[Sci-tech-public] STS Colloquium: Meg Jacobs, speaker; schedule of events March 19-23, 2007

[Debbie Meinbresse]

A Schedule of Events is attached for the period March 19-23, 2007.

Please join us on Monday, March 19:

STS Colloquium

The Energy Crisis of the 1970s

Meg Jacobs, MIT History Faculty


Please note special start time of 4:30 pm for this colloquium.

Location: MIT, E51-095

Abstract
What can the energy crisis of the 1970s teach us about the energy 
challenges we face today?  This talk will look at the failure of 
national policy to respond to the oil shocks of the 1970s. It will 
suggest that an effective, long-term solution to a nation's energy 
shortfall depends not only on technological advances but also on 
political will.

Bio
Meg Jacobs is Associate Professor of History at MIT where she holds 
the Class of 1947 Career Development Chair. Professor Jacobs is the 
author of Pocketbook Politics, Economic Citizenship in 
Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, 2005), winner of the 2006 OAH 
Ellis Hawley Prize for the best book on modern US politics and the 
2006 New England Historical Association Best Book Prize. She is 
currently writing a book entitled, Panic at the Pump, on the energy 
crisis of the 1970s.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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