May 2016
Charlotte Jacobs – Jonas Salk: A Life
Dr. Charlotte Jacobs (Stanford University) will speak about Jonas Salk's life and achievements on May 5th with the American Philosophical Society. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required; please visit the event website for details. Jonas Salk was born on October 28, 1914, in East Harlem. He was just a child when poliomyelitis and then influenza devastated New York. Spared, he would one day play a major role in the prevention of both. Salk's…
Find out more »First Friday: Selling Science
Advertising is used to sell all sorts of things, but what does it look like when the product is science? Join us as we take a journey along the timeline of science advertising.
Find out more »Maël Lemoine – Medicine without Diseases
In this talk, Maël Lemoine presents what she calls the three models of disease – the disease entity, disease mechanisms and disease signatures.
Find out more »Adolescent Health and Economic Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
Established in 2014, the conference provides a unique forum for researchers and NGO leaders to create and foster partnerships and share research findings on economic strengthening interventions and their impact on adolescent health and education outcomes, including those related to HIV/AIDS, with special reference to the situation of youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Featured Speakers: Michael Sherraden Michael Sherraden is the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St.…
Find out more »Art and the Monetary
From Manet’s single asparagus painted for a 200-franc overpayment to Duchamp’s Teeth's Loan & Trust check drawn for his dentist, the potential equivalence of art and money has been postulated as both generative and problematic. This one-day symposium considers intersections of the artistic and monetary worlds, examining the mutual concern for consumption, valuation, circulation, materiality, authenticity, and imitation that emerged from both artistic and economic spheres. In what ways are aesthetic and monetary values related? How have economic and artistic…
Find out more »Climate Change and the Future of Cities – Institute for Public Knowledge
Please join the Institute for Public Knowledge for an event to celebrate the release of a special issue of the journal Public Culture, "Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Migration, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet." The evening will feature a panel discussion with issue contributors Daniel Aldana Cohen, Nina Berman, Gökçe Günel, Eric Klinenberg, Liz Koslov, and Andy Lakoff, followed by a reception. The special issue of Public Culture includes essays by Eric Klinenberg, Cymene Howe…
Find out more »Science (as) Culture: The 1000 Year View & How to Get There
Join us at the table for part three of an intimate yet challenging 3-part multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas that gives everyone the opportunity to be heard and aims to change how we as a society think about, learn about, and talk about art, science and technology.
Find out more »Alexander Von Humboldt: The History, Science, and Poetry of Ecology
On May 20th, The New York Botanical Garden will present a symposium on Prussian geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Find out more »Rasmus Nielsen – Inferring the Past: A Big Data Challenge in Genomics
Speaker: Dr. Rasmus Nielsen, Professor, Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics and Director, Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley About the Speaker: Rasmus Nielsen’s research focuses on statistical and computational aspects of evolutionary theory and genetics. One of the central problems he has been interested in is the molecular basis of evolutionary adaptation. What happens at the molecular levels as one species is transformed into another over evolutionary time? To address this question, he has developed a number…
Find out more »Robert Pollack: Can Faith Broaden Reason?
Speaker: Professor Robert Pollack, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University The question, "Can faith broaden reason?" is of such great intrinsic importance, and the risk implied by the possibility that the answer is "no" is so great, that simply to explain why the answer is "yes" is well worth the time and effort. Because this question lies at the boundary of the knowable and the unknowable, it challenges both my faith and my science.
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