December 2016
Ruth Leys – The Chameleon Effect: Imitation, Emotion, and Mirror Neurons
The Rifkind Room, North Academic Center 6/316, The City College of New York Speaker: Ruth Leys, Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University What are the stakes of the recent attempt to explain imitation in corporeal terms as caused by the automatic actions of mirror neurons in the brain? Are recent assumptions about the role of mirror neurons in emotional contagion justified in the light of empirical findings? Are human being "chameleons" or "resonance" machines? Ruth Leys is a…
Find out more »April 2017
Annie Duke – The Paradox of Evidence: Lessons from the Poker Table – EVIDENCE Keynote
World Poker Champion Annie Duke will give the Keynote Address for EVIDENCE - An Interdisciplinary Conversation About Knowing and Certainty, a conference co-sponsored by the Center for Science and Society and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University.
Find out more »Sophia Roosth – The Fluent Structure of Time: Microbial Colonies and Post-Colonial Economies in the Caribbean
CIRHUS, NYU, 4 Washington Square North, Second Floor Dean’s Conference Room Sophia Roosth (Harvard University — History of Science), will discuss "The Fluent Structure of Time: Microbial Colonies and Post-Colonial Economies in the Caribbean" at the Workshop for Intellectual History of the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History.
Find out more »May 2018
Making and Knowing Project Offers “Coloring Textiles with Bugs” Public Workshop
The Making and Knowing Project is partnering with Genspace to offer a public workshop to teach history and the science of coloring textiles with organisms using historical techniques and new scientific developments. Combine your printed microbial designs with your hand-dyed cochineal textiles to create decorative art.
Find out more »September 2018
Food, Farming, and Sustainability Conference
International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center (Room 1501), Columbia University 420 West 118th Street, New York UPDATE 9/13: SEATS AT THE CONFERENCE ARE AVAILABLE. PLEASE CHECK IN AT THE REGISTRATION DESK. The morning sessions will be streamed live. The Environmental Sciences and Humanities Research Cluster at the Center for Science and Society invites you to "Food, Farming, and Sustainability." With approximately 815 million people around the world currently undernourished and the global population expected to grow by 2 billion by 2050, two of the…
Find out more »Coloring Textiles with Bugs: Old [Cochineal] and New [Bacteria]
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn both the history and the science of coloring textiles with organisms using historical techniques and new scientific developments. We will delve into the world of sustainable natural dyes and create artful textile collages.
Find out more »October 2018
Regulatory Hacking: Startups, Cities, and Public Interest Tech
Mobility Futures is excited to present a panel discussion around the idea of "regulatory hacking," or how new ventures disrupt policy along the way to new markets.
Find out more »“A Dangerous Idea” Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Featuring interviews with social thinkers and prominent scientists, A Dangerous Idea is a radical reassessment of the meaning, use, and misuse of gene science.
Find out more »February 2019
The Role of Narrative in the Natural Sciences and Humanities
Registration is required via Eventbrite. While all disciplines employ narrative in their work to summarize and communicate their theories, methods, and results, the realm of narrating (more colloquially known as storytelling) has traditionally been considered a literary or historical endeavor under the purview of the humanities and social sciences. This is no longer the case. As evidenced by the burgeoning fields of narrative medicine and science communication, narratives and narrating are also important tools for the natural sciences. Neuroscientists have…
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