April 2016
Insuetude: Conversations in Technological Discard and Archaeological Recuperation
This conference brings together theorists of media technologies with researchers trained in the traditional methods of archaeology. It is the goal of this conference to explore what the discipline of archaeology - the field that studies how objects mediate our relationship to the past - might offer a media archaeology. Equally, the conference seeks to stimulate new ways of thinking about the archaeological past and novel methods for doing so through the engagement of archaeologists with media theorists. Speakers include:…
Find out more »Women’s History in Motion: Celebrating the Career of Alice Kessler-Harris
In celebration of the brilliant career of Professor Kessler-Harris, Women’s History in Motion, a two-day conference at Columbia University will be held Thursday, April 28 through Friday, April 29, 2016.
Find out more »Global Circuits of Expertise and the Making of the Post-1945 World: Eastern European and Asian Perspectives
The workshop brings together scholars with regional expertise, Eastern European and/or Asian, to seek commonalities between histories and historiographies that cut across regions, geopolitical blocs and continents.
Find out more »James Fleming – Inventing Atmospheric Science: Issues of Scale and the Quest for Prevision
Speaker: James R. Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College Space is limited. Please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan to attend this event. In 1960, using a small computer and a simple, but profound, non-linear model, Edward Lorenz (1917-2008) introduced chaos theory into meteorology, challenging the technological enthusiasm fueled by the recent arrival of numerical weather and climate models and Earth-orbiting satellites, and effectively ending a sixty-year neo-Laplacian quest for prevision. This presentation, based on Inventing Atmospheric Science…
Find out more »May 2016
Abigail Coplin – The Limits of Politicized Science: Scientists and the State During China’s GMO Controversy
The Science, Technology, and Knowledge (SKAT) workshop is a forum for the seminar-style presentation and discussion of graduate student work in the sociology of expertise, the sociology of professions, actor-network approaches, medical sociology, science studies, etc. The workshop is hosted by Columbia Sociology but welcomes graduate students from all institutions and disciplines.
Find out more »Neuroscience and Education – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Speakers: David Hansen, PhD, Aohn L & Sue Ann Weinberg Professor in Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, Associate Professor of Education, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Southern California Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Moderator: Andrew Goldman, PhD, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University As our understanding of neuroscience grows, so too does our potential ability to apply that knowledge to…
Find out more »Maël Lemoine – Medicine without Diseases
In this talk, Maël Lemoine presents what she calls the three models of disease – the disease entity, disease mechanisms and disease signatures.
Find out more »Adolescent Health and Economic Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
Established in 2014, the conference provides a unique forum for researchers and NGO leaders to create and foster partnerships and share research findings on economic strengthening interventions and their impact on adolescent health and education outcomes, including those related to HIV/AIDS, with special reference to the situation of youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Featured Speakers: Michael Sherraden Michael Sherraden is the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St.…
Find out more »Art and the Monetary
From Manet’s single asparagus painted for a 200-franc overpayment to Duchamp’s Teeth's Loan & Trust check drawn for his dentist, the potential equivalence of art and money has been postulated as both generative and problematic. This one-day symposium considers intersections of the artistic and monetary worlds, examining the mutual concern for consumption, valuation, circulation, materiality, authenticity, and imitation that emerged from both artistic and economic spheres. In what ways are aesthetic and monetary values related? How have economic and artistic…
Find out more »Rasmus Nielsen – Inferring the Past: A Big Data Challenge in Genomics
Speaker: Dr. Rasmus Nielsen, Professor, Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics and Director, Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley About the Speaker: Rasmus Nielsen’s research focuses on statistical and computational aspects of evolutionary theory and genetics. One of the central problems he has been interested in is the molecular basis of evolutionary adaptation. What happens at the molecular levels as one species is transformed into another over evolutionary time? To address this question, he has developed a number…
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