November 2017
Yasmine Ergas – Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World
Book talk and panel for Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World, with Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Gender and Public Policy Specialization at SIPA and Editor of Reassembling Motherhood.
Find out more »Ted Anton – Planet of Microbes
The Center for Science and Society invites you to a book launch for Planet of Microbes (University of Chicago Press), by Ted Anton, science writer and Professor of English at DePaul University. Planet of Microbes is a journey through the curious and wonderful science of the Earth's smallest lifeforms.
Find out more »Rava Azeredo da Silveira – Various Approaches to Online Inference: Human Behavior and Theoretical Models
This talk will explore such ‘mental models’ in the context of idealized tasks that can be carried out in the laboratory and modeled quantitatively.
Find out more »Gender and the Technologies of State Violence: Innocence, Disposability, Resilience
Reframing Gendered Violence opens up a critical global conversation among scholars and practitioners that recasts the problem of violence against women as it is currently discussed in a wide range of fields, both academic and policy-oriented, including human rights, public health, journalism, law, feminist studies, literature, sociology, religious studies, anthropology, and history.
Find out more »S. Matthew Liao – Designing Humans: A Human Rights Approach
S. Matthew Liao explores a new approach to reproductive genetic engineering, a Human Rights Approach in a November 27 talk.
Find out more »Bei Wu – Disparities in Oral Health and Dental Care Among Older Adults in the U.S.
This presentation provides an overview of oral health disparity in older adults across regions, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
Find out more »Monica Azzolini – Saints and Science in Early Modern Italy: Filippo Neri and Francesco Borgia as Patron Saints of Earthquakes
This event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series and features Monica Azzolini, a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History, University of Edinburgh.
Find out more »Gabriela Soto Laveaga – Locating Histories of Science to the South: The Case of Mexican Wheat Seeds in India’s Farmlands
Join us for a presentation of a paper that will look at global networks and knowledge distribution in the context of wheat, which was transplanted to Mexico and is now a development project export to India.
Find out more »Kadija Ferryman – Fairness in Precision Medicine
754 Schermerhorn Extension 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY Speaker: Kadija Ferryman, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Data & Society Research Institute "Precision Medicine” is a growing field that aims to use multiple data sources to tailor medical care to individuals. From incorporating genetic information to using data from electronic medical records, precision medicine has the potential to transform healthcare and medical research. Precision medicine has strong support in multiple sectors, including the government’s $215 million dollar Precision Medicine Initiative, as well…
Find out more »December 2017
Educating the Brain: How the Acquisition of Reading and Mathematics Affects Human Brain Circuits – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Stanislas Dehaene, Professor and Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France, will discuss how regions of the brain, especially the visual cortex, change as children acquire reading an math skills. Can these findings aid in the better development of educational tools and practices?
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