March 2018
Dan Hirschman – The Stylized Facts of Inequality
This workshop series is primarily designed to assist advanced graduate students with their ongoing research projects. The workshop aims to expose participants to original approaches to social studies of science and technology, but also to expose students to solutions to common challenges of academic work.
Find out more »Gail Geller – Genomic Discoveries in Infectious Disease: Anticipating the Ethical Implications for Marginalized Populations
Advances in genomics are contributing to the development of more effective approaches to the prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases (IDs). In this talk, Geller will describe the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSIs) of recent discoveries in host and pathogen genomics relevant to HIV and Hepatitis C, paying particular attention to the needs and concerns of marginalized populations.
Find out more »Shahid Naeem – From Forager to Farmer in 200,000 Years: An Environmental Sustainability Perspective Lunch Discussion
Join Professor Shahid Naeem for a lunchtime discussion exploring niche construction through social, humanist, and agro-scientific perspectives to shed light on issues of sustainable food and farming. Open to all Columbia University affiliates.
Find out more »Impairment in the Social World: A Graduate Student Conference on Disability
Believing that disability is a meaningful social category worthy of inquiry, this conference was organized to investigate the role of impairment in shaping the social world and the lives of individuals.
Find out more »Music Theory and Music Cognition: A Conference in Honor of Fred Lerdahl
A conference organized in his honor by the Department of Music at Columbia University will present recent work based on and related to the theoretical work of Fred Lerdahl as well as its applicability to various areas of research and musical practice.
Find out more »Graham Roberts – Augmented Reality
Brown Institute, Columbia University Graham Roberts, Director of Immersive Platforms Storytelling and Co-Director of the Virtual Reality Program for NYTVR, New York Times This is perhaps our most experimental event in terms of “distance” from journalistic practice. Augmented reality (AR) provides a view of an event or phenomenon that is enhanced, “augmented,” with computer-generated elements, perhaps responding to sensor input (sound, video of the event, GPS coordinates) or triggers computed through computer vision tools operating on the scene. A mobile…
Find out more »Apollonya Porcelli – “Esoteric” science and Peru’s New Left: How the Labor Movement Shaped Environmental Discourse
This workshop series is primarily designed to assist advanced graduate students with their ongoing research projects. The workshop aims to expose participants to original approaches to social studies of science and technology, but also to expose students to solutions to common challenges of academic work.
Find out more »Conversations on Cajal
Join Zuckerman Institute visiting scientist Larry Swanson, PhD, and author Ben Ehrlich for an interdisciplinary look at the life and work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. With introductions by Carol Mason, PhD. Reception to follow.
Find out more »Data Science Day
Roone Arledge Auditorium (Lerner Hall), Columbia University Data Science Day celebrates five years of data science at Columbia University. The celebration includes demos and lightning talks by Columbia researchers presenting their latest work in data science. The event provides a forum for innovators in academia, industry and government to connect. The keynote speaker will be Diane Greene, Google Cloud CEO. Networking reception for industry, faculty and students following the event. Ticket prices range depending on university affiliation or general public; for…
Find out more »María M. Portuondo – American Convergence: Science and Technology in Colonial Latin America
The essential backdrop of the history of the region we now call Latin America is the centuries-long process of negotiation between the different social, religious, cultural and political registers of the Indigenous, African and European peoples who came to inhabit the area. The resulting American scientific and technological convergence involved the combination and recombination of practices whose exact origins are difficult to trace. This talk proposes a framework for the study of the scientific and technological registers of the American convergence. It recognizes the hybrid, complex and local nature of the convergence and explores these through three kinds of human activities: learning, moving and making.
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