April 2016
Lee Goldman – Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us
Lee Goldman, MD, the Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine and Chief Executive of Columbia University Medical Center will be speaking about his new book, "Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us."
Find out more »Joseph Dauben – Science and Art in China. 利瑪竇 Li Matou (Matteo Ricci), 郎世寧 Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione) and the Influence of Western Geometry and Mathematical Perspective on Early Qing Dynasty Mathematicians and Artists – NY HoS Series
Speaker: Joseph Dauben, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, Herbert H. Lehman College and Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY In 1607 the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), in collaboration with his colleague 徐光啟 Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), translated the first six books of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry into Chinese. Among those to take a serious interest in this work was the prominent mathematician 梅文鼎 Mei Wending (1632-1721), but his 幾何通解 Jihe tongjie (General Explanation of (Euclid’s) Geometry) eliminated most of…
Find out more »Insuetude: Conversations in Technological Discard and Archaeological Recuperation
This conference brings together theorists of media technologies with researchers trained in the traditional methods of archaeology. It is the goal of this conference to explore what the discipline of archaeology - the field that studies how objects mediate our relationship to the past - might offer a media archaeology. Equally, the conference seeks to stimulate new ways of thinking about the archaeological past and novel methods for doing so through the engagement of archaeologists with media theorists. Speakers include:…
Find out more »Women’s History in Motion: Celebrating the Career of Alice Kessler-Harris
In celebration of the brilliant career of Professor Kessler-Harris, Women’s History in Motion, a two-day conference at Columbia University will be held Thursday, April 28 through Friday, April 29, 2016.
Find out more »Global Circuits of Expertise and the Making of the Post-1945 World: Eastern European and Asian Perspectives
The workshop brings together scholars with regional expertise, Eastern European and/or Asian, to seek commonalities between histories and historiographies that cut across regions, geopolitical blocs and continents.
Find out more »James Fleming – Inventing Atmospheric Science: Issues of Scale and the Quest for Prevision
Speaker: James R. Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College Space is limited. Please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan to attend this event. In 1960, using a small computer and a simple, but profound, non-linear model, Edward Lorenz (1917-2008) introduced chaos theory into meteorology, challenging the technological enthusiasm fueled by the recent arrival of numerical weather and climate models and Earth-orbiting satellites, and effectively ending a sixty-year neo-Laplacian quest for prevision. This presentation, based on Inventing Atmospheric Science…
Find out more »May 2016
Abigail Coplin – The Limits of Politicized Science: Scientists and the State During China’s GMO Controversy
The Science, Technology, and Knowledge (SKAT) workshop is a forum for the seminar-style presentation and discussion of graduate student work in the sociology of expertise, the sociology of professions, actor-network approaches, medical sociology, science studies, etc. The workshop is hosted by Columbia Sociology but welcomes graduate students from all institutions and disciplines.
Find out more »Neuroscience and Education – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Speakers: David Hansen, PhD, Aohn L & Sue Ann Weinberg Professor in Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, Associate Professor of Education, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Southern California Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Moderator: Andrew Goldman, PhD, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University As our understanding of neuroscience grows, so too does our potential ability to apply that knowledge to…
Find out more »Georgetown University – In Praise of the Divine Beauty: The Philosophy of Ptolemy and its Greek, Arabic and Hebrew Reception
Georgetown University's Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies presents:
"In Praise of the Divine Beauty": The Philosophy of Ptolemy and its Greek, Arabic and Hebrew Reception.
Jenny Slatman – Habituation: Incorporation and Beyond
This event is organized by Columbia’s interdepartmental Embodied Cognition Reading Group under the auspices of the Center for Science and Society.
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