February 2016
Hitting Hard or Below the Belt? The Role and Limits of Fear in Public Health Campaigns
What works in public health communication campaigns? And should the most effective strategies always be used? When, if ever, should fear based campaigns be incorporated as part of broader efforts to protect population health? Keynote Speaker: Tom Farley,President & CEO, The Public Good Projects and Former NYC Health Commissioner Panelists: Mark Hatzenbuehler, PhD, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Ruth Macklin, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein School of Medicine Event: 1:30 - 5:00 Reception: 5:00 - 5:30 Free…
Find out more »The Perception of Time – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Speakers: C. Randy Gallistel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers, The State University of NJ David Laibson, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics, Harvard University Michael Shadlen, Professor of Neuroscience and HHMI Investigator, Columbia University This event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow. This event is part of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
Find out more »New York Academy of Medicine – Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?
Prize-winning author Sonia Shah moderates an expert panel on emerging infectious diseases. Over the past 50 years, over 300 infectious diseases have newly emerged or re-emerged in new territory where they’ve never been seen before—from Ebola to cholera and avian influenza—and according to a recent survey, 90 percent of epidemiologists believe one of them will cause a deadly, disruptive pandemic sometime in the next two generations. But which one? And how? To answer these questions and in conjunction with the…
Find out more »Barbara Naddeo – From Arcana Imperii to Statistics: G.M. Galanti, Political Information and Science in the Age of Enlightenment – NY HoS Series
Speaker: Barbara Naddeo, Associate Professor of History, CUNY: The City College of New York and The Graduate Center In the early modern period the most fundamental social statistics of the age’s monarchies, from demographics to public finances, were considered to be the property of the king, whose officers most jealously archived and selectively employed them in the service of royal power. With the age of Enlightenment these same statistics became the objects of inquiry of a new breed of professionals,…
Find out more »Larry McGrath – Spiritualizing Neurology in the Fin de Siècle
The development of neurology in the late 19th century inaugurated a historical moment when the brain came to be taken seriously not only as the organ of thought, but also as the lynchpin of a materialist ideology. God and consciousness, many believed, had been excised from the natural world. Yet a movement of self-proclaimed French “spiritualists,” including Henri Bergson, Alfred Fouillée, and Jean-Marie Guyau, told a different story. They demonstrated that theology and metaphysics were not simply compatible with but…
Find out more »Loren Cardeli – Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and the Library for Food Sovereignty
Speaker: Loren Cardeli, President and Founder, A Growing Culture Loren Cardeli is President and Founder of A Growing Culture (AGC), an organization that promotes ecological agriculture in the United States and around the world. A farmer, consultant, and graduate of Warren Wilson College, Loren’s expertise is in sustainable food systems, farmer-led research, and “farmer participation” approaches to extension and outreach. He has a wide-range of experience working with farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, having visited over 2,000 farms in more…
Find out more »Ethical Spaces: Landscapes and Environmental Law
Promoting new thinking about today’s rapidly changing societies in increasingly urban environments, this roundtable will focus on land, law, and ecology—encompassing the four elements: air, earth, water, fire. A team of experts from Fordham University, including J. Alan Clark, Professor of Biology, Sheila Foster, Professor of Land Use and Property Law, and Roger Panetta, Professor of History, will lead the discourse, discussing key issues, from bird migration and light pollution (air) to legal ramifications of landownership (earth); the development of New York City waterfronts and coastal defense (water); and political ecology and social vulnerability (fire).
Find out more »March 2016
Mary X. Mitchell – Professional Marshallese: Cold War Rationality and the Death of Advocacy
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 »Sérgio Burgi – Photography and Urban History: Georeferencing Historical Photographs
Please visit the Studio@Butler for a talk on digital art history by Sérgio Burgi, Curator of Photography at the Instituto Moreira Salles in Brazil. The lecture will discuss Sérgio Burgi's pathbreaking work creating digital maps of Rio de Janeiro using GIS in conjunction with historical photographs.
Find out more »Metropolis of Science Launch
Please join The Center for Science and Society as we celebrate the launch of the Metropolis of Science Project, including a new website and a smartphone application with GPS walking tours. Metropolis of Science is a web based mapping project that explores the history of science and technology in New York City with the goal of engaging the public. Stories can be sorted by scientific disciplines, areas or time periods. You can use them to take a tour of significant…
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