Technodigenouse | Safeguarding Ancestral Territories

05/17/2022 – 05/19/2022 @ All Day – Register here       Technodigenous will focus on the challenges and opportunities Indigenous Peoples and local communities experience today in their efforts to protect their ancestral territories and ways of living. Over three days on May 17, 18, and 19, we will discuss how technology–old and new–may support Indigenous Peoples in a process that […]

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Conversation with Elizabeth Medicine Crow

04/14/2022 @ All Day – Conversation with Elizabeth Medicine Crow, CEO of First Alaskans Institute and Dr. Kamana Beamer, Executive Director of Aloha Kuamoʻo ʻĀina, a Hawai‘i center for cultural and ecological peace, on social justice advocacy and healing intergenerational trauma. Join us for an intimate conversation about the power of empathy, love, and Mālama Kō Aloha.

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SP.256 Informed Philanthropy in Theory and Action

01/28/2022 – 04/30/2022 @ 12:00 am – REGISTER HERE , BY JANUARY 28TH.    This spring semester, join the PKG Center to explore the potentials and pitfalls of philanthropy as a mechanism for social change. Then, work as a group to grant $7,000 to local community agencies! We will examine how community agencies are addressing the challenges and opportunities facing MIT’s neighboring communities, with a […]

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IAP Seminar Series: Innovation and Social Justice

01/12/2022 – 01/26/2022 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 am – Zoom link:  https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodOqorj8qEtRgQE5HfmzmGlEqNbTHlu3a (Participants can attend any or all sessions)   Whether you are seeking inspiration or already committed to making the world better and just, this series will give you indispensable insights and the tools you need. It draws from the speaker’s experience at the frontline, and from philosophy, history and sociology to address […]

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Moral Clarity and the Work of Social Justice with Manish Bhardwaj

12/08/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Click here to register Manish Bhardwaj is a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He is the James Wei Visiting Professor at the Keller Center at Princeton where he teaches idealism, and entrepreneurship in the service of justice. He is the co-founder of Innovators In Health (IIH) which delivers healthcare […]

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Governance for Human Social Flourishing with Jenna Bednar

11/17/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Click here to register  Jenna Bednar is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan, a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and the Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director of Michigan in Washington. Her research focuses on how collective action builds social goods and the role that […]

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Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education with Justin Reich

11/10/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Click here to register Justin is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, and the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He earned his doctorate from the […]

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SCI-FI PROTOTYPING AND CRITICAL OPTIMISM WITH SOPHIA BRUECKNER

11/03/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – To register click here  Sophia Brueckner is a futurist artist/designer/engineer who researches how technology shapes us. Inseparable from computers since the age of two, she believes she is a cyborg. As a software engineer at Google, she designed and built products used by tens of millions. At the Rhode Island School of Design and the […]

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THE MEANING OF LIFE WITH KIERAN SETIYA

10/27/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – To register click here  Kieran Setiya is Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works on ethics and on related questions about human agency and human knowledge. He is the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide and is working on a new book, Life is Hard.

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