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
[email protected] (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
[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
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
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. - Chronic Complication: Diabetes, Amputations, and Race in America
Online
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Neuroscience and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education: Promises and Challenges
Online
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Anjuli Raza Kolb - Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020
Online
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Rosalyn LaPier - Indigenous Activism and Environmental Justice in the 21st Century
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
David Munns - "The Atom Goes to College": The Teaching Reactors that Trained the Atomic Age
Online
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Julie Sze - Climate Justice and Just Transitions: Recognition, Restoration and Reparations
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Postponed: Alison Bashford - How Do We Think about Population in the Anthropocene?
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Open Science: Sino-US Collaboration in an Age of Surveillance
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Postponed: Stephanie LeMenager - Transition as Translation: The Aesthetics of Climate Shift
Online
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM