March 2017
The Mayhem of a Misdiagnosis
In this event, the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior will present a case that concerns a tragic trajectory caused by undetected brain disease and the interpersonal and larger societal havoc that can be wreaked by a misdiagnosis. Weaving a narrative that highlights the subject’s personal life and neurological decline, experts in psychiatry, law, and neurology will consider: what can be done to prevent the mayhem of a misdiagnosis?
Find out more »Threshold: Biodiversity, Climate, and Humanity at a Crossroads
In Threshold, three renowned scholars will discuss the implications of the climate crisis for the future of life on Earth. By exploring the variety of scientific, cultural and political relationships between humanity and biodiversity over time, these experts will address the elements needed to respond to the most daunting challenge in human history. Threshold will conclude with a panel discussion and questions from the audience on the prospects for a new environmental ethic for the 21st century.
Find out more »Cancer Across Cultures: Defining Disease in Integrative Oncology
In this event, our speakers investigate cancer across cultural and and social boundaries to better articulate diverging and converging definitions of disease.
Find out more »Neuroculture-Neuroscience and the Law: Are We There Yet?
Engelman Recital Hall Baruch College, CUNY Jed S. Rakoff, Columbia Law School Jennifer Mangels, Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York In the past decades, cognitive neuroscience has enabled a more complex study of how brain processes relate to mental states. The law interprets mental states, particularly intentions, to determine whether a person will live freely or in the custody of the state. Is cognitive neuroscience ready to help the…
Find out more »Understanding Urban Habitats
Ecology has historically focused on natural environments, but scientists are increasingly turning their attention to understanding urban ecosystems. With 50% of the world’s population living in cities — and the heightened risks associated with climate change, green spaces, and flooding — studying urban habitats offers keys to design and planning that can help cities work better. Charles Vörösmarty, director of the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the GC’s Advanced Science Research Center, moderates a panel of CUNY experts in this growing field, including Deborah Balk, Peter Groffman, Peter Marcotullio, and Andrew Reinmann.
Find out more »Infectious Madness, the Well Curve and the Microbial Roots of Mental Disturbance
From offended gods to broken taboos to schizophrenogenic mothers, mankind has long been enmeshed in what neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky calls the “primordial muck” of mental-illness etiology. Today, armed with clearer insights and better tools, we are undergoing a paradigm shift that acknowledges the key role of our microbial fellow passengers in forging our mental health. In this talk, based on her book Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness, Harriet Washington traces the history, culture and some disturbing contemporary manifestations of this ‘infection connection."
Find out more »Keywords: Justice – Interdisciplinary Roundtable Conversation
Keywords programs draw participants together from a wide range of disciplinary homes in order to explore the various ways we think about fundamental critical/theoretical ideas and to generate new vocabularies and new methodologies.
Find out more »New York City and the Chronic Disease Movement in Interwar America
The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street New York, NY 10029 George Weisz, Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at McGill University After World War I, the United States became the first nation to transform chronic diseases into a major political issue. Many nations were concerned with specific diseases like cancer but the U.S. was unique in seeing all communicable diseases as a single problem that required a coordinated social response. The heart of…
Find out more »Anke te Heesen – Getting Art and Science Together in the 1970s and 1980s: An Exhibition History
Anke te Heesen will be presenting at the Seminar in Cultural History on Tuesday, March 28 from 6 to 7:30 pm, at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. Her talk is entitled "Getting Art and Science Together in the 1970s and 1980s: An Exhibition History."
Find out more »Anke te Heesen – Earwitness Thomas Kuhn: The Interview in Historical Research
Anke te Heesen will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Wednesday, March 29 from 12:15 to 1:15 pm, at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. Her talk is entitled “Earwitness Thomas Kuhn: The Interview in Historical Research.”
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