STREAMED ONLINE LIVE from Saint Mary's University: Isabelle Stengers presents this keynote address launching the “TO SEE WHERE IT TAKES US" conversation series March 5-9 2012 [+]
Other: Node Workshops, Panels, Salons, etc.
Technoscience Salon
Network Node:
This is an open forum for interdisciplinary and playful intellectual exchange on questions of science, technology and biomedicine. The Salon is organized around a monthly theme and meets on the 10th floor of the Jackman Humanities Institute in Toronto. See their line-up at http://technosalon.wordpress.com/.
Technoscience and Regulation Research Unit (TRRU)
Network Node:
hosts a bimonthly “Science Studies of Vaccines Reading Group.” Contact TRRU for details and readings at trru@dal.ca.
Isabelle Stengers: Cosmopolitics - Learning to Think with Sciences, Peoples and Natures
Network Node:
Date:
Mar 5 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Renowned Belgium philosopher of science, Isabelle Stengers, Université libre de Bruxelles, visits Halifax for a series of conversations as part of the "To See Where it Takes Us" series March 5-9, 2012.
Laura Snyder, Ed Hackett and Alan Richardson: “Creating a Global Knowledge Society: Lessons from History, Philosophy and Sociology"
Network Node:
Date:
Feb 17 10:00AM
“Creating a Global Knowledge Society: Lessons from History, Philosophy and Sociology"
Laura Snyder (St. John's University) Ed Hackett (Arizona State University) and Alan Richardson (Philosophy, UBC)
Room 116-117 (VCC West Building)
Keith Wailoo: “Between Liberal Medicine and Conservative Care: The History and Politics of Pain Relief in the U.S. since WWII”
Network Node:
Date:
Feb 2 5:00PM
The UBC Node is helping to support the winter Science and Society Series
Keith Wailoo, Department of History and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Keith Wailoo: How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Reflections on History, Race, and Health
Network Node:
Date:
Feb 1 4:00PM - 5:00PM
The UBC Node is helping to support this event
Keith Wailoo, Department of History and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
How to be Modern with Medical Images: Fritz Kahn, Modernism and the Invention of the Scientific Conceptual Image, 1920-1960
Date:
Dec 1 5:00PM - 6:30PM
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
Network Node:
Date:
Dec 1 4:00PM - 6:00PM
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)
Date:
Nov 23 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Situating Science, the Contemporary Studies Program at the University of King's College, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum are pleased to partner for a lively evening celebrating the writing of Italian Chemist Primo Levi (1919-1987) at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
Heather Paxson: The Microbiopolitics of Food Safety Regulation: Classifying Microbial Ecologies AND Stefan Helmreich: Submarine Media: Conducting Undersea Ethnography (with Notes on Underwater Music)
Network Node:
Date:
Nov 16 3:30PM
The Situating Science McGill Node is pleased to support the HPS Seminar Series (http://www.mcgill.ca/hpsc/seminars)
Canadian Science Policy Conference 2011
Date:
Nov 16 9:00AM - Nov 18 6:00PM
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
Date:
Nov 15 9:00AM - 4:00PM
EVENT BLOGS HERE (COMING SOON)
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
Network Node:
Date:
Nov 10 5:00PM - 6:30PM
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
Date:
Nov 9 6:30PM
The first of a series of public talks: "Climate Change, Ethics, and Policy" at the Institute for Values in Science.
Upcoming Events
Mar 5 7:30PM
Apr 20 9:00AM
York University: This workshop examines the complexities, affinities, and politics of care in technoscience research. [+]
Apr 20 7:00PM
York University: Thompson (Berkeley) launches the Politics of Care in Technoscience workshop [+]
Jun 21 8:00AM
Dalhousie University and the University of King's College: 9th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science [+]