Archives: Events

06/29/2021 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Register here     Dr. Jonathan Foley is a world-renowned environmental scientist, sustainability expert, author, and public speaker. His work is focused on understanding our changing planet, and finding new solutions to sustain the climate, ecosystems, and natural resources we all depend on. Foley’s groundbreaking research and insights have led him to become a trusted […]

05/27/2021 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Register here   Dr. James Orbinski is a professor and the inaugural Director of York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. As a medical doctor, a humanitarian practitioner and advocate, a best-selling author, and a leading scholar in global health, Dr. Orbinski believes in actively engaging and shaping our world so that it is […]

05/25/2021 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Register here Kevin Esvelt is director of the Sculpting Evolution group at MIT, which invents new ways to study and influence the evolution of ecosystems. By carefully developing and testing these methods with openness and humility, the group seeks to address difficult ecological problems for the benefit of humanity and the natural world. Prior to […]

05/13/2021 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Register here     Sanjay Sarma is Vice President for Open Learning at MIT, which includes the Office of Digital Learning, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative and the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab. He is also the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.   A […]

05/06/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Register here         Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from […]

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