[Sci-tech-public] TODAY @ 4pm -- The Creation Controversy in Contemporary America: A Field Study of 'The Creation Museum', Petersburg, Kentucky

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us at this afternoon's STS Colloquium 
at 4:00 pm; a reception will immediately follow the discussion.

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

John Durant ( Director, MIT Museum; STS Program) with Matt Cohen,
Marta Lynne Milan, Jason Scott & Lauren Shields (Class: STS.096)

Time: 4:00p–6:00p

Location: 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.

See you this afternoon at 4 pm!

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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