Posted February 2, 2023
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Posted December 13, 2022
MIT News Q&A: Pouya Alimagham on the protest movement in Iran
Women and girls are at the forefront of the uprising, which is rooted in Iranians’ long struggle for freedom, notes the MIT historian.
Posted December 8, 2022
Ballet des Porcelaines
A contemporary reinterpretation of an 18th century ballet at MIT reveals the fragility of orientalist fantasies
Posted November 10, 2022
Honoring the scholarship of historian Harriet Ritvo
by Taylor Michael Bailey
Posted September 26, 2022
MIT History Professor shares expertise as advisor to new PBS Documentary Series with Ken Burns.
Professor Craig S. Wilder has been sharing his expertise as an advisor to the new PBS documentary series, that will air on PBS stations Sunday evening, September 18th.
Posted September 14, 2022
Ballet des Porcelaines at MIT. September 27 & 28
This FREE MIT EVENT is co-sponsored by the Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), MIT History Section, MIT Global Languages, and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS)
Posted September 8, 2022
Posted August 8, 2022
Posted August 2, 2022
ADVANCED DEGREE CEREMONY | MIT SHASS Address | Marc Aidinoff PhD’22 (HASTS)
Aidinoff's address included a call to action: "Please stand up for the ability to pursue a research question for its own sake. Protect the privilege to wonder!"
Posted June 16, 2022
Posted June 13, 2022
Historian Catherine E. Clark to head MIT Digital Humanities Program
Clark, Associate Professor of History and French Studies, will serve as Director of MIT Digital Humanities starting 1 June, 2022. She is a cultural historian of modern Europe, whose research is concerned with how the visual produces knowledge. As Director of MIT Digital Humanities, she follows Stephanie Frampton, Associate Professor of Classical Literature, who we thank for superb leadership of the program over the past two years.
Posted May 24, 2022
Historian Lerna Ekmekçioğlu to head Womens & Gender Studies
Ekmekçioğlu, the McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History and winner of the 2016 Levitan Teaching Award, will succeed Helen Elaine Lee, Professor of Writing, whose many contributions to MIT and MIT-WGS include co-founding the My Sister's Keeper Program. Warmest thanks Helen! Congratulations Lerna!
Posted May 24, 2022
Native mascots do not bring honor to Native Americans | David Shane Lowry
“The primary goal…is to humanize American Indian people,” said Lowry, a member of the Lumbee Tribe and a distinguished fellow in Native American studies at MIT.
Posted May 24, 2022
In an abnormal atmosphere, ‘normal’ radioactivity at Chernobyl | Kate Brown
Brown, the Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science at MIT, said containment buildings at nuclear plants have not been stress-tested for heavy artillery, “certainly not for the bombs the Russians have been deploying.”
Posted May 24, 2022
Russia: What is Victory Day, and why is it important? | Elizabeth Wood
“It’s hard to do a general conscription: I think that that’s when Russians would come out and protest,” said Wood, professor of history at MIT.
Posted May 24, 2022
Harriet Ritvo Symposium
April 29 & 30, 2022
Posted April 27, 2022
History Lab | 21H.S04
History class led by Associate Professor Sana Aiyar delves into South Asian experience at MIT via oral histories and the Institute Archives/Distinctive Collections
Posted April 14, 2022
Q&A: Elizabeth Wood on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
MIT historian analyzes the uncertain dynamics of a global crisis.
Posted March 4, 2022
Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico by Tanalís Padilla
This new book by Professor Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing how they became sites of radical politics.
Posted January 18, 2022
