July 2018

Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Monash University): "What is it like to be a bat?" - a pathway to the answer from the Integrated Information Theory

Event date: 
Friday 3 August 2018 to Saturday 4 August 2018
Time: 
15:00
Location: 
G32, 7 George Square.

Friday August 3rd, 3pm in room G32, 7 George Square. 

 

Professor Tsuchiya is an influential figure in consciousness science, and has made several major contributions, from the discovery of Continuous Flash Suppression to the first intracortical recordings in humans aimed at testing theories of conscious experience. His talk will be of interest to psychologists, philosophers and neuroscientists (see abstract and attached paper below).

 

Social dimensions of data science

Event date: 
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Time: 
11:30
Location: 
Seminar Room at Old Surgeon’s Hall

The Usher Institute of Population Health and Informatics and the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) are co-hosting colleagues from the University of Washington for a joint seminar on the social dimensions of data science.

This will take place 11.30-13.00 on the 31st of July in the Seminar Room at Old Surgeon’s Hall (Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies). Please see below for abstracts. All welcome – no need to register.

 

Prospecting (in) the Data Sciences

Dr Mathias Thaler

Dr Mathias Thaler (Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh)
Sabbatical Fellow, January - February 2019; September - December 2019
email

Project: On the politics of hope and fear: utopian tendencies in current debates on climate change.

Professor Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary): talk rescheduled to 20.02.2019

Event date: 
Wednesday 17 October 2018 to Thursday 18 October 2018
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary / IASH): Great Minds in Despair: Exploring the History of the Forced Migration of German-speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933-1963.

now scheduled for 20 February 2019

[IASH Work-in-Progress talk]

Abstract: