Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas C. Holt, associate professor of Afro-American Studies and of History, and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, also took part in the discussion, which at times became a lively and informative debate. "I think it went extremely well," Lisa C. Jones '79, symposium moderator, said afterwards. "The discussion was very lively, as was predicted." Jones said, adding. "I think everyone enjoyed...
...Harvard Memorial Society sponsored the symposium...
Since 1974, Sagan has rewritten and expanded his attack on Velikovsky for publication in the new book, Scientists Confront Velikovsky. In addition to Sagan's remarks and the transcribed speeches of three other AAAS symposium participants--a sociologist, a statistician, and another astronomer--the collection contains a fresh treatment of Velikovsky by a NASA astronomer. The fact that Velikovsky's contribution--which along with Sagan's speech highlighted the meeting--is missing from the book is at first surprising. However, examination of the history of the Velikovsky controversy and of the publishers' unpublished correspondence with him makes the absence...
...validity of Sagan's arguments is not immediately self-evident, but the post-symposium rebuttal offered by Velikovskyites to Sagan does not seem sufficient to resurrect Worlds in Collision. For instance, the rebuttal, appearing in Pensee states that Sagan had ignored the possibility that the molten state in which he says a comet would be ejected from Jupiter could later serve as a possible source of Velikovsky's hypothetical, captured-comet-turned-planet Venus's heat. Sagan reasonably argues, however, that rather than staying in a molten mass the ejected material "would have been entirely reduced toa train of self...
Greenberg and representatives of the various student associations participating in the symposium met with Sacks last month to inform the dean of the coalition's activities during the week of Burger's scheduled appearance...