Woods Hole Diversity Celebration

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Dreaming Globally: The Only New World Requires Turning Down the Heat
George Woodwell
Founder and Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center

There is a new world coming. Is it the world we generate by allowing the climatic disruption we have triggered to run full course and substantially crush this civilization, or the world we build by checking, and then reversing, the climatic disruption?

4:00 pm
Lillie Auditorium, Marine Biological Laboratory
Hosted by Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Research Center

Who is the Scientist?
Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

A historical perspective on recent changes in the scientist’s role: the effect of professionalization, the rise of Big Science, industrial science, and entrepreneurial science.

Redfield Auditorium, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and U.S. Geological Survey


The History of Science from an East Asian Perspective: Science, State and Society in China, 1400-1900
Benjamin Elman, Professor of East Asian Studies and History
Departments of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Too often, the emergence of science is thought of as a uniquely Western phenomenon. This view is challenged by the rich history of scientific practice in other regions of the world such as East Asia

- The History of Science from an East Asian Perspective: Science, State and Society in China, 1400-1900 Brochure

Madden Center Lecture Hall, Sea Education Association
Hosted by NOAA Fisheries and Sea Education Association