From anita1 at MIT.EDU Wed Nov 5 10:26:18 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:26:18 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] reminder-ITSelf mtg tomorrow Message-ID: Hi All, A reminder that the next ITSelf group meeting will be tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 6th, from 10A-11:30A. We'll be meeting in the STS Reading Room, E51-091, and delving into Zizek. See everyone then, anita From anita1 at MIT.EDU Wed Nov 5 18:59:37 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:59:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] development, human right, technology talk tomorrow Message-ID: fyi... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Forms of Inequality and Human Rights Thursday November 6, 2003 5:00-6:30 p.m. E38-615 (292 Main Street) *Rajendra Kumar, Urban Studies & Planning Sustainable Access in Rural India Project, Madras, India *Meghan Fennelly, Urban Studies & Planning Forum for African Educationalists, Accra, Ghana *Katherine Ricke, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Science Akha Heritage Foundation, Chiangrai, Thailand *Anne Pollack, Science, Technology & Society Forum Against the Oppression of Women in Bombay, India *For more information on Summer 2004 PHRJ internships, please contact Susan Frick or visit our website. Applications are due February 20. Susan Frick Program Assistant Program on Human Rights and Justice Massachusetts Institute of Technology E38-277, 292 Main Street Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Tel: 617 258 7614 Fax: 617 452 3962 Email: fricks at mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/phrj From anita1 at MIT.EDU Thu Nov 13 01:41:03 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:41:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] Mcluhan talk tomorrow Message-ID: anyone else interested in heading to Harvard to see this? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS CANADA SEMINAR - FALL 2003 Thursday, November 13th, 4 p.m. Janine Marchessault speaking on Marshall McLuhan's View of 'Cosmic Media' and the Future of Globalization Bowie-Vernon Room, 2nd Floor, WCFIA 1033 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Brief reception, with refreshments, to follow seminar Professor Janine Marchessault is Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media, and Globalization at York University in Toronto. Prof. Marchessault is a past president of the Film Studies Association of Canada and has published widely on film, video, and new media technologies. She has contributed articles on Quebec, feminist, and Canadian cinema to numerous scholarly and arts magazines and is a founding editor of Public, a journal of art, culture and ideas. She has edited several anthologies, including Mirror Machine: Video and Identity, Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women Filmmakers, and Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Science and the Media. ~~~ Wednesday, December 3rd, 4 p.m. Peter S. Grant speaking on Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World Room 4, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street Brief reception, with refreshments, to follow seminar Peter S. Grant is an internationally experienced communications lawyer and a senior partner at Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tetrault. He has represented clients in every branch of popular media, and is actively involved in initiatives to enshrine the principle of cultural diversity in countries around the world. His forthcoming book, Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World, co-authored with Chris Wood, focuses on the market dynamics that drive audiences to "blockbuster" films, TV programs, books, and recording artists - at the expense of independent and alternative voices, including voices from smaller countries. ~~~ Wednesday, December 17th, 4 p.m. Joy Parr speaking on Managing Radiation Danger as a National Culture: Navy Men, Cowboys and Fishermen Rooms 2 & 3, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street Brief reception, with refreshments, to follow seminar Workers in Canadian nuclear generating stations are individually responsible for their own radiation protection. The line health surveyors and radiation physicists who plan and supervise all work in radiation zones in US, French and British nuclear power plants are absent in Canadian sites. The Canadian system is internationally admired but not replicated. Using the reactor floor metaphors of navy men, cowboys and fishermen, Parr examines the origin and continuing significance of the 'Canadian system' of radiation protection. Prof. Parr is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk at the University of Western Ontario. She is a former visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford; the Swedish Institute and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. In 10 previous books she has written about Keynesianism, domestic consumption, labour migration, and the gendered cultures and technologies of industrial development and decline. Her current work is a cluster of case studies of the neighbours of twentieth century megaprojects, the landscape and taskscape transformations thus effected and their usefulness for revealing the historically specific body. ~~ The Canada Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and chaired by Professor Rosemary J. Coombe, the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Law, Communications, and Cultural Studies. Seminars listed above are subject to change and another seminar may be added at a later date. For more information, please contact us: canada at wcfia.harvard.edu or (617) 495-3671 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 1033 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada From anita1 at MIT.EDU Thu Nov 13 10:09:24 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:09:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] next meeting Message-ID: Hi All, The next meeting for the Itself Working Group will be next Thursday, Nov. 30th, from 11a-12:30p in the STS Reading Room, E51-191. We'll be reading an excerpt from Jean Abbate's Inventing the Internet, and another excerpt from Lawrence Lessig's Code. Sandy's making copies of the readings of the readings, and they should be ready later today. Copies can be picked up from the STS student office in E51-070. cheers, anita From anita1 at MIT.EDU Thu Nov 13 15:30:12 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:30:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] correction -next meeting (fwd) Message-ID: oops -- i meant to type that our next meeting is going to be next Thursday the 20th (not the 30th), same hour, same place. sorry for the confusion! anita ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:09:24 -0500 (EST) From: anita chan To: itself at mit.edu Subject: [Itself] next meeting Hi All, The next meeting for the Itself Working Group will be next Thursday, Nov. 30th, from 11a-12:30p in the STS Reading Room, E51-191. We'll be reading an excerpt from Jean Abbate's Inventing the Internet, and another excerpt from Lawrence Lessig's Code. Sandy's making copies of the readings of the readings, and they should be ready later today. Copies can be picked up from the STS student office in E51-070. cheers, anita _______________________________________________ Itself mailing list Itself at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/itself From anita1 at MIT.EDU Tue Nov 18 23:56:50 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:56:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] Thursday meeting Message-ID: Hi All, Just a reminder that the next meeting for the Itself Working Group will be tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 20th), from 11a-12:30p in the STS Reading Room, E51-191. We'll be reading excerpts from Jean Abbate's Inventing the Internet, and from Lawrence Lessig's Code. Copies of the readings can be picked up from the STS student office in E51-070. cheers, anita