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Dr. Jobin Kanjirakkat is delivering a lecture at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Oct. 12. The title of the talk is “A “Science” by any Other Name: A Cosmopolitan Critique”.  Jobin has recently finished a post-doc with CosmoLocal at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College, and we are glad to see…

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?  Email us! Varun Bhatta is currently undertaking graduate research in philosophy of science at National Institute of Advanced…

Meet Dr. Letitia Meynell, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Dalhousie University, Halifax. Dr. Meynell is an invited speaker for the conference “Bridging the Gap: Scientific Imagination Meets Aesthetic Imagination,” to be held in London from 5-6 October 2017. 1. What is your current place of research? I am an associate professor in philosophy at…

CosmoLocal partners Lesley Cormack (University of Alberta, Canada), Gordon McOuat (University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada), and Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) organized a symposium “Cosmopolitanism and the Local in Science and Nature” as part of the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology.  The conference was held July 23-29, 2017, in…

Meet Dr. Simon Kow, Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of King’s College, Halifax. 1. What is your current place of research? I am currently Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I have been teaching at King’s since 2001. My home programme is the Early Modern…

  Gordon McOuat, University of King’s College, presented the 2017 Drake Lecture May 28th at the conference for the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, held in Toronto, Ontario.  The abstract of his lecture is below.   J.B.S Haldane’s Passage to India: Cosmopolitanism and the Reconfiguration of Knowledge Recent developments in the…

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?  Email us! Khyati Nagar is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto. …

Dr. Sundar Sarukkai’s talk “Science, Philosophy, & Non-Western Traditions of Knowledge” is now available to watch on our Youtube channel.  

Welcome to our new 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?  Email us! Urmila Unnikrishnan is a graduate student at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies in…

Kwame Anthony Appiah spoke in Halifax on Thursday, March 23rd, at the University of King’s College.  CosmoLocal was one of the event sponsors. These reflections highlight a few of Dr. Appiah’s key points and situate them in terms of CosmoLocal’s focus on international collaboration. By Brandi Estey-Burtt PhD Candidate Department of English, Dalhousie University  …