Walking Tour of Cambridge on Wednesday, 05 August 2009 or Friday, 07 August 2009
Join us at 6:00 pm for a 1.5 hour walking tour of Cambridge. Some of the options will include King’s College, the stately University buildings of the Old Schools and Senate House, the University Church of Great St. Mary’s and the wonderful gatehouses of Trinity College, the home of Sir Isaac Newton and St. John’s College - with Cambrdige’s very own Bridge of Sighs. For more information please see the Conference website.
Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Michael A Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in English Literature, and an honors degree in Geography, before attaining his teaching diploma and teaching in New Zealand high schools for seven years, the last two as head of department. While teaching he completed a major for a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy and returned full time to complete his Master in Philosophy, with first class honors, and PhD in Philosophy of Education with a thesis on the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. He has just completed a second book on the subject entitled Wittgenstein as Pedagogical Philosopher (Paradigm Press, 2008) with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers. He held a personal chair at the University of Auckland, NZ (2000-03) and Research Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK (2000-05), as well as numerous posts as adjunct and visiting professor throughout the world. More…
Join us on the Beves Terrace (weather permitting) for cocktails before moving into the historic Saltmarsh rooms for a Gala Dinner. Please see the Conference website for more details.
Accommodation for the 2009 Science in Society Conference in Cambridge, UK may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
Yolanda Moses, Professor of Anthropoloy/Associate Vice Chancellor-Diversity, Division Of The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of California-Riverside, California, USA
Dr. Yolanda Moses served as President of the American Anthropological Association, Chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Past President of City University of New York/ The City College, and President of the American Association for Higher Education. She currently serves as Professor of Anthropology, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Excellence, and Executive Director for Conflict Resolution at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Moses’ research focuses on the broad question of the origins of social inequality in complex societies through the use of comparative ethnographic and survey methods. She has explored gender and class disparities in the Caribbean, East Africa and in the United States. More recently, her research has focused on issues of diversity and change in universities and colleges in the United States, India, and South Africa.She is currently involved with several national higher education projects with the National Council for Research on Women, Campus Women Lead and The Women of Color Research Collective. In addition, she is Chair of the National Advisory Board of a multi-year national public education project sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and funded by NSF and the Ford Foundation on Race and Human Variation. See: www.understandingrace.org. More…
5-7 August 2009
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
www.ScienceinSocietyConference.com
