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Marc Bekoff: Beastly Passions and Compassionate Conservation

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Network Node: 
Atlantic Node
Theme: 
Scientific Communication and its Publics
Date: 
Fri., Jul. 12, 2013, 7:30pm
Halifax: Dr. Bekoff will launch the Human Animal Relations workshop with a talk about the emotional and moral lives of nonhuman animals (animals) and how they very much care about how we treat them.

Beastly Passions and Compassionate Conservation: Redecorating Nature, Expanding Our Compassion Footprint, and Rewilding Our Hearts
Friday, July 12 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Scotiabank Auditorium
Marion McCain Building
Dalhousie University

Steve Sturdy: What's New about Translational Medicine?

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University of Alberta
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Thu., Jun. 6, 2013, 3:30pm
U. Calgary: Dr. Steve Sturdy, Head of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh launches the "Where is the Laboratory Now?" workshop.

What's New about Translational Medicine?
Dr. Steve Sturdy, Head of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh
Th. June 6, 2013 3:30pm

Mark Solovey: Social Science Funding under Siege in More Conservative Times

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Université du Québec à Montréal
Theme: 
Scientific Communication and its Publics
Date: 
Fri., May. 3, 2013, 12:30pm
UQAM: Mark Solovey, Professeur, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Université de Toronto

Social Science Funding under Siege in More Conservative Times:
The Case of the U.S. National Science Foundation during the 1970s and early 1980s

Peter Galison: Time of Physics, Time of Art

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Network Node: 
Ontario Node
Theme: 
Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices
Date: 
Thu., May. 2, 2013, 4:30pm
York: Peter Galison, Harvard University, is the keynote speaker for the Materialities conference.

Time of Physics, Time of Art
Peter Galison, Harvard University
May 2 2013, 4:30pm

Bernard Lightman: Herbert Spencer, his British Disciples, and Evolutionary Naturalism

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Université du Québec à Montréal
Date: 
Fri., Apr. 12, 2013, 12:30pm - , 2:00pm
UQAM: Herbert Spencer devoted his life to building a tightly integrated system of thought based on evolutionary theory.

Pavillon Paul-Gérin-Lajoie room N-8150
Bernard Lightman,  Department of Humanities, York University.

Janet Kourany: Bacon's Promise

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Network Node: 
University of Alberta
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Thu., Apr. 11, 2013, 3:30pm
U. Alberta: Dr. Kourany, University of Notre Dame, speaks on three areas in which Francis Bacon’s promise remains largely unfulfilled.

Bacon's Promise
Janet Kourany, U. Notre Dame
Th. April 11, 3:30pm
CAB 239, U. Alberta

Aelita: Queen of Mars Screening with Live Music

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Network Node: 
Atlantic Node
Theme: 
Scientific Communication and its Publics
Date: 
Sat., Apr. 6, 2013, 7:00pm
U. King's College: The Halifax Independent Filmmaker's Festival launches again with a screening of the first Soviet Science Fiction film with live music.

Come to the event of the year. Aelita: Queen of Mars has landed!

The Halifax Independent Filmmaker's Festival launches with a special live musical screening of the first Soviet science fiction film. The group of live musicians includes a traditional theremin player!

AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS
Sat. April 6, 2013 7 PM
Alumni Hall, New Academic Building, University of King’s College

Technoscience Salon: Affective Ecologies

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Network Node: 
Ontario Node
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Fri., Apr. 5, 2013, 4:00pm
UofT: The Technoscience Salon Ecology series continues with a panel discussion on affective ecologies.

AFFECTIVE ECOLOGIES

Presenters ::  Martina Schlünder (U of T, Max Planck Institute)
                        Natasha Myers (York University)

Evelyn Fox Keller: What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture?

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University of British Columbia
Date: 
Thu., Apr. 4, 2013, 5:00pm - , 6:30pm
UBC: Evelyn Fox Keller, History and Philosophy of Science, MIT presents for the UBC STS series.

What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture?
Evelyn Fox Keller, History and Philosophy of Science, MIT
April 4 2013 5pm (refreshments at 4:30)
Room 130, Liu Institute, 6476 NW Marine Drive

Presented with the Science and Society Series at Green College

Heather Douglas: Mapping the Moral Terrain of Science

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Network Node: 
University of Alberta
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Thu., Apr. 4, 2013, 3:30pm
U. Alberta: Heather Douglas, Waterloo Chair in Science and Society, presents a public lecture.

Mapping the Moral Terrain of Science
Heather Douglas, Waterloo Chair in Science and Society
Thursday, April 4 at 3:30 pm in  Central Academic Building 239, U. Alberta.

Evelyn Fox Keller: Visiting Scholar 2012-13

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Network Node: 
University of Alberta
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Mon., Apr. 1, 2013, 8:00am - Tue., Apr. 2, 2013, 10:30pm
Calgary Apr. 1, Edmonton Apr. 2, and Vanouver Apr. 4, 2013: Dr. Keller continues her visits to Nodes as the Cluster Visiting Scholar

The Cluster is pleased to welcome Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller out West as Visiting Scholar for 2012-13.

Anthony Grafton: The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (and some other places)

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University of British Columbia
Date: 
Thu., Mar. 21, 2013, 5:00pm - , 6:30pm
UBC: Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC presents for the UBC STS Series.

March 21 Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC
“The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (and some other places)”
Presented by Science and Society Series at Green College
Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Bodies Laid Bare in Law, Culture and Anatomy

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Network Node: 
Atlantic Node
Theme: 
Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices
Date: 
Wed., Mar. 20, 2013, 5:00pm
Dalhousie: Panel discussion on the ways cadavers have been and continue to be presented across a range of interrelated but distinct sites of learning.

BODIES LAID BARE IN LAW, CULTURE AND ANATOMY
Wed. March 20, 2013 5PM
Tupper Link Commons (by Tim Horton's),
Sir Charles Tupper Building, Dalhousie University
5850 College Street, Halifax, NS

Podcast now available here

Free. Reception to follow.

Kean Birch: Theorizing the Bioeconomy: Biovalue, Biocapital, Bioeconomics, or what?

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Network Node: 
Ontario Node
Theme: 
Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices
Date: 
Tue., Mar. 19, 2013, 12:30pm - , 2:00pm
York University: Kean Birch, from York University (Social Science) speaks as part of the York Research Seminar Series in Science & Technology Studies.

Theorizing the Bioeconomy: Biovalue, Biocapital, Bioeconomics, or what?
Kean Birch, from York University (Social Science).
Tues. March 19, 2013 12:30pm

Bruce Curtis: From 'the People' to 'Population': a genealogy of Canadian social science

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Network Node: 
Atlantic Node
Theme: 
Historical epistemology and ontology
Date: 
Fri., Mar. 15, 2013, 2:30pm - , 5:00pm
Dalhousie: Bruce Curtis, Carleton University, on how attempts to rule the continually refractory colony of Quebec/Lower Canada helped shift the logic and the practice of colonial government.

From 'the People' to 'Population': a genealogy of Canadian social science
Bruce Curtis, Carleton University      
Fri., March 15, 2013,  2:30 to 4:00 pm.
The MacMechan Auditorium in the Killam Library, Dalhousie University