[Sci-tech-public] Schedule of Events: Week of April 14

[Debbie Meinbresse]

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF April 14, 
2008: 


Monday, April 14
STS Circle at Harvard
Explaining Religion: Naturalism With and Without Scientism
Barbara Herrnstein-Smith (Department of English, Duke University)
4:00-6:00 pm, Harvard, Room 252, Science Center, 1 Oxford 
Street
For more information, please visit: 
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts

STS Colloquium
Biomedicine as Concerted, Collective Action: Substantive and 
Methodological Musings
Alberto Cambrosio, McGill University
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

Tuesday, April 15
STS Special Lecture
How Not to Be Seen: Animal Mimicry and the Media of Reconnaissance
Hanna Rose Shell, Harvard University
4:30 pm, MIT, E51-095

Wednesday, April 16
Space Policy Seminar
A Commercial Space Industry Perspective on U.S. Space Policy: The 
Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Mark Bitterman, Senior Vice President for Government Relations, 
Orbital Sciences Corporation
5:00-7:00 pm, MIT, 33-116 
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9006928&date=2008/04/16>bio]

Thursday, April 17
Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group at MIT
Arms Control and International Criminal Law
Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural 
Sciences, Harvard University
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm, MIT, E51-095 
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9006205>bio]

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REMINDER -- Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26
Conference - What's the Use of Race?

Race continues to thrive as a category of analysis among state and 
federal institutions and in medical, scientific, and social 
research.  Despite concerns that race is a hollow and misleading 
concept, studies of race have produced overwhelming documentation of 
inequalities from birth to education, income, crime, punishment, 
disease, treatment, and death.  Can race and ethnicity be objects of 
analysis and targets of policy, to alleviate inequalities, without 
causing harm by reifying invidious distinctions?  This conference 
probes these quandaries by bringing together researchers and journal 
editors in medicine, science, law, and social science to explore the 
competing interests that make studies of race both feared and desired.

Complete details, including speakers, program, abstracts, and other 
useful information are available at <http://web.mit.edu/csd>web.mit.edu/csd.

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For a complete listing of activities on the MIT campus: http://events.mit.edu/

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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