Fall Speaker Series 2022 – Monday, Sept. 19, 2022 – The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil and Sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago
Anthropology • History • Science, Technology, and Society Ryan Jobson Department of Anthropology University of Chicago Monday, Sept. 19 4:00PM-5:30PM Hayden Library, Nexus 14S-130* *Individuals who do not have an MIT ID must RSVP by Friday, Sept. 16, 12pm to be registered for campus access via Tim Tickets. Please email sts-events@mit.edu. The Petro-State […]
Spring Speaker Series 2023 – Monday, Feb. 13, 2023 – Bananapocalypse: Externalities in the Making of Plantation Capitalism
Anthropology • History • Science, Technology, and Society Alyssa Paredes Department of Anthropology University of Michigan Monday, Feb. 13 4:00PM-5:30PM Hayden Library, Nexus 14S-130 Questions? Please email sts-events@mit.edu. Bananapocalypse: Externalities in the Making of Plantation Capitalism Plantation regimes and transnational commodity trading confront a serious challenge in the 21st century. For every […]
2022-23 Morison Prize and Lecture with danah boyd, PhD – “Made, Not Found: Grappling with the Vulnerabilities of Data”
E51 - Wong Auditorium 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFrom danah boyd's website: danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the US […]
Arthur Miller Lecture in Science and Ethics: “Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?” by Geoffrey Hinton
Virtual MA, United States“Humanity is at a turning point with AI,” says Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence. The cognitive scientist and computer scientist who designed machine learning algorithms at Google and recently quit after 10 years will address his concerns about accelerated progress of deep learning and its potential impact on humanity. AI is […]
Panel on “Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases”
14-130You are kindly invited to the Panel Discussion (Dec 5th) and Exhibit (Dec 4-13th) on the "Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases.” Please sign up for the panel discussion at this link: https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/infectiousdisease_paradigmshift Speakers and Panelists: Prof. Joel Gill, Boston University https://www.bu.edu/cfa/about/contact-directions/directory/joel-christian-gill/ Prof. John Durant, MIT https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/john-durant/ Prof. Edward Nardell, Harvard University https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/edward-anthony-nardell Prof. Robin Scheffler, […]
“Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?” by Geoffrey Hinton
Arthur Miller Lecture in Science and Ethics: “Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?” by Geoffrey Hinton December 11 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Humanity is at a turning point with AI,” says Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence. The cognitive scientist and computer scientist who designed machine learning algorithms at Google […]
Spring Speaker Series 2024: “Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds “
14-130On Monday, February 5, 2024, at 4pm, Assoc. Professor in Sociology, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra from the U of C, SD will speak at 4pm in the Nexus, Hayden Library, 14S-130 on the topic of "Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds." The talk is jointly sponsored talk with STS, Anthropology and History. Here's […]
Book Launch and Panel Discussion for “How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design”
MIT Morningside Academy for Design invites you to a book launch and panel discussion with Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, Pedro Ignacio Alonso (eds.) How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design REGISTER HERE Monday, March 11, 5:30 p.m. MIT 9-255 website A video of the museum installation Cómo diseñar una revolución will follow the panel discussion. The video installation will run in […]