"Crossing Mandelbaum Gate" Book Talk with Kai Bird
"Crossing Mandelbaum Gate" Book Talk with Kai Bird
A Starr Forum event presented on May 6, 2010Pulitzer prize-winning author, Kai Bird, came to MIT for a book talk and book signing: Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 (Just released this April!) ABOUT KAI BIRD:Kai Bird's ...
A Few Things Learned from Craigslist
A Few Things Learned from Craigslist
11/14/2008 12:00 PM NE25Craig Newmark, Founder, CraigslistDescription: In his unassuming way, Craig Newmark believes his eponymous website might just help nudge people toward greater civic engagement. While Craigslist.org "is a simple platform where people help each other out," focusing on ...
Challenges in Nation Building
Challenges in Nation Building
09/29/2009 2:30 PM 10"250President José Ramos"Horta, President, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDescription: At times humorous and defiant, JoséRamos"Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East ...
Civic Media and the Law
Civic Media and the Law
11/04/2010 5:00 PM E14-633Micah Sifry, Founder, Editor, Personal Democracy Forum; Daniel Schuman, Policy Counsel, Sunlight Foundation; David Ardia, Fellow, Berkman CenterDescription: While these panelists diverge on the precise metaphor -- 'picking through a minefield,' 'hacking through the ...
Communications Forum: Civic Media and the Law
Communications Forum: Civic Media and the Law
David Ardia, Daniel Schuman, and Micah Sifry What do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics? Journalists have always had the privilege, protected by statute, of not having to reveal their sources. But as more ...
Consolidating Iraqi Democracy: The Institutional Context
Consolidating Iraqi Democracy: The Institutional Context
Noah Feldman, Professor, New York University School of Law; and Kanan Makiya, The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University; Founder, Iraq Memory Foundation Can constitutional democracy unfold in Iraq? Noah Feldman ...
Constructing a New Liberal Iraq
Constructing a New Liberal Iraq
Robert E. Looney, Professor of National Security Affairs, and Associate Chairman of Instruction, Naval Postgraduate School; John Tirman, Executive Director, Center for International Studies, MIT Iraq's oil reserves are the second largest in the world, yet according to both colloquium speakers, ...
Democracy after Citizens United
Democracy after Citizens United
09/30/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumLawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics; Allison R. Hayward, Vice President of Policy, Center for Competitive Politics; John Bonifaz, Founder, National Voting Rights Institute; ...
Democratizing Innovation
Democratizing Innovation
If you have ever come up with a work-around or improvement for a balky product only to find that it performs better than the original, you are not alone.
Distributed Leadership in the Obama Campaign
Distributed Leadership in the Obama Campaign
03/19/2009 E51"395Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of GovernmentDescription: The Obama campaign owes its victory not to a single charismatic candidate, but to the efforts of a disciplined and motivated organization whose roots go back ...
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government openness and digital connectedness?
How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games
How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games
05/13/2008 8"404Steven Brams '62, SB '62, Professor of Politics, New York UniversityDescription: Using game theory, and with some help from the Bible, Steven Bramsargues that voting can resolve certain kinds of conflicts. He explores in detail the classic game ...
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
05/12/2003 11:00 AM Wong AuditoriumTom Ashbrook, Host, WBUR's "On Point"; ; Fawaz Gerges, Christiain A. Johnson Chair holder in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies, Sarah Lawrence College ; Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law, UCLA ; Jack Beatty, Senior Editor The Atlantic ...
Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance
Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance
04/24/2009 6:00 PM Simmons HallCarol Gilligan, University Professor, New York University School of LawDescription: In this complex narrative documenting paradigm shifts in developmental thinking, Carol Gilligan defines the very capacity of our human nature-to have a ...
Civics in Difficult Places
MIT Communications Forum: Civics in Difficult Places
In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority.
Online News — Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
MIT Communications Forum: Online News — Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on even basic questions.
Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
MIT Communications Forum: Our World Digitized — The Good, the Bad, the ...
In conversation with Henry Jenkins, these speakers don't so much square off as share their hopes and fears for the emergence of online democracy.
What's New at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media?
MIT Communications Forum: What's New at the MIT Center for Future Civic ...
Based on this roster of speakers, the MIT Center for Future Civic Media exists in a constant state of productive ferment, if not adrenaline rush.
MIT/ Harvard Gaza: America's Response
MIT/ Harvard Gaza: America's Response
Guest speakers:Augustus Richard Norton, professor of anthropology and international relations, Boston University Robert Blecher, historian and analyst with the International Crisis Group Uri Zaki, USA Director, B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center Moderating the discussion: Balakrishnan ...
Race, Politics and American Media
Race, Politics and American Media
10/08/2009 5:00 PM Juan Williams, News analyst, NPR; J. Phillip Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of Literature, MacVicar Faculty FellowDescription: The collapse of print and other traditional news and ...