UBC STS Colloquium Series 2017-18, Term I

STS Colloquium Series 2017-18, Term I Thursdays 5-6:30 in BuTo 1197 (unless otherwise specified) * denotes unusual place and/or time September 14 Reading Seminar: Helen Tilley, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950, Intro, Ch.2, ch.6., conclusion [This book is available online through the UBC library website.] October 12 Alison Wylie, University of British Columbia “Knowledge that’s fit for purpose: a research prospectus.” October 26 Jesse Oak Taylor, University of Washington “Conrad’s Earth System Poetics” co-sponsored by Department of English and the Oecologies group * November 7 (Please note this is a Tuesday) Steven Meyer, Washington University Title TBA co-sponsored by the Belkin Art Gallery *November 23 Catherine Malabou, Kingston University and UC Irvine “Empty Square vs. Evolutionary Memory: The New Adventure of Signs” 6 pm, at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Dr., UBC. co-sponsored with the Belkin Art Gallery and the Department of Art History November 30 Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia "'We stand in this storm of adaptation': Karl Escherich and the (De)Nazification of Universities and Social Insects."