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Meet Dr. Lesley Cormack from the University of Alberta, Edmonton.   1. What is your current place of research? I am Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta and a professor of history of science in the Department of History and Classics. 2. Could you give us some details about your education background? I…

Found in Translation: Cosmopolitics and the Value of Biotech York University November 3-5, 2016   This workshop will explore the constitutional nature of profound biotech change at the fundamental level of constitutional rights and the political structures of individuals and collectives.  We will focus on cosmopolitan and biocapital perspectives on translation, exploring how tacit reliance…

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Dr. Arun Bala Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 Duke University “In his recent study The Rise of Modern Science Explained: A Comparative History Floris Cohen argues that three modes of nature-knowledge – realist mathematical, kinetic corpuscular, and fact-finding experimental – combined to produce modern science. Cohen sees these as transformations of earlier European traditions. This talk…

Congratulations to Arun Bala, whose new book Complementarity Beyond Physics: Niels Bohr’s Parallels will be published this November with Palgrave Macmillan!

On August 9-10, 2016, a workshop on the changing perceptions of the history of science was held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, India.  Below are reflections by Urmila Unnikrishnan, a PhD student in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University.   Urmila Unnikrishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru University A two-day international…

Winter 2017 The recent film The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) has prompted renewed interest in the life of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920).  Ramanujan had little formal mathematics training but nonetheless had an impressive influence in the mathematics world despite a short career. In partnership with the Indian Subcontinent Students Association at Dalhousie University,…

  Meet Dr. Dhruv Raina from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.   1. What is your current position/place of research? I am Professor at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. I teach courses on the philosophy of science, qualitative research methods, social theory…

“Cosmopolitanism in the History of Science” Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India August 9-10, 2016 This exciting seminar featured 12 participants from India, Canada, Germany, and France, presenting in beautiful Shimla, India, at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.  They examined the meaning of the term “cosmopolitanism” and its relations to the history of…

Jobin has been a vital part of CosmoLocal since September 2015.  Read about his research and ongoing projects below.   I grew up in the green and beautiful state of Kerala in the southwest part of India. For studies and work, I lived in Hyderabad in the state of Telangana and Manipal, a small town…