Upcoming STS Events
February 16th
2011-2012 Lecture Series: "Nothing Can Go Wrong: Rethinking Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century"
" Doing Nuclear Work: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade"
Prof. Gabrielle Hecht, Professor of History and Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Michigan.
Author of the forthcoming book:
Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press and Wits University Press, 2012)
4:30pm | Smith-Buonanno 106
February 23rd
2012 Lecture Series: "How Scientists Think"
"Untangling Ignorance In Environmental Risk Assessment"
Scott Frickel, Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington State University
4:00pm | Hunter Auditorium
March 15th
2012 Lecture Series: "How Scientists Think"
"My Genes, My Politics: How Scientists Across Disciplines Think about Genetic Causation"
Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University
4:00pm | Hunter Auditorium
March 22nd
2011-2012 Lecture Series: "Nothing Can Go Wrong: Rethinking Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century"
"Nuclear Power of the Crisis of Techno-triumphalism"
Prof. Langdon Winner, Thomas Phelan Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4:30pm | Smith-Buonanno 106
April 19th
2012 Lecture Series: "How Scientists Think"
"Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality"
Michael Montoya, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California Irvine
4:00pm | Hunter Auditorium
