Subject: STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2008 Dear all, Welcome back to a new semester.Many of you know of and have participated in the STS Circle already. For those who do not, the STS circle is a group of doctoral students and recent Ph.D.s who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.We will meet weekly throughout the term, generally on Mondays, 12:15-2:00 at 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106 (the same room as last year), though we depart from this norm on a couple of occasions. Please see the schedule below (and attached). We hope that many of you will find the work of the group both interesting and rewarding, and that with your active participation, we will be able to strengthen and broaden the STS community in the Cambridge-Boston area.Please feel free to pass this message along to whomever might be interested in participating in the STS circle. For those who will attend the STS Circle meetings, please RSVP to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] by the Friday before so that we will know how many sandwiches to order. For more general information, please visit our meeting website at: <http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm or e-mail to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] or <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]All best, Ben Hurlbut Sang-Hyun Kim Philip Davis Loring ================================= STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2008All meetings will take place on Mondays, from 12:15-2 p.m., at 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, unless otherwise noted. Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] by the Friday before. For more information, please visit: <http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/stsFebruary 4 Arthur A. Daemmrich (Harvard Business School) Innovation in Degradation: Ecoflex at BASF, on the Market, and in the Compost February 13 (Wed) Mark Hauser (Department of Psychology, Harvard University)Evolving a Moral Grammar: Domain-specificity, Origins, Universality and Moral Organs12:00-2:00 pm at Room 469, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street February 18 President's Day - No Meeting February 25Martyn Pickersgill (Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham)The Neuroscience of Psychopathy: A Mundane Revolution? March 3 Sara Shostak (Department of Sociology, Brandeis University)Multiplicity in Practice: Towards a Genealogy of 'Gene-Environment Interaction'March 10Stuart A. Newman (Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, New York Medical College)Evolution: the Public's Problem, and the Scientists' March 17R. P. Hagendijk (International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam)Modes of Public Engagement in European S&T Governance March 24 Spring Break - No Meeting March 31Felice Frankel (Envisioning Science Program, Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University)The Visual Expression of Science: More than Pretty Pictures April 3 (Th) Science & Democracy Lecture SeriesHarold Varmus (Co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes; President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)Time / Place - TBA April 7 Sarah Jansen (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) Managing Whales, Wolves, and Eastern Europeans April 14 Barbara Herrnstein-Smith (Department of English, Duke University) Explaining Religion: Naturalism With and Without Scientism 4:00-6:00 pm at Room 252, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street April 21 Ellen Bales (History of Science and Technology, UC Berkeley)Working Levels, Working Knowledge: Indoor Radon and the Environmental Protection AgencyApril 28Workshop: Beyond the Creation-Evolution Controversy: Science and Religion in Public Life Janet Browne (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) John Durant (Director, MIT Museum; Program in Science, Technology & Society, MIT) John H. Evans (Department of Sociology, University of California-San Diego) Eric Rothschild (Pepper Hamilton LLP) Cornelia Dean (New York Times) Barker Center for Humanities, Time / Exact room - TBA May 2 (Fri) STS Party Time / Place - TBA
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