The Technology & Culture Forum is hosting a bunch of sci-tech-soc
related events this month (see forwarded list below). This Wednesday,
January 14th, John Durant will be hosting and discussing a screening
of "Expelled" a documentary about the Intelligent Design movement. It
should be quite interesting. I encourage you to attend if you can!
Best,
Xaq
Begin forwarded message:
From: Amy McCreath <[email protected]>
Date: January 5, 2009 12:17:50 PM EST
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TaCforum] Great January events
Technology and Culture Forum encourages you to join us for our
excellent IAP events.
Details are in the IAP guide at http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstcf.html
Expelled: A film & discussion about intelligent design and American
schools.
Wednesday, January 14th, 6:30-9:00 pm, MIT Building W11, Main Dining
Room.
Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" explores the freedom
(or lack thereof) of academic institutions to challenge scientific
orthodoxy regarding evolution. We will view the film and then join
in conversation, facilitated by Prof. John Durant of MIT's Program
in Science, Technology and Society. A free, simple dinner will be
served.
We have room for 50 people. You must RSVP to reserve a spot and a
dinner.
Please sign up with Patricia Weinmann as [email protected] by January
12th.
The Future of Inventing: Automated, Collaborative, Distributive
Inventing
Speaker: Robert Plotkin, Esq. MIT alum, Patent Lawyer, Author of
"The Genie in the Machine"
Thursday, January 15th, 1:00 pm - 3:00pm, MIT Building 4- Room 153.
We think of an "inventor" as someone who sits alone in a workshop,
sketching designs and hammering out prototypes. In the future,
individual inventorship will increasingly be overtaken by various
forms of "collaborative inventing" as inventors leverage computer
technology as an inventive tool. This talk will provide real-world
examples of the phenomena that are changing the face of inventing.
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up.
Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability
Friday, January 30th from 5:00 pm -9:00 pm, and Saturday, January
31st, from 9:00am-4:00pm, MIT's Stata Center
Video presentations by noted theologians and community organizers
and small-group discussion with others on-site on the warrant for --
and strategies for -- creating just, sustainable relations, drawing
on the wisdom of liberation theology and successful community
organizing.
You must register for this event by January 21st by contacting
Christina English at [email protected]. Registration fee is $30 (free
for students).
This event is offered in partnership with Trinity Institute and the
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
Nuclear Weapons: Physics, History, and Abolition?
A four-part series, featuring Prof. Aron Bernstein and Prof. Kosta
Tsipis.
Although we are not official sponsors of this series, as partners
in the MIT Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, we
strongly encourage your participation in it. Details are at http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns8.html
Happy New Year and hope to see you soon,
The Rev. Amy McCreath
Episcopal Chaplain at MIT
Coordinator - Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
(o) 617-253-2983
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