EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF April 7,
2008:
Monday, April 7
STS Circle at Harvard
Managing Whales, Wolves, and Eastern Europeans
Sarah Jansen, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
12:15-2 p.m., Harvard, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106.
Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more information, please visit:
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts
STS Colloquium
"The Creation Controversy in Contemporary America: A Field Study 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
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9003162&date=2008/04/07>abstract]
Wednesday, April 9
Anthropology Colloquium
The Wrong War: The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Devra Davis, Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University
of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
5:00 pm, MIT, 3-270
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9006352&date=2008/04/09>bio]
Co-sponsored by Program in Science, Technology, and Society and EEP
MIT Museum Soap Box
Augmenting Human Bodies
John Hockenberry and Hugh Herr
Hugh Herr directs the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab and
has been working with John Hockenberry, award winning journalist,
author and editor, and now a Distinguished Fellow at the MIT Media
Lab. They will discuss their joint work on human augmentation.
6:00-7:30 pm, MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery
Thursday, April 10 (late afternoon/evening) - Friday, April 11 (all day)
Conference -- Disruptive Environments: Academics, Activists and
Journalists in Conversation
Organized by graduate students and faculty in the History,
Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society Doctoral Program
(HASTS). For more information, visit the
<http://scripts.mit.edu/~disrupt-enviro/conference/>conference
website. Pre-registration is required.
Be sure to check the MIT on-line events calendar for a complete
listing of campus-wide activities http://events.mit.edu/
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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