UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, April 26 Sunday, May 4
Cambridge Science Festival
The 2nd Annual Cambridge Science Festival runs from April 26 - May 4.
For more information: <http://web.mit.edu/museum/>http://web.mit.edu/museum/
Monday, April 28
STS Colloquium joint with Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Strategies of Estrangement: Automata, Exhibition,
and Claude Shannon's Epic Theater of Science
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Northwestern University and MIT (Visiting)
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9007109&date=2008/04/28>abstract
and bio]
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Following the STS/CMS Colloquium, why not attend
the CMS Media Spectacle which showcases the
finest film and video work of MIT students, staff and faculty.
7:00-10:00 pm, MIT, 32-155
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The Program on Science, Technology and Society at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government presents:
Beyond the Creation-Evolution Controversy: Science and Religion in Public Life
Panelists
Janet Browne, History of Science, Harvard
Cornelia Dean, New York Times
John H. Evans, Sociology, UC San Diego
Eric Rothschild, Pepper Hamilton LLP
4:30-6:30 pm, Harvard, Barker Center for the Humanities, Thompson Room
Barker Center is located at 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.
(see map at
<http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=D&series=W>http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=D&series=W.)
Tuesday, April 29
MIT Museum Soap Box
Relational, Sociable Robotics
Sherry Turkle and Cynthia Breazeal, MIT
6:00-7:30, MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery
This event takes place during
<http://cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx>THE
CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL (April 26 - MAY 4, 2008)
Wednesday, April 30
Space Policy and Society Seminar
From Godspeed John Glenn to Rovers on Mars:
Space, Media, and Public Perceptions
John Schwartz, The New York Times
Mike Cabbage, NASA Public Affairs Office
Phil Hilts, Knight Science Journalism Fellows
5:00 pm, MIT, Stata, 32-155
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9007100&date=2008/04/30>abstract]
Thursday, May 1
HASTS Dissertation Defense
The Wired Wilderness: Electronic Surveillance and
Environmental Values in Conservation Biology
Etienne Benson
10:00am-12:00 noon, MIT, E51-095
Informal discussion with David Billington, Gordon
Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Professor of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, and
Director, Program in Architecture and Engineering, Princeton University
This discussion will focus on Professor
Billington's course at Princeton on "Engineering in the Modern World"
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
Friday, May 2
Morison Prize Lecture
"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History
David Billington, Princeton University
2:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9000833&date=2008/05/02>more
information]
Please join us in the atrium area outside of
Bartos Theater immediately following Professor
Billington's lecture for a reception.
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MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Empires of Energy, 1580-1980: Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics
John McNeill, University Professor, Georgetown University
2:30 to 4:30 pm, E51 Room 095
Sponsored by MITs History Faculty and the
Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For
more information or to be put on the mailing
list, please contact Margo Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The <http://events.mit.edu>MIT Events Calendar
has a complete listing of campus activities.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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