[Sci-tech-public] STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk -- Archives and Interviews -- October 17th @ 12:00 noon

[Debbie Meinbresse]

STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk

Archives and Interviews: Reflections on Two Decades of Research

Chris Bissell, Open University UK

Wednesday, October 17th, 12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191

This short, very informal, talk will present some of the 
historiographical issues that Chris Bissell encountered since the mid 
1980s during his research on the history of control engineering. 
Chris has been interested in particular in early and mid 20th century 
developments in the German-speaking area and the former Soviet Union, 
and has conducted interviews and archival research in both contexts. 
Both oral interviews and archival work present various problems for 
the researcher, particularly when working in a foreign language. 
Chris will discuss some of these, together with some more general 
background to his work.

Chris is currently Professor of Telematics at the UK Open University, 
where he has worked in various roles since 1980. In addition to his 
historical research he has published widely on engineering education, 
and has developed distance teaching materials in control engineering, 
telecommunications, ICT, and other subjects.

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

Please save the dates for two upcoming STS Brown Bag Lunch Talks:
October 23 at 12:00 noon, MIT, E51-275
Reforms in Russian Science
and Higher Education
Speaker: Loren Graham, STS, MIT

November 7 at 12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191
Understanding Successful Proliferators: How the most undeveloped 
nations get the world's most dangerous weapons
Speaker:  Geoff Forden, Science, Technology and Global Security 
Working Group, MIT

For further information about these events: 617-452-2390
Map for location of E51 on the MIT campus: 
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51&mapsearch=go

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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