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  • March 2026

  • Fri 13

    CMS/W Undergraduate Alumni Panel (lunch included!)

    Friday, March 13 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    Building 14, The Nexus (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join CMS/W for an afternoon of networking and discussion about career pathways in writing and media studies.

  • Tue 17

    Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity: Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

    Tuesday, March 17 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    Building 14, The Nexus (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join for a lecture and discussion with internationally renowned scholar, educator, and author Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, a leading voice on decolonial futures, global justice, and the profound transformations required in times of social and ecological breakdown.

  • April 2026

  • Wed 1

    A Reading with Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

    Wednesday, April 1 @ 6:00 pm
    Building 14, The Nexus (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Arthur Sze is a poet and translator, and in 2025 he was named the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States. Doors at 5:30pm.

  • Thu 16

    MIT in 3:00 Film Screening

    Thursday, April 16 @ 5:30 pm
    Building 14, The Nexus (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Finalists in the MIT in 3:00 competition presented on the big screen! With awarding of the Jury and Audience prizes.

  • May 2026

  • Wed 6
    Graphic of a brain with different sections showing different amounts of natural tissue versus computer circuitry

    Refusing Generative AI: A Critique of Rhetorical Commonplaces about “AI” in Education

    Wednesday, May 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    How and why these authors decided to create "Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies," as well as its impact as a rhetorical intervention.

  • Thu 7
    Writing in Light

    Karmel Writing Prizes Reception

    Thursday, May 7 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    Building 14, The Nexus (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join us as we celebrate this year's winners!

  • Thu 14

    CMS/W Undergraduate Thesis Day 2026!

    Thursday, May 14 @ 3:00 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 243 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

    In-person and on Zoom, we’ll feature the writing of Ariel McGee, Alor Sahoo, and Daniel Gonzalez

  • Fri 15

    Graduate Program in Science Writing Thesis Day 2026!

    Friday, May 15 @ 10:00 am

    Presentations will begin at 10am on Zoom.

  • June 2026

  • Thu 11

    Prof. Thomas Levenson launches his latest book, “A Pox on Fools”, at the Cambridge Public Library

    Thursday, June 11 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Levenson will be joined in conversation by Dr. Jason Silverstein—writer and anthropologist in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

  • September 2026

  • Tue 22
    John Gallagher

    John Gallagher: “Students still think they write better than the machines: A study of undergrad self-perceptions of Generative AI and writing skills”

    Tuesday, September 22 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Gallagher discusses research that shows GenAI erodes writing ability over time by making us less persistent.

  • Thu 24
    Profile photo of A.J. Bauer with a mug of maybe coffee, maybe hot chocolate

    A.J. Bauer, “Beyond Bias”

    Thursday, September 24

    What if we saw bias for what it is—an acknowledgment of ideological disagreement, and an invitation into a distinct practice of worldbuilding.

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