The William Corbett Poetry Series: “Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”, Six Muslim Women in STEM
Poems on family, identity, and homeland—where these six Muslim women of MIT come from and how that shaped who they are now.
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Jens Pohlmann, “Platform Regulation and the Digital Public Sphere: Comparing the Discourse in Germany and the United States”
Analyzing the discussion about a German anti-hate speech law called the Network Enforcement Act and the debate about a reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the United States.
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Oscar Winberg, “Archie Bunker Goes to Washington: How Television in the 1970s Remade Politics into Entertainment”
Recognizing the popularity of television, politicians learned how to use (and abuse) television entertainment to win votes, to fundraise, to promote their agenda, and to push for legislation.
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CMS Thesis Presentations 2022
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThesis presentations of the CMS Graduate Class of 2022
April 8, 2022
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“Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech,” a Conversation with Martha Minow and Heather Hendershot
Minow proposes a new fairness doctrine, regulating digital platforms as public utilities, using antitrust authority to regulate the media, policing fraud, and more robust funding of public media.
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Charles North: The William Corbett Poetry Series
Livestream MA, United StatesCharles North's New and Selected Poems What It Is Like headed NPR’s Best Poetry Books of the Year. Among many other awards, he has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Poets Foundation Award.
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Youth Leadership in Systems Change and Climate Action
Livestream MA, United StatesPart of the MIT Systems Awareness Conversation Series.
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Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, “Seeing Silicon Valley”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) and streamed on Zoom 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAcclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley historian and media scholar Fred Turner discuss their recently published and award-winning book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America.
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Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice
Cambridge, MA, United StatesA conference for diverse constituencies to express their views and to showcase findings on videography as a creative tool in the quest for social justice.
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L.S. McKee: The William Corbett Poetry Series
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesL.S. McKee is a lecturer in WRAP at MIT. Her poetry has appeared in Narrative, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere.
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: The William Corbett Poetry Series
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesLillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator, a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.
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Screening: “We Have To Do Something Different: Teachers in the Journey to Create More Equitable Schools”
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesOn the journey to create more equitable schools, teachers make thousands of choices each day that impact the lives of their students. From Oakland, CA to Boston, MA, we follow teachers into the space where real change happens: the classroom. As educators grapple to find out what every student needs, they’re working to make school a place where all students can thrive.
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Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction” (in-person and streamed)
MIT Stata Center, Room 123 (Kirsch Auditorium) 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesWasalu Jaco, professionally known as Lupe Fiasco, is a Chicago-born, Grammy award-winning American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and community advocate.
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Strengthen Your Writing through Revision and Editing
MIT Building E19, Room 202 50 Ames StreetDuring this two-part workshop series, WCC Lecturer and Communication Specialist, Chris Featherman, Ph.D., will teach you skills and strategies that will help you enhance, sharpen, and refine your writing projects.
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CMS.S60 Watching the Watchmen: Superheroes in Comics and Television
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States