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Please join us next Monday, April 7th:<br>
<div align="center"><font size=4><b><u>STS Colloquium<br><br>
</u></font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">"The Creation Controversy in
Contemporary America: A Field Analysis of 'The Creation Museum',
Petersburg, Kentucky"<br><br>
</font><font size=4>Matt Cohen, John Durant, Marta Lynne Milan, Jason
Scott & Lauren Shields (Class: STS.096)<br><br>
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
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Abstract: <br>
</b>"The Creation Museum opened on 28th May, 2007, to a barrage of
conflicting media reports. We have been exploring the nature and
significance of this unusual visitor attraction in two successive
courses: STS.095; and STS.096. In this Colloquium, we shall report our
findings to date, including some of the results from a random sample
entry/exit survey that we conducted among visitors to the Creation Museum
over three days in January 2008. Using Nisbet & Mooney's concept of
'framing science', we shall offer an interpretation of the Creation
Museum's particular place in, and likely influence upon, the ongoing
Creation Controversy in Contemporary America."<br><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica"><b>John Durant</b> is Adjunct Professor
in the STS Program, Director of the MIT Museum, and Executive Director of
the Cambridge Science Festival. For more than three decades, he has been
actively involved in the public dimensions of science and technology as a
researcher, teacher and practitioner. On this occasion, however, he is
merely one among five co-researchers and presenters who have been working
together since January to make sense of The Creation Museum.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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