November 2017
Environmental Leadership and Innovation: A Celebration of 35 Years
The Barnard Environmental Science Department hosts a day-long event celebrating 35 years of environmental leadership and innovation on November 14, 2017.
Find out more »Gender and the Technologies of State Violence: Innocence, Disposability, Resilience
Reframing Gendered Violence opens up a critical global conversation among scholars and practitioners that recasts the problem of violence against women as it is currently discussed in a wide range of fields, both academic and policy-oriented, including human rights, public health, journalism, law, feminist studies, literature, sociology, religious studies, anthropology, and history.
Find out more »The Poetry of Patterns: Workshop
This fall, educators are invited join the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Public Library, and Brooklyn Brainery in an interdisciplinary journey of storytelling and science.
Find out more »Seminar: The Andrew W. Mellon Presentations
The Andrew W. Mellon presentations feature two scholars: J'Nese Williams - Imperial Plans and Local Governance: The St. Vincent Botanic Garden, 1765–1822; Tim Lorek - Plant Breeding and Wild Sugarcane in Colombia’s Cauca Valley, 1927–1967.
Find out more »Alexei Kojevnikov – Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution
Extraordinary excitement and trauma experienced by the Russian public during violent and catastrophic events of the early 20th century – the World War, Revolutions, and the Civil War – brought about dramatic changes in cultural perceptions of space and time.
Find out more »Metaphors and Models: The Neuroscience of Comparison – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
This event explores the conceptual force of metaphors in neuroscience. How do metaphors shape how we think and communicate? How are they represented in the brain? Featuring perspectives from neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, and philosophy, our speakers probe the distinction between metaphors and models that emerge from thinking and reasoning and how these are applied in public discourse about science.
Find out more »S. Matthew Liao – Designing Humans: A Human Rights Approach
S. Matthew Liao explores a new approach to reproductive genetic engineering, a Human Rights Approach in a November 27 talk.
Find out more »Bei Wu – Disparities in Oral Health and Dental Care Among Older Adults in the U.S.
This presentation provides an overview of oral health disparity in older adults across regions, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
Find out more »Monica Azzolini – Saints and Science in Early Modern Italy: Filippo Neri and Francesco Borgia as Patron Saints of Earthquakes
This event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series and features Monica Azzolini, a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History, University of Edinburgh.
Find out more »Gabriela Soto Laveaga – Locating Histories of Science to the South: The Case of Mexican Wheat Seeds in India’s Farmlands
Join us for a presentation of a paper that will look at global networks and knowledge distribution in the context of wheat, which was transplanted to Mexico and is now a development project export to India.
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