02/09/2010 @ 6:00 pm –   Sondra Crosby, MD, is an internist and former Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights at Boston Medical Center. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Crosby’s clinical practice focuses on care of asylum seekers, asylees and refugees, and she has written […]

02/09/2010 @ 12:00 pm – Open to MIT Students Only. Limited seating. RSVP required. Henrietta Lacks, known to scientists as HeLa, was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are […]

02/02/2010 @ All Day – (Enrollment Closed)

02/01/2010 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – A Talk by Manish Bhardwaj Predicting the success of any new enterprise is difficult, but most social entrepreneurs face an added challenge: their lives bear little resemblance to the people they serve. This can significantly impede their understanding of what matters most to their customer, her priorities and concerns, resources, the constraints imposed by her […]

01/25/2010 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – A Talk by Aseem Inam Based on professional practice and scholarly research, this workshop will present ideas about how cities are designed and built, and the values that underlie the city-building process. Using illustrative examples and case studies, the workshop will offer alternative sets of values that can transform cities in fundamental ways.

01/19/2010 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Lessons from Poverty, Violence, and Native America A Talk by Sousan Abadian The stories we tell ourselves and our communities can generate suffering and block us from leading the lives we say we want. We will explore how such toxic narratives are viral in nature, how we become susceptible to their influence, and how they […]

12/03/2009 @ 6:00 pm – A Talk by Daniel Goleman Introduced by Deborah Ancona Respondent: Gregory Norris   Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 […]

11/20/2009 @ 6:00 pm – Dr. Aseem Inam has practiced as an architect, urban designer and planner in Los Angeles, Montreal, Mumbai, New Delhi, Paris, St. Louis, and Washington DC. Most recently, he led multidisciplinary teams on urbanist initiatives in the Caribbean, California, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Early in his career, he created and lead the rural habitat development […]

11/04/2009 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Making its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Sin Nombre is an epic dramatic thriller from award-winning director Cary Fukunaga. Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaytan), joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to […]