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join us this Friday for the 3rd meeting of “Sensing the Unseen,” a seminar
series to discuss current scholarship on the sensory and media modes that
people employ to access realms of existence and experience outside the
immediately visible. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:italic'>All seminar meetings are free and open to the public - no
registration is required. </span></font></i><br clear=all>
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<h2><b><font size=5 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
18.0pt'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/unaccounted.html">The
Unaccounted: Measuring</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<h3><b><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Friday, November 12, 2:30 - 5:00 PM <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>@ MIT 56-114 (<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=56">Whitaker Building #56</a>, Room 114)</span></font></b><br
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Speakers: Kim Fortun and Sarah Igo <br>
Discussants: Alain Pottage (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">London</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of Economics),
David Kaiser (MIT)<br clear=all>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kim Fortun, “Measuring Exposure Science”</span></b>
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Exposure science aims to understand how environmental stressors (pollution,
built environments, diet, cosmetics, deforestation, global warming) impact
human and ecological health. Focusing on different scales, using an array of
measurement and modeling techniques, exposure science works to draw out
connections that are hard to see, to make sense of, and to respond to. <br>
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Kim Fortun is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of
Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her
research focuses on how “the environment” is understood and governed in
different historical, geographic and organizational contexts. In 2010, she will
complete a 5-year term as co-editor (with Mike Fortun) of Cultural
Anthropology.<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sarah Igo, “Knowing Citizens”<br clear=all>
</span></b>Monitoring the inner life of national populations — their private
beliefs and desires — became a key ambition of governments, corporations, and
scientists in the twentieth century. Examining the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> case, this talk traces how
citizens became known, and with what effects on subjectivity and social life. <br>
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Sarah E. Igo is Associate Professor of History at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Vanderbilt</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
with interests in twentieth-century cultural and intellectual history, the
history of the human sciences, and the sociology of knowledge. She is the
author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Averaged American: Surveys,
Citizens and the Making of a Mass Public </span></i>and is currently writing a
cultural history of modern privacy. <br>
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A Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures to be held at MIT in
2010-2011, “Sensing the Unseen” is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and hosted by MIT Anthropology. Our website provides more details, including
upcoming seminars: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/</a>
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Maps & directions to the “Sensing the Unseen” seminar can be found here: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html</a><br>
Sign up to receive email reminders about upcoming seminars: <a
href="https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list">https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list</a>
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