A Reading with Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
This reading, part of MIT’s William Corbett Poetry Series, welcomes former U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze back to the campus where he began h...
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Featuring a wide assortment of interviews and event archives, the MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing podcast features the best of our field's critical analysis, collaborative research, an...
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"Pomegranate" reading and discussion, with the book's author Helen Elaine Lee
The acclaimed author of "The Serpent’s Gift", Helen Elaine Lee, returns with this poetic and powerful journey of healing and autonomy. About...
Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”
How and why, in the latter half of the twentieth century, did informatic theories of “code” developed around cybernetics and information the...
Francesca Bolla Tripodi, “The Propagandists’ Playbook”
The Propagandists’ Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy peels back the layers of the right-wing media...
Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction”
An exploration into the underlying fundamental functions, structures, and principles of rap. Open to the public, the talk was hosted at MIT...
The Whole World Is Watching How 1968 Helps Us Frame The Present
Professor Heather Hendershot's opening plenary from the "Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice" conference, with initial remarks by Dean Agustín...
The Long & Ambiguous (pre)history Of Audiovisual In The Black Experience
Full title: “Between freedom & oppression: The long & ambiguous (pre)history of audiovisual in the Black experience” Featuring Chakanetsa Ma...
The Forensic Citizen Learning From The Past, Preparing For The Future
William Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the MIT Open Document...
Resilient Witnessing In The Face Of Human Rights Abuses, Distrust, And Deepfakes
Sam Gregory is Director of Programs, Strategy & Innovation at WITNESS, which helps people use video and technology to protect human rights;...
Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - Mediation
Kelli Moore is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who examines how media and technology prod...
Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, “Seeing Silicon Valley”
Video also available at https://cms.mit.edu/video-seeing-silicon-valley-mary-beth-meehan-fred-turner. Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meeha...
Charles North - The William Corbett Poetry Series 01
Charles North has published twelve books of poems, three books of critical prose, and collaborations with artists and other poets. With Jame...
Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech
In her 2021 book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech, our guest Martha Minow “ou...
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker Goes to Washington"
This talk reconsiders the role of television entertainment in American political life in the 1970s and beyond. Focusing on the situation com...
Jens Pohlmann, "Platform Regulation and the Digital Public Sphere"
In this talk, Jens Pohlmann compares the discourse about the regulation of social media platforms and its effect on freedom of expression in...
“Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”, Six Muslim Women in STEM
These six poets met as undergrads at MIT, brought together by the many things they shared: the challenges of being women in STEM, their life...
Racquel Gates, “Reintroducing Melvin Van Peebles”
In this talk, Racquel Gates presents her experience working as consulting producer on the Criterion release of Melvin Van Peebles: Essential...
Katherine Jewell, "Party City: WMBR, Institutional Change, and Democratic Media"
College radio has long been known as the weird, wacky signals on the left of the FM dial offering music that would never be mainstream. But...
David Thorburn: William Corbett Poetry Series
David Thorburn has been a teacher of literature for 57 years, 46 of them at MIT where he is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media an...
Jorge Caraballo, “How to Use Audio Storytelling to Cultivate a Community and Keep it Engaged”
Podcasts are in a golden age and are being used to effectively communicate new ideas, tell compelling stories, and build highly participativ...