Past Events: Academic Year 2007 - 2008
Belonging Made Visible:
The Hidden History of Unanticipated Activism in Special Education
Rayna Rapp, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
4:00pm, MacMillan 115
Part of a special lecture series on Bioethics and Culture
Affect and Artificial Intelligence:
The Case of Walter Pitts
Elizabeth Wilson, Australian Research Council Research Fellow, University of New South Wales
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
12:00 noon, Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum
Joint seminar with the Department of Modern Culture and Media
Signal (1): The Body of Transductions and Cascades -- Hormones, Neurotransmitters and Growth Factors After 1960
Hannah Landecker, Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department, Rice University, and in 2007-2008 Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard
April 1, 2008
Joint seminar with the Department of Modern Culture and Media
The Pharmaceutical Person
Emily Martin, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
March 12, 2008
MacMillan 115
Part of a special lecture series on Bioethics and Culture
In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution
Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley and director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism
Author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dilemma
February 21, 2008, at 6:00pm
Salomon Center
Fishes and Loaves:
The Politics, Science, and Ethics of Food
February 13, 2008, 7:00-9:00pm
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Come see provocative film clips about the politics, ethics, and science of food production and hear some of Brown's leading experts talk about them!
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Program in Bridging the Sciences and Humanities
Science and Public Policy Series
Reclaiming Water and Power in India's Krishna Valley
Roopali Phadke, Environmental Studies Policy and Politics, Macalester College
Inclusion and Difference: Gender, Race, and the New Biopolitics of Medical Research
Steve Epstein - Dept. of Sociology and Director, Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego
Toward Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technologies
David Guston - Dept. of Political Science, Arizona State University
Building Genetic Medicine: Assessing and Regulating Ethically and Socially Controversial Technologies
Shobita Parthasarathy - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Sponsored by the Committee on Science and Technology Studies and the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions
The Persistence of American Indian Health Inequalities
David Jones - Dept. of History of Science, Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT
November 14, 2007: 4:00pm, Foxboro Auditorium, 151 Thayer Street
Jointly sponsored by Lectureship Series on "Bioethics and Culture", The Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund, The Dean of the Faculty, The Department of Anthropology, and The Committee on Science and Technology Studies.
Additional events co-sponsored by COSTS:
Empires and Science: Contact, Authority, and Collaboration
March 28 - 30, 2008, Joukowsky Forum in the Watson Institute
Science Narrative: "Galileo's Daughter, Longitude"
Dava Sobel, award-winning science journalist
February 20, 2008 at 6:30pm: Part of the Brown University Department of English Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series
Nature's Disciplines
October 20, 2007:
2007 New England Renaissance Conference
Brown University
Springing from the groundwork laid by the Cogut Center's Humanities Research Grant Group by the same name, Nature's Disciplines expanded its scope to host the 2007 New England Renaissance Conference. Co-sponored by the Committee on Science and Technology Studies.
Thursday, September 27, 2007: Greg Moynahan - Dept. of History, Bard College
Lownes Room, John Hay Library
"The Politics of Science in Cassirer and Heidegger's 1929 Davos Disputation"
Sponsored by the Department of History and the Committee on Science and Technology Studies
Monday, September 17, 2007: Margaret Lock - Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University.
4:00 pm, Smith-Buonano 106
"Seduced by Plaques and Tangles: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Cerebral Subject." Professor Lock also presented a paper entitled: “Globalization and the State: Is an Era of Neoeugenics in the Offing?”