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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.
Find out more »Film Screening and Discussion of Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor
Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater 26-01 35th Avenue, Queens, NY 11106 The Museum of the Moving Image will present a special screening of renowned Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland's new feature film Spoor. A retired civil engineer who loves her dogs like children is repulsed by the hunters running her home village on the Czech-Polish border. One day, her beloved dogs disappear. Shortly after, a local poacher is found dead. Deer tracks—spoor—lead from his body into the forest. Spoor won a…
Find out more »Randi Hutter Epstein – Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein will separate the hype from the hope and elucidate how discoveries and mishaps in the past shape our perceptions, our hopes, and our fears about hormones and hormones therapies today.
Find out more »Calculated Movements: The Surprising Connections Between Math and Dance
Join the National Museum of Mathematics for the latest in their "Math Encounters" series. Employing performance excerpts, audience interactions, and engaging visuals, choreographer and mathematician Karl Schaffer will demonstrate how the seemingly disparate disciplines of dance and math inspire each other.
Find out more »Convergence: The Future of Policing
Learn about "The Future of Policing" as part of the "Convergence" series, which brings together two people from vastly different fields to explore how emerging science and tech will affect culture, society, and politics in the near future. Each event brings out themes and ideas missing when conversations stay siloed.
Find out more »Utopias At Sea – Refuge, Resistance, Research
Lesvo, Greece The sea – like the concept of utopia itself – does not feature much in our current social theories, let alone our contemporary political rhetoric or social imagination. If anything, the sea seems lately to assume a villainously protagonist role in many of our present-day dystopic realities: harrowing images of the liquid refugee cemetery of the Mediterranean, depressing statistics of declining aquatic life, floating waste and toxic maritime pollution, or the impending threat of rising sea levels dominate…
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