January 2018
Rayna Rapp – Banking on DNA: The New Non-Invasive Prenatal Tests in Comparative Perspective
Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research 622 West 168 Street, Room 10-405A&B Speaker: Rayna Rapp, Professor of Anthropology, New York University Qualitative social scientists have produced powerful and nuanced analyses of the benefits and burdens experienced by pregnant women and their supporters when accessing reproductive technologies. What lessons can be drawn from this ethnographic corpus that will help us to situate the social and cultural tensions now spreading with the rapid expansion and uptake of the new non-invasive prenatal tests?…
Find out more »Opening Reception – The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the first U.S. museum exhibition to present the extraordinary drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spain, 1852–1934), the father of modern neuroscience.
Find out more »Pass the Flamingo: The Cuisine of Ancient Rome with Andrew Coletti
Join history and food educator Andrew Coletti on a journey through the Ancient Roman foodscape. We’ll sample recreated Roman delicacies, play a game of Name That Spice, and examine art, archaeology and literature to uncover the Roman love affair with food.
Find out more »The Story Collider: Communication
Welcome to The Story Collider! This evening's storytellers explore the meaning and use of communication through a prism of personal, professional and scientific experience.
Find out more »Talks Progress Administration: Memory’s First Kiss
Memory’s First Kiss untangles the deeply personal decisions and moments behind Wendy Suzuki’s astonishing research on memory. The performance offers a window into the messy, raw and all too human side of the hard sciences.
Find out more »New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Thomas Dodman
From the late 17th through the late 19th century, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman traces the invention of nostalgia as a medical diagnosis in Basel, Switzerland, its spread through the European republic of letters and into Napoleon's armies, its subsequent transformation from a medical term to a more expansive cultural concept, and its shift in meaning in the colonies, where Frenchmen worried about racial and cultural mixing came to view moderate homesickness as salutary. Thomas Dodman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French. David Bell is a Professor of History at Princeton. Emmanuelle Saada is an Associate Professor of History and French at Columbia.
Find out more »Convergence: Cities Confront Rising Seas
This month: ice sheet researcher Robin Bell of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will join Dan Zarrilli, Senior Director of Climate Policy and Programs and Chief Resiliency Officer of New York City, and host Meehan Crist, to ask: How will rising seas change coastal cities?
Find out more »Laure Moutet Manheimer – Essential Oils in Their Social and Geographical Environment: An Experience for the Senses
Laure Moutet Manheimer will “free essential oils from their dark brown bottles” by tracing plant extracts back to their source. Discover where the plants come from, who the people are that grow them, and learn how essential oils are extracted.
Find out more »Eliza Brown – Diagnosis without Bodily Material: Stunted Multiplicity and the Specters of Disease
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 »Nadine Burke Harris – The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
A pioneer in the field of medicine, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is a leader in the movement to transform how we respond to early childhood adversity and the resulting toxic stress that dramatically impacts our health and longevity. By exploring the science behind childhood adversity, she offers a new way to understand the adverse events that affect all of us throughout our lifetimes.
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