January 2016
Marek Banczyk – Neuropolis Hypothesis: Outlining The Neural Model Of The World City Network
Neuropolis Hypothesis: Outlining The Neural Model Of The World City Network As An Interdisciplinary Foundation Of The New City-Centric Economics For The Global Era Two decades of research on world cites carried by international scholars organized around Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) provide robust evidence on the sharp rise of importance of cities as such and more importantly of the network mechanism behind them. The so called interlocking world city network (Taylor, 2004, 2011) has been dynamically researched over the…
Find out more »Marga Vicedo – Niko Tinbergen’s Research on Childhood Autism: Interpreting Gestures from Gulls to Children – NY HoS Series
In 1973 Niko Tinbergen shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his studies on animal behavior. In his acceptance speech, however, Tinbergen talked about childhood autism. Extrapolating from his studies of approach-withdrawal conflict in herring gulls, Tinbergen argued that autistic children are victims of environmental stress caused mainly by a mother’s failure to bond with her child and to protect her child from conflicting situations. In this talk I situate Tinbergen’s work on autism within the history of…
Find out more »February 2016
Daniel Wojtkiewicz – The Production of Medical Diagnosis in Autism: Genetic Tests in Clinical Practice
Speaker: Daniel Wojtkiewicz, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Columbia University 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 »Asghar Zaidi – Challenges and Opportunities for a Global Index on Active Aging: Lessons from the EU’s Active Ageing Index
This seminar will present key findings of the Active Ageing Index (AAI) and make the case how it can be developed further to become a global measure of older people’s active and healthy aging, and wellbeing. The AAI was born out of the need for a high-quality and independent evidence base to show how experiences of aging at the individual level can be enriched with higher levels of public policy to improve labor market engagement and health, and to reduce dependency. A project…
Find out more »SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS)
SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS) Thursday, February 4, 2016 Room 214 Mudd V. Balaji, Princeton/GFDL "Why do climate models differ?" Abstract: In this talk, I will cover sources of diversity in climate models. We will look at the process of model development at different institutions and show how many factors: including history and culture, scientific priorities, community of users, developers and "customers", and computational constraints, play a role in defining a climate model. We will explore how this may…
Find out more »The Possibility of Change Throughout All Life Stages
In collaboration with the Columbia Population Research Center, The Center for Justice at Columbia is pleased to invite you to “The possibility of change throughout all life stages” an open discussion regarding the role of academic research in supporting legislative reform in the criminal justice system, particularly as it relates to people's ability to change regardless of life stage.
Find out more »Health Care Consulting & Bioethics: Bridges, Challenges, & Opportunities
Featuring representatives from The Boston Consulting Group, Blue Fin Group, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte.
Find out more »Fransizka Keller – Networks of Power: How Social Network Analysis can tell us who will rule, who will be purged, and who is really in charge in the Chinese Communist Party
Patronage networks are said to grant access to a regime's inner circle, but only the ties to powerful leaders have been studied systematically. I expand on this by examining the whole informal CCP elite network, noting who has been promoted under whom in the past. Ties to patrons indeed double the chances of becoming a Politburo member, but links to former subordinates also have positive eff ects - unlike those to former superiors. I also show that we do not…
Find out more »Embodied Cognition Workshop: Music and Movement
Speakers: Mariusz Kozak, Department of Music, Columbia University Luc Nijs, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music, Ghent University Respondents: Andrew Goldman, Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University Carmel Raz, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University Moderated by Jenny Boulboullé, Lecturer in History and Columbia-CHF Scholar, Columbia University This workshop will explore the relationship between music and embodiment. Starting from a specific view on the musician-instrument relationship, Dr. Nijs will elaborate on the importance of the embodied music…
Find out more »Global Warming and the Rise of Asia
The India China Institute's Flagship 2016 event will engage two renowned intellectuals – Amitav Ghosh and Prasenjit Duara – in a conversation on climate change and capitalism in Asia.
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