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