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Carmontelle’s Jardin De Monceau: Celebrating the Unique Garden Culture of 18th-Century France
This Colloquium marks the starting point of an important project: the publication of a facsimile edition in English of the richly illustrated Le Jardin de Monceau (1779) by Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle (1717-1806). Designed by Carmontelle for the Duc de Chartres, the garden still survives as the much-frequented Parc Monceau in the heart of Paris. The original layout of the garden, with its rich architectural and sculptural features, formed an ideal setting for the social life of the fashionable elite shortly before the French Revolution. The Jardin de Monceau by Carmontelle is a key cultural monument in the history of European garden design.
Find out more »Anita Guerrini – The Whiteness of Bones: the Emergence of the Human Skeleton as a Commodity, 1500-1800
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room Speaker: Anita Guerrini, Horning Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History, Oregon Statue University Respondent: Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University This event is part of the series, Explorations in the Medical Humanities. Additional details coming soon. Please visit the Heyman Center website for updates. About the Series: As a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy verbal categorization…
Find out more »The Two Cultures Reading Group – C.P Snow and “Corridors of Power”
The Center for Science and Society Fayerweather 513 Columbia University Fabian Kramer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, History and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Science and Society Have you ever wondered what the inventor of the phrase "two cultures", Charles Percey Snow, was really up to? Today, C.P. Snow is mostly remembered, if at all, for his 1959 Rede lecture "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution" and the intense debate that ensued about the rightful status of "scientific culture" as opposed…
Find out more »Embroidering Medicine Workshop
This four-week workshop explores The New York Academy of Medicine Library’s historical collections, examining relationships between medicine, needlework, and gender.
Find out more »Allison Werner-Lin – How Parents Understand and Act on Uncertain Prenatal Genetic Test Results
Rm. 405A and B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research 10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building 622 W. 168th Street Speaker: Allison Werner-Lin, PhD, LCSW Prenatal genome-wide testing, such as chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA), increases the possibility of identifying uncertain results associated with variable or unpredictable phenotypes, including the possibility of neurocognitive impairment. How do prospective parents prepare for the birth of a child after learning these results? How do they approach parenting? What supports do they need to cope with distress? …
Find out more »Sidney Hankerson – Writing a New Story Together: Confronting Mental Health Disparities with Community Partnerships
This lecture will highlight an innovative, community-focused approach to delivering mental health services.
Find out more »Jeannette Wing – Using Data for Good: What does it mean?
The Data, Ethics, and Decision-making Speaker Series presents Dr. Jeannette Wing, the new director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute, on "Using Data for Good: What does it mean?"
Find out more »James Costa – Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Charles Darwin is an iconic figure in evolutionary biology, but behind the icon is a naturalist with a twinkle in his eye and a passion for “fool’s experiments.” Sometimes quirky, often amusing, and always illuminating, Darwin’s amazing array of hands-on experiments were an ever-present part of his home life. His inventive experiments yielded universal truths about nature, and evidence for his revolutionary arguments in On the Origin of Species and other watershed works. After the lecture, James Costa will sign books in the Mertz Library.
Find out more »Convergence: How Will Machine Learning (Really) Affect Labor?
Convergence is a live show and podcast that brings two people from vastly different fields into conversation about how emerging science and technology will affect culture, society, and politics in the near future. Hosted by Meehan Crist, writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University, each event will bring out themes and ideas missing when conversations stay siloed.
Find out more »Pierce Salguero – Chanting as Literature: Contemporary Buddhist Medicine
This lecture series will explore the enigma of how what we write relates back to the experience of bodies, healthy and unwell. Our speakers will explore how the medical humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts.”
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