Please join us next Monday, April 7th:
STS Colloquium
"The Creation Controversy in Contemporary America: A Field Analysis
of 'The Creation Museum', Petersburg, Kentucky"
Matt Cohen, John Durant, Marta Lynne Milan, Jason Scott & Lauren
Shields (Class: STS.096)
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
Abstract:
"The Creation Museum opened on 28th May, 2007, to a barrage of
conflicting media reports. We have been exploring the nature and
significance of this unusual visitor attraction in two successive
courses: STS.095; and STS.096. In this Colloquium, we shall report
our findings to date, including some of the results from a random
sample entry/exit survey that we conducted among visitors to the
Creation Museum over three days in January 2008. Using Nisbet &
Mooney's concept of 'framing science', we shall offer an
interpretation of the Creation Museum's particular place in, and
likely influence upon, the ongoing Creation Controversy in
Contemporary America."
John Durant is Adjunct Professor in the STS Program, Director of the
MIT Museum, and Executive Director of the Cambridge Science Festival.
For more than three decades, he has been actively involved in the
public dimensions of science and technology as a researcher, teacher
and practitioner. On this occasion, however, he is merely one among
five co-researchers and presenters who have been working together
since January to make sense of The Creation Museum.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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