Events

What does it mean to be driven crazy? By a parent, a professor, a president, perhaps even the internet itself? In 1959 the psychoanalyst Harold Searles published a paper in […]

Dwaipayan Banerjee is Associate Professor in the department of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is the author of two books, Hematologies - The Political Life of Blood in […]

This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]

NPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss. Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on April 6th). This riveting book, begins with an account of biologist David Starr Jordan, and then goes down a rabbit hole of history, morality, and […]

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program to present jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young. Award-winning artist jackie sumell works collaboratively with people incarcerated across the U.S. to promote abolition. Albert Woodfox is an activist and author who spent decades in solitary confinement at the […]

This presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s), and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in the construction of American Indian identity. RSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday, April 14th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM […]