[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: [TaCforum] Great January events

[Xaq Frohlich]

The Technology & Culture Forum is hosting a bunch of sci-tech-soc  
related events this month (see forwarded list below).  This Wednesday,  
January 14th, John Durant will be hosting and discussing a screening  
of "Expelled" a documentary about the Intelligent Design movement.  It  
should be quite interesting.  I encourage you to attend if you can!

Best,
Xaq


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Amy McCreath <mccreath at MIT.EDU>
> Date: January 5, 2009 12:17:50 PM EST
> To: tacforum at mit.edu
> Subject: [TaCforum] Great January events
>
> Technology and Culture Forum encourages you to join us for our  
> excellent IAP events.
> Details are in the IAP guide at http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstcf.html
>
> Expelled: A film & discussion about intelligent design and American  
> schools.
> Wednesday, January 14th, 6:30-9:00 pm, MIT Building W11, Main Dining  
> Room.
> Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" explores the freedom  
> (or lack thereof) of academic institutions to challenge scientific  
> orthodoxy regarding evolution. We will view the film and then join  
> in conversation, facilitated by Prof. John Durant of MIT's Program  
> in Science, Technology and Society. A free, simple dinner will be  
> served.
> We have room for 50 people. You must RSVP to reserve a spot and a  
> dinner.
> Please sign up with Patricia Weinmann as weinmann at mit.edu by January  
> 12th.
>
> The Future of Inventing: Automated, Collaborative, Distributive  
> Inventing
> Speaker: Robert Plotkin, Esq. MIT alum, Patent Lawyer, Author of  
> "The Genie in the Machine"
> Thursday,  January 15th, 1:00 pm - 3:00pm, MIT Building 4- Room 153.
> We think of an "inventor" as someone who sits alone in a workshop,  
> sketching designs and hammering out prototypes. In the future,  
> individual inventorship will increasingly be overtaken by various  
> forms of "collaborative inventing" as inventors leverage computer  
> technology as an inventive tool. This talk will provide real-world  
> examples of the phenomena that are changing the face of inventing.  
> No enrollment limit, no advance sign up.
>
> Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability
> Friday, January 30th from 5:00 pm -9:00 pm, and Saturday, January  
> 31st, from 9:00am-4:00pm, MIT's Stata Center
> Video presentations by noted theologians and community organizers  
> and small-group discussion with others on-site on the warrant for -- 
> and strategies for -- creating just, sustainable relations, drawing  
> on the wisdom of liberation theology and successful community  
> organizing.
> You must register for this event by January 21st by contacting  
> Christina English at cenglish at mit.edu. Registration fee is $30 (free  
> for students).
> This event is offered in partnership with Trinity Institute and the  
> Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
>
> Nuclear Weapons: Physics, History, and Abolition?
> A four-part series, featuring Prof. Aron Bernstein and Prof. Kosta  
> Tsipis.
> Although we are not official sponsors of this series,  as partners  
> in the MIT Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, we  
> strongly encourage your participation in it.  Details are at http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns8.html
>
> Happy New Year and hope to see you soon,
>
>
>
> The Rev. Amy McCreath
> Episcopal Chaplain at MIT
> Coordinator - Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
> (o) 617-253-2983
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> http://web.mit.edu/tac
>
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