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Evidence in Context

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Tue., Jul. 6, 2010, 2:15pm

University of Toronto

Helen Longino: Is There an Objective Concept of Evidence?

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University of British Columbia
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Fri., Apr. 30, 2010, 2:00pm

UBC Peter Wall Institute
Part of the Philosophy of Science workshop with UBC, UW and SFU.

Helen Longino, Stanford Univeristy, "Is There an Objective Concept of Evidence?"

 

Public talk: “A ‘Computer’ from Ancient Greece: The Antikythera Mechanism” Uof A April 8 2010

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University of Alberta
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Thu., Apr. 8, 2010, 3:30pm

Public talk: “A ‘Computer’ from Ancient Greece: The Antikythera Mechanism”

Co-sponsors: American Institute of Archeology. University of Alberta Science, Technology and Society Program and the Department of History and Classics.

Speaker:

James Evans (University of Puget Sound)

Brain Awareness Week March 2010

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Atlantic Node
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Thu., Mar. 11, 2010, 12:00am - Fri., Mar. 19, 2010, 5:00pm

Panel: “Just in Time: Healthy Research? The Implications of Pharmaceutical Industry Influence from the Laboratory to the Marketplace” Atlantic Node Panel February 15 2010

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Atlantic Node
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Mon., Feb. 15, 2010, 7:00pm

A Halifax panel of experts representing a diversity of views discussing the continued industry influence on Canadian health research. This event is sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs (CCEPA), Situating Science, Novel Tech Ethics and the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN).

Location: Alumni Hall, New Academic Building, University of King's College.

Co-sponsors: CBERN, CCEPA, Novel Tech Ethics.

Chair: Costas Halavrezos, CBC's Maritime Noon

Rebecca Kukla (Philosophy, Georgetown). "Medicalization, Justice, and the Definition of Health."

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University of British Columbia
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Scientific Communication and its Publics
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Wed., Feb. 3, 2010, 5:00pm

Rebecca Kukla (Philosophy, Georgetown). "Medicalization, Justice, and the Definition of Health."

Thursday, February 3, 2010.

5:00 pm. Green College Coach House.

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

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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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McGill University
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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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University of Alberta
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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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University of Saskatchewan
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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.

Evidence in Context

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Sat., May. 23, 2009, 2:45pm

University of Toronto

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

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Ontario Node
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Fri., May. 23, 2008 (All day) - Sun., May. 25, 2008 (All day)

Imagining Reproduction In Science and History

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University of Saskatchewan
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Fri., Oct. 19, 2007 (All day) - Sun., Oct. 21, 2007 (All day)