Gossip or Evidence? Interpreting the Strange Case of Kathleen Chevassut, James Purves Stewart, and the “Germ” of Multiple Sclerosis, 1927-1932
September 21, 2009, 4:30 pm
New York University, Gallatin School, room 801
Speaker: Stephen T.Casper, Clarkson University
Digging Up the Remnants of Scientific Graeco-Syriaca - Chiefly from the Works of Barhebraeus
September 21, 2009, 3-5 pm
Speaker: Prof. Hidemi Takahashi (University of Tokyo, currently at the Yale
MacMillan Center)
Location: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2nd floor
seminar room
If you plan to attend, please email alexander.jones@nyu.edu since space is limited.
Emergence: A Massively Multiplayer Online Game Environment for Building Cultural Diplomacy
September 23, 2009, 12-1:30 pm
Speaker: Tim Lenoir
Location: Polytechnic Institute of NYU, JAB 774
Insurance or Rights? Debates over Health Coverage and Access to Health Care in the U.S., 1912-1950
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 6:00 PM
Reception at 5:30 PM
Speaker: Beatrix Hoffman
Register at http://www.nyam.org/events/
Is Chinese Science Really an
Exotic Subject?
October 28, 2009, 6:00pm
Columbia University
Speaker: Nathan Sivin,
University of Pennsylvania
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.
The File on Academician N.N. Luzin
December 3, 2009, 6:00pm
CUNY Graduate Center
Speaker: Roger Cooke, University of Vermont
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.
The International Workshop on Lysenkoism
December 4-5, 2009
The International Workshop on Lysenkoism, co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute and the City University of New York, will take place December 4-5, 2009. The workshop will bring together scholars from nearly a dozen countries to present their work on the impact of Lysenko’s anti-genetics campaign upon the development of Soviet biology, as well as the response to Lysenko in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The workshop will be the first ever devoted to this topic, and as such will constitute a vital contribution to research on international science during the Cold War. The sessions on Friday, December 4, will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., Room 9204/9205. The sessions on Saturday, December 5, will be held at Columbia in IAB 1501. The conference will be free and open to the public. For further information please contact William deJong-Lambert at WRL4@columbia.edu/william.dejong-lambert@bcc.cuny.edu.
Wonders of Nature and Miracles of
Medicine: Popularizing Science in LIFE
Magazine, 1936-1972
January 27, 2010, 6:00pm
The Gallatin School, New York University
Speaker: Bert Hansen,
Bernard Baruch College,
City University of New York
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.
History of Spaceship Earth Science
February 24, 2010, 6:00pm
Columbia University
Speaker: Peder Anker, New York University
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.
Einstein’s Encounters with Mathematicians: The Swiss Years
March 24, 2010, 6:00pm
CUNY Graduate Center
Speaker: David E. Rowe
University of Mainz, Germany
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.
Evolutionary Thought before Darwin: Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique, Frédéric Cuvier, and the Paris menagerie
April 28, 2010, 6:00pm
The Gallatin School, New York University
Speaker: Richard W. Burkhart
University of Indiana
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.
How the Cold War changed American Science
May 26, 2010, 6:00pm
New York Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Naomi Oreskes
University of California, San Diego
For additional information, or to reserve a place for the lecture or for dinner with the speaker after the lecture, please contact either Joseph W. Dauben at jdauben@gc.cuny.edu, Pamela Smith at ps2270@columbia.edu, or Matthew Stanley at ms5100@nyu.edu, at least one week in advance of any lecture you plan to attend.