September 13, 11am
What is the User Interface for the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
Christian Sandvig, Speech Communication, UIUC

September 21, 3pm
Local First...But What Next? Globalization, Regional Development, and the Localist Movement
David J. Hess, Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thinking Affect: Memory Language Cognition

September 26, 4-5pm, 2405 Siebel Center
The Production of Creativity: An Artist’s View of the Rise of “Creative Work”
Kevin Hamilton, Art & Design
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

September 28, 4:15-6:00, Beckman Institute 1005
Recording Affect
Phoebe Sengers, Information Science and Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University

October 31, 4-5pm, 2405 Siebel Center
The Bad Neighborhoods of the Electromagnetic Spectrum:
Combining Engineering and Culture in the Regulation of Wireless
Christian Sandvig, Speech Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Science, Technology, and Cultural Identity Reading Groups

January 22, 4pm
One Laptop Per Child: Technology and the Developing World
Langdon Winner, George A. Miller Professor, UIUC and Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bill Hammack, Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Enginnering, UIUC

Robert Markley, Professor and Romano Professorial Scholar, Engish, UIUC

January 20, 3pm
Information Technology and the Dream of Democratic Renewal
Langdon Winner, George A. Miller Professor, UIUC and Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute