February 2016
Health Care Consulting & Bioethics: Bridges, Challenges, & Opportunities
Featuring representatives from The Boston Consulting Group, Blue Fin Group, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte.
Find out more »Fransizka Keller – Networks of Power: How Social Network Analysis can tell us who will rule, who will be purged, and who is really in charge in the Chinese Communist Party
Patronage networks are said to grant access to a regime's inner circle, but only the ties to powerful leaders have been studied systematically. I expand on this by examining the whole informal CCP elite network, noting who has been promoted under whom in the past. Ties to patrons indeed double the chances of becoming a Politburo member, but links to former subordinates also have positive eff ects - unlike those to former superiors. I also show that we do not…
Find out more »Miriam Posner – Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy
Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer, taking patients’ photographs before their operations and tracking them down years —even decades— later. In this presentation, Miriam Posner details her efforts to understand why Freeman was so devoted to this practice, using computer-assisted image-mining and -analysis techniques to show how these images fit into the larger visual culture of 20th-century psychiatry. Miriam Posner is the Digital Humanities program…
Find out more »Embodied Cognition Workshop: Music and Movement
Speakers: Mariusz Kozak, Department of Music, Columbia University Luc Nijs, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music, Ghent University Respondents: Andrew Goldman, Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University Carmel Raz, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University Moderated by Jenny Boulboullé, Lecturer in History and Columbia-CHF Scholar, Columbia University This workshop will explore the relationship between music and embodiment. Starting from a specific view on the musician-instrument relationship, Dr. Nijs will elaborate on the importance of the embodied music…
Find out more »Global Warming and the Rise of Asia
The India China Institute's Flagship 2016 event will engage two renowned intellectuals – Amitav Ghosh and Prasenjit Duara – in a conversation on climate change and capitalism in Asia.
Find out more »Gender-Based Violence and Reproductive Health
Featuring Anindita Dasgupta, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, T32 Training Program in HIV and Substance Use in the Criminal Justice System, Social Intervention Group, Columbia University School of Social Work
Find out more »The Downside of Death
More than three decades ago, social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski proposed “terror management theory,” which makes startling predictions about how our often unconscious fear of mortality affects our behavior at all levels, from the personal to the geo-political. In this talk, Solomon will review the increasingly abundant experimental evidence for the theory, which he, Greenberg and Pyszczynski describe in their provocative new book The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life.
Find out more »The Promise and Challenge of Precision Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
This event features speakers representing fields from science, medicine,the humanities and social sciences at Columbia University.
Find out more »Adam Leeds – Assembling the Economic Mechanism: Soviet Economics 1937-1965 and the Technology of Socialist Government
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 »Online Info Session About Bioethics Online and In-Person Programs
Online students may take a single course, if they wish. Online courses all also earn CME credit.
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