"Translation" in Transmediation: Exploring the Metaphor
Ksenia Prassolova
Mon Jan 22, 01-03:00pm
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Single session event
Transferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation, the latter being used as a synonym to "transmediation". During the two-hour class we will concentrate on further exploring this metaphor; by looking at the key translation techniques we will try to understand how to better tell our stories across media. Held in 1-132.
Contact: Ksenia Prassolova, 14N-207, x3-3599, mimoletnoe@gmail.com
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Large Number Duel
Prof. Agustin Rayo, Adam Elga
Fri Jan 26, 03-05:00pm, 32-D461
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
Two philosophers attempt to top each other in a battle over who can write down the largest finite number. In the course of introducing increasingly powerful notations for large numbers, the duelists will give lightning fast introductions to formal logic, computability theory, and the theory of ordinals. An attempt will be made to set a Guiness record for "Largest finite number ever written on an ordinary-sized chalk board". If this attempt succeeds, all participants will during the lecture name a number greater than any number previously named by a human being.
Web: http://mit.edu/philos/www/poster.pdf
Contact: Agustin Rayo, 32-D932, 253-2559, arayo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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MITing of the Minds 2007
3rd Annual MIT Philosophy Alumni Conference
Agustin Rayo
Sat Jan 27, Sun Jan 28, 10am-07:00pm, 32-D461
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
The MITing of the Minds is the 3rd Annual MIT Philosophy Alumni Conference. The conference aims to showcase recent work in a variety areas of contemporary philosophy, accessible to a broad audience. Presentations will cover topics in metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics. Each day will feature one talk by an MIT faculty member, one by a current graduate student, and one or two talks by alumni of the MIT philosophy graduate program.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/mm/
Contact: Agustin Rayo, 32-D932, 253-2559, arayo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Linguistics and Philosophy
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Seminar on Learning
Evangelos Antzoulatos
Wed Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 03-05:00pm, 46-6285
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2006
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
A literature-based discussion of Learning (and Memory). Major issues pertaining to the field of learning, classic studies, diversity of learned behaviors, and diversity of scientific paradigms that are employed to investigate learning.
Contact: Evangelos Antzoulatos, 46-6241, x4-0132, vangelis@mit.edu
Sponsor: Evangelos Antzoulatos, 46-6241, 617 324-0132, vangelis@mit.edu
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