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All meetings will take place on Mondays, from 12:15–2 p.m., at 124 Mt.
Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, unless otherwise noted. Sandwich
lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to
<a href="mailto:sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu">
sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu</a> by Thursday evening the week
before. For more information, please visit:
<a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/">
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/</a>. <br><br>
<b>September 22 Myles Jackson</b>
(Polytechnic University)<br><br>
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The History of CCR5: Intellectual Property and Human Genetics<br>
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<b>September 29</b> <b> Anders Blok</b>
(Copenhagen University)<br><br>
<i> Turning around Latour, or: What is ¡®Cosmopolitical¡¯
about Environmental Objects,<br>
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like Whales?<br>
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<b>October
6
Yochai Benkler</b> (Harvard Law School)<br><br>
<i> The Science of Cooperation and Progressive Social Theory<br>
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<b>October 20
Robert Truog</b> (Harvard Medical School/Chldren¡¯s Hospital)<br><br>
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Death, Brain Death, and the Ethics of Organ Transplantation<br>
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<b>October 27
Alex Wellerstein</b> (Harvard University) <br><br>
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Selling Secrecy: Laser Fusion, Classification, and the Turbulent
1970s<br>
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<b>November 3</b> <b> John
Carson</b> (University of Michigan) <br><br>
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Drawing Things Together: STS and the History of Science<br>
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</i></b>and at 4:00 pm, Science Center, Room 469 (jointly sponsored
by <br><br>
the Department of the History of Science)<br><br>
<i> What makes an ¡°Unsound Mind¡±? Medicine, Law, and Competency in
the<br>
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Nineteenth-Century Courtroom<br>
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<b>November 12 </b>(W)<b> </b>Science & Democracy Lecture Series
(Time & Location: TBA)<br><br>
<b>Ulrich Beck</b> (University of Munich)<br><br>
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Risk Society¡¯s Cosmopolitan Moment<br>
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<b>November 17 Sharon Traweek</b>
(UCLA)<br><br>
<i>Scientists¡¯ Career Narratives and Collaborative Research in Europe,
Japan, and the US<br>
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<b>November 24</b> <b>Adelheid
Voskuhl</b> (Harvard University)<br><br>
<i>The Mechanics of Sentiment: Women Automata and the Culture of Affect
in the European<br>
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<i>
Enlightenment<br>
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<b>December 1 </b> <b>Paul
Shapiro</b> (Humane Society of the United States)<br><br>
<i>Technology¡¯s Role in Factory Farming: Animal Welfare, Public Health,
the Environment,<br>
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and How to Make Progress<br>
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<b>December 8</b>
<b>David Kaiser</b> (MIT)<br><br>
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Searching for Stability: Nuclear Physics and Fraud at Cold War¡¯s
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