STS

The STS Program sponsors a wide range of events during the academic year. Some of these are ongoing series, or regular events, while others are episodic, depending on who is in town and what is happening in the world. Many of these events are open to the broader community, and many of them are co-sponsored with other units at MIT and beyond.

One of the great strengths of the STS Program is the wide range of events and activities with which we are involved. Students and faculty in the program, as well as visitors and friends, are strongly encouraged to take advantage of these multiple opportunities, both formal and informal.

Fall 2008 STS Colloquia

Cold War Knowledges:  A New Look

September 8, 2008                              
Secrecy
Film screening and panel discussion with producers Peter Galison and Robb Moss

"Secrecy" takes on the world of hidden national security policy and analyzes the implications of this secrecy, both for government and individuals.  For more information about the film, be sure to visit the official film website.
4:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater, E15-070, 20 Ames Street
A reception will immediately follow.    

 

September 15, 2008                            
Seduced by Secrets: Technology, Espionage and the Cold War
Kristie Macrakis, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

 

October 6, 2008                                 
Knowing the Cold War Enemy
David Engerman, Brandeis University
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

 

October 27, 2008                               
Red Cloud at Dawn:  Worrying about, Detecting, and Announcing the First Soviet Nuclear Test
Michael Gordin, Princeton University   
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

 

November 3, 2008                              
Joint colloquium with Comparative Media Studies, MIT
How Shall We Compare Cold War and Contemporary Military Instructional Technologies?
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Independent Scholar
5:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
                                               
November 17, 2008                            
Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Climbing Up the Slippery Slope:  The History of Genetic Screening
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania
4:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater, E15-070, 20 Ames Street
A reception will immediately follow.

 

November 24, 2008                
Technological Leadership and American Hegemony
John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

 

December 1, 2008                              
Database of Dreams: Technologies for Assembling Subjective Materials, 1945-1961    
Rebecca Lemov, Harvard University
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

 

Videos of 2007-2008 Events

The Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics, "The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters," given by Charles Perrow of Yale University on October 22, 2007 is available for viewing on MIT World.

 

The conference on "Disruptive Environments: Academics, Activists and Journalists in Conversation," held April 10 and 11, 2008 at the MIT Museum is available for viewing on MIT TechTV.

 

The 2008 Morison Prize Lecture in Science, Technology and Society, "'The New Epoch' and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History," by David P. Billington of Princeton University on May 2, 2008 will be published summer 2008 on MIT World.

 

For further information, contact Debbie Meinbresse at 617-452-2390.

 

The MIT Events Calendar has a complete listing of campus activities.