I discovered that has a digitized collection of protest murals created during the dictatorship (1973-1990). Sharing so that others can peruse and make use of this resource!
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Historian of tech . Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own
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Un pisco sour en la sala de operaciones con l@s diseñador@s originales de la sala. Salud! 🥂
I am thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibit I am co-curating with & . “Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño” will open September 7 . 380+ pieces + 1st full-scale reconstruction of the Cybersyn opsroom! tinyurl.com/yvscp8pp 1/n
Yesterday I started a new appointment as associate professor with tenure in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society . I am so excited to be back at the place where I got my Ph.D., now as a member of the faculty. students, see you soon!
Want to learn more about the Cybersyn history? Check out my book Cybernetic Revolutionaries (MIT Press), also available in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, and soon Korean.
Want to know more about Project Cybersyn and enter a full-scale reconstruction of the operations room? Visit How to Design a Revolution // Como diseñar una revolución, exhibit open to the public Sept. 8
in Santiago 🇨🇱! tinyurl.com/yvscp8pp
Textbooks for Data and Society (Spring 2022) co-taught with . @JAnneBeaulieu
Excited to be joining as a 2020-21 fellow. Especially looking forward to getting to know the other members of my cohort!
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Brava! @edenmedina, Assoc Prof in @MITPSTS, has been named a 2020–21 Radcliffe Institute Fellow! Over the fellowship year, she'll do research and writing for a book that connects sci/tech history to the ways nations respond to traumatic events of the past. bit.ly/MedinaFellowsh
From the archive: Seventeen Magazine from 1954 tells girls to become engineers, pioneer atom power and jet propulsion
Cybernetic Revolutionaries is now in Chinese! Many thanks to and East China Normal University Press for making it happen.
I'm on a podcast! Many thanks to for the chance to share my work with a global audience and to for the engaging conversation. Want to learn more? My book Cybernetic Revolutionaries is available in English, Spanish, & Chinese (print & kindle).
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This week @edenmedina joins @parismarx to discuss the history and lessons of Chile’s Project Cybersyn.
In this clip, Eden explains how computing history is global and implores us to look beyond the US tech industry for inspiration.
Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/projec
Want to learn more about the ideas underlying Project Cybersyn? Check out the New Books Network podcast on systems and cybernetics.
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Seamlessly blending compelling storytelling & technological, political & cultural analysis, @edenmedina's CYBERNETIC REVOLUTIONARIES (@mitpress) is a penetrating study of Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn in 1970s Chile. #ReadUP # #ListenUP 
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50 years ago today, British cybernetician Stafford Beer met with Chilean president Salvador Allende to discuss the creation of a system for cybernetic management that would become Project Cybersyn.
1949 Seventeen Magazine discusses book Cybernetics by MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener. #WomenInSTEM #histSTM
How did Cuban socialism and liberation theology create alternatives in the field of library and information science? Check out article by Rodrigo Ochigame, winner of the 2020 Bob Williams Research Paper Award!
Excited to be teaching STS.458 Science, Technology, and Human Rights this fall and coordinating the Speaker Series on Science, Technology, and Human Rights that will be connected to the class!
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Our brand NEW grad class, STS.458 Science, Technology, & Human Rights, explores the relationship of science and technology to ideas about human rights over time.
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@mit_cmsw @MITPoliSci @HarvardHistSci @MIT_SHASS @SHASS4Students @MITGradStudents @MITstudents
Just learned that Cybernetic Revolutionaries will be translated into Polish. I’m thrilled that the book will be reaching a new Polish speaking audience and joining previous translations in Spanish and Chinese!
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Gui Bonsiepe al ver la reconstrucción de la sala de operaciones Cybersyn ayer en @ccplm. Sin duda, fue muy emocionante la inauguración de la exposición “Cómo diseñar una revolución: la vía chilena al diseño”. ¡Los invitamos a visitarla desde hoy!
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Thank you . I am honored and thrilled to have my article in Technology & Culture join the distinguished list of Payson Usher prize recipients. Also appreciate work of T&C EIC Suzanne Moon, managing editor Peter Soppelsa, and special issue editor ! #Shot2019
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Eden Medina accepts the Payson Usher Prize #shotmilano @tjmisa8 @p_mohun @edenmedina
These beautiful posters are now up outside of the La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace. We open in one week!
"Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño", curated by , , and , , 50.cl/como-disenar-u #50Años #50years
This was so much fun. Thank you for the opportunity to see the brilliant #TrainingHumans exhibit in Milan & have this conversation with & .
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Scholars @edenmedina @mysdick @jacobgaboury discussing what is made visible and invisible when biometric data is used to train machines. #TrainingHumans
Congratulations to on passing her qualifying exams with flying colors!! 🎉🎉🎉
I made a similar comment yesterday -- many of today's tech quandaries are not new, we've been here before.
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AI conferences seem to need social scientists and historians. #EmTechMIT ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Opening tonight!
“Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño“
“How to Design A Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design”
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En un par de horas se inaugura la exposición “Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño, sobre el diseño gráfico e industrial en la UP. Tiene además, la primera reconstrucción de la Sala de Operaciones Cybersyn o proyecto Synco. Les voy a mostrar un poco de lo que vi.
Look what I have -- a beautiful new book on Abstractions and Embodiments in Computer History. Recommended!
A couple of weeks ago hosted an excellent panel on AI & Ethics that brought together . It was fabulous, and now online.
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In case you missed it - video recording of the AI&Ethics panel discussion with @FoxHarrell @mysdick @dourish @safiyanoble @MIT_SHASS @mit_cmsw @MITanthropology youtu.be/tjYvx_xidF4
The recent Data and Society class I co-taught with as part of the new Computing and Society Concentration. The course brought the social and technical together in data science teaching & bridged and !
A short piece I wrote with . Our recommendation for the new College of Computing: have research and teaching adopt a global approach — one that views the U.S. experience as one among many. #globalcomputing
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Interested in histories of disability and computing? Check out this excellent new Think Piece by grad student just published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing! ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum 👇
Join us on Tuesday Nov. 16 @ 2:30pm ET for the final speaker in the Science, Technology, and Human Rights speaker series. will be sharing work from her book A Future History of Water. Register here: bit.ly/3DfKmbq
Check out the new concentration in Computing and Society. Excited to be teaching STS.083 Computers and Social Change this fall and STS.005J Data and Society this spring. Thanks for mentioning both!
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And ALSO on 9/22 12PM ET, book launch for Uncertain Archives (@mitpress), with editors @NThylstrup, @Agos_Daniella, @_annie_ring, @kanarinka, & @KristinVeel + contributing authors @farbandish, @boazmlevin, @tollve, @RonMorrison_, & @profwernimont. Register-bit.ly/uncertainArchi
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Amazing conference #ComputerFire! Folks might be interested in my essay that discusses the slippery nature of network design to national political projects publicbooks.org/the-politics-o & also reviews the book by !
I look forward to seeing the TRAINING HUMANS exhibit in Milan and am honored to be part of the accompanying symposium on Oct. 26 with fellow speakers and . If you are in Milan for come check it out!
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Interested in the politics of training data? The TRAINING HUMANS Symposium is in Milan this Sat, Oct 26. Speakers:
@edenmedina @jacobgaboury @mysdick @trevorpaglen
& me. Free. RSVP traininghumans@fondazioneprada.org (short walk from @SocHistTech conf) fondazioneprada.org/project/traini
Congrats to all the students who presented dissertation proposals today. You are all brilliant and I can't wait to see these works-in-progress as they develop!
Class starts next week!
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Data can be easy to gather—but its implications are harder to discern. In their @MITPSTS Data & Society class, Profs @edenmedina & Sarah Williams engage students with the ethics and societial implications of data creation, analysis & use. @SHASS4Students bit.ly/DataSociety
Video from the opening of "Como diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño." Gracias for posting!
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Estamos felices por la alta convocatoria que tuvo la inauguración de la exposición “Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño”.
La muestra nos acerca al diseño gráfico e industrial realizado durante el gobierno del presidente Salvador Allende.
Estamos felices por la alta convocatoria que tuvo la inauguración de la exposición “Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño”.
La muestra nos acerca al diseño gráfico e industrial realizado durante el gobierno del presidente Salvador Allende.
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La Unidad Popular sigue siendo uno de los periodos de mayor innovación tecnológica en la historia de Chile
#cybersyn @edenmedina #50AnosDelGolpe
Honored to have my work included in the current issue of APuZ on🇨🇱alongside the work of , Evelyn Hevia Jordán, Jan Stehle, , Stephan Ruderer and Johanna Höhl. #50years #Chile #September11 #Cybersyn
Congratulations to the newest Ph.D., Dr. !!! Congratulations also to co-advisors Graham Jones and and fellow committee member ! 🎉🎉🎉
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Congratulations to newly-minted Dr. @crystaljjlee, @mitvis’ very first PhD graduate, who gave a tour-de-force thesis presentation!!! 
Well, that was fun! Many thanks to speakers & for sharing their expertise on ethics and AI and and the Miller family for making the annual Miller lecture on science and ethics possible!
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Inspired by the important research and deeply thoughtful discussion @MITPSTS panel on AI ethics with
@edenmedina @histoftech @random_walker @STurkle, in particular highlighting the pedagogical urgency and creative approaches to sci/tech education reform broadly. @Station1Edu
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We're building a 1:1 reconstruction of the Cybersyn operations room in consultation with many of the original graphic and industrial designers. One of the best ways to learn about the history of a space is to build it! The chairs are now being built and they are *chef’s kiss* 7/n
As ARPANET turns 50, historians of tech talk to on histories of computer networking that include and go beyond the ARPANET story.
I can’t believe I have an office down the hall from this painting! #cyborgs #donnaharaway #feministSTS
The program will not admit a new graduate class this year to prioritize the support of current doctoral students. "HASTS is so vibrant and successful because of our students’ commitment to the program and the program’s commitment to them."
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I am very excited to share the news about our @ssrc_org funded project The Future of Facts in Latin America #futureoffacts Co-organized with Eden Medina (@edenmedina) and Kregg Hetherington (@krether ). We are lucky to have convened an incredible group of colleagues...
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I fully agree with . Crystal is a talented member of the doctoral program working at the intersection of STS, anthropology, and HCI. Attacking a junior scholar in this way is completely unacceptable. Shame indeed.
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This tweet crosses the line. Critiquing the substance of a piece of research is one thing. But, it is absolutely unacceptable to target a PhD student in this way.
Shame. twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013…
Want to know more about Project Cybersyn and enter a full-scale reconstruction of the operations room? Visit the exhibition How to Design a Revolution // Como diseñar una revolución, open to the public Sept. 8 in Santiago 🇨🇱! tinyurl.com/yvscp8pp
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La idea era crear un sistema para administrar de manera eficiente una economía socialista, aplicando la cibernética a la gestión de las redes industriales chilenas.
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Announcing the CFP for STORED IN MEMORY: The 10th Annual @SIGCIS Conference.
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Keynote Speaker @edenmedina
Proposals for papers, panels, works in progress, etc due June 30. Conference takes place Oct 14 in St. Louis.
Another example of tech amplifying existing power structures (& the importance of looking beyond values convenience and connectivity in tech for home).
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A new pattern of behavior in domestic abuse cases is tied to smart home technology. Internet-connected locks, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras are being used as a means for harassment, monitoring, revenge and control. nyti.ms/2tsnSSt
Check out the new course "History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics Edition" — course starts this week and is open to the public! twitter.com/MalickGhachem/
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My new essay on Soviet Internet book by and relationship of network architecture to politics and power #histSTM
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.@edenmedina on the Cold War roots of the internet: buff.ly/2fb7v4Q @iusoic @IUBhistory @yaleisp @hahr21
The new issue of Revista Diseña is out on History of Design, Techniques, and Technology w/ essays & articles by (and others!) and interview with Francesca Bray #histtech #histdesign revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Dise
Congrats to Int'l Scholar Mónica Humeres for defending her dissertation on the history of electricity in Chile! / ¡Felicidades a International Scholar Mónica Humeres por la defensa de su doctorado sobre la historia de la electricidad en Chile!
Para l@s interesad@s en la #HistoriaSecreta del proyecto #Synco, escribí un libro sobre el tema bit.ly/1d4Thyl
Join us on Tuesday 11/9 @ 2:30pm ET for the next speaker in the STS Science, Technology, and Human Rights speaker series! will share material from her recently published book Seeing Human Rights. All talks are open to the public. Registration info👇
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Science, Technology, and Human Rights
2021 Fall Speaker Series presents:
Sandra Ristovska: Seeing Human Rights: How Video Serves Distinct Policy Functions
November 9 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
@MIT_SHASS @SHASS4Students @MITstudents @edenmedina @s_ristovska
sts-program.mit.edu/event/sandra-r
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NEXT THURS! 2020 MIT Morison Prize and Lecture: Dr. Alondra Nelson. The Social Life of DNA
Join us for the webinar, Thursday, October 1, 2020, 4pm EST.
Register in advance:
mit.zoom.us/webinar/regist
#alondranelson #morisonprizeandlecture #MIT #shass @MIT_SHASS @MITstudents
Wonderful, provocative, and beautifully written piece by on the murky and difficult intersection of law, tech, and ethics in a global frame and the need for US tech companies to take greater responsibility for the consequences of their actions abroad.
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(CW: end of year self promotion tweet) the last two paragraphs of the last thing I published this year are probably the thing I'm most satisfied with as a writer theatlantic.com/amp/article/54
Many thanks to for guest lecturing in our Data and Society class and sharing research & expertise on the history of death counts and US COVID data collection practices. We learned so much about death count data infrastructures, COVID dashboards, and nosologists!
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New paper out in @InternetHistor: "The Internet as a transnational project: Connecting Central America through computer networks" tandfonline.com/eprint/UTA8VMR
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It has been such an honor to work with the powerhouse team of and , who won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale for the Chile Pavilion in 2014 (shown here with former president Michelle Bachelet). 3/n
Yesterday I gave a class on bias in computer systems. It went from the 1996 Friedman and Nissenbaum article to the more complex challenges posed by AI today. Attn to bias so important for new algorithmic infrastructures. Requires diverse perspectives on their design & use.
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Inequality and abuses of power in tech are longstanding problems. As a contribution to the movement working to change this, we're sharing some preliminary findings from our research on gender, race, and power in AI, here: medium.com/@AINowInstitut
Excellent resource for those teaching tech ethics courses! I will be teaching a new course on data and society this spring.
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Recent conversations about ethics training in technology has prompted me to compile a list of tech-related ethics curriculum across disciplines. Please add your own classes (even if one part of a broader class) and RT! tinyurl.com/ethics-classes
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We’ve been working hard on the exhibition since 2020 and cannot wait to share. It brings together materials we’ve been collecting and research we’ve been conducting for over two decades on the history of design during the Allende period. 2/n
Excellent news! Yale's Calhoun College to be renamed for computer science pioneer Grace Hopper #womeninSTEM yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/02/1
Congratulations to student on winning the 2020 Rappaport Student Prize for "Becoming Without: Rearing and Releasing Transgenic Mosquitoes in Brazil"
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Congratulations to @anthrobite Luísa Reis-Castro for winning the 2020 Rappaport Student Prize for her paper, "Becoming Without: Rearing and Releasing Transgenic Mosquitoes in Brazil" @AnthEnvironment of the @AmericanAnthro #AnthroTwitter
. on the move! Many thanks to for this fascinating and deftly delivered tour on the history and architecture of biotech in Kendall Square. 🧬 We learned so much! Photo credit:
Anyone interested in the history of software patents should check out Con Diaz’s new book Software Rights with . A must read! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030022
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Looking forward to reading the new book Different Engines by Andrés Burbano on histories of computing, media, creativity, and technological innovation in Latin America! #histscitech #LatinAmerica
Fascinating conversation between historians Mario Garcés Durán and Peter Winn connecting the history of the Popular Unity government in #Chile to the estallido social, the latter a result of social movements and movements of society.
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[CONFERENCIA] El diseñador alemán, Gui Bonsiepe. presentará "Continuidades y rupturas del discurso proyectual", inaugurando en @DISENO_UC la cátedra Diseño para futuros posibles.
8 de septiembre
10:00 h
Auditorio FADEU, El Comendador 1916.
Inscripciónforms.gle/wRC21Yv2CWpRaE
8 de septiembre
10:00 h
Auditorio FADEU, El Comendador 1916.
Inscripciónforms.gle/wRC21Yv2CWpRaE
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Thank you for selecting Cybernetic Revolutionaries for the book club podcast. Thanks also to hosts and for the fun and stimulating conversation on tech ethics, data, and Latin American computing & @therubyrep for the editing! #cybersyn
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In this book club episode, we talk to @edenmedina: author of Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile about speaking as an expert, sociotechnical engineering, and of course, #cybernetics. greaterthancode.com/2018/08/15/093
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Slides from talk on AI Snake Oil for Miller Lecture. Excellent contribution to an interdisciplinary conversation on our current AI moment.
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Much of what’s being sold as "AI" today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work. In a talk at MIT yesterday, I described why this happening, how we can recognize flawed AI claims, and push back. Here are my annotated slides: cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks
“We don’t have to just sit back and take it.” Sharp editorial on the limitations of consent as an ethical frame for facial recognition by doctoral student
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Experts played a crucial role in the Latin American Cold War, in no small part bc they seemed to hold the keys to state security and prosperity. Geopolitics shaped the work of experts, even as dreams of development crossed political divides.
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I'll be sending out more updates between now and the September launch. Watch this space! 9/n
Cybersyn goes to London -- congratulations to ! #ChileanComputerHistory #histscitech #STSLatinAmerica latercera.com/noticia/cultur
I’m thrilled to announce the Fall Speaker Series on Science, Technology, and Human Rights with talks by Oriana Bernasconi and Robin Reineke! Registration information in the link.
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Science, Technology, and Human Rights Fall Speaker Series: Fall 2021 Schedule of Events @SHASS4Students @MIT_SHASS @MITstudents @aballes2
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“Presidents who are vocal about believing in science — the power of facts — should also be vocal about their belief in and support of the humanities — the power of history, language, the imagination, critical thinking and hope.” -Prof
Charla “Contemporáneas - Diseño femenino latinoamericano en la década de 1970”, dictada por la destacada diseñadora argentina Silvia Fernández
Martes 12 de sept 2023 11:00 . Cupos limitados, inscribirse tinyurl.com/dbf3ms75 #ComoDiseñarUnaRevolución
Students in the PhD program use methods from history and anthropology to study how science and technology shape—and are shaped by—the world we live in today. Interested in learning more and perhaps applying? Come to Prospective Student Visit Day (this Friday!)👇👇👇
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Interested in applying to @HASTS_MIT? Register for Prospective Student Visit Day
Friday, October 14, 2022
10:00 am - 1:30 pm Eastern Time
Live via Zoom
Register by: Friday, October 7
More info: web.mit.edu/hasts/admissio
The Speaker Series on Science, Technology and Human Rights kicks off Tuesday 9/28 @ 1:15pm. Don't miss Oriana Bernasconi on "Documenting Atrocities: Human Rights Archives, Technologies of Resistance, and Insurgent Knowledge To register: bit.ly/3CAlslV
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To learn more about the history of death counts, check out book Numbered Lives published by
