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  • March 2023

  • Wed 1

    Francesca Bolla Tripodi, “The Propagandists’ Playbook” (faculty attendance only)

    Wednesday, March 1, 2023 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 320 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy peels back the layers of the right-wing media manipulation machine to reveal why its strategies are so effective and […]

  • Thu 2
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    Deliver to Win – How to Present Your 3-Minute Talk Effectively

    Thursday, March 2, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
    Hosted on Zoom. Register to receive link.

    This activity-based workshop will help you build confidence as a presenter and will equip you with life-long tools to deliver your ideas eloquently, engagingly, and effectively.

  • Wed 8

    Setting Out for the Territory: Starting Your Research-Based Writing Project

    Wednesday, March 8, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    MIT Building E17, Room 136 40 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Learn and practice a problem-based approach to discovering, exploring, and focusing a research topic so you can start writing

  • Wed 15

    Get Building! Drafting Your Writing Project

    Wednesday, March 15, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    MIT Building E17, Room 136 40 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Strategies for developing your argument, building paragraphs, and engaging with your sources and data

  • Thu 23

    Allison Adair and Sandra Lim: The William Corbett Poetry Series

    Thursday, March 23, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
    MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Allison Adair’s debut collection was named a New York Times "New and Noteworthy" book. Sandra Lim’s latest book of poetry is a Massachusetts Book Award “must read.”

  • April 2023

  • Thu 6
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    MIT in 3:00 Video Competition Screening

    Thursday, April 6, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    What’s your MIT? And can you show it in 3 minutes? Sponsored by the Chris Pomiecko Memorial Fund and Comparative Media Studies/Writing with support from Arts at MIT.

    Free
  • Mon 10

    Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”

    Monday, April 10, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    A new history of the ambitions behind the rise of “theory” in the US humanities, and the obscure ties of that endeavor to Progressive Era technocracy, US foundations, and the growing prestige of technology and engineering in 20th century life.

  • Tue 11

    Rena J. Mosteirin and John Cayley: The William Corbett Poetry Series

    Tuesday, April 11, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
    MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mosteirin's reading will include poems from Experiment 116, and Cayley will be launching the new, expanded edition of Image Generation published by Counterpath.

  • Wed 12
    Sillouette of Alan Lightman walking near a lake, with the overlaid title reading "Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science"

    “Just Atoms and Molecules? Or Something More?” Screening and discussion of Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science

    Wednesday, April 12, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Building 10, Room 250 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join us for a screening of clips from "SEARCHING: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science" and comments from MIT's Alan Lightman, Nancy Kawisher, Kieran Setiya
    producer/director Geoff Haines-Stiles (Carl Sagan's COSMOS)...and YOU!

  • Tue 18

    Alfred Nicol: The William Corbett Poetry Series

    Tuesday, April 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
    MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Nicol’s translation of One Hundred Visions of War by Julien Vocance, published in November 2022, has been called “an essential addition to the history of modernist poetry.”

  • Mon 24
    Frances Negrón-Muntaner

    Frances Negrón-Muntaner, “Valor y Cambio: Decolonizing Money in Puerto Rico”

    Monday, April 24, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Frances Negrón-Muntaner (Columbia University) will discuss the origins, impact, and future of the award-winning artivist project Valor y Cambio (Value/Valour and Change), in conversation with Prof. Katerina González Seligmann (University of Connecticut).

  • May 2023

  • Thu 18

    2023 21W Undergraduate Thesis Day

    Thursday, May 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

    Please join us for the presentations of our undergraduate writing theses! Presentations by Hannah Gazdus, Hudson Powers, Kidist Adamu, Mikel Carvajal and Alan Zhu. Can't make it in person? Join […]

  • Fri 19
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    2023 Thesis Day for the Graduate Program in Science Writing

    Friday, May 19, 2023 @ 10:00 am
    https://mit.zoom.us/j/91333924079

    Presentations begin at 10am.

  • September 2023

  • Thu 14

    MIT Museum After Dark presents “Play” with the Game Lab

    Thursday, September 14, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Sit down with a beverage and a board game, remix some music, simulate a world, and learn about MIT’s history of game design.

  • Wed 27

    Pomegranate Reading and Discussion

    Wednesday, September 27, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States

    The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift, Helen Elaine Lee, returns with this poetic and powerful journey of healing and autonomy.

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