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| Current Events for the Month of October 2009 |
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| Previous Month | Next Month | | CAL Seminar | | Author : | Debra.Pagan@stevens.edu (Debra Pagan) | | Date : | Thu, Oct 1, 2009
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | | Description : | CAL Seminar
Thursday, October 1, 2009
12:30PM - 2:00PM
P-308 | | |
| | Mutant Sexuality: The Private Life of a Plant (And Those Who Studied It) | | Author : | ddigrius@stevens.edu (Dawn Digrius) | | Date : | Wed, Oct 7, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | | Description : | The College of Arts & Letters and the Gender and Cultural Studies Program Of Stevens Institute of Technology
Invites you to a talk by Luis Campos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History, Drew University
“Mutant Sexuality: The Private Life of a Plant (And Those Who Studied It)”
The 1930s discovery that sexual reproduction in the evening primrose depended on chromosomes linking up in rings rather than pairing up two by two led to claims of having discovered a "degenerate," "subsexual," and even "queer" plant. Such loaded terms, however, might well have also applied to some of the men studying the plant and who used it to defend the validity of a larger "mutation theory" of evolution, in which such mutants were crucial. Drawing on both laboratory notebooks and personal diaries, this talk will explore the possibility of using sexuality as an analytical lens in the history of science on
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
4:00PM – 5:30PM
Burchard 118
Refreshments will be provided
Admission is Free and Open to the Public | | |
| | Doctor Faustus | | Author : | Anthony.Pennino@stevens.edu (Anthony Pennino) | | Date : | Thu, Oct 8, 2009
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | | Description : | PLAY READING SERIES
Free readings of various plays, all using a theme of technology and science. Open discussion to follow reading.
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
October 8 at 4:30 p.m.
DeBaun Auditorium
For more information
Contact Tony Pennino at
Anthony.Pennino@stevens.edu | | |
| | Reverend Ezra Stiles and the Jews of Newport R.I. | | Author : | hdorn@stevens.edu (Harold Dorn) | | Date : | Wed, Oct 14, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | | Description : | Humanities Forum
Reverend Ezra Stiles and the Jews of Newport R.I.
Speaker: Larry Levine
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Time: 1:00PM
Place: WJHC, Fielding Room, 3rd Floor | | |
| | Discover Stevens | | Author : | Debra.Pagan@stevens.edu (Debra Pagan) | | Date : | Wed, Oct 14, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM | | Description : | TBA | | |
| | History and the Past | | Author : | hdorn@stevens.edu (Harold Dorn) | | Date : | Wed, Oct 21, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | | Description : | Humanities Forum
History and the Past
Speaker: James McClellan
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Time: 1:00PM
Place: WJHC, Fielding Room, 3rd Floor | | |
| | CAL Seminar | | Author : | Debra.Pagan@stevens.edu (Debra Pagan) | | Date : | Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | | Description : | CAL Seminar
Thursday, October 22, 2009
12:30PM - 2:00PM
P-308 | | |
| | Arcadia | | Author : | Anthony.Pennino@stevens.edu (Anthony Pennino) | | Date : | Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | | Description : | PLAY READING SERIES
Free readings of various plays, all using a theme of technology and science. Open discussion to follow reading.
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
October 22 at 4:30 p.m.
DeBaun Auditorium
For more information
Contact Tony Pennino at
Anthony.Pennino@stevens.edu | | |
| | On Curtailing Freedom of Speech | | Author : | hdorn@stevens.edu (Harold Dorn) | | Date : | Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | | Description : | Humanities Forum
On Curtailing Freedom of Speech
Speaker: Harold Dorn
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 1:00PM
Place: WJHC, Fielding Room, 3rd Floor | | |
| | Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion Energy | | Author : | jhorgan@stevens.edu (John Horgan) | | Date : | Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | | Description : | Center for Science Writings
"Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion Energy" Charles Seife
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Babbio Center, Room 122
A professor of science journalism at NYU and author of three previous popular books on physics, Charles Seife will discuss the elusive quest for fusion energy, the topic of his latest book. For more than 50 years, physicists have sought to harness nuclear fusion, which makes the sun shine and hydrogen bombs explode. True believers keep promising that fusion will solve our energy needs, while skeptics say it's time to pull the plug on this frustrating research program. | | |
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