Book Discussion - "Moscow Stories" Led by Author/MIT Professor Loren Graham
Dorothy A. Mark, Beth Ingram
Wed Jan 17, 11:30am-01:00pm, 10-300
Signup by: 12-Jan-2007
Limited to 24 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Read the book!
The MIT Women's League Book Group would like to invite anyone at the Institute to come and hear some interesting stories by Professor Graham. He has been in and out of Moscow many times and has wonderful stories to tell.
Contact: Dorothy A. Mark, Sidney/Pacific, 253-0378, dotmark@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Womens League
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Foundations of Western Culture (II): The Making of the Modern World.
Mary Fuller
Fri Feb 2, 12-01:00pm, 14N-417
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Foundations of Western Culture (II): The Making of the Modern World.
Find out about a small HASS-D/CI-H class offered this spring (category 2: Language, Thought and Value). Meet the instructor, have milk and cookies, and check out a show-and-tell object from the year following Columbus' arrival in the Americas. Syllabus available at:
http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/21L/sp07/21L.002/index.html
Web: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/21L/sp07/21L.002/index.html
Contact: Mary Fuller, 14N-414, x3-8848, mcfuller@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
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Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
Mon-Fri, Jan 8-12, 16-19, 22-26, 29-2, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Reading and discussion of memorable poems led by Literature Section faculty and other MIT colleagues.
A packet containing all of the poems in the series is available from the Literature Office, 14N-407.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/
Contact: Julie Saunders, 14N-407, x8-8049, juliec@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
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The 17th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Mon Jan 29, 07-10:00pm, 4-237
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Held in 4-237.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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