Humanities

Comparative Media Studies graduate student Parmesh Shahani organized the "Between the Lines" conference.

'Between the Lines' explores South Asian LGBT identity

March 31, 2004

Syrian ambassador visits

March 10, 2004

Creeley and Lacy kick off 'Words and Music' series

March 10, 2004

A Buddhist monk painstakingly creates a pattern in sand as he works on the Chenrezig Mandala, which symbolizes creation of the universe in a three-dimensional circular pattern. He gently scrapes an empty funnel held in his right hand along a sand-filled funnel in his left hand to carefully control how he places the sand. Monks created the mandala over several days in Simmons Hall.

Mandala takes shape, then drifts away

March 10, 2004

NPR commentator Sarah Vowell speaks with students at the Media Lab.

Vowell of 'American Life' delights MIT audience

March 10, 2004

Professor Edward Farhi (right), who argued on behalf of latkes, jokingly derides hamentashen, represented at the debate in human form by Sophie Rapoport, a sophomore in mathematics. Seated behind them is emcee Donald Sadoway.

Triangular pastry squares off against potato pancake

March 3, 2004

Simmons Hall will be the site for an unusual creation--the Chenrezig Mandala, an intricate but temporary three-dimensional image made of colored sand. Buddhist monks will begin making the mandala on March 3.

The universe goes round the mandala

March 3, 2004

The Chenrezig Mandala, to be constructed by Buddhist monks at MIT commencing March 3.

The world goes round the mandala

March 1, 2004

African-American museum comes to life

February 25, 2004

NPR 'geek funny girl' visits MIT

February 25, 2004

"We used to talk about being in the back of the bus. Today the real question is, do you have bus fare?" Julianne Malveaux
Economist and columnist

Malveaux hits discrimination targets

Economic and political inequities 'dismantling the dream,' MLK speaker says

February 11, 2004

Racial divide is really an imaginary fault line, profs say

February 11, 2004

Julianne Malveaux speaks at the 30th annual Martin Luther King breakfast.

Malveaux takes aims at political, economic sources of discrimination

February 9, 2004

Burchard Scholars selected

February 4, 2004

MLK Awards to be served at breakfast

January 28, 2004

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Vowell of 'American Life' delights MIT audience

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The universe goes round the mandala

The world goes round the mandala

African-American museum comes to life

NPR 'geek funny girl' visits MIT

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Racial divide is really an imaginary fault line, profs say

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