Events
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Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH) – Indian Landlords and Socialist Votes: Imperial Indigestion in Oklahoma,
Building E51 Room 285Please join us for the second SEAH of the Fall 2025 semester. This event will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participants to join in person or via Zoom. […]
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Michał Pospiszyl “Escape Ecologies: Peasants, Nature, and Power in Eastern Europe, 1700-1850”
E51-275Michał Pospiszyl traces how the presence of escape ecologies (forests, swamps, wastelands) influenced the relationship between subjects and centers of power (nobility and state) in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth […]
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Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies Workshop – Perspectives from Behavioral Sciences
E51 - Wong Auditorium 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesReturning to MIT in Fall 2025 after a successful 2023 edition, Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies: Perspectives from the Behavioral Sciences is a two-day interdisciplinary workshop that […]
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Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH) – Becoming History: Species Extinctions in the Americas, 13000 BCE to the Present
Building E51 Room 285Please join us for the final SEAH of the Fall 2025 semester. This event will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participants to join in person or via Zoom. […]
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience
MIT Museum Gambrill Center, 314 Main St, cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with acclaimed MIT historian Kate Brown, author of Tiny Gardens Everywhere, in dialogue with Antoine Picon, as they explore the deep, surprising, and often radical […]
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2025-26 Morison Prize and Lecture with Catherine Coleman Flowers
The Nexus at Hayden Library (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us on Monday, April 13, 2026, at 4 pm in the Nexus, Hayden Library, for a talk led by Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental and climate justice activist bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. Science and Technology: A Collaboration for Justice […]
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Deep Forensics: A Conversation on Disappearance, Technology, and Layered Violence in Mexico
E51-095Join us on Wednesday, April 15th, from 4-6 pm in E51-095 for a special lecture with Professors Lindsay Smith and Vivette García-Deister titled "Deep Forensics: A Conversation on Disappearance, Technology and Layered Violence in Mexico." Speakers: Lindsay A. Smith (Arizona State University, ASU) Vivette García-Deister (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) Moderated by: Eden Medina […]
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KSJ + STS Spring Lecture – Confronting Race in Science, Medicine, and Journalism
The Nexus at Hayden Library (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the Knight Science Journalism program and the program in Science, Technology, and Society on Thursday, April 23rd at 4:30 pm in the Nexus at Hayden Library (14S-130) for a thoughtful discussion on the history of race in the fields of science, medicine, and journalism, and its implications for the future. Featuring Oliver Rollins, Professor, […]