Content tagged "history"
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Vibranium Culture: Race, Gender, Technology, and History in Black Panther (#WakandaUniversity)
A discussion of Black Panther at the MIT Black Students’ Union Lounge, co-organized by Annis Rachel Sands (CMS master’s student) and Ángel R. Rodríguez (Harvard University Ph.D. candidate).
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Video and podcast: “Time Traveling with James Gleick”
In conversation with Alan Lightman, international best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History.
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Time Traveling with James Gleick
International best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History, which delves into the evolution of time travel in literature and science and the thin line between pulp fiction and modern physics.
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Searchable MIT President’s Reports, 1872-2014
The first combined searchable collection of every MIT President’s Report. All 57,000 pages of them, going back to 1872.
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Podcast: Vincent Brown, “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
Wrestling creatively with archival problems of the social history of slavery, Vincent Brown charts pathways for pondering history’s most painful subjects.
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Vincent Brown: “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
By wrestling creatively and collectively with the difficult archival problems presented by social history of slavery, Harvard’s Vincent Brown hopes to chart new pathways for pondering history’s most painful and vexing subjects.
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Podcast: Vivek Bald, “Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past”
Vivek Bald, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengalis who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era.
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The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past
Vivek Bald discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom, Detroit.
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From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
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Summary, video, and podcast: “From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future By Studying the Past”
Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
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Museum Making: Creating with New Technologies in Art Museums
Hackathons, maker spaces, R&D labs: these terms are common to the world of technology, but have only recently seeped into museums.
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Podcast, Jeffrey Hamburger: “Script as Image”
Jeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
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Script as Image
Jeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
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What’s Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
“Before the rise of Limbaugh and Beck, these broadcasters bucked the public interest mandate and created an alternate universe of right-wing coverage.”
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Video: Media in Transition 6: “Archives and History”
Scholars of “dead tree technologies” feel increasingly uneasy in a culture overwhelmingly consumed with innovation.
