February 2017
Career Workshop: Applying for Academic Jobs in the Humanities
Speaker: Ellie Hisama, Professor of Music, Columbia University The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities invite graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and PhDs in the humanities to a workshop on the academic job search led by Professor Ellie Hisama. Topics to be covered include preparing the cover letter and CV, interviewing by Skype, giving a job talk, teaching a sample class, meeting with the search committee and administrators, and negotiating an offer. Please REGISTER HERE.
Find out more »Consuelo H. Wilkins – Engagement, Equity, and the Promise of Precision Medicine
Dr. Wilkins will give a talk on precision medicine. The talk is part of the 2017 Advances in Precision Medicine Seminar Series.
Find out more »Frances Champagne – How Do Early Life Experiences Shape Behavior?
Brain development is dynamic process that reflects complex interplay between genes and environments. The experiences occurring during early life can have profound effects on brain development with long-term implications for behavior and mental health. How does the environment achieve such enduring effects? Dr. Champagne explores the molecular pathways through which early experiences shape the activity of genes and the consequences of these effects for behavior. These “epigenetic” pathways are a fundamental link between genes and environments that may account for both risk and resilience to the effects of early life adversity and the “inheritance” of environmental effects on the brain.
Find out more »CANCELLED TODAY – Jacqueline Joon-Lin Chin – Precision Medicine: Privacy & Family Relations
Precision Medicine—an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person—raises a myriad of cultural, political, and historical questions that the humanities are uniquely positioned to address. As part of its overall Precision Medicine Initiative, Columbia is undertaking a broad based exploration of questions that precision medicine raises in law, ethics, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Find out more »Presidential Scholars Research Symposium
This event will include presentations from several of our Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, who will discuss their current cross-disciplinary research and findings.
Find out more »Rediscovering Words and Worlds – Arabic Script Collections at Columbia University
There is a substantial collection of "Islamic" manuscripts housed at the university's Rare Book and Manuscripts Library (RBML), as well as in some other affiliated institutions, that are either not catalogued or poorly done so. This threeday workshop will explore the many worlds of the collections, and includes a panel of librarians and paleographers discussing the issues surrounding cataloguing of multilingual collections acquired through several decades, as well as intensive workshops on paleography, codicology, and study of lithographs. The goal of this workshop is to catalyze a longer-term project to catalogue and study these collections at Columbia.
Find out more »Meredith Ray – Early Modern Women and Communities of Science
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance is pleased to announce the topic of its February meeting; Meredith Ray will speak on "Early Modern Women and Communities of Science."
Find out more »Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800
Distinguished historians and philosophers will share recent scholarship on women and other understudied figures in the history of philosophy to encourage more accurate accounts of philosophy’s past and more inclusive teaching. Sessions rethink standard stories and offer practical ideas about to incorporate understudied figures in our philosophy courses, both historical and non-historical.
Find out more »Symposium in Honor of George Saliba
The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary symposium and reception in honor of Professor George Saliba, on the occasion of his retirement. Scholars of the history of science and the history of Arabic and Islamic thought will present their current research, and celebrate the contributions of Professor Saliba to these fields of scholarship. The symposium will take place on Friday, February 17, in Butler Library, room 523, from…
Find out more »Global Perspectives in Histories of Music Theory
The monochord, an instrument featuring a single stretched string, is perhaps the oldest known musical and scientific instrument. Records of its usage date back to the Sumerians, and it played an important role in the mathematical and musical explorations in Greek and Chinese antiquity. This evening excavates the history of the monochord in a global perspective by drawing together concerns in measurement, classification, and craft across East Asia and Europe. Music theorists Guangming Li, Joon Park, and David Cohen each examine how early philosophers used the monochord to address musical and mathematical problems from the sixth century BCE to the fifteenth century.
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