SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: December 1-5, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
STS Circle at Harvard
From the Battery Cage to the Ballot Box: The Transformation of
Animal Protection in Twenty-first Century America
Paul Shapiro, Humane Society of the United States
12:15-2:00 p.m., Kennedy School of Government, 124 Mt. Auburn Street,
Suite 100, room 106. Sandwich lunches provided. For more information
and a complete schedule, visit: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/.
Please note - due to the Thanksgiving holiday, rsvp by noon on 11/26
by e-mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
STS Colloquium
Database of Dreams: Technologies for Assembling Subjective Materials, 1945-1961
Rebecca Lemov, Harvard University
4:00 pm, MIT,
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51&mapsearch=go>E51-095
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9014590&date=2008/12/01>abstract
and bio]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Harvard History of Science, The Mark M. Horblit Colloquium in the
History of Science
The Evolution of Choice: Denudation and the Descent of Man
Rebecca Herzig, Bates College
4:00 pm, Harvard University,
<http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=A&series=N>Science
Center 469; [<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/>More information
about this event and Harvard's History of Science Department]
Friday, December 5, 2008
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Neolithic Emergence: the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East
Steven Mithen, Reading University
2:30-4:30 pm, MIT, E51-095
Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Be sure to check the STS website for updates
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html and the MIT events
page for a complete listing of events on campus
http://events.mit.edu/index.html?date=2008/12/25
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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