Events

Join us on Thursday, October 10th at 4:15 PM for a special talk by guest lecturer Sarah Tarlow - Radical Honesty: Life Writing, Academic Writing and Living Dangerously. What makes a powerful memoir? While telling a great story certainly helps, Sarah Tarlow will argue what distinguishes the best life writing is radical honesty. Furthermore, the […]

Free speech is indispensable on college campuses: allowing varied views and frank exchanges of opinion is a core component of the educational enterprise and the pursuit of truth. But free speech does not mean a free-for-all. The First Amendment prohibits “abridging the freedom of speech,” yet laws against perjury or bribery, for example, are still […]

Friday, June 07, 2024 at 9:00am to 5:00pm Saturday, June 08, 2024 at 9:00am to 3:00pm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wong Auditorium, E51-115 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 The MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society will host an exploratory symposium on “The History of Technology: Past, Present, and Future.” Over twenty […]