AMS Colloquium Presents: The Challenges and Dangers of Genetic History
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium ’21 “The Challenges and Dangers of Genetic History” Presented by Patrick Geary, Professor of Medieval History Emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study...
View ArticleRAK: Random Act of Kindness with Lit@MIT!
We know you’re all busy on Zoom, so here are some literary backgrounds to brighten up your day! *Lit@MIT/The Literature Section does claim any copywriting, licensing, or ownership of these...
View ArticleMCM Graduate Speaker Series presents Professor Eugenie Brinkema, “The...
On March 5th, 2021 at 12:00 to 1:15 EST, Eugenie gave a public talk, “The Violence of Fascination: on Martyrs, Metaphysics, and Form,” followed by open discussion. Professor Brinkema’s lecture...
View ArticleRuth Perry & Mary Astell: pioneering feminist’s library unearthed at...
The librarian at the Old Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Catherine Sutherland, in searching for the provence of some of the old books held there, saw that a number of...
View ArticleLit Workshop presents: Michael Lutz: “Hamlet and Huizinga”& Ken Alba: “A...
TITLE: Hamlet and Huizinga: Race in Play from Early Modern Theater to Contemporary Game Studies PRESENTED BY: Michael Lutz Literature Section Lecturer, Research Specialist at MIT March 10th, 2021 @...
View ArticleProf Marah Gubar moderates “Wild Visionary: A Book Launch and Conversation on...
April 01, 2021 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST @ Tulane University A conversation on the life and work of Maurice Sendak, with a special focus on Dr. Golan Moskowitz’s (Tulane) recently published book Wild...
View ArticleProfessor Eugenie Brinkema will be speaking to The Media Studies Interest...
The Media Studies Interest Group “The Violence of a Fascination with a Visible Form (on Martyrs, Cruelty, Horror, Ethics) [on and vs. with vs. as]” Presented By: University of Michigan’s Department...
View ArticleAtlas Obscura featured Lit@MIT alumnae, Casey Crownhart!
Behold Brine Shrimp, the Livestock of Utah’s Great Salt Lake The otherworldly stars of a thriving industry and endless curiosity could be at risk if the lake continues receding. WHEN...
View ArticleMIT Tech | Under the dome: “Real Madrid” with Prof Margery Resnick
by Margery Resnick, Published April 27, 2021 in the MIT Technology Review Usually, I spend the month of January teaching an IAP class on Spanish literature in my favorite city...
View ArticleProfessor Diana Henderson & Artistic Director Karin Coonrod present “Judith...
Professor Diana Henderson hosted theater maker and artistic director Karin Coonrod at MIT to develop text-based theatrical works. Henderson collaborated with Coonrod’s theater company Compagnia de’...
View ArticleMIT undergrad Vaishnavi Phadnis ‘22 wins the 2021 Carol Gay Award in Children...
MIT undergraduate student Vaishnavi Phadnis ‘22 has won the Carol Gay Award, a national prize given annually to the best essay written by an undergraduate on children’s literature. This honor...
View ArticleCelebrating Juneteenth with Professor Sandy Alexandre
In honor of Juneteenth, this issue of the OVC-CDEI newsletter will highlight resources and events related to this holiday. To start, we are pleased to share an essay by associate...
View ArticlePodcast: Ancient Libraries in Rome with Professor Stephanie Ann Frampton
Roman libraries began being built in the 1st century BCE and held a variety of Latin and Greek texts. CClassicist and co-chair of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Stephanie Frampton spoke...
View ArticleProf Eugenie Brinkema announces forthcoming book, “Life-Destroying Diagrams”
Set to be published in January 2022 with Duke University Press, Life-Destroying Diagrams brings the insights of Eugenie Brinkema’s radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical...
View ArticleHiring: Assistant Professor, 20th-century English-language fiction
The Literature Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in 20th-century English-language fiction,...
View ArticleHow to Teach Hakluyt’s Editing with Prof Mary Fuller
[Here is the first of American Friends of the Hakluyt Society’s “Working with Hakluyt” posts, on teaching Hakluyt as an editor, written by Dr. Mary Fuller of MIT.] What can we do with Principal...
View ArticleAMS presents, “Ancient Voices and Cultural (Meta-)Theory” with Lit & History...
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium ’21 Speaker Series: Ancient Voices and Cultural (Meta-)Theory Presented by Alexander Forte Literature & History Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of...
View ArticleIAP Madrid 2022
IAP 2022 Madrid 21L.590 THE SPANISH INCUBATOR with Professor Margery Resnick January 4th – January 21st INFO SESSION was Thursday, Nov. 4 @ 5:15 PM in 1-190 but you can still...
View ArticleWorlds Enough and Time: Towards a Comparative Global Humanities
Worlds Enough and Time: Towards a Comparative Global Humanities When: Friday, Nov 12, 2021 08:00 AM – 12:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)Saturday, Nov 13, 2021 08:00 AM – 11:00AM (EST)Program Schedule |...
View ArticleMIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative presents, “Boundary Conditions:...
A SYMPOSIUM ON VIRTUAL PRODUCTION FROM ANALOGUE IMAGINARIES TO THE DIGITAL PRESENT Once an analogue interplay between stop-motion, artful props, and post-production manipulation, cinematic imaginaries...
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