[Sci-tech-public] Schedule of Events for the week of November 3rd

[Debbie Meinbresse]

A schedule of events for the week of November 3rd is posted on the 
STS website http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html.

Please join us for the joint STS/CMS Colloquium on Monday, November 3rd:

How Shall We Compare Cold War and
Contemporary Military Instructional Technologies?

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Independent Scholar

5:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

This talk will sort through various approaches to interpreting two 
cases of Pentagon wargames and simulations separated by 50 years. The 
talk will consider the two from the point of view of writing systems, 
reading, teaching and training, focusing attention under conditions 
of stress;  boredom, story-telling, meaningless labor, ethnomethodology.

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi has been studying the history, sociology, 
anthropology and culture of cold war and contemporary defense 
wargames and simulations since 1990. The lecture presents some ideas 
she will develop in her new book on conjuncture of the entertainment 
and military industries since 2001.



Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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