April 2016
Chris Stover – Time, Territorialization, and Improvisational Spaces
The Comparing Domains of Improvisation Discussion Group, co-organized by Marc Hannaford and Andrew Goldman, invites scholars and practitioners from many disciplines to discuss improvisation, conceived broadly, in order to better understand the nature of the concept and practice. On April 5, we invite Chris Stover, Assistant Professor of Music in Theory & Composition at the New School, to lead a discussion on Deleuze and the “improvisational moment.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »Hungry Tides: Conquering Time, Water and the Weather on the Indian Subcontinent
This seminar in the history of science in South Asia features two leading speakers in the field who will discuss their new research relating to debates around the recasting of scientific disciplines, continental landscapes, and measures of time and the weather in colonial India
Find out more »Katja Guenther – The Mirror and the Mind – Neuroscience and History Series
This talk brings the study of material culture to an unlikely object: the mind. Focusing on three episodes of mirror use in the medicine and science of the mind in the twentieth century, Katja Guenther analyzes the ways in which this simple piece of experimental equipment has been used to capture the mind’s workings.
Find out more »Marcia Angell, Former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Registration requested, please click here for more information.
Find out more »Expertise from Margin to Center: Science, Politics, and Democracy A Graduate Student Conference
Keynote Speakers: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University), Stefan Timmermans (UCLA) Faculty Participants: Gil Eyal, Alondra Nelson, and Diane Vaughan (Columbia University) This conference is organized by graduate students from the Columbia University Department of Sociology, with support from the Center of Science and Society, and will take place at Columbia University in the City of New York, on April 14th and 15th, 2016. The conference aims to strengthen STS scholarship by promoting research and network building among early career scholars, and…
Find out more »Sarah James – Sleep Duration, Behavior Problems, and Children’s Telomere Length
Speaker: Sarah James, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Princeton University This event is part of the Fragile Families Working Group seminar series, at the Columbia Population Research Center. Open to the public, advance registration required. To register, please click here.
Find out more »What We Know Can Change the World: Panel for Students and Postdocs Writing for Popular Audiences
At a panel on April 14th, faculty will discuss their experiences sharing their expertise with the world outside the university. Intended for Columbia University doctoral students.
Find out more »Ice Cubed – An Inquiry into the Aesthetics, History, and Science of Ice
Ice is an apt analytic with which to bridge disciplines and to connect discourses within climate science, aesthetics, geography, arctic studies, history of science, glaciology, and the arts. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scientists, humanists, and artists to generate a productive conversation around the potentialities and properties of ice. Presenters will reflect on the ways in which ice disrupts fixed notions of matter. In considering the solid fluidity of ice, what new kinds of geographies emerge? How does thinking capaciously…
Find out more »Gene-Environment Interactions in the Era of Genome-Wide Data: Conceptual and Analytical Approaches
A Columbia Population Research Center mini-conference held on April 15, 2016; registration required. For a full program and to register, please visit the CPRC website.
Find out more »Ice Cubed Keynote: John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez in Conversation
How have the violence and serenity of stark, icebound landscapes found their way into artistic expression, whether sonic or literary? In an age of rapid global warming, when does an artist become an activist? John Luther Adams, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of Become Ocean, and Barry Lopez, author of the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams, reflect on these and other themes in this special event.
Find out more »