[Sci-tech-public] events for week of April 7

[Debbie Meinbresse]

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF April 7, 
2008: 


Monday, April 7

STS Circle at Harvard
Managing Whales, Wolves, and Eastern Europeans
Sarah Jansen, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
12:15-2 p.m., Harvard, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106.
Sandwich lunches will be provided.  Please RSVP to 
<mailto:sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu>sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu.
For more information, please visit: 
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts

STS Colloquium
"The Creation Controversy in Contemporary America:  A Field Study 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
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9003162&date=2008/04/07>abstract]

Wednesday, April 9
Anthropology Colloquium
The Wrong War: The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Devra Davis, Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University 
of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
5:00 pm, MIT, 3-270 
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9006352&date=2008/04/09>bio]
Co-sponsored by Program in Science, Technology, and Society and EEP

MIT Museum Soap Box
Augmenting Human Bodies
John Hockenberry and Hugh Herr
Hugh Herr directs the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab and 
has been working with John Hockenberry, award winning journalist, 
author and editor, and now a Distinguished Fellow at the MIT Media 
Lab. They will discuss their joint work on human augmentation.
6:00-7:30 pm, MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery

Thursday, April 10 (late afternoon/evening) - Friday, April 11 (all day)
Conference -- Disruptive Environments: Academics, Activists and 
Journalists in Conversation
Organized by graduate students and faculty in the History, 
Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society Doctoral Program 
(HASTS). For more information, visit the 
<http://scripts.mit.edu/~disrupt-enviro/conference/>conference 
website. Pre-registration is required.


Be sure to check the MIT on-line events calendar for a complete 
listing of campus-wide activities http://events.mit.edu/

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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