October 2016
Nancy Tomes – From Black Plague to Zika: the Continuing Challenge of Epidemics and Our Efforts to Combat Them
Join Nancy Tomes, PhD, Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University, and author of The Gospel of Germs for the Thirteenth annual Weisse Lecture on the History of Medicine. A complimentary luncheon will be served to attendees following the lecture. About the Speaker Nancy Tome's research interests have ranged widely over the past four decades, but almost all her work has focused on the intersection between expert knowledge and popular understandings of the body and disease. Those interests are reflected in her publications: A Generous Confidence:…
Find out more »Theory of Mind – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Speakers Laurie Santos, Rebecca Saxe, and Joshua Knobe will discuss the topic of theory of mind, moderated by Patricia Kitcher.
Find out more »Normative Decisions Between More Than Two Alternatives – Cognition and Decision Seminar Series
Dr. Jan Drugowitsch, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, gives a talk at Columbia University as part of the Cognition and Decision seminar series organized by the Center for Decision Sciences.
Find out more »Rutgers University – Aesthetics and the Life Sciences Symposium
This public symposium will bring together scientists, performance and visual artists, educators, historians, and anthropologists to share their perspectives on the powerful intersection between the arts and the life sciences. Life Science and Art are deeply intertwined. In the late Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy producing exquisite anatomical drawings alongside his designs for flying machines. In 1859, Darwin famously referenced the evolution of “endless forms most beautiful.” And from the turn of the 20th century to the present,…
Find out more »Containment – Film Screening and Q & A with Peter Galison and Robb Moss
Synopsis: Can we contain some of the deadliest, most long-lasting substances ever produced? Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge, covering vast radioactive lands. Governments around the world, desperate to protect future generations, have begun imagining society 10,000 years from now in order to create monuments that will speak across the time. Part observational essay filmed in weapons plants, Fukushima and deep underground—and part graphic novel—Containment weaves between an uneasy present and an…
Find out more »Ligo Project – Science (as) Culture: The Microbiome – We are Cultured
The Microbiome - redefining the biology and culture of what it means be human - Part one of a three part series Are we alone? Depends who you ask! We all have over 100 trillion microbes living in and on our body, so we’re never really alone. The microbiome, which represents the population of all the microbes - bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses - that live on and inside the human body, is important in human health and disease. New…
Find out more »Medical History Society of New Jersey – Fall Meeting
Join the Medical History Society of New Jersey for its fall meeting. The meeting will highlight four papers on: 250 years of the Medical Society of New Jersey, 1766 TO 2016 (Lawrence Downs, Esq., CEO Medical Society of New Jersey) How "America's Doctor," got fired (Peter Carmel, M.D., AMA Past President, 2011–2012) The polio epidemic in Newark, 1916 (Sandra Moss, M.D., MHSNJ Program Committee Co-Chair) Whitewash--the Sloan-Kettering's cancer experiments at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, 1964 (Lisa Goldman, Esq., Doctor…
Find out more »Audra Wolfe – The Fight for Science and Freedom: Recovering the Role of Science in Cold War-Era Cultural Diplomacy
Audra Wolfe uses the story of the Congress for Cultural Freedom’s failed science programming to explore broader U.S. visions of science as a tool for cultural diplomacy—covert, overt, or something in between.
Find out more »Maggie Jackson – Mind in the Making: Reflection and the Artisanal in the Material World
Author Maggie Jackson will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Thursday, October 27 from 12 to 1:30 pm as a part of Bard Graduate Center's Seminar Series. The mission of Bard Graduate Center is to be the leading institute for the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through graduate training, exhibitions, and research. About the talk: How do the worlds of reflection and workmanship—two human endeavors rarely, if ever, considered together—intersect, align, and collide? In this…
Find out more »Professor Brian Larkin – Generators, Electricity and the Infrastructural Life of Cities
About the speaker: Brian Larkin is the Tow Associate Professor for Distinguished Scholars and an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College. Professor Larkin sits on the board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. He is the author of Signal and Noise: Media Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria (Duke University Press, 2008) and, with Lila Abu-Lughod and Faye Ginsburg, co-editor of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (University of California…
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