August 19, 2011
Sep. 14:
Sam Schweber (History of Science, Brandeis)
Hans Bethe: Writing a Sociological Biography
Hans Bethe: Writing a Sociological Biography
Sep. 21:
Jimena Canales (History of Science, Harvard)
A History of A Tenth of a Second
A History of A Tenth of a Second
Sep. 29:
Etienne Benson (Center for the Environment, Harvard)
Leviathan and the Whale
Leviathan and the Whale
Oct. 5:
Harriet Ritvo (History, MIT)
Making Animals Wild
Making Animals Wild
Oct. 19:
Samuel Evans (STS Program, Harvard)
Anomalies in the Classification of Technology: Illustrations from the Military/Non-Military Divide
Anomalies in the Classification of Technology: Illustrations from the Military/Non-Military Divide
Oct. 26:
Ian Schillinger (U.S. Navy)
Sea Stories: What the Nuclear Navy taught me about Systemic Risk
Sea Stories: What the Nuclear Navy taught me about Systemic Risk
Nov. 2:
Daniel Metlay (U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board)
Yucca Mountain: Reflections on a Repository Sixty Years in the Making
Yucca Mountain: Reflections on a Repository Sixty Years in the Making
Nov. 9:
Sophia Roosth (STS, MIT)
Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic Biology to Garage Biotech
Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic Biology to Garage Biotech
Nov. 16:
Jay Aronson (History, Carnegie Mellon University)
Truth Commissions: Technologies of Repair or Social Autopsies?
Truth Commissions: Technologies of Repair or Social Autopsies?
Nov. 23:
Mary-Jo Good (Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School)
Technologies of Intervention and Trauma Treatment in Postconflict Aceh, Indonesia
Technologies of Intervention and Trauma Treatment in Postconflict Aceh, Indonesia
Nov. 30:
Kris Saha (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT)
Constructing and Deconstructing Disease in a Dish
Constructing and Deconstructing Disease in a Dish