IAP 2013 Activities by Sponsor - Technology and Culture Forum

Laura Schmitz

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Like Book Clubs? But hate the time commitment? This non-book club-book club is easy and painless. n-bc-bc will meet four times during the third week of IAP and will discuss topics related to different types of gender violence in our culture. Each evening a discussion will be sparked by two short articles, book excerpts or movie clips. Food and drinks provided!

View or download n-bc-bc materials at: web.mit.edu/end_violence/

Discussion Topics:

Monday January 21: [Un]Scientific Apologies: How Science Colors Views on Sexual Violence.

Tuesday January 22: Broken System: Failures of Institutions to Serve Survivors and Discipline Rapists.

Wednesday January 23: Speaking Up: Responses to Slut Shaming and Rape Culture

Thursday Januray 24: Policy: White Men Debate the Fate of Vagina Owners

Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies, Technology and Culture Forum
Contact: Laura Schmitz, W11-011, (617) 253-0108, lschmitz@mit.edu

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non book club - book club

	Jan/21	Mon	07:00PM-09:00PM	TBD
	Jan/22	Tue	07:00PM-09:00PM	Location TBD
	Jan/23	Wed	07:00PM-09:00PM	Location TBD
	Jan/24	Thu	07:00PM-09:00PM	Location TBD

Laura Schmitz

Jonathan King, Professor of Physics

Jan/11

Fri

04:00PM-05:00PM

4-349, Pappalardo Conference Room

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Physicist, teacher, mother, daughter and professional and moral leader, Professor Emeritus Vera Kistiakowsky will be honored at a reception this Friday, January 11th at 4pm.  Offering brief remarks will be Professor Edmond Bertschinger, Chair, MIT Department of Physics; Vera's daughter Professor Karen Fischer, Brown University Geological Sciences; Professors Lisa Steiner and Mary-Lou Pardue, MIT Department of Biology; and Professor Jonathan King, MIT Biology and the MIT Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board Chair.

Refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored by Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, the MIT Faculty Newsletter and the MIT Department of Physics

Sponsor(s): Technology and Culture Forum
Contact: Christina English, W11-007, 617 253-7707, CENGLISH@MIT.EDU