Assoc. Prof. Heather Paxson from Anthropology provides DLab students a background on interviewing and other qualitative research techniques. Recorded December 7, 2012.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and MIT Professor of Writing, Junot Díaz, reads from his new book This is How You Lose Her.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.
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 ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesVisualizing the Russo-Japanese War 3/5/12Presented by John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, MITJohn Dower, Professor of Japanese history, received his Ph.D. in 1972 in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Stu Schmill of the MIT Admissions Office puts Stephen Colbert on notice for trashing MIT during a recent interview with Richard Hersh on the Colbert Report.
Visualizing the Boxer Uprising: A Kaleidoscopic View. PowerPoint by Ellen Sebring. Presented by Peter Perdue. Part of MIT Visualizing Cultures.
Computers have altered so many aspects of musician's lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition and beyond
Part of the "Common Threads" video, produced for the MIT 150th celebration, this clip features the vital role of humanities, arts, and social sciences at MIT.
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 50th anniversary celebration for arts and humanities programs at MIT featured several symposia and a medal ceremony held on Oct. 6-7, 2000.
The bottom-line mentality that swept American life in the last few decades, often overriding considerations of principle and professionalism in business, politics, the arts, higher education, journalism and other spheres, left its mark on philanthropy and the ...