Project Summary: Clustering the humanistic and social studies of science in Canada
WHAT
Created in 2007 with the generous funding of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant, Situating Science is a seven-year project promoting communication and collaboration among humanists and social scientists that are engaged in the study of science and technology.
Themes
News
Making Knowledge: Science, Art, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe at McGill University Sept. 23-25
This workshop will explore and re-evaluate the relationship between early modern scientific knowledge and the 'arts', or between epiteme and techne (ca. 1500-1800).
Workshops are...
Envisioning Science: Imaging the Body. Node Workshop at UofA Sept 10-11, 2010
Visual perception might seem to be a strictly natural process, and yet it
has a history. Scholars from a range of disciplines now study visuality,
moving beyond biological understandings of...
Earth Science, Global Science. Node Workshop at York Sept. 30-Oct. 2
All sciences are faced with some version of the problem of moving from the local observation to the general explanation. Yet from their foundations, the earth sciences have been uniquely...
Announcements
Radio interview for Circulating Knowledge, East and West
East and West mingle at conference
Listen to a local radio (CKDU) interview with Situating Science Director Dr. McOuat.
Monday, July 19th, 2010
http://news.ckdu.ca/archives/618
International Science & Technology Conference Call For Papers
27-29 October 2010 Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel North Cyprus www.iste-c.net CALL FOR PAPERS
Objectives
The main goal of this conference is to present and discuss new trends in...
Upcoming Events
Making Knowledge: Science, Art, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe at McGill University Sept. 23-25
This workshop will explore and re-evaluate the relationship between early modern scientific knowledge and the 'arts', or between epiteme and techne (ca. 1500-1800).
Workshops are...
Envisioning Science: Imaging the Body. Node Workshop at UofA Sept 10-11, 2010
Visual perception might seem to be a strictly natural process, and yet it
has a history. Scholars from a range of disciplines now study visuality,
moving beyond biological understandings of...
Earth Science, Global Science. Node Workshop at York Sept. 30-Oct. 2
All sciences are faced with some version of the problem of moving from the local observation to the general explanation. Yet from their foundations, the earth sciences have been uniquely...