Topic
Humanities
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3 Questions: Anne McCants on climate change in history
How, in the nadir of the Little Ice Age, did the Dutch generate a golden age?
May 6, 2020 -
Meet the MIT bilinguals: Dual history and planetary science major Charlotte Minsky
Studying history has made her a better planetary scientist, Minsky says. And studying science has made her a better historian.
April 28, 2020 -
Remembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Longtime professor played a major role in encouraging MIT to ask new questions that significantly broadened the Institute’s educational mission.
April 18, 2020 -
Attacking climate change, one human story at a time
An MIT course arms students with rhetorical weaponry to fight global warming.
April 16, 2020 -
Thirty-eight exceptional MIT students named 2020 Burchard Scholars
Students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills at dinner-seminars with MIT faculty.
February 25, 2020 -
3 Questions: Isabelle de Courtivron on the shock of becoming old
MIT professor emerita talks about her new memoir and aging in a patriarchal society.
February 3, 2020 -
Computing and artificial intelligence: Humanistic perspectives from MIT
How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.
September 24, 2019 -
MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 76 students from the Class of 2019
The new members of Xi of Massachusetts, the MIT chapter of PBK, combine the best of humanities, natural science, and social science scholarship.
June 20, 2019 -
MIT Policy Lab launches MITx course on policy outreach
The new online course aims to help researchers engage with public policymakers.
May 16, 2019 -
Susan Silbey earns faculty’s prestigious Killian Award
Innovative sociologist of law granted MIT’s highest faculty honor.
May 15, 2019 -
MIT Program in Digital Humanities launches with $1.3 million Mellon Foundation grant
Among the program's offerings, the Digital Humanities Lab applies computational tools to humanistic research — and builds a community fluent in both languages.
April 17, 2019 -
Learning to study a painful past
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu studies pioneering Armenian women of the 19th and 20th centuries — and helps other scholars enter her field.
March 7, 2019 -
Thirty-six MIT students selected as 2019 Burchard Scholars
In a dinner-seminar program of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills.
February 13, 2019 -
Science as a social practice
PhD student Marion Boulicault believes in an interdisciplinary path forward for science, feminism, and philosophy.
January 17, 2019 -
Q&A: Roger Conover on a lifetime in publishing
Longtime executive editor for art and architecture at the MIT Press discusses his experiences in the publishing world.
December 12, 2018 -
When Japan met the world
Inspired by a family background with extensive U.S-Japan ties, historian Hiromu Nagahara explores Japan’s cultural links to other societies.
November 20, 2018 -
I think, therefore I code
Senior Jessy Lin, a double major in EECS and philosophy, is programming for social good.
November 15, 2018 -
Times Higher Education ranks MIT No.1 in business and economics, No.2 in arts and humanities
Worldwide honors for 2019 span three MIT schools.
November 15, 2018 -
Unraveling the complex histories of Palestinian artwork
“My job is to be critical and deep as an art historian, and not as a politician,” says PhD student Nisa Ari.
October 22, 2018 -
New recording blends old Europe and contemporary Cambridge
Pianist David Deveau’s latest album interprets works by Beethoven, Mozart, and MIT’s own John Harbison.
September 21, 2018