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Wed, Apr 17MIT Campus. Building 14E. Room 304Apr 17, 2024, 5:15 PM – 6:45 PMMIT Campus. Building 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisApr 17, 2024, 5:15 PM – 6:45 PMMIT Campus. Building 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisHow does Afrofuturist cinema, by showcasing alternative African futures, contribute to the evolution of the cinematic art form and postcolonial narratives? Filmmaker Jean Pierre Bekolo will present his book Cinema as a Transformative Tool for the Therapeutic Intellectual.
Mon, Mar 18MIT Campus. 14E.304Mar 18, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT Campus. 14E.304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisMar 18, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT Campus. 14E.304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisProf. Chebel d'Appollonia presents her new book, Violent America. She argues that the use of ethno-racial violence today remains a means by which all ethno-racial groups gain status and acceptance into the mainstream of American civil, political, and social life, not unlike in France.
Thu, Feb 15Barker Center, Room 114Feb 15, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PMBarker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, États-UnisFeb 15, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PMBarker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, États-UnisMathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, and the Premio von Rezzori), Zone, and Street of Thieves–as well as being a translator from Persian and Arabic. about his latest book, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild out now in English translation.
Tue, Feb 13MIT Campus. 14E.304Feb 13, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PMMIT Campus. 14E.304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-Unis
Tue, Oct 17MIT Campus. Building E14. Room 633.Oct 17, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT Campus. Building E14. Room 633., 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisOct 17, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT Campus. Building E14. Room 633., 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisIn 1958, the French national gas and electric companies set out to build the first trans-Mediterranean undersea pipeline. This talk examines the varying roles visual media played in the science, engineering, and public discourse of France’s emerging petroleum age.
Wed, Oct 11Building 14E. Room 304Oct 11, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMBuilding 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisOct 11, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMBuilding 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisProf. Diagne presents his most recent book, De langue à langue, which describes translation as humanism. If our primary human condition is to constitute multiple cultures and speak different languages carrying different worldviews, then translation is the ongoing creation of an open human society.
Wed, Sep 27MIT campus. 4-249Sep 27, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT campus. 4-249, 182 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisSep 27, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT campus. 4-249, 182 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisJoseph Kai is a queer artist from Beirut, Lebanon. He has published several works with the Lebanese collective of BD Samandal Comics and participated in numerous festivals and exhibitions. He will discuss his graphic novel L'Intranquille, which looks at what life would feel like without oppression.
Tue, Sep 19Building 14E. Room 304Sep 19, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMBuilding 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-Unis
Wed, Apr 26Building 14E. Room 304Apr 26, 2023, 5:15 PM – Apr 27, 2023, 6:45 PMBuilding 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisApr 26, 2023, 5:15 PM – Apr 27, 2023, 6:45 PMBuilding 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisProf. Annabel Kim presents her new book Cacaphonies. She will argue for feces as a figure of radical equality, both a literary object and a reflection on literature itself. The shit in the canon expresses a call to democratize literature, making literature for all, just as shit is for (or of) all.
Thu, Apr 06Building 4. Room 163Apr 06, 2023, 5:00 PM – Apr 07, 2023, 6:30 PMBuilding 4. Room 163, 182 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, USAApr 06, 2023, 5:00 PM – Apr 07, 2023, 6:30 PMBuilding 4. Room 163, 182 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, USAThe rest of the world imagines the typical Parisian woman as white, slim, and elegant, a bike-riding cigarette smoker. Yet Paris is one of the most ethnicaIly diverse cities in the world. Diallo dismantles the cliché by introducing us to today's Parisian women in all their diversity.
Wed, Mar 15Building E51. Room 095.Mar 15, 2023, 5:00 PM – Mar 16, 2023, 6:30 PMBuilding E51. Room 095., MIT Campus. Building E51. Room 095Mar 15, 2023, 5:00 PM – Mar 16, 2023, 6:30 PMBuilding E51. Room 095., MIT Campus. Building E51. Room 095The talk will analyze how waiting for Hugo – to die, to be portrayed, and to be buried – was experienced in different ways, from the profoundly intimate and emotional to the empty and commodified. Mary Hunter is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University.
Mon, Oct 24MIT campus. 14E-304Oct 24, 2022, 5:00 PM – Oct 25, 2022, 6:30 PMMIT campus. 14E-304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisOct 24, 2022, 5:00 PM – Oct 25, 2022, 6:30 PMMIT campus. 14E-304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisFixers are men who perform a range of services for foreign journalists and armies: local informants, translators, drivers... Fixers existed in the Middle Ages, in situations such as crusades. The talk will create a dialogue between the fixers of the past and of the present (Iraq, Syria, etc.)
Wed, Oct 12Building E51. Room 275.Oct 12, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMBuilding E51. Room 275., CAMB-47-83, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisOct 12, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMBuilding E51. Room 275., CAMB-47-83, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisAvedik, Louis XIV’s Armenian Prisoner: Confessional Conflicts, Involuntary Movement, and Incarceration in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Event free and open to the public. Non-MIT members must register below
Plusieurs datesWed, Sep 28Theater Arts at MIT - W97Sep 28, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMTheater Arts at MIT - W97, 345 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisSep 28, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMTheater Arts at MIT - W97, 345 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisPresented in 1739 by a group of French aristocrats at a château outside of Paris, the Ballet des Porcelaines is an allegory for the French fascination with Chinese porcelain, sometimes referred to as “white gold.” Sept 27 at 12pm and 5pm. Sept 28 at 12pm. Registration below.
Wed, Sep 21Building 14E. Room 304Sep 21, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMBuilding 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisSep 21, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMBuilding 14E. Room 304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisIn 2006, antispeciesist Peter Singer theorized the concept of the “Paris exception.” Renan Larue will present the intellectual debates that vegetarianism has sparked since the 18th century before addressing the recent rise of veganism in France. Non-MIT members must register below.
Mon, May 02MIT campus. E51.095May 02, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT campus. E51.095, 70 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisMay 02, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT campus. E51.095, 70 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisHow the colonized saw their history unfolding; how they transcended enslavement, race and gender barriers; how they coalesced into a nation and a sovereign people. Free and open to the public. Non-MIT members must register below.
Wed, Apr 27MIT campus. 32-141Apr 27, 2022, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PMMIT campus. 32-141, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisApr 27, 2022, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PMMIT campus. 32-141, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139, États-UnisMalcom Ferdinand (University College London) presents his new book, Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (Polity Press, 2022). He challenges an environmental fracture driven by technocracy and capitalism, and a colonial fracture that marginalizes indigenous people.
Mon, Apr 25MIT campus. 14E-304Apr 25, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT campus. 14E-304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisApr 25, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMMIT campus. 14E-304, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, États-UnisIslamophobic discourse and policy in France has increasingly transcended the traditional left-right divide. Bharat analyzes the demonization of Muslims in the context of the crisis and decline of neo-liberal Western hegemony. Free and open to the public. Non-MIT members must register below.
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