All events are listed in ET.
Josephine Johnston - Sequencing Newborns: A Call for Nuanced Use of Genomic Technologies
Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (Room 10-405A&B), Presbyterian Hospital Building, 622 West 168th Street, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Nicole Krauss - Writing Life
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (L7-119), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Jonathan Metzl - Dying of Whiteness
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Simon Barker - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
The Met (Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium), 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 3:00 AM
Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz - Continued Access to Investigational Brain Implants
Hammer Health Sciences Building (Library Knowledge Center), Columbia University, 701 West 168th Street, New York
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
David M. Hernandez - Smothering Asylum
Baker Building (Room F1200), Weill Cornell Medicine, 525 East 68th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
How Can Digital Historical Texts be Used? Examples from the Making and Knowing Project
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sarah Woolley - Singing in the Brain
Columbia University School of Journalism (Lecture Hall), 2950 Broadway, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Science Studies Working Group - Mock Job Talk with Abram Kaplan
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Screening and Conversation: Contact
Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Angela Bradbury - Returning Genetic Research Results to Individual Participants
Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (Room 204), Presbyterian Hospital Building, 622 West 168th Street, New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium: 2nd-Year Presentations
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Water, Sound and Indigenous Film: Antonio and Piti
Lenfest Center for the Arts (Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room), Columbia University, 615 West 129th Street, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Mariusz Kozak - Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music
The Heyman Center for the Humanities (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Thomas Dodman - What Nostalgia Was: The History of a Deadly Emotion
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Wadada Leo Smith - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
American Gardens and the Black Diaspora
New York Botanical Garden (Mertz Library), 2950 Southern Boulevard, New York
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Soil is Sentient: An Ar(t)chaeological Exhibit
Low Memorial Library Rotunda, Columbia University, 535 West 116th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
"Voices from the Grave" Screening: Research Ethics Discussion Series
Journalism School (Jamail Lecture Hall), Columbia University, 2950 Broadway, New York
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Jennifer Wenzel - The Disposition of Nature
The Heyman Center for the Humanities (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Jonathan Metzl - Why Do People Vote Against Their Own Self-Interest?
Columbia School of Social Work (Room C03), 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Andrei Shleifer - Memory and Representativeness
Uris Hall (Room 142), Columbia University, 3022 Broadway, New York
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
11th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Life and Legacy of Russell Page
New York Botanical Garden (Ross Hall), 2900 Southern Boulevard, New York
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Visualizing Science: Create Visuals That Have Impact
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (Room L8.084), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Mary Jacobus - Border Crossing: Josef Koudelka and the Principle of the Wall
Baker Building (Room F1200), Weill Cornell Medicine, 525 East 68th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Projit Mukharji - Historicizing ‘Indian Systems of Knowledge’
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
College Students Count (in the 2020 Census)
Barnard Hall (Room 304), Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Interstellar: Film Screening and Dinner Discussion
Lerner Hall (Roone Arledge Cinema), Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sanna Marin - The Climate Neutral Welfare Society: Is it the Model of the Future?
The Forum (Auditorium), Columbia University, 605 West 125th Street, New York
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Science and Colours of Human Expression II
Sato Sakura Gallery, 501 West 20th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Polygenic Prediction in Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry (6th Floor), Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Postponed: Designing Babies
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
New York Botanical Garden (Ross Hall), 2900 Southern Boulevard, New York
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Aaron Panofsky - Citizen Scientific Racism
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Postponed: Linnaeus, The Second Adam
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Postponed: Marginalization in Medicine
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Inequalities and Policy Online Workshop
9:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Glenn Shepard - Botanies of Desire
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Damir Huremović - Psychiatry and Pandemics
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Science! The Musical Watch Party
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Improvisation and Time: Perspectives Across Disciplines
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Echoes of 1918? COVID-19 and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Hebatalla Taha - Atomic Apocalypse
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Postponed: How To Murder Your Tortoise
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Communicating the COVID19 Hammer and Dance
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Stigma and Racism in Times of Epidemics
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
From the Local to the Global: Perspectives on the Pandemic
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Earth Day @ 50: Tools for 21st Century Ecology
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Climate Crisis and Your Health
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Climate Change: How Bad Will it Be, and What Must be Done?
9:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Casey Schwartz - Attention, A Love Story
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Climate, Environment, and the Politics of Public Trust
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Take Action with Citizen Science
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Craig L. Katz - Psychiatry, Immigrant Detention, and Beyond
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards
6:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Germ City Exhibition: Care for the Polis
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response
5:30 PM - 6:30 AM
Barbara Prainsack - The Value(s) of Precision Medicine: Societal, Political, and Ethical Aspects
Location TBD
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Emergency by Design: Care for the Polis
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Explained: Music Watch Party
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health
Online
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Postponed: Curiosity, Creativity, and Complexity
8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Lasers in the Jungle: Evaluation of Spectral Traits of Tropical Woody Species
Online
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Michael Rossi - Talking about Color: Language, Perception, and American Modernity
Online
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Addressing Racism: A Call to Action for Higher Education Panel Discussion with Columbia Faculty
Online
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Queering Botanical Science: A Discussion in Celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month
Online
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network Summer Institute 2020
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Lydia Dugdale - The Lost Art of Dying: Ethical Considerations in Facing our Mortality
Online
6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Pandemic Coverage in the International Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Black Faces, White Spaces: Christian Cooper, John Muir, & (Re)Claiming a Green World
Online
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
What has COVID-19 Taught Us?: “Build Back Better” in the Era of Sustainable Development
Online
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Jacob Steere-Williams - Typhoid Fever And The Origins Of Epidemiology In Victorian Britain
Online
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Amitav Ghosh - Future or Past? Climate Change as Seen From the global North and South
Online
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
How Systemic Racism Impacts Us All
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Ilina Singh - Empowering Young People as Decision-Makers in Predictive Mental Health
Online
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Public Health, Leadership, and Public Trust in India: Discussing Pandemics and their Aftermath
Online
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Lydia Barnett - Renaissance Anthropocene: Gender and Global Catastrophe in 16th Century Italy
Online
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Jonathan Sadowsky - Narrative Arcs in the History of Psychiatry: the Case of Depression
Online
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Crafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Drinking While Pregnant: The Science and Stigma - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Online
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Neurorights: Human Rights Guidelines for Neurotechnology and Artificial Intelligence
Online
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. - Chronic Complication: Diabetes, Amputations, and Race in America
Online
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Vijay Kapur - The Power of Hydrogen: From First Element to Green Energy Catalyst
Online
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Alison Piepmeier's Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down syndrome
Online
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Robin Wolfe Scheffler - Brightening Biochemistry: The Role of Humor in Scientific Research
Online
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Peter Hotez - Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science
Online
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Valerie Hansen - The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World and Globalization Began
Online
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Andrew Schwartz - The Digital Phenotype: Towards a Human-Centered AI for Saving Lives
Online
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Emily Sessions - Botany, Race, and Power: The History of Expeditions to Cuba
Online
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Pandemics and Catastrophe: The Justinianic Plague and the Origins of the Middle Ages
Online
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Textile Museum Journal: Dyers’ Notebooks in 18th-Century England and France
Online
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Homer Venters - Incarceration and Bioethics: Health Challenges that Need our Attention
Online
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
The Future Repeats Itself: Historical Roots of Anti-Chinese Animus in the time of COVID
Online
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture
Online
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Neuroscience and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education: Promises and Challenges
Online
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Baher Ibrahim - Uprooting, Trauma, and Confinement: Psychiatry in Refugee Camps, 1945-1993
Online
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Black Lives in the Era of COVID 19: Pandemic Vulnerability to Vaccine (In)Equity
Online
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Anjuli Raza Kolb - Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020
Online
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
From Climate to Health: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bridging Decisions across Scales
Online
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alex Wellerstein -Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States.
Online
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Neuropsychiatric Conditions and Genetic Variation – Is Autism Really a Disease?
Online
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Rosalyn LaPier - Indigenous Activism and Environmental Justice in the 21st Century
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Gal Kachman - American Depression, Narcissism and the Principle of (21st Century) Reality
Online
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Current Legal Challenges to Abortion: Implications for Prenatal Genetics - Cloned
Online
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aligning Co-Production of Environmental Knowledge with Trust, Justice, and Equity
Online
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
David Munns - "The Atom Goes to College": The Teaching Reactors that Trained the Atomic Age
Online
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
China, the US and Climate Diplomacy: A Conversation with Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Online
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Ayanna Howard - Making the World Better through Robotics and AI
Milstein Center (LL002), Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Confronting the New Normal: How Can AI Help Us Prepare for A Changing Climate?
Online
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Anjuli Raza Kolb - Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020
Online
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Camille Robcis - Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
Online
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Kristine Ajrouch: Making Arab Americans Visible in the Study of Aging and Health Disparities
Online
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Julie Sze - Climate Justice and Just Transitions: Recognition, Restoration and Reparations
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
James Kennaway - Neuromusic? A Critical Humanities Perspective on Music and Medicine
Online
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Eric Kim: Psychological Well-being and Physical Health in the Context of our Aging Society
Online
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Jet Vonk: The Epidemiology of Language Impairment and Cognitive Decline in Aging
Online
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Afro-Indigenous Histories of Food and Gardening: Garifuna Plant Knowledge, Past and Present
Online
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Benefit-sharing and Pharmaceutical Development in Africa: What Does Equity Mean?
Online
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Postponed: Alison Bashford - How Do We Think about Population in the Anthropocene?
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Allison Aiello: Distribution of Common and Novel Risk Factors for Dementia in the US Population
Online
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Open Science: Sino-US Collaboration in an Age of Surveillance
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Zip Code Memory Project Gathering for Covid
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine (Peace Fountain), 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Postponed: Stephanie LeMenager - Transition as Translation: The Aesthetics of Climate Shift
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM