<html>
<body>
<b>EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF April 14, 2008:
</b>
<br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b>Monday, April 14<br>
</font>STS Circle at Harvard<br>
</b>Explaining Religion: Naturalism With and Without Scientism<br>
Barbara Herrnstein-Smith (Department of English, Duke University)<br>
4:00-6:00 pm, Harvard, Room 252, Science Center, 1 Oxford
Street<b>
<br>
</b>For more information, please visit:
<a href="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts">
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts</a> <br><br>
<b>STS Colloquium<br>
</b>Biomedicine as Concerted, Collective Action: Substantive and
Methodological Musings<br>
Alberto Cambrosio, McGill University<br>
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095 <br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b>Tuesday, April 15<br>
</font>STS Special Lecture<br>
</b>How Not to Be Seen: Animal Mimicry and the Media of
Reconnaissance<br>
Hanna Rose Shell, Harvard University <br>
4:30 pm, MIT, E51-095 <br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b>Wednesday, April 16<br>
</font>Space Policy Seminar <br>
</b>A Commercial Space Industry Perspective on U.S. Space Policy: The
Good, The Bad, and The Ugly <br>
Mark Bitterman, Senior Vice President for Government Relations, Orbital
Sciences Corporation <br>
5:00-7:00 pm, MIT, 33-116
[<a href="https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9006928&date=2008/04/16">
bio</a>] <br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b>Thursday, April 17<br>
</font>Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group at MIT<br>
</b>Arms Control and International Criminal Law<br>
Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences,
Harvard University<br>
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm, MIT, E51-095
[<a href="https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9006205">bio</a>]
<br><br>
<b>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br>
<font color="#FF0000">REMINDER -- Friday and Saturday, April 25 and
26<br>
</font>Conference - What's the Use of Race?<br><br>
</b>Race continues to thrive as a category of analysis among state and
federal institutions and in medical, scientific, and social
research. Despite concerns that race is a hollow and misleading
concept, studies of race have produced overwhelming documentation of
inequalities from birth to education, income, crime, punishment, disease,
treatment, and death. Can race and ethnicity be objects of analysis
and targets of policy, to alleviate inequalities, without causing harm by
reifying invidious distinctions? This conference probes these
quandaries by bringing together researchers and journal editors in
medicine, science, law, and social science to explore the competing
interests that make studies of race both feared and desired.<br><br>
Complete details, including speakers, program, abstracts, and other
useful information are available at
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/csd">web.mit.edu/csd</a>.<br><br>
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * <br><br>
For a complete listing of activities on the MIT campus:
<a href="http://events.mit.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://events.mit.edu/<br>
</a><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
</body>
</html>