BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T191500 DTSTAMP:20260406T122526 CREATED:20140107T154953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T221040Z UID:7689-1396545300-1396552500@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Science in Fiction DESCRIPTION:Hanya Yanagihara’s first book\, the widely celebrated The People In The Trees\, is loosely based on the life and work of Nobel Prize-winner physician and researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek. She’ll join author and physicist Alan Lightman\, who was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities\, to discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts. Forum Co-Director Seth Mnookin\, author of The Panic Virus\, will moderate. \nHanya Yanagihara is an Editor-At-Large at Conde Nast Traveler and author of The People In The Trees\, a novel the New York Times called "suspenseful" and "exhaustingly inventive." \nAlan Lightman is currently Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Dreams. His most recent novel\, Mr g\, was published in January 2012. \nSeth Mnookin is Co-Director of the Communications Forum and Associate Director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book is The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. \nLoading… URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/science-fiction/ LOCATION:MIT Stata Center\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Hanya-Yanagihara.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140404T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140404T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T122526 CREATED:20140206T200959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T133705Z UID:8004-1396605600-1396630800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Comparative Media Studies Thesis Day DESCRIPTION:Join CMS/W for thesis presentations by students in the Comparative Media Studies masters program.  Free and open to the public.\n\n10:00-10:30  Coffee and Conversation\n\n10:30  Presentations by:\n\n Lingyuxiu Zhong “My Pins are My Dreams: Pinterest\, Collective Daydreams\, and the Aspirational Gap”\n Eduardo Marisca Alvarez “Playful Ventures: Technology Entrepreneurship and Peripheral Innovation in the Peruvian Game Industry”\n Julie Fischer “Creat[e L]ive Treatment of Actuality: Live Documentary Practices for the Rise of Real Time”\n\n12:30  Lunch Break\n\n1:30 Presentations by:\n\n Rodrigo Davies “Civic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities\, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place”\n Denise Cheng “The Future of Work: Blueprints for a Worker Support Infrastructure in the Peer Economy”\n Erica Deahl “Better the Data You Know: Developing Youth Data Literacy in Schools and Informal Learning Environments”\n Jason Lipshin “Network Design: A Theory of Scale for Ubiquitous Computing” URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/comparative-media-studies-thesis-day/ LOCATION:MIT Student Center Room 407\, 84 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Thesis Presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Stratton-Student-Center.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T122526 CREATED:20140117T160156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T141437Z UID:7847-1397149200-1397156400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Susan Murray\, "'Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era" DESCRIPTION:Susan Murray \nThe standardization of color television in the US during the postwar era was\, in large part\, discussed and determined in relation to historical developments in color theory (philosophical\, psychological\, and physical)\, colorimetry\, color design and industry\, psychophysics\, psychology and\, of course\, what had already been established industrially\, culturally\, and technically for monochrome television. In this presentation\, Susan Murray explores how these various threads of scientific\, aesthetic\, philosophical\, and industrial knowledge were built into the standards\, processes\, and procedures for and around the technology and use of color television from the late 1940s and into the early 1950s. This presentation will be less about color programming itself\, and more about the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period\, but also during RCA and NBC’s early attempts to sell color to consumers\, sponsors\, and critics. \nSusan Murray is associate professor of Media\, Culture and Communication at NYU. She is the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars! Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (2005) and the coeditor (with Laurie Ouellette) of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004\, 2009). She has received fellowships from the ACLS and NYU’s Humanities Initiative for 2013-14 and is currently writing a history of color television from 1929-1970\, which is under contract with Duke University Press. \nLoading… URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/susan-murray-electronic-color-post-war-era/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Susan-Murray.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140416T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T122526 CREATED:20140408T201112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140414T155630Z UID:8787-1397671200-1397678400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:New Histories of the South Asian Diaspora DESCRIPTION:MIT-India & the Harvard South Asia Institute present the inaugural event of a new series\, “South Asia and Its Diasporas”\nCoolie Woman/Bengali Harlem: New Histories of the South Asian Diaspora\nA Reading and Discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur & Vivek Bald\nModerated by Walter Johnson\nIn 1903\, a young woman named Sujaria and a young man named Abdul Aziz left the port of Calcutta in separate ships\, sailing westward. Sujaria was pregnant and alone; she and the others on her ship were indentured laborers\, headed to sugar plantations in the British colony of Guiana. Abdul Aziz was a peddler of chikon embroidery from a village in Hooghly; he traveled with three other young men\, all headed for the beach boardwalks of New Jersey\, and ultimately\, the neighborhood of Tremé in New Orleans\, aiming to sell goods and send money home. What happened to Sujaria and Abdul? What kind of lives did they lead after emigrating from colonial India? And what other experiences\, like theirs\, have been “lost” in previous accounts of South Asia and its diasporas? \nIn this special joint reading and conversation\, Gaiutra Bahadur\, author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (2013\, University of Chicago Press) and Vivek Bald\, author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013\, Harvard University Press) will present excerpts from their work and discuss their common experiences excavating and bringing to life the stories of previously unacknowledged South Asian migrants from the early 20th century. The conversation will be moderated by Walter Johnson\, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author\, most recently\, of River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press\, 2013). \n\nBengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian AmericaVivek BaldHarvard University Press\, 2013 \nCoolie Woman: The Odyssey of IndentureGaiutra BahadurUniversity of Chicago Press\, 2013 \nGaiutra Bahadur is a journalist\, book critic\, and recent Harvard Neiman Fellow whose work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review\, the Washington Post\, Ms.\, and the Nation\, among other publications. In Coolie Woman\, she embarks on a journey into the past to find the story of her great-grandmother\, Sujaria. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives\, Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other “coolie women”\, shining a light on their complex lives. Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival\, a gripping story of a double diaspora–from India to the West Indies in one century\, Guyana to the United States in the next–that is at once a search for one’s roots and an exploration of gender and power\, peril and opportunity. \nVivek Bald is a writer\, scholar\, filmmaker\, and Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Writing at MIT. In Bengali Harlem\, he pieces together fragments of archival evidence to uncover the histories of two populations of South Asian Muslim migrants who lived\, settled\, and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican communities from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. The first\, a group of “Oriental goods” peddlers from West Bengal\, established a peddling network in the 1890s\, that spread throughout the Jim Crow South and into the Caribbean. The second consisted of hundreds of steamship workers who\, beginning in the 1910s\, escaped British ships in New York\, Philadelphia\, and Baltimore and established clandestine networks to access restaurant and factory jobs and build new lives in the shadows of anti-Asian immigration laws. \nWalter Johnson is a distinguished historian whose work focuses on slavery\, capitalism\, and imperialism in the nineteenth century United States. His award-winning first book\, Soul by Soul (1999) used the slave market as a way to think about the fantasies\, fears\, negotiations\, and violence that characterized American slavery. His second book\, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley (2013)\, embeds the history of slavery in the U.S. in the histories of global capitalism – the cotton trade and the Atlantic money market – and U.S. imperialism – the Louisiana Purchase\, the illegal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1850s\, and the effort to reopen the Atlantic Slave trade on the eve of the Civil War. \nAdditional support for this event provided by MIT’s programs in Comparative Media Studies/Writing; History; Women’s and Gender Studies; Literature; and the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coolie-woman-bengali-harlem-gaiutra-bahadur-vivek-bald/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 325\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CoolieWomanBengaliHarlem.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140424T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T122526 CREATED:20140107T155533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210525T132502Z UID:7698-1398358800-1398366000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online Reading and the Future of Annotation DESCRIPTION:Using the tools of online textual annotation — the platform Rap Genius\, its spinoff site Poetry Genius\, or MIT’s own Annotation Studio — readers can collaborate on annotating or interpreting a work\, make their annotations public\, and respond to interpretations by others. We will be joined by creators\, facilitators\, and users of these sites to discuss how online annotation is changing practices of reading\, enriching practices of teaching and learning\, and making newly public a previously private encounter with the written word. MIT’s Noel Jackson will moderate. \nWyn Kelley is a senior lecturer in Literature. She has worked for many years with the MIT’s digital humanities lab\, HyperStudio\, and is the author of Melville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996) among other works. \nKurt Fendt is Director of HyperStudio\, MIT’s Center for Digital Humanities. HyperStudio explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of research and education. \nJeremy Dean\, AKA Lucky_Desperado\, is the "Education Czar" at Rap Genius\, an online database of song lyrics (and poetry on the spinoff site Poetry Genius) that users can annotate freely. \nNoel Jackson is a Professor of Literature at MIT and author of Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (2008). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-reading-future-annotation/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/A-Study-in-Scarlet-Connecting-Text-with-Annotations.png ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140428T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T122526 CREATED:20140324T144409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140328T173650Z UID:8515-1398708000-1398718800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:2014 Media Spectacle DESCRIPTION:Showcasing video projects created by MIT students\, staff\, faculty and affiliates. \nPrizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry\, Best Non-undergraduate Entry\, Animation\, Experimental\, Narrative\, Nonfiction/Documentary\, and Audience Favorite \nEntry deadline: April 21\ncontact: bshep@mit.edu \nSubmit your entry and check out past winners. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/2014-media-spectacle/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Media-Spectacle.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR