MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Women are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows, fictions, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve. Political consultant Mary Anne Marsh and children/teens book author Ellen Emerson White look at the connections (if any) we can draw between representation and reality.
Come join us for snacks, ask questions, and learn about the CMS Master's Program. Slots are limited. Register now at Eventbrite! This program will be livestreamed, with a moderated chat room at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cEyEXhb4ryX.
On the heels of the day's graduate program information session, join us for our annual colloquium featuring five alumni of CMS, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
Vivek Bald discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom, Detroit.
