Speaker Series

CNS regularly hosts a visiting speaker to lead a seminar with the CNS graduate fellows and deliver a public talk to the larger UCSB and public communities.

Professor Arie Rip of the University of Twente delivers a public talk entitled "Nanotechnologies and Their Ambivalencies" 

Past speakers: 

Dr. Fred Block, Professor of Sociology, UC Davis (May 2008)

Dr. Xue Lan, Executive Associate Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University (February 2008)

Dr. Dietram Scheufele, Professor of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison (February 2008)

Dr. Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (January 2008)

Dr. Colin Milburn, Assistant Professor of English and Science & Technology, UC Davis (November 2007)

Dr. Arie Rip, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology in the School of Management and Governance of the University of Twente, The Netherlands.  Click here to download his presentation. (May 2007)

Dr. Jamey Wetmore, Assistant Professor at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and the School of Human Evolution & Social Change at Arizona State University (February 2007)

Dr. Robert McGinn, Director, Program in Science, Technology & Society and Professor of Managment Science & Engineering, Stanford University (January 2007)

Professor Colin Milburn leads a seminar with CNS graduate fellows and PIs and faculty from UC Santa Barbara's Film and Media Studies