[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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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)



September 29      Anders Blok (Copenhagen University)



                            like Whales?

October 6             Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)



October 20           Robert Truog (Harvard Medical School/Chldren¡¯s Hospital)



October 27           Alex Wellerstein (Harvard University)



November 3         John Carson (University of Michigan)









                            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)



November 24       Adelheid Voskuhl (Harvard University)



                            Enlightenment

December 1         Paul Shapiro (Humane Society of the United States)



                            and How to Make Progress

December 8         David Kaiser (MIT)

The History of CCR5: Intellectual Property and Human Genetics Turning around Latour, or: What is ¡®Cosmopolitical¡¯ about Environmental Objects, The Science of Cooperation and Progressive Social Theory Death, Brain Death, and the Ethics of Organ Transplantation Selling Secrecy: Laser Fusion, Classification, and the Turbulent 1970s 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 Scientists¡¯ Career Narratives and Collaborative Research in Europe, Japan, and the US The Mechanics of Sentiment: Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in the European Technology¡¯s Role in Factory Farming: Animal Welfare, Public Health, the Environment, Searching for Stability: Nuclear Physics and Fraud at Cold War¡¯s End

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