Other: Node Workshops, Panels, Salons, etc.
Priscilla Wald: "Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnological Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology."
UBC: Priscilla Wald (English, Duke).
“Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnological Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology”
April 7, 2011.
5 pm,
Irving K. Barber Centre, rm. 182.
METROPOLIS screening with live music and artist talk
Halifax:
SAT APRIL 2ND
7:00 PM SCREENING - METROPOLIS with live musical accompaniment
Alumni Hall | King’s New Academic Building | 6350 Coburg Road | $5 Suggested Donation
(Fritz Lang, 1927, Germany, 153 min, DVD)
Joan Fujimura Race Lecture Series March 22, 2011
Halifax:
DIFFERENT DIFFERENCES: THE USE OF ANCESTRY VERSUS RACE IN BIOMEDICAL HUMAN GENETIC RESEARCH
Dr. Joan Fujimura, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This was Live Streamed at www.livestream.com/situsci
Susan Solomon: "Constructing the Biography of a Scientific Go-Between: A.N. Rubakin, Soviet Public Health and Russian-French Space Between the World Wars."
Green College, UBC: Susan Solomon (Political Science, Toronto)
“Constructing the Biography of a Scientific Go-Between: A.N. Rubakin, Soviet Public Health and Russian-French Space between the World Wars.”
Thursday, March 17, 2011.
5:00 pm,
Green College Coach House.
Situating Science Spring 2011 Newsletter
The Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster (www.situsci.ca) has a very busy spring as it hits the half-way mark of the seven year project. Please see the attached spring newsletter for an update on lectures across Canada, workshops, Call for Situating Science Workshop Proposals (Canada) and more.
"Situating the 'Situating Science' Cluster" update in the HSS Newsletter
"Situating the 'Situating Science' Cluster" update in the HSS Newsletter
View here:
http://www.hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter2011/January-science-cluster.html
L’humain comme ressource? Sociologie de la transplantation d’organes, Philippe Steiner, 8 février 2011
L’humain comme ressource? Sociologie de la transplantation d’organes
La transplantation d’organes : un commerce nouveau
Vidéo ici
Symbiogenesis in Gaia: Our Living Earth from Space
Lynn Margulis, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will be presenting a lecture on 'Symbiogenesis and Gaia' at York University, January 31st 2011.
What Sorts of People Should There Be?
What Sorts of People Should There Be?
SSHRC CURA project.
Dr. Rob Wilson, University of Alberta
Erik Conway: "Merchants of Doubt: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War" Jan 13, 2011
Erik Conway presents, "Merchants of Doubt: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War"
Jan 13, 2011
3:30 pm in Business 1-5
University of Alberta
News article in Edmonton Journal below.
See the blog on the event below.
What is the Future of STS?
The Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at York University will be hosting a panel discussion on the future of STS research in Canada and worldwide.
The panel consists of: William J. Turkel (University of Western Ontario), Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto), Sergio Sismondo (Queen’s University), and Darrin Durant (York); the discussion will be moderated by Natasha Myers (York).
Paula Findlen: After the Trial: Galileo, His Early Biographers and the Catholic Church
Paula Findlen (History, Stanford): After the Trial: Galileo, His Early Biographers and the Catholic Church.
January 6, 2011, 5:00 pm.
Green College Coach House.
Asceticism, Truth, and Politics in Early-twentieth century Italian Pragmatism
Asceticism, Truth, and Politics in early-twentieth century Italian pragmatism
Francesca Bordogna
Department of History, Northwestern University
Thursday, 2 December 2010
5-6:30 pm
Green College Coach House
Incentives in the Family Firm
Public lecture by Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Incentives in the Family Firm
Friday, Nov. 19 at 4:00pm
Earth Sciences (ESB) 327