The New York Consortium on Science and Society will host a special meeting on
October 26, 2004, with guest speaker, Dr. Christine Hauskeller,
Center for Genomics in Society in Exeter (UK). Professor Hauskeller's
presentation will focus on 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. Hauskeller, who
is German and currently based in the UK, will pay particular attention to
the contrast between those two countries, each so different -- historically,
politically, socially and culturally -- from each other and from the
US. (posted 10/8/04)
The New York Consortium on Science and Society will host its regular monthly
meeting on October 13, 2004 with guest speaker Dr. Nancy Olivieri,
University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children. She has been the
director of the largest clinical trial study of thalassemia patients in
North America. Dr. Olivieri was the subject of a famous
whistle-blowing case with the biotech company Apotex a few years ago.
Recently, the "Olivieri case" has re-surfaced as a political
issue, and Dr. Olivieri will talk about the context for these new
developments. (posted 10/8/04)
The Institute is will serve as host to a three-day meeting of the Social
Science Translation Project of the American Council of Learned Societies,
from October 22-24. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Office of the Dean
for the Social Sciences, GSAS, New York University. The highlight of
this meeting will be a public lecture by distinguished translator, author,
and Professor of English, Lawrence Venuti, Translating the Human
Sciences: Discourse, Intertextuality, Institution. Dr.
Venuti's lecture will be held on Friday, October 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, New York University, 40 Washington Square
South. (posted 10/8/04)
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. (updated 10/8/04;
originally posted 8/6/04)
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 LectureSeries 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. (posted 5/12/04)
The IHPK has closed the 2004-2005 Graduate Assistantship application
process. Eleana Kim (Anthropology) and Aaron Panofsky (Sociology) have been
selected as the IHPK graduate assistantship candidates for 2004-2005. (posted
4/23/04)
The IHPK has begun work on a major new initiative. The Science
Studies ResourceNet will be an online gathering
place for information about graduate courses, faculty, discussion groups,
meetings, and miscellaneous resources with a focus on science studies in the
greater New York metropolitan area, including schools participating in the Inter-University
Doctoral Consortium (IUDC). Information
on the ResourceNet will be collected and compiled from diverse sources,
including the world wide web, graduate school bulletins, course catalogs,
faculty surveys, etc. This information will then posted on the ResourceNet
in order to facilitate the work of scholars in the various fields that
comprise science studies. The ResourceNet is scheduled to be
launched in early fall 2004. Anyone interested in the Science Studies
ResourceNet should contact the IHPK administrator for further information. (posted
3/3/04)
The New York Consortium on Science and Society will host a special meeting on
February 22, 2004, with guest speaker, Dr. Gisli Pálsson ,
Departmant of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. Professor Pálsson
will make a brief presentation on his soon to be published paper "The
Web of Kin: An Online Genealogical Machine" in which he considers
digital genealogies, based on an examination of the Book of Icelanders, and
extensive computerized database on Icelandic family histories. (posted
2/5/04)
The New York Consortium on Science and Society will host its monthly
meeting on February 18 with guest speakers Robin Root, medical
anthropologist and senior project manager of the Knowledge in Action
initiative, and David Slocum, Associate Dean in the Graduate School
of Arts and Science at New York University, and co-founder of an NYU
partnership with the University of Cape Town, S.A., for the study of
diversity and HIV/AIDS. They will present a full-scale proposal,
called Knowledge-In-Action for information, commentary, feedback and
constructive criticism by the Consortium's members. (posted
1/14/04)
The New York Consortium on Science and Society will host its monthly
meeting on October 22 (this is a date change) with guest speaker Dr.
Charles Rotimi, Professor and Director of Genetic Epidemiology at the National
Human Genome Center at Howard University. Dr. Rotimi will discuss
the Howard University DNA database project. (posted 10/17/03)
The IHPK has closed the 2003-2004 Graduate Assistantship application
process. Sudhir Mahadevan (Cinema Studies) and Maria Rose
(Music) have been appointed as the two IHPK graduate assistants for
2003-2004. (posted 9/26/03)
The faculty and staff of the IHPK mourn the loss of Professor Dorothy
Nelkin. Professor Nelkin, known to friends and colleagues as
"Dot," was a University Professor in the Department of Sociology
and NYU School of Law. She served on the Institute's Advisory
Committee from 1997 to 2003, and taught several IHPK courses during that
time. Professor Nelkin worked closely with IHPK Professor Troy Duster
(also of the Department of Sociology) on the
science-society relationship, particularly in the area of genetics.
She and Professor Duster were in the process of jointly developing a course
for the Institute that would address emerging legal issues in the field of
biotechnology. The course which was originally planned for Fall 2003
will be taught by Professor Duster in Spring 2004. The New York
Times obituary for Professor Nelkin appeared on June 2, 2003. It
may be accessed online at http://www.nytimes.com
(posted 6/5/03)
The Culture
Mattersonline magazine website is up. Culture Matters
is the brainchild of a small group of anthropologists, including Emily
Martin, who have been working to establish an online “popular
anthropology”
magazine which would address the gap between popular news coverage of
developments in anthropology and the more specialized treatment given to
those developments in professional journals.Significant progress has been made on this initiative and the website
is currently under review by a leading academic publishing house. The
debut issue of Culture Matters can be viewed online at http://www.nyu.edu/fas/ihpk/CultureMatters/index2.htm.
(posted 4/23/03)
