[Sci-tech-public] ****STS BROWN BAG LUNCH TALK: MAY 3rd @ 12:00 noon**** Plus Schedule of Events May 3-11

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Please join us on Wednesday, May 3rd, @ 12:00 noon:

STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk

"Beyond En-trope-y, Or, How I learned to stop worrying
and love Victorian Thermodynamics"

Barri Gold, Visiting Scholar, STS Program, MIT

12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191


Barri Gold received her B.S. in Physics from MIT and her Ph. D. in English
Language and Literature, from the University of Chicago.  Now an Associate
Professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, she is currently at work on a
book entitled _Bodies in Heat: The Nineteenth-Century's Romance with Energy_. 
Her talk explores the "discovery" of the laws of thermodynamics taking place in
poetry and in physics in the early days of the science of energy.

Please feel free to bring your lunch; coffee and dessert will be provided.

Schedule of Events: May 4-11th

Thurs 4-	Dibner Institute Spring Conference
Sat 6	Acoustics
	Organizers: Myles Jackson, Willamette University,
         and George Smith, Dibner Institute
	For further information, call 617-253-6989 or e-mail dibner at mit.edu

Tues 9	Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group Seminar Series
	Space Weapons
	Will Marshall, Harvard University?s Kennedy School of Government
	12:00-1:30 p.m., MIT, E51-275
	Light refreshments provided; for more information, call 617-452-2542

Thurs 11	Sahin Lecture
	Appealing to the Public:  Newspaper Presentation and
	Adjudication of Emotion in 1920s Shanghai
         Bryna Goodman, University of Oregon
	4:30-6:00 p.m., MIT, E51-275