[Sci-tech-public] Events week of April 28

[Debbie Meinbresse]

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, April 26 – Sunday, May 4
Cambridge Science Festival
The 2nd Annual Cambridge Science Festival runs from April 26 - May 4.
For more information: <http://web.mit.edu/museum/>http://web.mit.edu/museum/

Monday, April 28
STS Colloquium joint with Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Strategies of Estrangement: Automata, Exhibition, 
and Claude Shannon's Epic Theater of Science
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Northwestern University and MIT (Visiting)
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095 
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9007109&date=2008/04/28>abstract 
and bio]

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Following the STS/CMS Colloquium, why not attend 
the CMS Media Spectacle which showcases the 
finest film and video work of MIT students, staff and faculty.
7:00-10:00 pm, MIT, 32-155

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The Program on Science, Technology and Society at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government presents:
Beyond the Creation-Evolution Controversy:  Science and Religion in Public Life
Panelists
Janet Browne, History of Science, Harvard
Cornelia Dean, New York Times
John H. Evans, Sociology, UC San Diego
Eric Rothschild, Pepper Hamilton LLP
4:30-6:30 pm, Harvard, Barker Center for the Humanities, Thompson Room
Barker Center is located at 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.
(see map at 
<http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=D&series=W>http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=D&series=W.)

Tuesday, April 29
MIT Museum Soap Box
Relational, Sociable Robotics
Sherry Turkle and Cynthia Breazeal, MIT
6:00-7:30, MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery
This event takes place during 
<http://cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx>THE 
CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL (April 26 - MAY 4, 2008)

Wednesday, April 30
Space Policy and Society Seminar
 From “Godspeed John Glenn” to Rovers on Mars: 
Space, Media, and Public Perceptions
John Schwartz, The New York Times
Mike Cabbage, NASA Public Affairs Office
Phil Hilts, Knight Science Journalism Fellows
5:00 pm, MIT, Stata, 32-155 
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9007100&date=2008/04/30>abstract]

Thursday, May 1
HASTS Dissertation Defense
The Wired Wilderness: Electronic Surveillance and 
Environmental Values in Conservation Biology
Etienne Benson
10:00am-12:00 noon, MIT, E51-095

Informal discussion with David Billington, Gordon 
Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Professor of 
Civil and Environmental Engineering, and 
Director, Program in Architecture and Engineering, Princeton University
This discussion will focus on Professor 
Billington's course at Princeton on "Engineering in the Modern World"
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

Friday, May 2
Morison Prize Lecture
"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History
David Billington, Princeton University
2:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater 
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9000833&date=2008/05/02>more 
information]
Please join us in the atrium area outside of 
Bartos Theater immediately following Professor 
Billington's lecture for a reception.


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MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
“Empires of Energy, 1580-1980:  Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics”
John McNeill, University Professor, Georgetown University
2:30 to 4:30 pm, E51 Room 095
Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the 
Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For 
more information or to be put on the mailing 
list, please contact Margo Collett <mcollett at MIT.EDU>


The <http://events.mit.edu>MIT Events Calendar 
has a complete listing of campus activities.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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