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Reimagining the Right to Health through Lenape Epistemologies

  • Monday, October 9, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.
  • Online and in person at the Allan Rosenfield Building. Registration required.
  • “Human rights have historically advanced an anthropocentric world view that reinforces the right to health of human beings, disconnected from the health of nonhuman nature and what the Lenape people refer to as Kahèsëna Hàki (Mother Earth). On this Indigenous Peoples Day, consider reimagining health as a human right by de-linking from Euro-American conceptualizations of human/nonhuman, and instead drawing on Lenape knowledge systems. In the context of climate change, where the health of humans is dependent on the health of the planet, can the right to health be reimagined through Lenape epistemologies to protect the health of nonhuman nature?” More information here.

Psychology Monday Seminar: Herbert Terrace

  • Monday, October 9, 12 to 1:30 pm. 
  • In-person, Schermerhorn 200B.
  • As a part of the Psychology Department’s Monday Seminar, Herbert Terrace will give a talk. Terrace’s research focuses on the evolution of intelligence, specifically examining cognitive processes that do not require language. More information here.

IICD Seminar Series: Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota

  • Wednesday, October 11, 2 to 3 pm.
  • Online and in-person at Fairchild 700. Registration required for the webinar.
  • Dr. Jasmine Food of the University of Minnesota will discuss her research on the “computational methods for inferring tumor evolution and heterogeneity” as a part of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics seminar series on mathematical sciences and cancer research. More information here.

Tissue Talks with Sonia Schrepfer

  • Wednesday, October 11, 3 pm.
  • Online. Registration required. 
  • Sonja Schrepfer from the University of California, San Francisco, will discuss “engineering of allogeneic donor cells for acceptance by the host’s immune system” as a part of the Tissue Talks seminar hosted by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering. More information here.

The Geometry of Chaos: The Primacy of Doubt

  • Thursday, October 12, 10:30 to 11:45 am.
  • In-person, The Forum at Columbia University.
  • Dr. Tim Palmer of Oxford University will argue that Chaos Theory should be “considered the third great theory of twentieth-century physics, alongside Quantum Theory and Relativity Theory.” More information here.

Conversations on Land in and out of the Americas

  • Thursday, October 12, 12 to 1:30 pm.
  • Online and in-person at Buell Hall 300S. Email buellcenter@columbia.edu to register online.
  • “Since the 17th Century, land has been “made” from its edges inward. Two scholars present research drawn from the long history of land in Mumbai, India, and in Western Kenya, showing how wealth is made from (and on) the edges of landed territories. Countering classical economics’ characterization that land’s value comes only from investing in the earth’s agricultural productivity, both speakers examine the long-term effects of alternate liquidities onto land’s shape and settlement.” More information here.

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