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.
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 (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
Francesca Bordogna
Department of History, Northwestern University
Thursday, 2 December 2010
5-6:30 pm
Green College Coach House
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:
Public lecture by Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Incentives in the Family Firm
Friday, Nov. 19 at 4:00pm
Earth Sciences (ESB) 327
Public lecture by Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Thursday, Nov. 18 at 3:30pm
in Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex E1-007
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
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.
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:
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
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.
Details: