Public Outreach Programming

Each year, the Center organizes and co-sponsors dozens of cross-disciplinary conferences, workshops, lectures and other events on topics of academic and societal importance. Free and open to public, these events bring together international experts from different fields to share their knowledge, provide a range of perspectives, and make new connections.

• Interdisciplinary Conversations on Knowing and Certainty are high-level discussions on key concepts that affect almost every field. Open to the public, these conferences convene scholars, researchers, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines.
  • “Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Knowing and Certainty” (2017)
  • “The Success of Failure: Perspectives from the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Law” (2017)
  • “The Role of Narrative: Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences” (2019)


• Embodied Cognition Workshops bringing together different domains of expertise around the concept of extended embodied cognition
  • "Dance and Physics" (2015)
  • "Music and Movement" (2016)
  • "Weaving: Cognition, Technology, Culture" (2017)
  • "Embodied Cognition and Prosthetics" (2018)


• Public Conversations in Science and Society. Past examples include:
  • “The Promise and Challenge of Precision Medicine” (2016)
  • “Neuroscience in Action: A Conversation about Early Life Trauma and the Brain” (2018)
  • "A Playlist for Our Future? Accelerating the Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Complexity" (2019)
  • "Covid in Queens: Public Trust & Justice" (2020)