Past events

Symposium Series
CASBS Symposium: "The Consequences of Technological Developments for Politics and Government" with Carrie Cihak and Nate Persily

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Lecture / Reading
Judy Wajcman: "Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance"

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT

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2017-18 CASBS fellow Hector Postigo: "Can Your Platform Afford Play? How Video Gamers Invented New Entertainment Genres"

Friday, March 2, 2018 | 11:25am - 12:25pm PST
2014-15 CASBS fellow Fred Turner: "Media Against Fascism: From World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties"

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 | 11:30am - 12:30pm PST
2015-16 CASBS fellow Jamie Jones: "Decelerating, Correlated, and Skewed: Understanding How the Biophysical Environment Shaped Human Preferences"

Friday, February 16, 2018 | 11:30am - 12:30pm PST
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi: “Ethics as Optimization: Re-thinking Technology and the Near Long Term”

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 | 7:30pm PST
Lecture / Reading
Nate Persily: "Can Democracy Survive the Internet?"

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm PST

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Symposium Series
CASBS Symposium: "AI, Automation, and Society" with John Markoff, Arati Prabhakar and Tenzin Priyadarshi

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm PST
Lecture / Reading
Margaret Levi: "The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge"

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

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Andrew Lakoff: "How We Became 'Unprepared': Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu"

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Lecture / Reading
Jennifer Petersen: "Why Freedom of Speech is More than Speech: Expressions in Media and Code"

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

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Symposium Series
CASBS Symposium: "Race and Intimacy on Divided University Campuses" with Jonathan Jansen

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Lecture / Reading
Eric Klinenberg: "Climate Change and the Future of Cities"

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm PST

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Tara Behrend: "The Psychology of Surveillance: How Being Watched Changes Our Behavior"

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 | 7:30pm PST
2015-16 CASBS fellow Ted Slingerland: "Trying Not to Try: Creativity, Trust, and the Paradox of Spontaneity""

Monday, February 13, 2017 | 11:30am - 12:30pm PST
Symposium Series
CASBS Symposium: "Women in Tech: Where Have We Seen Progress? Where are We Stuck?" with Sapna Cheryan and Shelley Correll

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm PST
2016-17 CASBS fellow Eric Klinenberg: "The Sociology of Connection: Lessons from Going Solo and Modern Romance"

Thursday, January 19, 2017 | 11:35am - 12:35pm PST
Lecture / Reading
Jamie Jones: "Rationality Redeemed: An Evolutionary Perspective on Behavioral Economics"

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm PST

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2015-16 CASBS fellow Rose McDermott: "The Genetics of Politics"

Thursday, January 12, 2017 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Lecture / Reading
Fred Turner: "Technology and Counterculture from World War II to Today"

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm PST

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