February 2018
Cinnamon Bloss – Consumers, Citizens, and Crowds in the Age of Precision Medicine
This presentation will showcase a series of empirical studies that aim to both inform ethical questions raised by biomedical citizen science, as well as suggest areas for future research.
Find out more »Film Screening: Cajal and Contemporary Neuroscience
This screening features two documentary films: Santiago Ramón y Cajal—Las mariposas del alma (Butterflies of the Soul), directed by Ana Martínez for Televisión Española, 2006, 59 min. (with English subtitles); and Bluebrain Year 7, brief excerpts from an ongoing project directed by Noah Hutton, which follows neuroscience research around the world, including Henry Markram’s ambitious Blue Brain Project in Switzerland. With commentary by Noah Hutton and Benjamin Ehrlich, author of a forthcoming biography of Cajal.
Find out more »Kathleen Bachynski – History of Science Workshop
Join NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study's History of Science Workshops for their first event of 2018, featuring Dr. Kathleen Bachynski and her paper 'Rough and Tumble': What Counts as a Football Injury?"
Find out more »Rodolfo Llinás – Cajal and the Enchanted Loom
Rodolfo Llinás, Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor, University Professor, and Chairman Emeritus of Neuroscience & Physiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, will examine the historical development of imaging of the nervous system, and the interpretation of the images observed, from Cajal’s time to the present day.
Find out more »Jeremy Ward – Science in the Media, a Neoinstitutionalist Approach: Diversity and Boundary-making in the French Coverage of the 2009 Pandemic Flu Vaccine’s Safety
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 »Leticia Fernández-Fontecha – Hysteria from the Archives
Join us on February 19, 2018 for a coffee hour, poetry reading and discussion of Hysteria from the Archives, a collection of poems written out of late 19th century sources on hysteria.
Find out more »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 »Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Practical Aesthetics in Diagnostic Imaging
Speakers will focus on the cross-fertilization of science and art in the form of CAT scans, MRIs. And 3-D imaging, and in their re-purposing by artists. Moderated by Tom Drysdale, Associate Professor, with speakers Caitlin Berrigan, Associate Arts Professor, both of Photography & Imaging (TSOA); John G. Golfinos, Neurosurgeon and Researcher, and Chair of Neurosurgery; and Timothy Shepherd, Diagnostic Radiologist, both of NYU Langone Medical Center.
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 »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…
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