Guest speakers and special events
Channel | updated May 20, 2013
Many experts and academics visit MIT each year. This collection houses videos from those events, which has previously been featured on the MIT World website.
Many experts and academics visit MIT each year. This collection houses videos from those events, which has previously been featured on the MIT World website.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Recorded on May 5, 2013 Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Panelist: Roderick Coover, Temple University Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck Molly Sauter, MIT Dan Whaley, hypothes.is
Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Panelists: Cristobal Garcia, P. Universidad Catolica (Chile); Eric Gordon, Emerson College; Henry Jenkins, USC; Maria San Filippo, Harvard University.
Recorded on May 3, 2013 Moderator: Nick Montfort, MIT Panelists: Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK); David Rosen, Author; Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University.
Speaker: David Thorburn, MIT Recorded on May 3, 2013 in the Bartos Theater at the beginning of the "Media in Transition 8: public media, private media" conference. Visit the conference website at web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/.
Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman, MIT. Panelists: Goran Bolin, Sodertorn University (Sweden); Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego; Jose van Dijck, University of Amsterdam.
Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Anthropology Program, studies the people and culture behind the renaissance of artisanal cheese making in the United States.
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia DominguezModerator: Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science at the MIT Dept of Political Science and director of CIS.
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
Recorded 4-16-13
Recorded 4-16-13
Recorded 4-16-13
After an extensive renovation project, the Barker Library reading room has reopened to reveal the grandeur of the restored oculus atop the Great Dome, and the beauty of the rotunda’s original architecture.
Speakers:Scot OsterwellAndy ClaymanMargaret RobertsonRecorded on April 15, 2013
Professor Annette M. Kim presents preliminary findings of her research about Beijing's elaborate underground housing market.
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