<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Dear MIT STS Community,</font><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">The MIT STS Program is happy to announce the Fall 2020 event schedule. </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Please join our webinars via Zoom. Links to event information and pre-registration are included. The events will be recorded and become available on the STS website at a later date.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">We look forward to a healthy and safe Fall 2020!</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><b class="">________________________________________________________________________________________________</b></div></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><u class="">2020 Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology, and Society</u></b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 4PM | Virtual Event - Zoom Webinar</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Event Webpage: <a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/morison-lecture-and-prize-in-science-technology-and-society/" class="">https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/morison-lecture-and-prize-in-science-technology-and-society/</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Webinar Pre-Registration: <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4qJ6VLGyS921W7wnF1QwHA" class="">https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4qJ6VLGyS921W7wnF1QwHA</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">This year's recipient of the Morison Lecture and Prize is<strong class=""> <a href="http://www.alondranelson.com/" class="">Dr. Alondra Nelson</a>,</strong> president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. A leading scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is author most recently of <i class=""><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/250539/the-social-life-of-dna-by-alondra-nelson/" class="">The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome</a>.</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><i class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">In <a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/250539/the-social-life-of-dna-by-alondra-nelson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class=""><em class="">The Social Life of D</em>NA</a>, Dr. Nelson takes us on an unprecedented journey into how the double helix has wound its way into the heart of the most urgent contemporary social issues around race. Artfully weaving together interactions with root-seekers alongside illuminating historical details and revealing personal narrative, she shows that genetic genealogy is a new tool for addressing old and enduring issues, including grappling with the unfinished business of slavery, establishing ties with African ancestral homelands, and making legal claims for slavery reparations.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><b class="">________________________________________________________________________________________________</b></div></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><u class="">AI & Ethics</u></b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Monday, November 16, 2020 | 4PM | Virtual Event - Zoom Webinar</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Event Webpage: <a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-ethics/" class="">https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-ethics/</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Webinar Pre-Registration: <font color="#a31e34" size="3" class=""><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"></span></font><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MpdSSsybR1OPNiAl59mN5A" class="">https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MpdSSsybR1OPNiAl59mN5A</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><p class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Join us for a panel discussion of artificial intelligence and ethics in America today with panelists highlighting key issues and/or challenges. </font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">It turns out that it is not only social scientists and humanists who are raising concerns about the realities and directions of AI; many students and faculty in engineering are also voicing hesitations about all aspects of it, something few of us have seen with previous technologies.</span></p><p class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Listen in as the panelists raise the right issues about broader currents in computer science, AI, and society. Y</font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">ou will have the opportunity for a Q&A session once panelists have given their presentations.</span></p><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Panelists include:</font></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><a href="https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/stephanie-dick" class="">Stephanie Dick</a>, University of Pennsylvania</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><a href="https://www.informatics.uci.edu/explore/faculty-profiles/paul-dourish/" class="">Paul Dourish</a>, UC-Irvine</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><a href="https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/safiya-umoja-noble/" class="">Safiya Noble</a>, UCLA</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Moderated by <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/d-fox-harrell" class="">Fox Harrell</a>, MIT</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">This event is part of the <a href="https://cmsw.mit.edu/" class="">MIT Comparative Media Studies Writing</a> Colloquia Series in sponsorship with the <a href="https://anthropology.mit.edu/" class="">Anthropology Department</a>, <a href="https://history.mit.edu/" class="">History Faculty</a>, and the <a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/" class="">STS Program</a>.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><b class="">________________________________________________________________________________________________</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><b class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><u class="">Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</u></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">In addition to these events, the STS Program is collaborating with the History Faculty through the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History to bring you additional talks.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Below is a list of the virtual events produced by the seminar. </font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Sessions are held from 2:30pm-4:00pm on Zoom.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class="">Please see the following weblink for more information: </font><a href="https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history" class="">https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history</a>, and email: <a href="mailto:history-info@mit.edu" class="">history-info@mit.edu</a>.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">September 25, 2020:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b class="">Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural ‘Diversification’</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Megan Raby, University of Texas, Austin</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">October 16, 2020:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b class="">The Invisible Scientist: Farmers, Plant Breeders, and the Uneven Modernization</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of </b><b class="">Latin America’s Coffee</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stuart McCook, University of Guelph</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">November 6, 2020:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b class="">TBA</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span>Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity University</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">February 19, 2021:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b class="">Working Across Disciplines on Endemic Livestock Disease</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span>Abigail Woods, University of Lincoln</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">March 12, 2021:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b class="">TBA</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span>Laura Martin, Williams College</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">April 9, 2021:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b class="">The Cosmology of Mining: Ecological Knowledge in Qing China</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span>Tristan Brown, MIT</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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