A List of Environmental and Telecommunications Events and Issues

February 13, 1998









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Saturday, February 14

Understanding Evangelicalism
Mark Noll, Harvard
contact 495-5737

US Student Associations' Grass Roots Organizing Weekend
Trainers: Craig Newby - UW- Madison '96; Monica Rios - USC '99; Sarita Gupta - MHC '96
contact (413)585 - 6287 or mahoward@sophia.smith.edu, llkane@mtholyoke.edu, namorse@student.umass.edu, dwoodruff@hampshire.edu
Amherst, MA

Sunday, February 15

US Student Associations' Grass Roots Organizing Weekend
Trainers: Craig Newby - UW- Madison '96; Monica Rios - USC '99; Sarita Gupta - MHC '96
contact (413)585 - 6287 or mahoward@sophia.smith.edu, llkane@mtholyoke.edu, namorse@student.umass.edu, dwoodruff@hampshire.edu
Amherst, MA

10:30 am
Our Addictive Economy and How We Can Recover From It
Barbara Brandt, author _Whole Life Economics_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1550922092/alistA/)
contact 628-5558
Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass Ave, Harvard Sq

Monday, February 16

7 pm - 9 pm
Massachusetts Green Party statewide steering comm. mtg
contact massgreens@igc.apc.org
Bernstein Bookstore, 468 Essex St, Lawrence

Tuesday, February 17

Temporary Work: Problems, Policy Challenges, and Innovative Solutions
Francoise Carr
contact 495-8140
Harvard, Radcliffe College, Murray Research Center

4 pm
Firm Disclosure and Accountability: The Foundation for a New Regulatory Policy?
Daniel Fiorino, EPA
contact Jennifer Nash at 253-3586 or jnash@mit.edu
MIT Building E51, Room 376

Ar/Ar Dating of Mn-Oxides: Evidence for Episodes of Deep Weathering of Continental Cratons
Paulo Vasconcelos, University of Queensland
contact Lorraine Maffeo at maffeo@eps.harvard.edu
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum 102, 24 Oxford St
v When Is Time Continuous?
Andy Lo, Laboratory for Financial Engineering
MIT Building 35, Room 225

4:30 pm
At the Edge of Trust: Fiduciary Culture in Africa
Parker Shipton, Boston Univ
contact 253-3065
MIT Building E38, Room 714

The Challenge of Western (Literary) Modernism to Francophone Africa: Recovering a Historical Memory and Mapping a Future
Samba Diop, Harvard
contact 495-5265 or cafrica@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard, Coolidge Hall, Room 1

Demonstration Against the War with Iraq
contact 522-6626
Park St Station, Boston

6 pm
Shaping a Nation: 20th Century American Architecture and Its Makers
Carter Wiseman, Harvard
Harvard, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Room 111

Wednesday, February 18

National Selection, Neither Black Nor White
Wener Sollors, Harvard, and George Yudice, NYU
contact 495-0738

11:30 pm
Leadership in Technology Architecture and the Age of Convergence
Mary Tripsas, Wharton School, Univ of PA
MIT Building E52, Room 175

12 pm
Racial Attitudes and Power in the Workplace
Lawrence Bobo, Harvard
Harvard, Barker Center

12:10 pm
Formation and Structure of the Inner Shelf Region During Coastal Downwelling and Upwelling
Jay Austin, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
contact 253-0251
MIT Building 54, Room 915

4 pm
Long-Term Environmental Policy and Formation of Intergenerational Time Preferences
Ita Falk, Harvard
contact 495-1820 or 495-8833
Harvard, Kennedy School, Room L-332

7 pm
On the Death of a Child and the Replication of an Image
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst
Harvard, Barker Center, Roomm 114

7:30 pm
Leaving Your Car at Home: Walking Cities of the Future
Urban Design Committee, Boston Society of Architects
contact 495-2722
First Parish Church, 3 Church St, Harvard Sq

8 pm
Edward Hoagland, essayist and nature writer
contact 253-7894
MIT Building 6, Room 120

Gary Bauer, Family Research Council, and William Kristol, _The Weekly Standard_
Harvard, Kennedy School, ARCO Forum

Thursday, February 19

12 pm
Rethinking Postwar Japan: Consumer Politics in a Producer Economy
Steve Vogel, Harvard
Harvard, Coolidge Hall, Room 2

2 pm
Implementing Local Pollution Control in China
Roger Raufer, Univ of PA
contact 495-3605
Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St, Seminar Room 4

Violence in the African-American Community
William Hinton Lecture and Panel
Harvard School of Public Health, Snyder Auditorium, Boston

2:30 pm
Theater in Africa: Docility and Dissent
Andrew Horn, Harvard
Harvard, Barker Center, Room 133

4 pm
Ecological and Evolutionary Determinants of Species Diversity in Caribbean Anolis Lizards
Jonathon Losos, Washington Univ
Harvard, Biology Labs, Lecture Hall

BLAST: A Heuristic Based on Dynamic Programming to Search DNA and Protein Databases
Hershel Safer, Genome Therapeutics
contact salal@mit.edu or http://web.mit.edu/orc/www
MIT Building E40, Room 106

4:15 pm
Solzhenitsyn: Public and Private Battles (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0312180365/alistA/)
D M Thomas, author
Harvard, Coolidge 215, Bergson/Ulam Room

4:30 pm
Deliberation and What Else?
Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Studies
contact 495-1336
Harvard, Kennedy School, Starr Auditorium

5:30 pm
Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0262220547/alistA/)
Virginia Valian, Hunter College
contact 253-5249 or authors@mit.edu
MIT Building 14S, Room 200

6 pm
Alex Kotlowitz, author _The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0385477201/alistA/)
contact 495-0740
Harvard, Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall

6:30 pm
Symbolic Capital Management: Some Case Studies
Hans Haacke, artist
Harvard, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

7 pm
Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delaney, science fiction authors
contact 253-3599
MIT Building 10, Room 250

7 pm - 10 pm
Compassion in the Workplace
Tom Hansen and Virginia Mary Swain, co-facilitators
contact 225-0403 or imagine@world.std.com
218 Thorndike St, Suite 102
$25 workshop fee, reservations necessary

Friday, February 20

Cyberposium 1998: How Is the Internet Changing Business?
contact http://www.cyberposium.org
Harvard Business School, Burden Auditorium

Military Culture in European Societies: 1871-1989
contact 495-4303 x231
Harvard, Center for European Studies

2 pm
How Robust Is Science Under Stress? What Does the History of Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Us in Answer to This Question?
Loren Graham, Harvard
Harvard, Coolidge Hall, Room 215 (Bergson/Ulam Room)

4 pm
Alfven Eigenmodes in the JET Tokamak D-D and D-T Plasmas
Ambrogio Fasoli, MIT
contact rivenberg@psfc,mit.edu or http://www.pfc.mit.edu/cgi/calendars.psfc
MIT Building NW 17, Room 218

Vortex Generation by Line Plumes in the Rotating Stratified Fluid: Experiments and Oceanographic Aplications
John Bush, MIT
contact bevkt@mit.edu
MIT Building 54, Room 915

6 pm - 9 pm
Community and Spirituality Circle and Pot-Luck Dinner
contact Arthur Gladstone 628-8089

Saturday February 21

Cyberposium 1998: How Is the Internet Changing Business?
contact http://www.cyberposium.org
Harvard Business School, Burden Auditorium

Military Culture in European Societies: 1871-1989
contact 495-4303 x231
Harvard, Center for European Studies

10 am - 12 pm
Living More Simply - Transforming Your Lifestyle
contact Barbara Brandt at 628-5558
First Congregational Church, 89 College Ave, Davis Sq, Somerville

Sunday, February 22

2 pm
Gallery Talk: Monica Ponce De Leon, artist
Harvard, Busch-Reisinger Museum
7:30 pm
Towards a Contemporary Jewish Theology of the Natural World
Michael Fishbane, Univ of Chicago; Arthur Green, Brandeis; and many more
contact 495-4476 or mheddrick@div.harvard.edu
Harvard Divinity School, Sperry Room
This is one in a series of 12 meetings on religions of the world and environmental crisis.
Editorial Comment: Two other resources for environment and religion include the Winter 1997 special issue of _Whole Earth_ (wer@well.com) on the subject and the Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values with its monthly meetings (contact tweiskel@div.harvard.edu) and extensive resources at http://divweb.harvard.edu/csvpl/ee/hsev

Monday, February 23

Towards a Contemporary Jewish Theology of the Natural World
Michael Fishbane, Univ of Chicago; Arthur Green, Brandeis; and many more
contact 495-4476 or mheddrick@div.harvard.edu
Harvard Divinity School, Sperry Room
This is one in a series of 12 meetings on religions of the world and environmental crisis.

Tuesday, February 24

Towards a Contemporary Jewish Theology of the Natural World
Michael Fishbane, Univ of Chicago; Arthur Green, Brandeis; and many more
contact 495-4476 or mheddrick@div.harvard.edu
Harvard Divinity School, Sperry Room
This is one in a series of 12 meetings on religions of the world and environmental crisis.

8:30 am - 10:30 am
NBEN Breakfast Meeting: The Strategic, Bottom-line Advantages of Better Environmental Management
Betty Diener, UMass-Boston and a tour of Malden Mills Industries
contact NBEN at (978) 557-5475, execdirector@nben.org, or http://www.nben.org
Malden Mills Industries, Building 30, 550 Broadway, Lawrence
NBEN Members: $20 Non-members: $40
Please respond by February 20, 1998. Seating is VERY limited. No- shows will be invoiced.

Sources for Listings:
MIT _Tech Talk_ :
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www
Harvard _Gazette_ :
http://www.news.harvard.edu/hno.subpages/hno.calendar.full.html
Harvard Environmental Resources On-Line:
http://environment.harvard.edu
MA Executive Office of Environmental Affairs calendar:
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/envir/earth.htm
Earth Day Network international/national listings:
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/EarthDay/ednethome.html
Earth Day Greater Boston calendar:
http://www.earthdaygb.org

act-ma the Massachusetts activists mailing list:
subscribe by emailing majordomo@igc.apc.org, leaving the subject line blank and typing "subscribe act-ma" as the message

Peace and Justice Events Hotline at (617)787-6809

Computer Organizations of NE (CONE):
http://www.ultranet.com/~als/
http://www.blu.org/cone
Boston Webmasters Guild
http://boston.webmaster.org

Community Technology Center Network
http://www.ctcnet.org

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