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A schedule of events for the week of November 3rd is posted on the STS
website
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html</a>.<br><br>
Please join us for the joint STS/CMS Colloquium on Monday, November
3rd:<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>How Shall We Compare
Cold War and <br>
Contemporary Military Instructional Technologies?<br><br>
</font><font size=4>Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Independent Scholar<br><br>
5:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
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This talk will sort through various approaches to interpreting two cases
of Pentagon wargames and simulations separated by 50 years. The talk will
consider the two from the point of view of writing systems, reading,
teaching and training, focusing attention under conditions of
stress; boredom, story-telling, meaningless labor,
ethnomethodology. <br>
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Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi has been studying the history, sociology,
anthropology and culture of cold war and contemporary defense wargames
and simulations since 1990. The lecture presents some ideas she will
develop in her new book on conjuncture of the entertainment and military
industries since 2001. <br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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