April 2018
James Hoff – Untitled
James Hoff, whose work encompasses painting, sound, writing, and performance, has maintained a strong focus on distributed forms and experiments with language, including cross-disciplinary investigations that address orally-transmitted syndromes, computer viruses, and ear worms.
Find out more »Amit Sharma – How Information Spreads in Social Networks: A Case Study on Prediction, Explanation and Intervention
Can an algorithm predict whether a tweet, photo or news piece will become popular? If it could, does it help us understand why some items become popular, while others do not?
Find out more »Misha Angrist – Ask but Don’t Tell: The Stubborn Alienation of Research Participants in the Twenty-First Century
Misha Angrist of Duke University discusses the longstanding asymmetry of power between researcher and participant in the sciences.
Find out more »Humanities for STEM Symposium
Humanities for STEM is a research collaborative at New York University that focuses on how the study of primary sources, archival research, and associated methodologies of the humanities can be used to enhance the understanding of science (including medicine), technology, engineering, and mathematics. At this symposium, faculty, librarians, archivists, and others will come together to discuss this theme.
Find out more »Kathrin Zippel – Gender and the Globalization of Science
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 »Responsibility, Punishment, and Psychopathy: At the Crossroads of Law, Neurocriminology, and Philosophy – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Three leading experts in neurocriminology, law, and philosophy will discuss recent neuroscientific findings in psychopathy research. The speakers will consider how these findings might contribute to the reconsideration of the responsibility of psychopathic offenders and how criminal justice should optimally respond to individuals suffering from such a controversial disorder.
Find out more »Fashion and Animals: Ethical Fashion and Environmentalism
How can animal rights and fashion work together toward a sustainable future? Joshua Katcher, author of the forthcoming book Fashion Animals, will discuss the complicated relationship between fashion and animals, and how this relationship has significant environmental impact.
Find out more »Ada Yonath – Next Generation Eco-friendly Specific Antibiotics and Thoughts about the Origin of Life
Ada Yonath will discuss next generation eco-friendly specific antibiotics and thoughts about the origin of life.
Find out more »Digital Literacy in Context: Negotiating Systemic Bias in Teaching
In this community conversation, open to all Columbia faculty and students, we’ll hear lightning talks from three faculty members working on different areas of systemic bias that affect how we access and process information and then invite all in attendance to engage in a larger question and response session.
Find out more »Nicholas Scott Baker – Columbia University Seminar on Medieval Studies
Nicholas Scott Baker will present "Separating Time from Eternity in the Early Renaissance." Italians articulated the concepts of time and future in terms of Providence and fortune. These made sense of the unknowability of the future. These ideas saw Fortuna as subordinate to, and an agent of, Providence.
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