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<div align="center"><b>STS Circle at Harvard – Spring 2009<br>
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<br>
<br><br>
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:harvard.sts@gmail.com">harvard.sts@gmail.com</a> by
Thursday evening the week before. For more information, please
visit:
<a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/"><font color="#800080">
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/</a></font>. <br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>February
9</b> <b>Phil
Loring</b> (History of Science, Harvard University)<br><br>
<b><i>
Coaxing Black Boxes to Speak English: Verbal Computers as Boundary
Machines <br>
</i></b><br>
<b><i>
in 1950s Linguistics<br>
</i></b><br>
<br><br>
<b>February 16</b>
<b>President¡¯s Day<br>
</b><br>
<br><br>
<b>February 23</b>
<b>Kenneth Prewitt</b> (School of International & Public Affairs,
Columbia University)<br><br>
<b><i>
Social Science Evidence for Use<br>
</i></b><br>
<br><br>
<b>
And at 4:00 pm, Starr Auditorium, Belfer Center, 79 JFK Street <br>
</b><br>
(jointly sponsored by the Dept. of Sociology)<br><br>
<b><i>
Does (Should) Racial Counting Have a Future in America?<br>
</i></b><br>
Panelists: <b>Duana
Fullwiley</b> (Anthropology, Harvard University) <br><br>
<b>Jennifer L. Hochschild</b> (Government, Harvard University)<br><br>
<b>Mary C. Waters </b>(Sociology, Harvard University)<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>March 2
</b>
<b>Michael B. McElroy</b> (Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
University) <br><br>
<b><i>
Options for a Low-Carbon Energy Future<br>
</i></b><br>
<br><br>
<b>March 11 (Wed)</b> <b><i>Science & Democracy Lecture
Series<br>
</i></b><br>
<b>
5:00-7:00 pm, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street<br>
</b><br>
<b><i>
Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age<br>
</i></b><br>
Panelists: <b>Yochai
Benkler</b> (Harvard Law School)<br><br>
<b>Antoine Picon</b> (Harvard Graduate School of Design)<br><br>
<b>Lucy Suchman</b> (Sociology, Lancaster University & MIT
[visiting])<br><br>
<b>Sherry Turkle </b>(STS, MIT)<br><br>
Moderator: <b> Sheila Jasanoff</b>
(Harvard Kennedy School)<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>March 16 </b>
<b> Andrew Jewett</b> (History,
Harvard University)<br><br>
<b><i>
Before the Received View: Social Theories of Science in Interwar
America<br>
</i></b><br>
<br><br>
<b>March 23</b>
<font color="#008000"><b>
</font>Spring Break<br>
</b><br>
<br><br>
<b>March 30 </b>
<b> Harry R. Lewis</b> (School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University) <br><br>
<b><i>
Steps Toward an Undergraduate Concentration in Technology and
Society<br>
</i></b><br>
<br><br>
<b>April
6</b>
<b>Nasser Zakariya</b> (History of Science, Harvard University) <br><br>
<b><i>
Origins of Epic Authorship: A Vision of Scientific Synthesis in the
1990s<br>
</i></b><br>
<br><br>
<b>April 13
</b>
<b>Claude Rosental</b> (CNRS & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, France) <br><br>
<b><i>
Public Demonstrations of Technology: Sociology and Politics<br>
</i></b><br>
<b>
4:00 pm, William James Hall Room 1550<br>
</b><br>
<br><br>
<b>April 20
</b>
<b>Vincent Lepinay</b> (STS, MIT) <br><br>
<b><i>
Sketch of Derivation: Insights from Wall Street and Atlantic Africa<br>
</i></b><br>
<br><br>
<b>April 27
</b>
<b>Andrew Lakoff</b> (Sociology, UCSD) <br><br>
<b>
<i>Cold War Systems in Crisis: The Concept of Resilience from Psychology
to Ecology<br>
</i></b><br>
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For more information about the Harvard STS circle, please visit our
website at:
<a href="??">http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm</a>
<br>
or e-mail to: <a href="??">sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu</a> or
<a href="??">jhurlbut@fas.harvard.edu</a>.<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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