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April 2020
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL: Elinor Carmi, “Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media”
The politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media.
Find out more »2020 CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
This event is free and open to the public. You are welcome to attend as many or as few presentations as you wish. Livestream available at https://www.youtube.com/MITComparativeMediaStudiesWriting.
Find out more »CANCELLED: David Thorburn: The William Corbett Poetry Series
David Thorburn has been a teacher of literature for 55 years, 44 of them at MIT where he is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media and Director Emeritus of the MIT Communications Forum. Knots is his first book of poetry.
Find out more »Catherine D’Ignazio, “Data Feminism” (streaming to be added soon)
“The goal of this work is to transform scholarship into action – to operationalize feminism in order to imagine more ethical and more equitable data practices.”
Find out more »Lily Bui, “Centering Peripheries: Warning Systems and Disaster Risk Reduction Planning on the Island City”
CMS alum Lily Bui on the ways in which warning and planning are interrelated, as well as how planning and warning processes take place over time.
Find out more »Sasha Costanza-Chock presents Design Justice
Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock presents their new book, Design Justice, at the MIT Press Bookstore on April 28.
Find out more »May 2020
Science Writing Graduate Thesis Presentations 2020
CMS/W and The Graduate Program in Science Writing invite you to the Thesis Presentations of the Class of 2020, May 15 starting at 9am.
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