Past Events

Joan Fujimura Race Lecture Series March 22, 2011

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Date: 
Tue., Mar. 22, 2011, 7:00pm - , 9:00pm

Watch the video here

Halifax:

DIFFERENT DIFFERENCES:  THE USE OF ANCESTRY VERSUS RACE IN BIOMEDICAL HUMAN GENETIC RESEARCH
Dr. Joan Fujimura
, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This was Live Streamed at www.livestream.com/situsci

Susan Solomon: "Constructing the Biography of a Scientific Go-Between: A.N. Rubakin, Soviet Public Health and Russian-French Space Between the World Wars."

Date: 
Thu., Mar. 17, 2011, 5:00pm

Green College, UBC: Susan Solomon (Political Science, Toronto)

“Constructing the Biography of a Scientific Go-Between: A.N. Rubakin, Soviet Public Health and Russian-French Space between the World Wars.” 

Thursday, March 17, 2011.

5:00 pm,

Green College Coach House.

Access Denied: Medicine, Trust, and Experimental Treatments

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Date: 
Mon., Mar. 14, 2011, 7:00pm

Toronto: Science and its Publics National Lecture Series Presents Part 4:
Access Denied: Medicine, Trust, and Experimental Treatments
VIDEO AND STREAM
(USE EXPLORER OR SAFARI ONLY) HERE

Provenance and the Role of the Public Museum Halifax March 8, 2011

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Date: 
Tue., Mar. 8, 2011, 7:30pm - , 9:00pm

Halifax: Science and its Publics National Lecture Series Presents Part 3:
STREAMED LIVE AT: www.ccepa.ca

Situating Science Spring 2011 Newsletter

Date: 
Wed., Mar. 2, 2011, 3:45pm
The Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster (www.situsci.ca) has a very busy spring as it hits the half-way mark of the seven year project.

The Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster (www.situsci.ca) has a very busy spring as it hits the half-way mark of the seven year project. Please see the attached spring newsletter for an update on lectures across Canada, workshops, Call for Situating Science Workshop Proposals (Canada) and more.

"Situating the 'Situating Science' Cluster" update in the HSS Newsletter

Date: 
Fri., Feb. 18, 2011, 12:15pm
"Situating the 'Situating Science' Cluster" update in the HSS Newsletter.

"Situating the 'Situating Science' Cluster" update in the HSS Newsletter

Vol. 40, No. 1, January 2011

View here:

http://www.hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter2011/January-science-cluster.html

L’humain comme ressource? Sociologie de la transplantation d’organes, Philippe Steiner, 8 février 2011

Date: 
Tue., Feb. 8, 2011, 4:00pm - , 6:00pm

 

L’humain comme ressource? Sociologie de la transplantation d’organes

 

Symbiogenesis in Gaia: Our Living Earth from Space

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Date: 
Mon., Jan. 31, 2011, 12:30pm - , 2:00pm

Lynn Margulis, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will be presenting a lecture on 'Symbiogenesis and Gaia' at York University, January 31st 2011. 

What Sorts of People Should There Be?

Date: 
Fri., Jan. 28, 2011, 4:45pm
A SSHRC CURA project. Dr. Rob Wilson, University of Alberta.

What Sorts of People Should There Be?

SSHRC CURA project. 

Dr. Rob Wilson, University of Alberta

Erik Conway: "Merchants of Doubt: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War" Jan 13, 2011

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Date: 
Thu., Jan. 13, 2011, 3:30pm

Erik Conway presents,  "Merchants of Doubt:  How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War" 

Jan 13, 2011
3:30 pm in Business 1-5
University of Alberta

News article in Edmonton Journal below.

See the blog on the event below.

What is the Future of STS?

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Date: 
Tue., Jan. 11, 2011, 12:30pm - , 2:00pm

The Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at York University will be hosting a panel discussion on the future of STS research in Canada and worldwide.

The panel consists of: William J. Turkel (University of Western Ontario), Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto), Sergio Sismondo (Queen’s University), and Darrin Durant (York); the discussion will be moderated by Natasha Myers (York).

Paula Findlen: After the Trial: Galileo, His Early Biographers and the Catholic Church

Date: 
Thu., Jan. 6, 2011, 5:00pm

Paula Findlen (History, Stanford): After the Trial: Galileo, His Early Biographers and the Catholic Church.

January 6, 2011, 5:00 pm.

Green College Coach House.