Soap Box: The Political Life of Cheese
Soap Box: The Political Life of Cheese
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.
Heather Paxson Lectures on Interview Techniques for DLab ...
Heather Paxson Lectures on Interview Techniques for DLab Students
Assoc. Prof. Heather Paxson from Anthropology provides DLab students a background on interviewing and other qualitative research techniques. Recorded December 7, 2012.
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery ...
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s ...
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 ...
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery ...
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s ...
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 ...
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery ...
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s ...
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 ...
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery ...
John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s ...
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 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East - The Merchant ...
MIT 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East - The Merchant of Art
MIT 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East, Spring 2004View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21A-453S04Instructor: Susan SlyomovicsDirected and produced by: Susan SlyomovicsAwadallah Abd al-Jalil Ali is the "merchant of art," a professional epic singer. ...
MIT 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East - Wedding Song
MIT 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East - Wedding Song
MIT 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East, Spring 2004View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21A-453S04Instructor: Susan SlyomovicsDirected and produced by: Susan Slyomovics, Amanda Dargan This film brings the viewer into a Pakistani living room in Queens, ...
Engaging Neighborhoods - Berliner sehen
Engaging Neighborhoods - Berliner sehen
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, ...
Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel
Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel
Panel Discussion: The Science of IllusionWednesday, April 25, 2012Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Science Festival Can you imagine the science behind an invisibility cloak? What about a hovering hologram? The Science of Illusion pushes beyond the boundaries of the real and provides ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 2
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 2
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 3
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 3
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 4
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 4
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 1
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 1
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
Battlecode: final lecture
6.370 Battlecode: Jan. 20
Final lecture of Battlecode: Differential Equations for Strategy.
Profile: Heather Paxson
Heather Paxson - The anthropologist and the person
Associate professor of anthropology Heather Paxson, shares a little bit about herself in this short video.
MIT's Stefan Helmreich on his book "Alien Ocean"
MIT's Stefan Helmreich on his book "Alien Ocean"
When anthropologist Stefan Helmreich decided to study scientists who chase some of the world's smallest creatures in some of the world's most forbidding places, his research took an unexpected twist. An interview with Helmreich on why the ocean can be so "alien." View ...
The Good Side of Nightmares
The Good Side of Nightmares
The average person dreams several hundred times a week. Most are about relatives, friends, colleagues and loved ones. Most of the time, nothing special happens - and we tend to forget most dreams. However, once in a while people wake up screaming or sweating from dreams so frightening that ...
Humanities in the Digital Age
Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.