News and Events

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 2009 Colloquia: Subway Series with STS and Harvard's Department of History of Science

 

October 20

Love and Engines: The Saint-Simonians' Conversation Technologies

John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania
4:00 pm, Harvard Science Center 469

October 26

The Adventures of Mr. Machine with Morals

Jessica Riskin, Stanford University
4:00 pm, MIT E51-095

November 3

What is the Thinker doing? The Ethnographic Study of a Statue

Helene Mialet, University of California, Berkeley (Visiting)
4:00 pm, Harvard Science Center 469

November 23

Embodying Control in the Operating Room

Rachel Prentice, Cornell University
4:00 pm, MIT E51-095

November 30

The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge

Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh
4:00pm, MIT, MIT E51-095

December 8

Secondary Worlds of Jules Verne

Rosalind Williams, MIT
4:00 pm, Harvard Science Center 469