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  CosmoLocal’s Post-Doc Coordinator, Dr. Jobin Kanjirakkat, has published a review of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: An Intimate History (2016) in the Spring 2017 issue of Configurations.  Congrats to Jobin on a great review of a fascinating book! Find Jobin’s review here.

  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!   Anita Buragohain is currently a second year PhD student at the Science and…

  We’ve updated our list of job opportunities, postdoc positions, fellowships, and conferences.  Check here for all the info.

ANTHONY APPIAH’S TALK HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MARCH 23RD Date: Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 Time: 7 pm Location: Alumni Hall, University of King’s College, Halifax The renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah will be speaking on “Sharing with Strangers: Compassion through the Arts and Humanities in an Age of Globalization” Thursday, March 23rd,…

Fall Newsletter Out Now! Check out all the CosmoLocal happenings, including updates about workshops, lectures, publications, and more. Fall 2016 Newsletter

Meet Dr. Arun Bala, Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bala will be giving a talk at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nov. 14th, at 7pm.  See here for more details on that event. 1. What is your current place of research? Until recently I have been Senior Research Fellow with the…

As part of the workshop “Found in Translation: Cosmopolitics and the Value of Biotech,” Dr. Sheila Jasanoff from Harvard Kennedy School will be presenting “Modern Metamorphoses: Bodies and Subjects in Cosmopolitan Space” at 5:30-7pm this evening.

We have a number of great events coming up in November, so here’s a handy list to keep track of them all.   Nov. 3-5 – Workshop at York University: Found in Translation: Cosmopolitics and the Value of Biotech Nov. 7 – Dr. Sundar Sarukkai at York University: Science, Philosophy and non-Western Traditions of Knowledge…

Date: Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 Time: 11am-1pm Location: 6th floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University, Toronto Dr. Sundar Sarukkai, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, will be giving a public lecture titled “Science, Philosophy, and non-Westerns Traditions of Knowledge” next Monday, Nov. 7th, at York University. Please see the York Centre for Asian Research…

After a talk at Duke University in October and the publishing of his book Complementarity Beyond Physics: Niels Bohr’s Parallels with Palgrave Macmillan, Dr. Arun Bala continues his busy fall by giving a talk entitled “The Scientific Revolution: Rethinking its Origins” Nov. 14, at 7:00pm, at King’s College, Halifax. The Scientific Revolution: Rethinking Its Origins…