[Sci-tech-public] Schedule of events -- December 5-12

[Debbie Meinbresse]

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: December 5-12, 2008

Friday, December 5, 2008

Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Neolithic Emergence: the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East
Steven Mithen, Reading University
2:30-4:30 pm, MIT, E51-095
Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, 
Technology, and Society. For more information, mcollett at mit.edu.

MIT Museum Exhibition Opening
Luminous Windows: Holograms for the 21st Century
5:00 pm, MIT Museum
http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/luminouswindows/


Monday, December 8, 2008

STS Circle at Harvard
Searching for Stability: Nuclear Physics and Fraud at Cold War's End
David Kaiser, MIT
12:15-2:00 p.m., Kennedy School of Government, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, 
Suite 100, room 106. Sandwich lunches provided; rsvp to 
harvard.sts at gmail.com by 12/4. For more information and a complete 
schedule, please visit: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Seminar in Space, Policy, and Society
The Great Leap Upward: A Review of the Chinese Space Program
Dean Cheng, Senior Asia Analyst, CNA
5:00-7:00 pm, MIT, 33-206
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=10003315&date=2008/12/11>abstract 
and bio]


Friday, December 12, 2008

STS Circle at Harvard
Bipolar Disorder: An American Love Affair
David Healy, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University, UK; Former 
Secretary, the British Association for Psychopharmacology
11:30-1:45 p.m., Kennedy School of Government, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, 
Suite 100, room 106. Sandwich lunches provided. For more information 
and a complete schedule, please visit: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/
Please RSVP by Tuesday afternoon (December 9th) to harvard.sts at gmail.com


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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
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