March 2017
Anke te Heesen – Earwitness Thomas Kuhn: The Interview in Historical Research
Anke te Heesen will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Wednesday, March 29 from 12:15 to 1:15 pm, at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. Her talk is entitled “Earwitness Thomas Kuhn: The Interview in Historical Research.”
Find out more »Neil Safier – Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective
This talk explores the confluence, in the last two decades, between a new kind of imperial history that seeks to decenter and render more permeable the contours of individual empires in the early modern world and a similar phenomenon in the history of early modern science.
Find out more »Noam Andrews – What’s the Matter with Johannes Kepler?
Noam Andrews will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Thursday, March 30 from 12:15 to 1:15 pm, at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. His talk is entitled “What’s the Matter with Johannes Kepler?"
Find out more »David Trippett – The Shadow of Brainwashing: A Short History of Coercive Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Rebecca Lemov, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, will speak on "The Shadow of Brainwashing: A Short History of Coercive Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror." Open exclusively to Columbia affiliates.
Find out more »Rosamond Purcell – Double Identity: Anomaly and the Imagination
Acclaimed photographer Rosamond Purcell has been interested in fantastical imagery from early modern books for much of her career. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Holland's spectacular cabinets of curiosity-- collections of natural and manmade wonders of the world--featured doubles: placing a two-headed kitten next to a double carrot, conjoined twins, or an apple with two heads. Similar anomalies are found across the kingdoms of life. This talk will cover ideas about hybrid beings, the illusion of the monstrous and the fluidity of natural forms.
Find out more »Mortality Mansions, a World Premiere Performance
Donald Hall, the 2006 U.S. Poet Laureate, and Grammy award-winning musician Herschel Garfein present Mortality Mansions. This song cycle explores themes of love, sexuality, and bereavement in old age. In this world premiere, renowned tenor Michael Slattery and Metropolitan Opera pianist Dimitri Dover will perform the cycle accompanied by reflections on the work by poets, musicians, and scholars. Mortality Mansions was commissioned by Sparks and Wiry Cries, which funds the creation of new art song collaborations between poets and composers.
Find out more »Music and the Body Between Revolutions: Paris, 1789-1848
This interdisciplinary workshop will examine the interaction between music, science, and medicine in Paris, as they were influenced by the reframing of the self in the aftermath of successive revolutionary upheavals. It will bring together scholars from the fields of musicology, performance studies, literature, and the history of science and medicine in order to explore historical and emerging contemporary perspectives on the body.
Find out more »‘Moonlight’ Science Lunch Discussion – Columbia University
The Moonlight Lunch will be a different kind of science discussion. Instead of focussing on areas that we are expert in, we'll talk about the most intriguing, puzzling, and exciting pieces of science that we've stumbled across in the preceding days. And we'll find out whether our group brain power can apply itself usefully to elucidate and elaborate on these topics.
Find out more »April 2017
Anthony Lechich – Life at the End of Life
On April 2nd, the Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity will honor Dr. Anthony Lechich in, "Life at the End of Life," a presentation of Columbia's work with Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center
Find out more »Ethical Tangles in Neurodegenerative Disease Research: Targeting Participants at Genetic Risk
This April 2017 conference will explore how neurodegenerative disorders are dramatic public health problems that will increase with aging of the population.
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