Join us in the Rotch Library conference room on Friday, January 21, from noon-1:30 for week three of the 4th annual Rotch Library IAP Film Series. See our complete film schedule on the IAP calendar.
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Youth Visions of Jerusalem: Short Films and Photography by Palestinian Youth, produced by Voices Behind Walls (2009 -55 min.) Friday, January 21st, noon-1:30 pm
Youth Visions of Jerusalem shows how Palestinian children develop spatial representations and creative media narratives in the contested spaces of the Old City and Shu’fat refugee camp, both a part of the divided city of Jerusalem today.
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This week – Special Guest!
The filmmaker for Youth Visions of Jerusalem, Nitin Sawhney, will be joining us for the screening on Friday. Nitin Sawhney is a fellow in MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media. His ongoing research and teaching engages the critical role of the arts and technology interventions in contested spaces and conditions of conflict and crisis. http://civic.mit.edu/blog/nitin
Join us in the Rotch Library conference room on Friday, January 21, from noon-1:30 for week three of the 4th annual Rotch Library IAP Film Series. See our complete film schedule on the IAP calendar.
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Youth Visions of Jerusalem: Short Films and Photography by Palestinian Youth, produced by Voices Behind Walls (2009 -55 min.) Friday, January 21st, noon-1:30 pm
Youth Visions of Jerusalem shows how Palestinian children develop spatial representations and creative media narratives in the contested spaces of the Old City and Shu’fat refugee camp, both a part of the divided city of Jerusalem today.
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This week – Special Guest!
The filmmaker for Youth Visions of Jerusalem, Nitin Sawhney, will be joining us for the screening on Friday. Nitin Sawhney is a fellow in MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media. His ongoing research and teaching engages the critical role of the arts and technology interventions in contested spaces and conditions of conflict and crisis. http://civic.mit.edu/blog/nitin
The current exhibit at Rotch Libraryshowcases the work conducted by Voices Beyond Walls, a non-profit media initiative supporting creative expression and human rights advocacy among impoverished youth, co-founded by Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D., a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
Voices Beyond Walls spent time in community centers in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza to produce the photography and films showcased in the exhibit.
Re-imagining Gaza (2010) provides perspectives from Palestinian youth in Gaza City, the Jabaliya refugee camp, and the Gaza buffer zone, re-imagining their lives despite the ongoing blockade and recent war in the Gaza Strip.
Youth Visions of Jerusalem (2009) shows how Palestinian children develop spatial representations and creative media narratives in the contested spaces of the Old City and Shu’fat refugee camp, both a part of the divided city of Jerusalem today.
The exhibit was designed by Jegan Vincent de Paul, a Research Fellow in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. It is supported by the Council for the Arts at MIT and an ACT Director’s Discretionary Grant.
Physical/Virtual: MIT Libraries in the Digital Age, a program sponsored by the MIT Alumni Club of Boston, will feature a panel discussion moderated by Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries. This discussion will explore the diverse ways the Libraries support teaching and research at MIT today. The panel will include Tom Rosko, Head of the Institute Archives and Special Collections; Ellen Duranceau, Program Manager of Scholarly Publishing and Licensing; and Angie Locknar, a librarian who will discuss innovative instructional programs (including collaboration with Don Sadoway’s famous Introduction to Solid State Chemistry).
A reception with members of the panel will follow in the Institute Archives and Special Collections, including a special opportunity to visit the Libraries’ fall exhibition “Tell her to go to it: Women’s Experiences at MIT” with the exhibition curators. Refreshments will be served.
The event is open to everyone. Tickets are $15 for alumni club members and guests, $25 for non-members, $5 for students. Register online before 8pm Tues. 11/2. For more information, contact Steven Horsch at horsch@mit.edu, or 617-452-2123.
Water Works features paintings by Carol Schweigert from Dewey Library’s Access Services. Schweigert’s passion is for painting from direct observation in both oil and gouache, indoors and out. MIT and scenes on the Charles River are common themes she has explored. Four MIT dome studies painted by Schweigert hang in Dewey Library and were the subject of an article in the May 3, 2010 issue of News@MITSloan. This exhibit offers the opportunity to see more of Schweigert’s paintings and sketches.
Join us for a lively discussion and Q&A with Gioia De Cari from “Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp though MIT’s Male Math Maze,” an autobiographical solo show in which she reflects with wit and wisdom on her experience at MIT, the world of elite mathematics and the role of women in science. The discussion will be followed by refreshments and a chance to win tickets to “Truth Values!”
This event is sponsored by the MIT Libraries in conjunction with “Tell her to go to it” an exhibit on women’s experiences at MIT. For more information about the exhibit see the gallery website, or contact maihaugen-lib@mit.edu.
Since 2005, Vanke Corporation has sponsored research seminars, studios, and workshops at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the topic of sustainable residential development. This exhibit synthesizes the four years of ideas, discussion, drawings, and writings produced by the students involved. The issues explored were: resource efficiency, the natural environment, community facilities and mobility.
This exhibit is bilingual, in Chinese and English.
“If a girl comes along who really wants to be an engineer tell her to go to it,” said Lydia Weld, Class of 1904.
The wisdom and determination of MIT’s women are showcased in a new exhibit in the Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) that reveals the history of women establishing themselves as students, faculty, administrators and staff at MIT. From the first women’s labs and dorms, to finding community and equity in the ranks, learn about their story through original letters, publications, photos and records from the Institute Archives. The exhibit runs September 13 through December 1, 2010.
In conjunction with the exhibit, on Monday, September 20 at 3pm in Killian Hall (14W-111) the Libraries are hosting an event with Gioia De Cari, the MIT graduate currently performing her solo show “Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp though MIT’s Male Math Maze.” With wit and wisdom De Cari explores her experience at MIT, the world of elite mathematics and the role of women in science. Join us for a discussion and Q & A with De Cari followed by refreshments and a chance to win tickets to “Truth Values.”
Speaker: Kristel Smentek, Assistant Professor of Art History
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 12, Noon-1pm
Location: Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130)
Kristel Smentek, Assistant Professor of Art History and co-curator of the exhibition Technology and Enlightenment, leads an informal tour and discussion of how work is pictured in Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
This event is part of a series of events associated with Technology and Enlightenment, an exhibition in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) that explores one of the most important and controversial publications of the eighteenth century, Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
Samuelson was a defining figure of twentieth-century economics who both transformed many of the fundamentals of the discipline and shaped the department here at MIT. He is widely recognized for increasing the rigor and use of mathematics in the discipline and for introducing Keynesian economics to a wider audience. He received numerous awards over his lifetime, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 1970; and the National Medal of Science in 1996; and in 1947 the John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association’s award for the best American economist under the age of 40.
Hosted by Dewey Library for Management and Social Sciences, the exhibit highlights the development of Samuelson’s influential textbook, Economics, the best-selling economics textbook of all time. Over its nineteen editions, it has sold nearly four million copies and been translated into 40 languages.
MIT Libraries’ book conservator, Nancy Schrock, discusses Diderot’s Encyclopédie as an example 18th century French papermaking and bookbinding.
This event is part of a series of events associated with Technology and Enlightenment, an exhibition in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) that explores one of the most important and controversial publications of the eighteenth century, Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
Selected Photos from the Legatum Center’s 2nd Annual Photo Competition
The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania Installing Solar Lighting Systems
On view at Rotch Library (7-238)
March 1 – 31, 2010
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship presents this exhibit of winning and honorable mention photographs from the Center’s 2nd Annual Photo Competition, which sought photos of women entrepreneurs in low-income countries using transformative technologies. Drawing on photography as a powerful tool to spread the message of economic and social progress through entrepreneurship, the exhibit showcases stories of entrepreneurial activity, innovation, and empowerment in the developing world. By displaying the winning photos, chosen from nearly 700 submissions from 50 countries, the Legatum Center aims to present a new, dignified vision for development that inspires action.
Mention of the Caribbean usually conjures mental images of sun, sea and sand. Mention of Trinidad and Tobago may invoke images of carnival and steelpan. This exhibition presents photographs of another side of the twin-island state – its industrial landscape, specifically, the areas developed by heavy industries in the oil and gas sectors.
On view at Rotch Library (7-238) now through February 25, 2010.
Photographer: Kristal Peters
Funded (in part) by a Director’s Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT, and MIT’s Caribbean Club.
A new exhibit opens in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery on Wednesday, February 3. Technology and Enlightenment: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot’s Encyclopédie explores one of the most important and controversial publications of the eighteenth century, Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
This massive work became infamous in its day as an enlightened attack on French and European religious dogmatism and monarchical inefficiency and injustice. Containing over 2,500 elaborately engraved plates, it documented the mechanical arts and technology, placing equal importance on the manual trades as the arts and sciences.
Curated by Jeffrey S. Ravel, MIT Associate Professor of History, and Kristel Smentek, MIT Assistant Professor of Art History, the exhibit features fascinating images chosen from the 32 original folio volumes owned by the MIT Libraries, as well as multimedia components illustrating the Encylopedie’s significance. The exhibit is open to the public Mon.-Thurs. during gallery hours, and runs through July 2010.
This exhibition provides a photo chronicle of contemporary life in Kosovo. Kosovo’s political condition and its effect on the Kosovar people is complex, ambiguous, and fluid. At best, this effect can be grasped only through examples and snapshots that provide momentary understanding. The exhibition is an attempt is to provide a lens into contemporary Kosovo through the individuals the artist met and the stories they were willing to share with her. The collection of many small stories culminated in two larger ones, the lives of Medina, an 11-year old girl growing up in a suburb of Prishtina, and Sabahet, a student at Prishtina University. This volume chronicles their daily life, with the remnants and ripples of past conflict still visible and affecting them today.
Power Supply: Energy Resources in the MIT Libraries is a new exhibit in the Maihaugen Gallery that showcases “energy resources” in the Libraries that have supported and resulted from research and education throughout the Institute’s history. Included are books and articles from historical collections, examples of rich working collections, theses by MIT students, and video (below) highlighting MIT’s current efforts in energy research.
The MIT Community is invited to an opening reception on Friday, October 23, 1-3pm in the Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130). Check out the exhibit and enjoy refreshments with friends!
Tomes & Domes: Islamic Architecture Collections at Rotch Library opens on Thursday, October 15 in Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning (7-238). The exhibit highlights items from the library’s extensive collection of materials related to architecture and planning in the Islamic world. It features items used in The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) and includes photographs taken by MIT students supported by the AKPIA Travel Grant. It was funded in part by Robert M. Randolph, Chaplain to the Institute, Office of Religious Life and the Council for the Arts at MIT. The exhibit will run through November 25.
Monday, July 20th marks the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, when heroic MIT graduate Buzz Aldrin took his historic steps on the lunar surface.
Institute Archives’ records reveal that it was an accomplishment he had only dreamed about as a graduate student. In the dedication of his PhD thesis, Aldrin wrote, “In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space this is dedicated to the crew members of this country’s present and future manned space programs. If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors!”
usalem: Short Films and Photography by Palestinian Youth, produced by Voices Behind Walls (2009 -55 min.)
On view: November 1, 2010-January 28, 2011
Monday, Sept.20 at 3pm in Killian Hall (14W-111)
Rotch Library Exhibition
Speaker: Kristel Smentek, Assistant Professor of Art History
Speaker: Nancy Schrock, Conservator for Special Collections
An Uncertain Moment
