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SUMMARY:SPECIAL SEMINAR: Eden Medina\, Indiana University
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL SEMINAR \nMonday\, February 13\, 2017 – 4PM | E51-095 \nTORQUING LIVES AND HISTORIES: Technology and the Misidentification of Chile’s Disappeared \n \nSpeaker: Eden Medina\, Indiana University \n\n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/special-seminar-eden-medina-university-indiana/
LOCATION:E51-095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170227T160000
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER SERIES: Science and Its Stories (Mysteries)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Løchlann Jain\, Stanford University \nDiscussant: Juliet McMullin\, University of California-Riverside
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-speaker-series-science-stories-mysteries/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:SPECIAL SEMINAR: Kate Brown\, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL SEMINAR \nTuesday\, February 28\, 2017\, 4PM | E51-095 \nThe Great Chernobyl Mystery: How Ignorance became Policy and Politics \nSpeaker: Kate Brown\, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/special-seminar-kate-brown-university-maryland-baltimore-county/
LOCATION:Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170320T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170320T180000
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SUMMARY:SPECIAL EVENT: Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Professor Keith Wailoo\, Princeton University\nKeith Wailoo is Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University where he teaches in the Department of History and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the former Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School.  He is an award-winning author on drugs and drug policy; race\, science\, and health; history of medicine; and health policy and medical affairs in the U.S.
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/special-event-arthur-miller-lecture-science-ethics/
LOCATION:Bartos Theater\, E15 Atrium Level\, 20 Ames Street
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T173000
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CREATED:20161213T204543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170125T201531Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER SERIES: Re-Wiring Art: Engineers\, Artists\, and the Forging of a New Creative Culture
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 10\, 2017 @ 4pm\, E51-095 \nRe-Wiring Art: Engineers\, Artists\, and the Forging of a New Creative Culture \nSpeaker: Patrick McCray\, University of California – Santa Barbara \n\nDiscussant: Kristen Haring\, Stanford University
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-speaker-series-re-wiring-art-engineers-artists-forging-new-creative-culture/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T173000
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CREATED:20161213T204853Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER SERIES: Chemical Kin/esthesia
DESCRIPTION:CHEMICAL KIN/ESTHESIA\nSpeaker: Vanessa Agard-Jones\, Columbia University \nDiscussant: Gabriela Soto Laveago\, Harvard University \nAPRIL 24 \n4PM | E51-095 \n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-speaker-series-chemical-kinesthesia/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170508T173000
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CREATED:20161213T211102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T154725Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER SERIES: Nuclear Optics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Masco\, University of Chicago \nDiscussant: Peter Galison\, Harvard University \n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-speaker-series-nuclear-optics/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T173000
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CREATED:20170817T183544Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM: Prehistories of the Digital Database: Technoscience\, Body Parts\, and the Law
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URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-speaker-series-prehistories-digital-database-law-geo-national-techonologies/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171030T160000
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SUMMARY:ARTHUR MILLER LECTURE ON SCIENCE AND ETHICS
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/arthur-miller-lecture-science-ethics/
LOCATION:E51- Wong Auditorium\, 2 Amherst St\, Cambridge\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T133000
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CREATED:20170817T190009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T153031Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM: Basins of Attraction in Techno-social Landscapes: Why Boundary Objects Move
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-basins-attraction-techno-social-landscapes-boundary-objects-move/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180212T173000
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CREATED:20180205T180401Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM: Ambient Thickness: The Atmospheric Materiality of the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gaston Gordillo\, University of British Columbia \nDiscussant:  Ed Russell\, Boston University
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-ambient-thickness-atmospheric-materiality-anthropocene/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180312T173000
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SUMMARY:2017-18 Morison Prize and Lecture with Sheri Fink\, PhD\, MD\, MIT STS Guest Speaker
DESCRIPTION:From Sheri Fink’s website: \nSheri Fink is the author of the New York Times bestselling book\, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown\, 2013) about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She is a correspondent at the New York Times\, where her and her colleagues’ stories on the West Africa Ebola crisis were recognized with the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting\, the George Polk Award for health reporting\, and the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award. Her story “The Deadly Choices at Memorial\,” co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine\, received a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones\, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her first book\, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs)\, is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica\, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Five Days at Memorial was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction\, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction\, the Ridenhour Book Prize\, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award\, the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award\, and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Book Award.
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/2017-18-morison-prize-lecture-sheri-fink-phd-md-mit-sts-guest-speaker/
LOCATION:Bartos Theater\, E15 Atrium Level\, 20 Ames Street
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T173000
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CREATED:20180322T200455Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM: A Sort of Homecoming: Time and Humanitarian Innovations in Cyprus Post-Conflict
DESCRIPTION:A Sort of Homecoming: Time and Humanitarian Innovation in Cyprus Post-Conflict\nMonday\, April 9\, 2018 \n4pm | E51-095 \nSpeaker: Anna Agathangelou\, York University \nDiscussant: Lerna Ekmerkçioglu\, MIT
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-sort-homecoming-time-humanitarian-innovations-cyprus-post-conflict/
LOCATION:E51-095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180430T173000
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM: Human Mobility and the Spatial Dynamics of Knowledge: Mapping Science\, Technology\, and Medicine in late-Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Catherine Jami\, University of Paris-Diderot \nDiscussant:  Gabriela Soto Laveago \nMonday\, April 30\, 2018  |  4pm  |  E51-095
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-human-mobility-spatial-dynamics-knowledge-mapping-science-technology-medicine-late-imperial-china/
LOCATION:E51-095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T183000
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CREATED:20170817T190951Z
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM: Golden Ages: Orientalism and the History of Science
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marwa Elshakry\, Columbia University \nDiscussant: Ahmed Ragab\, Harvard University \n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-golden-ages-orientalism-history-science/
LOCATION:E51-095
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T183000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20180917T145227Z
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SUMMARY:2018 Social Media and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Click here to view the event: 2018 MIT Social Media and Democracy \n  \n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/2018-social-media-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181101T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181101T203000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20181012T202813Z
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SUMMARY:2018-2019 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics: Elections and Technology
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary democratic elections are increasingly technology intensive. With anxieties about the technological integrity of both American and foreign elections at an all-time high\, how can researchers\, policymakers\, and publics better understand how technological systems are implicated in election planning\, infrastructure\, security\, and maintenance? \nThe MIT programs in Anthropology\, History\, and Science\, Technology\, and Society invites the MIT and broader Boston-Cambridge communities to the second event of our Democracy\, Citizenship\, and Technology Colloquium Series titled Elections and Technology. This panel of multidisciplinary experts will seek to lift the curtains on three technologically mediated features of contemporary elections: the security of the electoral apparatus and infrastructure (e.g. voting machines)\, the intensifying role of new media technologies for influencing\, mobilizing\, and segmenting the electorate (e.g. social media)\, as well as mathematical and other means of both producing and contesting electoral gerrymandering. One week before the highly anticipated November 6th American Midterm Elections\, join us for a lively panel discussion and audience Q/A session about the social and political implications of a technologically mediated electoral process. \nThis colloquium is part of the Arthur Miller Lecture Series in Science and Ethics hosted annually by the MIT program in Science\, Technology\, and Society\, and is the second event of MIT’s new Computational Cultures Initiative. Following a dinner break and time for socialization\, the speakers will return for a smaller seminar session offered to graduate students for a more intimate and roundtable-style discussion. \n*FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC* \n4:30PM – 6:30PM Panel Discussion \n6:30PM – 7:30PM Arthur Miller Dinner Reception \n7:30PM – 8:30PM Graduate Student Led Seminar \nSpeakers: \nDan Wallach\, Rice University \nhttps://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/ \nProfessor in the systems group at Rice University’s Department of Computer Science where he manages the computer security lab. Dan’s research interests include mobile code\, wireless and smartphone security\, and the security of electronic voting systems. He has recently provided expert testimony on election security to the Texas Senate and U.S. Congress. \nDaniel Kreiss\, University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill \nhttp://mj.unc.edu/directory/faculty/daniel-kreiss \nAssociate Professor and Director of the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, Daniel’s research broadly explores the impact of technological change on the public sphere and political practice. His most recent book\, Prototype Politics: The Making and Unmaking of Technological Innovation in the Republican and Democratic Parties\, 2000-2014\, explores the role of digital media\, data\, and analytics in contemporary campaigning\, and provides a framework for understanding the differences between the two parties’ technological capacities. \nMoon Duchin\, Tufts University \nhttps://mduchin.math.tufts.edu/ \nAssociate Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University where she directs the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG). Moon’s mathematical research is in geometric group theory\, low-dimensional topology\, and dynamics. She has broad interests in the history\, philosophy\, and cultural studies of science. In this work\, she investigates the applications of geometry and computing to U.S. redistricting\, and she has facilitated workshops that train PhDs to become expert witnesses to testify in gerrymandering cases. \nAlex Reiss-Sorokin\, Moderator\, MIT \nhttp://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/reiss_sorokin.html \nAs a doctoral student in the HASTS program at MIT\, Alex is developing a dissertation project that focuses on the social\, political\, and legal aspects of digital platforms. Specifically\, her research explores the rules and policies developed by private entities and their regulatory effects\, including the development and implementation of material internet infrastructure in the Global South. \nRSVP would be greatly appreciated:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-elections-and-technology-colloquium-tickets-51308123980
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/2018-2019-arthur-miller-lecture-science-ethics-elections-technology/
LOCATION:Bartos Theater\, E15 Atrium Level\, 20 Ames Street
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20181220T214525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181221T191924Z
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SUMMARY:Einstein's Quantum Riddle\, a special advanced screening from the PBS science Series NOVA
DESCRIPTION:Special Advanced Screening\, Einstein’s Quantum Riddle \nWednesday\, January 9\, 2019\, 7pm-9pm\, MIT 6-120 \nCome watch a special preview screening of a new NOVA documentary film about quantum entanglement\, Einstein’s Quantum Riddle\, to be followed by a panel discussion featuring local experts\, including MIT physicists who conducted the recent “Cosmic Bell” experiments that are featured in the film. Panelists include Brindha Muniappan (MIT Museum)\, Paola Cappellaro (MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering)\, Alan Guth (MIT Physics)\, David Kaiser (MIT STS and Physics)\, Calvin Leung (MIT Physics)\, Chris Schmidt (NOVA)\, and Nicole Yunger Halpern (Harvard and MIT Physics). Free and open to the public. \n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/einsteins-quantum-riddle-a-special-advanced-screening-from-the-pbs-science-series-nova/
LOCATION:6-120
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T160000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20190321T135719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T135901Z
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SUMMARY:Space and the City
DESCRIPTION:Today’s cities are designed using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and technology. Outer space science and technology also plays a central role in the design and development of urban\, architectural and transportation systems yet its impact and ubiquity often goes unnoticed. How can we resist the negative impact of space technology while offering productive tools to augment the transformative value of our cities? \nWHAT:    Space and the City \nWHERE: Weisner Student Art Gallery\, second floor of the Stratton Student Center \nWHEN:   Tuesday\, April 2\, Wednesday\, April 3\, and\, Thursday\, April 4 \nTIME:      1pm to 4pm \n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/space-and-the-city/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20190731T145001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T141152Z
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SUMMARY:ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MODERN WARFARE
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn collaboration with Anthropology\, Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, and History. \nArtificial Intelligence and Targeted Killing  \nLucy Suchman\, Lancaster University\, UK \nIn June of 2018\, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company\, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven\, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. Defendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations\, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and\, by implication\, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations\, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other? The focus of a growing body of scholarship\, this question haunts not only US military operations but an expanding array of technologies of social sorting. Understood as apparatuses of recognition (Barad 2007: 171)\, Project Maven and the US program of targeted killing are implicated in perpetuating the very architectures of enmity that they take as their necessitating conditions. Taking any apparatus for the identification of those who comprise legitimate targets for the use of violent force as problematic\, this talk joins a growing body of scholarship on the technopolitical logics that underpin an increasingly violent landscape of institutions\, infrastructures and actions\, promising protection to some but arguably contributing to our collective insecurity. My concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security\, their deadly and injurious effects\, and the legal\, ethical\, and moral questions that haunt their operations. I close with some thoughts on how we might interrupt the workings of these apparatuses\, in the service of wider movements for social justice.
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-and-modern-warfare/
LOCATION:56-114
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20190731T151457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T150740Z
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SUMMARY:2019 ARTHUR MILLER LECTURE ON SCIENCE AND ETHICS
DESCRIPTION:With a focus on the Miller Lecture’s mission to explore the humanistic\, social\, legal\, and cultural dimensions of scientific and technological developments\, the event committee is producing a panel discussion featuring leaders in identifying many of the social complexities and challenges that have arisen with computation and especially with artificial intelligence and machinery learning. \nPANELISTS: \n\nMar Hicks\, Illinois Institute of Technology \nArvind Narayanan\, Princeton University \nMODERATOR:  \nEden Medina\, MIT
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/arthur-miller-lecture-on-science-and-ethics/
LOCATION:Bartos Theater\, E15 Atrium Level\, 20 Ames Street
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T180000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
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SUMMARY:COLLOQUIUM: YOUJUNG SHIN\, MIT
DESCRIPTION:Linking the Brain:  Computerization\, Biomedicalization\, and Globalization in Neuroscience\, 1960-2000 \nThursday\, February 27\, 2020\n4PM | E51-095\nMany observers have assumed that the American Human Brain Project of the 1990s marked the culmination of the “computer revolution” in neuroscience. The Project aimed to build a large-scale brain database and drew an international participation from countries including South Korea. The development of the Human Brain Project was\, however\, not a sudden or inevitable consequence of the adoption of new computing technologies in neuroscience. It rather represented the contingent gathering of divergent moral economies which shaped the values of data and data practices in neuroscience in different countries. From a historical and comparative perspective\, my book project examines distinctive evolutionary processes of the “computer revolution” in the U.S. and South Korea and its culmination in the Human Brain Project in the post-Cold War period. By doing so\, it traces the conjoint rise of big data and big biology at the interdisciplinary intersection of brain\, mind\, and computer studies in the late 20th century. \nThis talk presents an overview of my book in progress\, mainly focusing on the U.S. It will highlight two moments in the history of neuroscience\, when its plural term\, neurosciences\, was highly used and resonated to address the issue of heterogeneous ideas and practices in brain science. The first moment was when the first neuroscience community was formed at MIT in the 1960s with the launch of the “Neurosciences Research Program.” The second moment was when the “Neurosciences Research Branch” was newly built at the National Institute of Mental Health in the 1980s which led the Human Brain Project in the U.S. By focusing on those two moments\, this talk will show the changing meaning of computing technologies\, the shaping of interdisciplinarity in neuroscience(s)\, and the making of big science project during and after the Cold War.
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/colloquium-youjung-shin-mit/
LOCATION:E51-095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T173000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
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SUMMARY:STS Colloquium: Nicholas de Monchaux\, UC-Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Local Code: Technology\, Creative Practice\, and History as Instrument\nGuest Speaker: Nicholas de Monchaux\, UC-Berkeley\nDate: Monday\, March 9\, 2020\nTime: 4pm\nLocation: E51-095\n \nABSTRACT:  Nicholas de Monchaux’s Local Code project comprises a series of design proposals for networked urban environmental infrastructure in New York\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco; these were developed with local non-profits and community organizations and created using design and mapping software developed by de Monchaux and his team at UC Berkeley since 2010. This talk will showcase these digital tools and their applications\, but speak most of all to the central role the history of technology and design culture plays in de Monchaux’s work. He will explain both the inspiration for Local Code in software experiments supported by ex-NASA administrator Howard Fisher at the Housing and Urban Development in the early 1970s\, as well as a larger critical and historical project that formed part of the work’s publication in 2016. This work contextualizes the project by considering the loose but essential web of interactions between technological and urban design pioneers Warren Weaver\, Jane Jacobs\, Gordon Matta-Clark and Howard Fisher from the 1940s to 1970s. Particularly as planners and designers again turn to software and science to engage urban problems\, de Monchaux argues\, history is an instrumental tool to not just critique\, but also advance\, the state of the art in design practice.\n\nNicholas de Monchaux is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media.  He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press\, 2011)\, an architectural and urban history of the Apollo Spacesuit\, winner of the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize\, and Local Code: 3\,659 Proposals About Data\, Design\, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press\, 2016). With Kathryn Moll\, he is principal of Modem. His work has been exhibited widely\, including at the Biennial of the Americas\, the Venice Architecture Biennale\, the Lisbon Architecture Triennial\, SFMOMA\, and the Chicago MCA.\n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/sts-colloquium-nicholas-de-monchaux-uc-berkeley/
LOCATION:E51-095\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200918T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200918T150000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20200916T143157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T144742Z
UID:114334-1600437600-1600441200@sts-program.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Race and Pandemics
DESCRIPTION:Adia Benton\, Northwestern University \nKathryn Olivarius\, Stanford University \nPlease register here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8nuN-O1zRZ27d3f5UjUcLQ
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/race-and-pandemics/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T120000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20200923T015120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T022745Z
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SUMMARY:GLOBAL PEACE & INSECURITY SEMINAR SERIES:  Is third party mediation necessary for resolution of the dispute in Kashmir?
DESCRIPTION:“Is Third Party Mediation Necessary for Resolution of the Dispute in Kashmir” \nGUEST SPEAKER: Hon. Shireen Mazari\, Minister of Human Rights\, Pakistan \n\n\n**Prior registration is required to obtain Zoom link.**\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE \n\n\n\n\nFor more information\,  please contact Subrata Ghoshroy\, ghoshroy@mit.edu\, Research Affiliate\, STS\, and see the event page: MIT Radius\, Global Peace and Insecurity\, A Seminar Series.
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/is-third-party-mediation-necessary-for-resolution-of-the-dispute-in-kashmir/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T173000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20190801T162941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T132254Z
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SUMMARY:Morison Prize and Lecture in Science\, Technology\, and Society
DESCRIPTION:RECORDING:\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us for the webinar\, Thursday\, October 1\, 2020\, 4pm.\n\nRegister in advance:\nhttps://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4qJ6VLGyS921W7wnF1QwHA \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \n\n\n——————————————————————————————\n \nThis year’s recipient of the Morison Prize and Lecture is Dr. Alondra Nelson.\n\n \n\nDr. Alondra Nelson is 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.\n \n\n\n\nIn The Social Life of DNA\, 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.\n \n\n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/morison-lecture-and-prize-in-science-technology-and-society/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201002T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201002T150000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20200916T143439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T144814Z
UID:114335-1601647200-1601650800@sts-program.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Cities and the Plague
DESCRIPTION:Cindy Ermus\, University of Texas at San Antonio \nMartin Melosi\, University of Houston \nPlease register here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8nuN-O1zRZ27d3f5UjUcLQ
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/cities-and-the-plague/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T133000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20200923T015014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T022459Z
UID:114378-1601985600-1601991000@sts-program.mit.edu
SUMMARY:GLOBAL PEACE & INSECURITY SEMINAR SERIES: Whither US – Russia nuclear arms control?
DESCRIPTION:“Whither US – Russia nuclear arms control?”\nVladimir Kozin\, Ph. D.\, Member of two Russian Academies\, Military\, and Natural Sciences; author of 16 monographs on arms control\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n**Prior registration is required to obtain Zoom link.**\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, please contact Subrata Ghoshroy\, ghoshroy@mit.edu\, Research Affiliate\, STS \nFor more information\, please see MIT Radius\, Global Peace and Insecurity\, A Seminar Series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/whither-us-russia-nuclear-arms-control/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201009T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201009T150000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20200916T143556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T144919Z
UID:114336-1602252000-1602255600@sts-program.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Immigration and Contagion
DESCRIPTION:Nayan Shah\, University of Southern California \nNatalia Molina\, University of Southern California \nPlease register here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8nuN-O1zRZ27d3f5UjUcLQ
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/immigration-and-contagion/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201013T133000
DTSTAMP:20260609T170130
CREATED:20200923T020319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T022908Z
UID:114379-1602590400-1602595800@sts-program.mit.edu
SUMMARY:GLOBAL PEACE & INSECURITY SEMINAR SERIES:  Accidents\, mistakes and COVID-19: Risks and Necessity of High-Level Biosafety Labs
DESCRIPTION:“Accidents\, mistakes and COVID-19: Risks and Necessity of High-Level Biosafety Labs” \nGUEST SPEAKER:  Monica Zoppe\, Ph. D.\, Institute of Biophysics\, Italian National Research Council (CNR)\, Milan\, Italy \nMODERATOR:  Professor Jonathan King \n  \n\n**Prior registration is required to obtain Zoom link.**\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, please contact Subrata Ghoshroy\, ghoshroy@mit.edu\, Research Affiliate\, STS \nFor more information\, please see MIT Radius\, Global Peace and Insecurity\, A Seminar Series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/accidents-mistakes-and-covid-19-risks-and-necessity-of-high-level-biosafety-labs/
LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States
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