[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2008

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>
>Subject: STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2008
>
>Dear all,
>
>Welcome back to a new semester.
>
>Many of you know of and have participated in the 
>STS Circle already.  For those who do not, the 
>STS circle is a group of doctoral students and 
>recent Ph.D.s who are interested in creating a 
>space for interdisciplinary conversations about 
>contemporary issues in science and technology 
>that are relevant to people in fields such as 
>anthropology, history of science, sociology, 
>STS, law, government, public policy, and the 
>natural sciences.  We want to engage not only 
>those who are working on intersections of 
>science, politics, and public policy, but also 
>those in the natural sciences, engineering, and 
>architecture who have serious interest in 
>exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
>
>We will meet weekly throughout the term, 
>generally on Mondays, 12:15-2:00 at 124 Mt. 
>Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106 (the same 
>room as last year), though we depart from this 
>norm on a couple of occasions.  Please see the 
>schedule below (and attached).  We hope that 
>many of you will find the work of the group both 
>interesting and rewarding, and that with your 
>active participation, we will be able to 
>strengthen and broaden the STS community in the Cambridge-Boston area.
>
>Please feel free to pass this message along to 
>whomever might be interested in participating in 
>the STS circle.  For those who will attend the 
>STS Circle meetings, please RSVP to: 
><mailto:sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu>sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu 
>by the Friday before so that we will know how 
>many sandwiches to order.  For more general 
>information, please visit our meeting website 
>at: 
><http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm 
>or e-mail to: 
><mailto:sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu>sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu 
>or <mailto:jhurlbut at fas.harvard.edu>jhurlbut at fas.harvard.edu.
>
>All best,
>
>Ben Hurlbut
>Sang-Hyun Kim
>Philip Davis Loring
>
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>
>STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2008
>
>All meetings will take place on Mondays, from 
>12:15-2 p.m., at 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 
>100, Room 106, unless otherwise noted.  Sandwich 
>lunches will be provided.  Please RSVP to 
><mailto:sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu>sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu 
>by the Friday before.  For more information, 
>please visit: <http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts
>
>February 4
>Arthur A. Daemmrich (Harvard Business School)
>Innovation in Degradation: Ecoflex at BASF, on the Market, and in the Compost
>
>February 13 (Wed)
>Mark Hauser (Department of Psychology, Harvard University)
>Evolving a Moral Grammar: Domain-specificity, 
>Origins, Universality and Moral Organs
>12:00-2:00 pm at Room 469, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street
>
>February 18  President's Day - No Meeting
>
>February 25
>Martyn Pickersgill (Institute for Science and 
>Society, University of Nottingham)
>The Neuroscience of Psychopathy: A Mundane Revolution?
>
>March 3
>Sara Shostak (Department of Sociology, Brandeis University)
>Multiplicity in Practice: Towards a Genealogy of 
>'Gene-Environment Interaction'
>
>March 10
>Stuart A. Newman (Department of Cell Biology & 
>Anatomy, New York Medical College)
>Evolution: the Public's Problem, and the Scientists'
>
>March 17
>R. P. Hagendijk (International School for 
>Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
>Modes of Public Engagement in European S&T Governance
>
>March 24  Spring Break - No Meeting
>
>March 31
>Felice Frankel (Envisioning Science Program, 
>Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University)
>The Visual Expression of Science: More than Pretty Pictures
>
>April 3 (Th)  Science & Democracy Lecture Series
>Harold Varmus (Co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize 
>in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of 
>the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes; 
>President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
>Time / Place - TBA
>
>April 7
>Sarah Jansen (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)
>Managing Whales, Wolves, and Eastern Europeans
>
>April 14
>Barbara Herrnstein-Smith (Department of English, Duke University)
>Explaining Religion: Naturalism With and Without Scientism
>4:00-6:00 pm at Room 252, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street
>
>April 21
>Ellen Bales (History of Science and Technology, UC Berkeley)
>Working Levels, Working Knowledge: Indoor Radon 
>and the Environmental Protection Agency
>
>April 28
>Workshop: Beyond the Creation-Evolution 
>Controversy: Science and Religion in Public Life
>• Janet Browne (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)
>• John Durant (Director, MIT Museum; Program in 
>Science, Technology & Society, MIT)
>• John H. Evans (Department of Sociology, University of California-San Diego)
>• Eric Rothschild (Pepper Hamilton LLP)
>• Cornelia Dean (New York Times)
>Barker Center for Humanities, Time / Exact room - TBA
>
>May 2 (Fri)  STS Party
>Time / Place - TBA
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