September 2017
Priscilla Wald – Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa and the Patenting of Life
754 Schermerhorn Extension 1200 Amsterdam Ave Speaker: Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English, Duke University The by now well-known story of Henrietta Lacks imparts human drama to the development of the first immortal human cell line. But there is another drama that, despite scant critical attention, raises significant questions that continue to trouble genomic research and the biotech industry. What is driving the legal, political, and ethical debates concerning the HeLa cell line and other creatures of the…
Find out more »Beth Linker – The Great War and Modern Veteran Care
This talk will trace the practice and ethic of the rehabilitative model of veteran care, with an eye toward showing how it later became commodified as part of America’s ongoing commitment to pursuing a militaristic foreign policy.
Find out more »Federica Coppola – Emotions, Criminal Brains, and the Guilty Mind
This lecture explores how the neuroscientific teachings about the role of emotions in moral decision-making and antisocial behavior might lead to a rethinking of our orthodox understanding of criminal culpability, as well as of current criminal justice policies and practices.
Find out more »C. Richard Johnson, Jr. – Weave Maps and Rollmates: Computational Analysis of European Old Master Canvases and Early Chinese Silk Paintings
One way of connecting paintings is to establish that they are painted on two pieces of fabric originally from the same roll. Using Thread Count Automation, and the visualization of the results as weave maps, provides evidence of rollmate pairings from the 15th - 19th centuries and may be applied to silk paintings from the 12th – 13th centuries as well.
Find out more »Puerto Rico Mapathon for Hurricane Relief
Come help with relief efforts on the ground in Puerto Rico by contributing your time to open-source mapping. September 29th at Columbia University.
Find out more »Andrew Goldman: Musical Improvisation as a Way of Knowing
Dodge Hall, Room 622 Speaker: Andrew Goldman, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University Andrew Goldman is a music theorist specializing in music cognition. He completed his PhD in 2015 at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Ian Cross on the cognition of musical improvisation. He is currently a Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the music department. His current work focuses on developing theories of improvisation that are compatible with…
Find out more »October 2017
Céline Frigau Manning – Silencing the Body: Hypnosis, Music, and Pain in the 19th C.
Though hypnosis has been the subject of a vast body of clinical investigation and historical scholarship, the history of its relationship to music remains unwritten. This talk will explore various narratives of this interaction in an attempt to understand how experiments involving music and hypnosis influenced both doctors’ and patients’ moral understanding of bodies in pain.
Find out more »Matteo Farinella – The Senses: Conversation and Book Launch
Caveat will host the launch of The Senses, an immersive ride through the body's five senses combining the most up to date scientific research with the visual inventiveness of the graphic novel format. Step into the world of the senses... meet the four mechanoreceptors of touch, examine our taste buds up close, discover the link between smells and memories, and learn how optical illusions trick the cells in our eyes into seeing things that aren’t there. Doors open at 7:30pm. Free and…
Find out more »From the Faculty Lounge: Why Do We Do That? Decision-Making and Natural Selection
Returning this fall, From the Faculty Lounge continues to bring together some of Barnard’s most notable professors, authors, and experts for enlightening discussions. Joshua New, assistant professor of psychology, and Homa Zarghamee, assistant professor of economics, discuss how human behavior can reflect both explicit decision-making processes and implicit biases shaped by natural selection.
Find out more »Paul Krugman – Does Equality have a Future in America?
This event is the 10th Annual Isidore I. Benrubi Lecture in the History and Ethics of Public Health, and features a Keynote lecture by Paul Krugman, Economist and Columnist for The New York Times.
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