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<font size=2><b>Subject:</b> STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2008<br>
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<font size=2>Dear all,<br>
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<font size=2>Welcome back to a new semester. <br>
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<font size=2>Many of you know of and have participated in the STS Circle
already. For those who do not, the STS circle is a group of
doctoral students and recent Ph.D.s who are interested in creating a
space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in
science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as
anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public
policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those
who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy,
but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who
have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social
scientists and humanists. <br>
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<font size=2>We will meet weekly throughout the term, generally on
Mondays, 12:15-2:00 at 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106 (the
same room as last year), though we depart from this norm on a couple of
occasions. Please see the schedule below (and attached). We
hope that many of you will find the work of the group both interesting
and rewarding, and that with your active participation, we will be able
to strengthen and broaden the STS community in the Cambridge-Boston
area.<br>
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<font size=2>Please feel free to pass this message along to whomever
might be interested in participating in the STS circle. For those
who will attend the STS Circle meetings, please RSVP to:
<a href="mailto:sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu">
sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu</a> by the Friday before so that we will
know how many sandwiches to order. For more general information,
please visit our meeting website at:
<a href="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm">
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm</a> or e-mail to:
<a href="mailto:sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu">
sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu</a> or
<a href="mailto:jhurlbut@fas.harvard.edu">jhurlbut@fas.harvard.edu</a>.
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<font size=2>All best,<br>
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<font size=2>Ben Hurlbut<br>
Sang-Hyun Kim<br>
Philip Davis Loring<br>
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<b>STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2008<br>
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<font size=2>All meetings will take place on Mondays, from 12:15-2 p.m.,
at 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, unless otherwise
noted. Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to
<a href="mailto:sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu">
sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu</a> by the Friday before. For more
information, please visit:
<a href="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts">
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts</a><br>
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<font size=2><b>February 4<br>
Arthur A. Daemmrich</b> (Harvard Business School)<br>
<b><i>Innovation in Degradation: Ecoflex at BASF, on the Market, and in
the Compost<br>
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<font size=2><b>February 13</b> (Wed) <br>
<b>Mark Hauser</b> (Department of Psychology, Harvard University)<br>
<b><i>Evolving a Moral Grammar: Domain-specificity, Origins, Universality
and Moral Organs<br>
</i></b>12:00-2:00 pm at Room 469, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street<br>
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<font size=2><b>February 18</b> President's Day - No Meeting<br>
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<font size=2><b>February 25<br>
Martyn Pickersgill</b> (Institute for Science and Society, University of
Nottingham)<br>
<b><i>The Neuroscience of Psychopathy: A Mundane Revolution? <br>
</i></b></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>March 3 <br>
Sara Shostak</b> (Department of Sociology, Brandeis University)<br>
<b><i>Multiplicity in Practice: Towards a Genealogy of 'Gene-Environment
Interaction'<br>
</i></b></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>March 10 <br>
Stuart A. Newman</b> (Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, New York
Medical College)<br>
<b><i>Evolution: the Public's Problem, and the Scientists'<br>
</i></b></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>March 17<br>
R. P. Hagendijk</b> (International School for Humanities and Social
Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam)<br>
<b><i>Modes of Public Engagement in European S&T Governance<br>
</i></b></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>March 24</b> Spring Break - No Meeting<br>
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<font size=2><b>March 31 <br>
Felice Frankel</b> (Envisioning Science Program, Initiative in Innovative
Computing, Harvard University)<br>
<b><i>The Visual Expression of Science: More than Pretty Pictures<br>
</i></b></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>April 3</b> (Th) <b><i>Science & Democracy
Lecture Series</i></b><br>
<b>Harold Varmus</b> (Co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral
oncogenes; President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)<br>
<i>Time / Place - TBA<br>
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<font size=2><b>April 7 <br>
Sarah Jansen</b> (Department of the History of Science, Harvard
University)<br>
<b><i>Managing Whales, Wolves, and Eastern Europeans<br>
</i></b></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>April 14 <br>
Barbara Herrnstein-Smith</b> (Department of English, Duke
University)<br>
<b><i>Explaining Religion: Naturalism With and Without Scientism <br>
</i></b>4:00-6:00 pm at Room 252, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street<br>
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<font size=2><b>April 21 <br>
Ellen Bales</b> (History of Science and Technology, UC Berkeley) <br>
<b><i>Working Levels, Working Knowledge: Indoor Radon and the
Environmental Protection Agency <br>
</i></b></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>April 28 <br>
Workshop: <i>Beyond the Creation-Evolution Controversy: Science and
Religion in Public Life<br>
</i></b>• <b>Janet Browne</b> (Department of the History of Science,
Harvard University)<br>
• <b>John Durant</b> (Director, MIT Museum; Program in Science,
Technology & Society, MIT)<br>
• <b>John H. Evans</b> (Department of Sociology, University of
California-San Diego)<br>
• <b>Eric Rothschild</b> (Pepper Hamilton LLP)<br>
• <b>Cornelia Dean</b> (New York Times)<br>
Barker Center for Humanities, <i>Time / Exact room - TBA<br>
</i></font> <br>
<font size=2><b>May 2</b> (Fri) <b> <i>STS Party</i><br>
</b><i>Time / Place - TBA</font></i></blockquote></body>
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