2012-2013 Doctoral Colloquia
The doctoral colloquium is a student-run colloquium that enables graduate students to try out grant proposals, present dissertation chapters, give practice job talks, discuss issues of professional development, and hear visiting speakers. The colloquium usually meets on Mondays at 4:00-5:30pm in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201) on those Mondays when there is no scheduled Klopsteg lecture.Jaimie Morse (Sociology) coordinated meetings and events for 2012-13.
FALL 2012
October 1
Welcome, planning session for the year, and feedback session on student work in progress
October 15
Open
October 29
Special session @NOON with Mark Largent (MSU; former AAAS Fellow at the National Science Foundation) and others TBA; tentative theme: "What can science studies contribute to science policy?"
October 30
Mark Largent lunch with graduate students (to be confirmed)
November 19
no meeting (week of Thanksgiving)
December 3
reading group
WINTER 2013
January 14
Two practice job talks
3:30-5pm, Lukas Rieppel & 5-6:30pm Kirsten Leng
January 28
Open/feedback on student work in progress
February 4
Julie Livingston (History, Rutgers University)
“The Sensory Ethic of Care in Botswana's Cancer Ward”
**co-sponsored by SHC and the Program of African Studies
March 4
reading group
SPRING 2013
April 8
Open/feedback on student work in progress
April 29
Open/feedback on student work in progress
May 13
Special session @ NOON with Angela Creager (Princeton); tentative theme: "How to speak to a science audience as a STS scholar"
May 20
reading group