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Please find attached a Schedule of Events for September 15th through
27th. I would like to call particular attention to three upcoming
events:<br><br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b><u>Friday, September 15<br>
</u></font>MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History<br>
Hunting and the Birth of Europe, AD 100-1100<br>
Speaker: Eric Goldberg</b>, <b>Williams College<br>
2:30-4:30 p.m., MIT, E51-095<br><br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u>Monday, September 18<br>
</u></font>STS Colloquium<br>
Science, Technology, and Society: The Big Questions<br>
Speakers: STS Faculty and HASTS Graduate Students
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4:00–6:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u>Tuesday, September 26 <br>
</u></font>STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk by Pru Hobson West<br>
</b> <b>'Ethics and Extremism': The Use of Animals in Scientific
Research<br>
12:30-2:30 pm, MIT, E51-191<br><br>
</b>Pru Hobson-West graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA
in Politics. She joined the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks
and Society (IGBiS) at the University of Nottingham in 2001, where she
held a four-year Research Training Fellowship. Her doctoral research
looked at organized parental resistance to childhood immunization in the
UK. Dr Hobson-West was recently awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in
Biomedical Ethics (2006-2009). The postdoctoral Fellowship will be used
to investigate the issue of animal experimentation.<br>
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The presentation will explore different approaches to the animal research
controversy and provide some background perspective on the UK context. It
will then review the relevant literature and argue that proponents and
opponents appeal to both scientific and ethical discourses to make their
claims. Finally, the presentation will introduce the empirical project
which aims to assess how actors draw boundaries between science and
ethics.<br><br>
Feel free to bring your lunch; we'll provide coffee and dessert.
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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