September 2016
WHEATS – Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, & Science
The workshop provides an outstanding forum for presenting and refining works-in-progress for graduate students and recent PhDs who study the environment, agriculture, technology or science from a historical perspective.
Find out more »14th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. The meeting was founded in 2002 to foster an intercollegial intellectual community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate student research. The New York Academy of Medicine, together with Columbia University and Princeton University, is pleased to host the 14th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine on September 30…
Find out more »Dartmouth Institute for Cross-disciplinary Engagement Launching Conference
ICE’s launching conference will bring to the Dartmouth campus leading scientists, humanists, and public intellectuals working on fundamental questions at the forefront of cross-disciplinary research. Presentations will include topics such as the nature of free will, the multiverse, the search for meaning through the arts and the sciences, the possibility of alien life, and the future relationship between the sciences and the humanities. The conference will take place from September 30 - October 1, 2016, and is free and open…
Find out more »Friday Lab: The Contemporary Archaeology of Homelessness, Pelham Bay Park, NYC
Ever wonder what a contemporary archaeology project looks like? Well this is your chance to delve into the fascinating world of modernity and study “us”, “here”, and “now” as an archaeologist. Starting on Friday September 30th, every Friday from 12:30 to 4:30 we will be working with contemporary artifacts from an abandoned 1970s and 1980s homeless encampment in Pelham Bay Park, located in the Bronx. During this time you will learn traditional lab techniques by processing “non-traditional” material culture. You…
Find out more »Symposium – The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge: Image–Text–Book
Throughout the long history of scientific investigation, knowledge was formulated, shared, legitimated, and disseminated in manuscript and printed text, as well as in paintings, drawings, and engravings. These material factors —the conditions of writing, printing, and image making —underwrite the exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge from classical antiquity to the nineteenth century. This cross-disciplinary symposium will investigate the myriad, often contradictory, vocabularies we use to analyze images and text in scientific writing. Its goal is to promote more fruitful…
Find out more »October 2016
Nancy Tomes – From Black Plague to Zika: the Continuing Challenge of Epidemics and Our Efforts to Combat Them
Join Nancy Tomes, PhD, Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University, and author of The Gospel of Germs for the Thirteenth annual Weisse Lecture on the History of Medicine. A complimentary luncheon will be served to attendees following the lecture. About the Speaker Nancy Tome's research interests have ranged widely over the past four decades, but almost all her work has focused on the intersection between expert knowledge and popular understandings of the body and disease. Those interests are reflected in her publications: A Generous Confidence:…
Find out more »Rutgers University – Aesthetics and the Life Sciences Symposium
This public symposium will bring together scientists, performance and visual artists, educators, historians, and anthropologists to share their perspectives on the powerful intersection between the arts and the life sciences. Life Science and Art are deeply intertwined. In the late Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy producing exquisite anatomical drawings alongside his designs for flying machines. In 1859, Darwin famously referenced the evolution of “endless forms most beautiful.” And from the turn of the 20th century to the present,…
Find out more »Ligo Project – Science (as) Culture: The Microbiome – We are Cultured
The Microbiome - redefining the biology and culture of what it means be human - Part one of a three part series Are we alone? Depends who you ask! We all have over 100 trillion microbes living in and on our body, so we’re never really alone. The microbiome, which represents the population of all the microbes - bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses - that live on and inside the human body, is important in human health and disease. New…
Find out more »Medical History Society of New Jersey – Fall Meeting
Join the Medical History Society of New Jersey for its fall meeting. The meeting will highlight four papers on: 250 years of the Medical Society of New Jersey, 1766 TO 2016 (Lawrence Downs, Esq., CEO Medical Society of New Jersey) How "America's Doctor," got fired (Peter Carmel, M.D., AMA Past President, 2011–2012) The polio epidemic in Newark, 1916 (Sandra Moss, M.D., MHSNJ Program Committee Co-Chair) Whitewash--the Sloan-Kettering's cancer experiments at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, 1964 (Lisa Goldman, Esq., Doctor…
Find out more »Maggie Jackson – Mind in the Making: Reflection and the Artisanal in the Material World
Author Maggie Jackson will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Thursday, October 27 from 12 to 1:30 pm as a part of Bard Graduate Center's Seminar Series. The mission of Bard Graduate Center is to be the leading institute for the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through graduate training, exhibitions, and research. About the talk: How do the worlds of reflection and workmanship—two human endeavors rarely, if ever, considered together—intersect, align, and collide? In this…
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