Program in STS

William Deringer of STS has his first book coming out in February about how quantitative economic arguments gained hold in the modern world.

When numbers started counting

New book by MIT assistant professor chronicles the birth of statistical arguments in public debate.

February 5, 2018

Left to right: Rania Ghosn, Rosalind Williams, and Caroline Jones joined guest lecturer Imre Szeman for a panel discussion after his talk on ways to shift from “petroculture.”

Energy transition through aesthetics and culture

MIT Energy Initiative seminar examines the role of the humanities, design, and aesthetics in catalyzing a fairer, more diverse energy future.

October 24, 2017

“The new museum will be an experimental place," says John Durant, director of the MIT Museum and a faculty member of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. "We are committed to the idea that the MIT Museum can operate along the same principles as the Institute as a whole. We want to try new ideas, test them, and report our findings.”

John Durant plans a new era for the MIT Museum

A new purpose-built museum will be an experimental place for wider conversations.

September 27, 2017

Top row: Sana Aiyar, Catherine Clark, Sasha Costanza-Chock. Middle row, Amy Finkelstein, Deborah Fitzgerald, Daniel Hidalgo. Bottom row: Justin Khoo, Bradford Skow, Craig Wilder

Nine SHASS faculty members awarded named professorships

Honored positions afford faculty additional support for research.

November 10, 2016

First Row: (left to right) Alberto Abadie, Isaiah Andrews, Dwaipayan Banerjee, Claire Conceison. Second Row: (left to right) Drew Fudenberg, Paul Roquet, Tamar Schapiro, Ariel White.

New faculty in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

SHASS welcomes eight new faculty members for 2016.

November 2, 2016

“Groovy Science,” from the University of Chicago Press, was co-edited by David Kaiser (pictured), head of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Groovy science, man!

Q&A: David Kaiser on our debt to science’s countercultural turn.

June 29, 2016

Eight from MIT awarded 2016 Fulbright grants

Grantees will spend the 2016-2017 academic year conducting research abroad.

June 16, 2016

“Algorithms, Identity, and Society” was held before a capacity audience at MIT’s Bartos Theater, and sponsored by MIT’s noted program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Identity theft?

Automation helps us in many ways, but does it steal our sense of self?

April 8, 2016

“The question I was beginning to ask was: How is it that Africa is not accounted for in technology studies?” says Clapperton Mavhunga. “How is it we are only accounted for in our social history and our suffering as victims? That’s when this inquiry that took me to MIT began.”

Stealth technology

Clapperton Mavhunga’s work uncovers an Africa where technology is abundant and sophisticated.

March 2, 2016

"Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age" (Penguin Press) by Sherry Turkle (pictured)

3 Questions: Sherry Turkle on “Reclaiming Conversation”

MIT professor talks about our need for face-to-face dialogue, in families, classrooms, and workplaces.

November 17, 2015

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, professor of the history of technology in the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society

Deborah Fitzgerald receives lifetime achievement award from the Agricultural History Society

November 10, 2015

David Mindell and the cover of “Our Robots, Ourselves” (Viking/Penguin)

Robots and us

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian.

October 13, 2015

MIT welcomes science communicators to Cambridge Oct. 9-13 for ScienceWriters2015

MIT will be the hub of the universe for science writers this October

Conference hosted by MIT-SHASS and the Knight Science Journalism fellowship program is the largest annual gathering of science communicators in the U.S.

September 9, 2015

Celebrating Einstein

events to mark 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity

Events across MIT will mark the 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity.

April 3, 2015

MIT Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative launches

Inaugural event, “Examining Ebola,” probes the current global public health emergency from multiple disciplinary perspectives.

November 19, 2014

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