January 2018
The Relativity of Love: Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić
On January 23, 2018 at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, Break A Leg Productions will present the very first performance reading of a new play, The Relativity of Love: Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić by the widely recognized science historian and playwright David C. Cassidy.
Find out more »The Climate Museum: A Conversation on Climate & Art
Christiane Paul, Oliver Kellhammer, and Peggy Weil will discuss art and climate change in the context of Weil’s film 88 Cores, on view for the first time as the centerpiece of In Human Time, the first exhibition of the Climate Museum.
Find out more »Adrianna Bagnall – The Rise of Social Intelligence: Interdependent Indicators for the Measurement of Mental Deficiency
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 »“Swim Team”: A Medical Humanities Film Series
The Heyman Center is hosting a film screening of Swim Team, an award winning feature documentary about a New Jersey YMCA based, community swim team made up of kids on the autism spectrum. The film follows three of team’s star athletes, boys on the cusp of adulthood, when government services become scarce.
Find out more »Michael Mauskapf – The Social Foundations of Creativity: Evidence from Popular Music, 1955 to 2000
Creativity is central to cultural production, but what makes certain producers more likely to innovate than others? More specifically, what are the different sources of social influence that drive variation in creative output, and through what mechanisms do these sources operate?
Find out more »James Delbourgo – The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and the Creation of the British Museum
In 1759 London’s British Museum opened its doors for the first time – the first free national public museum in the world. But how did it come into being? This talk recounts the overlooked yet colorful life of the museum’s founder: Sir Hans Sloane. The little-known life of one of the Enlightenment’s most controversial luminaries provides a new story about the beginnings of public museums through their origins in imperialism and slavery.
Find out more »February 2018
Joonwoo Son – Governing Economy through Indicators: Transformation of Use of Indicators in Japanese Economic Planning, 1960-1965
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 »Sari Altschuler – The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States
In this lecture, Sari Altschuler will be talking about her new book on the history of the medical imagination. In reframing the historical relationship between literature and health, The Medical Imagination provides a usable past for our own conversations about the imagination and the humanities in health research and practice today.
Find out more »Roundtable Conversation: At the Intersection of Art, Neuroscience, and Perception
Moderated by Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, and Eric Klann, Professor and Chair of Neural Science, both NYU; with speakers Teresita Fernández, artist, Eric Kandel, University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University; and Robert Whitman, artist, who will discuss the relationships between mind, brain, perception, and art.
Find out more »Michael N. Shadlen – How the Brain Decides, Thinks, and Creates
What was once the purview of psychology and philosophy is now a staple of biomedical science. And by elucidating the underlying neural mechanisms that make all this possible, Dr. Shadlen hopes to identify new strategies to confront the neurological and psychiatric disorders that impair cognitive function.
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