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Isabelle Stengers: Cosmopolitics - Learning to Think with Sciences, Peoples and Natures

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Network Node: 
Atlantic Node
Date: 
Mon., Mar. 5, 2012, 7:30pm - Fri., Mar. 9, 2012, 9:30pm
Interview with Situating Science Director on this and other events in news. Video and podcast available. Isabelle Stengers launches “TO SEE WHERE IT TAKES US" conversation series March 5-9 2012.

Video available HERE

Podcast available HERE

Podcast also available HERE
 

Laura Snyder, Ed Hackett and Alan Richardson: “Creating a Global Knowledge Society: Lessons from History, Philosophy and Sociology"

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University of British Columbia
Date: 
Fri., Feb. 17, 2012, 10:00am
This session is part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which will be held in Vancouver, Canada, February 16-20, 2012

“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: Entre la médecine libérale et les soins conservateurs: L'histoire et la politique de soulagement de douleur dans les Etats-Unis depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale

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Date: 
Thu., Feb. 2, 2012, 5:00pm - , 6:00pm
UCB [en anglais]

[en anglais]

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: “Between Liberal Medicine and Conservative Care: The History and Politics of Pain Relief in the U.S. since WWII”

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Network Node: 
University of British Columbia
Date: 
Thu., Feb. 2, 2012, 5:00pm
UBC: The UBC Node is helping to support this event as part of the winter Science and Society Series

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

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Network Node: 
University of British Columbia
Date: 
Wed., Feb. 1, 2012, 4:00pm - , 5:00pm
UBC: The UBC Node is helping to support this event.

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

Paul Thompson: Questions d'éthique dans l'Agriculture: Bio, locavore et la modification génétique

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Date: 
Wed., Jan. 25, 2012, 7:00pm - , 9:00pm
[en anglais]

[en anglais]

Situating Science, Evolution Studies Group at Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University and International Development Studies at Dalhousie University are pleased to support Part One of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs series, "The Elements:  Ethical Uses of Our Resources - Food, Oil and Water"

Sciences et récits de la nature: Orient et Occident

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Date: 
Mon., Dec. 12, 2011, 9:00am - Wed., Dec. 14, 2011, 5:00pm
Manipal, Inde (en anglais)

(en anglais)

Sciences and Narratives of Nature: East and West

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Theme: 
Geography and the Sites of Knowing
Date: 
Mon., Dec. 12, 2011, 9:00am - Wed., Dec. 14, 2011, 5:00pm
Video and podcast of keynote available. Manipal, India: The workshop examined developments in Science and Technology Studies in the "East" as compared with those in the "West".

Thank you for a superb event!

Approche moderne des images médicales: Fritz Kahn, le modernisme et l'invention de l'image scientifique conceptuelle, 1920-1960

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Date: 
Thu., Dec. 1, 2011, 5:00pm - , 6:30pm
Université de Colombie-Britannique (en anglais)

(en anglais)

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.

How to be Modern with Medical Images: Fritz Kahn, Modernism and the Invention of the Scientific Conceptual Image, 1920-1960

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Date: 
Thu., Dec. 1, 2011, 5:00pm - , 6:30pm
University of British Columbia

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

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Network Node: 
McGill University
Date: 
Thu., Dec. 1, 2011, 4:00pm - , 6:00pm
McGill University: Alan Richarson concludes the Fall 2011-12 HPS Seminar Series at McGill University

The Situating Science McGill Node is pleased to support the HPS Seminar Series (http://www.mcgill.ca/hpsc/seminars)

Retour sur le système périodique : une soirée animée sur les écrits du chimiste italien Primo Levi (1919-1987)

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Date: 
Wed., Nov. 23, 2011, 7:00pm - , 9:00pm
Retransmission en direct! Situer la science a le plaisir de coparrainer une conférence sur l'écriture du chimiste italien Primo Levi, tenue au musée des sciences et de la technologies du Canada.

Retransmission en direct, sur Internet! (en anglais)

The Periodic Table Re-Visited: A lively evening on the writing of Italian Chemist Primo Levi (1919-1987)

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Network Node: 
Ontario Node
Theme: 
Material Culture and Scientific/Technological Practices
Date: 
Wed., Nov. 23, 2011, 7:00pm - , 9:00pm
Video and Podcast now available. A lively evening on the writing of Italian Chemist Primo Levi (1919-1987) at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Video available HERE
Podcast available HERE

Heather Paxson et Stefan Helmreich: La Microbiopolitique du système de sécurité sanitaire des aliments ET Ethnographie sous-marine

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Date: 
Wed., Nov. 16, 2011, 3:30pm - , 7:30pm
Université de McGill: Heather Paxson à 15:30 et Stefan Helmreich à 17:00 (en anglais)

(en anglais)

The Situating Science McGill Node is pleased to support the HPS Seminar Series (http://www.mcgill.ca/hpsc/seminars)