3 Questions: Wiebke Denecke on a landmark project for Chinese literature
The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature brings six centuries of classic texts to the world, in bilingual editions.
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Burchard Scholars gather to network, connect, and learn
The Burchard Scholars dinner series helps create conversations between academic disciplines.
Everything, everywhere all at once
Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.
Serious play at the MIT Game Lab
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MIT students build connections with Black and Indigenous Brazilians to investigate culture and the environment
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A civil discourse on climate change
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How do reasonable people disagree?
A study by philosopher Kevin Dorst explains how political differences can result from a process of “rational polarization.”
Celebrating diversity and cultural connections
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Foreign policy scholars examine the China-Russia relationship
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Professor Emeritus Willard R. Johnson, political scientist who specialized in African studies, dies at 87
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Writing code, and decoding the world
Héctor Beltrán’s new book examines hackers in Mexico, whose work leads them to reflect on the roles they play in society.
Meet the 2023 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Faculty members granted tenure in economics; history; literature; music; philosophy; political science; and science, technology, and society.
Centering feminism
Professor Lerna Ekmekcioglu investigates marginalized women and potential empowerment.