The Center for Science in Society
Events Calendar
Fall 2003
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September
8, Monday |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Ted Wong (Biology) Why Quantify; or, Why the World Is Not Enough |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| September 8,
Monday 10-5pm - Posters on display 3-5pm - Student Presentations Afternoon refreshments. Campus Center Main Lounge |
Undergraduate Summer Research Program Poster Presentation | Sponsored by
the Undergraduate Dean's Office and the Math & Science Departments Details: Peter Brodfuehrer |
| September
9, Tuesday 7-9 pm Thomas Great Hall |
Town
Hall Meeting: Diverse Identities: Living in Community |
Free and open to the public. |
| September 9, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion |
Details: Ted Wong |
| September
10, Wednesday 5-7 pm Dinner provided. |
Graduate
Idea Forum Peggy MacIntosh, Feeling Like a Fraud Anne Dalke (2002) Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach, P. Lang |
Details: Judie McCoyd |
| September
12, Friday 3-4 pm Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Diversity
Conversations: Moderator Paul Grobstein Biology and Diversity |
Free and open to the public. |
| September
15, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Anne Dalke (English, Gender Studies) Numbers and Narratives: A Humanist Reflects on the Relation |
Details:
Elizabeth McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| September 16, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Paul Grobstein-Buchanan's ''Nexus'' |
Details: Ted Wong |
| September
18, Thursday 1:30 - 3 pm Park Building 227 |
Language
Working Group Meeting
|
Details: Eric Raimy |
| September
19, Friday 1-3pm School of Social Work |
Graduate
Idea Forum: Introduction Toulmin's "Return to Reason" and Cleland's "Historical Science, Experimental Science and the Scientific Method" |
Details: Judie McCoyd |
| September
22, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Arlo Weil (Geology) What I'm Counting, Why and How |
Details:
Elizabeth McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| September
23, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Tim Burke-Emergence in Humanities, Take 1 |
Details: Ted Wong |
| September
25, Thursday 4:10 p.m., Park Building 25 |
Environmental
Studies Series: Eleanor Sterling Director, American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Science In Conservation: A Focus On Vietnam's Biodiversity |
Sponsored
by Environmental Studies and the Center for Science in Society Details: Ted Wong |
| September
26, Friday 3-4 pm Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Diversity
Conversations: Moderator Anne Dalke Blood Child, by Octavia Butler |
Free and open to the public. |
| September
29, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Elliott Shore (Information Services) If You Can Count It, It's Worth Counting |
Details:
Elizabeth McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| September
30, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Tim Burke-Emergence in Humanities, Take 2 |
Details: Ted Wong |
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October 6, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Jody Cohen (Education) and Nell Anderson (Praxis)
Moving Beyond the Quantitative Definition of Merit: Learning from and with the Posse |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| October 6, Monday 5:30pm -Dinner 6:30pm -Presentation Dorothy Vernon Room |
Physics Colloquium: Francis Robicheaux Department of Physics, Auburn University “Ultracold Hot-matter” |
Details: Peter Brodfuehrer |
| October 6, Monday 4:15pm -Talk Park Building 328 3:45pm -Tea Park 355, Math Lounge |
Math Colloquium: Lynnell Matthews University of Pennsylvania “A Variation on the Tennis Ball Problem” |
Details: Victor Donnay |
| October
7, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Jim Marshall-Metacat, a model of human analogy-making |
Details: Ted Wong |
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October 8, Wednesday 7:15-9:15 pm Thomas Room 110 Reception following lecture, Thomas Great Hall |
Special
Lecture: Panel and open discussion Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Enemies, Acquaintances, Bedfellows? A Conversation Convenor: Bruce Levin Moderator: Susan Levine Panel Members: Elio Frattaroli Sydney Pulver Paul Grobstein |
Presented
by the Bryn Mawr College Center for Science and Society and the Fellows
Program of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia Co-sponsored by the Alliance for Psychoanalytic Thought, the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work, and the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Details: Paul Grobstein |
| October
9 , Thursday 4:10 p.m., Park Building 25 |
Environmental
Studies Series: Julie Hagelin Assistant Professor of Biology, Swarthmore Chemical Signals In Birds: Implications For Behavior And Conservation |
Sponsored
by Environmental Studies and the Center for Science in Society Details: Ted Wong |
| October
10, Friday 3-4 pm Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Diversity
Conversations: Moderator Ted Wong "Asian: Race or Category?" Reading: Frank Wu Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White (2002): pp. 1-38. |
Free
and open to the public. Interested participants can request the large pdf file from Ted; hard copies available outside his office in Park, Anne Dalke's in English House and the Deans' Office in Taylor. |
| October
13 |
FALL BREAK |
No Brown Bag |
| October
20, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Paula Viterbo (History of Science) Counting the Days: Natural Family Planning |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| October
21, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Jan Trembley-Emergent Pedagogy |
Details: Ted Wong |
| October
23, Thursday 4:10 p.m., Park Building 25 |
Environmental
Studies Series: Mary Seton Director and Founder, Greensgrow Philadelphia Project Demystifying Urban Agriculture |
Sponsored
by Environmental Studies and the Center for Science in Society Details: Ted Wong |
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October 23, Thursday |
Geology Lecture:
Steve Jarvela Federal On-Scene Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Vapor Plume at the Tranguch Gasoline Site: A Case Study from Hazleton |
Presented by the Philadelphia Geological Society |
| October
24, Friday 3-4 pm Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Diversity
Conversations: TBA |
Free and open to the public. |
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October 27, Monday |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Elena Bernal (Institutional Research) College Rankings: What Factors Drive Them |
Details:
Elizabeth McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| October
28, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Jim Wright-Cultural Geography |
Details: Ted Wong |
| October 29,
Wednesday Noon- 2pm Graduate School of Social Work |
Graduate
Idea Forum: Catharine Stimpson Readings: Catharine Stimpson, Myths of Transformation: Realities of Change, PMLA 115, 5 (October 2000), 1142-1153 Catharine Stimpson, General Education for Graduate Education, The Chronicle Review, from the issue dated November 1, 2002 Catharine R. Stimpson, "The Idea of the Corporate University," Written for a conference at the Society of Humanities, Cornell University on "The Idea of the University," October 18-19, 2002. |
Details: Judie McCoyd |
| October 29,
Wednesday 7:302pm The Ely Room, Wyndham |
Special
Lecture: Catharine Stimpson (Class of 1958) Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences New York University The Future of Graduate School Education |
Details: Corey
Shdaimah (610) 642-2358 |
| October 30, Thursday 4:15pm Park Building, Room 229 Refreshments served at 4pm |
Biology Lecture: Eli Meir |
Details: Paul Grobstein |
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November 3, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Radcliffe Edmonds (Classics) The Theology of Arithmetic |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| November 4, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Mark Kuperberg-Emergence in Economics |
Details: Ted Wong |
| November
6 , Thursday 4:10 p.m., Park Building 25 |
Environmental
Studies Series: Alec Brownlow Assistant Professor , Geography & Urban Studies Temple University Thoughts On A Multicultural Urban Ecology |
Sponsored
by Environmental Studies and the Center for Science in Society Details: Ted Wong |
| November
7, Friday 3-4 pm Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Diversity
Conversations: TBA |
Free and open to the public. |
| November 7,
Friday 4-6pm Park Building, Room 354 (Computer Lab) |
Tri-Co
Mellon Faculty Working Group on Math Modeling: Don Barber (Geology) Modeling in Weather Prediction (Particularly Hurricanes) and Climate Change |
Details: Victor Donnay |
| November 7,
Friday 3:40pm -Refreshements 4:00pm -Presentation Park Building, Room 180 |
Chemistry Colloquia:
Veronika Szalai (Class of 1988)
|
Details: Sharon Burgmayer |
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November 10, Monday |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Liz Mc Cormack (Physics) Concepts of Measurement in Physics |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
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November 10, Monday |
The
Rothenberg Lecture: Ian Bowles Senior Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Cambridge, MA Executive Director, Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC) The Global Biodiversity Treaty: Why is the United States Not a Party? |
Details: Xenia Morin |
| November 10,
Monday 3:45pm -Tea, Park Room 355 4:15pm -Presentation Park Building, Room 328 |
Bi-Co Mathematics Colloquium:
Fang Chen
|
Details: Rhonda Hughes |
| November 11, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Karen Greif-Not Peter Corning |
Details: Ted Wong |
| November 17,
Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: David Ross (Economics) Bucks, Values and Happiness |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| November 17, Monday 5:30pm-Dinner, 6:30pm Presentation Dorothy Vernon Room, Haffner Hall |
Physics Colloquium: Robert W. Boyd Institute of Optics, University of Rochester Slow Light and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Response in Novel Materials |
Details: Peter Brodfuehrer |
| November 19, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Anne Dalke-Trees and Rhizomes |
Details: Ted Wong |
| November
20, Thursday Noon Park Building, Room 229 |
Biology
and Psychology Colloquium: Wilson Q. Joe Ph.D. Candiadte BMC Neural and Behavioral Sciences Program An Executive Performance Account of Theory of Mind Expression |
Details: Paul Grobstein |
| November
20, Thursday 4:10 p.m., Park Building 25 |
Environmental
Studies Series: Johanna Polsenberg Director of Government Relations National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research Science: Tool Or Weapon On Capitol Hill? |
Sponsored
by Environmental Studies and the Center for Science in Society Details: Ted Wong |
| November
20, Thursday 7:00pm Park Building, Room 243 |
Geology Lecture: Walter Leis Tetrahedron Consultants Tree Rings as Environmental Indicators: Dendrochronology in Geoforensics |
Presented by the Philadelphia Geological Society |
| November
21, Friday 3-4 pm Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Diversity
Conversations: TBA |
Free and open to the public. |
| November 21,
Friday 3:40pm -Refreshements 4:00pm -Presentations Park Building, Room 180 |
Chemistry Colloquia:
Professor Stefan Bernhard |
Details: Sharon Burgmayer |
| November 24,
Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Michelle Mancini (Dean's Office and CSem Staff) The Face Behind/Above/Within the Numbers: Sentiment vs. Statistics, Then and Now |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| November 24,
Monday 3:45pm -Tea, Park Room 355 4:15pm -Presentation Park Building, Room 328 |
Bi-Co Mathematics Colloquium:
Walter Stromquist
|
Details: Rhonda Hughes |
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December 1, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Jan Trembley (Alumnae Bulletin) Measuring "Success'"and the Alumnae Bulletin |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| December
2, Tuesday 8 -9am Park Building 230, the Emergent Intelligence Laboratory Coffee and muffins provided. Open to all . |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion |
Details: Ted Wong |
| December
4 , Wednesday 5-7pm |
Graduate
Idea Forum: Evaluation and feedback for students and teachers Tentative readings: Denise Clark Pope (2001)"Doing School": How We are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, Yale University Press. "A Retrospect on Making and Judging," Chapter 8 in Jerome Bruner (1968) Toward a Theory of Instruction |
Details: Judie McCoyd |
| December
5, Friday 3-4 pm Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Diversity
Conversations: |
Free and open to the public. |
| December
8, Monday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology) Quantification and Value: What We've Learned So Far |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
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December 12, Friday |
Tri-Co
Mellon Faculty Working Group on Math Modeling: Doug Norton Chair, Department of Mathematics,Villanova University Math Modeling and AIDS |
Details: Victor Donnay |
