March 2018
“The Brain is a World”: Santiago Ramón y Cajal as Explorer
NYU’s Marisa Carrasco, Collegiate Professor and Professor of Psychology & Neural Science, and James D. Fernández, Collegiate Professor and Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, will discuss and illustrate Cajal’s pioneering cartography of the brain in the context of his fascinating biographical trajectory.
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 »Vegan America: Race, Food, and Politics
Is veganism for white people? Learn about the political and sociological implications and histories of veganism in the United States. Panelists will discuss and raise questions about how veganism is represented, lived, and politicized in the context of inequality, ethics, and social justice.
Find out more »Readings at NYU: Santiago Ramón y Cajal as Writer
Led by Morgan Cunning, graduate student in Dramatic Writing (TSOA), NYU student writers and actors will read passages from Cajal’s remarkable books Recollections of My Life and Advice for a Young Neuroscientist, both still in print.
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.
Find out more »CPRC Data Science and Population Research
The mini-conference will highlight the use of data science techniques and technologies in population research. Featuring Columbia faculty engaged in computational social science research, the conference will include presentations on the current state and future of data science as well as demonstrations of current applications. We will explore how data science can be used to answer social and behavioral science questions.
Find out more »April 2018
Alisha Rankin – Testing the Panacea: Antidotes, Alchemy, and the Problem of Proof in Early Modern Europe
This talk contrasts the drug testing methods of two sixteenth-century alchemical empirics: Andreas Berthold and Georg Amwald.
Find out more »The Art of Data Visualization – The Art of Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling is the third annual Art of Data Visualization event. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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