This public lecture marks the launch of the Politics of Care in Technoscience Workshop at York University.
Organizers: Aryn Martin, Natasha Myers & Ana Viseu
Date: April 20-22, 2012
Location:York University, Toronto, Canada
Thank you for a superb event!
The Situating Science Cluster solicits workshop proposals for 2012-13 as part of the annual call for workshop proposals.
The submission deadline is Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.
More details HERE
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia
Blog:
Bently Allan's blog entry HERE
Description:
York University
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THE MAKERS’ UNIVERSE
Note: This workshop also has strong connections with the theme Scientific Communication and its Publics
Location: Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
This two-day workshop brought together close to 20 philosophers, historians, anthropologists, and scientists for a discussion of their most recent work on thought experiments.
Note: This workshop also has ties with the following Themes:
Scientific Communication and its Publics Theme and Historical Epistemology and Ontology Theme.
Location: University of Toronto
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
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.
Addressing themes of gender, race, sexuality, public policy, politics, social justice, science, technology, medical experimentation, and the environment.
A Summer Institute at the Canadian Science and Technology Museum.
Organizer: David Pantalony
Please see attached report for more information.
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.
Where we've been and Where we're Going (An Interdisciplinary Workshop).
University of Toronto
Review by M. Cournoyea HERE