Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
Script as Image
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAAuthors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAVivek 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.
Vincent Brown: “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABy wrestling creatively and collectively with the difficult archival problems presented by social history of slavery, Harvard's Vincent Brown hopes to chart new pathways for pondering history’s most painful and vexing subjects.
Time Traveling with James Gleick
MIT Building 2, Room 190 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAInternational best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History, which delves into the evolution of time travel in literature and science and the thin line between pulp fiction and modern physics.
Vibranium Culture: Race, Gender, Technology, and History in Black Panther (#WakandaUniversity)
MIT Black Students' Union Lounge (Building 50, Room 105) 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAA discussion of Black Panther at the MIT Black Students' Union Lounge, co-organized by Annis Rachel Sands (CMS master's student) and Ángel R. Rodríguez (Harvard University Ph.D. candidate).
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