Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Date: Friday September 21, 2007
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Bartos Theater (Building E15)
8:00-8:30 AM - Breakfast
8:30-8:45 AM - Welcome: Subra Suresh, Dean of Engineering, MIT Team Leader for SMART & Prof MSE
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Opening: Adi Godrej, Chairman Godrej Group
8:45-9:50 AM: Session I - “Energy and India: Looking into the Future”
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Speakers:
Ernest Moniz (Cecil & Ida Green Prof Physics / Co-Dir LFEE)
Charles Cooney (Professor of Chemistry & Biochemical Engineering)
Kirit Parikh (Head of Energy and Planning Commission)
Gregory Stephanopoulos (Arthur D Little Professor of Chemical Engineering)
Moderator: Robert Armstrong (Assoc Dir MIT Energy Initiative/Chevron Prof ChemE)
9:55-10:55 AM: Session II - “Competitiveness in Indian Industry: New Challenges and Directions”
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Speakers:
Steve Eppinger (Deputy Dean/Professor, Sloan School of Management)
Yasheng Huang (Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management)
Shekhar Chowdhury (Director IIM, Kolkata)
Moderator: S P Kothari (Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting, Sloan School of Management)
11:00-12:00 PM: Session III - “The Meaning of Cultural Exchange: Theater and the Other Arts”
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Speakers:
Alan Brody (Professor of Theater Arts),
Michael Ouellette (Senior Lecturer, Music and Theater Arts)
Sameera Iyengar (Creative Director, Prithvi Theater)
Moderator: Deborah Fitzgerald (Kenan Sahin Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
12:00-1:00 PM - Lunch
1:00-2:00 PM: Session IV - “Microfinance, Primary Education and Health: Understanding Poverty”
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Speakers:
Esther Duflo (Abdul Latif Jameel Prof of Poverty Allev & Develop, Department of Economics)
Antoinette Schoar (Maurice F Strong Fund Career Dev, Assoc. Professor, Sloan School of Mangement)
Nachiket Mor (Deputy Managing Director, ICICI Bank)
Moderator: Abhijit Banerjee (Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics)
2:10-3:30 PM: Session V - “Hidden Successes: The Role of Design and Urban Planning in India”
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Speakers:
Adele Naude Santos (Dean, School of Architecture & Planning & Prof of Architecture)
Rahul Malhotra, Ramesh Ramanathan (Director, Janaagraha)
Arindam Dutta (Associate Professor of Architecture)
Balakrishna Rajagopal (Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning)
Modertor: Bish Sanyal (Professor of Urban Planning, Dir SPURS/HHH)
3:10-3:20 PM - Coffee Break
3:20-4:20 PM: Session VI - “Empowerment of Teachers: Effective Impact and Outreach”
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Speakers:
George Verghese (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Vijay Kuma (Director, OEIT & Sr Associate Dean)
Sanjay Dhande (Director, IIT Kanpur)
Moderator: Arvind (Charles W & Jennifer C Johnson Professor in CS Eng)
4:20-5:00 PM - Closing Remarks: Desh Deshpande (CEO, Sycamore Networks)
For more information, contact KC Cortinovis at 617-253-4771 or kccort@mit.edu.
Sponsored by the MIT-India Program, the Office of the Provost, and Foreign Languages & Literatures
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New Media & Live Arts vs. Old Paradigms of Government Funding:
Politics of Culture in Today's France and Elsewhere in Europe
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Emmanuel Wallon, Prof. of Political Sociology (University of Paris-X [Nanterre])
The seminar series is aimed at faculty, grad students, and high level undergrads with an interest in the intersections of culture and economy, with particular attention to methods for doing research on cultural production. Please feel free to invite friends, students, and colleagues.
Reading material related to Prof. Wallon's talk is available at the Foreign Languages and Literatures headquarters, room 14N-305. More information on ICC and Prof. Wallon is below.
WHAT IS ICC? The International Cultural Capital study group was launched last year, under the auspices of Foreign Languages and Literatures, to provide a forum for faculty and graduate students from various MIT programs and departments to rethink the relationship between “cultural production” and “economic production” from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives. The overarching notion is that that new humanities needs to pay greater attention to the processes by which culture is produced, whether we are talking about brand culture, city culture, digital culture, performance culture, or national culture.
PROF. EMMANUEL WALLON is professor of political sociology at the University of Paris-X (Nanterre). Emmanuel is a well-known specialist in the modern history of French and European cultural politics, especially with respect to the performing arts (theater, music, circus, etc.) He will initiate our discussion by presenting some thoughts on how new media technologies are affecting old paradigms of government funding for the live arts in France and Europe, and on the likely impact of the Sarkozy presidency on these matters in France.
Though Emmanuel will of course be speaking in English, virtually all of his publications are in French. If you read French, you can pick up at Foreign Languages and Literatures headquarters (14N-305) a copy of an article he recently wrote for the journal Esprit. In addition (and for non-French readers), Emmanuel suggests that excerpts from David Looseley’s The Politics of Fun: Cultural Policy and Debate in Contemporary France (Oxford: Berg, 1995) make for good historical background reading. Edward has made available (from FLL headquarters, 14N-305) photocopies of Looseley’s “Introduction” and Chapter 6 (“Beyond High Culture: Pluralism and le tout-culturel.)
Contacts: FLL (kccort@mit.edu), Prof. Edward Turk (ebturk@mit.edu) and Prof. Ian Condry (condry@mit.edu).
Date: Friday September 28, 2007Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Location: 14E-304
As a celebration of the ten-year anniversary of Cultura, this Conference (organized by its original creators, Gilberte Furstenberg, Sabine Levet, and Shoggy Waryn)
is bringing together colleagues from all over the world: some who have already adopted Cultura and adapted it to their own institution and language, and others who have simply followed the project closely and are interested in developing one of their own. During this event - which will provide a blend of presentations and discussions - colleagues who are already involved in a Cultura project will have an opportunity to share their respective experiences and learn from one another, while those who are simply interested will be able to develop an in-depth understanding of the issues involved in designing and setting up such an on-line collaborative project.
Date: Friday October 12 - Saturday October 13, 2007
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 4-249
Program
2:15-2:20 PM - Welcome: Jing Wang, Head of the Foreign Languages and Literatures at M.I.T.
2:20-2:45 PM - Introduction of the Conference (goals and program) and of the participants, by Gilberte Furstenberg.
2:45-3:05 PM - Opening remarks by Peter Patrikis, former Executive Director of the Consortium for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning.
3:05-3:45 PM: Presentation of the original Cultura model: highlighting its history, its methodology and its newest features.
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Presenters:
Gilberte Furstenberg
Sabine Levet
Shoggy Waryn
Chair: Peter Patrikis
3:45-4:00 PM - Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 PM: Presentation of two Cultura projects at other institutions and in other languages: issues of adaptation and new pedagogical and technological initiatives.
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For the Spanish and Russian exchanges at Brown University: Beth Bauer, Lynne deBenedette, Shoggy Waryn
For the Spanish exchange at Barnard College: Jim Crapotta, Jesus Suarez Garcia.
Chair: Shoggy Waryn
5:00-5:30 PM - Informal sharing of past and current Cultura or Cultura-like projects
- Chair: Shoggy Waryn
5:30-6:00 PM - Group discussions: identifying the main issues for implementing Cultura. Questions raised (these questions will be discussed throughout the next day)
- Chair:Gilberte Furstenberg
6:15-7:30 PM - Wine and cheese reception (14E-304)
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Note: The Tech Fair will take place in the LLARC (Language Learning and Resource Center) Rm 16-644
9:00-10:30 AM: Tech Fair (ten Cultura and Cultura-inspired projects) (16-644)
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USA-Spain Cultura, by Jim Crapotta and Jesus Suarez Garcia, Barnard College
USA-France: “Cultura-Biz” (for business courses), by Anne Poncet-Montange, Bentley College
USA-Mexico Cultura, by Beth Bauer, Brown University
USA-Russia Cultura, by Lynne deBenedette, Brown University
USA-Spain exchange by Frédérique Thiebault-Adjout, The Commonwealth School, Boston
USA-Italy exchange: “The Italian Virtual Class project”, by Christine Ristaino, Emory University
Germany-France exchange, by Christophe Bouyssi, University of Hanover, Germany
Europe-Asia exchange: “The East-West Café”, by David Hiple, The University of Hawaii
USA-Taiwan exchange: “The Online Communication for Reflective Intercultural Learning Project”, by Susan Bunn, Sam Houston State University and Meei-Ling Liaw, National Taichung University, Taiwan
“Captivating Job Aids: Training Cultura Newbies”, Evan Rubin, San Diego State University (LARC)
Note: all the following sessions will take place in Rm 4-249
10:45 - 11:15 AM - Question and answer period based on the Tech Fair presentations
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Panelists:
The Tech Fair Presenters
Chair: Shoggy Waryn
11:15 - 11:30 AM - Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Spotlight on tools:
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Demonstration of the new Cultura questionnaire tool by Sabine Levet
Presentation of other tools, followed by discussion. Panelists: Shoggy Waryn and others
Chair: Gilberte Furstenberg
1:00 - 2:00 PM - Lunch (Outside Rm 4-249)
2:00 - 3:30 PM - Panel discussions: focus on important issues
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Presenters:
The integration of Cultura into a curriculum: what level? what audience? Beth Bauer, Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Jim Crapotta, Anastasia Polosukhina
The role of partners: Kathryn English, Frédérique Thiebault-Adjout.
The use of the native vs the target language: what language to use for what purpose? Kathryn English, Gilberte Furstenberg
Issues and modes of evaluation: Christophe Bouyssi, Sabine Levet
Research perspectives: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Kathryn English, Meei-Ling Liaw
Chair: Jim Crapotta and Beth Bauer
3:30 - 3:45 PM - Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:15 PM: The Cultura Community Site: demonstration and feedback
- Presenters:
Gilberte Furstenberg
Sabine Levet
Chair: Shoggy Waryn
4:15 - 5:00 PM: Looking back on the Conference (= what has been accomplished?) and looking ahead (= the future of Cultura)
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Panelists:
Peter Patrikis
Gilberte Furstenberg
Sabine Levet
Shoggy Waryn
Sponsored by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, MIT Foreign Languages & Literatures, and the MIT Contemporary French Studies Fund.
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Culture vs. Capital:
Punk rock vs. corporate cultural sponsorship (and other tales from the dark side)
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Jay Scheib, Associate Professor (Music and Theater Arts, MIT)
As part of our aim of developing an interdisciplinary dialogue about the interections of culture and capital, Prof. Scheib will discuss the challenges of working with corporate sponsors to produce his (and other) theatrical works. Examples include a recent punk rock theatrical production that attracted the interest of a leading brand of rum. What are acceptable sponsor demands? How are we to think about the meaning of art in relation to corporate sponsorship? How does public and private sponsorship shape curatorial decisions in the performing arts? What constitutes a "sell-out," and why? Please come with ideas about these issue related to your own research.
Jay Scheib is Associate Professor of Music and Theater Arts at MIT, and an internationally renowned theater director, playwright, and multimedia artist. His works have been performed from Cambridge to Budapest.
WHAT IS ICC? The International Cultural Capital study group was launched last year, under the auspices of Foreign Languages and Literatures, to provide a forum for faculty and graduate students from various MIT programs and departments to rethink the relationship between “cultural production” and “economic production” from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives. The overarching notion is that that new humanities needs to pay greater attention to the processes by which culture is produced, whether we are talking about brand culture, city culture, digital culture, performance culture, or national culture.
The seminar series is aimed at faculty, grad students, and high level undergrads with an interest in the intersections of culture and economy, with particular attention to methods for doing research on cultural production. Please invite friends, students, and colleagues whom you think might be interested.
Contacts: FLL (kccort@mit.edu), Prof. Edward Turk (ebturk@mit.edu) and Prof. Ian Condry (condry@mit.edu).
Date: Thursday November 8, 2007Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Location: 14E-304
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Free and Open to the public!
Sponsored by MIT Foreign Languages & Literature, MIT Music and Theater Arts, MIT Japan Program, Slippage: Performance, Culture, Technology, The Cool Japan Research Project, and the De Florez Fund for Humor
Date: Thursday November 29, 2007 - Saturday December 1, 2007
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Kresge Little Theater
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On selected Monday from October 1st through December 10th a different Cuban film will be screened. All screenings are free and open to the public.
The schedule is as follows:
Date |
Title |
October 1, 2007 |
Las doce sillas (1962) |
October 15, 2007 |
La muerte de un burócrata (1966) |
October 22, 2007 |
Lucía (1968) |
October 29, 2007 |
Memorias del subdesarrollo (1968) |
November 5, 2007 |
La última cena (1976) |
November 19, 2007 |
Hasta cierto punto (1983) |
November 26, 2007 |
Plaff, o demasiado miedo a la vida (1988) |
December 3, 2007 |
Alicia en el pueblo de Maravillas (1991) |
December 10, 2007 |
Suite Habana (2003) |
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: 54-100
Reforming French Higher Education
A presentation in English followed by a Question & Answer session in French with translation.
Date: Tuesday February 5, 2008Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: 54-100
Sponsored by the MIT Contemporary French Studies Fund and the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
"Anime Fans and Information Capital"
Professor Thomas Lamarre (McGill University)
BIO: Thomas LAMARRE teaches in East Asian Studies and Art History & Communications Studies at McGill University. His books include Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics (2005), Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (2000) and Difference in Motion: How Anime Thinks Technology (forthcoming).
THE PLAN: For this workshop, Professor Lamarre will briefly introduce his project on anime and technology (anime refers to Japanese animated films and TV series). We will then discuss a draft of his paper on the "Otaku Movement" (otaku are obsessive fans of popular culture, especially anime, manga, and video games). The paper is available for download at the following location: http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/news/images/Otaku Movement.pdf
Participants are encouraged to consider how the issues raised relate to their own research and interests. Our goal is to develop an interdisciplinary and cross-area dialogue, not simply to speak back-and-forth with questions to the presenter.
The seminar series is aimed at faculty, grad students, and high level undergrads with an interest in the intersections of culture and economy. Please invite friends, students, and colleagues whom you think might be interested.
WHAT IS ICC? The International Cultural Capital study group was launched last year, under the auspices of Foreign Languages and Literatures, to provide a forum for faculty and graduate students from various MIT programs and departments to rethink the relationship between “cultural production” and “economic production” from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives. The overarching notion is that that new humanities needs to pay greater attention to the processes by which culture is produced, whether we are talking about brand culture, city culture, digital culture, performance culture, or national culture.
ICC is a Foreign Languages & Literatures initiative started by Prof. Jing Wang and is co-organized by Prof. Edward Turk (ebturk@mit.edu) and Prof. Ian Condry (condry@mit.edu). Please RSVP to FLL Kristen Ferry (kferry@MIT.EDU)
Date: Friday February 15, 2008Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-310
Sponsored by the MIT Contemporary French Studies Fund and the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Interpreter of Maladies
Free and open to the public - no tickets or reservations required.
For information call 617-253-7894
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 32-123
Sponsored by the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, the Literature Section and Foreign Languages & Literatures
A film screening, in French and German (with English subtitles), of Raphaël O’Byrne’s Ce dont on ne peut parler, c’est cela qu’il faut dire (What Cannot Be Spoken Is What Must Be Said, 2002, 60 min.). This documentary on Valère Novarina’s approach to performance, language, and the visual arts features footage of rehearsals for his play L’origine rouge with actors Laurence Mayor, Dominique Pinon, and Daniel Znyk; and Novarina’s conversations and travels with European artists and intellectuals, including the Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer and the French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain.
Valère Novarina will introduce the film and engage, along with Dominique Pinon, in a Q&A with the audience immediately following.
Free and open to the public.
Date: Monday March 17, 2008Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 32-155
Sponsored by the MIT Contemporary French Studies Fund and MIT’s Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, in cooperation with the French Cultural Services of Boston.
A bilingual (French and English) program of staged readings of excerpts from Novarina’s theater pieces, featuring the French actor Dominique Pinon and Valère Novarina himself, and a full performance by the American actor Hilario Saavedra of Novarina’s Adramelech’s Monologue (English translation by the poet Guy Bennett).
Free and open to the public.
Date: Tuesday March 18, 2008Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Killian Hall (14W-111)
Sponsored by the MIT Contemporary French Studies Fund and MIT’s Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, in cooperation with the French Cultural Services of Boston.
A Presentation followed by questions and open conversation with author Giles Tremlett.
Author and journalist Giles Tremlett—The Guardian correspondent in Spain for over twenty years and frequent contributor to The Economist—talks about Spain's difficulties in coming to terms with its tragic past, especially the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
Date: Tuesday April 1, 2008Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 66-110
Sponsored by MIT Foreign Languages & Literatures and the Consul General of Spain in Boston.
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 32-123 (Stata Center)
"Música paralela, informal markets and other circulation strategies as Music 1.0 slumps"
Professor George Yúdice
George Yúdice - Currently visiting at THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FOR 2007-08
Professor, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Professor, American Studies; Spanish & Portuguese
New York University
Author of Nuevas tecnologías, música y experiencia (Barcelona: Gedisa, 2008), The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in The Global Era (Duke Univ. Press, 2003), Cultural Policy, co-authored with Toby Miller (London: Sage Press, 2002), On-Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture, co-edited with Jean Franco and Juan Flores (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1992), etc. Has published articles on the cultural industry, globalization, and contemporary Latin American culture in numerous edited volumes and journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, Polygraph, Social Text, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Latin American Perspectives.
READINGS for background information and context are available here: http://web.mit.edu/condry/Public/icc/
WHAT IS ICC? The International Cultural Capital study group was launched last year, under the auspices of Foreign Languages and Literatures, to provide a forum for faculty and graduate students from various MIT programs and departments to rethink the relationship between “cultural production” and “economic production” from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives. The overarching notion is that that new humanities needs to pay greater attention to the processes by which culture is produced, whether we are talking about brand culture, city culture, digital culture, performance culture, or national culture.
ICC is a Foreign Languages & Literatures initiative started by Prof. Jing Wang and is co-organized by Prof. Edward Turk (ebturk@mit.edu) and Prof. Ian Condry (condry@mit.edu). Please RSVP to FLL Kristen Ferry (kferry@MIT.EDU)
Date: Thursday April 17, 2008Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: 14E-304
Sponsored by MIT Foreign Languages & Literatures.
