[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle at Harvard - Spring 2009 Schedule

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>STS Circle at Harvard – Spring 2009
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>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:harvard.sts at gmail.com>harvard.sts at gmail.com 
>by Thursday evening the week before.  For more 
>information, please visit: 
><http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/.
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>February 9           Phil Loring (History of Science, Harvard University)
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>                             Coaxing Black Boxes 
> to Speak English: Verbal Computers as Boundary Machines
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>                             in 1950s Linguistics
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>February 16         President¡¯s Day
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>February 23         Kenneth Prewitt (School of 
>International & Public Affairs, Columbia University)
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>                             Social Science Evidence for Use
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>                             And at 4:00 pm, 
> Starr Auditorium, Belfer Center, 79 JFK Street
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>                             (jointly sponsored by the Dept. of Sociology)
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>                             Does (Should) 
> Racial Counting Have a Future in America?
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>                             Panelists: 
> Duana Fullwiley (Anthropology, Harvard University)
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>Jennifer L. Hochschild (Government, Harvard University)
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>Mary C. Waters (Sociology, Harvard University)
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>March 2               Michael B. McElroy (Earth 
>and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University)
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>                             Options for a Low-Carbon Energy Future
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>March 11 (Wed)   Science & Democracy Lecture Series
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>                             5:00-7:00 pm, Piper 
> Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street
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>                             Connected 
> Publics:  Power and Politics in a Networked Age
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>                             Panelists: 
> Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)
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>Antoine Picon (Harvard Graduate School of Design)
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>Lucy Suchman (Sociology, Lancaster University & MIT [visiting])
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>                                                     Sherry Turkle (STS, MIT)
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>                             Moderator: 
> Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School)
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>March 16              Andrew Jewett (History, Harvard University)
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>                             Before the Received 
> View: Social Theories of Science in Interwar America
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>March 23              Spring Break
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>March 30              Harry R. Lewis (School of 
>Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)
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>                             Steps Toward an 
> Undergraduate Concentration in Technology and Society
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>April 6                  Nasser Zakariya 
>(History of Science, Harvard University)
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>                             Origins of Epic 
> Authorship: A Vision of Scientific Synthesis in the 1990s
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>April 13                Claude Rosental (CNRS & 
>Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
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>                             Public 
> Demonstrations of Technology: Sociology and Politics
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>                             4:00 pm, William James Hall Room 1550
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>April 20                Vincent Lepinay (STS, MIT)
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>                             Sketch of 
> Derivation: Insights from Wall Street and Atlantic Africa
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>April 27                Andrew Lakoff (Sociology, UCSD)
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>                             Cold War Systems in 
> Crisis: The Concept of Resilience from Psychology to Ecology
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>For more information about the Harvard STS 
>circle, please visit our website at: 
>http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/weeklymeeting.htm
>or e-mail to: sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu or jhurlbut at fas.harvard.edu.
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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