Science, Technology, and Society – Lunch Seminar
Spring 2026 Schedule
*Please note: location change!! Starting Friday, February 6, 2026 we will be hosting lunch seminars in TTC (Tsungming Tu Complex) Anderson Hall, Room 108.
| Date | Speaker | Talk Title |
| Jan 16 | [no talk; introduction to course for enrolled students] | |
| Jan 23 | [no talk] | |
| Jan 30 | Nick Seaver Tufts, Anthropology & STS | “How Not to Pay Attention” |
| Feb 6 | Andrew McCumber Virginia Tech, Sociology | “Bad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds” |
| Feb 13 | Jaylin Herskovitz Tufts, Computer Science | |
| Feb 20 | Theodore Gordon CUNY, Music | Music Technology, Synthesizers |
| Feb 27 | Ann-Sophie Barwich Indiana University & Radcliffe Fellow | Smell |
| Mar 6 | Stay Tuned | |
| Mar 13 & 20 | [no talk; Spring Break] | |
| Mar 27 | Stay Tuned | |
| Apr 3 | William Stafford Harvard, Social Studies | Measurement, Auto Rickshaw Meters, India |
| Apr 10 | Fern Thompsett Tufts, University Ecologies Project | |
| Apr 17 | Stay Tuned |
About the lunch seminar
The STS Lunch Seminar is a weekly speaker series run by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts. It is open to the public and attended by interested students, faculty, staff, and community members. This semester, the seminar will meet Fridays from 12-1:15pm EST, in the TTC (Tsungming Tu Complex) Anderson Hall, Room 108.
Seminar format: Speakers typically present for about about 35–45 minutes, leaving about 30 minutes for Q&A, during which every audience member has the opportunity to ask a question or make a comment.