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We have a busy week ahead! Be sure to check out the complete
schedule of upcoming events on the STS website
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html" eudora="autourl">
<b>http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html</a>.<br><br>
Monday, February
4
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STS Special Lecture<br>
</b>Artisans and Their Philosophers: Making and Reflecting upon Early
Modern Calculating Machines<br>
Matthew Jones, Columbia University <br>
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9001373&date=2008/02/04">
abstract</a>] <br><br>
<b>Tuesday, February 5 <br>
STS Special Lecture<br>
</b>Vernacular Science in the Early U.S.: Investigating the New Madrid
Earthquakes of 1811-12<br>
Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University <br>
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9001542&date=2008/02/05">
abstract</a>] <br><br>
<b>Wednesday, February 6 <br>
Seminar on Space Policy and Society<br>
</b>"Seeing Like A Rover": Imaging and Interacting on the Mars
Exploration Rover Mission<br>
Janet Vertesi, Science and Technology Studies Department, Cornell<br>
5:00-7:00 pm, MIT, 33-116
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9001545&date=2008/02/06">
abstract</a>]<br><br>
<b>Friday, February 8 <br>
MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History<br>
</b>'Wilding the Farm or Farming the Wild?' The Evolution of Game
Ranching in Southern Africa, 1960s to the Present<br>
Jane Carruthers, Professor of History, University of South Africa,
Pretoria<br>
2:30 pm, MIT, E51-095<br>
co-sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology,
and Society<br><br>
Please note that as I receive abstracts for upcoming talks, I will
include those on the STS website.<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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