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Experience the Way of Tea - Japanese Tea Ceremony
Kyoko Wada, Urasenke Tea School Instructor
| Jan/27 | Sun | 02:00PM-03:00PM | W20-491 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24
Limited to 50 participants
Join us for a Japanese tea ceremony performed by Mrs. Kyoko Wada, who has been studying the Japanese Tea Ceremony for more than 30 years. She will share "the happiness of the tea ceremony" with you and invite you to take this opportunity to leave your worries and problems at the door. Be transported to Japan by the calligraphy, ceramics, flowers, lacquer, and incense. Experience the four elements of the "way of tea:" harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility. Imagine how they can bring harmony into our daily interactions. Take the first step of what can become a lifetime of study and meditation. Please send email to iap.chado@gmail.com to reserve your place.
Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Kyoko Wada, (781) 860-0373, iap.chado@gmail.com
Getting to know Italian: An introduction to language and customs with a native speaker
Elisabetta Pili, Native Italian speaker
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none
Fee: $10.00
for materials
This is an informal and interactive course that will cover basic conversation, grammar and vocabulary. We will also discuss Italian customs in particular regions. Come prepared to participate and to try something new. I look forward to sharing a bit of my country and I hope that you will share yours.
Please email Elisabetta to reserve your place.
Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Elisabetta Pili, elisa295@hotmail.com
Improve Your Negotiation Skills - The Mutual Gains Approach
Carly Inkpen, Communications Coordinator, Consensus Building Institute
| Jan/15 | Tue | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 56-154 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 50 participants
Prereq: None
Negotiating a job or internship offer? Trying to solve problems with your roommate? Haggling over how to divide up project responsibilities?
This participatory workshop offers a process model for negotiation that focuses on reaching better, more sustainable agreements while preserving important relationships. In this workshop you will:
- See negotiation principles in action during various interactive exercises
- Learn the basics of the Mutual Gains Approach
- Test the skills you've learned in a simulated negotiation
The Mutual Gains Approach to negotiation is a process model, based on hundreds of real-world cases & experimental findings, that lays out four steps for negotiating better outcomes while protecting relationships and reputation. This framework can be used to improve outcomes in any situation, from academic or professional negotiations, to difficult conversations with friends & family. Everyone is welcome, no negotiation expertise required.
The tools & theory in this workshop are based on work done by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, as well as the Consensus Building Institute. The Program on Negotiation is an inter-university consortium committed to advancing the theory & practice of negotiation and dispute resolution. The Consensus Building Institute is a not-for-profit consulting organization located in Kendall Square dedicated to empowering people to negotiate and collaborate more effectively using our Mutual Gains Approach.
Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Carly Inkpen, carly.inkpen@gmail.com
Night Photography
Nora Vrublevska
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: Basic photography knowledge
Have you been intrigued by photos taken at night? The colors, tones and atmosphere look amazing! This 6 session course will get you started on night photography and will guide you through proper exposure, settings, equipment (digital or film), tools, and post-processing as it relates to night photography, as well as practical aspects of shooting in cold weather. You will learn about different lighting situations from bright urban to full moon, light painting, and star trails. We will go out photographing together and by end of the course you will have made a few magical images of your own. Students are required to come to the first class as a lot of important technical information will be covered.
Tools needed: Camera with bulb mode, tripod, cable release. Please bring camera manual with you. We will use the book Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark by Lance Keimig, and it will be available for purchase during the first class.
Instructor: Nora Vrublevska is a Cambridge based fine art photographer who mainly focuses on night photography. She has been a teaching assistant to Lance Keimig's Night Photography class at New England School of Photography and exhibits her work throughout New England. For more images and information visit www.noravrublevska.com. For this Night Photography class Nora is teaming up with a friend, also TA and fellow night photographer Dan Squires. Check out his work on www.fotodano.com.
Click here to sign up: goo.gl/4Z25U
Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Nora Vrublevska, 857-207-5124, nora.vrublevska@gmail.com
| Jan/08 | Tue | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 8-119 |
Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires
| Jan/10 | Thu | 06:00PM-09:00PM | TBD |
Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires
| Jan/17 | Thu | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 8-119 |
Dan Squires, Nora Vrublevska
| Jan/24 | Thu | 06:00PM-09:00PM | TBD |
Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires
| Jan/29 | Tue | 06:00PM-09:00PM | TBD |
Dan Squires, Nora Vrublevska
| Jan/31 | Thu | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 8-119 |
Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires
Women, Art and Thought in the Middle Ages
Jimena Castro, Visiting Researcher at Boston University
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/02
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
When we think about the Middle Ages, maybe the following thought comes to our minds: that it was an obscure period, that censorship ruled every man's lives, and above all, women’s lives. But we would be surprised to know that there were many female voices that expressed their inner worlds and thoughts through writing, music and arts. This IAP session seeks to examine the life and work of three important women of this period: Hildegard von Bingen, Joan of Arc and Marguerite Porete. We will explore their historical contexts in order to understand how they achieved their authorities. These three women will be only a sample of many others that we will mention. Please email Jimena to reserve your place.
Jimema Castro: Professor of Medieval Literature at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile); Ph.D.c in American Studies, Universidad de Santiago (Chile); MA in Literature, Art and Thought at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and BA of Literature at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile)
Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Jimena Castro, 617-637-6632, jimenacastrogodoy@gmail.com
| Jan/08 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 56-169 |
The aim of this session is to make an introduction to Medieval Thought, with a special focus on the relation between spiritual and intellectual life of Women in that period. We will study some images and texts that tell us a lot about women's thought.
Jimena Castro - Visiting Researcher at Boston University
| Jan/15 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 56-169 |
We will explore on the life and work of the Benedictine Abbess Hildegard of Bingen. In this session some relations between the work of Hildegard and modern painters will be established.
Jimena Castro - Visiting Researcher at Boston University
| Jan/22 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 56-169 |
Marguerite was neither a nun, but neither a secular. She was a beguine, and in that status, she had a hard relation with authority. But her biggest "mistake" was to enter into philosophical inquiries through her book that ended up burnt with Marguerite herself. In this session we will analyze her book The Mirror of Simple Souls.
Jimena Castro - Visiting Researcher at Boston University
| Jan/29 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 56-169 |
In this session we will study a different way of religiosity, that is the one that calls to fight. Joan, as is well known, claimed to hear the voice of God that asked her to fight in battles. We will analyze the relation between spirituality and life, and the way that Joan thought of the Commandments.
Jimena Castro - Visiting Researcher at Boston University
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