2018 Graduate Admissions Information Session
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAMeet faculty and research managers, learn about the program, and ask questions.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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2018 CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAOn the heels of the day’s graduate program information session, join us for our annual colloquium featuring alumni of CMS, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
Screening of Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAFilmmakers Myron Dewey, Josh Fox and James Spione spent months on the front lines documenting North Dakota’s violent response to the peaceful water protectors.
Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMyron Dewey has pioneered the blending of citizen monitoring, documentary filmmaking, and social networking in the cause of environment, social justice and indigenous people's rights.
The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe University of Texas' Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.
Civic Arts Series, “Bringing the War Home”: Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances in the Era of Modern Warfare
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies.
“The Good Stuff”: The Intersections of Work, Leisure, and Relational Bonding on Tumblr and Patreon
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MANick-Brie Guarriello on the political economies and labor demands of micro-celebrity and Influencer culture across social media platforms regarding the Pokémon GO community.
Civic Arts Series: Opeyemi Olukemi
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAThroughout her career as an interactive producer, funder and public programmer, Opeyemi Opeyemi has created spaces and pipelines for interdisciplinary artists, communities, and creative teams to experiment with and create meaningful innovative content.
Stuart Cunningham and David Craig: “Social Media Entertainment”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAMedia scholars Stuart Cunningham and David Craig propose challenging, revisionist accounts of the political economy of digital media, the precarious status of creative labor and media management, and the possibilities of progressive cultural politics in commercializing environments.
Machine Visions
MIT Building 10, Room 150 MAMachine Visions is a grad student-run event series focused on developing cross-department connections around topics related to computer vision at MIT.
Civic Arts Series, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAThe idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.
The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MASohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers' "competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus."
Civic Arts Series: “Thumbs Type and Swipe” featuring DIS’s Lauren Boyle
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MADIS enlists leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, philosophy, and technology, with the aim to inspire, inform and mobilize a generation around the urgent issues facing us today and tomorrow.
Civic Arts Series, “Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAHaidee Wasson will explore the long and vibrant place of portable film devices in the history of small media, repositioning the "movie theatre" as the singular or even central figuration of film presentation and viewing.
POSTPONED: “No Yankee Rule for Us”: Annexation Rumors and the Interwar Circum-Caribbean Black Press
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAPrinceton's Reena Goldthree examines how Caribbean newspapers—published in the islands and in the diaspora—facilitated the spread of annexation rumors and provided a crucial platform for West Indians to challenge U.S. imperial expansion.
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