As a hub of interdisciplinary communication and outreach, the Center for Science and Society is uniquely situated to help students challenge themselves and the status quo inside and outside the classroom. Listed below you will find selected resources specifically aimed at Columbia University students.
If you have any relevant events or opportunities you would like us to advertise, or have any suggestions for events and resources you would like us to offer, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu!
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Impact Stories
January 26, 2021
A New Focus for the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Research Cluster
Learn more about new cluster leader Rhiannon Stephens and her plans for the cluster in 2021.
November 30, 2020
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On December 8, join us to explore the relationship between early childhood development and public health.
November 17, 2020
Seed Grant Spotlight: What Do We Know? Podcast
Learn more about the new podcast, What Do We Know?, sponsored by a Center Seed Grant. 2021 Seed Grant applications are due December 15.
Upcoming CSS Events
Andrea Wulf – The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Nicholas Langlitz – Vatted Dreams: Neurophilosophy and the Politics of Phenomenal Internalism
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
The Metabolic Condition: From Concept to Science, Medicine, and Culture
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Healing When There is No Cure – Neonatal Comfort Care
Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, 535 West 116th Street, New York
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Arthur Mitchell Project Symposium
Barnard Hall (James Room), Barnard College, New York
6:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Joan Richards – Images of Mind: Reason, Logic and the Divine in Victorian England
NYU Gallatin (Room 801) 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Irina Podgorny – Traveling Charlatans in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Barnard Hall (Sulzberger Parlor), 3009 Broadway, New York
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Understanding Cognition through Development: What Do Animals, Children, and Science Have in Common?
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Nick Wilding – Forging the Moon; Or, How to Spot a Fake Galileo
CUNY Graduate Center (Room 5114), 365 Fifth Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Howard Kushner: Norman Geschwind, Behavioral Neurology and Left Handedness
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
What Can Neuroscience Offer the Study of Creativity - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Difficult Decisions: The Complexities of Choice in the Real World
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Henry Cowles - How the Other Half Thinks: Human Science in the Gilded Age
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Setting Out on the Long Path of Renewal: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Encyclical
The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Marga Vicedo - Niko Tinbergen’s Research on Childhood Autism: Interpreting Gestures from Gulls to Children
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Embodied Cognition Workshop: Music and Movement
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Promise and Challenge of Precision Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, 535 West 116th Street, New York
5:15 PM - 8:30 PM
The Perception of Time - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Barbara Naddeo - Political Information and Science in the Age of Enlightenment
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Larry McGrath - Spiritualizing Neurology in the Fin de Siècle
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Metropolis of Science Launch
Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University, 2950 Broadway, New York
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Imag(in)ing Sex in the Brain
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Jamie Pietruska - Weather Prophets, Frauds, and Counterfeiters from the Gilded Age to the New Era
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chris Stover - Time, Territorialization, and Improvisational Spaces
Dodge Hall (Room 814), Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hungry Tides: Conquering Time, Water and the Weather on the Indian Subcontinent
Knox Hall (Room 208), Columbia University, 606 West 122nd Street, New York
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Katja Guenther - The Mirror and the Mind - Neuroscience and History Series
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Expertise from Margin to Center: Science, Politics, and Democracy
Knox Hall, Columbia University, 606 West 122nd Street, New York
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Prediction: How Forecasting and Prospection Shape Thought - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
David Edgerton - The Supremacy of Uruguay: How a Peripherical Historiography of Science and Technology May Yet Turn the World the Right Side Up
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Joseph Dauben – Science and Art in China
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
James Fleming - Inventing Atmospheric Science: Issues of Scale and the Quest for Prevision
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Global Circuits of Expertise and the Making of the Post-1945 World: Eastern European and Asian Perspectives
International Affairs Building (Room 918), Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Neuroscience and Education - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Jenny Slatman - Habituation: Incorporation and Beyond
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet
The Heyman Center, Columbia University, New York
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories
The Heyman Center, (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
9:00 AM - 7:30 PM
Science, Technology, and Society Discussion Series - Racism and Public Health
Reid Hall, 4 Rue de Chevreuse, Paris
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Science, Technology, and Society Discussion Series - Geopolitical Science and the Logic of Preventive War
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Paula Findlen - Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimenter
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Beyond Circulation: Non-Western Universalisms and Global Histories of Science
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
8:45 AM - 1:00 PM
The Idea of Freedom of Choice in Neuroscience and History
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Theory of Mind - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Containment - Film Screening and Q & A with Peter Galison and Robb Moss
Schapiro Center (Davis Auditorium), Columbia University, 530 West 120th Street, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Audra Wolfe - The Fight for Science and Freedom: Recovering the Role of Science in Cold War-Era Cultural Diplomacy
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Beyond the Hype: “Buddhism and Neuroscience” in a New Key
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, 410 West 116th Street, New York
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Characterizing Animals in Science and Fiction
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
What Would it Mean to Understand Climate Change?
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Fabian Kraemer - The Two Cultures Avant La Lettre: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Nineteenth Century
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Transmission of Knowledge: Tool Use and Cognition - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Toshihiro Higuchi - Birth of the “Atomic Tuna”: Radioactive Fallout, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Politics of Radiological Standards in the Mid-1950s
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Science, Technology, and Society Discussion Series - The Anthropocenic Sublime: A Critique
Barnard Hall (Sulzberger Parlor), 3009 Broadway, New York
5:00 PM - 7:00 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
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 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
Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
2:00 PM - 3:45 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
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
Digital Amati: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Stringed Instruments
Studio@Butler (Butler 208B), Columbia University, 535 West 114th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 3:00 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
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
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
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
Studio@Butler (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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Biodiversity and Its Histories Exhibition
Washington Heights New York Public Library, 1000 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
9:00 PM - 5:00 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Music and Meaning - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 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
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
South-South II: Materiality and Embodiment in Greater Asia and Africa Conference
International Affairs Building (Room 918), Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York
4:30 PM - 6:00 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
Metaphors and Models: The Neuroscience of Comparison - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 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
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
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
Nadine Burke Harris - The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
“Swim Team”: A Medical Humanities Film Series
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Center for Science and Society Welcome Back Lunch
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
James Delbourgo - The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and the Creation of the British Museum
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sari Altschuler - The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Leticia Fernández-Fontecha - Hysteria from the Archives
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Science! The Musical
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Science! The Musical
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Science! The Musical
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Science! The Musical
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Science! The Musical
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Ahmed Ragab - ‘House for King and Slave’: Patients and Medical Practice in the Medieval Islamic Hospital
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Film Screening - A Dangerous Idea: Genetics, Eugenics and The American Dream
Schermerhorn Hall (Room 501), Columbia University, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
7:45 PM - 10:00 PM
Lynnette Regouby - Threshold: Generations of Change in Botanical Practice at the End of the Ancien Regime
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Evidence and Theory in Neuroscience - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Shahid Naeem - From Forager to Farmer in 200,000 Years: An Environmental Sustainability Perspective Lunch Discussion
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Impairment in the Social World: A Graduate Student Conference on Disability
Knox Hall (Room 509), Columbia University, 606 West 122nd Street, New York
9:20 AM - 5:30 PM
Music Theory and Music Cognition: A Conference in Honor of Fred Lerdahl
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
María M. Portuondo - American Convergence: Science and Technology in Colonial Latin America
CUNY Graduate Center (Room 9207), 365 5th Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Alisha Rankin - Testing the Panacea: Antidotes, Alchemy, and the Problem of Proof in Early Modern Europe
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium
Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Responsibility, Punishment, and Psychopathy: At the Crossroads of Law, Neurocriminology, and Philosophy - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Roger Matthew Grant - The Musical Origins of Contemporary Affect Theory
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Neuroscience in Action: A Conversation About Early Life Trauma and the Brain
Schapiro Center (Davis Auditorium), Columbia University, 530 West 120th Street, New York
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Christine Goettler - Mount Potosí in Antwerp, 1635: Colonial Imagination and the Power of the Ephemeral
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411/513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium: 3rd-Year Presentations and Reception
Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Distant Listening/Digital Musicology: music21 and Compositional Similarity in the Late Middle Ages
The Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Megan Vaughan - Metabolic Disorder, Global Health and ‘Noncommunicable’ Disease in Malawi
Faculty House, Columbia University, 64 Morningside Drive, New York
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue Symposium
Schermerhorn Hall (Room 612), Columbia University, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
What Can Neuroscience Contribute to Economics? - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Making and Knowing Project “Coloring Textiles with Bugs” Workshop
Genspace, 140 32nd Street, Suite 108, New York
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Science and Storytelling: Visual Narratives Workshop
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Food, Farming, and Sustainability Conference
International Affairs Building (Room 1513), Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Exploring the Poetical Sciences: The Story of Edward and Orra White Hitchcock
American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, New York
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Laine Nooney - Game Histories Otherwise: Notes from the “Little Silicone Valley”
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Center for Science and Society Fall 2018 Welcome Back Lunch
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Coloring Textiles with Bugs: Old [Cochineal] and New [Bacteria]
Genspace, 140 32nd Street, Suite 108, New York
12:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Regulatory Hacking: Startups, Cities, and Public Interest Tech
International Affairs Building (Room 1512), Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Embodied Cognition and Prosthetics: Are Our Tools Part of Our Bodies and Minds?
Heyman Center for the Humanities (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminars on Sex, Gender, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
"A Dangerous Idea" Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Columbia School of Social Work (Room C03), 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Sharrona Pearl - Face/Off or On? Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Making Art, Making Meaning in Fifteenth-Century Flanders
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Comparative Histories of Medicine and Health in the Global South Meeting 1
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound Reception and Showcase
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Comparative Histories of Medicine and Health in the Global South Meeting 2
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
CANCELED - Anthony Acciavatti - Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India's Ancient River
This event has been canceled.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Giving and Receiving: A Conversation on the Role of Contemplative Practice at the End of Life
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Allen Carroll - Storytelling with Story Maps
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Prachi Vakharia - Autonomous Vehicles: State of Tech and Policy
Warren Hall (Room 311), Columbia University, 1125 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories
Heyman Center (Second Floor Common Room), Columbia University, New York
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Michelle Yom - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Comparative Histories of Medicine and Health in the Global South Meeting 3
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lan Li - Building Bodies on Paper: The Curiosity of Meridians and Neurophysiology
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FLOATS Winter Meeting
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
10:00 AM - 4:15 PM
Julia Hyland Bruno - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Making Art in the Age of Algorithms
Pulitzer Hall (Brown Institute), Columbia University, 2950 Broadway, New York
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Comparative Histories of Medicine and Health in the Global South Meeting 4
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Erika Milam - The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Coloring Textiles with Bugs: Old [Cochineal] and New [Bacteria]
Genspace, 140 32nd Street, Suite 108, New York
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Tillmann Taape - The Striped Layman: Visual Culture and the Politics of Vernacular Medical Knowledge in Early German Print
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Finding the Way to Truth: Conference on the Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition
Buell Hall, Columbia University, 515 West 116th Street, New York
8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Shahid Naeem - Achieving a Globally Sustainable Food System
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Edgar Landgraf - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dagmar Schäfer - Charted Territories and Unmapped Science: How Good Ideas Come Without a Place and Originator, a Mid-Ming Historian's View
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Narrating Community Power (Narrative in the Arts)
Caveat, 21 A Clinton Street, New York
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Narrative in the Natural Sciences and Humanities
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Fieldwork Faux Pas (And How to Avoid Them)
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Studying Curiosity in Animals
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (8th Floor), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Timing and Social Coordination: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Explorations in the Medical Humanities Workshop
Heyman Center, Columbia University, New York
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
No Health = No Justice: Dismantling Systemic Inequity in Criminal Justice & Health
Lerner Hall (Room 555), Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Michael Veal - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Pathways to Policy: A Discussion Linking Environmental Research and Policy
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Science and Society in Global Asia Workshop
International Affairs Building (Room 918), Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Promises and Perils of Neuroprediction - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Aesthetic Science: A Conversation on Taste, Judgment, and Affect
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Warwick Anderson - “A Pervasive Dread”: Disease Emergence, Genetics, and Indigeneity in Northern Australia
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Suman Seth - Pathologies of Blackness
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Eric Lewis - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Travis Feldler: Exploring the Role of Virtual Reality in Creating Immersive Learning Environments
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (8th Floor), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium: 3rd-Year Presentations
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Autism, Gender, and the Law
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Metaphors of the Mind - Public Exhibition
The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, Board Room, 1st Floor
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Experiencing Art in the Age of AI
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Art?
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park Street, New York
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The Science and Colours of Human Expression
Sato Sakura Gallery, 501 West 20th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Hiro Hirai - Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of a Pseudo-Paracelsian Treatise in Publication History
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Boredom: Behavioral and Clinical Implications
Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall), Columbia University, 3227 Broadway, New York
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Center for Science and Society Welcome Back Lunch
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Electrifying New York City Transportation: The Way Forward
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Camille Robcis - Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Changing Two Minds Is Better Than One - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Faculty House, Columbia University
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Maikel Kuijpers - Why Skill Matters: From Bronze Age Metalworking to the Future of Crafts
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Neuroscience and the Study of Intergenerational Trauma: How Does the Remote Past Get under Our Skin? - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Alex Wellerstein - The ‘Best-Kept Secret of the War’?: The Successes and Failures of the Manhattan Project’s Secrecy Regime
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Comparing Domains of Improvisation - Elizabeth Margulis
Columbia University, 513 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A Playlist for Our Future? Accelerating the Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Complexity
Schapiro Center (Davis Auditorium), Columbia University, 530 West 120th Street, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
ephemera: science and technology - Collections on Modern China at Columbia’s Starr Library
International Affairs Building (Room 918), Columbia University, 420 West 118 Street, New York
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Julie Livingston: Self-Devouring Growth Book Talk
The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Andrew Stuhl - The Study of Ignorance and Macroanalysis: Drilling for Arctic Oil in the 1970s
NYU Gallatin (Room 801), 1 Washington Place, New York
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Rethinking Craft in Postindustrial Society
International Affairs Building (Room 918), Columbia University, 420 West 118 Street, New York
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Comparing Domains of Improvisation - Exploring Improvisational Practices
Dodge Hall (Basement), Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York
3:00 PM - 5:00 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
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
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
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
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
Projit Mukharji - Historicizing ‘Indian Systems of Knowledge’
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Interstellar: Film Screening and Dinner Discussion
Lerner Hall (Roone Arledge Cinema), Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Science and Colours of Human Expression II
Sato Sakura Gallery, 501 West 20th Street, New York
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Postponed: Marginalization in Medicine
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Science! The Musical Watch Party
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Improvisation and Time: Perspectives Across Disciplines
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Climate, Environment, and the Politics of Public Trust
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Germ City Exhibition: Care for the Polis
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Emergency by Design: Care for the Polis
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Explained: Music Watch Party
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Postponed: Curiosity, Creativity, and Complexity
8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
How Systemic Racism Impacts Us All
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Public Health, Leadership, and Public Trust in India: Discussing Pandemics and their Aftermath
Online
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Drinking While Pregnant: The Science and Stigma - Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Online
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. - Chronic Complication: Diabetes, Amputations, and Race in America
Online
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM