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Welcome to our grad student profile!  We are excited to highlight the research of grad students working in science and technology studies, history of science, and philosophy of science.  Know someone whose work you’d like to support?  Let us know!   Yana Boeva is a PhD candidate in Science & Technology Studies at York University…

Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society has a number of books available for review, including Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West edited by our very own Jobin Kanjirakkat, Gordon McOuat, and Sundar Sarukkai. See the History of Science Society website for more information and contact them to review your copy…

Alumni Hall, University of King’s College Halifax, NS April 4th, 2018 7pm The notion of “human” has changed in Artificial Intelligence research. Where “traditional” A.I. sought to explicitly reproduce human faculties in machines, today any resemblance is incidental to the primary goal making good predictions or solving hard problems. With King’s alumna and University of…

Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University 29 March 2018, 7pm Performance & lecture A special performance and lecture marking the 200th anniversary of the Mary Shelley classic. With Despina Kakoudaki, American University of Washington, and author of Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema and the Cultural Work of Artificial People. See here for more…

The annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is coming up soon and so is the deadline for early bird registration – March 31st.  See the website for details about registration and association fees. Also, accommodations are booking quickly, so check out the options listed on the Congress 2018 website.

Dr. Franklin Perkins, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, presents a special guest lecture in association with the departments of Philosophy, Religious Studies, King’s Contemporary Studies, King’s Early Modern Studies, and the Cosmopolitan and the Local in Science. See here for more details.

Automatons! From Ovid to AI War in the Age of Intelligent Machines When: March 21, 2018 @ 7pm Where: Scotiabank Theatre, University of King’s College, Halifax, NS Don’t miss Noel Sharkey, renowned professor of robotics and popular BBC commentator, and Duncan MacIntosh, Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, as they debate the role of autonomous weapons…

Automatons: From Ovid to AI” Lecture Series Asian Robots and Orientalism Who: Dr. Simon Kow, University of King’s College When: 7pm, March 7, 2018 Where: Alumni Hall, University of King’s College, Halifax, NS See here for more details.

Who Can Read My Body? Trading off Privacy and Control for Access to Genetic and Health Data Who: Dr. Anita Ho, Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC; Bioethics Program, UCAL When: March 7, 2018 @ 7pm Where: Scotiabank Theatre, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS See CCEPA’s website for more details.