Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices

Science and technology are based on practices - in the lab, the field, and the community. Research in this area focuses on instruments, experiments, observation, methods of interventions, the creation of new entities from new materials to artificial organisms, and ways of constituting these new objects, the interaction of embodied practices, skills (which include scientific personnel beyond the researcher), concepts and theories and machines/technology.

The STS/HPS knowledge cluster will allow scholars presently involved in the humanistic study of science and technology to compare different sites of knowledge formation, studying, for example, the emergence and productivity of large-scale interdisciplinary research networks, or how the normalization of patenting by university researchers has changed research practices, and would draw on existing artefact collections, such as those of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and the developing collections of scientific instruments and technological artefacts at the University of Toronto and in Montreal.

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Past Theme News and Events

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Mar

27

Body to Body: The Dermatological Wax Moulage as Indexical Image Mechthild Fend (UCL) Thursday, 27 March 2014, 5:30pm (jeu 27 mars, 17h30): McGill, Arts West W-215 Co-sponsored with the department... [+]

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Mar

20

After IVF: Is the Future of Reproduction Technological? Sarah Franklin (Cambridge) Thursday, 20 March 2014, 3:00pm (jeu 20 mars, 15h) 3647 rue Peel, Don Bates Room (room 101) Co-sponsored with the... [+]

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Jan

21

Containments: Ecologies, Technologies,  and Animal Environments 1780-1830 Toronto, York University, Jan. 21, 2014 12:30 pmAnne Milne, English, University of Toronto Scarbourgh Link: http://www.... [+]

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Nov

26

Mediating Animals: Surveillance and Simulation  in Animal Ecology Toronto, York University, Nov. 26, 2013 12:30 pmSpeaker: Etienne Benson History and Sociology of Science, University of... [+]

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Nov

12

Embryos Under the Microscope:   A History of Science in Society York University, Nov. 12, 2013 12:30Speaker:  Jane Maienschein Director, Program in Biology and Society, Arizona State http... [+]

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Oct

15

Containing Complexities: Experimental Practice in an Animal Behavior Genetics Laboratory York University, October 15, 2013Speaker: Dr. Nichole Nelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Studies of Medicine... [+]

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Oct

08

The Dream Catcher: Philosophy in the Sleep Lab York University, Oct. 8, 2013 12:30 pmSpeaker: Dr. Nicholas Langlitz, Anthropology, New School http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty_anthro.aspx?id=... [+]

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Sep

24

Intersections: On the Boundaries between Technical Objects and Epistemic Things in the Life SciencesYork University, Sept. 24, 2013, 12:30pmSpeaker: Dr. Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Max Planck... [+]

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Sep

12

Connections and Communities in Health and Medicine Saskatoon, Sept. 12-14, 2013Manitoba-Northwest Ontario-Minnesota-Saskatchewan (MOMS) & Society for the Social History of Medicine Postgraduate (... [+]

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Sep

06

Technoscience Salon on Critical Itineraries Toronto, Ont. Sept. 6, 2013/Nov. 9, 2013 The Ontario node is pleased to support this event.This year’s Technoscience Salon invites participants to... [+]

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Aug

19

The Cluster is partnering with the Canada Science and Technology Museum to support student travel for the annual Reading Artifacts Summer Institute. Presented by:Canada Science and Technology Museums... [+]

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May

03

Materiality: Objects and Idioms in Historical Studies of Science and Technology May 3-4, 2013 York University Theme(s): Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices Website with latest... [+]

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May

02

Time of Physics, Time of Art Peter Galison, Harvard University May 2 2013, 4:30pm Robert McEwen Auditorium, Schulich building, School of BusinessAbstract: In the standard picture of the history of... [+]

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Mar

20

BODIES LAID BARE IN LAW, CULTURE AND ANATOMY Wed. March 20, 2013 5PM Tupper Link Commons (by Tim Horton's), Sir Charles Tupper Building, Dalhousie University 5850 College Street, Halifax, NSPodcast... [+]