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Pre-Performance Symposia
April 11,
6-7pm |
Who rocked our world more - Galileo or Darwin?
How scientific discovery impacts us from the Renaissance to now.
- Sara Schechner--Harvard--curator, Collection of Historical Scientific
Instruments
- Hidde Ploegh--MIT--Professor of Biology; Member, Whitehead Institute
Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science
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April 18,
6:45-7:15pm |
Scientific discovery for whom?
Power plays between science, church, state and the people.
- Ian Hutchinson--MIT--Professor of Nuclear Science & Engineering
- Sheldon Krimsky--Tufts--Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy
& Planning
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April 25,
6:45-7:15pm |
What did Galileo unleash ?
400 years ago Galileo first turned his telescope upward; how did the
practice of science change?
- Frank Wilczek--MIT--
Feshbach Professor of Physics; 2004 Nobel Laureate
- Alan Guth--MIT--Weisskopf Professor of Physics
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May 2,
6-7pm
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The battle for the truth: science vs. religion?
The debate in The Life of Galileo, and how it continues today.
- Owen Gingerich--Harvard--Professor Emeritus of Astronomy & History
of Science
- Richard Kremer--Dartmouth--Associate Professor of History
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May 9,
6:45-7:15pm
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Brecht in action: the creation of a master-work.
The play's unique history and style, and the questions
it raises.
- Ilana Brownstein--BU--Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy & Dramatic
Literature
- Marcia Bartusiak--MIT--Visiting Professor, Program in Writing
& Humanistic Studies
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May 16,
6-7pm
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Is the scientist responsible to anyone?
If so, why? And to whom?
- Steve Shapin--Harvard--Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History
of Science
- Jerome Friedman--MIT--Institute Professor of Physics Emeritus;
1990 Nobel Laureate
- David Kaiser--MIT--Associate Professor of the History of Science
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Post-Performance Talkbacks
April 10 |
Frank Wilczek--MIT--Feshbach Professor of Physics, 2004
Nobel Laureate |
April 12 |
Sara Schechner--Harvard--Curator, Museum of Historical Scientific
Instruments |
April 19 |
Director David Wheeler and cast |
April 29 |
Claude Canizares--MIT--Vice President for Research & Associate
Provost/Professor, Physics |
April 30 |
Robert Jaffe--MIT--Morningstar Professor of Physics, MacVicar
Faculty Fellow, MIT
Peter Galison--Harvard--Professor of Physics, Director, Collection of Historical
Scientific Instruments |
May 1 |
Eric Lander--MIT/Harvard--Director, Broad Institute |
May 3 |
Director David Wheeler and cast |
May 10 |
Janet Conrad--MIT--Professor, Physics |
May 17 |
Alan Brody--MIT--Professor, Theater Arts
Edmund Bertschinger--MIT--Department Head/Professor, Physics |
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