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<font size=4><b>A Schedule of Events is attached for the period March
19-23, 2007.<br><br>
Please join us on Monday, March 19:<br><br>
<div align="center"><u>STS Colloquium<br><br>
</u></font><font size=6 color="#0000FF">The Energy Crisis of the
1970s<br><br>
</font><font size=5>Meg Jacobs, MIT History Faculty<br><br>
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</font><font size=4>Please note special start time of
</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">4:30 pm </font><font size=4>for this
colloquium.<br><br>
Location: MIT, E51-095<br><br>
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<u>Abstract<br>
</u></b>What can the energy crisis of the 1970s teach us about the energy
challenges we face today? This talk will look at the failure of
national policy to respond to the oil shocks of the 1970s. It will
suggest that an effective, long-term solution to a nation's energy
shortfall depends not only on technological advances but also on
political will. <br><br>
<b><u>Bio<br>
</u></b>Meg Jacobs is Associate Professor of History at MIT where she
holds the Class of 1947 Career Development Chair. Professor Jacobs is the
author of <i>Pocketbook Politics, Economic Citizenship in
Twentieth-Century America</i> (Princeton, 2005), winner of the 2006 OAH
Ellis Hawley Prize for the best book on modern US politics and the 2006
New England Historical Association Best Book Prize. She is currently
writing a book entitled, Panic at the Pump, on the energy crisis of the
1970s.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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