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Manipal Summer School and the New Post-Doc!
The Manipal Summer School on Scientific Objects and Digital Cosmopolitanism turned out to be a success! Set during monsoon in the southwest of India, the event included interesting lectures and discussions led by scholars from Canada and India! A group of energetic graduate students from India and Canada studying science from humanist and sociological perspectives set…
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Postdoc Fellowship with Cosmopolitanism and the Local: Applications due March 2, 2015
Postdoctoral Fellowship Science and Technology Studies (STS) / History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, Medicine (HPSTM) University of King’s College / Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Duration: 1 year, with option to renew for second year pending budget and project restrictions and requirements Application Deadline: Monday March 2 2015 The University of King’s College and Dalhousie University…
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Check it out! Int’l Conference, Nehru Memorial Museum, New Delhi, Dec. 16-18
Bodies, Objects and Knowledge from the Age of Empire: Global Histories and Beyond Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi December 16 – 18, 2014 Co-Organized by Rohan Deb Roy, Simon Schaffer, Devyani Gupta and Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge) Including a presentation by Cosmo collaborator, Carla Nappi (University of British Columbia), “From Circulation to Relation: Translating New…
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FYI: Workshop in New York, “The Mediterranean as a Site of Interaction among Diverse Political Cultures” Nov. 21-22
FYI- Event of interest: An exciting workshop co-organized by Vasileios Syros (Academy of Finland), this Friday and Saturday! Presenters will be moving from the Middle Ages to the modern period. For more information, download the poster here: Mediterranean Workshop Program.pdf
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We blogged it for you, “Yinyang: the Way of Ways” with Dr. Robin Wang
On October 16, Dr. Robin Wang of Loyola Mount University delivered a fantastic lecture on yinyang theory to an eager crowd at the University of King’s College, Halifax. Although Cosmo-Local did not sponsor the event, her presentation touched on a number of themes in the history and philosophy of Chinese science. We’ve blogged about it here!
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Sundar Sarukkai Indian Logic as Semiotics now online
Sundar Sarukkai, Manipal University, gave a talk as part of the Dialogues lecture series at the University of King’s College. You can watch it here:
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam keynote talk online
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) gave the keynote address for the Globalizing History and philosophy of Science workshop held at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore this past August. Hear it here.
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Interview with Dhruv Raina online
Watch our interview with Dhruv Raina about what Cosmopolitanism is and its relation to the local and how that affects science. What here.
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Watch Live: Dhruv Raina Oct. 2 7PM Atlantic
Rewriting the History of Science and Philosophy in Late Colonial India Click here to watch live! Dhruv Raina, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Education Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Thursday October 2, 2014 7pm KTS Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building,…
Circulating Knowledge: 20 Years On 