tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233719560 2008-01-22 11:45:18 -0500 MIT Center for International Studies Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. After Sept. 11, he launched a Weblog, “Informed Comment,” in hope of offering the public a more accurate interpretation of the Middle East, where he had lived off and on for almost ten years. Informed Comment became a phenomenon, generating in some months as many as a million page views, and making him one of the top bloggers in the world. Cole is widely respected as a public intellectual on the Middle East and, in 2004, was invited to address the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations concerning the war in Iraq. <p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/cis/starrforum_cole.html">See the event flyer here.</a><br />MIT's Landau Building 66-110, 25 Ames St. Cambridge, MA<br />Monday, December 10, 2007, 5:00p–6:30pm </p> 6039 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233688020 2007-12-20 13:19:35 -0500 MIT Center for International Studies <strong>Don't Be an American Idiot<br /></strong>How does the U.S. use human rights in its foreign policy? <br />Does the occupant of the White House matter when it comes to U.S. human interests abroad? What is the role of civil society in making human rights matter?<br />Julie Mertus co-director of Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs Program, American University and award-winning author of <em>Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy</em> reflects on these questions and invites discussion on their importance in an election year. <br />MIT's Landau Building, 66-110, 25 Ames St Cambridge, MA<br />6–7:30pm 4953 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233629100 2007-12-20 13:29:13 -0500 MIT Center for International Studies CIS and the Iranian Studies Group at MIT featured a public discussion with Barbara Slavin, chief diplomatic correspondent, USA Today, on her new book on Iran and the United States. Since 1996, Slavin has been responsible for analyzing foreign news and U.S. foreign policy for USA Today. She has covered such key issues as the U.S.-led war on terrorism, policy toward "rogue" states, the reform movement in Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict. She has also accompanied two secretaries of state on their official travels and reported from Libya, Israel, Egypt, North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Syria. 4526 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233584840 2009-04-24 13:15:46 -0400 MIT Center for International Studies The MIT Center for International Studies undertakes research, teaching, international education, and public and policy engagement on a broad range of global issues. The major programs are: MISTI, the ground-breaking initiative to send MIT students to work in labs in 10 countries. Now in its 25th year, MISTI serves 300 students annually; Security Studies Program, a world-renowned teaching and research program emphasizing U.S. strategy; Program on Emerging Technologies, innovative research linking scientists, engineers, and historians to understand globalization’s winners and losers; and Middle East, including the Jerusalem 2050 project, cosponsored with DUSP, and the Persian Gulf Initiative, which focuses on Iran and Iraq in workshops and public outreach. CIS includes some forty MIT faculty, mainly from political science and urban studies and planning, plus another forty affiliate scholars from other institutions, thirty staff, and about eight visiting fellows. In addition to the MISTI student contingent, graduate students are involved with every program. 519