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Erik Conway: "Merchants of Doubt: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War" Jan 13, 2011

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University of Alberta
Date: 
Thu., Jan. 13, 2011, 3:30pm

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?

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Ontario Node
Theme: 
Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices
Date: 
Tue., Jan. 11, 2011, 12:30pm - , 2:00pm

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

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University of British Columbia
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Thu., Jan. 6, 2011, 5:00pm

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.

Social Identities and the Question of 'Realism', Linda Martin Alcoff, Dec. 2, King's College

Network Node: 
Atlantic Node
Date: 
Thu., Dec. 2, 2010, 7:00pm

Lecture Series on Race: Linda Alcoff

Asceticism, Truth, and Politics in Early-twentieth century Italian Pragmatism

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Network Node: 
University of British Columbia
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Thu., Dec. 2, 2010, 5:30pm

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

Frankenstein in the Public Sphere: Science and the Virtue of Sociability in the British Enlightenment

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McGill University
Theme: 
Scientific Communication and its Publics
Date: 
Thu., Nov. 25, 2010, 6:00pm

Thursday, November 25th, 2010 at 6:00 pm McGill University

The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs and the Situating Science Knowledge Cluster present:

Science and its Publics Lecture Series

A multi-part series examining the roles of the public in the translation and understanding of the knowledge of science

Part 2:

Incentives in the Family Firm

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Network Node: 
University of Alberta
Date: 
Fri., Nov. 19, 2010, 4:00pm - , 5:30pm

Public lecture by Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Incentives in the Family Firm
Friday, Nov. 19 at 4:00pm
Earth Sciences (ESB) 327

Evolutionary Aspects of Gender and Sexuality

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Network Node: 
University of Alberta
Date: 
Thu., Nov. 18, 2010, 3:30pm

Public lecture by  Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Thursday, Nov. 18 at 3:30pm
in Engineering Teaching and   Learning Complex  E1-007

Science and the Media: Lost in Translation

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Atlantic Node
Theme: 
Scientific Communication and its Publics
Date: 
Tue., Nov. 9, 2010, 7:00pm

The Science and its Publics Lecture Series launch was a great success with over 300 in attendance, great partnerships, discussion and live stream Qs too. See below or click on title for more information.

Video here

Pre-Pragmatisms and Robust Empiricisms: James, Whitehead, Wilson

Network Node: 
University of British Columbia
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Mon., Nov. 8, 2010, 4:30pm

 

Science and Society Lecture by Steven Meyer (Department of English, Washington University in St Louis). 4:30 pm, Monday, November 8, 2010 in Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms.

HSS/PSA conference Nov. 4-7, 2010 Montreal

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Université de Quebec à Montreal / McGill University
Date: 
Thu., Nov. 4, 2010, 8:00am - Sun., Nov. 7, 2010, 8:00am

HSS and PSA 2010 Annual Meeting
Montréal, Quebec
4-7 November 2010

Globe and Mail University Report: Alberta Science, Technology and Society featured

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Network Node: 
University of Alberta
Date: 
Wed., Oct. 27, 2010, 5:15pm
The Globe and Mail University Report has (on p 32) a list of “arts programs you may not know about but should.”

The Globe and Mail University Report has (on p 32) a list of “arts programs you may not know about but should” that includes “Science, technology, and Society” and lists Alberta where you can pursue such programs. 

 

Congratulations Alberta!

 

The guide is here:

Race lecture Series: Science, Philosophy, and Race: The Shaping of the Race Concept in the Late Enlightenment

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Atlantic Node
Date: 
Tue., Oct. 26, 2010, 7:00pm

Video available HERE
Podcast available HERE

Dr. Philip Sloan, University of Notre Dame

Science, Philosophy, and Race: The Shaping of the Race Concept in the Late Enlightenment

Lecture for Conceptions of Race in Philosophy, Literature and Art Lecture Series

7 PM
Alumni Hall, New Academic Building, University of King's College, Halifax, NS

Dr. Philip Sloan

Silencing Scientists CBC Radio The Current Feature Oct. 26, 2010

Theme: 
Scientific Communication and its Publics
Date: 
Tue., Oct. 26, 2010, 2:45pm

Silencing Scientists CBC Radio The Current Feature Oct. 26, 2010

CBC’s The Current featured the launch of this website: http://www.publicscience.ca/portal/page/portal/science

 

and discussed the role of government and scientists employed by government in communicating with the public and media.

 

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