Why are brutal dystopias, devastating apocalyptic visions, and tales of personal trauma such a staple of young adult fiction? Hear from Kristin Cashore, author of the award-winning Graceling Realm trilogy, and the University of Florida’s Kenneth Kidd.
Video, podcast, and summary: “Women in Science”
Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik discuss careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century.
Podcast: Coco Fusco, “Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba”
Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. She is a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Podcast: Catherine Clark, “Media And Memory At The Vidéothèque De Paris”
In this podcast, Catherine Clark looks at how “the utopian rhetoric of the Vidéothèque de Paris illuminates promises of the more recent revolution in digital history.”
Podcast: “The State of the Comic Book Medium” with Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu
Bobbie Chase, Editorial Director of DC Comics, and comic book writer Marjorie Liu (Monstress, Astonishing X-Men, Black Widow) discuss the current and future state of the comic book medium.
Summary, Podcast, Video: “Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media”
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT’s Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
Podcast: “Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement” – Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Latest Book Release
As part of his book launch, Sasha Costanza-Chock shares some of his prior experiences working as both an activist and a researcher of social movements.
