Events

Last year, a group of staff colleagues worked with Dr. Mary Gentile’s Giving Voice to Values ® curriculum -- chosen as the text for 2026's DSL Reads. This year, we will continue to support each other in implementing GVV formally or informally in our DLCIs, but we will also leave space for peer super

The Program in Science, Technology, and Society invites you to the annual Arthur Miller Lecture in Science and Ethics on Monday, October 26th from 4:00-5:30 pm in the MIT Welcome Center, for a panel lecture on the use of chatbots in children's toys. The panel features Professor Mimi Ito, Director of

Please join us on Tuesday, October 27th at 5 pm in E51-151 for a lecture by cultural anthropologist Jessica Piskatá, titled "The Mountain Unearthed: Uncanny Geological Futures in a Mongolian Mining Town."

The Mountain Unearthed: Uncanny Geological Futures in a Mongolian Mining Town

Geological fut

Leslie’s talk focuses on 2-Eyed Seeing, a teaching from Mi'kmaw Elder Albert Marshall, that brings together the strengths of Indigenous knowledge and Western science. She will explore how both approaches can be used together in all aspects of life especially in science and academia. She will also sh

What does it take to move a breakthrough clean energy technology from prototype to deployed project? Join the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative for lunch with Ben Wolkon (MBA ’16), Founder & CEO of Avarna, working at the intersection of cutting-edge sustainable technology and the capital markets t

Please join us for a discussion with Roger Martella, chief corporate officer, head of global government affairs and policy, and chief sustainability officer at GE Vernova on "The era of action: Channeling a historic cycle of energy investment toward people and planet."



We are now in a historic s

Dear MIT Community,

The Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Knight Science Journalism Program invite you on Tuesday, November 10th at 4:30 pm in the Nexus at Hayden Library (14S-130) for a special lecture, "The Fight for Facts: Evidence in an Age of Doubt," that explores the rise of

The Lorenz Center is pleased to present the 2026 John H. Carlson Lecture, in partnership with the New England Aquarium and the Lowell Institute.


FEATURING
Dr. Marina Lévy
Oceanographer and Senior Scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, LOCEAN–IPSL Sorbonne Université


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Cross-disciplinary conversations bridging environmental history, waste management, and material circulation alongside leading scholars.

Forgotten Histories and Possible Futures of Circular Economies

Please join us for the "Forgotten Histories and Possible Futures of Circular Economies" symposium o