November 2018
Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Improvisers, scholars, and all who are interested are invited to participate in a series of discussions regarding the way people improvise and what improvisation means in various domains.
Find out more »Lan Li – Building Bodies on Paper: The Curiosity of Meridians & Neurophysiology
Lan A. Li (Columbia University) will give a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Find out more »December 2018
Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Improvisers, scholars, and all who are interested are invited to participate in a series of discussions regarding the way people improvise and what improvisation means in various domains.
Find out more »Erika Milam – The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Erika Milam (Princeton University) will give a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Find out more »January 2019
Tillmann Taape – The Striped Layman: Visual Culture and the Politics of Vernacular Medical Knowledge in Early German Print
Tillman Taape (Columbia University) will give a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Find out more »February 2019
Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Improvisers, scholars, and all who are interested are invited to participate in a series of discussions regarding the way people improvise and what improvisation means in various domains.
Find out more »Dagmar Schäfer – Charted Territories and Unmapped Science: How Good Ideas Come Without a Place and Originator, a Mid-Ming Historian’s View
Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) gives a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Find out more »The Role of Narrative in the Natural Sciences and Humanities
Registration is required via Eventbrite. While all disciplines employ narrative in their work to summarize and communicate their theories, methods, and results, the realm of narrating (more colloquially known as storytelling) has traditionally been considered a literary or historical endeavor under the purview of the humanities and social sciences. This is no longer the case. As evidenced by the burgeoning fields of narrative medicine and science communication, narratives and narrating are also important tools for the natural sciences. Neuroscientists have…
Find out more »March 2019
Noam Andrews – Renaissance Geometry and the Platonic Solids
Noam Andrews (New York University) gives a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Find out more »April 2019
Suman Seth – Pathologies of Blackness
Suman Seth (Cornell University) will give a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
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