Fall 2009 SSF Events

September 30, 2009

Rickey Welch, Professor of Biological Sciences, UMBC

Joseph N. Tatarewicz, Associate Professor and Director, Human Context of Science & Technology Program, UMBC 

C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures”: A Fifty Year Perspective


October 5, 2009

Harry Collins, Distinguished Research Professor, Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES), Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, UK

Politics, Expertise and the Two Cultures


October 28, 2009

Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

Snow, Two Cultures and the Science Wars


November 2, 2009

Naomi Oreskes, Provost, Sixth College, University of California, San Diego

Global Climate Change: Science, Polity, and Authority


November 9, 2009

Susan Dwyer, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park 

Christoph Irmscher, Department of English, Indiana University 

Manil Suri, Department of Mathematics, UMBC 

Tim Topoleski, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMBC

The Two Cultures Today: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on the Sciences and the Humanities


October 19, 2009

Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project, Anne Arundel County Archaeologist

Seeking Lost Towns: Historic Archaeology in Anne Arundel County


November 5, 2009

Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of American Civilization and Sociology, Brown University

The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Women’s Migration & Social Transformations


November 11, 2009

Nkiru Nzedgwu, Professor of Africana Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at Binghamton

Immigration and African Diaspora Women


December 2, 2009

Robert Reischauer, President, Urban Institute

Health Care Reform