Upcoming Events

This Thursday evening feature documentary film screening is presented in conjunction with List Projects: Civil Disobedience. Screenings take place in Bakalar Gallery. Additional Screenings September 14, 6 PM September 21, 6 PM Let the Fire Burn. 2013. Directed by Jason Osder 95 min. Let the Fire Burn presents, via television proceedings and news footage, the [...]

Join us for An Evening With Shirley Ann Jackson! On September 26th, the NSTMF will host Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson in conversation with Dr. Paula Hammond in the Media Lab (E14-648) at MIT. Dr. Hammond will interview Dr. Jackson about her time as a student at MIT, current role as President of RPI, her experiences [...]

This Thursday evening feature documentary film screening is presented in conjunction with List Projects: Civil Disobedience. Screenings take place in Bakalar Gallery. Additional Screenings October 5, 6 PM October 12, 6 PM Citizenfour. 2014. Directed by Laura Poitras 114 min. Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary takes its point of departure in the filmmaker receiving encrypted emails [...]

The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and the Department of Urban Studies  (DUSP) welcomes Visiting Artist and Penn State Professor B. Stephen Carpenter for 3 visits during this fall semester. Professor Carpenter teaches and researches art education, visual culture and curriculum theory. Combining art science and social practice, Professor Carpenter will demonstrate [...]

Speakers Taylor Fravel, is associate professor of political science, member of the Security Studies Program at MIT, and acting director of the MIT Center for International Studies. His work focuses on international security, China, and East Asia. Vipin Narang, is associate professor of political science at MIT and a member of the Security Studies Program [...]

MIT Department of Architecture / Fall 2017 Lecture Series Dinner with the In-Laws: Whiteness Faculty: Ana Miljacki, Nasser Rabbat, Lawrence Sass Moderated by Jessica Varner, PhD, History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art This lecture is organized by the Architecture Student Council (ASC).

This Thursday evening feature documentary film screening is presented in conjunction with List Projects: Civil Disobedience. Screenings take place in Bakalar Gallery. Additional Screenings October 5, 6 PM October 12, 6 PM Citizenfour. 2014. Directed by Laura Poitras 114 min. Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary takes its point of departure in the filmmaker receiving encrypted emails [...]

Lecture & Performance Friday, October 6, 2017 / 2:00–4:00pm MIT Building 9-255 Free and open to the public; registration encouraged.   Socially engaged art-making tactics can encourage the disruption of long-held cultural, social and historical assumptions. B. Stephen Carpenter II, Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) [...]

Community Forum & Lunch Saturday, October 7, 2017 / 12:00–2:00pm MIT Building 9-255 Free and open to the public; registration required.   Socially engaged art-making tactics can encourage the disruption of long-held cultural, social and historical assumptions. B. Stephen Carpenter II, Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology [...]

This Thursday evening feature documentary film screening is presented in conjunction with List Projects: Civil Disobedience. Screenings take place in Bakalar Gallery. Additional Screenings October 5, 6 PM October 12, 6 PM Citizenfour. 2014. Directed by Laura Poitras 114 min. Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary takes its point of departure in the filmmaker receiving encrypted emails [...]

The first film in the WGS film series Organizing Women. Norma Rae is the iconic film about a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on the health of her family for her to continue ignoring the poor working conditions. She becomes involved in the labor union. The [...]

Speakers Steven Simon, a visiting professor at Amherst College, is the former United States National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa. Robert Ford, a retired diplomat, is the former United States Ambassador to Syria  (2010 to 2014) and United States Ambassador to Algeria (2006 to 2008).   Co-sponsors:  MIT Center for International Studies [...]

This Thursday evening feature documentary film screening is presented in conjunction with List Projects: Civil Disobedience.   Screenings take place in Bakalar Gallery. Additional Screening October 26, 6 PM November Actions. 1970/2017. Directed by Richard Leacock 76 min. Richard Leacock was a prolific filmmaker who pioneered documentary styles known as Cinéma Vérité and Direct Camera by [...]

The second in the WGS film series Women Organizing. A classic portrayal of sexism in the workplace: Meet Franklin Hart ('Coleman'). The biggest 'sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot' boss on the planet. He thrills in taking advantage of his head female office staff; humiliating, downplaying, and condescending against them whenever conveniently possible, particularly his top [...]

Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship” Charles Piot: Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University More Togolese per capita apply for the US Diversity (Green Card) lottery than those from any other African country, with winners attempting to game the system by adding “spouses” [...]

This Thursday evening feature documentary film screening is presented in conjunction with List Projects: Civil Disobedience.   Screenings take place in Bakalar Gallery. Additional Screening October 26, 6 PM November Actions. 1970/2017. Directed by Richard Leacock 76 min. Richard Leacock was a prolific filmmaker who pioneered documentary styles known as Cinéma Vérité and Direct Camera by [...]

Is literature a tool to expand our awareness and challenge society? Or does it reinforce the existing social order and its violence? Édouard Louis was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in the North of France, which is the setting of his first novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (published in English as [...]

Main speaker Richard Clarke, former national coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism for the United States   Discussant Joel Brenner, former head of counterintelligence under the Director of National Intelligence for the United States   Co-sponsors:  MIT Center for International Studies

Craig Steven Wilder, Barton L. Weller Professor of History at MIT and author of Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), will deliver this year’s Capps Lecture (with Book Signing) at the National Humanities Conference, convened this year in Boston, on Nov 3. This event is free and open [...]

The final film in the WGS film series Organizing Women. U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. In 1984 20 year old closet gay Joe hesitantly arrives in London from Bromley for his first Gay Pride march and is taken [...]

MIT Department of Architecture / Fall 2017 Lecture Series Dinner with the In-Laws: Whiteness Faculty: Mariana Ibanez, Sheila Kennedy, Rami El Samahy Moderated by Timothy Hyde This lecture is organized by the Architecture Student Council (ASC).