center for Developing Societies, India
"The Savage Freud: Further Remarks on Possible and Retrievable Selves"
Monday ˜ April 11 ˜ [time] ˜ 206 Ingraham

SHEILA JASANOFF April 20-22
Science and Public Policy, Harvard University
"Designs on Nature: The Politics of Biotechnology in Europe and the United States"
Thursday ˜ April 21 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science
Seminar for Students and Faculty
Friday ˜ April 22 ˜ 9:30 am ˜ 4314 Social Science
"The Imagined Earth: Reflections on the Human Place in Nature"
Friday ˜ April 22 ˜ [time] ˜ [location]

SANDRA HARDING April 27-29
Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
WOMEN, SCIENCE, AND MODERNITY
"Science and Multiple Modernities"
Wednesday ˜ April 27 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science
"Have Women Ever Been Modern? Political and Scientific Issues"
Thursday ˜ April 28 ˜ 4:00 pm ˜ 8417 Social Science
Seminar for Students and Faculty
Friday ˜ April 29 ˜ 9:30 am ˜ 4314 Social Science

Readings for this series are available on line at www.havenscenter.org and are on reserve in the Social Science Library (8432 Social Science) under Sociology 994 with Professor Joan Fujimura. Students can receive 1-3 credits in Sociology 994 (Colloquium in Critical Sociology, call number 75457) for attending lectures and seminars. The Department of Sociology is also offering a graduate seminar, "The Politics, Cultures, and Economics of Science and Technology" (Sociology 901, call number 85447), in conjunction with this series. For more information, call 262-1420 or write to info@havenscenter.org.