Schedule of Events:  February 17 – March 10, 2006

February
Fri 17 –	2006 STS Graduate Student Conference: Practice, Process, Papers
Sun 19		MIT's Graduate Program in History, Anthropology, and STS (HASTS) will host this 			year's annual STS Graduate Student Conference.  The conference is student run and 			rotates annually between the STS-related programs at Cornell, MIT, the Rensselaer 			Polytechnic Institute (RPI).  This year's program includes 20 presentations by graduate 			students from Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, RPI, and MIT.  The conference is 			open to graduate students only, and prior registration is required.  Please contact 			Nick Buchanan by Thursday, February 16 for more information; nscb@mit.edu.

Mon 20	MIT Holiday -- Institute Closed

Tues 21	Mondays Schedule of Classes will be Followed

		Technology and Culture Forum 
		Civil Rights on Campus:  Are We Free to Speak?
		Panelists include:
		Nancy Murray (Massachusetts ACLU)
		Hugh Gusterson (MIT)
		David Kaiser (MIT)
		7:00 pm, MIT, 6-120
		The event is free and open to the public.

Wed 22	STS Lecture
		Bodies Belonging to God: Muslim Ethics and the Science of
		Organ Transplantation in Egypt
		Sherine Hamdy, New York University
		4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

Thur 23           Sahin Lecture
		The Widening Historical Crevasse: Contemporary America 
		and Conceptions of the Past
                        Ellen Fitzpatrick, University of New Hampshire
		4:30-6:00 p.m., MIT, E51-275

		MIT Communications Forum
		A Conversation with Robert Pinsky
		The former Poet Laureate will discuss his ongoing Favorite Poem Project, his ideas 
		about poetry and democratic culture, and his recent prose book, The Life of David,
		about the Biblical poet-king. Tod Machoer of the MIT Media lab, Pinsky’s 				collaborator on the digital opera, will join in the conversation, which will be 				moderated by Literature Professor David Thorburn.
		5:00-7:00 p.m., MIT, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, MIT Media Lab
		Co-sponsors: Literature Section, Angus N. MacDonald Fund and Writing and Humanistic Studies,
		Associate Provost for the Arts, and Council for the Arts at MIT.  Forums are free and open to the public.
		For more information:  http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum

23 (cont’d)	Legal Change and Gender Inequality: Changes in Muslim Family Law in India
		Narendra Subramanian, McGill University
		Introduction and Moderator:  Joshua Cohen, MIT 
		6:00-8:00 pm, MIT, 4-249 
		Sponsored by MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures, 
		Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies, MIT-India

Fri 24		STS Lecture
		Thinking with Images: An Ethnographic Study of Meaning-making in Brain 				Mapping Practice
		Morana Alac, University of California, San Diego
		4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

Mon 27	STS Lecture
		Constituent Communities and the Creation of Nanotechnology
		Cyrus Mody, Chemical Heritage Foundation
     		4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

Tues 28	Dibner Institute Lunchtime Colloquia
				Model Bodies and Metal People in Medieval Europe
				Elly Truitt, Dibner Institute Graduate Student Fellow
				12:00-2:00 p.m., Dibner Institute, E56
		Please RSVP (dibner@mit.edu; 617-253-6989) if you plan to attend.

		Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group Seminar Series
		Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons
		Hassan Abbas, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
		12:00-1:30, MIT, E51-275
		Light refreshments provided; for more information, call 617-452-2542

March
Wed 1		STS Lecture
		Title:  tba
		Natasha Schull, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, 
		Columbia University
		4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

Mon 6		STS Colloquium
		The New World and the Preternatural: 
		17th-century Demonology, Epistemology, and Natural History
		Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin
		4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

Tues 7		Dibner Institute Lunchtime Colloquia
				Vito Volterra and the Making of Research Institutions in Italy and Abroad
				Giovanni Paoloni, Universita "La Sapienza" 
				12:00-2:00 p.m., Dibner Institute, E56
		Please RSVP (dibner@mit.edu; 617-253-6989) if you plan to attend.

March
Wed 8		STS Lecture
		Title:  tba
		Hélène Mialet, University of California, Berkeley
		4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

Fri 10             	IEEE Milestone Event Commemorating the 130th Anniversary of the Telephone
	Program Agenda  
	8:30am  	Registration and coffee
	8:45    	Say hello to Dr. Benjamin Franklin
	9:00    	Remarks by Boston Section Committee
	9:30    	Remarks by prime sponsor
	9:45    	Guest speaker: Barney Finn, Smithsonian 
	10:15   	Guest speaker: to be determined
	10:45   	Plaque presentation by Ralph Wyndrum Jr. President IEEE-USA
	11:10   	Acceptance by Peter T Bowman, VP External Affairs, Verizon
	11:30   	Closing 
	11:45   	Buffet lunch 
	1 pm    	Exhibitions of antique telephones		
		Location: Verizon Building, 185 Franklin Street, Boston 
		Pick up your nametag in the lobby then proceed to the auditorium.
		Attendance is free but pre-registration is required by calling 781-245-5405 or by emailing 
		Linda Scott at l.scott@ieee.org

		Modern Times, Rural Places Seminar
		The Husbandry of John Muir
                        Donald Worster, University of Kansas
			2:30-4:30 p.m., MIT, E51-095
			Co-sponsored by History Faculty and STS