[Sci-tech-public] Schedule of Events: December 1-5

[Debbie Meinbresse]

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:  December 1-5, 2008

Monday, December 1, 2008

STS Circle at Harvard
 From the Battery Cage to the Ballot Box: The Transformation of 
Animal Protection in Twenty-first Century America
Paul Shapiro, Humane Society of the United States
12:15-2:00 p.m., Kennedy School of Government, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, 
Suite 100, room 106. Sandwich lunches provided. For more information 
and a complete schedule, visit: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/. 
Please note - due to the Thanksgiving holiday, rsvp by noon on 11/26 
by e-mailing harvard.sts at gmail.com

STS Colloquium
Database of Dreams: Technologies for Assembling Subjective Materials, 1945-1961
Rebecca Lemov, Harvard University
4:00 pm, MIT, 
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51&mapsearch=go>E51-095 
[<https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9014590&date=2008/12/01>abstract 
and bio]

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Harvard History of Science, The Mark M. Horblit Colloquium in the 
History of Science
The Evolution of Choice: Denudation and the Descent of Man
Rebecca Herzig, Bates College
4:00 pm, Harvard University, 
<http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=A&series=N>Science 
Center 469; [<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/>More information 
about this event and Harvard's History of Science Department]


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.

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Be sure to check the STS website for updates 
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html and the MIT events 
page for a complete listing of events on campus 
http://events.mit.edu/index.html?date=2008/12/25

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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