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Monday, December 1
7:00-9:00pm
MIT Museum
Elizabeth Pisani, author of "The Wisdom of Whores"
Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist who has spent over a decade
working on the defining epidemic of our age - HIV. She's done
research and worked as an advisor for the Ministries of Health of
China, Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines, and has also
provided analysis and policy advice to the World Bank, the World
Health Organisation, UNAIDS, US Centres for Disease Control and many
others. She is especially interested in trying to ensure that HIV
prevention programmes are guided by sensible analysis of high quality
information.
Respondent: Dr. Galit Alter, Instructor, Partners in AIDS Research Center, Mass General Hospital
Co-sponsored with the MIT Museum
This program is the final program of the day for MIT World AIDS Day. Please click here for a PDF of the day's activities
Massachusetts Climate Action Network Conference
Sunday, November 16
9:00am-5:00pm
Stata Center
Please go to the MCAN website for details during the summer months.
The Campaign & the Media: Part 2
November 13
5:00-7:00pm
Bartos Theater
Ian Rowe, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for MTV
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities
Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic magazine
Cyrus Krohn, Republican National Committee
Ian V. Rowe is the vice president of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for MTV. His department oversees MTV's campaigns that build awareness of issues important to MTV's audience. He now oversees MTV's new pro-social platform, Think MTV, which informs and engages viewers to take action on the domestic and global issues that matter most and affect their lives. Prior to MTV, Rowe was the director of Strategy and Performance Measurement for USA Freedom Corps at the White House, the president's initiative on volunteer service.
Henry Jenkins is the author and/or editor of eleven books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, Democracy and New Media, and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. His most recent books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He is one of the principal investigators for The Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games.
Marc Ambinder spent a year and a half at the Hotline, an Atlantic sister publication that's known as the daily bible for anyone IN politics. He was the editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note," which, for a time, achieved co-biblical status with the Hotline. Marc is an associate editor at the Atlantic and a contributing editor to both the Hotline and National Journal. His latest writings can be found on the Marc Ambinder blog.
Cyrus Krohn is executive producer of MSN Video and Director of the Republican National Committee's eCampaign. He was formerly publisher and co-founder of Slate Magazine. Prior to joining Microsoft, Krohn produced programs for CNN including Larry King Live and Crossfire.
Co-Sponsored with MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media
US Nuclear Policy: Critical Choices:
A Conservative and Progressive View
Wednesday, October 22
4:00pm-6:00pm
32-141 (Stata Center)
Joseph Cirincione, President of Ploughshares Fund
Joseph Cirincione joined Ploughshares Fund as president in March 2008. He is author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mark Esper, Executive Vice President, Global Intellectual Property Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Prior to this position with the US Chamber of Commerce, Mark Esper was a Senior Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy and an Independent Consultant. Until February 2008, Dr. Esper served as the National Policy Director for the Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Campaign. Before joining the Thompson Campaign, Dr. Esper was Executive Vice President of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) of America, the premier trade organization representing the nation's aerospace and defense industry. In addition to his duties as COO, Mr. Esper was also responsible for AIA's defense and international policy offices. From 2002 until 2004, Dr. Esper served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy at the Pentagon. In this capacity he was responsible for all arms control, nonproliferation, international agreements, UN matters, and related issues for the Defense Department. He led teams of negotiators in Geneva, assisted in delegations to allied capitals, and represented the department on Capitol Hill, in the interagency, and in the media. For his service at the Pentagon he was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal. Earlier in his career Dr. Esper served as the Legislative Director and Senior Policy Advisor for Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and was Chief of Staff at The Heritage Foundation, a renowned Washington-based think tank.
Co-sponsored with the Center for International Studies and the MIT Nuclear Weapons Abolition Initiative
Friday, October 3
11:00am-1:00pm
Lobby 13
MIT's Annual International Development Fair (IDF) is an event designed to showcase the many groups, projects and activities at MIT that provide students with an opportunity to work on issues related to international development. The Fair brings students and organizations together, to promote awareness and encourage the exchange of ideas.
The Campaign & the Media: Part 1
Thursday, September 25
5:00-7:00pm
Bartos Theater
Tom Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism
Moderator: Ellen Hume, Research Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
John Carroll, Boston University, WGBH-TV
Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe
Tom Rosenstiel designed the Project for Excellence in Journalism and directs its activities. He also serves as vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a national conversation among journalists about standards and values. From 1997 to 2006, he also functioned as executive director in charge of the daily operation of CCJ, which was then also administered by PEJ. A journalist for more than 20 years, he is a former media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine.
Ellen Hume, was most recently founding director of the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she created the New England Ethnic Newswire. Previously, she served as executive director and senior fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and as executive director of PBS's Democracy Project, where she developed special news programs that encouraged citizen involvement in public affairs. She was a White House and political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, national reporter with the Los Angeles Times and regular commentator on PBS's Washington Week in Review and CNN's Reliable Sources program.
John Carroll is Assistant Professor of Communication at BU. For five years he was executive producer of news programs at WGBH-TV in Boston, where he continues as producer/panelist on the weekly program Beat the Press. Over the past 20 years he has also written extensively on advertising and the media as a regular columnist for the Boston Globe and Adweek magazine, and as a commentator on WBUR-FM and National Public Radio.
Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly columnist for the Boston Globe. In 2007, she was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she studied gender and the news. She is the recipient of many other awards for excellence in journalism, including the National Women's Political Caucus President's Award and the Ernie Pyle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Society of Newspaper columnists.
Co-Sponsored with MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media
Friday, September 12th
7:00pm
26-100
The film will be followed by conversation, led by MIT Prof. Jonathan King, about the issues raised and the current nuclear threat.
Co-Sponsored with the MIT Nuclear Weapons Abolition Initiative and LSC
Think Outside the Bomb
A National Youth Conference
August 14-17
Join the Think Outside the Bomb network for four days of learning, sharing, and activism, August 14-17 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. The conference will provide a backdrop for nuclear abolitionists, peace activists, ecologists, and other advocates of social justice and a livable planet to learn in-depth about the threat of nuclear weapons, the destruction caused by the nuclear fuel chain, and current political opportunities to move toward nuclear disarmament.
Speakers for this conference include Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Zia Mian from Princeton University, Joe Gerson, author of Empire and the Bomb, Subrata Ghoshroy from MIT, Jackie Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation, and of course, youth activists representing various nuclear abolition organizations and communities from around the country.
For more information and to apply, visit http://thinkoutsidethebomb.org.
Organized by Think Outside the Bomb.org and co-sponsored with the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
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