April 2017
Ann-Sophie Barwich – Scent Track: What can the History of Olfaction tell us about Theorizing in the Life Sciences?
Perfumery may possibly be the second oldest business in the history of mankind. Olfaction, the sense of smell, has attracted systematic interest in scientific studies only recently, however. The discovery of the olfactory receptor genes by Linda Buck and Richard Axel in 1991 catapulted olfaction into core neurobiological research. Seldom does a discovery represent the birth of an experimental system as markedly as in the case of the olfactory receptors. Olfaction has been a fairly neglected field before, conducted only by a few but dedicated researchers throughout the past centuries.
Find out more »James Scott – Landscaping the Planet: The “Domus Complex” or The Late Neolithic Multi-Species Resettlement Camp
James Scott, Yale University professor, will give a talk on "Landscaping the Planet: The 'Domus Complex' or The Late Neolithic Multi-Species Resettlement Camp." Open exclusively to Columbia affiliates.
Find out more »Biodiversity and Its Histories Student Exhibit – Opening Event
A public exhibition celebrating biodiversity will open Earth Day, April 22, 2017, and last through May 19, 2017 at the Washington Heights Branch of the New York Public Library, with an opening day event April 27 at 4pm. The exhibition is designed and produced by students of Barnard College and Columbia University. Contributors include: Arielle Alterwaite, Stephanie Barral, Tristan Brown, Gabrielle Bruno, Lyra Cooper, Robert Corban, Rosalind Donald, Linda Gordon, Sara Heiny, Maggie Israel, Petros Krommidas, Lila Livingston, Laura McLean, Anna McNulty, Julie Moon, Melissa Morris, Camila Puig Ibarra, Claire Sabel, Zhuoxuan Tian, Daniel West, Adrien Zakar, Mollie Zanger, Wenrui Zhao, Professor Deborah Coen.
Find out more »Rita Charon – The Shock of Attention: Art, Science, Creativity, and Doubt
As part of the Columbia University Medical Center Dean’s Lecture Series 2016-2017, Rita Charon, MD, Ph.D., will deliver a talk entitled “The Shock of Attention: Art, Science, Creativity, and Doubt."
Find out more »The Medical Humanities: Attentions to the Body
A panel discussing medicine and the humanities with Rachel Adams, Branka Arsic, Danya Glabau, Rishi Goyal, and Cristobal Silva.
Find out more »Knowledge Production in Twentieth Century China and Beyond
This workshop examines the variegated forms of knowledge production that occurred from the end of the Qing until the PRC period. This period has long been characterized as a period of chaos and transition.
Find out more »Advances in Precision Medicine: Genetics Conference
Alumni Auditorium Columbia University Medical Center 630 West 168th Street New York, NY 10032 The Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative's inaugural conference will be held on April 28, 2017 in Alumni Auditorium (630 West 168th) Street. At our conference, you will hear about cutting-edge genetics research from international leaders in the field whose research advances the basic science of genetics, and impacts the application of genetics to the understanding and treatment of human genetic disease. Registration is required; for registration and…
Find out more »May 2017
Sound Studies and Auditory Neuroscience: New Perspectives on Listening – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
This seminar features leading scholars from auditory neuroscience, sound studies, and music cognition discussing scientific and humanistic perspectives on the role of acoustic conditions and cultural exposure on the formation of the sense of hearing itself.
Find out more »The Engine of Modernity: Construing Science as the Driving Force of History in the Twentieth Century
This workshop will explore the central role that science came to occupy in thinking about modernity and modernization in the first half of the twentieth century. The workshop examines the emergence of academic disciplines devoted to studying this role – history, philosophy and sociology of science – as well as the rise of policies of science and modernization. It compares ideas and practices in various places around the globe as well as in international organizations such as UNESCO.
Find out more »Scholars Working Group on Women and Gender in Jewish History – Jordan Katz “‘Doz bukh iz mir lieb zehr’: The Manuscript of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch Jewish Midwife”
Jordan Katz (Columbia University) will present her paper, “‘Doz bukh iz mir lieb zehr’: The Manuscript of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch Jewish Midwife.” Professor Martha Howell (Columbia University) will respond.
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