April 2018
Dániel Margócsy – Annual Celebration of the Library
How was Vesalius' Fabrica read across the ages? This talk analyzes how, in the past five hundred years, copies the Fabrica travelled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. Dániel Margócsy will discuss the book’s complex reception history and show how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. He will also offer an interpretation of how this atlas of anatomy became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.
Find out more »Know Science: Mindfulness and Love – Taste of Science Festival
Join Know Science, an international education and advocacy organization working to promote knowledge of science and scientific research to a non-specialized audience, for the taste of science festival!
Find out more »Galaxies: Getting Way Out There – Taste of Science Festival
After millennia of observation, the night sky remains an enigma to many, as we are only beginning to comprehend how to ask the right questions. Resolving some of these questions will help us develop into citizens of the universe, so join us as speakers explain how the Milky Way and other galaxies begin, end, interact, and everything in between.
Find out more »Imaging Techniques and the Technical Study of Drawings
Organized by the Morgan Drawing Institute and the Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan, this symposium will provide a brief overview of the imaging techniques that can be used to study works on paper, followed by a series of case studies that demonstrate how technical study has led to art historical discoveries.
Find out more »Climate Change: How We Know – Taste of Science Festival
Speakers will explain the models, satellites, marine robots, and millennia worth of soil, ice and tree ring samples that are illuminating our dangerous path ahead — and that helped win the United Nations' climate science program a Nobel Peace Prize.
Find out more »Science Salon for Puerto Rico – Taste of Science Festival
500 Women Scientists is partnering with taste of science for the 2018 festival by hosting a Science Salon. Science is integral to sustaining a healthy planet and thriving communities. Find out how, as our three speakers explore the connection between their scientific research and issues of climate change, resiliency, and environmental sustainability.
Find out more »Japan Study Day
This special Study Day celebrates Japanese arts and sciences in the field of natural history and garden design, featuring an international team of experts.
Find out more »May 2018
Distant Listening/Digital Musicology: music21 and Compositional Similarity in the Late Middle Ages
This panel examines originalities in musical cultures from the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries, while turning a critical eye from the dawn of the digital age toward scholarly creations of musical pasts.
Find out more »Paola Bertucci – Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Early Modern France
Yale University Professor Paola Bertucci will discuss her recent book, "Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Early Modern France." Her work places mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment, providing a groundbreaking perspective about the period.
Find out more »Carl Zimmer – From Ebola to Dinosaurs to 23andMe: Writing about the Science of Life
A discussion with Carl Zimmer of the New York Times.
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