April 2018
Urban Floods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference
This conference will address major urban floods, past, present and future. The goal is to understand these events in as holistic a way as possible, considering scientific and humanist questions together, and informed by historical context. Our focus will be on weather events in the United States and South Asia.
Find out more »Seminar: The Gardens of La Garra
Erik Dhont and Anette Freytag will lecture and present their new book together with graphic designers Madeleine Stahel and Tiziana Artemisio.
Find out more »The Worlds That Plague Made: Cultures of Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
The Annual Conference at the Medieval and Renaissance Center will be held on April 13th and 14th. This year's theme will be "The Worlds That Plague Made: Cultures of Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern Period." Keynote speakers will be Ann Carmichael, Indiana University, and Susan Jones, University of Minnesota.
Find out more »Vence L. Bonham – Social Justice and Genome Editing: Voices of the Sickle Cell Disease Community
Genome-editing technologies are reported to have the promise to cure, ease, and possibly prevent the burden of numerous genetic diseases. One of the first uses of genome editing could involve treatment of sickle cell disease. In this talk, Dr. Bonham will present findings from a recent study that investigates the knowledge, values and opinions of the U.S. sickle cell disease community about participation in genome-editing clinical trials and the future use of the technology in clinical care.
Find out more »CANCELED: Kristien Hens – Epigenetics, Precision Medicine and Responsibility Towards Children
Kristien Hens discusses epigenetics, precision medicine and responsibility towards children.
Find out more »Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture Conference
Cons and con men have long been present in American culture and are often represented as romantic figures. This symposium will explore cons and scams in their many guises and what makes us vulnerable to them, with particular attention to the current political scene in the US.
Find out more »Roger Matthew Grant – The Musical Origins of Contemporary Affect Theory
This lecture series will explore the enigma of how what we write relates back to the experience of bodies in different stages of health and disease. Our speakers will explore how the medical humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts.” At stake are the problems of representation and the interpretation of cultural products from the past and present through medical models.
Find out more »Waters of NYC – Taste of Science Festival
But what's really in our drinking water and how does it affect our bodies? Explore these questions and more with Dr. Sasan Rabieh of NYU's Department of Biomaterials.
Find out more »Christine Goettler – Mount Potosí in Antwerp, 1635: Colonial Imagination and the Power of the Ephemeral
Join the Making and Knowing Project as they welcome Christine Goettler on April 24 for a lecture on colonial imagination and the power of the ephemeral in 17th century Antwerp. On April 25, she will discuss her Materialized Identities project, and answer any student research questions and problems.
Find out more »Neuroscience in Action: A Conversation About Early Life Trauma and the Brain
In collaboration with Trauma-Free NYC, this talk takes a closer look at how exposure to psychosocial adversity relates to children's behavioral and neurobiological development. This is the second event in the 2018 Speaker Series.
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