TODAY!
Monday, 11/16/2020 | 4:00PM-5:30PM
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics 
<https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-ethics/> - Webinar, 
discussion panel
REGISTER HERE <https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MpdSSsybR1OPNiAl59mN5A>
This event is part of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Writing Colloquia 
Series in sponsorship with the Anthropology Department, History Faculty, and 
the STS Program.

Listen in and ask questions for the Q&A portion as the panelists raise the 
right issues about broader currents in computer science, AI, and society.

Moderator:      D. Fox Harrell 
<https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/d-fox-harrell>, MIT
Panelists:      Stephanie Dick 
<https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/stephanie-dick>, UPENN
                        Paul Dourish 
<https://www.informatics.uci.edu/explore/faculty-profiles/paul-dourish/>, 
UC-Irvine
                        Safiya Noble 
<https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/safiya-umoja-noble/>, UCLA

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Tuesday, 11/17/2020 | 6:00PM EST-7:30PM EST 
GLOBAL PEACE & INSECURITY SEMINAR SERIES: Ten years After Fukushima: The Future 
of Nuclear Power in Japan
REGISTER HERE <https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WqxVc3GeQa6HAJP7DsQE8A>

Speaker:                Jun Tateno, Ph.D., Executive Director, Nuclear and 
Energy-Related 
                        Information Center (NERIC), Tokyo, Japan

The world is facing an unprecedented crises on several fronts. Lack of 
leadership by the United States has intensified many flash points around the 
world including nuclear threats and the abandonment of arms control 
negotiations, bio-safety, climate change, food insecurity, instability and 
tensions in the East, and increased pressure from nationalists and extremists 
at home and abroad. This seminar series will capture a subset of these critical 
issues facing humanity and the planet.  

Go HERE 
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qE5KP5kHteJXPSjxYOI7BV45OiUVXUx9QSNA2NVMLp15rVXXmHHcUJJgfq9bRzps7LsC3V2PF6ibAyQhM0IexoO1FIPUjFDu9BeLhXo31jvWkSfN4zmacWLyFvv6WKNFpq8K3QqbUhODrAs37gezlR9SHwuH3vDcgknN78rhbP3atyhCvc0Sf9vhyYoNqeaw3hehSl4xccpJu-I9AtKIZOaEvlQv6tz7f5DHkpEd-SzfE-Z-rbbRY8RlOvWV_q8FPuSuTKoxX0LXkIdSWZLnKcrP-c_GTQ7BeoFDF8XsFBq_wwbrz3fPkSerxZb7Sj2e_lkdV6AFrdom83ap_KVaeMapkW3LzObCmfuuyr_uFaPyi7P30LvnZvl9PTGcRZEWjWPxrki6dsLxT1zRT7HA7RJdLqYvflsmzRx_sO-fwuXd4DGFmJG-unuOT97OTLhW&c=4gghgk9lGuXGQHXcQiaJHp7nqVb9cPuzdpXWn1a4Enf0X42nSMaPmQ==&ch=xgmdKTLTDLRnNMAqjXf9FlS_b12bOzsT2nDNLAULw-xgzGm_7_EaHA==>
 to read a paper by Mr. Subrata Ghoshroy, MIT STS Program Research Affiliate, 
published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that examines American 
Congressional bipartisan support of missile defense.

For more information,  see the event page: MIT Radius, Global Peace and 
Insecurity, A Seminar Series 
<https://radius.mit.edu/programs/global-peace-and-insecurity-seminar-series>. 
Please email weinm...@mit.edu <mailto:weinm...@mit.edu> with any questions.

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Friday, 11/20/20 | 2:00PM-3:00PM
Sovereignties, Plagues, and Policing 
<https://history.mit.edu/events/sovereignties-plagues-and-policing/>
REGISTER HERE <https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8nuN-O1zRZ27d3f5UjUcLQ>

Guest Speakers: Mary Augusta Brazelton, University of Cambridge
                                Laura Spinney, independent writer and science 
journalist

For more information, please visit MIT History Faculty:  MIT History: 21H.000, 
The History of Now 
<https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/21h000-history-now>. Please 
email elizw...@mit.edu <mailto:elizw...@mit.edu> with any questions.


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Gus Zahariadis
Assistant to the Director
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
T: (617) 253-3452
F: (617) 258-8118
g...@mit.edu
sts-program.mit.edu

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