October 2017
Linda B. Parshall – Adventures in the Landscape Parks and Drawing Rooms of Regency Britain: Prince Pückler’s Letters of a Dead Man
Linda B. Parshall, Ph.D., independent scholar will conduct a seminar exploring the prince of Pückler-Muskau and his lively letters written on a during a tour of England, Wales, and Ireland in 1826.
Find out more »Benjamin Breen – Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Three Ways of Looking at an Opium Ball
This lecture series will explore the enigma of how what we write relates back to the experience of bodies, healthy and unwell. Our speakers will explore how the medical humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts.”
Find out more »The Age of the Individual: 500 Years Ago Today Conference
The Age of the Individual: 500 Years Ago Today is The Center on Capitalism and Society's 15th annual conference. Join leading scholars in economics, philosophy and sociology as they explore themes of individualism, emancipation and self-actualization that trace their roots to the day Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the church door at Wittenberg on October 31st, 1517.
Find out more »November 2017
Yasmine Ergas – Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World
Book talk and panel for Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World, with Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Gender and Public Policy Specialization at SIPA and Editor of Reassembling Motherhood.
Find out more »Ted Anton – Planet of Microbes
The Center for Science and Society invites you to a book launch for Planet of Microbes (University of Chicago Press), by Ted Anton, science writer and Professor of English at DePaul University. Planet of Microbes is a journey through the curious and wonderful science of the Earth's smallest lifeforms.
Find out more »How Factual Are Facts? Responsibly Sharing Information: 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 »Science+Art+Design Workshop: Painting with Biopigments
Using naturally and artificially-pigmented bacteria and user-generated designs, you will create living images and patterns. These patterns will be pressed and fixed onto fabric. This workshop takes place at The New School.
Find out more »Rava Azeredo da Silveira – Various Approaches to Online Inference: Human Behavior and Theoretical Models
This talk will explore such ‘mental models’ in the context of idealized tasks that can be carried out in the laboratory and modeled quantitatively.
Find out more »Chocolate: A Complex Intersection 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 »Convergence: Artificial Wombs
Convergence is a live show and podcast that brings two people from vastly different fields into conversation about how emerging science and technology will affect culture, society, and politics in the near future.
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