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Chopped Viewing Party
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Jan/23 | Tue | 10:00PM-11:00PM | W20-306 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Come watch alumna Winnette McIntosh Ambrose '98 compete at the Gold Medal Games: Baking edition. Winnette is generously supplying French, gluten-free macarons from her and her brother Timothy McIntosh's '08, shop Sweet Tooth Lobby in Washington DC.
In a National Public Radio interview, McIntosh Ambrose described how they got started:
"First of all, we're born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. We both came to the U.S. to study chemical engineering at MIT. And I had the opportunity, while I was doing my undergrad at MIT, to double-major in French language and literature, which took me to Paris at the Sorbonne. And that is where I became really mesmerized, captivated by the beauty, the craft of French patisserie." While she earned a PhD in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and then worked in the medical technology industry, she taught herself to bake. About two years ago, she called on her brother to join her efforts in DC and, in 2011, they started their business.
Register for this free event! http://alumic.mit.edu/chopped_viewing_party
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Dive In Movie
Stephanie (Kloos) Smith, Associate Director, Recreation
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Feb/03 | Sat | 06:30PM-09:00PM | W35 Z center pool |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Come watch Moana in the Z-Center pool!
Food will be available at 6:30PM and the movie will start at 7:00PM. Boloco and snacks will be served.
Sponsored by DSL, MindHandHeart, and SaveTFP.
Students as well as their spouses, partners, and children are invited to attend. If a child would like to swim in the pool, they must arrive promptly at 6:30PM to take a swim test and receive a wrist band.
Sponsor(s): Athletics, Physical Education
Contact: Stephanie Kloos, SKLOOS@MIT.EDU
Harry Potter Movie Mash
Madison Evans, President
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Jan/18 | Thu | 08:00PM-10:00PM | 32-082 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Hello Witches and Wizards! Come join us at the Annual Quidditch Team Movie Mash! We will be featuring all 8 of the Harry Potter films on 8 different screens simultaneously. Come and watch your favorite scenes, catch up on the movie you missed, or sit back and laugh at all the fun scene mixes. Fun fact: In the first movie, where Sean Seamus blows up his water is about the same time as when he blows up the bridge in the final movie!
Sponsor(s): MIT Quidditch
Contact: Madison Evans, mevans7@mit.edu
India and Indianisms: Documentary Master Classes
Anandana Kapur, Fulbright Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Come attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love, innovation and spies. We will also talk about approaches to documentary filmmaking, behind the scenes choices and DIY tips for those who want to make a film of their own. Anandana Kapur is an award winning filmmaker from India whose works have screened in over 35 countries. She also teaches courses on documentary practice, gender and rights based media.
The last workshop of this screening series will showcase excerpts from works in progress. A key focus will be on how documentary aesthetics can shape conversations for change. Some of the suggestions may shape the trajectory of future works!
Ps: Bring some coffee, popcorn or a friend…or two.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Anandana Kapur, anandana@MIT.EDU
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Jan/09 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:00PM | outside E15-335 |
Are matches made in heaven or via multi-million dollar enterprises?
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Jan/16 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:00PM | outside E15-335 |
Is that a friend from a gym or an undercover spy?
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Jan/23 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:00PM | outside E15-335 |
The Great Indian Jugaad: MIT loves hacks, India adores Jugaad!
Conversations: Stories by the "Invisible" Women of Delhi
Learning Leadership Skills Through Feature Films
Angeliki Rigos, Executive Director, Tata Center for Technology and Design, Andrew Silver, Retired Professor of Film
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/01
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: interview - email asilver@asilverproduction.com
Using film to illustrate a spectrum of leadership skills and styles, the participants will observe and discuss the essence of leadership in action. The films viewed will include Apollo 13 and Fat Man & Little Boy. Students will better understand the strengths and limitations of various leadership styles in different contexts and reflect on their own styles of thinking and acting.
Contact: Angeliki Rigos, E19-432F, 617 715-5976, RIGOSA@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Mon | 01:00PM-05:00PM | NE49-Room 2173 |
Angeliki Rigos - Executive Director, Tata Center for Technology and Design, Andrew Silver - Retired Professor of Film
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Jan/09 | Tue | 01:00PM-05:00PM | NE49-Room 2173 |
Angeliki Rigos - Executive Director, Tata Center for Technology and Design, Andrew Silver - Retired Professor of Film
Podcast Lunch
Andrew Whitacre, Communications Director, CMSW
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Bring a lunch and enjoy listening to/discussing some incredible examples of audio storytelling.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Andrew Whitacre, awhit@mit.edu
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Jan/08 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 56-167 |
"Crazy Like a Fox" (CBC Radio, 1999, 12 minutes) and "Turn on the Lights" (Snap Judgment, 2013, 9 minutes)
In "Crazy Like a Fox," Darren O'Donnell's months of psychosis leading up to his final breakdown were far from scary...they were some of the best times he's ever had. In "Turn on the Lights", the monsters of Shane Koyczan's night terrors tremble in fear of Shane's grandfather until his powers fail.
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Jan/09 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 56-167 |
"A Frank Conversation with a White Nationalist" (Reveal, 2017, 23 minutes)
Richard Spencer is among the tens of millions of Americans who are excited about Donald Trump¿s presidency. The 38-year-old white nationalist believes people of different skin color are inherently different, hate each other, and should live separately. Reveal¿s host Al Letson talked to Spencer the day after the 2016 election.
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Jan/10 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 56-167 |
"Jump Blue" (BBC Radio 3, 2016, 20 minutes) and "The Student and the Teacher" (Mortified, 2017, 20 minutes)
In "Jump Blue", hear how sound, text, and music create an immersive re-imagining of a Russian freediver's final descent. In "The Student and the Teacher", an adult reads passages from her teenage diary in front of a live audience, recounting what happens when an innocent crush on a teacher becomes not-so-innocent.
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Jan/11 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 56-167 |
"A Girl of Ivory: Davecat + Sidore + Elena" (Love + Radio, 2016, 39 minutes)
Davecat and Sidore had a blissful marriage together in the suburbs of Detroit. One day, a Russian woman showed up unexpectedly at their doorstep, declared her love for both of them, and asked to move in. It was a complicated situation, but that doesn¿t even begin to scratch the surface of this unusual threesome.
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Jan/12 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 56-167 |
"Mr. Holland's Opus" (This American Life, 2011, 35 minutes)
A cancer researcher named Jonathan Brody gave a speech at his alma mater saying that people in his field really needed to think outside the box to find a cure. Afterward he was approached by his old orchestra teacher, who had something way out of the box¿a theory that he could kill cancer cells with electromagnetic waves.
SO BAD IT'S GOOD: An Introduction to Media Analysis Through Watching Bad Media
Kaelan Doyle Myerscough
Enrollment: contact kaelandm@mit.edu before day you plan to attend
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants are encouraged, but not required, to attend all three sessions
What is it that makes watching so-called “trashy TV” so fun? What does it mean for a film to be “so bad it’s good?” In such a saturated media landscape, what makes us seek out and enjoy the worst of it? And what is with all of those screenings of The Room?
In this three-day course, we will watch and analyze bad media as an introduction to media studies concepts and fields. Each class will consist of a screening and an extended discussion.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Kaelan Doyle Myerscough, kaelandm@mit.edu
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Jan/23 | Tue | 03:00PM-06:00PM | 5-217 |
The Room: The Anatomy of a Good-Bad Movie. We'll stage a screening of The Room complete with plastic spoons and a football, then talk about what makes the film so enjoyably bad, why people think this is, and the fandom that has cropped up around it.
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Jan/24 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 5-217 |
Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Reality TV, social media, and "trashiness." We'll use the Kardashian empire to talk about how and in what contexts people watch TV and consume social media, and how the contemporary internet landscape has reshaped reality TV.
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Jan/25 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 5-217 |
Monster Factory: Bad games and the art of making fun of them. What makes bad games enjoyable, and how is this different from bad film and television? We'll watch a few works by YouTube creators to figure this out, and then get our hands dirty with character creators and make some monsters of our own.
Speculative Fiction and Psychiatry
Daniel Debowy, Staff Psychiatrist, Student Mental Health and Counseling
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Fictional narratives allow for authors to discuss real-life struggles in a veiled manner. By taking their own experiences and those they observe in reality but embedding them in an invented context, authors can transmit emotionally resonant elements without becoming overwhelmed by the painful details of their own recollections. Similarly, readers might take away more from a story that speaks to their struggles than they do from their own initial musings about difficult times in their own lives.
Speculative Fiction (i.e., Science Fiction, Magical Fantasy, Superheroic Fantasy) works can provide some of the most effective "veils" for difficult life questions. Their remove from the everyday world provides dense camouflage for raising questions about life's meaning, political disagreements, and the nature of the human mind. Moreover, by suspending the rules of time and space that give us all frustration, they further reduce the distress we might experience when the same questions are raised in a realistic narrative. Lastly, some Speculative works deliberately play with physical reality in a way that triggers our deep seated fears of loss of control, what Freud termed "The Uncanny."
This course will discuss psychiatric themes in Speculative Fiction. The aim is to provide education about psychological theories through the aid of relevant Speculative Fiction pieces, as well as to help explain the enduring appeal of Speculative Fiction.
Sign up by emailing DEBOW@MED.MIT.EDU
Sponsor(s): MIT Medical
Contact: Daniel Debowy, E23-364, 617 253-2916, DEBOW@MED.MIT.EDU
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Jan/09 | Tue | 07:00PM-08:00PM | E23, meet 1st floor, Meet at UrgCare and go up as group |
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Jan/16 | Tue | 07:00PM-08:00PM | E23, meet 1st floor, Meet at UrgCare and go up as group |
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Jan/23 | Tue | 07:00PM-08:00PM | E23, meet 1st floor, Meet at UrgCare and go up as group |
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Jan/30 | Tue | 07:00PM-08:00PM | E23, meet 1st floor, Meet at UrgCare and go up as group |
Daniel Debowy - Staff Psychiatrist, Student Mental Health and Counseling
Starr Forum Film: "The Uncondemned"
John Tirman, Executive Director, CIS
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Jan/23 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 6-120 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
"The Uncondemned" tells the gripping and world-changing story of a group of young international lawyers and activists who fought to make rape a crime of war, and the Rwandan women who came forward to testify and win justice where there had been none. Up until this point, rape had not been prosecuted as a war crime and was committed with impunity. A courtroom thriller and personal human drama, "The Uncondemned" beautifully interweaves the stories of the characters in this odyssey, leading to the trial at an international criminal court--and the results that changed the world of criminal justice forever.
Film screening followed by discussion and audience Q&A
Free & Open to the public
Refreshments will be served
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
Contact: Michelle English, starrforum@mit.edu
Urban Planning Film Series: Imagination and Place / Spotlight on the 1960s
Ezra Glenn
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
For IAP, the department's ongoing Urban Planning Film Series continues with three lesser-known films from the 1960s exploring the connections between people, the meaning of places, and the role of imagination in the worlds we perceive and create.
All films start following brief remarks at 7:00PM, MIT Room 3-133; everyone welcome. Come to one or come to all!
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, 617 253-2024, EGLENN@MIT.EDU
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Jan/15 | Mon | 07:00PM-09:30PM | 3-133 |
Harry Belafonte plays a coal miner who finds himself a lonely survivor of the collapse of civilization in this lost sci-fi gem from 1959. Seeking other survivors in the big city, he finds companionship, love--and trouble. Loosly based on a 1902 novel, but steeped in early civil-rights-era poignancy, the film explores race relations, sexual tension, and human drama on the depopulated streets of post-apocalyptic New York.
Ezra Glenn
| Jan/22 | Mon | 07:00PM-09:30PM | 3-133 |
Long before "Mad Men," there were the stories of John Cheever, perfectly crystalized elegies to American suburbia. One of the most quietly profound, allegorically meditative, and deeply melancholy was "The Swimmer," brought to the silver screen in 1968 by Frank and Eleanor Perry. Burt Lancaster stars as Ned Merrill, a New York ad-man who sets out one morning to swim across his entire neighborhood, one pool at a time.
Ezra Glenn
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Jan/29 | Mon | 07:00PM-09:30PM | 3-133 |
A cockeyed fusion of science fiction, pulp characters, and surrealist poetry from 1965, Jean-Luc Godard's irreverent journey to the mysterious Alphaville remains one of the least conventional films of all time. Eddie Constantine stars as intergalactic hero Lemmy Caution, on a mission to kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60.
Ezra Glenn
Use of Name: Policy and Philosophy
Peter Bebergal, Use of Name & Trademarks Licensing Officer
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Jan/29 | Mon | 12:30PM-01:30PM | 3-370 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
MIT is one of the most widely respected and known Trademarks in the world. This class will examine MIT’s use of name policy as well as general ideas of trademarks and higher education.
This interactive Q&A will also offer guidance on how MIT’s start-ups and other student businesses can use MIT’s name. There will be plenty of time given to questions.
This session is part of the Intellectual Property Lunch and Learn Series co-sponsored with the MIT Libraries.
Lunch will be served between 11:30 - 12:30 PM, and will be followed by this session.
To register for this event please contact Katrina Khalil via email: kmkhalil@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office, Libraries
Contact: Katrina Khalil, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, kmkhalil@mit.edu
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