Ongoing meetings
Convened by Mary Poovey
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Transcultural
Studies
Supported
by the Ford Foundation
The Cultures of Finance Working Group is an international, interdisciplinary,
inter-university seminar conducted by a select group of scholars that meet
periodically at members' home institutions. Meetings focus on the
historical and comparative dimensions of financial activities, understood as a
cultural phenomenon rather than simply as economic one. The
purpose of these seminars is to develop both a common vocabulary for describing
the cultural effects of developments within modern capitalism and a more
humanistic understanding of how developments within finance have altered our
conceptions of temporality, risk, and value. The working group is a
project of the Center for
Transcultural Studies, of which Mary Poovey is a member. The following
meetings were co-sponsored by the IHPK, with New York University and the Faculty
of Arts and Science serving as host institution:
5/23-25/2003 (upcoming) Planning meeting to discuss preparations for a future meeting in Prague sometime in late 2003 or early 2004. Negotiations are underway to host the meeting at NYU in Prague.
9/20/2002 Planning and organizational meeting with group leaders (Benjamin Lee, Rice University, and Ed Lipuma, University of Miami)
4/25-27/2002 "Cultures
of Finance: Localizing Globalization" meeting
10/26-27/2001 “Social Imaginaries” meeting at New York University
Meets monthly –
ongoing through 12/2004 (by invitation only)
Convened by Troy Duster
Supported
by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
The
New York Consortium on Science and Society is an inter-disciplinary group of
scholars, researchers and writers interested in bringing to bear their knowledge
and expertise on particular aspects of the science-society relationship,
especially the
interface between fast-moving developments in the biosciences and their social
implications.
Meetings
are
organized around a theme, often with a brief presentation by an invited
speaker. The Consortium's membership
is drawn from persons in institutions located in the greater New York
metropolitan area, and includes members from Columbia, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Queens, the Gene-Media Forum, and the Sencer Group of the Association of
American Colleges and Universities. Selected discussion topics have included:
11/30/2004 - Nadia Abu El-Haj will discuss her work "Bearing the Mark of Israel? Genetics, Geneaology, and the Quest for Jewish Origins," in which she explores the evidentiary assumptions and methodological logics at work within the field of genetic anthropology: in reconstructing Jewish origins and migrations, in trying to decipher the (historic) relatedness of contemporary Jewish communities to one another as well as to Arab populations of the Middle East, in conceptions of nature, culture and history emerge within this distinctive domain of research that straddles the natural and the human sciences in particular ways.
10/26/2004 - The varied international ethical perspectives that have been brought to the discussion of embryonic and adult stem cell medicine, and the influence different institutional settings and regulatory decisions have had on stem cell science and medicine. (with Christine Hauskeller, Center for Genomics in Society in Exeter, UK);
10/13/2004 - Dr. Nancy Olivieri will talk about the context for new developments in the relationships between research institutions and private industry funders, specifically focusing on medical research and the pharmaceutical industry. (with Dr. Nancy Olivieri, University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children);
12/4/2002
- AIDS policy and curricular development in South Africa (with Bob Fullilove, Columbia
University,
and David Slocum, New York
University);
10/2/2002
– “From the Classroom to the Boardroom: Conflict of Interest in Science
Today," about the extraordinary changes taking place in the life
sciences, their impacts on science, clinical practice, and public
information and "next steps" and/or "new initiatives."
(with Dorothy Nelkin, New York University)
4/17/2002
- dialogue about claims-making in human genetic engineering, utilizing
Commoner's article in the February issue of Harper's Magazine, "Unraveling
the DNA Myth: The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering," as
a starting point for discussion (with Barry
Commoner);
3/6/2002
- social implications of the expanding DNA testing and DNA banking,
especially the implications of expanding the national FBI CODIS DNA database
- which in many states now includes misdemeanants and arrestees, in addition
to convicted felons and known sex offenders (with
Peter
Neufeld, The Innocence Project);
2/6/2002 - representations of bio-terrorism by the media and the government; discussed in the context of the anthrax scare that gripped the east coast during the fall of 2001; and,
11/28/2001 - the new Haplotype Map of the Human Genome Project and its implications for resisting or reinforcing existing taxonomies of ethnicity and race.
October
22-24, 2004
Convened by Troy Duster (IHPK, NYU) and Andrzej Tymowski (ACLS)
Co-Sponsored by the
Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, and the offices of the
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Dean for the Social
Sciences, FAS, NYU
Supported
by the Ford Foundation
This annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies' Social Science Translation Project was hosted at New York University in 2004 by the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge. The event featured a series of meetings over three days of invited ACLS members, NYU faculty and social science journal editors, as well as a public lecture by eminent translation scholar Lawrence Venuti (Temple University), titled "Translating the Human Sciences: Discourse, Intertextuality, Institution."
Thursday,
September 30, 2004, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Annual meeting
Convened by Troy Duster
Sponsored by the
NYU School of Law, Department of Sociology
Additional
supported
provided
by
IHPK
A new annual lecture series, named for the late sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, is being organized jointly by the School of Law and Department of Sociology at New York University, with additional support provided by the IHPK. The series will focus on science and society, a central theme in the Dr. Nelkin's work. The inaugural event of the Dorothy Nelkin Lecture Series will take place on September 30, 2004, at 6:00 p.m. in the Greenberg Lounge, 40 Washington Square South. Professor Susan Lindee from the University of Pennsylvania will speak on "Moments of Truth: Genetic Disease in American Culture." Please contact David Garland (212-998-6337) at the NYU School of Law for more information.
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Thursday,
October 28, 2004, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Bi-annual award
Organized by Troy Duster
Co-Sponsored by the Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation
We are pleased to announce that the IHPK will once again serve as host to the Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation's Wells Memorial Lecture and presentation ceremony for the Ida B. Wells Journalism Award. The award is presented to a journalist who exemplifies courage in reporting on racial inequity and injustice in the contemporary United States. The 2004 recipient of the award is the distinguished Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, Bob Herbert. The lecture and award ceremony will take place on October 28, 2004 at the New York University Silver Center. Professor Patricia Schechter of Portland State University and author of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) will deliver the 2004 Wells Memorial Lecture. Recording artist and jazz saxophonist Dave Ellis will open the evening with a brief performance. The inaugural recipient of the Ida B. Wells Journalism Award (2002) was Professor Patricia J. Williams of the Columbia University Law School. The 2002 Wells Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Paula J. Giddings of Smith College's department of Afro-American Studies. IHPK professor Troy Duster is Wells' grandson.
April 4, 2003
Convened by Emily Martin and Don Kulick
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Co-Sponsored by
the NYU Department of Anthropology
This day-long symposium brought together a small
number of scholars whose work touches on human action as it may be compelled by
forces that are unknown, unacknowledged, or inaccessible to the actor, in order
to discuss theories, methods, problems and potential. Presenters included:
Paul Antze, University of Toronto
Michael Billig, Loughborough University
Deborah
Cameron, New York University
Anna
Grimshaw, New York University
Don Kulick, New York University
Emily Martin, New York
University
Fred Myers, New York
University
Elinor Ochs, UCLA
Bambi Schieffelin, New York University
November 1, 2002
Convened by Troy Duster
Co-Sponsored by Ida B. Wells Foundation
Supported
by the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU
This
ceremony and lecture, which took place at the Century Association, NYC,
inaugurated the Ida B. Wells Journalism Award.
Patricia
Williams of
Columbia University Law School, and columnist for The Nation magazine, was the
recipient of this award. The
ceremony was preceded by the Wells Memorial Lecture given by Paula Giddings, Professor of Afro-American Studies at Smith College. IHPK professor,
Troy Duster, is the grandson of Ida B. Wells.
March 9, 2000
Convened by Troy Duster
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Media, Culture and
History (NYU)
Supported
by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and the
Graduate School of Arts and Science
The
Virtual University conference addressed emerging challenges technology presents
for institutions of higher education. In
particular, the discussion focused on how outside pressures are forcing
fundamental transformations in the academy in the 21st-century.
Presenters included:
Diana Oblinger, Vice President for Information
Resources and Chief Information Officer, University of North Carolina
Adela Ros Hijar, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
Barcelona, Spain
Barry Munitz, President and CEO, The Getty
Foundation, and former Chancellor, California State University System
Jeffrey Kittay, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Lingua
Franca and University Business
Patrick Clinton, Executive Editor, University
Business
Mary Poovey, Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge
February 21, 1999
Convened by Mary Poovey
Co-Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Graduate
Studies, FAS (NYU)
With this workshop, participants reached a consensus
about symptoms of the current crisis in literary studies and came to some
agreement about the kind of recasting that might reinvigorate the discipline.
Panelists included:
Mary Carruthers, New York University
John Guillory, Harvard University
Richard Miller, Rutgers University
Sylvia Molloy, New York University
Mary Poovey, New York University
Clifford Siskin, SUNY Stony Brook
Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University
E. Bowman
Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge
Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University
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Originally posted: 04/23/2003
Last updated: 04/08/2005