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IAP 2013 Activities by Sponsor - Center for International Studies

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Contemporary Military Topics

Dave Pendall, SSP Military Fellow

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

A series of three sessions on contemporary military topics. 

Sponsor(s): MIT Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
Contact: Joli Saraf, E40-477, 8-7608, joli@mit.edu


Persistent and Wide Area Surveillance

Jan/16 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM E40-496

This session provides leading research and developer insights as well as technology examples of surveillance capabilities supporting US Military Forces. This seminar provides a Lincoln Lab led overview presentation and a Q&A period led by the Military Fellows with the Security Studies Program. The military fellows will address operational application and experiences with Persistent and Wide Area Surveillance programs.

Dave Pendall - SSP Military Fellow, Kirk Dorr - SSP Military Fellow, John Christopher - SSP Military Fellow


Biometrics-Medical & Security Aspects

Jan/23 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM E40-496

Topic is research & developer insights & examples of Biometrics Sensing & Collection Capabilities supporting US forces. There will be a Lincoln Lab led talk & SSP military fellows address operational application & experiences with Biometrics programs. Biometrics application include Soldier Physical Stress Monitoring, Brain & Traumatic Injury Studies, Fingerprint, Iris, Facial Recognition & DNA biometric application.

Dave Pendall - SSP Military Fellow, Kirk Dorr - SSP Military Fellow, Stephen Russell - SSP Military Fellow


Lunar Laser Communications on the Move

Jan/30 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM E40-496

This session provides leading research and developer insights as well as technology examples of Advanced Communications Capabilities supporting US Military Forces in the 21st Century. There will be a Lincoln Lab led presentation and a Q&A led by the Military Fellows with the Security Studies Program. The military fellows will address operational application of emerging communications technologies. 

John Christopher - SSP Military Fellow, Stephen Russell - SSP Military Fellow


Ikebana: The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging

Hiroko Matsuyama

Jan/22 Tue 02:00PM-03:30PM E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants
Fee: $10.00 for Materials

Hiroko Matsuyama, an accomplished instructor of the Ohara school of Ikebana, will show you the basics of this ancient art as you create your own flower arrangements. You will get to take the finished product with you to enjoy.

Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Japan Program
Contact: Tom Blackwood, E40-431, 2588208, thomas_b@mit.edu


Kyudo Class (Japanese Archery)

Marion Taylor, Joyce Wu

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $20.00 for instruction

Kyudo, or Japanese archery, means the "way of the bow" and was considered the highest discipline of ancient Japanese samurai. Kyudo is based on standing Zen meditation used by Zen Buddhist monks as a means of cultivating self-awareness. Beginners will receive instruction in the basic form of kyudo, the Seven Coordinations or "shichi-do," and shoot at a short-range target. SCHEDULE/LOCATIONS: Schedule: Saturday, January 12, 1-5pm and Sunday, January 13, 9:30a-3:30p Location: Sat: MAC court, Z Center. Sun: Rockwell cage North court.

Sponsor(s): MIT Japan Program, Center for International Studies
Contact: Tom Blackwood, E40-431, x8-8208, thomas_b@mit.edu


Jan/12 Sat 01:00PM-05:00PM MAC Court, Z Center
Jan/13 Sun 09:30AM-03:30PM Rockwell Cage, North Court

Marion Taylor, Joyce Wu


The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development

Rebecca Ochoa

Jan/16 Wed 04:30PM-06:00PM Stella Room (7-338)

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

"The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"

January 16, 2013 4:30pm-6pm

Stella Room (MIT Building 7-338)

Speaker: Priyanka Borpujari

Priyanka Borpujari will discuss her featured photography exhibit “The Human Cost of India’s Race for Development” displayed in Rotch Library's (7-228) exhibition space.

While India is perceived as an emerging market, the stories of the plundering of natural resources and the systematic annihilation of the indigenous peoples go unheard. In this race to make India a superpower, and a growing media industry that champions this idea, social inequality has reached its zenith, and easily gets pushed aside. What, then, is the future of the people who grow food with their hands; who have long been guarding forests and rivers - even before climate change could touch them? Why does the media shy away from reporting about the majority of its populace, even while they silently die from landmines and malaria alike? Reporting on the 'hidden civil war in India', Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, reports and photographs from the dark territories of mineral-rich India, which are rife with violence and disease, which are only silenced.

A reception and tour of the exhibit  will follow the discussion.

Cosponsored by MIT Center for International Studies, MIT-India and MIT Libraries

The event was funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT

Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT India Program, Libraries
Contact: Rebecca Ochoa, ROCHOA@MIT.EDU