Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities

The annual Shulman Lecture Series provides up to four visiting lectures a year to be organized in conjunction with an undergraduate seminar course taught on a topic bridging science and the humanities.

Ben Kafka

New York University

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 | 5:15 am

The Experience of Evidence (Freud)

Peter Dear

Cornell University

Friday, July 11, 2014 | 5:00 pm

Darwin's Sleepwalkers: Taxonomic Evidence in the Presentation of Darwin's Species Theory

Peter Dear is a professor of history and of science and technology studies at Cornell University. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, he is the author of Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools (1988), Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995), The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), and Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700, 2nd (new) edition (2008).

The Psychobiology of Parenting and Attachment

Linda Mayes and Helena Rutherford, of the Child Study Center at Yale University, deliver a lecture on the mechanisms of influence between children and parents in the process of development,especially with regard to psychoanalysis.

How the Mind Models the World: New Ideas from MRI Findings

Dr.Andrew Gerber, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, delivers a lecture on the use of MRI in the study of physchopathology and psychotherapy.

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Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities