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STS Workshop @ Cambridge HPS Meetings are held on Thursdays, 12noon to 1.30pm in Seminar Room 1 (expect the meeting on 3 November, which will be from 12.30pm to 2pm). All welcome. Organised by Jon Agar, Ipek Demir, Rob Doubleday and Martin Kusch. Michaelmas Term 2005 13 October Jeff Kochan (ETH Zurich) STS's Plato: rescuing the Gorgias from Latour 20 October Andrew Barry (Goldsmiths College, London) 'A scandal in Georgia': where to find out the facts about capitalism 27 October Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University) will introduce a discussion on ch. 10, 'Census, Map, Museum', of B. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso 1991: 163-186 (a copy of the text will be on reserve in the Whipple Library) 3 November Barry Barnes (University of Exeter) will introduce a discussion on C.E. Rosenberg, 'Scientific Theories and Social Thought', in B. Barnes (ed.), Sociology of Science, Penguin Books 1972: 292-305 (a copy of the text will be on reserve in the Whipple Library) 10 November Timo Airaksinen (University of Helsinki) Human-centred technology and its rivals 17 November Rob Doubleday (Nanoscale Science Laboratory, Cambridge) A sociologist at large in the Nanoscale Science Laboratory 24 November Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) Where is upstream? Science and its publics for International Polar Year (2007-2008)