February 2018
Carla Nappi – “Illegible Cities: Grammar, Translation, Desire”
Part of the International History Workshop at Columbia's annual series. More details to follow.
Find out more »Science! The Musical
"Science! The Musical" is a new musical about life in the lab written by Presidental Scholar in Society and Neuroscience scholar Andrew Goldman and directed by Jenna Hoffman. Follow the story of Janice, a first-year Ph.D. student, who has just had her first paper accepted to an academic conference. The only problem is, she hasn't written the paper yet! In the few short weeks before the conference, Janice must learn to do interdisciplinary science. Will she publish, or will she perish!? Andrew Goldman…
Find out more »Conference: Looking for the Psychosocial Impacts of Genomic Information
For the last quarter century, researchers have been asking whether genomic information might have negative psychosocial effects. Anxiety, depression, disrupted relationships, and heightened stigmatization have all been posited as possible outcomes—but not consistently found. At this conference, we will ask what accounts for the discrepancy between these hypothesized outcomes and the effects that have been documented in empirical studies.
Find out more »Ahmed Ragab – ‘House for King and Slave’: Patients and Medical Practice in the Medieval Islamic Hospital
This lecture series will explore the enigma of how what we write relates back to the experience of bodies in different stages of health and disease. Our speakers will explore how the medical humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts.”
Find out more »Film Screening – A Dangerous Idea: Genetics, Eugenics and The American Dream
The film reveals how genetic determinism and eugenics provided the rationale for state sanctioned crimes against America’s most vulnerable citizens.
Find out more »Lynnette Regouby – Threshold: Generations of Change in Botanical Practice at the end of the Ancien Regime
This event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series and will feature Dr Lynette Regouby.
Find out more »March 2018
Luke DuBois – Sex, Lies, and Data Mining
Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” Luke DuBois' work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his projects reveal the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information.
Find out more »Evidence and Theory in Neuroscience – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
This seminar, organized by Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, will explore the relationship between theory and evidence in the field of neuroscience. The speakers will provide their perspectives from a wide range of fields and disciplines including neurology, psychiatry, philosophy, and economics.
Find out more »Helena Hansen – White Opioids: Race in the War on Drugs that Wasn’t
This talk reports on a multi-year study that begins to answer the question of how the current "opioid crisis" became white. Interviews and observations of addiction scientists, pharmaceutical executives, policy makers, physicians and patients point to a convergence of hidden racial ideology in neuroscience, biotechnology development, drug regulation, marketing and media that has led to the current symbolism and demographic distribution of opioid overdose.
Find out more »Esteban Calvo – From Cells to Society: Rethinking Public Policy in a Changing World
The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues of global importance. This event is moderated by Ursula Staudinger.
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