Events of interest in the New York region
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| First Monday Tours | Join us on the first Monday of every month (excluding holidays) to see highlights from the collection in the Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Reading Room. 12 pm, meet in the Academy lobby, 1216 Fifth Ave at 103rd St. |
September 2016 |
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| Sept 15 | “CONVENIENT : New York’s Love Affair With Plastics “ Part 3 of Fast, Cool & Convenient: Meeting New Yorkers’ High Demands Presented with The Museum of the City of New York Talk at 6:30pm at The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free, register online. |
| Sept 20-Nov 1 | “Facing Food: What Lies Beneath Our Eating Patterns Reading and Discussion Group” Tuesdays, 5:30-7pm (excluding Tuesday, October 4) at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free, more information. |
| Sept 21 | The Honorable Diane Kiesel “Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee: Civil Rights Pioneer” Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free, register online. |
| Sept 27 | Scott Podolsky, MD, Harvard University “The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics” The Heberden Society Lecture Co-sponsored by the Weill Cornell Medical College’s Heberden Society Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free, register online. |
| Sept 28 | Paula Findlen, Chair, Department of History, Stanford University “Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimenter” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm at the Faculty House, Columbia University, 64 Morningside Drive |
| Sept 30-Oct 1 | Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine At the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street |
October 2016 |
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| Sept 30-Oct 1 | Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine At the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street |
| Oct 26 | Archives, Activism, and Change Panel Jason Baumann, Coordinator of Humanities and LGBT Collections, NYPL; Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian, Barnard Library; Steven Fullwood, Curator, Schomburg Center, NYPL; and Tim Johnson, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives 7pm at The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave at 103rd Street |
| Oct 28 | Audra Wolfe, Independent Scholar; Editor and Publishing Consultant “The Fight for Science and Freedom: Recovering the Role of Science in Cold War-Era Cultural Diplomacy” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm at Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue |
November 2016 |
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| Nov 3 | After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 6: Alchemy Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm $30, register at Atlas Obscura |
| Nov 17 | Gabriela Soto Laveaga, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara “When Mexican Physicians Take to the Streets and to Villages” The Iago Galdston Lecture Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free, register online. |
| Nov 28-29 | 18th International Conference on Grey Literature: Leveraging Diversity in Grey Literature The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Details. |
| Nov 30 | Hello Islandora: Building a Digital Repository The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 10am-5pm Register here. |
| Nov 30 | Grey Literature: Intro and Search Strategies The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 10am-1pm Register here. |
| Nov 30 | Fabian Krämer, Assistant Professor of History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München “The Two Cultures Avant La Lettre: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Nineteenth Century” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue |
December 2016 |
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| Dec 1 | GreyLit Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 4pm-7pm Free,register here. |
| Dec 14 | Toshihiro Higuchi, Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University “Birth of the ‘Atomic Tuna’: Radioactive Fallout, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Politics of Radiological Standards in the Mid-1950s” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm at NYU-Gallatin, Room 801, 1 Washington Place |
January 2017 |
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| Jan 25 | Sara Pritchard, Associate Professor of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University “Polluted Nightscapes: ‘Natural Night-Sky Brightness,’ Skyglow, and the U.S. National Park Service” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm, location TBD |
February 2017 |
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| Feb 22 | Stephanie Dick, Assistant Professor of History & Sociology of Science, Penn University “After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in Postwar United States” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm, location TBD |
March 2017 |
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| Mar 29 | Neil Safier, Associate Professor of History, Brown University “Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue/td> |
April 2017 |
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| Apr 26 | Ann-Sophie Barwich, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University “Scent Track: What Can the History of Olfaction Tell Us About Theorizing in the Life Sciences?” New York City History of Science Lecture Series 6pm at The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street< |
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