Nick Montfort, Milton Laufer
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Advanced sign-up for Worshop, Reading is open to everyone
CantoVerso
A digital literature workshop, reading, and book launch in English and Spanish
Un taller, lectura y presentación de libros en español e inglés sobre literatura digital
I: Workshop/Taller, 3pm-4:30pm
A quick poetry-generation workshop in English and Spanish, no programming experience necessary. Existing programs that can be modified will be provided and explained. A poetry generation tool that does not require programming will be available for use as well.
Una taller breve sobre generación de poesía, sin necesidad de experiencia en programación. Se ofrecerán programas existentes para su modificación y explicación. Se ofrecerá también una herramienta que no requiere programación.
II: Reading/Lectura, 5:00pm-6:30pm
The CantoVerso reading will allow workshop participants to share their outcomes. Milton Läufer will read from his generated texts in Spanish and English. Nick Montfort will read from his recent books, the collaboration 2x6 (in English and Spanish) and Autopia. Books will be available for purchase; programs will also be available online.
La lectura CantoVerso permitirá a los participantes del taller compartir sus resultados. Milton Läufer leerá de sus obras de generación de textos en español e inglés. Nick Montfort leerá de dos libros recientes, la colaboración 2x6 (en inglés y español) y Autopia. Se venderán copias; los programas estarán disponibles en línea.
Enrollment IN THE WORKSHOP limited to 20; Anyone may attend the READING
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Nick Montfort, nickm@nickm.com
Jan/19 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 14N-233 |
Nick Montfort, Milton Laufer
Jan/19 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:30PM | 14E-304 |
Nick Montfort, Milton Laufer
Nick Montfort, Andrew Plotkin
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Interactive fiction is a text-oriented genre of videogame which has existed since the 1970s. We will get together to play one IF game each week during IAP. We'll play group-style: one player will read the story as it unfolds, but the group will decide what to do every turn. Each session will have 90 minutes of play time and 30 minutes for discussion.
We will play the top four entries of the recent Interactive Fiction competition. Two fantasy stories and two mysteries, each in a different IF format.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Nick Montfort, nickm@nickm.com
Jan/11 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 14E-310 |
Stone Harbor (Liza Daly) -- an urban fantasy story constructed as hypertext.
Jan/18 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 14E-310 |
Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady) -- a Twine-based ghost story on the road.
Jan/25 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 14E-310 |
Color the Truth (Brian Rushton) -- a parser-based police procedural.
Feb/01 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 14E-310 |
Detectiveland (Robin Johnson) -- a noir detective story built in a parser-like point-and-click interface.
Christopher LaRoche, User Experience Consultant
Jan/20 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | E25-117 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
Discusses and investigates aspect of modern Irish history. Specifically, a discussion of how the images and concepts of Ireland and the Irish have evolved over the last several hundred years in the eyes of the greater world.
In this talk, we will discuss and investigate the history and culture of Ireland from the eighteenth century to the present. We'll pay particular attention to issues and topics such as Saint Patrick, the repression of Catholicism, the Famine of the 1840s, the 1916 Easter Uprising, the Anglo-Irish War of 1920-1921, the Irish Civil War, and Ireland since the declaration of an Irish republic in 1948.
Finally the lecture will focus on and discuss the idea of mythology and stereotype used in lieu of history and how that has shaped many opinions about Ireland: and how that has recently evolved from Ireland as a caricature to respectability within the wider world view.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Christopher Laroche, 7-143, 617 324-9016, LAROCHE@MIT.EDU
Chris LaRoche, User Experience Consultant
Jan/27 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 1-150 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
Discusses the evolution of the cultural, social, and political situation that led to the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921. Investigates the various conflicts and history of the evolution of the Northern Irish state from its inception in 1921 until the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Particular emphasis is placed on the social and cultural issues of the main communities within Northern Ireland.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Christopher Laroche, 7-143, 617 324-9016, LAROCHE@MIT.EDU
Steven Strang
Jan/09 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 66-148 |
Jan/23 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 66-148 |
Jan/30 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 66-148 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Calling all creative writers! Want to write something creative but need some motivation or support or some thoughtful readers? Join other MIT writers to get advice about your own writing, to be a reader of other writers' work, and/or to get inspiration to write something. Any type of creative writing is welcomed: e.g., fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, memoirs, personal essays, plays, blog entries, book reviews. We help each other get started on a creative writing project, we help each other develop ideas and style, and we function as engaged and encouraging readers of each other's material. The Group includes emerging and established writers. We meet every Monday from noon-1:00 p.m. Location TBA. Open to MIT undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, lecturers, staff, faculty, spouses and partners. Please note that this is not a class and not a group for technical writing or for thesis writing.
Please email <smstrang@mit.edu> to register.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, E18-233 B, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU
Marah Gubar, Associate Professor of Literature
Jan/31 | Tue | 09:00AM-09:30AM | 14E-304, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Jan/31 | Tue | 09:30AM-10:30AM | 10-340, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Jan/31 | Tue | 10:35AM-11:15AM | Lobby 7, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Jan/31 | Tue | 11:20AM-01:00PM | 3-310, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Jan/31 | Tue | 01:10PM-02:00PM | Barker Media Room, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Jan/31 | Tue | 02:10PM-02:50PM | Music Library, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Jan/31 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | Stella Room 7-338, Visit lit.mit.edu to view full list of locations |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
“I can’t bear lecturing,” wrote Virginia Woolf, as she struggled to produce the text of what would eventually become A Room of One’s Own (1929), “it takes ages, and I do it vilely.” Written to be read amidst the domes and towers of a prestigious university by a river, Woolf’s luminous meditation on how creative minds work (and what impedes their full flourishing) explores what it means that minds inhabit bodies, and bodies inhabit particular spaces and times.
Hoping to bring some extra warmth to the icy days of IAP, the Literature Section invites you to bask in the “the rich yellow flame of rational intercourse”: to join us as we read aloud Woolf’s brilliant, self-questioning, unconventional essay in its entirety, in different locations around the MIT campus linked to the ones that Woolf describes in Room.
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” Come from start to finish, or just drop by for a little while; all are welcome. Books, good fellowship, and refreshment provided. After all, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Tweet as you participate: #ROOMatMIT
Sponsor(s): Literature
Contact: Chloe Jones, 14N-407, 617 258-5629, CJJONES@MIT.EDU
Noel Jackson, Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This popular activity – which aims to reach all lovers of poetry – has been offered every IAP for the last twenty years. Each one-hour session is devoted to a single poet, usually a single poem. The goal is discussion and shared pleasure. No lectures or professorial arrogance allowed. Some participants attend every session, but many others attend only once or twice to read and discuss a favorite poet or poem. The roster of poets is always immensely diverse: from ancient Chinese masters to contemporary American poets laureate, from such famous Greats as Shakespeare, Keats, and Auden to Dr. Seuss and Bob Dylan. Discussion and collaborative close readings are the aim and ideal of each hour.
Join us for this month-long series as we study and enjoy the scope of poetry with the rest of the MIT community.
Visit lit.mit.edu to view our full POP 2017 calendar and selection of poems
Sponsor(s): Literature
Contact: Chloe Jones, 14N-407, 617 258-5629, CJJONES@MIT.EDU
Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Herman Melville, "The House-top (A Night Piece, 1863)"
Wyn Kelley - Moderator, Senior Lecturer of Literature
Jan/10 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Geoffrey Hill "Respublica"; "Ovid in the Third Reich"; "On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell"
Daniel Pritchard - Moderator
Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Wislawa Szymborska "Lot's Wife"; "A Contribution to Statistics"
Rosemary Booth - Moderator
Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Rafael Alberti "Open Letter"
Zachary Bos - Moderator
Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
T.S. Eliot "Preludes"
James Buzard - Moderator, Professor & Interim Head of Literature
Jan/17 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Adrienne Rich "Origins and History of Consciousness" & "Power"
Anne Hudson - Moderator
Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
W.H. Auden "Musée des Beaux Arts"; "Lullaby"
Howard Eiland - Moderator
Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Nightingale"
Noel Jackson - Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Rosemary Tonks "The Sash Window"; "Apprentice"; "Diary of a Rebel"
Stephen Pepper - Moderator
Jan/23 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
John Dryden "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"
James Merrill "Angel"
Robert Creeley "Water Music"
Robert Pinsky "Street Music"
Martin Marks - Moderator, Senior Lecturer of Music & Theater Arts
Jan/24 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
George Gascoigne "Gasgoigne's Lullaby"
David Thorburn - Moderator, Professor of Literature & founder of POP
Jan/25 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Pearl (trans. MB & SA)
Arthur Bahr - Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
Jan/26 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
a selection of anonymous sonnets
Alvin Kibel - Moderator, Professor of Literature
Jan/27 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Robert Frost "The Gift Outright"
Ana Schwartz - Moderator, Predoctoral Fellow of Literature Section
Jan/30 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Stephen Tapscott - Professor of Literature
Feb/01 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Alice Walker "Be Nobody's Darling"
Gwendolyn Brooks "We Real Cool"
Sandy Alexandre - Moderator, Associate Professor of Literature
Feb/02 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Elizabeth Bishop "Pink Dog" & "The Shampoo"
Joaquin Terrones - Moderator, Lecturer of Literature
Feb/03 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14E-304 |
Ranjit Bhatnagar, Pentametron (Twitter)
Nick Montfort - Moderator, Associate Professor of Digital Media
Eric Grunwald, Lecturer, English Language Studies
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
"Everyone is creative. Everyone has something to say." —Brenda Ueland
“English was the novelist Joseph Conrad’s third language, and much that seems piquant in his use of English was no doubt colored by his first language, which was Polish. . . . No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens not to be standard English, and if it shows itself when you write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue.” —Kurt Vonnegut
Are you a bilingual student who has wanted to polish your English? Do you like writing fiction, poetry, or personal essays, or have you always wanted to try? Why not combine the two?!
In this workshop, you will both explore what innovations you have to offer to the English language and find places where you need to conform more to standard English. Through reading works by immigrant writers as well as imagining, writing, and workshopping your own, you can engage your imagination and polish your English at the same time.
All genres welcome! (Except, of course—well, you know...)
Sponsor(s): Global Studies and Languages
Contact: Eric Grunwald, 14N-236, 617 253-2647, EGRUNWAL@MIT.EDU
Jan/10 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:45PM | 14N-313, Bring paper, pen, and laptop |
Jan/17 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:45PM | 14N-313, Bring paper, pen, and laptop |
Jan/24 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:45PM | 14N-313, Bring paper, pen, and laptop |
Jan/31 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:45PM | 14N-313, Bring paper, pen, and laptop |
Eric Grunwald - Lecturer, English Language Studies
Thomas White, Videographer
Jan/13 | Fri | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: email if you think you can go
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
ZOOM was the PBS network's premier kids show of all time. Original cast member and now MIT videographer Tom White wants to tell you all about the development and continuing interest in this pioneering interactive show with his documentary "ZOOM - LOST and FOUND". So get your striped shirts on and get ready for some fun!
Sponsor(s): Academic Media Production Services
Contact: Thomas White, NE48-308, 617 599-9414, TPWHITE@MIT.EDU
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