Video Release: Friday, April 2, 2021 / 9:00am EST

Live Q&A: Monday, April 5, 2021 / 5:00–6:00pm EST Livestreamed Q&A

How do tools in computation shape the models that scientists, artists, and engineers make of the world and universe?

Part of “Unfolding Intelligence: The Art and Science of Contemporary Computation” -  third in a series of MIT CAST symposia that bring together artists, scientists, engineers, and humanists from a variety of disciplines to address topics of common concern in areas of rapidly evolving research and urgent social relevance.

Register to participate in the Symposium

ACMS Virtual Panel Series: “Twentieth-Century Mongolia”

Title: Twentieth-Century Mongolia (Register here)

The March Virtual Speaker Series panel will focus on the twentieth century Mongolia. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Marissa Smith, and have three speakers presenting on the following topics:

• “Science in Socialist Mongolia: An Introduction” by Dr. Morris Rossabi (Columbia University)
• “Why Revolution Did Not End: International Relations and the Mongolian Women” by Dr. Manduhai Buyandelger (MIT)
• “The Soviet Hero in Post-War Mongolian Literature” by Dr. Simon Wickhamsmith (Rutgers University)

Tackling legacies of Europe’s colonial past in the wake of Black Lives Matter

The Justice Now? symposium gathers scholars, activists, and policymakers from Europe, North America, and Africa to examine current movements for justice for the impacts of Europe’s colonial past in Africa in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. Through virtual panels and roundtable discussions over the course of five days, speakers in areas such as transitional justice, racial justice, museum, legal, colonial and decolonial studies will discuss experiences and share strategies in the development of anti-racist and decolonial movements in and across their respective contexts. The symposium is convened by M. Amah Edoh and the Anthropology department at MIT in collaboration with international human rights NGO Avocats Sans Frontières and the European Network Against Racism.

Attendance is free, but registration and respect of rules of conduct are required.

Please direct inquiries to conveners at justicenowsymposium@gmail.com.

Please join the Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana University for the keynote address of the 27th Annual ACES Conference, "Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?" given by Dr. Manduhai Buyandelger, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Amy Moran-Thomas on Covid-19 as post-truth disease. 

Harvard Friday Morning Seminar. 

Details and registration here. (advance registration required).

Please note: This event requires a password to attend. Please email Sadeq Rahimi (sadeq_rahimi@hms.harvard.edu) to receive the meeting password.

What are some unexplored ways that online environments can help us rethink “the archive”? How might i-doc storytelling tools expand what an archive can be as well as public engagement with history itself?
 

Manduhai Buyandelger on "Trading History for Sheep: Memory, Migration, and Buryat-Mongol Identities through Shamanic Practices." talk sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies at UPenn.

More details TBA.

Access the recording of this event here

Join MIT Anthropology for a virtual lecture and discussion

Co-sponsored by MIT History and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)

Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

Discussants:
David McGee (EAPS)
Manduhai Buyandelger (Anthropology)

Register at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrfu6pqj8oHtHdPMmio4XjleD_y4y4Hk_d to receive Zoom meeting room invitation + password

A conversation with Celia Lowe and Heather Paxson

Centre for Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London

Full details and registration available here

Join Amy Moran-Thomas and LACIS for their Lunchtime Lecture Series: she will present research from her book, Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic which ethnographically explores issues of “planetary health” and debility.

Registration is encouraged, full details at https://lacis.wisc.edu/event/lacis-spring-lecture-series-2020-03-24

The concept of microbiopolitics means to call attention to how the governance of human social life may take microbial life into account.

In this talk, Heather Paxson will provide an overview of the microbiopolitical terms of debate in the United States over safe means of food production (taking as her case study raw-milk cheese), juxtaposing this with a different set of (micro)biopolitics at stake in the metabolic regulation of the national food supply through food import restrictions. Registration required, more info at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29360

Amy Moran-Thomas on REPAIR WORK: What Diabetic Limb Salvage Reveals about an Overlooked Epidemic

Part of the Global Health Colloquium Series Hosted by Princeton University's Global Health Program at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Register here

Héctor Beltrán will be giving a talk on October 23rd from 11:30am - 12:45pm on "Code Work: Thinking with the System in México” as part of Charles Babbage Institute's "Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT" Symposium taking place Oct. 23 - 24.

The symposium is free - registration is required. Register here: https://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/home.

The Programs in Anthropology, History, and Science, Technology and Society is hosting the 2nd event in their colloquium series, Democracy, Citizenship, and Technology.  Please join us for a panel discussion on "Elections and Technology".

Professor Heather Paxson will moderate "The City Talks: Family Lineage" at the Museum of Fine Arts on February 28th from 7:00-8:00 pm. The "City Talks" is a series of public forums to discuss themes in their current exhibitions that relate to the cultural, political, and social life of the City of Boston.

The Anthropology Department will be sponsoring a screening of the award-winning documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, on the evening of September 12th in Building 26, Room 100.  Admission is free.

Join us for a moving, intimate portrait of a Rust Belt family struggling to come to terms with a changing America... What happens when industry leaves a community? Does moving up mean moving out for the next generation?

French filmmaker and anthropologist, Emmanuel Grimaud, will be presenting his latest film, Ganesh Yourself, about a "wild-tech" robot with an elephant head, designed in the image of the Hindu god Ganesh, walking through the streets of Mumbai. Discussion by Michael M.J. Fischer and reception to follow.

Challenge your views of the world around you with video screenings from MIT's DV Lab. See what happens when documentary film production takes on a social scientific outlook. Join us for a series of short films by MIT students that offer an innovative, intimate look at the worlds of science and technology both at MIT and beyond. Filmmakers will be available for a Q&A after the screenings. Hosted by Professor Christine Walley and Chris Boebel.

Learn about artisanal cheesemaking in America. Heather Paxson, MIT anthropology professor and author of The Life of Cheese, will lead a discussion about the practical and legal challenges of artisanal cheese production, from farm to market. Share your thoughts on consumer choice, public health, and government regulation as they relate to this unique, tasty, and living food.