[Scientists for Palestine->http://www.scientists4palestine.com/] is an international organisation created by and for scientists to promote science and support the integration of the occupied Palestinian territories in the international scientific community.
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, February 8th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Eastern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Juliet Floyd (Boston University) who will speak on Revisiting the Turing Test: Humans, Machines, and Phraseology. You can register for the event on Zoom here.
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, January 11th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Mark Smith (University of Missouri) who will speak on Ibn al-Haytham’s Analysis of the Moon Illusion: A Case Study in Appropriation, Assimilation, and Innovation. You can register for the event on Zoom here.
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia) who will speak on The Fisheries of the Southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Turkey (1950-2020). You can register for the event on Zoom here.
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 9th at 6pm Palestine time (5pm Central European Time, 11am US Eastern time) – ATTENTION unusual schedule. We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Esther Duflo (MIT, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences in 2019) who will speak on Good economics for warmer times. You can register for the event on Zoom here.
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, October 12 at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Nancy Kanwisher (MIT) who will speak on « Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind ». You can register for the event on Zoom here.
The first Bisan Lecture webinar of the new academic year will take place on Wednesday, September 14 at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). The preeminent Palestinian historical sociologist, Prof. Salim Tamari (Birzeit University and Institute for Palestine Studies) will speak on “Autobiographic Narratives of the Great War and the Creation of the New Middle East.”
We are pleased to announce that the third Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 11th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Dr. Gertrudis Rojas (Center of Molecular Immunology, Havana, Cuba) who will speak on ” Soberana vaccines against SARS-CoV2: handling antigenic complexity in a versatile biotechnological process“.
On March 9, 2022, Nobel laureate George Smith gave the inaugural Bisan Lecture. He spoke of the “ideosphere,” the teeming culture of ideas interacting and mutating much the way viruses do in the biosphere. He presented scientific discovery as a communal process, in which individuals contribute small mutations to the existing flux of ideas. This generous and democratic perspective was contrasted with the authoritarian restrictions faced by the Palestinian people under occupation. His lecture was followed by an interesting question and answer period. More than a hundred people followed the event on Zoom making this inaugural Bisan lecture a great success.
We are pleased to announce the launch of The Bisan Lecture Series (BLS) in concert with Scientists for Palestine and the Bisan Center for Research and Development. It will take….
A conversation with Ubai Aboudi, director of the Bisan Center in Ramallah, and Sagar Francis of Addameer, two of the 6 Palestinian civil society organisations labeled “terrorist” by the Israeli government
November 6, 2021 at 7pm Palestine time/ 1pm EDT/ 18h Paris time
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