October 2018
“A Dangerous Idea” Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Featuring interviews with social thinkers and prominent scientists, A Dangerous Idea is a radical reassessment of the meaning, use, and misuse of gene science.
Find out more »AI Now 2018 Symposium: Ethics, Organizing, and Accountability
The AI Now 2018 Symposium will address the intersection of AI, ethics, organizing, and accountability–examining the landmark events of the past year that have brought these topics squarely into focus.
Find out more »Sharrona Pearl – Face/Off or On? Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization
Both like and not like cosmetic surgery and whole organ transplants, facial allografts have proven difficult to categorize. This talk will show how bioethicists, surgeons, and journalists have conceptualized face transplants as neither and both, and the resulting stakes for each.
Find out more »Making Art, Making Meaning in Fifteenth-Century Flanders
Making Art, Making Meaning in Fifteenth-Century Flanders is a workshop organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos at the Frick Collection.
Find out more »Metacognition: From Research to Classroom – Science of Learning Symposium
This year’s Symposium brings together Columbia faculty, staff, graduate students, and experts in the science of learning to share the research on metacognition in learning, and to translate it into strategies that maximize student learning.
Find out more »Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
This seminar will bring together experts from different domains to discuss scientific, ethical, philosophical, and legal issues related to pain neuroimaging research.
Find out more »Anthony Acciavatti – Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River
Anthony Acciavatti will discuss his new book with a signing to follow.
Find out more »November 2018
The Cultural Work of Experts: Policy Evaluation and the Search for a New Bureaucratic Ethos in Brazil and Mexico
Luciana de Souza Leao (Columbia) and Diana Graizbord (University of Georgia) will present research findings as part of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology workshop (SKAT) series.
Find out more »Jordan Brensinger – Untitled
Jordan Brensinger (Columbia University) will present research findings as part of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology workshop (SKAT) series.
Find out more »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.
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