Coming Together to Redefine International Development: IDIN and CITE

Examining the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN), and the Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE)

The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the Climate Challenge

04/21/2011 3:00 PM Wong AuditoriumTodd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change, US Department of StateDescription: With frightening evidence for climate change mounting around the globe, from droughts and massive forest fires to melting glaciers and rising sea ...

The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station

Time-lapse videos depicting the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station.

Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli ...

02/22/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Victor Kattan, Fellow, University of London; Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Given the volume of writing on the Arab"Israeli conflict, "you might think that everything has been said," says Noam Chomsky. But Victor Kattan's ...

International Development Design Summit 2008

International Development Design Summit 2008

The Arab Discourse, Al-Jazeera and the International Role

Hafez Mirazi, Washington Bureau Chief, Host of "Al-Jazeera Weekly"; Al-Jazeera Television Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab news network, wasn't the Bush Administration's favorite media outlet. But Hafez Mirazi states that his network's motto is "both sides of the ...

International Trade

International Development Design Summit, MIT 2008

Using a bicycle wheel to thresh millet, making LEGO-like bricks from dirt, or hooking up an electric generator to an irrigation pump may not save the world, but such simple projects could go a long way toward improving the lives of millions of people living in the ...

International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture

04/23/2010 4:15 PM e14"633Ian Condry, Associate Director, CMS and Associate Professor Foreign Languages and Literatures; Aswin Punathambekar; Xiaochang Li; Ana Domb; Orit Kuritsky; Jing WangDescription: Ian Condry introduces five graduates of the Comparative Media ...

Imperial Global Fellows: Developing International and Industrial ...

June 23, 2011 During the Global Fellows Summer Program run jointly between MIT and Imperial College London, Ricardo Martinez Botas Ph.D, a businessman with relations to fifteen companies, takes elements from his academic and occupational opportunities and experiences ...

Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli ...

A Starr Forum event presented on February 22, 2010 A book talk with Victor Kattan and an introduction by Noam Chomsky About the author:Kattan is the author of more than half a dozen scholarly articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict in international law journals. His book ...

International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture, moderated by Ian ...

Panelists: Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Ana Domb, Orit Kuritsky, Jing Wang Aswin Punathambekar is an Assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He teaches and writes about media globalization, with a ...

President Hockfield and the MIT Student International Experience

At the most recent Alumni Leadership Conference, President Susan Hockfield spoke about the significance of the international experience in the education of today's MIT undergraduates.

The International Music Score Library Project

Speaker: Edward W. Guo??The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was started in 2006 by Edward W. Guo. According to the IMSLP website: ?"It is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle, but ...

Impact of MIT10 Giving: IROP (International UROP)

Sally Susnowitz (Public Service Center) speaks about the impact of last year's MIT10 giving campaign on various PSC initiatives.