[Sci-tech-public] STS events

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Friday, February 15
Space Policy Seminar
Robots and Humans in Spaceflight: Technology, Evolution, 
and  Interplanetary Travel
Roger D. Launius, Ph.D., Division of Space History, National Air and 
Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
2:00 pm, MIT, E51-095 
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9002812&date=2008/02/15>abstract]

Tuesday, February 19
STS Special Lecture
The Affliction of Freedom: Shame, Science, and Liberal Governance
Rebecca Herzig, Bates College
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095 
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9002329&date=2008/02/19>abstract]

Monday, February 25
STS Circle at Harvard
The Neuroscience of Psychopathy: A Mundane Revolution?
Martyn Pickersgill (Institute for Science and Society, University of 
Nottingham)
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 
by Friday 2/22/08.
For more information, please visit: 
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts

STS Special Lecture
Force Multipliers: 'Pest Control' and the Origins of Rhodesia's 
Biological and Chemical Warfare against Zimbabwean Nationalist 
Guerrillas, c. 1890-1980
Clapperton Mvahunga, University of Michigan
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

Friday, February 29
MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Industrializing Bodies: Sythetic Hormones, Livestock, and 
Environmental Health in the Post-War Era
Nancy Langston, Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies and 
Department of Forest Ecology and Management,
University of 
Wisconsin-Madison 

2:30 pm, MIT, E51-095
co-sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, 
Technology, and Society


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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