Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Summary, video, and podcast: “From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future By Studying the Past”
Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Summary, video, and podcast: “Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South”
Every time the Restorative Justice clinic has sent its researchers out to study one particular cold case, “invariably we find another case.”
Looking for Change, Online and Off-Center
Professors T.L. Taylor and Ian Condry are exploring the connections between online and offline worlds through the Creative Communities Initiative.
Podcast: Hiromu Nagahara, “Hierarchy And Democracy In Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution”
Hiromu Nagahara on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of Japan’s “mass media revolution” in the 1920s and ’30s as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
In Medias Res, Fall 2015
For Fall 2015, we cheer that MIT was recently named by Times Higher Education as America’s #3 school for the humanities.
Dissolve Unconference: A Summit on Inequality
Featuring social scientists, media theorists, writers, artists, activists, this unconference asks: “How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today’s inequalities?”
