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<b>UPCOMING EVENTS <br>
</b> <br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Saturday, April 26 – Sunday, May
4
<br>
</font>Cambridge Science Festival<br>
</b>The 2nd Annual Cambridge Science Festival runs from April 26 - May
4.<br>
For more information:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/">http://web.mit.edu/museum/</a><br>
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<font color="#0000FF"><b>Monday, April 28 <br>
</font>STS Colloquium joint with Comparative Media Studies, MIT <br>
</b>Strategies of Estrangement: Automata, Exhibition, and Claude
Shannon's Epic Theater of Science <br>
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Northwestern University and MIT
(Visiting)<br>
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
[<a href="https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9007109&date=2008/04/28">
abstract and bio</a>] <br><br>
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Following the STS/CMS Colloquium, why not attend the <b>CMS Media
Spectacle </b>which showcases the finest film and video work of MIT
students, staff and faculty.<br>
7:00-10:00 pm, MIT, 32-155 <br><br>
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<b>The Program on Science, Technology and Society at <br>
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government presents: <br>
</b>Beyond the Creation-Evolution Controversy: Science and Religion
in Public Life<br>
<b>Panelists <br>
</b>Janet Browne, History of Science, Harvard<br>
Cornelia Dean, New York Times<br>
John H. Evans, Sociology, UC San Diego<br>
Eric Rothschild, Pepper Hamilton LLP <br>
4:30-6:30 pm, Harvard, Barker Center for the Humanities, Thompson
Room<br>
Barker Center is located at 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge. <br>
(see map at
<a href="http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=D&series=W">
http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=D&series=W</a>
.)<br><br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Tuesday, April 29<br>
</font>MIT Museum Soap Box <br>
</b>Relational, Sociable Robotics<br>
Sherry Turkle and Cynthia Breazeal, MIT <br>
6:00-7:30, MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery<br>
This event takes place during
<a href="http://cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx">THE CAMBRIDGE
SCIENCE FESTIVAL</a> (April 26 - MAY 4, 2008)<br><br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Wednesday, April 30 <br>
</font>Space Policy and Society Seminar <br>
</b>From “Godspeed John Glenn” to Rovers on Mars: Space, Media, and
Public Perceptions<br>
John Schwartz, The New York Times<br>
Mike Cabbage, NASA Public Affairs Office<br>
Phil Hilts, Knight Science Journalism Fellows<br>
5:00 pm, MIT, Stata, 32-155
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9007100&date=2008/04/30">
abstract</a>] <br><br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Thursday, May 1<br>
</font>HASTS Dissertation Defense<br>
</b>The Wired Wilderness: Electronic Surveillance and Environmental
Values in Conservation Biology<br>
Etienne Benson<br>
10:00am-12:00 noon, MIT, E51-095 <br>
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<b>Informal discussion with David Billington, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of
Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and
Director, Program in Architecture and Engineering, Princeton
University<br>
</b>This discussion will focus on Professor Billington's course at
Princeton on "Engineering in the Modern World"<br>
<b>4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
<font color="#0000FF">Friday, May 2<br>
</font>Morison Prize Lecture<br>
</b>"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for
Engineering History<br>
David Billington, Princeton University<br>
2:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater
[<a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9000833&date=2008/05/02">
more information</a>] <br>
Please join us in the atrium area outside of Bartos Theater immediately
following Professor Billington's lecture for a reception. <br><br>
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<b>MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History<br>
“Empires of Energy, 1580-1980: Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics”<br>
John McNeill, University Professor, Georgetown University<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm, E51 Room 095 <br>
</b>Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing
list, please contact Margo Collett <mcollett@MIT.EDU> <br>
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The <a href="http://events.mit.edu">MIT Events Calendar</a> has a
complete listing of campus activities. <br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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