April 2017
Patricia Falguières – The Mimesis of the Ancients
The NYU German Department presents a public lecture, “The Mimesis of the Ancients," by Patricia Falguières (EHESS, Paris). This talk will take place on Tuesday, April 25th at 5:00pm in the first floor Great Room of 19 University Place. This lecture is associated with the graduate seminar The Culture of the Renaissance: A Re-Translation, taught by Professors Juliet Fleming (English) and Christopher Wood (German), and is supported by the NYU Center for the Humanities.
Find out more »Language and the Brain: How Our Brains Turn Sounds into Words
Here’s your chance for a behind-the-scenes introduction to how neuroscience research works. Bring your family and friends to Late Night Science, a seminar series with lab tours by graduate students of Columbia University Neuroscience Outreach (CUNO).
Find out more »What Fire Does: A Conference
Each year, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society sponsors an interdisciplinary program under the title of “Earth, Itself,” designed to stimulate conversations and collaborations across the natural and social sciences, humanities and the arts. What Fire Does will be held primarily from April 18-28, 2017, and will focus on the productive, creative, destructive, and transformative powers of fire. The creative arts are the ‘fire arts’—particularly ceramics and glass—with exhibitions and performances conducted in collaboration with RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). The keynote speakers will be Stephen J. Pyne (Arizona State University) and Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University).
Find out more »Exhibition Tour—Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
This gallery tour allows visitors to explore the new exhibition Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints. The visualization of mathematics has taken many forms since the advent of printing. Animated by tensions between the abstract and the figural, the geometric and the gestural, these works from The Met collection show how artists from the 15th century to contemporary times have engaged in the creation and communication of mathematical knowledge through the use and production of images. To learn more about the exhibition and view selected images, visit the Met's website.
Find out more »Pamela Smith – Keynote Address: Fire and Transformation in Early Modern European Art and Alchemy
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire were conceptual building blocks in early modern European views of nature, and, at the same time, fire was an everyday agent of transformation in all realms of early modern life, from quotidian charcoal making and other forms of utilitarian knowledge about fire and fuel, to metalworking practices, to the language of alchemical allegory. The lecture will survey these areas and focus in on the mental world of metalworkers whose work with fire involved a material network of transformative substances, including red pigments, blood, gold, and lizards. Introduction will be given by Lenore Manderson; the Chairperson is Rachel Berwick (Glass, RISD).
Find out more »Sandra Soo-Jin Lee – Will Precision Medicine Be for ‘All of Us’? The ‘Good Citizen’ in an Age of Disparity
Case Lounge (Room 701) Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School Speaker: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Stanford University Precision medicine research relies on the massive collection of biospecimens, electronic health records, and other sources of behavioral and environmental data. Towards this effort, the “All of Us” Precision Medicine Initiative aims to enroll one million volunteers from a broad spectrum of the U.S. population into long-term prospective studies. Dr. Lee will discuss shifts in subjectivities from “patient” to “consumer” to the “good citizen”…
Find out more »Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Knowing and Certainty
The conference will bring together academic scholars, public policy makers, non-governmental advocates, and media experts to discuss the state of “evidence” today. Our goal is to examine the use of evidence – from massive data sets to individual case studies – within and across the disciplines.
Find out more »Joanna Radin – Latent Life in Biomedicine’s Ice Age
The History of Medicine and Health Working Group of the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine meets monthly to discuss a colleague’s work in progress or to discuss readings that are of particular interest to participants. The next meeting of the Medicine and Health Working Group of the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine is on Friday, April 21, 2017, at 3.30 ET.
Find out more »Fabian Krämer – A Centaur in London: Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature
Fabian Krämer, Visiting Scholar of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, speaks on Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature.
Find out more »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.
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