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<h1>Please join us at this afternoon's STS Colloquium at 4:00 pm; a
reception will immediately follow the discussion.<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>"The Creation
Controversy in Contemporary America: A Field Analysis of 'The Creation
Museum', Petersburg, Kentucky"</b></font></h1><font size=4><b>John
Durant ( Director, MIT Museum; STS Program) with Matt Cohen, <br>
Marta Lynne Milan, Jason Scott & Lauren Shields (Class:
STS.096)<br><br>
Time: 4:00p–6:00p <br><br>
Location: MIT E51-095<br><br>
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<u>Abstract: <br>
</u>"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>
John Durant 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>
See you this afternoon at 4 pm!<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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