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SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9am on October 24th\, here at cmsw.mit.edu! (What time is that where you live?) \nJOIN NOW!\nRSVP is not required for online information sessions\, though you can sign up for a reminder below. \nIt may help to prepare some questions ahead of time. It’s as simple as scanning through the basic info about the graduate program: cmsw.mit.edu/education/comparative-media-studies/masters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-24-2014/
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141120T130000
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SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:Registration required at Eventbrite. \nWe will be experimenting with livestreaming this event via Ustream.tv.  Tune in to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cms-graduate-information-session at 1:00 pm!  We’ll have the comments open so that remote “attendees” can send in questions as we go along. \nThis event will have ASL translators present\, so will be accessible to the Deaf community.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-cms-graduate-program-nov-2014/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141120T170000
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SUMMARY:Town Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Open to the CMS/W family only\, the annual town meeting is a discussion among the program’s community members and directors.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/town-meeting/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141121T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141121T170000
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 3pm on November 21\, here at cmsw.mit.edu! (What time is that where you live?) \nJOIN NOW!\nIt may help to prepare some questions ahead of time. It’s as simple as scanning through the basic info about the graduate program: cmsw.mit.edu/education/comparative-media-studies/masters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program/
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141204T170000
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SUMMARY:Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
DESCRIPTION:Lev Manovich\, the author of the seminal The Language of New Media\, MIT’s Fox Harrell\, who recently published Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression\, and MIT’s Nick Montfort will examine the ways in which computational models can be used in cultural contexts for everything from analyzing media to imagining new ways to represent ourselves.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-analytics-and-phantasmal-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T170000
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SUMMARY:Documentaries\, Journalism\, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Documentary and journalism have a complicated relationship.  They share commitments to reality-based storytelling\, yet have distinctive legacies and institutional histories. They share technologies\, vocabularies and modes of address\, yet have different notions of time\, from the ‘now’ of breaking news to the ‘timeless’ status of classic documentaries. At a moment when the Internet has emerged as a platform common to print and broadcast journalism as well as new forms of interactive and participatory documentary\, complication seems more like confusion.  One might try to clarify the situation by disambiguating these genres\, solidifying their boundaries.  We seek instead to make productive use of the situation by taking advantage of their commonalities\, finding ways to re-invent and re-invigorate both documentary and journalism\, in the process expanding their audiences and enhancing their relevance.  Documentaries have demonstrated the advantages of synergistic thinking\, finding a new place and new publics through digital journalism portals.  But what can new forms of documentary contribute back to journalism?  To answer that question\, we have to think critically and creatively about the affordances of these different traditions in light of their new ecosystem. \n\nRaney Aronson – Executive Producer\, FRONTLINE\nFrancesca Panetta – The Guardian Multimedia Special Projects Editor\nKaterina Cizek – National Film Board of Canada\, documentary director\nJason Spingarn-Kopf – New York Times Op-Docs Editor\nModerator: William Uricchio – MIT
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/documentaries-journalism-future-of-reality-based-storytelling/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150117
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SUMMARY:Disney Fairies Film Series
DESCRIPTION:Philip Tan\, Research Scientist \nEnrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions\nPrereq: None \nThe “Disney Fairies” series launched in 2005 with new novels based on the tales of Peter Pan. From the novels and plays of J.M. Barrie and the animated films by Walt Disney Productions\, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine developed an elaborate mythology for the fairies of Neverland. The lead character\, Tinker Bell\, moved from “Disney Princess” marketing efforts into a separate franchise of chapter books\, comics\, and merchandise. Following Disney’s purchase of Pixar\, direct-to-DVD productions of Disney Fairies were restarted and debuted with the 3D computer-animated film “Tinker Bell” in 2008. \nWhile visually consistent with Disney’s earlier interpretations of Neverland\, some may find the characterization and the tone of the films surprising. Barrie’s century-old “common pots-and-pans fairy” is reinterpreted as a titular heroine with a unique talent for invention and engineering. Most of the films revolve around Tinker Bell’s ability to construct incredible machines and her irrepressible drive to find and fix “lost things.” The mostly-female cast is generally portrayed as being extremely competent and working collectively to solve problems\, even as the films fall back on formulaic personality conflicts. \nChildren with adult supervision are welcome. Each screening will be followed by an optional\, moderated discussion with participants\, which may venture into playful\, activist\, academic or headcanon topics. \nThis event aims to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Philip Tan\, 26-149\, 617 324-9129\, PHILIP@MIT.EDU \n\nScreening times\n\n\n\n\nJan/07\nWed\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Tinker Bell\n\n\n\nJan/09\nFri\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure\n\n\n\nJan/12\nMon\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue\n\n\n\nJan/14\nWed\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Pixie Hollow Games & Secret of the Wings\n\n\n\nJan/16\nFri\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, The Pirate Fairy\n\n\n\nChildren are welcome to the screenings (with adult supervision\, please!) \n\nOptional Discussion\n\n\n\n\nJan/07\nWed\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/09\nFri\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/12\nMon\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/14\nWed\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/16\nFri\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nA moderated discussion and critique of the themes\, representation\, development\, marketing\, problems and solutions presented by the Tinker Bell films and media franchise. The session will start after a 10-minute intermission after the screening. Participation in the discussion is completely optional.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/disney-fairies-film-series/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150114T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150114T163000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What's It All About?
DESCRIPTION:Wondering what the chatter is about digital humanities (DH)? Come ask questions and share what you know. Let’s talk about the impact of computation on the humanities\, about where it can takes us\, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who’s doing what where in DH at MIT? \nContact: Patsy Baudoin\, 14S-140M\, 617 253-4979\, PATSY@MIT.EDU
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/conversation-about-digital-humanities-patsy-baudoin/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14N\, Room 217\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150122
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SUMMARY:Knitting for Programmers
DESCRIPTION:Image by Flickr user anna banana\nJan/20 Tue 01:00PM-04:00PM \nJan/21 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM \nEnrollment: Advance sign-up appreciated but not required \nIf you ever wanted to know the link between knitting and programming this is the workshop for you. A knitting pattern is actually a more or less complex algorithm with the difference being that the output is directly wearable like 3D printing. The 1st day we will review fundamentals\, learn basics and start a small project (hat\, scarf or bag depending on skills)\, and the 2nd day we will work on the project. Students will have to get their own supplies but can contact the instructor for help in type/quantities of wool and needles. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Marie-Jose Montpetit\, mariejo@mit.edu
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/knitting-programmers/
LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150124
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SUMMARY:Collaborative Insights through Digital Annotation: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Rethinking the Connections between Annotation\, Reading\, & Writing\nTo register\, please sign up here. \nInstructors and students in the humanities and the liberal arts increasingly work in an electronically supported and extended world of multimedia texts.  Digital archives\, online media repositories\, and new tools for creating digital content have not only changed the way students interact with cultural content\, they have also radically changed the landscape within which learning can take place. Digital content has broken down the barriers separating traditional learning environments such as the solitary scholar\, the library\, and the classroom. Access to digitally based knowledge and cultural content with opportunities for new learning environments requires instructors to reevaluate their existing pedagogical methods and their roles in the classroom. Instructors are faced with the challenge of how to respond to this shift\, how to innovate and redesign their roles and curricula. \nIn this workshop\, we investigate one possible solution to this challenge: digital annotation.  Digital annotation brings the long humanistic tradition of annotation\, one of John Unsworth’s “scholarly primitives\,” into contemporary electronic media.  Within a digital learning environment\, annotation allows for a new form of interactive reading\, one that can seamlessly transition between traditional forms of solitary highlighting or note taking to collaborative close reading or shared discussions about particular passages.  Participants in this workshop will discuss the opportunities digital annotation tools create for new forms of social engagement with the text\, for students to share ideas\, interpretations\, references\, sources\, adaptations\, or other related media with peers and other readers that significantly change the way students acquire and produce knowledge. \nThe keynote speaker will be John Bryant\, Professor of English at Hofstra University.  Professor Bryant received his BA\, MA\, and PhD from the University of Chicago and is the author of several books and over 60 articles on Melville\, related writers of the nineteenth-century\, scholarly editing\, and digital scholarship. The former Editor of the Melville Society (1990-2013)\, he created and edited Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies\, which was designated CELJ’s Best New Journal of 2000 (runner up). His book Melville Unfolding: Sexuality\, Politics\, and the Versions of Typee (Michigan 2008) draws upon his online fluid-text edition\, titled Herman Melville’s Typee\, appearing in the Rotunda electronic imprint (University of Virginia\, 2006)\, which was the second electronic edition to be awarded the MLA-CSE seal of approval.  His other books include A Companion to Melville Studies\, Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance (Oxford 1993)\, and The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen (Michigan\, 2002).  He has published several editions of Melville works\, including Typee (Penguin)\, The Confidence-Man (Random House)\, Melville’s Tales\, Poems\, and Other Writings (Modern Library)\, and the Longman Critical Edition of Moby-Dick. He is currently working on a critical biography titled Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life (Wiley) and on the NEH-funded Melville Electronic Library (MEL)\, an online critical archive designated as a “We the People” project. In 2013\, he was appointed Director of Hofstra’s new Digital Research Center.  In 2014\, he taught America literature during the spring semester at the University of Rome (Sapienza) on a Fulbright Fellowship\, and he sailed on the restored 19th-century whaling craft Charles W. Morgan as part of his Melville biography research. \nProgram (preliminary) \nFriday\, January 23\, 2015\nMIT\, Building 66\, Room 110 \n8:30 am   Coffee\n9:00 am   Introduction by Kurt Fendt\, Executive Director of HyperStudio\, MIT\n9:15 am   Keynote Address by John Bryant\, Professor of English\, Hofstra University\n10:15 am Panel #1 Digital Annotation and the Writing Process \n\nSuzanne Lane\, Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric and Communication\, and Director of the Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Professional Communication program\, MIT\nMary Isbell\, Assistant Professor of English & Director of First-Year Writing Program\, University of New Haven\nAlex Mueller\, Assistant Professor of English\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston\n\n11:15 am   Breakout Sessions\n12:30 pm   Lunch\nLunch will be provided (Swissbäkers)\n1:30 pm    Future Directions of Annotation Studio with Jamie Folsom\, Leader Developer at HyperStudio\, MIT\n1:45 pm    Panel #2 Digital Annotation and the Reading Process \n\nWyn Kelley\, Senior Lecturer in Literature\, MIT\nIna Lipkowitz\, Lecturer in Literature\, MIT\nRoberto Rey Agudo\, Lecturer in Global Studies and Languages\, MIT\nEthna D. Lay\, Assistant Professor\, Hofstra University\n\n2:45 pm   Breakout Sessions\n4:00 pm   Andreas Karastolis\, Associate Director of Writing Across the Curriculum\, MIT\n4:30 pm   Conclusion \nTo register\, please sign up here.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/collaborative-insights-through-digital-annotation-workshop/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150212T190000
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SUMMARY:Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu on the State of the Comic Book Medium
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nJoin Bobbie Chase\, Editorial Director of DC Comics\, and comic book writer\, Marjorie Liu (Monstress\, Astonishing X-Men\, Black Widow)\, as they discuss the current and future state of the comic book medium\, including DC and Marvel’s place in the industry\, and how creator owned projects are helping to evolve the face of publishing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/bobbie-chase-marjorie-liu/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T190000
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D\, LA Ink\, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Rojas\, SHASS Predoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies/Writing\n(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nThe first episode of the series LA Ink in 2007 was the all-time highest rated season premiere for the TLC network’s 18-34 demographic. The second tattoo vehicle in a franchise that began with Miami Ink\, the show continued its predecessor’s main format\, with select artists facilitating the therapeutic tattoo narratives of clients. One significant difference is LA Ink’s central “character\,” Kat Von D: shop owner\, tattoo artist\, and heavily tattooed Latina. Although women’s accumulation of tattoos has become more commonplace in the twenty-first century\, heavily tattooed female bodies are far from the mainstream. Latina bodies in particular are often exoticized and subject to cultural gatekeeping. Theresa Rojas examines the prolific and heavily tattooed Katherine Von Drachenberg\, popularly known as Kat Von D\, who offers a fascinating aesthetic that challenges both tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body” in new and intriguing ways. A polemical and sometimes polarizing celebrity\, Von D navigates the worlds of tattooing and popular culture in ways that are at once ground-breaking and problematic. Her formative role as the first heavily tattooed woman to have her own television show situates her as someone who has chosen to lead an exceptionally public life—telling her story in multi-mediated ways. \nRojas is a SHASS Predoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies/Writing and a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University. She received her MLA from Eastern Michigan University in Women’s and Gender Studies and her BA in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. Originally from San Francisco\, Theresa is also a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and an artist who works primarily in acrylics\, wood\, and ink. Her specialties include life narrative\, comics\, and visual culture.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/illuminated-bodies-kat-von-d-la-ink-tattoo-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150223T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150223T190000
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SUMMARY:Gonzalo Frasca: “Play\, Videogames and Education Reform”
DESCRIPTION:No\, videogames are not going to change the school system. Unfortunately\, the majority of educational games cater to the fears of parents and administrators rather than to the children’s needs. How should we create games that are both useful and effective inside and outside the classroom? \nGonzalo Frasca\nGonzalo Frasca is now making math games at okidOkO. A while ago\, he sort of invented newsgames\, wrote videogame and play theory\, made tons of webgames for Hollywood animation studios\, got Ph.D. in videogames and even co-created the first official videogame for a US Presidential election. He calls Uruguay home and teaches game development to a bunch of merry kids at ORT University and Liceo Jubilar.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gonzalo-frasca-play-videogames-education-reform/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T190000
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SUMMARY:Women in Science
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nComputational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik will discuss their careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century. Sabeti\, an associate professor at Harvard and a senior associate member of the Broad Institute\, and Trancik\, an assistant professor in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division\, are both rising stars in the research world. They will be in discussion with Rosalind Williams\, the Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology at MIT.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/women-in-science-pardis-sabeti-jessika-trancik/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150305T190000
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SUMMARY:Media and Memory at the Vidéothèque de Paris
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nCatherine E. ClarkAssistant Professor\, MIT Global Studies and Languages\nThe Vidéothèque de Paris\, a moving image archive of the French capital\, opened in 1988\, during a period when French technological advances led the world in revolutionizing the circulation of people and information. Accordingly\, the Vidéothèque would be no mere dusty archive but rather a high-tech institution of robots\, computers\, VCRs\, and Minitels. Its organizers deployed the very latest technologies to place nearly a century of fiction films\, documentaries\, television programs\, and advertising with Paris as their subject or setting at visitors’ disposal. Organizers promised that within a year or two the whole archive would be available in Parisian living rooms\, as its collections became the basis of a Parisian on-demand cable channel. \nContemporaries imagined that these cutting-edge technologies would transform users’ very relationship to the past. They hoped to turn institutionalized history into memory\, a flexible\, customizable\, and ultimately personal\, experience of the past. The dream of an archive that replaced all others by providing constant access to cultural and social memory through cutting-edge technologies did not last more than a decade. But the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Vidéothèque’s creation helps illuminate and call into question the utopian promises of the much more recent revolution in digital history. \nMIT Global Studies and Languages assistant professor Catherine E. Clark is a cultural historian who specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France and visual culture. \nHer current book project\, Paris and the Cliché of History\, explores the intersection of the history of Paris and the history of photography. It tells the story of the various uses of photos as documents of the capital’s past from the establishment of Paris’s municipal historical institutions (the Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris) to the amateur photo contest “C’était Paris en 1970\,” which created an archive of 100\,000 pictures of the city. The project combines the history of collecting photographs with a consideration of the theoretical assumptions that underpinned their use\, alongside prints and paintings\, in illustrated books\, historical exhibitions\, and commemorations.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/catherine-clark-media-memory-videotheque-de-paris/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150312T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150312T190000
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SUMMARY:Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nCoco Fusco\nCoco Fusco‘s Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba is a study of the role of corporeal expressivity in development of social criticism in Cuban art. Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance through a combination of politics and practices that enable cultural production on the one hand and discipline public behavior on the other. \nThe book will be published by Tate Publishing in the fall of 2015. \nCoco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. She is a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award\, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship\, a 2012 US Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been presented in numerous international biennials and festivals\, as well as the Tate Liverpool\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York. Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001)\, and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coco-fusco-dangerous-moves-performance-and-politics-in-cuba/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Art\, Ethics and Technology of Documentary Co-Creation
DESCRIPTION:With the Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Program in Art\, Culture\, and Technology: \n\nKaterina Cizek\, Documentary Director\, National Film Board of Canada\, and MIT Visiting Artist\nAndrew Lowenthal\, Open Documentary Lab Fellow and Co-Founder of EngageMedia\nMandy Rose\, Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre\, University of West England\, Bristol UK\nEthan Zuckerman\, Director of the Center for Civic Media and principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab\n\nAs new forms of media\, networks and devices emerge throughout history\, documentarians are always at the forefront of discovering how to tell stories with them. From the first newsreels\, to the latest Virtual Reality installations\, non-fiction creators are the first to introduce their audiences and users to novel ways of interacting\, immersing and collaborating in new environments while interpreting reality. How can these new technologies change the documentary creator’s relationship to the “people formerly known as subjects”? How can new models of co-creation redefine not just the form of the story itself but the methods by which we create them? How can documentaries be made “with” people instead of “about” them? This panel examines the history and potential for documentarians to co-create with citizens\, social scientists\, technologists and performing artists\, with the aim to both create artful meaning and foster concrete political action.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/documentary-co-creation-art-ethics-technology/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T140000
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SUMMARY:Sandra Gaudenzi: "From Interaction to Personalization: What Happens When We Become Part of the Story"
DESCRIPTION:It took about 15 years to accept that the documentaries of the 21st century might be “interactive”. Moving from a linear media to a non linear one has challenged the role of the author in the creative treatment of actuality – as subjects and the users are now directly involved in such creation. But a new shift is about to disturb our idea of what a narrative is: the oculus rift places us in a world that composes itself in real time while we are exploring it\, and data mining allows us to personalise stories to their final users. What happens to our understanding of reality when we become the protagonists of hypothetical worlds? \nSandra Gaudenzi has started her career as a television producer.  She then moved into interactive television\, and has been teaching interactive media theory at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) from 1999 till 2013. She is now Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West of England. Her research interests include interactive documentary\, participatory practices\, UX in i-docs\, transmedia storytelling\, locative experiences and games for change. Sandra is one of the conveners of i-Docs\, a conference totally dedicated to interactive documentaries\, that she initiated in 2011 and she is a creative director of its website\, http://i-docs.org/ and Facebook group. She currently blogs at www.interactivefactual.net and is  the author of www.interactivedocumentary.net\, a blog that she started in 2009 in order to document her own experience of doing a PhD at Goldsmiths (University of London).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sandra-gaudenzi-interaction-to-personalization/
ORGANIZER;CN="Open%20Documentary%20Lab":MAILTO:opendoclab-contact@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T190000
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SUMMARY:Coming of Age in Dystopia: The Darkness of Young Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nWhy are brutal dystopias\, devastating apocalyptic visions\, and tales of personal trauma such a staple of young adult literature? Kristin Cashore\, author of the award-winning Graceling Realm trilogy\, and the University of Florida’s Kenneth Kidd will explore the history and current preoccupations of one of the most popular forms of fiction today. Marah Gubar\, an associate professor in MIT’s Literature department\, will moderate.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coming-age-dystopia-darkness-young-adult-fiction/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T113000
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SUMMARY:Sandra Gaudenzi: "Digital Me Demo & Feedback Session"
DESCRIPTION:Imagine if the digital persona you have been creating all these years while socialising online wanted to speak to you. What could you discover about each other? Digital Me\, an interactive documentary\, is a private experience that uses personalization to make you reflect on your multiple and hybrid (digital/physical) personalities while guaranteeing you the ownership of the data that is retrieved about yourself.  \nDigital Me is a project by Sandra Gaudenzi and Helios Design Labs that is currently in concept development with BBC Learning. \nSandra Gaudenzi has started her career as a television producer.  She then moved into interactive television\, and has been teaching interactive media theory at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) from 1999 till 2013. She is now Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West of England. Her research interests include interactive documentary\, participatory practices\, UX in i-docs\, transmedia storytelling\, locative experiences and games for change. Sandra is one of the conveners of i-Docs\, a conference totally dedicated to interactive documentaries\, that she initiated in 2011 and she is a creative director of its website\, http://i-docs.org/ and Facebook group. She currently blogs at www.interactivefactual.net and is  the author of www.interactivedocumentary.net\, a blog that she started in 2009 in order to document her own experience of doing a PhD at Goldsmiths (University of London).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sandra-gaudenzi-digital-me-demo-feedback-session/
ORGANIZER;CN="Open%20Documentary%20Lab":MAILTO:opendoclab-contact@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150402T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150402T190000
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CREATED:20150121T144944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220829Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture\, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder email.) \nGeorge Yúdice\, University of Miami\nGeorge Yúdice‘s The Expediency of Culture (2003) repositioned culture in connection with governmentality and biopower. The full force of social media\, Internet platforms and megadata was not yet evident at the time. The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has\, Yúdice thinks\, been borne out. Culture understood as the “terrain of struggle for interpretive power” needs to take into consideration its relocation and reconfiguration in new media and technologies. In that relocation key concepts of Cultural Studies need to be updated. This talk seeks to maps the requisite changes. \nGeorge Yúdice is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. \nThis event is co-sponsored with MIT Global Studies and Languages.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-studies-expediency-culture-rethought/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150403T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150403T163000
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SUMMARY:Thesis Presentations: Comparative Media Studies Graduate Class of 2015
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public\, and you may watch a live feed. You are welcome to attend as many or as few presentations as you wish.\n9:00 Coffee and Conversation\n9:15 Morning Presentations\n\n	Chelsea Barabas: “Mirror Mirror on the Wall: A Study of Bias and Perceptions of Merit in the High-tech Labor Market”\n	Desiree Gonzalez: “Museum Making: Creating with Emerging Technologies in Art Museums”\n	Liam Andrew: “The Missing Links: An Archaeology of Digital Journalism”\n	Heather Craig: “Interactive Data Storytelling: Designing for Public Engagement”\n	Jesse Sell: “E-sports Broadcasting Conventions”\n\n12:30 Lunch Break\n1:30 Afternoon Presentations\n\n	Sean Flynn: “Evaluating Interactive Documentaries: Audience\, Impact\, and Innovation in Public Interest Media”\n	Wang Yu: “Heike\, Jike\, Chuangke: Creativity in Chinese Technology Communities”\n	Suruchi Dumpawar: “Mediating Open Government Data: Using Data to Drive Changes in the Built Environment”\n	Ainsley Sutherland: “Digital Art\, Immersion and Empathy: Evaluating Games and Digital Media Art for Engendering Mutual Understanding”\n	Erik Stayton: “Driverless Dreams: Narratives\, Ideologies\, and the Shape of the Automated Car”
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thesis-presentations-comparative-media-studies-graduate-class-of-2015/
LOCATION:MIT Student Center\, Mezzanine Lounge\, 84 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Watch live!\n\nThesis Presentations\nof the \n\nComparative Media Studies Graduate Class of 2015\nApril 3\, 2014\nMIT Student Center Mezzanine Lounge \n9:00        Coffee and Conversation\n\n9:15  Presentations by:\n\nChelsea Barabas Mirror Mirror on the Wall: A Study of Bias and Perceptions of Merit in the High-tech Labor Market\n\nDesiree Gonzalez Museum Making: Creating with Emerging Technologies in Art Museums\n\nLiam Andrew  The Missing Links: An Archaeology of Digital Journalism\n\nHeather Craig Interactive Data Storytelling: Designing for Public Engagement\n\nJesse Sell E-sports Broadcasting Conventions\n\n12:30  Lunch Break\n\n1:30 Presentations by:\n\nSean Flynn Evaluating Interactive Documentaries: Audience\, Impact\, and Innovation in Public Interest Media\n\nWang Yu Heike\, Jike\, Chuangke: Creativity in Chinese Technology Communities\n\nSuruchi Dumpawar Mediating Open Government Data: Using Data to Drive Changes in the Built Environment\n\nAinsley Sutherland Digital Art\, Immersion and Empathy: Evaluating Games and Digital Media Art for Engendering Mutual Understanding\n\nErik Stayton  Driverless Dreams: Narratives\, Ideologies\, and the Shape of the Automated Car\nThis event is free and open to the public.  It will also be streamed live on Ustream.tv.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-thesis-presentations/
LOCATION:MIT Student Center Mezzanine Lounge\, 84 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139
CATEGORIES:Thesis Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150409T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150409T190000
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SUMMARY:Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Driscoll\, CMS ’09\, and Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research \n(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nFor fifteen years before the graphical Web\, thousands of personal computer owners encountered the pleasures\, promises\, and challenges of online community through networks of dial-up bulletin-board systems (BBS). While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET\, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life. From chatting and flirting to shopping and multiplayer games\, it was on these locally-run systems that early modem users grappled with questions of trust\, identity\, anonymity\, and sexuality. In this talk\, Kevin Driscoll will map out the generative conditions that gave rise to amateur computer networking at the end of the 1970s and trace the diffusion of BBSing across diverse cultural and geographic terrain during the 1980s. This history provides lived examples of systems operated under vastly different social\, technical\, and political-economic conditions than the centralized platforms we inhabit today. Indeed\, remembering the grassroots past of today’s internet creates new opportunities to imagine a more just\, democratic tomorrow. \nKevin Driscoll (Ph.D.\, University of Southern California) is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. His research concerns the popular and political cultures of networked personal computing with special attention to myths about internet history. Previously\, he earned an M.S. in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught mathematics and computer science at Prospect Hill Academy.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kevin-driscoll-dial-up-history-of-social-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150416T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150416T190000
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SUMMARY:The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nJeff VanderMeer \nJeff VanderMeer\, author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation\, Authority\, and Acceptance)\, will join G. Eric Schaller\, Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth\, for a broad-ranging discussion about the scientific and philosophical ideas that inspired the series. The two friends and occasional collaborators will discuss conservation science\, VanderMeer’s relationship with the natural world\, and the theme of extinction in “slow apocalypse” fiction\, as well as the role of real-world science in science fiction. Moderator: Seth Mnookin.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jeff-vandermeer-spooky-science-of-the-southern-reach/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T190000
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SUMMARY:The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance\, Political Leadership\, and Black Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:(Co-sponsored with both MIT Global Studies and Languages and Women’s and Gender Studies.  And join our mailing list for an event reminder email.) \nThomas DeFrantz\, Duke University \n21st century popular culture\, circulated by media\, enables unusual affiliations of bodies in motion. When black social dances are practiced by American political leaders\, as when First Lady Michelle Obama demonstrates “the Dougie” in her “Let’s Move” anti-obesity campaign\, or when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dances alongside others during her 2012 tour of Africa\, black social dance moves toward a center of considerations of embodied knowledge.  This talk wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership\, conceived as the bodies of elected officials. In addition we will consider the commercial and socially-inscribed leaders of popular cultural\, including Beyonce and Brittany Spears\, as arbiters of African American social dance. Ultimately\, the talk suggests a haunting presence of queers-of-color aesthetic imperatives within political mobilizations of black social dance\, continually – and ironically – conceived as part and parcel of rhetorics of liberation and freedom of movement. As queer dances emerge in marginalized relationship to mainstream concerns of identity and gesture\, and then migrate toward shifting centers of popular culture\, they shimmer and switch\, bringing to light – perhaps – possibilities of creative aesthetic social dissent. \nThomas F. DeFrantz is Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University\, and director of SLIPPAGE: Performance\, Culture\, Technology\, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. His books include the edited volume Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture (de la Torre Bueno Prize\, Oxford University Press\, 2004)\, and Black Performance Theory\, co-edited with Anita Gonzalez (Duke University Press\, 2014). In 2013\, working with Takiyah Nur Amin and an outstanding group of artists and researchers\, he founded the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. A director and writer\, he is the outgoing President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. He taught at MIT for many years\, in Music and Theater Arts and Comparative Media Studies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thomas-defrantz-queer-social-dance-political-leadership-black-popular-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150430T170000
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SUMMARY:Ryan Cordell: "Melville in the First Age of Viral Media"
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nThis event kicks off MELCamp5\, a meeting of researchers from the Melville Electronic Library (MEL) April 30-May 2 to discuss an NEH-funded digital archive of Herman Melville’s work. Do come to a free public event on Friday May 1 in 2-105 on “The Critical Archive and the Future of MEL.” Moderator: Kurt Fendt (MIT)\, and Panelists Peter S. Donaldson (MIT)\, Julia Flanders (Northeastern University)\, John Unsworth (Brandeis University). All welcome. \n\nRyan Cordell\, Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts\, Maps\, and Networks at Northeastern University \nRyan Cordell\, co-director of the Viral Texts project\, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.  \nThe Viral Texts project seeks to develop theoretical models that will help scholars better understand what qualities—both textual and thematic—helped particular news stories\, short fiction\, and poetry “go viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.  What texts were reprinted and why? How did ideas—literary\, political\, scientific\, economic\, religious—circulate in the public sphere and achieve critical force among audiences?  How might computational methods reveal Melville’s popular reception and reputation or expose the shaping influence of the popular press on his writing? And how can these popular (perhaps even ephemeral) texts thicken our understanding of literary authors like Herman Melville? \nCordell is Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts\, Maps\, and Networks at Northeastern University. His scholarship focuses on convergences among literary\, periodical\, and religious culture in antebellum American mass media. Prof. Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English\, History\, and Computer Science on the NEH-funded Viral Texts project\, which uses robust data mining tools to discover reprinted content across large-scale archives of antebellum texts. These “viral texts” help us to trace lines of influence among antebellum writers and editors\, and to construct a model of viral textuality in the period. Cordell is currently a Mellon Fellow of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville\, Virginia. He also serves as vice president of the Digital Americanists scholarly society; is Co-Editor-in-Chief of centerNet’s forthcoming new journal\, DHCommons; and writes about technology in higher education for the group blog ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ryan-cordell-melville-in-the-first-age-of-viral-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150507T170000
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CREATED:20150129T151154Z
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SUMMARY:Danielle Keats Citron: "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace"
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Keats Citron \nMost Internet users are familiar with trolling—aggressive\, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site’s comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people\, subjecting them\, by name and address\, to vicious\, often terrifying\, online abuse. In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media\, Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical\, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. A refutation of those who claim that these attacks are legal\, or at least impossible to stop\, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace reveals the serious emotional\, professional\, and financial harms incurred by victims. \nPersistent online attacks disproportionately target women and frequently include detailed fantasies of rape as well as reputation-ruining lies and sexually explicit photographs. And if dealing with a single attacker’s “revenge porn” were not enough\, harassing posts that make their way onto social media sites often feed on one another\, turning lone instigators into cyber-mobs. \nHate Crimes in Cyberspace rejects the view of the Internet as an anarchic Wild West\, where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure all manner of verbal assault in the name of free speech protection\, no matter how distasteful or abusive. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law\, Danielle Keats Citron contends\, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it. \nCitron is Lois K. Macht Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/danielle-keats-citron-hate-crimes-cyberspace/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150917T170000
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SUMMARY:On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
DESCRIPTION:L. Shane GreeneIndiana University \nThis talk\, with L. Shane Greene\, presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political\, aesthetic\, and media dimensions – that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path. Specifically\, Greene is interested in how recounting the role of “underground rock” musicians and artists during the war – and from within the aesthetics of punk media – complicates the dominant narratives that describe Peru’s period of political violence and those that drive the story of globalization. The talk will draw from both primary examples from the historical period in question and contemporary ones that emerged from the book project. \nGreene is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University\, where he also serves as director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. \nThis event is co-hosted with MIT Global Studies and Languages.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/l-shane-greene-politics-of-punk-media-peru/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150917T190000
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SUMMARY:Jane McGonigal discusses her new book "SuperBetter" with Scot Osterweil
DESCRIPTION:Jane McGonigal\, coming to MIT September 17th and hosted by Harvard Book Store \nWe’re thrilled to join Harvard Book Store as they host Jane McGonigal\, who will discuss her new book SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger\, Happier\, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games with our own Scot Ostwerweil here at MIT. \nSuperBetter will be on sale here and will feature a book signing! \n\nMcGonigal’s new book will be on sale — with a book signing — at the event \nHarvard Book Store welcomes internationally renowned game designer and bestselling author of Reality is Broken JANE MCGONIGAL and Creative Director of the Education Arcade SCOT OSTERWEIL for a discussion of McGonigal’s latest book\, SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger\, Happier\, Braver and More Resilient—Powered by the Science of Games. \nIn 2009 Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion. Unable to think clearly or work or even get out of bed\, she became anxious and depressed\, even suicidal. But rather than let herself sink further\, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a resilience-building game. What started as a simple motivational exercise quickly became a set of rules for “post-traumatic growth” that she shared on her blog. These rules led to a digital game and a major research study with the National Institutes of Health. Today nearly half a million people have played SuperBetter to get stronger\, happier\, and healthier. \nBut the life-changing ideas behind SuperBetter are much bigger than just one game. In this book\, McGonigal reveals a decade’s worth of scientific research into the ways all games—including videogames\, sports\, and puzzles—change how we respond to stress\, challenge\, and pain. She explains how we can cultivate new powers of recovery and resilience in everyday life simply by adopting a more “gameful” mind-set. Being gameful means bringing the same psychological strengths we naturally display when we play games—such as optimism\, creativity\, courage\, and determination—to real-world goals. \nDrawing on hundreds of studies\, McGonigal shows that getting superbetter is as simple as tapping into the three core psychological strengths that games help you build: \n\nYour ability to control your attention\, and therefore your thoughts and feelings\n\n\nYour power to turn anyone into a potential ally\, and to strengthen your existing relationships\n\n\nYour natural capacity to motivate yourself and super-charge your heroic qualities\,like willpower\, compassion\, and determination\n\nSuperBetter contains nearly 100 playful challenges anyone can undertake in order to build these gameful strengths. It includes stories and data from people who have used the SuperBetter method to get stronger in the face of illness\, injury\, and other major setbacks\, as well as to achieve goals like losing weight\, running a marathon\, and finding a new job. \nAs inspiring as it is down to earth\, and grounded in rigorous research\, SuperBetter is a proven game plan for a better life. You’ll never say that something is “just a game” again.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jane-mcgonigal-discusses-her-new-book-superbetter-with-scot-osterweil/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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