tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186953040 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/186877760 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/186589200 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/186510140 2008-08-09 10:59:05 -0400 International Development Design Summit International Development Design Summit 2008 3447 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186427460 2008-01-30 13:13:25 -0500 MIT Video Productions <p>During June 5th’s Tech Day symposium, a beaming President Chuck Vest had the rare opportunity to interview MIT alumnus and astronaut, Lt. Col. Mike Fincke, at his current residence aboard the International Space Station. Lt. Col. Fincke has been on board since April, and didn't want to miss the chance to briefly join his classmates during their 15 year reunion at MIT.</p><p>This remarkable connection with the space station was made possible by AMPS technology and personnel, most notably Craig Milanesi and Kevin Kirwin. As Astronaut and Alum Mike Fincke told the 1,100 in attendance at Kresge, "When we were setting this (videoconference) up with NASA, they were wondering if we would be able to get good audio and video... I said that if anyone can do great audio and video, it's MIT!"</p> 948 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186155380 2008-01-30 13:31:52 -0500 MIT Video Productions Take a video tour of the International Space Station with MIT Alum Lt. Col. Mike Fincke 621 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186102080 2008-08-13 15:09:10 -0400 MIT News Office <p>Using a bicycle wheel to thresh millet, making LEGO-like bricks from dirt, or hooking up an electric generator to an irrigation pump may not save the world, but such simple projects could go a long way toward improving the lives of millions of people living in the world's developing countries. That's the guiding principle behind a month-long summer workshop at MIT. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/idds-0808.html">More</a></p><p>Video: MIT News Office/AMPS </p> 178 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185985320 2008-07-03 11:51:16 -0400 MIT-Germany Program <p>Jason Bryslawskyj is a returning MIT student with MISTI. This is his second year interning with MIT-Germany.</p> 38 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185702460 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 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185661280 2009-08-04 16:16:56 -0400 Legatum Paul Polak isn’t your everyday global poverty fighter. He’s a 75-year old former psychiatrist who believes that the world’s poorest people, most of whom are farmers living on less than $2/day, are capable entrepreneurs and viable consumers. It’s a philosophy that drove him to start International Development Enterprises (IDE), a non-profit providing these $2/day farmers affordable irrigation & high-yield farming strategies. After 25 years, Dr. Polak and IDE succeeded in moving over 17 million people out of poverty. He has since turned over leadership of the organization to Al Doerkson but remains actively involved as a board member and advisor. Still driven to do more, he decided to start another non-profit venture, a for-profit venture, and to write a book, all aimed at harnessing the market to combat poverty. The non-profit, called D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%, aims to create a global “design revolution” to change the way the world’s best designers view and serve the 2.8 billion people who live on less than $2 a day. Dr. Polak outlines the principles for this design revolution in his book Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, explaining how designers can profitably serve the world’s lowest-income consumers while simultaneously providing them a path out of poverty. His for-profit venture, called Windhorse International, will demonstrate that big business can be a part of this revolution. Poverty better watch out! 722