Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of ...
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 ...
Starr Forum: Fate of the Reset
Starr Forum: Fate of the Reset
Participants:Jeffrey Mankoff, Deputy Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies Matthew Ouimet, Senior Analyst, Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia, Department of State Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science ...
Skolkovo Tech - Director of Student Affairs
Skolkovo Tech - Director of Student Affairs
Bram Caplan, Director of Student Affairs at Skolkovo Tech, speaks about students.Learn more about the SkTech/MIT Initiative: http://web.mit.edu/sktech/
Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia
Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia
04/09/2010 12:00 PM E51"345Anatoly Chubais, General Director; Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO); Noubar Afeyan, PhD '87, Managing Partner and CEO, Flagship 87Ventures Description: In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer ...
Profile: Polina Golland
Polina Golland - The quantifier
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images. Read more about Golland's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/profile-golland-0112.html
Peace Meals
Peace Meals
10/19/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Anna Badkhen, Author, "Peace Meals"; Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor in Political ScienceDescription: While breaking bread around the world with friends and families suffering through war and deprivation, Anna Badkhen managed to compile not just a vivid chronicle ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Merton
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Merton
Nobel Prize-winner Robert Merton pushes back against any assumptions that he might be a "renaissance man."
Kyrgyzstan: CIS Assesses the CrisisJune 15, 2010
Kyrgyzstan: CIS Assesses the Crisis
June 15, 2010
Featuring: Carol Saivetz Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for International Studies Researcher, Security Studies Program Bakyt Beshimov Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for International Studies Former Kyrgyz Opposition Leader Former Member of Kyrgyz Parliament Former Kyrgyz ...
John Dower, Visualizing the Russo-Japanese War
John Dower, Visualizing the Russo-Japanese War
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. ...
Foreign Policy and the Next U.S. Administration
Foreign Policy and the Next U.S. Administration
09/18/2008 6:00 PM E51"315Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director Security Studies Program; Carol Saivetz, Visiting Scholar Center for International Studies,Research Associate Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and ...
Ekaterina Paramonova: A nuclear networker
Ekaterina Paramonova: A nuclear networker
This MIT undergraduate is intent on leveraging her assets in some surprising ways, establishing a unique career track that combines nuclear engineering and diplomacy.
Death of the News?
Death of the News?
03/02/2010 5:30 PM Wong AuditoriumMaria Balinska, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University (on leave from BBC); Susan Glasser, Executive Editor, Foreign Policy; Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology ReviewDescription: While not dead, the U.S. news industry is severely depleted and ...