STS Seminars
The STS program hosts weekly seminars each academic year. The seminars range in length from one to two hours with fifty minutes being given for the speaker's presentation and the rest devoted to a question and answer session.
| Date/Location | Speaker & Affilation | Title of Presentation |
|---|---|---|
3/22/07 - 4:00 pm 225 Major Williams Hall |
Edward Nik-Khah, Roanoke College |
"A Tale of Two Auctions: Exploring what STS and Economics think it takes to build a market" |
3/26/07 - 4:00 pm Old Dominion Ballroom, Squires Student Center |
Shannon Walker, NASA |
"Becoming an Astronaut" |
3/30/07 - 4:00 pm 3100 Torgerson Hall |
Theodore Porter, U. of California - Los Angeles |
STS Annual Burian-McNabb Lecture: "Speaking Precision to Power: Modern Science and the Reconfiguration of Public Reason" |
4/13/07 - 4:00 pm 129 McBryde Hall |
Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
"Representing Ecologies of Knowledge" |
Conferences
Over the past 25 years, the STS Department has been able to host annual conferences covering a wide variety of topics, many of which are organized by STS graduate students.
