∼ Spring 2022 ∼
Friday, April 1, 2022
BioLife Sciences Building, Room 234, and online at https://temple.zoom.us/j/92510796770
The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
Sarah S. Richardson (History of Science and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard)
Monday, February 21, 2022
STS NOW! – Conversations in Science, Technology, Society
Erica Golemis (Fox Chase) – Capacity Building: Building a Department of Cancer Biology Linked to a Cancer Center; balancing multiple value systems while defining success
and
Lauren Olsen (Sociology) – Disciplining Docility: How Medical Educators use the Humanities to Maintain the Professional Status Quo
Monday, January 24, 2022
A Discussion of Our Favorite Works by Robert K. Merton
Panelists: Tom Waidzunas (Sociology), Meghnaa Tallapragada (Advertising and Public Relations), Bruce Hardy (Communication and Social Influence), David Elesh (Sociology, Emeritus)
Merton Readings:
Merton, 1938. Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth Century England
Merton, 1942. The Normative Structure of Science
Lazarsfeld and Merton, 1948. Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action
Merton, 1957. The Role-Set_Problems in Sociological Theory
∼ Fall 2021 ∼
∼ Fall 2021 ∼
Monday, December 13, 2021
Rebecca Kamen (Artist in residence, The Computational Neuroscience Initiative, UPenn)
Making the Invisible, Visible: Reimagining Scientific Discovery
