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Dear MIT STS Community,
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<div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class="">Based on guidelines set forth by the President’s Offie and Office of the Chancellor, i</font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">n light of the current COVID-19 situation, t</span><font face="ArialMT" class="">he
STS Program has decided to postpone the remaining Spring 2020 events until the following semester.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class="">We look forward to hosting <b class="">
Dr. Alondra Nelson</b>, President, Social Sciences Research Council, as the guest lecturer for the
<b class="">Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology, and Society,</b> on
<b class="">Thursday, October 1, 2020, at 4PM</b>. More details will be announced. Dr. Nelson's book,
<i class="">The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">, will be the centerpiece of her presentation.</span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class="">We are also excited about the continued, collaborative discussion with the </font><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">History Department, Anthropology Department, and Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program
on </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">artificial intelligence. A distinguished panel of scholars has been assembled for an examination of
</span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">AI & Ethics,∫ </b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">with </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Stephanie Dick (UPenn), Paul Dourish (UC-Irvine), Kate Klonick (St. John’s U),
</b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">and </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Safiya Noble (UCLA). </b><font face="ArialMT" class="">Event details will be forthcoming.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class="">Best,</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class="">Gus</font></div>
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