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MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, at the University of Alcala in Spain delivering a talk entitled "The Samba School Revisited: Play, Performance, and Participation in Education."Read more on his blog: ...
Allen Hockley Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arthist/allen.html Allen Hockley is a specialist in 19th and early-20th-century photography in and about Asia; his work for VC introduces some of the pioneer commercial ...
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookReshaping the BookParticipants: Gita Manaktala (MIT Press), Christian Bök (University of Calgary), Bob Stein (SocialBook) Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media ...
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookThe Xenotext, So Far with Christian BökWe started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who has striven for ten years to engineer an ...
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookUnbinding the BookParticipants: Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Reid-Cunningham (Boston Athenaeum), Wyn Kelley (MIT Literature), Mary Fuller (MIT Literature)Moderator: Gretchen Henderson (MIT ...
Morison Prize LectureRecorded on 5/11/12Gregory Clancey - Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore; Master, Tembusu College Gregory Clancey is concurrently an ...
The contemporary video core of Berliner sehen consists of 18 hours of natural conversations with Berlin residents from different social backgrounds. Spoken in authentic German, they acquaint students with the many facets of individual lives. Together with the extensive archive of texts, ...
Professor Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that the time is ripe for widespread rethinking of the way we interact through technology. An expert on mobile devices, social networking, and sociable robotics, she ...
Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.
Attention and Memory: How the Brain Does What It Does
Robert Lepage visited MIT on Sunday, Feb. 12, to initiate a collaborative workshop with MIT students and launch the class 21M.805, Performance and Design Practicum.
It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse? From Adam Smith and Max ...
Michael Brown documented the face of battle in Libya using a camera phone, challenging the standard script for war reportage.
Part of a two-day conference that consisted of image-driven presentations addressing both Asian and non-Asian representations of 19th and 20th-century developments in the history of East and Southeast Asia.
John Dower speaks on "China in the Modern World" as part of the Visualizing Cultures Lectures series.
Part of a two-day conference that consisted of image-driven presentations addressing both Asian and non-Asian representations of 19th and 20th-century developments in the history of East and Southeast Asia.
