[Sci-tech-public] STS Colloquium: The Creation Controversy in Contemporary America, April 7, 4pm

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us next Monday, April 7th:
STS Colloquium

"The Creation Controversy in Contemporary America: A Field Analysis 
of 'The Creation Museum', Petersburg, Kentucky"

Matt Cohen, John Durant, Marta Lynne Milan, Jason Scott & Lauren 
Shields (Class: STS.096)

4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

Abstract:
"The Creation Museum opened on 28th May, 2007, to a barrage of 
conflicting media reports. We have been exploring the nature and 
significance of this unusual visitor attraction in two successive 
courses: STS.095; and STS.096. In this Colloquium, we shall report 
our findings to date, including some of the results from a random 
sample entry/exit survey that we conducted among visitors to the 
Creation Museum over three days in January 2008. Using Nisbet & 
Mooney's concept of 'framing science', we shall offer an 
interpretation of the Creation Museum's particular place in, and 
likely influence upon, the ongoing Creation Controversy in 
Contemporary America."

John Durant is Adjunct Professor in the STS Program, Director of the 
MIT Museum, and Executive Director of the Cambridge Science Festival. 
For more than three decades, he has been actively involved in the 
public dimensions of science and technology as a researcher, teacher 
and practitioner. On this occasion, however, he is merely one among 
five co-researchers and presenters who have been working together 
since January to make sense of The Creation Museum.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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