April 2017
Biodiversity and Its Histories Student Exhibit – Opening Event
A public exhibition celebrating biodiversity will open Earth Day, April 22, 2017, and last through May 19, 2017 at the Washington Heights Branch of the New York Public Library, with an opening day event April 27 at 4pm. The exhibition is designed and produced by students of Barnard College and Columbia University. Contributors include: Arielle Alterwaite, Stephanie Barral, Tristan Brown, Gabrielle Bruno, Lyra Cooper, Robert Corban, Rosalind Donald, Linda Gordon, Sara Heiny, Maggie Israel, Petros Krommidas, Lila Livingston, Laura McLean, Anna McNulty, Julie Moon, Melissa Morris, Camila Puig Ibarra, Claire Sabel, Zhuoxuan Tian, Daniel West, Adrien Zakar, Mollie Zanger, Wenrui Zhao, Professor Deborah Coen.
Find out more »Rita Charon – The Shock of Attention: Art, Science, Creativity, and Doubt
As part of the Columbia University Medical Center Dean’s Lecture Series 2016-2017, Rita Charon, MD, Ph.D., will deliver a talk entitled “The Shock of Attention: Art, Science, Creativity, and Doubt."
Find out more »Nation of Inventors: Patent Models in Nineteenth-Century America
The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit educational institution in Wilmington, Delaware. It is home to the world’s largest private collection of American patent models. Each model tells a story of ingenuity, innovation, and the entrepreneurial spirit. Join us and be one of the first to learn how Hagley will share these one-ofa-kind artifacts with the world. Please join us at the Yale Club of New York City for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Hosted by Nancy “Sunny” L. Hayward.
Find out more »Christia Mercer – Philosophy in the Library: How Women Changed the Course of Philosophy, 1300-1700
Christia Mercer explores ideas drawn from medieval Europe’s most innovative women and shows how their views about self-knowledge, cognition, and truth laid the groundwork for early modern philosophy. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »The Medical Humanities: Attentions to the Body
A panel discussing medicine and the humanities with Rachel Adams, Branka Arsic, Danya Glabau, Rishi Goyal, and Cristobal Silva.
Find out more »Knowledge Production in Twentieth Century China and Beyond
This workshop examines the variegated forms of knowledge production that occurred from the end of the Qing until the PRC period. This period has long been characterized as a period of chaos and transition.
Find out more »Advances in Precision Medicine: Genetics Conference
Alumni Auditorium Columbia University Medical Center 630 West 168th Street New York, NY 10032 The Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative's inaugural conference will be held on April 28, 2017 in Alumni Auditorium (630 West 168th) Street. At our conference, you will hear about cutting-edge genetics research from international leaders in the field whose research advances the basic science of genetics, and impacts the application of genetics to the understanding and treatment of human genetic disease. Registration is required; for registration and…
Find out more »Queer Encoding: Encoding Diverse Identities
How can the practice of digitization better respond to, and represent, geographically, culturally and otherwise, diverse textual identities? Come and hear leading practitioners in the field talk about how we might work creatively with mark-up languages to be more inclusive, and see strategies in action in the Project Hack.
Find out more »May 2017
Sound Studies and Auditory Neuroscience: New Perspectives on Listening – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
This seminar features leading scholars from auditory neuroscience, sound studies, and music cognition discussing scientific and humanistic perspectives on the role of acoustic conditions and cultural exposure on the formation of the sense of hearing itself.
Find out more »The Engine of Modernity: Construing Science as the Driving Force of History in the Twentieth Century
This workshop will explore the central role that science came to occupy in thinking about modernity and modernization in the first half of the twentieth century. The workshop examines the emergence of academic disciplines devoted to studying this role – history, philosophy and sociology of science – as well as the rise of policies of science and modernization. It compares ideas and practices in various places around the globe as well as in international organizations such as UNESCO.
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