[Sci-tech-public] Fall schedule for STS Circle at Harvard

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>STS Circle at Harvard – Fall 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 Thursday evening the week before.  For more 
>information, please visit: 
><http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/.
>
>September 22      Myles Jackson (Polytechnic University)
>
>                             The History of 
> CCR5: Intellectual Property and Human Genetics
>
>September 29      Anders Blok (Copenhagen University)
>
>                             Turning around 
> Latour, or: What is ¡®Cosmopolitical¡¯ about Environmental Objects,
>
>                             like Whales?
>
>October 6             Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)
>
>                             The Science of 
> Cooperation and Progressive Social Theory
>
>October 20           Robert Truog (Harvard Medical School/Chldren¡¯s Hospital)
>
>                             Death, Brain Death, 
> and the Ethics of Organ Transplantation
>
>October 27           Alex Wellerstein (Harvard University)
>
>                             Selling Secrecy: 
> Laser Fusion, Classification, and the Turbulent 1970s
>
>November 3         John Carson (University of Michigan)
>
>                             Drawing Things 
> Together: STS and the History of Science
>
>                                         and at 
> 4:00 pm, Science Center, Room 469  (jointly sponsored by
>
>                                         the 
> Department of the History of Science)
>
>                             What makes an 
> ¡°Unsound Mind¡±? Medicine, Law, and Competency in the
>
>                             Nineteenth-Century Courtroom
>
>November 12 (W) Science & Democracy Lecture Series (Time & Location: TBA)
>
>                             Ulrich Beck (University of Munich)
>
>                             Risk Society¡¯s Cosmopolitan Moment
>
>November 17       Sharon Traweek (UCLA)
>
>                             Scientists¡¯ Career 
> Narratives and Collaborative Research in Europe, Japan, and the US
>
>November 24       Adelheid Voskuhl (Harvard University)
>
>                             The Mechanics of 
> Sentiment: Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in the European
>
>                             Enlightenment
>
>December 1         Paul Shapiro (Humane Society of the United States)
>
>                             Technology¡¯s Role 
> in Factory Farming: Animal Welfare, Public Health, the Environment,
>
>                             and How to Make Progress
>
>December 8         David Kaiser (MIT)
>
>                             Searching for 
> Stability: Nuclear Physics and Fraud at Cold War¡¯s End
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