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Ann: Leonardo Reviews – New Reviews Posted July 2009

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce  the new postings at:
http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
(ISSN:  1559-0429)

Ann: Leonardo Reviews - May 2009

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at:  http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN:  1559-0429)

Ann: Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet

April 1, 2009 - September 27, 2009   |   Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

Human/Nature uses art to investigate relationships between fragile natural environments and the human communities that depend upon them. The exhibition presents new work by Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Rigo 23, Dario Robleto, Diana Thater, and Xu Bing. More information: bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/

Book Review: Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science Reviewed by Amy Ione

I was drawn to Christine Hine’s Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science because the synopsis of the book suggested it was a study of the ways that biologists working in this field have engaged with new technologies as the field sustained its heritage and changed to accommodate new possibilities. Full review

Lect: Models and Mechanisms: Aspects of Biomedicine at UCL in the Twentieth Century

INAUGURAL LECTURE | Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL | Professor Tilli Tansey | "Models and Mechanisms: Aspects of Biomedicine at UCL in the Twentieth Century"

Ann: The Challenges of Climate Change (SF Exploratorium)

UPCOMING PANEL DISCUSSION: The Challenges of Climate Change

Symposium: Darwin’s London

Saturday 16 May 2009, 10.00-18.00
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons/Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL

Article: Museum of Islamic Art Opens in Doha, Qatar

In 2003, I was invited to give a talk in conjunction with an art and science symposium organized under the leadership of the queen of Qatar and the Qatar Foundation. [Here and below are pictures from my trip.] The invitation was part of a multi-faceted plan to make Doha a cultural destination.

CFP: Visions of Tomorrow: Science and Utopia in German Culture

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of "Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies" "Visions of Tomorrow: Science and Utopia in German Culture"   | Submission due date: September 1, 2009.

CFP: Evolution and the Public; Siegen (Germany), 3-5 Sept 2009

Call for Papers:  Evolution and the Public (1859-2009) | The discussion of a scientific idea and its ramifications since Charles Darwin

University of Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus | September 3-5, 2009 | Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2009