18th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Mon Jan 21, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
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.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, NE25-385, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Book Discussion: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Mark Szarko
Thu Jan 24, 11am-12:00pm, 14N-417
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Prereq: Reading the novel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Associate Professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies Junot Díaz, has been included on several year-end “best of” lists for fiction published in 2007. Join us for a discussion of the book that has literary circles buzzing. The first 8 registrants will receive a free copy of the novel.
Contact: Mark Szarko, 14S-103B, x8-8022, szarko@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Books into Movies
Stephen Tapscott
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Stephen Tapscott, 14N-416, x3-4148, tapscott@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
Moby Dick
Wyn Kelley
Mon Jan 7, 04-06:00pm, 2-105
The Maltese Falcon
David Thorburn
Wed Jan 9, 04-06:00pm, 2-105
The First Commandment (from Kieslowski's 'The Decalogue')
Stephen Tapscott
Mon Jan 14, 04-06:00pm, 2-105
Blade Runner
Kate Delaney
Wed Jan 23, 04-06:00pm, 2-105
Washington Square
John Hildebidle
Mon Jan 28, 04-06:00pm, 2-105
L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child)
Noel Jackson
Wed Jan 30, 04-06:00pm, 2-105
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Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
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://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Julie Saunders, 14N-407, x8-8049, juliec@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
Bishop, "In the Waiting Room"
Stephen Tapscott
Mon Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Melville and Dickinson
Wyn Kelley
Tue Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Ransome, "Captain Carpenter"
David Thorburn
Wed Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Shakespeare, Sonnets 76, 121
Howard Eiland
Thu Jan 10, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
James Richardson: "The Encyclopedia of the Stones"
James Buzard
Fri Jan 11, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Sarah Wright
Mon Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Tennyson: The Lotos-Eaters
Jim Paradis
Tue Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
David Ferry
Zachary Bos
Wed Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Milton, from "Paradise Lost"
Mary Fuller
Thu Jan 17, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
May Sarton
Stephen Pepper
Fri Jan 18, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Grace Paley
Anne Hudson
Tue Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Emily Bronte
Susan Lydon
Wed Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Louis MacNeice
Nora Delaney
Thu Jan 24, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
David Dabydeen
Alisa Braithwaite
Fri Jan 25, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Bishop, Dante, and Doetzer
Arthur Bahr
Mon Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Brenda Marie Osbey
Sandy Alexandre
Tue Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Wordsworth: "Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman"
Noel Jackson
Wed Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Daljit Nagra
Sarah Brouillette
Thu Jan 31, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Frost
Alvin Kibel
Fri Feb 1, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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Russian Literature after the fall of Soviet Totalitarianism
Katia Kapovich
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Katia Kapovich is a well-known Russian-American poet. Her last two collections are “Gogol in Rome” (2005) and “Cossacks and Bandits” (2008).
Her poems address a coherent range of cultural, aesthetic, psychological, philosophical, social and political issues relevant to the complexities of modern life.
Suggested readings:
V. Makanin “The Prisoner of the Caucasus”
http://www.penrussia.org/makanin/makanin.htm
V. Pelevin. “Yellow Arrow” (available on Amazon and in the libraries);
“Omon Ra” http://a7sharp9.com/Omon.html
Contact: Felix Kreisel, NW21-109, x3-8625, fjk@mit.edu
Sponsor: Felix Kreisel, NW21-207, 617 253-8625, fjk@mit.edu
Katia Kapovich
Jan 28th: Katia Kapovich will read a few of her poems and discuss poetic response to cultural and geographical displacement, alienation and marginality. What resources of strength must we rely on in a society that is ideologically and economically fluid and at times cynical and indifferent, where mass culture, institutional religion and national belonging have only weak and doubtful remedies to offer?
Mon Jan 28, 07-08:30pm, 4-251
Katia Kapovich
Jan 31st: Russian literature after 1991. Discussing several texts, Katia will raise problems of re-assessing history, gender, family, national identity, war and emigration. In general, the goal of the conversation is to deepen the participants’ understanding of the complex processes that define disintegration of a totalitarian society and literature’s liberation from the social institutions, and stereotypes shaped by it.
Thu Jan 31, 07-08:30pm, 4-251
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Unschooling Yourself, Deschooling Society
Alec Resnick, Eric Von Hippel
Thu Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 03-04:30pm, E51-376
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Come take some time out to think about how the assumptions we've taken for granted about schooling and education for decades have perverted everything from the educational process to the job market to the health care system. We'll be thinking about how to fix and change education through the lens of close readings of two books by Ivan Illich: Deschooling Society, and Tools for Conviviality. For those interested, we'll work on writing articles about our educational experiences, as MIT students, for publication in educational media.
Contact: Alec Resnick, aresnick@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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