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Following last year’s campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, President Reif will decide this fall semester how (or if) our university will take action against climate change. In the run-up to this potentially game-changing moment of decision, MIT Climate Countdown is hosting a series of public events, starting September 27, culminating in a…
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Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, is the University of Pennsylvania 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair. Her…
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Radius Goes to the Theater: Copenhagen
Friday, November 13, 2015 – 8:00pmCentral Square Theater; 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an evening at the theater! Central Square Theater is presenting the award-winning psychological mystery, Copenhagen, which “unravels what transpired” at the meeting of two brilliant physicists, Werner Heisenberg and Neils Bohr, who were fast friends but from enemy nations at the onset of World War…
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LISTEN TO THIS PROGRAM Join us on September 21 for a panel discussion, moderated by R. Scott Kemp, on “What Now?: The Iran Nuclear Deal” with panelists John Tirman of the MIT Center of International Studies, Lisbeth Gronlund of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Payam Mohseni of the…
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Sectarianism and the Quality of Social Welfare in Lebanon
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 – 4:30pmE51-345Melani Cammett is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She specializes in the political economy of development and the Middle East and North Africa and is the author of four books: A Political Economy of the Middle East (with Ishac Diwan, Alan Richards, and John Waterbury, 2015); Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and…