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Language tree captures diversity foundational to MIT

…academic season, starting a new tradition of bringing people together through a common appreciation for cultural expression and diversity. Over the course of the past academic year, anyone who walked…

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Students in IAP Ukrainian class participate in art workshop

…Hanna!” The class was also offered a year ago in IAP 2023, about which MIT News wrote an article: “Building bridges to Ukraine through language, art, and community.” See below…

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Mark Römisch

…taught at institutions in Germany and the US, including Harvard University and Wellesley College. He published Form and Landscape – Bauhaus in New England (2019), a photographic exploration of modernist…

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International Day of Sign Languages

…belonging. There is more realization today than before that hearing people should not impose their version of language or culture onto deaf people. For example, a recent New York Times

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Student Research Showcase inaugurated

…discovery of a new world, alienation, and trauma. I focus on the ways graphic memoirists employ abstraction (including simplification, deletion, substitution, and addition of non-realistic elements) to tell their stories….

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Academic Programs

…or to learn a new language. To declare a Concentration, consult with the relevant advisor and submit the HASS Concentration Form. Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Other…

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Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship

…longings it creates, of informationalism and its new technologies, of surveillance regimes and their travails, and of the way in which mobility/immobility and sovereignty are newly entangled and co-constitutive in…

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Russian students rock!

Gabrielle Marvez and Karen Camacho, second-year MIT undergrads, participated in the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian at the Davis Center at Harvard on Sunday, April 7. Keenan Albee (PhD,…

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How the struggle to define magic shaped the modern world

Hear about Graham Jones’ new book, Magic’s Reason, due out in December 2017 from University Of Chicago Press. Focusing on scenes of intercultural performance in colonial Algeria, this talk explores…

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Cornelius Kubler Lecture

…and dictation; the importance of training in both informal and formal registers, especially when teaching Chinese for specific purposes; and a new perspective on the Chinese writing system. The talk…

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GSL Brown Bag Lunch Series: Developing Hybrid Courses for Language Instruction

…panels. Light lunch provided. THURSDAY, MAR. 1 • 12:00 – 2:00 PM • 14N-417 This roundtable aims at presenting, exploring and reflecting on new approaches to designing, developing and enhancing…

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China Comes to Tech: 1877-1931

…their country’s modernization through engineering, science, and commerce. These students played a key role in bringing new technology and science back to China during an era of rapid modernization, while…

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