[Sci-tech-public] [STS EVENTS] Announcing the Fall 2020 Events Roster

[Gus Zahariadis]

Dear MIT STS Community,

The MIT STS Program is happy to announce the Fall 2020 event schedule. 

Please join our webinars via Zoom. Links to event information and pre-registration are included. The events will be recorded and become available on the STS website at a later date.

We look forward to a healthy and safe Fall 2020!
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2020 Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology, and Society
Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 4PM | Virtual Event - Zoom Webinar

Event Webpage:  https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/morison-lecture-and-prize-in-science-technology-and-society/ <https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/morison-lecture-and-prize-in-science-technology-and-society/>
Webinar Pre-Registration:  https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4qJ6VLGyS921W7wnF1QwHA <https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4qJ6VLGyS921W7wnF1QwHA>

This year's recipient of the Morison Lecture and Prize is Dr. Alondra Nelson <http://www.alondranelson.com/>, president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.  A leading scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is author most recently of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome <http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/250539/the-social-life-of-dna-by-alondra-nelson/>.

In The Social Life of DNA <http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/250539/the-social-life-of-dna-by-alondra-nelson/>, Dr. Nelson takes us on an unprecedented journey into how the double helix has wound its way into the heart of the most urgent contemporary social issues around race. Artfully weaving together interactions with ​root-seekers alongside illuminating historical details and revealing personal narrative, she shows that genetic genealogy is a new tool for addressing old and enduring issues, including grappling with the unfinished business of slavery, establishing ties with African ancestral homelands, and making legal claims for slavery reparations.
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AI & Ethics
Monday, November 16, 2020 | 4PM | Virtual Event - Zoom Webinar

Event Webpage:  https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-ethics/ <https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-ethics/>
Webinar Pre-Registration: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MpdSSsybR1OPNiAl59mN5A <https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MpdSSsybR1OPNiAl59mN5A>
Join us for a panel discussion of artificial intelligence and ethics in America today with panelists highlighting key issues and/or challenges. It turns out that it is not only social scientists and humanists who are raising concerns about the realities and directions of AI; many students and faculty in engineering are also voicing hesitations about all aspects of it, something few of us have seen with previous technologies.

Listen in as the panelists raise the right issues about broader currents in computer science, AI, and society. You will have the opportunity for a Q&A session once panelists have given their presentations.

Panelists include:
Stephanie Dick <https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/stephanie-dick>, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Dourish <https://www.informatics.uci.edu/explore/faculty-profiles/paul-dourish/>, UC-Irvine
Safiya Noble <https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/safiya-umoja-noble/>, UCLA
Moderated by Fox Harrell <https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/d-fox-harrell>, MIT

This event is part of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Writing <https://cmsw.mit.edu/> Colloquia Series in sponsorship with the Anthropology Department <https://anthropology.mit.edu/>, History Faculty <https://history.mit.edu/>, and the STS Program <https://sts-program.mit.edu/>.
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Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

In addition to these events, the STS Program is collaborating with the History Faculty through the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History to bring you additional talks.

Below is a list of the virtual events produced by the seminar.  Sessions are held from 2:30pm-4:00pm on Zoom.

Please see the following weblink for more information:  https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history <https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history>, and email: history-info at mit.edu <mailto:history-info at mit.edu>.

September 25, 2020:	Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural ‘Diversification’
					Megan Raby, University of Texas, Austin

October 16, 2020:		The Invisible Scientist: Farmers, Plant Breeders, and the Uneven Modernization
					of Latin America’s Coffee
					Stuart McCook, University of Guelph

November 6, 2020:		TBA
					Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity University

February 19, 2021:		Working Across Disciplines on Endemic Livestock Disease
					Abigail Woods, University of Lincoln

March 12, 2021:		TBA
					Laura Martin, Williams College

April 9, 2021:			The Cosmology of Mining: Ecological Knowledge in Qing China
					Tristan Brown, MIT

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Gus Zahariadis
Assistant to the Director
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
T: (617) 253-3452
F: (617) 258-8118
gusz at mit.edu
sts-program.mit.edu

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