Toxic Docs: Opening the Secret Vaults of the World’s Largest Polluters
Allan Rosenfield Building, Room 532, 722 West 168th Street, New York
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Charles Branas – Changing Places: Using Science to Design Safer and Healthier Cities
Mailman School of Public Health (Room 532B), 722 West 168th St., New York
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Sara Pritchard - Polluted Nightscapes: “Natural Night-Sky Brightness,” Skyglow, and the U.S. National Park Service
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Center for Science and Society Welcome Back Student Lunch
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Peter D. Balsam – Faculty Research Talk: The Brain is a Time Machine
Barnard Hall James Room, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan – In the Waiting Room of History: Science, Cancer, and Aging in India and South Africa (1940s-50s)
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Camille Robcis – The Politics of the Psyche
Maison Francaise East Gallery, Columbia University, 515 West 116th St., New York
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
George J. Makari – Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Roles of Physicians in 19th Century Polar Exploration
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Career Workshop: Applying for Academic Jobs in the Humanities
Heyman Center for the Humanities Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Consuelo H. Wilkins – Engagement, Equity, and the Promise of Precision Medicine
Florence Irving Auditorium, Columbia University, 1130 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Inscription, Digitization and the Shape of Knowledge
NYU Center for the Humanities, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Frances Champagne – How Do Early Life Experiences Shape Behavior?
Faculty House, Columbia University, 64 Morningside Drive, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Ligo Project – Science (as) Culture: Winter Happy Hour
Venue O’Reilly’s Bar + Kitchen, 21 West 35th St, New York, NY
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
CANCELLED TODAY – Jacqueline Joon-Lin Chin – Precision Medicine: Privacy & Family Relations
Jerome Greene Hall Room #701, Columbia University, 435 W 116th St, New York
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Amy F. Ogata – Industry, Aluminum, and Orfèvrerie in Second Empire France
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Meredith Ray – Early Modern Women and Communities of Science
CUNY Graduate Center (Room 9207), 365 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Rediscovering Words and Worlds - Arabic Script Collections at Columbia University
Columbia University (Multiple Locations)
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Symposium in Honor of George Saliba
523 Butler Library, Columbia University, 535 West 114th St., New York
3:45 PM - 6:30 PM
Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Understanding Material Loss Across Time and Space
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Global Perspectives in Histories of Music Theory
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Courtney Roby – Modeling Embodied Experience in the Peripatetic Mechanica
503 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:10 PM - 7:30 PM
Joseph LeDoux – “Have We Misunderstood Fear and Anxiety?”
Rifkind Room, City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The John K. Lattimer Lecture – The Marrow of Tragedy: Disease and Diversity in Civil War Medicine
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Stephanie Dick - After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in Postwar United States
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Making and Knowing Laboratory Open Day
Chandler Hall (Room 260), Columbia University, 3010 Broadway, New York
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Science of Jazz: Linking Music & The Structure of the Universe
Varis Leichtman Studio, Lincoln Center, 60th and Broadway, New York, NY
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Google Sidewalk Labs: How Does Technology Enrich the Public Realm?
Faculty House, Columbia University, 64 Morningside Drive, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Digital Amati: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Stringed Instruments
[email protected] (Butler 208B), Columbia University, 535 West 114th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine, and Racial Violence Conference
Medical History Library, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
All Things Living and Not: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives in Slavic Studies
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University (420 116th St, 1st Floor), New York
7:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Andrew Gelman – Ethics and the Replication Crisis in Science
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Conevery Valencius – Fracking, Earthquakes, and Public Science in Rural America
Heyman Center for the Humanities Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York
12:15 PM - 2:05 PM
All Ivy Environmental & Sustainable Development Career Fair
Lerner Hall Roone Arledge Auditorium, Columbia University, New York
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Haptic Bodies: Perception, Touch, and the Ethics of Being
Diana Center Event Oval, Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Space in Between – NYC Science, Art, & Culture Conference
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, 65 West 11th Street, Wollman Hall, New York, NY
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Neuroscience in the Body: Perspectives at the Periphery - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Threshold: Biodiversity, Climate, and Humanity at a Crossroads
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, New York
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Cancer Across Cultures: Defining Disease in Integrative Oncology
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Jackie Scully – Precision Medicine, Embodiment, Self & Disability
701 Jerome Greene Hall Room, Columbia University, New York
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Nancy Tomes – Nuisance or Necessity? Historical Perspectives on the “Informed” Patient
Conference Room 103-A, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Hammer Building 701 West 168th St., New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Neuroculture-Neuroscience and the Law: Are We There Yet?
Engelman Recital Hall Baruch College, CUNY, New York
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Understanding Urban Habitats
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue 9100: Skylight Room, New York
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Infectious Madness, the Well Curve and the Microbial Roots of Mental Disturbance
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Mahsa Shabani – Improving the Governance of Genomic Data Access for Research Purposes: The Case of Data Access Committees
Rm. 6205, New York State Psychiatric Institute 1051 Riverside Drive, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
From the Faculty Lounge: Smell and Taste
Barnard Hall Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Keywords: Justice – Interdisciplinary Roundtable Conversation
203 Butler Library, Columbia University, New York
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
New York City and the Chronic Disease Movement in Interwar America
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Biodiversity and its Histories Conference
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT
10:30 AM - 4:15 PM
Indian Point – A Film Screening and Q&A With Director Ivy Meeropol
Allan Rosenfield, 722 West 168th Street, Hess Commons, 10th Floor, New York
11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Anke te Heesen – Getting Art and Science Together in the 1970s and 1980s: An Exhibition History
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th St., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Anke te Heesen – Earwitness Thomas Kuhn: The Interview in Historical Research
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th St., New York, NY
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Neil Safier - Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective
CUNY Graduate Center (Room C/197), 365 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Noam Andrews – What’s the Matter with Johannes Kepler?
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th St., New York, NY
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
David Trippett – The Shadow of Brainwashing: A Short History of Coercive Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Heyman Center for the Humanities Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Rosamond Purcell – Double Identity: Anomaly and the Imagination
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Mortality Mansions, a World Premiere Performance
James Room, Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway at 117th Street, New York
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
‘Moonlight’ Science Lunch Discussion – Columbia University
1332 Pupin Hall, Columbia University, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Music and the Body Between Revolutions: Paris, 1789-1848
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Anthony Lechich - Life at the End of Life
Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, 535 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Ethical Tangles in Neurodegenerative Disease Research: Targeting Participants at Genetic Risk
Alumni Auditorium, Neurological Institute Columbia University Medical Center 710 West 168 Street, New York
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Dagmar Schäfer – Dynastic Knowledge and the Knowledge of Dynasties: Politics and the History of Scientific Change in China
Bettman Lecture Hall (Room 612), Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Roger Kneebone – Crossing Boundaries at The New York Academy of Medicine
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Data Science Institute – Data Science Day 2017
Lerner Hall Roone Arledge Auditorium, Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Gascia Ouzounian – Powers of Hearing: Acoustic Defense and Technologies of Listening during the First World War
Heyman Center for the Humanities Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Ben Hayden – Neuronal Foundations of Economic Value
301 Uris Hall, Columbia University, 3022 Broadway, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Mark Waddell - “Trust Me!” The Problem of Insincerity in Early Modern Medicine
Science History Institute, 315 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Fourth Harriet Zuckerman Conference at the Mellon Biennial
The Jerome Greene Annex, 410 West 117th Street AND Room 107, 435 West 116th Street, Columbia Law School
8:15 AM - 2:00 PM
The Business of Handloom Fashion: The Future of Sustainable Dyeing and Weaving Workshops in India and Okinawa
International Affairs Building (Room 918), Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
History of Visualization / Visualization in History Workshop
[email protected] (Butler 208B), Columbia University, 535 West 114th St, New York
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Weaving: Cognition, Technology, Culture
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Reembodied Sound: A Symposium and Festival of Transducer-Based Music and Sonic Art
Computer Music Center, Prentis Hall, Columbia University, 632 West 125th Street, New York
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Carol D. Ryff – “Unequal Lives and Aging: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?”
Hess Commons, Allan Rosenfield Building, 722 W. 168th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Advocate for Science – brainNY
Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 3229 Broadway, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Two Cultures Reading Group - CP Snow and the Atomic Bomb
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Human Sense of Smell - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Rose Holz – Art in the Service of Medical Education: The Robert L. Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series and the Use of Sculpture to Teach the Process of Human Development from Fertilization Through Delivery
New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Stephanie M. Fullerton – Practicing Precision: Reflections on the Pursuit of Genomic Research in Clinical Settings
Vagelos Education Center, Auditorium 201, 104 Haven Avenue, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Patricia Falguières – The Mimesis of the Ancients
1st Floor Great Room, 19 University Place New York University, New York
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Language and the Brain: How Our Brains Turn Sounds into Words
Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute – Kolb Research Building, 40 Haven Avenue; 7th Floor Conference Room
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Exhibition Tour—Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Pamela Smith - Fire and Transformation in Early Modern European Art and Alchemy
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee – Will Precision Medicine Be for ‘All of Us’? The ‘Good Citizen’ in an Age of Disparity
Case Lounge (Room 701) Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School, New York
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Joanna Radin – Latent Life in Biomedicine’s Ice Age
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Fabian Krämer - A Centaur in London: Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Annie Duke - The Paradox of Evidence: Lessons from the Poker Table - Evidence Keynote
Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University, 435 West 116th Street, New York
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Knowing and Certainty
Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University, 435 West 116th Street, New York
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Julia Wynn – Obtaining Consent, Educating and Disclosing Results from Genomic Sequencing: A Genetic Counselor’s Perspective
Rm. 10-405A&B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research 10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building, 622 W. 168th Street, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Sophia Roosth – The Fluent Structure of Time: Microbial Colonies and Post-Colonial Economies in the Caribbean
CIRHUS, NYU, 4 Washington Square North, Second Floor Dean’s Conference Room, New York
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Eric R. Kandel - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Northwest Corner Building (Room 501), Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Biodiversity and Its Histories Workshop
Columbia Alumni Center, 622 West 113th Street, New York
9:00 PM - 6:00 PM
To Detect and Conserve: New Research on the Science and History of Columbia’s Ancient Manuscripts
Butler Library Room #523, Columbia University, 535 West 114th St., New York
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Celebrating Recent Work by Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller
Jerome Greene Annex Room #107, Columbia University, 410 West 117th Street, New York
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee – Beyond Consent: Diverse Patient Perspectives on Building Trust in Precision Medicine Research
Florence Irving Auditorium 1st Floor, Irving Cancer Research Center Columbia University Medical Center, 1130 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ann-Sophie Barwich - Scent Track: What can the History of Olfaction tell us about Theorizing in the Life Sciences?
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
CANCELLED - James Scott – Landscaping the Planet: The “Domus Complex” or The Late Neolithic Multi-Species Resettlement Camp
Heyman Center for the Humanities Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Biodiversity and Its Histories Student Exhibit - Opening Event
Washington Heights New York Public Library, 1000 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Rita Charon – The Shock of Attention: Art, Science, Creativity, and Doubt
Alumni Auditorium, Black Building, 650 West 168th Street, New York
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Nation of Inventors: Patent Models in Nineteenth-Century America
The Yale Club of New York City – Trumbull Room, 50 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, NY
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Christia Mercer – Philosophy in the Library: How Women Changed the Course of Philosophy, 1300-1700
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Medical Humanities: Attentions to the Body
717 Hamilton, Columbia University, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Advances in Precision Medicine: Genetics Conference
Alumni Auditorium, Columbia University Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, New York
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Queer Encoding: Encoding Diverse Identities
NYU Center for the Humanities, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Knowledge Production in Twentieth Century China and Beyond
International Affairs Building (Room 918), Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York
8:45 AM - 4:15 PM
Sound Studies and Auditory Neuroscience: New Perspectives on Listening – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
C. Richard Johnson, Jr. – Using Computed Weave Maps to Gain Art-Historical Insight from Vermeer’s Canvases
Music Room of The Frick Collection, 1 E 70th St., New York, NY
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Engine of Modernity: Construing Science as the Driving Force of History
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
9:00 AM - 5:45 PM
The Ligo Project – Science (as) Culture: Redefining Sex & Gender
The Commons Café, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Jordan Katz: The Manuscript of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch Jewish Midwife
Center for Jewish History (15 W. 16th Street), New York
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Art and Science in Archaeological Illustration Exhibit and Reception
Schermerhorn Hall (Room 963), Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Margaret Humphreys – African Americans in Civil War Medicine
The Knowledge Center at the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University Medical Center Hammer Building, 701 West 168th St. at Fort Washington Ave., New York
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Two Cultures Reading Group - C.P. Snow and Scientific Fraud
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Facades and Fashions in Medical Architecture and the Texture of the Urban Landscape
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Samir Boumediene – A New World of Medicines: Amerindian Pharmacopoeias During the Spanish Colonization
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Walking Tour of Medical Heritage Sites: Uptown
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sound & Sense in Britain, 1770-1840
Heyman Center for the Humanities Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Biodiversity and Its Histories Exhibition
Washington Heights New York Public Library, 1000 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
9:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Walking Tour of Medical Heritage Sites: Downtown
NYU Medical Center, 550 First Ave., New York, NY
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Atlas Obscura After Hours Session 1: Secrets from the Past
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies
Science History Institute, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Sarah Lohman – The History of Garlic: From Medicine to Marinara
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
R. Alta Charo – CRISPR Critters and Emended Mankind
Auditorium, New York State Psychiatric Institute 1051 Riverside Drive, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Mary Roach – GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Miguel Luciano & Daniel Carrion – Food, Culture and the Urban Environment Walk
615 West 129th Street, between Broadway and 12th Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Kanene Ayo Holder & Paul Mankiewicz – The Urban Garden Walk
Jenny’s Garden, 699 W 138th St., New York, NY
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Maya Sabatello – Children in the Genomic Era: Issues Beyond the Clinical Setting
Children’s Hospital of New York, Tower 103 Conference Room, 1st Floor, 3959 Broadway, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Art Science Make Out: Creating a Space in Between
104 Montgomery St., Brooklyn, NY
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Moral Institutions, Genetics, and the Behavioral Sciences
Garden Room 2, Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Covering Global Science: An Evening with Leading Science Writers
702 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Marieke Van Delft – Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717): Her Botanical Art and Research
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th Century NYC
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Carmontelle’s Jardin De Monceau: Celebrating the Unique Garden Culture of 18th-Century France
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Anita Guerrini - The Whiteness of Bones: the Emergence of the Human Skeleton as a Commodity, 1500-1800
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Two Cultures Reading Group - C.P Snow and “Corridors of Power”
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Embroidering Medicine Workshop
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Allison Werner-Lin – How Parents Understand and Act on Uncertain Prenatal Genetic Test Results
Rm. 10-405A&B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research 10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building, 622 W. 168th Street, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Sidney Hankerson – Writing a New Story Together: Confronting Mental Health Disparities with Community Partnerships
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Lecture Hall (3rd Floor), 2950 Broadway, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Jeannette Wing – Using Data for Good: What Does It Mean?
Uris Hall 301, Columbia University, New York
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
James Costa – Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Convergence: How Will Machine Learning (Really) Affect Labor?
Caveat, 21 A Clinton St., New York, NY
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Pierce Salguero - Chanting as Literature: Contemporary Buddhist Medicine
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Material and Institutional Aspects of Field and Discipline Formation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Anne-Lise François - Fire, Water, Moon: Supplemental Seasons in a Time without Season
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
John Tresch - Barnum, Bache, and Poe: American Science and the Antebellum Public
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Beth Linker – The Great War and Modern Veteran Care
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Immortal Life: The Promises and Perils of Biobanking and the Genetic Archive
Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Priscilla Wald – Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa and the Patenting of Life
754 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University, New York
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Federica Coppola – Emotions, Criminal Brains, and the Guilty Mind
Pupin Hall, Room 222, Columbia University, New York
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
C. Richard Johnson, Jr. - Weave Maps and Rollmates: Computational Analysis of European Old Master Canvases and Early Chinese Silk Paintings
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Andrew Goldman: Musical Improvisation as a Way of Knowing
Dodge Hall (Room 622), Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Puerto Rico Mapathon for Hurricane Relief
[email protected] (208B), Butler Library, Columbia University, New York
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Céline Frigau Manning - Silencing the Body: Hypnosis, Music, and Pain in the 19th C.
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Matteo Farinella – The Senses: Conversation and Book Launch
Caveat, 21 A Clinton St., New York, NY
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
From the Faculty Lounge: Why Do We Do That? Decision-Making and Natural Selection
Barnard Hall Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Paul Krugman – Does Equality have a Future in America?
Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University, 104 Haven Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Stephanie Barral - Banking on Nature: The Market as a New Feature of Environmental Policies
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Susan Lamb – Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Founding Father: Adolf Meyer
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Michael J. Barany - Invidious Comparisons: International Politics, the Fields Medal, and the Past, Present, and Future of Mathematics, 1936-1966
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Kristopher Hult – The Economics of Precision Medicine and Disparities in Health
Schermerhorn Extension #754, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Ave, New York
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Convergence: Asteroid Mining and the Privatization of Space
Caveat, 21 A Clinton St., New York, NY
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Science+Art+Design Workshop-GMO: Creating Hybrids
University Center Room 618, The New School, 63 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Nathan A. Fox – The Effects of Adversity on Brain and Behavioral Development: Lessons from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Columbia University School of Social Work (Room C05), 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pious Technologies and Secular Designs
Wood Auditorium (Avery Hall) and Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
1:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco - Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Inventions of the Soul
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
John M. Kinder – A History of American War in Five Bodies
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Music and Meaning - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Imagine Science Film Festival at The New School
Various locations at The New School, see website
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
David N. Schwartz – How Fermi Became Fermi
428 Pupin Hall, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Jason Fagone – Poet, Codebreaker, Nazi Hunter: The Puzzle-Solving Adventures of Elizebeth Smith Friedman
Computer Science 453, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Whitney Laemmli - Measured Movements: Weimar Germany, Labanotation, and the Choreography of Corporate Life
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Power of Telling Your Own Story: Workshop
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Linda B. Parshall – Adventures in the Landscape Parks and Drawing Rooms of Regency Britain: Prince Pückler’s Letters of a Dead Man
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Textiles, Dyes and Knowledge Oeconomies in the French Enlightenment
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
9:15 AM - 5:30 PM
Benjamin Breen - Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Three Ways of Looking at an Opium Ball
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Age of the Individual: 500 Years Ago Today Conference
Low Memorial Library Faculty Room, Columbia University, New York
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Yasmine Ergas - Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World
International Affairs Building (Room 1512), 420 West 118th Street New York
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
How Factual Are Facts? Responsibly Sharing Information: Workshop
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Rava Azeredo da Silveira - Various Approaches to Online Inference
Uris Hall (Room 326), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Science+Art+Design Workshop: Painting with Biopigments
University Center Room 618, The New School, 63 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chocolate: A Complex Intersection Workshop
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Environmental Leadership and Innovation: A Celebration of 35 Years
Barnard Hall James Room, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Gender and the Technologies of State Violence: Innocence, Disposability, Resilience
Jerome Greene Hall (Case Hall), Columbia University, 435 West 116th Street, New York
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminar: The Andrew W. Mellon Presentations
LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alexei Kojevnikov – Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution
NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Metaphors and Models: The Neuroscience of Comparison - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
S. Matthew Liao - Designing Humans: A Human Rights Approach
Presbyterian Hospital Building (Room 10-405A&B), 622 W. 168th Street, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bei Wu - Disparities in Oral Health and Dental Care Among Older Adults in the U.S.
Allan Rosenfield Building (Room 440), 722 West 168th Street, New York
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Monica Azzolini - Saints and Science in Early Modern Italy: Filippo Neri and Francesco Borgia as Patron Saints of Earthquakes
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Gabriela Soto Laveaga - Locating Histories of Science to the South: The Case of Mexican Wheat Seeds in India’s Farmlands
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Kadija Ferryman - Fairness in Precision Medicine
Schermerhorn Extension (Room 754), 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Educating the Brain: How the Acquisition of Reading and Mathematics Affects Human Brain Circuits - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Michael Nutter - Cities Matter: The Role of Cities in Promoting Health
International Affairs Building (Room 1501), 420 West 118th Street New York
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dana Goldman - The Economic Returns to Delayed Aging: Promises and Pitfalls
Allan Rosenfield Building (Room 440), 722 West 168th Street, New York
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Dan Jurafsky - “Does This Vehicle Belong to You?” Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations
Davis Auditorium, Columbia University, 530 W 120th Street, New York
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Harry M. Collins - It’s All Forms of Life: One Idea is Enough
Knox Hall (Room #509), Columbia University, 606 W 122nd St, New York
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Daphne C. Watkins – From Angry Black Men to #BlackBoyJoy: The Evolution of Mental Health and Manhood Among Young Black Men
Columbia School of Social Work, C05, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Megan Todd - The Biology of Disadvantage: The Immune System and Social Inequality
Lewisohn Hall (Room 602), Columbia University, New York
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The Success of Failure: Perspectives from the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Law
Horace Mann Hall (Cowin Auditorium), Teachers College, New York
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Megan Coyer - James Hogg and Illness Narratives in a Scottish Context
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Marcella Walker – Parathyroid Hormone: A Novel, Modifiable Risk Factor for Age-Related Cognitive Decline?
Allan Rosenfield Building, Room 440, 722 West 168th Street, New York
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Pablo Alvarez – The Art and Science of Healing: A Curator’s Dream
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Ruth Ottman – Genetics of the Epilepsies: Developments and Dilemmas
Rm. 10-405A&B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research 10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building, 622 W. 168th Street, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM