04/28/2021 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Register here     Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses include civil procedure, constitutional law, fairness and privacy, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop. An expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities […]

04/22/2021 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Kwame Anthony Appiah — philosopher, cultural commentator, and author of the New York Times column “The Ethicist” — will deliver the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture: “Thinking About Racism.”

04/22/2021 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Register here     Alan Lightman is a novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator. Currently, he is Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Until 2003, he was John Burchard Professor of the Humanities at MIT.   Alan has done fundamental research in astrophysics, including black holes, cosmology, and […]

04/14/2021 @ 12:30 pm – The Office of the Associate Provost for International Activities and the MIT Africa Steering Committee offers an online panel discussion featuring leading voices from the African continent and African diaspora who are engaged in critical public discourses around race and reform across diverse African contexts and different media. Register here

03/05/2021 – 12/19/2021 @ 12:00 am – By Invitation Only

02/25/2021 – 12/19/2021 @ 12:00 am – By Invitation Only

12/03/2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am –   Rescheduled for January 2021 Talk by: Kelley Dobson Research Scientist, Google Kelly Dobson is an artist and engineer working in the realms of technology, medicine and culture. Her projects involve the parapraxis of machine design – what machines do and mean for people other than the purposes for which they were consciously designed. As […]

12/02/2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Click to register Talk by: Judy Wajcman London School of Economics/ Turing Institute Author of Techno Feminism Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology. She joined the LSE as Head of the Sociology Department in 2009. She was previously Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National […]

12/01/2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Click to register Talk by: Miklu Sylvanto Industrial Designer formerly at Apple, AirBnB Silvanto spent the past decade working at Apple’s famed Industrial Design team, reporting to Jony Ive. At Apple, Silvanto oversaw the development of several consumer products that are now integral parts of our everyday lives. He also worked at AirBnB where he built […]