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Sciences and Narratives of Nature: East and West

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Theme: 
Geography and the Sites of Knowing
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Mon., Dec. 12, 2011, 9:00am - Wed., Dec. 14, 2011, 5:00pm
Video and podcast of keynote available. Manipal, India: The workshop examined developments in Science and Technology Studies in the "East" as compared with those in the "West".

Thank you for a superb event!

How to be Modern with Medical Images: Fritz Kahn, Modernism and the Invention of the Scientific Conceptual Image, 1920-1960

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Thu., Dec. 1, 2011, 5:00pm - , 6:30pm
University of British Columbia

Michael Sappol (National Library of Medicine [US]): "How to be Modern with Medical Images: Fritz Kahn, Modernism and the Invention of the Scientific Conceptual Image, 1920-1960."

Thursday, December 1, 2011, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm. Green College Coach House, UBC Vancouver campus.

Part of UBC's Science and Society Series, 2011.

Alan Richardson: Logical Positivism as Marginal Science: How STS Illuminates History of Philosophy of Science

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McGill University
Date: 
Thu., Dec. 1, 2011, 4:00pm - , 6:00pm
McGill University: Alan Richarson concludes the Fall 2011-12 HPS Seminar Series at McGill University

The Situating Science McGill Node is pleased to support the HPS Seminar Series (http://www.mcgill.ca/hpsc/seminars)

The Periodic Table Re-Visited: A lively evening on the writing of Italian Chemist Primo Levi (1919-1987)

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Ontario Node
Theme: 
Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices
Date: 
Wed., Nov. 23, 2011, 7:00pm - , 9:00pm
Video and Podcast now available. A lively evening on the writing of Italian Chemist Primo Levi (1919-1987) at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Video available HERE
Podcast available HERE

Heather Paxson: The Microbiopolitics of Food Safety Regulation: Classifying Microbial Ecologies AND Stefan Helmreich: Submarine Media: Conducting Undersea Ethnography (with Notes on Underwater Music)

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McGill University
Date: 
Wed., Nov. 16, 2011, 3:30pm
McGill University: 3:30pm Heather Paxson (MIT) and 5pm Stefan Helmreich (MIT) present as part of the HPS Seminar Series at McGill University

The Situating Science McGill Node is pleased to support the HPS Seminar Series (http://www.mcgill.ca/hpsc/seminars)

Canadian Science Policy Conference 2011

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Wed., Nov. 16, 2011, 9:00am - Fri., Nov. 18, 2011, 6:00pm
Ottawa, Ont: Situating Science is one of the community partners for the 2011 Canadian Science Policy Conference. Student bloggers welcome. Travel grants available (see Nov. 15th event)

Situating Science is one of the community partners for the 2011 Canadian Science Policy Conference. Student bloggers welcome. Travel grants available (see Nov. 15th event).

Our Post-Human Future

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Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Tue., Nov. 15, 2011, 9:00am - , 4:00pm
STREAMED LIVE ONLINE! This University of Ottawa Frontiers in Research conference at the Institute of Science, Society and Policy is streamed live all day.

VIDEO HERE (UNEDITED)

EVENT BLOGS HERE

This event was streamed live all day and we facilitated online questions and blogs.

Unruly Doctors: Revolutionary Promises and the Aftermath of Free Healthcare in Mexico

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University of British Columbia
Date: 
Thu., Nov. 10, 2011, 5:00pm - , 6:30pm
UBC Green College Coach House: Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara)

The UBC Node is helping to support the Science and Society Series.

Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara):

"Unruly Doctors:Revolutionary Promises and the Aftermath of Free Healthcare in Mexico."

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm. Green College Coach House, UBC Vancouver Campus.

The Ecological and Societal Consequences of Biodiversity Loss

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University of British Columbia
Date: 
Wed., Nov. 9, 2011, 6:30pm
Vancouver: The first of a series of public talks: "Climate Change, Ethics, and Policy" at the Institute for Values in Science.

The first of a series of public talks: "Climate Change, Ethics, and Policy" at the Institute for Values in Science.

Josipa Petrunic: Platonism, Cognitive Science and the Learning of Mathematics: a Wittgensteinian response to exclusionary trends in the philosophy of mathematics

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University of Alberta
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Wed., Nov. 2, 2011, 3:00pm - , 4:30pm
University of Alberta, Tory 8-22. Petrunic explains why mathematicians “discover” so much mathematics that is so wrong, so erroneous, and eventually so disused (or “failed”) over time

Support for this talk has been provided in part by the SSHRC Cluster Grant on Situating Science.The Science Technology and Society Program is pleased to present:

The Jewish Leonardo?

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Thu., Oct. 27, 2011, 12:00pm - , 2:00pm
203 Bethune College, Toronto: The Toronto Node is supporting this talk by Daniel Jütte, Harvard Society of Fellows

“The Jewish Leonardo? A Sixteenth-Century Jewish Inventor and the Quest for the Secrets of Nature”

Daniel Jütte, Harvard Society of Fellows

Noon, Thursday October 27 – 203 Bethune College

Adrian Johns: "The Intellectual Property Defense Industry and the Crisis of Information"

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Thu., Oct. 20, 2011, 5:00pm
University of British Columbia: Adrian Johns, University of Chicago, presents for the 5th Annual Stephen Straker Memorial Lecture.

The UBC node is pleased to support the 5th Annual Stephen Straker Memorial Lecture.

The Straker lecture is organized by STS at UBC, with the cooperation of the Departments of History, English and Philosophy.

Keynyn Brysse: Evidence, interpretation, and communication: Lessons from the interdisciplinary mass extinction debates

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University of Alberta
Date: 
Wed., Oct. 19, 2011, 3:00pm
University of Alberta: Brysse, historican of paleontology, examines a key debate between experimental scientists and historical scientists

The Science Technology and Society Program at the University of Alberta is pleased to present:
Keynyn Brysse, Postdostoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Evidence, interpretation, and communication: Lessons from the interdisciplinary mass extinction debates
Wednesday, October 19, 3:00, Tory Building 8-22

Contextualizing Aboriginal Health Information Communication Technologies

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Fri., Oct. 14, 2011, 9:00am - Sat., Oct. 15, 2011, 10:00pm
York Institute for Science and Technology Studies: First Nations, Inuit and Métis understandings of health and wellness.

The Situating Science Toronto Node is pleased to co-sponsor this event.