December 2017
Michael Nutter – Cities Matter: The Role of Cities in Promoting Health
420 W 118th St, Room 1501, New York, NY 10027 Keynote Speaker: Michael Nutter, Former Mayor of Philadelphia Panelists: Charles Branas, Mailman School of Public Health; Ester Fuchs, SIPA; Diana Hernández, Mailman School of Public Health; Malo André Hutson, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; Vincent Schiraldi, School of Social Work; and Rose Culson-Villazer, Columbia Law School. Moderator: Jane Waldfogel, School of Social Work. At a time when worsening maternal mortality rates in the United States are making the news—women in the United…
Find out more »Dana Goldman – The Economic Returns to Delayed Aging: Promises and Pitfalls
Dana Goldman, Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics of the University of Southern California, discusses The Economic Returns to Delayed Aging: Promises and Pitfalls.
Find out more »Dan Jurafsky – “Does This Vehicle Belong to You?” Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations
This talk will also describe the differences we find in the language directed toward black versus white community
members, and offer suggestions for how these findings can be used to help improve the fraught relations between police officers and the communities they serve.
It’s All Forms of Life: One Idea is Enough
Join Harry M. Collins, Director of the Center for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science, and Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University, for a seminar that will look at the connection between his research on: tacit knowledge, gravitational wave physics and other sciences, the problem of replication, artificial intelligence, expertise, imitation games, how science and sociology of knowledge bears on democracy, and sociological methodology.
Find out more »The Success of Failure: Perspectives from the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Law
We are all familiar with the platitudes teaching us the value of failure on the path to success, constrained by a view of failure as a means to an end, a necessary obstacle to be overcome. What about the intrinsic value of failure? Failure that contains valuable data, not just an error message? Failure that is a critical part of the process? Can there be such a thing as positive failure? Can failure make progress? Can we use failure to improve creativity, education, or behavior? How do we research and recognize failure? This two-day conference will investigate these and other perspectives on failure across disciplines, searching for commonalities and differences.
Find out more »Megan Todd – The Biology of Disadvantage: The Immune System and Social Inequality
Megan Todd, postdoctoral scholar at the Columbia Aging Center, discusses The Biology of Disadvantage: The Immune System and Social Inequality.
Find out more »Daphne C. Watkins – From Angry Black Men to #BlackBoyJoy: The Evolution of Mental Health and Manhood Among Young Black Men
In “From Angry Black Men to #BlackBoyJoy: The Evolution of Mental Health and Manhood Among Young Black Men,” Prof Watkins will discuss the origin and successful implementation of the Young, Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) project, an intervention created to address the unique pressures and needs of young black men, especially issues related to their masculinity and mental health.
Find out more »Megan Coyer – James Hogg (1770-1835) and Illness Narratives in a Scottish Context
This lecture series will explore the enigma of how what we write relates back to the experience of bodies, healthy and unwell. Megan Coyer of the University of Glasgow discusses the interdisciplinary nature of narration and medicine, specifically surrounding James Hogg (1770-1835).
Find out more »Marcella Walker – Parathyroid Hormone: A Novel, Modifiable Risk Factor for Age-Related Cognitive Decline?
Marcella Walker, MD -- a Columbia Aging Center Faculty Research Fellow -- will present findings in her seminar "Parathyroid Hormone – A Novel, Modifiable Risk Factor for Age-Related Cognitive Decline?"
Find out more »Ruth Ottman – Genetics of the Epilepsies: Developments and Dilemmas
This presentation will describe findings from research on these issues in an important group of stakeholders: members of families containing multiple individuals with epilepsy.
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