Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP: just show up with your friends! 

Join the MIT PKG Public Service Center and the MIT Women's League us as we wrap up IAP with a screening of Little Women (2019) where we keep the lights up and bring our crafting projects to work while we watch! Professor Heather Paxson will introduce our screening with remarks on women's crafting and work through history.

This event is free and open to the MIT Community. Please register to attend.

Popcorn will be provided!

What can we do at MIT to prepare our students to solve the challenges of their time? Every learner at MIT can impact the future of humankind and the planet—calling on us to embrace new approaches to an MIT education.

At the 2025 Festival of Learning, hear from MIT faculty, instructors, and recent students about what mens et manus looks like in the future of teaching and learning at MIT. Join a facilitated session to improve teaching and learning at the Institute. 

Transportation and logistics today are factored as part of (and not something that follows) the production of goods. 

Drawing on ongoing ethnographic research with cheese importers and exporters, this lecture follows the work of moving perishable foods into the United States as a job of navigating border regulation and employing cold chain technology to preserve perishable values: the edibility and palatability of fragile foods as well as the commodity value of goods. 

MIT Anthropology is grateful for the opportunity to co-sponsor the Indigenous Sciences Speaker Series talks with the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Sciences, CBIKS, at UMASS Amherst (Director: MIT Anthropology Professor Sonya Atalay)

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP; just show up and bring your friends!

Jesse Pirini (Māori), a Senior Lecturer at the Wellington School of Business and Government at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand and co-Editor for the edited volume Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks (in press), will be presenting Weaving Western and Indigenous Business Lenses: Self-Determination and Solutions for a Better Society. 

Abstract: Indigenous businesses and organizations are developing approaches to successful management and organization to support self-determination. Indigenous ways of knowing and doing also help address urgent societal challenges including sustainability, climate change, inclusion and innovation. In this presentation Jesse shares practical examples from Aotearoa, New Zealand of Indigenous perspectives braided with popular management thinking to support self-determination. Considering successes, challenges and discussing future pathways for research and practice. 

Join us for an event exploring the future of cheesemaking in the face of climate change, featuring speakers from Switzerland and New England.

As climate change reshapes agriculture and food production across the globe, what does the future hold for cheese? Will sustainable practices for traditional cheesemaking be compatible with our climate goals? Does the future lie with plant-based cheese? This event dives into how producers in Switzerland and New England are rethinking cheesemaking in the face of rapid climate and planetary shifts. Join cheesemakers, sellers, and fellow cheese enthusiasts to explore whether traditional and cutting-edge approaches to cheesemaking can co-exist on our warming planet.

In his book Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP; just show up and bring your friends!

Laura Anderson Barbata will discuss her projects Ocean Calling, 2017, and Ocean Blues, 2018 in greater detail. The Ocean Calling was presented in 2017 at the UN's First Ocean Conference in New York. The following year, in collaboration with artists from the Caribbean diaspora and Mexico, she presented Ocean Blues, a work in response to the effects of global warming on all forms of life that make the ocean their home.

SOUTHEAST: a city within a city A hands-on exploration of what it felt like to live in a neighborhood that once produced more steel than any other place in the world. The documentary brings together builders, soldiers, scholars, gangsters, musicians, and politicians from the Southeast Side’s past and present to explain what happened to neighborhoods full of life and different cultures after the jobs disappeared. 

Join us for an immersive experience that blends documentary film, live narration, and musical performances. Original music performed live by writer/director Steven Walsh and his grandfather Roger "Coco" Gomez (accompanied on guitar by Matt Goetz)! Friday Sept. 27th at 5:30 in MIT’s Bartos Theater, Building E15 basement off Ames St.

4 - 5:30pm @ The Nexus, 14S-130 in Hayden Library  

Please join SECASP Director Prof. Chris Walley and other co-collaborators as they discuss the project and screen segments of the site’s newly launched and final multimedia documentary. Wetlands to Waste explores the environmental history of the multiracial Calumet region and the rise of environmental activism led by Latina, white and black residents against industrial pollution and landfills. Funded in part with grants from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Donnelly Foundation. 

5:30 - 6:30pm, Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain)

 Reception on Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain).

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP; just show up and bring your friends!

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP, just show up and bring your friends!

Mexican anthropologist Aída Hernández, currently a Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, will join us to discuss her feminist activism-research in Mexico through the work of a creative writing project for imprisoned women she has helped lead. The event will feature a screening of a short film about the project: Semillas de Guamúchil (“Five women who discover creative writing in prison share their poetry now in their life at large”). We hope you can join us!

As a relatively new and evolving field within anthropology, multispecies ethnography challenges traditional human-centric perspectives by engaging with the complex web of relationships between humans and non-human entities, including plants, fungi, and animals.

This lecture reconstructs the process by which "Inca trepanation" became an accepted scientificfact, and the looting and trade in "Inca" and Andean ancestors and crania it relied upon to provide further museum "specimens" to prove or disprove Indigenous skill at this high-risk maneuver. Central to this process was the work of Andean collectors and Peruvian surgeons like the anthropologist Julio C. Tello, whose authority was sought but effaced by Americanist anthropologists in the United States.

Join directors Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones for a Q&A moderated by Prof. Gabriella Coleman (Harvard) co-sponsored by MIT Anthropology, MIT Philosophy, and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing