Scientific Program for “The Truth is the Whole”
Day 1 – Part 1
Registration cards were available at the registration desk just outside Kresge G-1. Lunches and snacks were also served there to registrants.
Friday, May 22, 2015
Kresge Building, G-1 (Snyder Auditorium), HSPH,
677 Huntington Avenue, Longwood Medical Area, Boston 02115
8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast (outside G-1)
8:30-8:45 Welcome – Tamara Awerbuch
8:45-10:30 Against Reductionism in Public Health Science, Part I
The dynamics and statics of human health and disease: Population biology meets medicine – Steven Orzack
1-01- Steven Orzack-Pop Biology meets Medicine
Complexity and causal thinking in population health sciences:
How does the social get under the skin? – Sandro Galea
1-02-Sandro Galea-Complexity and causal thinking in population health sciences
Neoliberal Ebola: Agroeconomic determinism and epizootic stochasticity
– Robert G. Wallace and Rodrick Wallace
1-03 – Wallace-Neoliberal Ebola
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Theoretical Approaches to Social Behavior
The centripetal force of community: An analytical framework for
studying human adaptation of space-time allocation to changing environments
– Harish Padmanabha et al.
Changing science in heterogeneous environments – Peter Taylor
1-05-Peter Taylor-Chng Science in heterogeneous environments
From ecology to management: Applying population & disease dynamics concepts
to promote peaceful and equitable workplaces – Brian Rubineau
1-06-Rubineau-Ecology to Mgmt
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Political Economy and Agriculture
Let’s play Azteca!: Linking the theory and practice of agroecology through gaming – Ivette Perfecto
1-07-Yvette Perfecto-Agroecology through gaming
Agriculture, class, and the cost of food: What do we think about the Industrial Revolution? – Doug Boucher
1-08-Boucher -Levins Festschrift, HSPH, 22 May 2015 – v 2a
The dialectics of agroecosystem transformation – John Vandermeer
1-09-John Vandermeer-Syndromes of production
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Against Reductionism in Public Health Science, Part II
Capitalism feeds malaria transmission: The dialectics of bednet “use” in sub-Saharan Africa – Luis Fernando Chaves
1-10-Luis Fernando Chaves
“Neurodevelopmental disorder” as a reductionist, idealist abstraction – Martha Herbert
1-11 – Martha Herbert-Neurodevel_reified_abstraction – 05-22-2015
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Day 2 – Part 2
If you don’t yet have your registration card, you will need to retrieve that customized pass by entering the Harvard Chan School complex at the Francois Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center, 651 Huntington Avenue, Longwood Medical Area, Boston 02115.
However, the Kresge entrance is open from 8 am to 3 pm on Saturday.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Kresge Building, G-1 (Snyder Auditorium), HSPH,
677 Huntington Avenue, Longwood Medical Area, Boston 02115
8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast (outside G-1)
8:30-10:30 Topics in Ecology and Evolution – Alyssa A. Botelho, facilitating
Understanding how local institutions affect female smallholder farmers’ access to land resources and household food security in the semi-arid region of Kenya – June Y. T. Po
2-01-June Po-Women Access Land
Ecological skeletons: Excavating the bare bones of community structure using loop analysis – Patricia Lane
2-02-Patricia Lane-Loop Analysis
The dialectics of biospheric evolution – David Schwartzman
2-03-David Schwartzman-Abstract-Dialectics of biospheric evolution
2-03-Schwartzman-Dialectics of Biosphere Evolution
Dialectics and Marxism in the Neo-Lamarckian theories,
A criticism of Neo-Darwinian fetishism – Julio Muñoz-Rubio
2-04-Dialectics and Marxism in the Neo-Lamarckian theories
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Organizing for Public Health – David Himmelstein, facilitating
Thinking like a revolutionary and organizing for public health: The contributions of Dick Levins – Martha Livingston
2-05-Martha Livingston-Abstract-Thinking like a revolutionary
Popular power and environmental governance: The Cuban approach to natural hazards and disaster risk reduction – Javier André Sandoval Guzmán
2-06-Javier Sandoval Guzman-Pop Power + Environmental Governance
Health policy and political power – Steffie Woolhandler
2-07-SteffieWoolhandler-Health Policy and Political Power
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 On Finding Truth; other topics – Abha Sur, facilitating
Finding the truth at the intersection of independent lies – Michael Weisberg
The terms we use to describe ourselves, our opinions and our theories often impede the solutions to the crises we face – David Bruck
Applying a Dick Levins concept to solving climate change – Jonathan Latham
Latham-Solving Climate Change
3:45-6:00 Free time
6:00-9:00 Dinner, cultural program, and testimonials
Courtyard Cafe, Warren Alpert Building, Harvard Medical School
200 Longwood Avenue (near Quadrangle, short walk from HSPH)
Merle Ratner accompanied Mr. Pham Quang Hieu from the Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations, who spoke after the dinner.
Pham Quang Hieu
Minister Counselor, Deputy Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations and Chargé d’affaires
Mission of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to the United Nations
