Join us on Mon., April 8, '24  at 4-5:30pm in MIT's Hayden Library, 14-130 The Nexus This talk analyzes the role of U.S. empire in the creation of South American markets for tabulating equipment and early mainframe computers. Grounded in two major programs—the 1940 Census of the Americas and the 1960s Latin American Free Trade […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Join us on Monday, February 10, 2025, at 4pm in the Nexus, Hayden Library for a talk by Daniel Immerwahr, Humanities Professor at Northwestern University, on his upcoming book “This Too Shall Burn: America […]

Join us on Monday, February 24, 2025, at 12 pm in the Nexus, Hayden Library for a talk led by Zeynep Tufekci, Turkish-American sociologist and Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and […]

Join us on Monday, March 10th, at 4:00 PM in E51-275 for a special talk by Professor Dave Mindell on his new book: The New Lunar Society. The New Lunar […]