Center for Science in Society - Seminars and Discussions for Faculty

Seminars and Discussions for Faculty

2006-2007

Diversity Conversations - A year-long series of events, with ongoing discussions in the online forum.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion - A weekly discussion group actively exploring emergence in science and society and its underlying mechanisms.

Exploring Science as Open-Ended Transactional Inquiry: A Working Group on Elementary Science Education - A working group created Fall 2006, whose objective is to explore alternate ways of thinking about science education that more accurately reflect the nature of science itself, viewed not as a body of knowledge but as a fundamental and generally useful style of human inquiry.

First Friday Faculty Lunch Club Series - This series was created as a way to foster open discussion, collaboration, and collegiality among faculty across the college. Faculty are invited to have a buffet lunch, sponsored by the Center, and learn about a colleague's work and research interests in an informal setting. These talks are short (25-30 min.) and are designed to be accessible to ALL audiences and will serve to provide a flavor of an area of science and its impact on the society. Check the Centers Calendar for information on upcoming meetings.

2005-2006

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion - A weekly brown bag lunch discussion group addressing the topics of "Rethinking Science in Society" (Fall 2005) and "Rethinking Science Education" (Spring 2006).

Diversity Conversations - A year-long series of events, with ongoing discussions in the online forum.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion - A weekly discussion group actively exploring emergence in science and society and its underlying mechanisms.

Rethinking Parenting - What do the numbers not tell us, about happiness, fulfillment, and the choices we want to make about parenting? Can we think differently about the relation between working and having kids? Can we find ways to compose our lives that are not defined by cultural stereotypes?

Stories of Teaching and Learning: A Conversation - A monthly series of discussions intended to encourage and support ongoing thinking about the nature and practice of education using Bryn Mawr itself, and the experiences of learners and teachers here, as a case study.

2004-2005

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion - A weekly brown bag lunch discussion group addressing the topic of "Science's Audiences" (Spring 2005).

Bryn Mawr as a Learning/Teaching Environment: A Conversation - A monthly series of discussions intended to encourage and support ongoing thinking about the nature and practice of education using Bryn Mawr itself, and the experiences of learners and teachers here, as a case study.

Diversity Conversations - A year-long series of events, with ongoing discussions in the online forum.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion - A weekly discussion group actively exploring emergence in science and society and its underlying mechanisms.

Graduate Idea Forum Study Group - A monthly reading and discussion group on general interdisciplinary themes.

Information?: An Inquiry - A (summer 2004) weekly discussion group focusing on the nature of "information", a widely used and significant but poorly formalized concept.

Language: A Conversation - A biweekly group bringing together people who do not usually work together to discuss language, and inviting speakers to the community.

2003-2004

Diversity Conversations - A year-long series of events, with ongoing discussions in the online forum.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion - A weekly discussion group actively exploring emergence in science and society and its underlying mechanisms.

Information, Meaning, and Noise:What's the Difference? - A weekly brown bag lunch discussion group (Spring 2004).

Language: A Conversation - A biweekly group bringing together people who do not usually work together to discuss language, and inviting speakers to the community.

A Symposium on Beauty - a series of six talks/discussions (Spring 2004)

What Counts? Measuring Ourselves and the World - A weekly brown bag lunch discussion group (Fall 2003).

2002-2003

Emergent Systems: A Discussion, 2002-03 - a biweekly discussion

Language: A Conversation, 2002-03 - an ongoing working group which brings together different perspectives about language, as a matter of both theoretical/conceptual inquiry and of practical/cultural/social importance.

The Science of Culture/The Culture of Science - 2002-2003 Weekly Brown Bag Lunch Discussion.

A Symposium on Time - a series of 5 talks/discussions (Spring 2003)

Prior to Fall, 2002

Building Two-Way Bridges: A Conversation about Gender and Science, 2002 - one day seminar for faculty in the sciences and women’s studies from a dozen area colleges and universities, sponsored by The Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium.

Talking Toward Techno-Pedagogy, 2000-02 - a collaborative, cross-college, cross-constituency effort that uses the advent and proliferation of new information technologies as an occasion to rethink all aspects of educational practice, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Two Cultures: A Conversation, 2001 - continuing general discussion of the "two cultures" dichotomy, first called attention to by C.P. Snow over fifty years ago.