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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Junot Díaz
DESCRIPTION:Junot Díaz\nA conversation with Junot Díaz\, regarding questions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean\, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy to describe the deep history of the New World. Díaz is the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT. He is the author of Drown and The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the John Sargent First Novel Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/conversation-with-junot-diaz/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson\nLawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson present findings from their book\, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do (Simon & Schuster\, 2008)\, including the complex ways in which video games may benefit or disadvantage children. They will also talk about myths and politics in media violence research\, and how they influence the views of academics and mass media. Lawrence Kutner\, Ph.D. and Cheryl K. Olson\, Sc.D. are cofounders and co-directors (with Eugene Beresin\, M.D.) of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital. They are both on the psychiatry faculty of Harvard Medical School. Kutner received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and trained at the Mayo Clinic. He’s a licensed psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He wrote the “Parent & Child” column for the New York Times as well as five books on child development. Olson was principal investigator for a $1.5 million study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice on the effects of video games on young teenagers\, which formed the basis for Grand Theft Childhood. She has a Doctor of Science degree in health and social behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health\, and a postdoctoral certificate in pharmaceutical medicine from the University of Basel.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/myths-politics-media-violence-research/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance
DESCRIPTION:John Bell\nThis presentation / lecture / infomercial examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture. While performing objects traditionally include puppets\, masks\, icons\, and other “things”\, the more recent innovations of film\, television\, and the internet can also be seen as aspects of our need to play with stuff. In all cases\, the central dynamic of this form involves a focus on the material world instead of humans. The talk will be accompanied by images from 20th-century avant-garde film and performance work. John Bell began his performance work with Bread and Puppet Theater\, after which he earned a Ph.D. in theater history at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the award-winning Great Small Works theater company of Brooklyn\, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT\, and Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut. This spring he will be directing a “Living Newspaper”-style production about the politics of global healthcare with MIT students. His latest book\, American Puppet Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2008)\, examines particular moments of puppet\, mask\, and object theater in the United States over the past 150 years. He is a trombonist with the Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band\, and organizer of the upcoming October 12th HONK! Festival Parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/john-bell-playing-with-stuff-material-world-performance/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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