Events
Week of Events
How to Live Like Shakespeare
How to Live Like Shakespeare
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 […]
Abolition Beyond the State w/ Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley
Abolition Beyond the State w/ Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley
What role can the arts take in the movement to abolish prisons in addition to abolishing the society that upholds them? How can art and culture elevate other ways of living together, without relying on the fences, walls, and cages, which are both imagined and already practiced? Visualizing Abolition continues with Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani […]
Ben Kafka — The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy
Ben Kafka — The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy
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 The British Journal of Medical Psychology, “The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy: An Element in the Aetiology and Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.” “My clinical […]
Dwaipan Banerjee – The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Science: Art and Physics in 1950s Bombay
Dwaipan Banerjee – The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Science: Art and Physics in 1950s Bombay
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 India and Enduring Cancer - Life, Death and Diagnosis in Delhi. His new project is situated at the intersection of early-postcolonial physics, computing and the […]
Living Writers: Andrea Abi-Karam with Literature Graduate Student Madison McCartha
Living Writers: Andrea Abi-Karam with Literature Graduate Student Madison McCartha
Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 2016), attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full Community Engagement Scholarship, Andrea received their MFA in […]
PhD+ Workshop – Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact
PhD+ Workshop – Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact
Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact Join oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff to discuss the practice of oral history in times of crisis. “Memory Work” will explore the potential of the oral history toolkit for your own career and for social impact. This talk will share the practical […]
Kathryn Davidson Linguistics Colloquium
Kathryn Davidson Linguistics Colloquium
For more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.