STS Annual Lecture:
An Evening with Steven Shapin

The Science and Technology Studies Programme is proud to host a evening this fall with one of the most influential historians and sociologists of science. Dr. Shapin is currently the Franklin L. Ford Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University, and has taught at the University of California San Diego and the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Shapin has authored dozens of articles and a half-dozen books, including A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, The Scientific Revolution, and most recently Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority. He contributes regularly to The New Yorker and The London Review of Books.

Kinsella Auditorium, McCain Hall, STU.