Can. Scie. and Tech. Museum Summer Institite in Ottawa

Date: 
Wed., Dec. 16, 2009 (All day) - Sun., Dec. 20, 2009 (All day)

The CSTM Summer Institute is back!

Public debate: A debate on science policy in Canada with Preston Manning and Darin Barney

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Date: 
Thu., Nov. 12, 2009, 5:30pm

Public Debate:

Preston Manning in conversation with Darin Barney on the politics of science and technology in Canada

 

A debate on science policy in Canada between Prof. Darin Barney (of the department of Art History and Communication Studies) and the Canadian politician Preston Manning was held at McGill University.

Co-sponsors: Media@McGill.

Reading Bruno Latour: A Seminar Series

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Date: 
Sat., Oct. 31, 2009, 1:00pm - Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, 12:00pm

The Science, Technology and Society Program presents Reading Bruno Latour Seminar Series, including: 

Kathleen Lowrey – Department of Anthropology

“Bruno Latour, Empathetic Skeptic and Orthodox Ethnographer”

Marie-Eve Morin – Department of Philosophy

“There is no Cosmos: Latour’s Cosmopolitics and Kant’s Cosmopolitanism”

Human Experimentation, 1715-1972 Local Node Workshop Oct. 23, 2009

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Date: 
Fri., Oct. 23, 2009, 12:00pm

The Human Experimentation, 1715-1972 Workshop was an interdisciplinary workshop examining various aspects of early modern and modern scientific and medical experimentation on humans. The speakers presenting at this workshop came from Canadian, American and British universities and represent a number of different disciplines. Topics discussed include human exhibition, electrifying bodies, galvanic experiments, eugenic anthropometry, human experimentation, and eugenic experiments.

Current issues in Darwinian Theory Workshop. Dalhousie University Oct. 14-17, 2009

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Date: 
Wed., Oct. 14, 2009 (All day) - Sat., Oct. 17, 2009 (All day)

In celebration of the anniversary of the publication of Charles' Darwin's On the Origin of Species, this workshop included a set of three public evening lectures with over 400 in attendance.

Co sponsors: CIFAR, Dalhousie University, Australian Council and University of King's College

Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture Workshop. UBC Oct 10-11 2009

Date: 
Sat., Oct. 10, 2009 (All day) - Sun., Oct. 11, 2009 (All day)

The recent discovery of mirror neurons, which fire in a macaque monkey when the monkey either observes or performs a given movement, has ushered in a resurgence of interest in the meanings and mechanisms of empathy. The purported role of these neurons in empathic responses in monkeys and humans has led to an array of neuroscientific studies of cognition and autism.

Health Legacies: Militarization, Health and Society Workshop. UofA Sept. 18-19, 2009

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Date: 
Fri., Sep. 18, 2009 (All day) - Sat., Sep. 19, 2009 (All day)
A one day workshop to examine the human and environmental health consequences of war. 
 
Exploring the impact of militarization and demilitarization on the health and welfare of individuals, society, and nature. 

Addressing themes of gender, race, sexuality, public policy, politics, social justice, science, technology, medical experimentation, and the environment. 

Reading Artifacts: A Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science. CSTM, Aug. 17-21, 2009

Date: 
Mon., Aug. 17, 2009, 12:00pm - Fri., Aug. 21, 2009, 12:00pm

A Summer Institute at the Canadian Science and Technology Museum.

Organizer: David Pantalony

Please see attached report for more information.

Evidence in Context

Date: 
Sat., May. 23, 2009, 2:45pm

University of Toronto

Reassessing the Governance of Clinical Trials: Preventing Real World Risks at the Gate

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Date: 
Mon., Mar. 9, 2009, 8:00am - Tue., Mar. 10, 2009, 5:00pm

Dalhousie University (Technoscience and Regulation Research Unit)

Organizer: Janice Graham, TRRU, Dalhousie University; Mavis Jones, Dalhousie University

Workshop information here

Final report avail. upon request.

Critical Debates in Evidence Based Medicine: Where we've been and Where we're Going Workshop. Toronto, Nov 14-16, 2008

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Date: 
Fri., Nov. 14, 2008 (All day) - Sun., Nov. 16, 2008 (All day)

Where we've been and Where we're Going (An Interdisciplinary Workshop).

University of Toronto

 

Review by M. Cournoyea HERE

La Grande Rencontre:« dialogue science et société » Montreal Nov. 2008

Date: 
Wed., Nov. 12, 2008 (All day) - Fri., Nov. 14, 2008 (All day)

The Future of Objectivity. University of Toronto Workshop, May 23-25, 2008

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Date: 
Fri., May. 23, 2008 (All day) - Sun., May. 25, 2008 (All day)