Town Meeting

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

For the CMS/W family only, this is the annual discussion between the program's community members and directors.

Disney Fairies Film Series

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

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.

A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What’s It All About?

MIT Building 14N, Room 217 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

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?

Knitting for Programmers

Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA

"A knitting pattern is actually a more or less complex algorithm with the difference being that the output is directly wearable like 3D printing."

Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu on the State of the Comic Book Medium

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

Join 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.

Gonzalo Frasca: “Play, Videogames and Education Reform”

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

okidOkO's Gonzalo Frasca shows us how we should create games that are both useful and effective inside and outside the classroom.

Women in Science

MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik will discuss their careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century.

Media and Memory at the Vidéothèque de Paris

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

Catherine E. Clark on how "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."

Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

Coco Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance.

The Art, Ethics and Technology of Documentary Co-Creation

MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

A panel on 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.