tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219417200 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/219396040 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/219377080 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/219350260 2008-07-09 16:20:11 -0400 msrp2008 Students present a paper by Professor Chris Zegras. 2879 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219317320 2008-04-25 17:17:30 -0400 Women Don't Ask <p>Ms Laschever's presentation was an opportunity to learn from her research findings with Dr. Linda Babcock, and for attendees to ask "how to" questions about their own professional advancement and development opportunities. More details on the research and the authors' backgrounds can be found at: http://www.womendontask.com </p><p>This event has been made possible by generous sponsorship from the UAAP. Programs and Support for Women Students at Student Support Services, MIT Careers Office, and the Housemasters of McCormick Hall.</p> 4803 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219296320 2008-08-18 17:18:06 -0400 msrp2008 Meet the students of the 2008 MIT Summer Research Program. 415 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219254180 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/219216520 2009-05-17 18:34:20 -0400 Center for Advanced Visual Studies A Very short history of toy Theatre as performed by Center for Advanced Visual Studies fellow John Bell. accompanied by: Trudi Cohen (visiting artist) on toy piano Jenny Romaine (visiting artist) on accordian Joe Zane (CAVS staff and VAP instructor) on ukulele Shaunalynn (student) Duffy on banjo shot on a handheld camera by CAVS staff member Meg Rotzel, this performance took place at the CAVS 2009 Giant Art Party 763 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219193680 2009-05-17 21:23:35 -0400 Center for Advanced Visual Studies CAVS fellow John Bell joins CAVS artists, staff and MIT students in the design, construction, and performance of the Great Small Works toy theater show, Definitely Maybe. Based on the novel of the same name by the acclaimed Soviet science fiction writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Definitely Maybe questions the limits of scientific knowledge and discovery in the modern world from the perspective of a handful of Soviet scientists of the 1970s who are all on the verge of important breakthroughs. The mysterious and often surreal ways in which they are all prevented from advancing their work turn out to be the effects the Homeostatic Universe, a vast, undefined force of Nature that insists on maintaining creation-wide entropy. Definitely Maybe poses questions about the limits of modern knowledge and the ecological effects of modern society through a series of fantastic, comic, and spectacular tableaux on a miniature toy theater stage representing a Soviet-era apartment building. Definitely Maybe, a novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, was adapted for the toy theater by John Bell, Larissa Harris and Jessica Rylan, with Jenny Romaine from Great Small Works, and MIT student Shaunalynn Duffy. Special thanks to Slava Gerovitch for his dramaturgical advice. Set and puppet designs by Isaac Bell and Meg Rotzel; stage construction by Kaolin Kinsey; stage design by Joe Zane; special synthesizer effects created by Jessica Rylan. 1899 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219168720 2009-06-15 18:17:56 -0400 Center for Advanced Visual Studies Join CAVS for an in-progress, hybrid performance/reading about the economic crisis. John Malpede promises a “100% non- threatening participatory event” where the audience reads text and the performers perform others. Readings and Performers will bounce off of one another arbitrarily; unpredictable trajectories will afford glimpses of our possible financial futures. Witness and contribute to the first phase of an ongoing project where Malpede remixes texts about the financial crisis. + Malpede is an eminent performer, director, and activist who often uses governmental, legal, and media sources as found texts. In 1985 he founded Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), an organization that engages the homeless population of Los Angeles through performance. LAPD’s current touring project, Agents and Assets, 2001-, recreates a House of Representatives hearing on the importation of drugs into the United States in the 1980s by Nicaraguan contra rebels with the CIA's complicity. In 2002-05 he performed as Antonin Artaud in Peter Sellars’ production of Artaud’s For an End to the Judgment of God, in Vienna, Rome, London, Brussels, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 2004, he directed RFK in EKY, a site-specific regional recreation of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 inquiry into poverty in Appalachia. Malpede has received the Bessie Creation Award from Dance Theater Workshop, New York; San Francisco Art Institute's Adeline Kent Award; and a Theater LA Ovation Award, as well as numerous government and foundation grants. He has taught at UCLA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Amsterdam School for Advanced Research in Theater and Dance, and the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco. John Malpede is a fellow at CAVS, and is developing a public performance for MIT’s campus in the fall of 2009. 0