May 2018
The Statistical Subject in the Age of Data
How are statisticians changing our world? Are they still taming chance? New decisional statistics are seeking less to discriminate people into categories than to extract, from massive data that collects the most anodyne things of our lives, a knowledge about our most private desires.
Find out more »Making and Knowing Project Offers “Coloring Textiles with Bugs” Public Workshop
The Making and Knowing Project is partnering with Genspace to offer a public workshop to teach history and the science of coloring textiles with organisms using historical techniques and new scientific developments. Combine your printed microbial designs with your hand-dyed cochineal textiles to create decorative art.
Find out more »Robert Krueger – Personality and the Meta-Structure of Psychopathology
Robert Krueger from the University of Minnesota discusses empirical modeling of psychopathology.
Find out more »The Right Use of the Earth (Knowledge, Power and Duties within a Finite Planet) Conference
This conference explores the advent of the Anthropocene concept and Earth system sciences – putting forward upscaled temporalities in the public sphere, the dramatization of warnings on planetary limits and boundaries and on the human impacts of climate change – provide a challenging context for the humanities and social sciences.
Find out more »Talks Progress Administration: HIV, The Three Epidemics – Underground Science Festival
Three Epidemics uses a mix of science and theatrical multimedia to explore the history of HIV and assess how it evolved from a deadly infection to a chronic disease, how lack of access to healthcare and mistaken public perception may be helping the disease spread, and how we can use tools of advocacy and awareness to win the fight against AIDS. With Allison Navis, directed by Sarah Hughes.
Find out more »June 2018
Conflicted: The Matilda Effect – How Science Hides Women’s Achievements – Underground Science Festival
From rivalries and gossip to attacks and blood feuds, Conflicted is the comedy show that gives you the inside scoop on what (probably) happened during history’s greatest fights. This month, join Kate and Peter as they investigate The Matilda Effect, getting into the stories of these three women in science and the forces they fought to get their work recognized.
Find out more »Learning by the Book: Manuals in the History of Knowledge Conference
This international conference will feature senior scholars and graduate students working on the role of manuals and handbooks in knowledge transmission, from antiquity to the present, in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Find out more »Science & Storytelling: Visual Narratives Workshop
Join science cartoonist Matteo Farinella and documentary filmmaker Lan Li in a three-week workshop exploring the intersection of visualization and storytelling. Learn about new techniques for describing your research through graphics and film.
Find out more »Flying University – The Racist History of Math – Underground Science Festival
Flying University is a re-education in hidden histories. This talk series is named after the underground university in Russian-occupied Poland that taught subjects banned by the state-run schools.
Find out more »Science Wake: Eulogies for Failed Theories – Underground Science Festival
Scientific theories fail. Some are replaced by better ones, some were never right--either way they are a fundamental part of the progress of science. Come celebrate the failures with eulogies, tributes, toasts, and a joyous party.
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