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Soap Box

Soap Box, held at the MIT Museum, is a series of salon-style, early-evening conversations with scientists and engineers who are making the news that really matters. Soap Box is a public forum for debate about important ideas and issues in science and technology.

Now in its fourth season, Soap Box gives its audience the chance to debate serious issues with world-class scientists and engineers in an intimate setting at the MIT 360 program arena located in the new Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery.

Fall 2008 Soap Box Series: Grassroots and Global: Technologies & Social Change

Join speakers from both MIT and Harvard this fall for a series of discussions on the impact of new media technologies on politics and social change. Your questions and comments keep the discussion lively and thoughtful. Please join the MIT Museum for these discussions which, in this election year are more important than ever. Refreshments are served. Admission is free.

"You have done an exceptional job of having these events be inviting and friendly. Thank you and your sponsors for this opportunity to meet and talk with these professors, as well as with the attendees." -Patty Hanifey

10/8	Soap Box with Ethan Zuckerman, Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law School. Technologies and Emerging Democracies 6:00 p.m. Free admission, refreshments served
10/22	Soap Box with Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. What is Civic Media? 6:00 p.m. Free admission, refreshments served
11/5	Soap Box with Dayna Cunningham, Executive Director of the Community Innovators lab at MIT's Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning: Technologies and Communities Changing Each Other. 6:00 p.m. Free admission, refreshments served
11/18	Soap Box with Ellen Hume, Research Director of MIT's Center for Future Civic Media: The Future of the News 6:00 p.m. Free admission, refreshments served

MIT Museum Home Programs Soap Box

Soap Box programs are usually broadcast as a live webcast which you can access from the museum multimedia page on the evening of the event.

Archived videos of previous speakers are later viewable in an edited format on MIT World™.

If you have ideas for Soap Box, or are interested in sponsoring the series please let us know.