{"id":7,"date":"2013-04-30T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/central.temple.edu\/organizationtemplate\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:05:04","slug":"meetings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stsnetwork\/home\/meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous (Fall 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Monday, December 8, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Drs. Pietro Miazzo and Miriam Solomon (Ideas in Conversation)<\/strong>. Ethical and philosophical issues in clinical psychiatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, November 10, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Larisa Mann (Seminar)<\/strong>. Deviant safety and surveillance in nightlife: theories and methods in the context of algorithmic and government overreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, October 13, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Student-Faculty (Dialogue and Exchange Workshop).<\/strong> Informal meeting to connect graduate and faculty interdisciplinary research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, September 15, 2025. <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tom Waldzunas (Book Talk)<\/strong>. Reflections on DEI: Arguments from the LGBTQ STEM Inclusion Movement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Spring 2025~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, April 14, 2025. Dr. Quayshawn Spencer (Seminar). <\/strong> Solving the racial health disparities problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, March 24, 2025. Dr. Sari Van Anders<\/strong><\/strong> (Seminar)<\/strong>. Sexual configuration theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, March 24, 2025. Drs. Inkyu Han and Nancy Pleshko<\/strong> (Bridging Disciplines<\/strong><\/strong> Talk)<\/strong><\/strong> Integrating bioengineering and environmental health to tackle microplastic contamination<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 25-26, 2025.<\/strong> Artificial Intelligence Fair (Interactive Workshop).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Monday, January 27, 2025. <\/strong> (Film Viewing and<\/strong><\/strong> Discussion)<\/strong><\/strong>. Counted Out: A film screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Fall 2024~<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, December 9, 2024. Museum-Academic Partnerships (Panel Discussion). <\/strong> Susan Glassman (Wagner Institute), Jayatri Das (Franklin Institute), Sara Ray (Science History Institute), Marina McDougall (Academy of Natural Sciences and moderated by: Drs. Bryant Simon and Evangelia Bellas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, November 11, 2024 (Seminar<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/strong>. Dr. Andrew Iliadis (Seminar)<\/strong>. Understanding Wikidata\u2019s Worldview through Semantic Network Analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, October 14, 2024<\/strong>. Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Research Symposium. <\/strong>Madeline Behee (Urban Bioethics), Venitha Bernard (Bioinformatics), Kevin Doherty (Philosophy\/Urban Bioethics), Jing Han (Media and Communication), Shirin Hussain (Neuromotor Science), Cole Hagan (Neuromotor Science), Tyler Mun (Geography, Environment and Urban Studies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, September 9, 2024. Drs. Miriam Solomon, Meghnaa Tallapragada, Jim Napolitano, Tom Waidzunas, moderated by Joe Lucia, Rob Kulathinal (Panel discussion). <\/strong>What is STS?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, April 8, 2024. Dr. Nadeer Jeevanjee (Seminar). <\/strong> The landscape of climate science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change is described in some quarters as a \u201ccrisis\u201d and in others as a \u201choax\u201d, with a range of views in between. How can one square this with climate science, which should be more objective? This talk, led by Nadir Jeevanjee<\/a>, will emphasize that there is a spectrum of climate science, ranging from well-established, \u201csettled\u201d science (such as global warming due to anthropogenic CO2) to highly uncertain frontier topics (such as various proposed \u201ctipping points\u201d). To properly interpret climate science, one must acknowledge the existence of this spectrum, and appropriately place climate and weather phenomena within it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeevanjee studies the physics of clouds, radiation, and climate, using a hierarchy of approaches ranging from pencil-and-paper theory to comprehensive computer simulations. He currently is a Research Physical Scientist at NOAA\u2019s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory<\/a>. This event will be co-sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society network at Temple University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, March 11, 2024: 12-1pm. Drs. Mohammad Kiani, Rob Kuper, Amy Sinden (Round Table Discussion). <\/strong> Climate in Curricula: Teaching for the future of work and the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, February 12, 2024. Dr. Karl Morris (Seminar).<\/strong> Artificial Intelligence in autonomous driving: Is your Tesla Christine or KITT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, January 22, 2024. Richard Souvenir (Talk). <\/strong> New initiatives in interdisciplinary education & research at Temple University.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The power of a comprehensive research university lies in the vast array of educational offerings at all levels. The sheer size of such an institution, however, presents logistical roadblocks to interdisciplinary collaboration across different Colleges. This includes both undergraduate degree offerings and graduate research opportunities. In Spring 2023, the Provost charged a group of faculty with finding ways to lower these logistical barriers and fostering interdisciplinary education and enhancing interdisciplinary research. This \u201cInterdisciplinary Collaboration Committee\u201d recently completed its work and submitted a detailed report to the Provost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Fall 2023~<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, December 11, <\/strong>2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Simonsson (Lewis Katz School of Medicine)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Cure Violence Philadelphia: Implementing and Studying Gun Violence Prevention Program at Temple University’s Medical School”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gun violence is a significant social and medical concern in Philadelphia. As a response, the city develops and funds a variety of interventions to prevent violent injuries caused by gun violence. Lately, more interest and investment has been funneled towards the use of public-health models to prevent gun-violence. Public health programs often use so-called \u201ccredible messengers\u201d or \u201cexperts by experience\u201d to identify and engage individuals who are at-risk for either gun-related injuries or violent perpetration. Temple University hosts the Cure Violence (CV) program, which is a public-health model to reduce gun violence. CV relies on credible messengers who operate independently of law enforcement and can more easily gain trust in marginalized inner-city communities impacted by violence. Once CV has gained trust, they will identify at-risk individuals and engage them in mentoring to motivate them to leave the streets. Research exploring how CV mentoring can support desistance from gun-violence is scarce. This presentation will focus on: introducing the CV public-health approach to reduce gun violence, discuss the research evidence for it\u2019s effectiveness, and introduce the audience to two ongoing and funded CV research projects in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Olivia Duffield (Lewis Katz School of Medicine)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Getting Well: Opioid Agonist Therapy as Harm Reduction”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hospitals are critical safety nets that engage patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) in both medical care and recovery from addiction. However, research shows that patients with OUD intentionally delay seeking care, have high rates of self-directed hospital discharge, and frequently require readmission for unaddressed medical problems. This is due, in part, to untreated pain and withdrawal. Standard of care management for withdrawal includes methadone or buprenorphine, but many patients see these options as insufficient or unrealistic due to significantly elevated opioid tolerance from a street supply dominated by highly potent, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. Using themes derived from qualitative interviews with patients at Temple Hospital with OUD, we make the argument that it is an ethical imperative for hospitals to expand protocols to include long and short-acting opioid agonist medications to treat opioid withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, October 9, <\/strong>2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Charles Library, First Floor Event Space, or via Zoom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenting: A Graduate Student Forum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Remer (Philosophy)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEthical Considerations in Expanding Available Donor Hearts through Normothermic Regional Perfusion\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditional approaches to organ donation have limited the recovery of hearts to only brain dead donors. Recent technology known as normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) has allowed for available donor hearts to expand to non-brain dead deceased donors (i.e., cardiac dead donors). However, because NRP involves restoring a flow of oxygenated blood to the body, as well as a heartbeat, there are ethical considerations to be addressed, among which includes whether such donors really are dead. While NRP can help expand available donor hearts for transplant, the ethical implications must first be considered to prevent moral and actual harm and to ensure continued public trust in the organ donation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriel Reagan (Geography and Urban Studies)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Digital (De)Construction of Food: Encountering taste, pleasure, and satiation in a reapidly interconnected world\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consuming food media today requires interacting with an endless array of actors\u2014varying in intentions and expertise\u2014each with the potential to impact media users\u2019 health and well-being in positive or adverse ways. At the same time, the growing dissonance between science and facts, influencers, and the public sphere is fostering incessant confusion and contradiction. Intensifying parasocial relationships, or nonreciprocal socio-emotional connections with individuals such as influencers, are rapidly transforming the ways in which we come to understand food and bodies. As media influencers and corporate-sponsored, algorithmically powered content creators exploit the affective power of food for personal gain, locating answers to food-related conundrums now requires traversing a vast information landfill where opinions are plentiful, but legitimacy remains murky.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My current research aims to unpack the affective ways in which we come to know food through the consumption of social media. I envision media as another somebody in the room, provoking an exchange between creator and consumer, an exchange that \u2018does something\u2019. If influence now has the power to supplant science, how do we know what information to take in and which to ignore? Timely and relevant, this paper tackles the increasingly common ways in which we come to know food digitally and further asks who is a creator, who is a consumer, and what is the relationship between them. What are the moral and ethical implications and who stands to gain, or lose, in the social construction of food?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THURSDAY, September 21, <\/strong>2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mazur Hall 140 (Center for Anti-Racism)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please register here: https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/25camCb8Fv<\/a> by Monday, Sept. 18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ira Lawrence (Temple alum)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ethical Dilemmas in the Pharmaceutical Industry: an Insider’s Perspective”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jointly sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Network, the Philosophy Department, and the College of Liberal Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, May 8, <\/strong>2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Charles Library Even Space (1st floor, 1900 N 13th St) and online: https:\/\/temple.zoom.us\/j\/92616703278<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making Families, Choosing Race: Sperm Banks and the Limits of Diversity<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

with Alyssa M. Newman, PhD, Georgetown University <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The widespread use of assisted reproductive technologies, coupled with demographic and social change, are normalizing new family configurations that extend beyond biological kinship. Despite the new populations and family formations utilizing these technologies, sperm donor selection is dominated by heteronormative logics and an interest in family resemblance achieved through racial matching.<\/em> Yet the achievement of racial matching is hardly a given, as 70% of the sperm donors at banks across the United States are white. This talk will interrogate the racialized meanings assigned to donor sperm, drawing on interviews with interracial lesbian couples who encountered difficulties finding a donor of their desired racial background. This talk will also explore the sperm banks\u2019 \u201cdiversity problem,\u201d examining how, despite the fertility industry\u2019s quick embrace of diversifying family formations including queer clients and intended parents of color, it continues to center around the reproduction of the white family. In a context of increasing state control over reproduction, the rise of both regulated as well as unregulated sperm markets raises the question of who is being served, or controlled, in the presence or absence of state intervention and policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, March 13, <\/strong>2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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STS NOW! \u2013 CONVERSATIONS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Charles Library Even Space (1st floor, 1900 N 13th St) and online: https:\/\/temple.zoom.us\/j\/94441410987<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Industrialization of the Deep Ocean: Can we avoid the Tragedy of the Commons on the High Seas?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

with Prof. Erik Cordes, Department of Biology <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

As we struggle to move beyond fossil fuels and avoid the most catastrophic outcomes of global climate change scenarios, we are increasingly turning to the ocean and the emerging Blue Economy for solutions. Our fisheries are moving into deeper waters further offshore, we are drilling for oil and gas in places that were thought impossible a few years ago, and emerging industries like deep-sea mining and marine genetic resources are looking to international waters as a way to avoid the regulations and expense of working with the exclusive economic zones of nation-states. Currently, there are negotiations underway at the UN to govern these activities, which range from the designation of the management entity to the methodology for determining environmental impacts. Among these consideration is the proper valuation of ecosystem services and the creation of a global fund that would contain the dividends from the extraction of natural resources. Because these considerations are happening at a global scale, beyond areas of national jurisdiction, we have an opportunity to consider some new(ish) ideas related to ownership, nature\u2019s rights, and a global universal income. Time will tell whether any of these creative ideas gain traction in this forum.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n