June 2018
Film Screening and Discussion of Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor
Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater 26-01 35th Avenue, Queens, NY 11106 The Museum of the Moving Image will present a special screening of renowned Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland's new feature film Spoor. A retired civil engineer who loves her dogs like children is repulsed by the hunters running her home village on the Czech-Polish border. One day, her beloved dogs disappear. Shortly after, a local poacher is found dead. Deer tracks—spoor—lead from his body into the forest. Spoor won a…
Find out more »Randi Hutter Epstein – Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein will separate the hype from the hope and elucidate how discoveries and mishaps in the past shape our perceptions, our hopes, and our fears about hormones and hormones therapies today.
Find out more »July 2018
Calculated Movements: The Surprising Connections Between Math and Dance
Join the National Museum of Mathematics for the latest in their "Math Encounters" series. Employing performance excerpts, audience interactions, and engaging visuals, choreographer and mathematician Karl Schaffer will demonstrate how the seemingly disparate disciplines of dance and math inspire each other.
Find out more »Convergence: The Future of Policing
Learn about "The Future of Policing" as part of the "Convergence" series, which brings together two people from vastly different fields to explore how emerging science and tech will affect culture, society, and politics in the near future. Each event brings out themes and ideas missing when conversations stay siloed.
Find out more »Utopias At Sea – Refuge, Resistance, Research
Lesvo, Greece The sea – like the concept of utopia itself – does not feature much in our current social theories, let alone our contemporary political rhetoric or social imagination. If anything, the sea seems lately to assume a villainously protagonist role in many of our present-day dystopic realities: harrowing images of the liquid refugee cemetery of the Mediterranean, depressing statistics of declining aquatic life, floating waste and toxic maritime pollution, or the impending threat of rising sea levels dominate…
Find out more »Science for the People: Geoengineering Launch and Documentary Premiere
Celebrate the return of Science for the People! This event includes the premiere viewing of the mini-documentary about SftP's revitalization and readings from the first publication since 1989: a collection of essays about the science and politics of geoengineering.
Find out more »September 2018
An Introduction to Public Data
The Brown Institute is proud to host a day devoted to public data. It is designed for students in journalism, statistics and data science -- essentially anyone who has an interest in understanding their neighborhoods, their cities, their state and even the nation through data.
Find out more »Adrianna Bagnall-Munson – What a Mediminder Does: Arranging Autonomy Through Technologies of Care
Adrianna Bagnall-Munson (Columbia University) will present research findings as part of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology workshop (SKAT) series.
Find out more »Food, Farming, and Sustainability Conference
International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center (Room 1501), Columbia University 420 West 118th Street, New York UPDATE 9/13: SEATS AT THE CONFERENCE ARE AVAILABLE. PLEASE CHECK IN AT THE REGISTRATION DESK. The morning sessions will be streamed live. The Environmental Sciences and Humanities Research Cluster at the Center for Science and Society invites you to "Food, Farming, and Sustainability." With approximately 815 million people around the world currently undernourished and the global population expected to grow by 2 billion by 2050, two of the…
Find out more »Colin F. Camerer – Using Visual Salience in Game Theory
Dr. Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology) will discuss using visual saliency in game theory.
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