May 2018
Distant Listening/Digital Musicology: music21 and Compositional Similarity in the Late Middle Ages
This panel examines originalities in musical cultures from the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries, while turning a critical eye from the dawn of the digital age toward scholarly creations of musical pasts.
Find out more »Carl Zimmer – From Ebola to Dinosaurs to 23andMe: Writing about the Science of Life
A discussion with Carl Zimmer of the New York Times.
Find out more »Megan Vaughan – Metabolic Disorder, Global Health and ‘Noncommunicable’ Disease in Malawi
This paper examines how the concept of ‘metabolic disorder’ or ‘metabolic syndrome’ has been applied to the collection of global health metrics on ‘noncommunicable’ disease in Malawi. It argues that though the contemporary science of metabolism points to complexity and contingency, its application in this context has led to a narrowing in understanding of the drivers of epidemiological change.
Find out more »CPRC Children, Youth, and Families Annual Mini-Conference: New Research on Disparities in Health and Development
The CPRC invites you to join a group of leading interdisciplinary scholars to learn about exciting new research, network, and engage in discussions about the next steps of scholarly pursuits and policy developments.
Find out more »From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue Symposium
This interdisciplinary symposium will explore the relationship between the Jesuit enterprise and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Find out more »Ilan Dar-Nimrod – Who Are You – Who Am I? Theoretical and Practical Concerns at the Era of the Gene
Dar-Nimrod will present theoretical and empirical research that addresses the effects that are elicited when individuals encounter arguments propagating the relevance of genes for specific behaviors, conditions, diseases, and group differences.
Find out more »What Can Neuroscience Contribute to Economics? – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
The speaker and respondents will discuss the best uses of neuroscience in economics research and how they can be further refined and improved. Furthermore, the participants will consider what the future holds for our understanding of the human mind and the implications for economics and the decision sciences.
Find out more »The Statistical Subject in the Age of Data
How are statisticians changing our world? Are they still taming chance? New decisional statistics are seeking less to discriminate people into categories than to extract, from massive data that collects the most anodyne things of our lives, a knowledge about our most private desires.
Find out more »Robert Krueger – Personality and the Meta-Structure of Psychopathology
Robert Krueger from the University of Minnesota discusses empirical modeling of psychopathology.
Find out more »June 2018
Science & Storytelling: Visual Narratives Workshop
Join science cartoonist Matteo Farinella and documentary filmmaker Lan Li in a three-week workshop exploring the intersection of visualization and storytelling. Learn about new techniques for describing your research through graphics and film.
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