[Sci-tech-public] Reminder: Charles Perrow Lecture "The Next Catastrophe" at MIT on Monday 10/22 @ 4pm

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us on Monday, October 22nd, for this year's Arthur Miller 
Lecture on Science and Ethics.  Our speaker is Charles Perrow, author 
of Normal Accidents. His most recent book (and the title for Monday's 
talk) is The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to 
Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton University Press).

The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to
Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

Charles Perrow
Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University

4:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater (E15-lower level)
reception will immediately follow lecture

Abstract:
Our organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security are not 
up to the mounting threats of natural, industrial, and terrorist 
disasters, and never will be. Perrow argues that the ethical course 
is to reduce the size of targets for these threats. We should 
deconcentrate populations in highly risky areas, deconcentrate the 
hazardous materials in our populated areas, and deconcentrate the 
powerful corporations that sit astride our critical infrastructure.

The talk is free and open to the public; the location is wheelchair 
accessible.  Location on the MIT campus is near the Kendall/MIT stop 
on the RedLine.  To view campus map with location of building E15: 
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E15


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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