IAP 2021 Activities by Category - Literature

David Hsu, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning

Jan/20

Wed

04:00PM-05:00PM

virtual

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18

Do you need to read a hopeful novel this winter, about how humans learn how to work together, defeat big problems, and reimagine the future? About climate change, no less? Who doesn’t?!

The DUSP Winter Book Club will be meeting to discuss Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future with David Hsu, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning.

Please sign up in advance at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdO-prT0uHNDe7NGbTmy5YI2LMYtIt_qO (and be sure to read the book).

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: David Hsu, ydh@mit.edu

Steven Strang

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/02
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none

Calling all creative writers! Want to write something creative but need some motivation or support or some thoughtful readers?  Join other MIT writers to get advice about your own writing, to be a reader of other writers' work, and/or to get inspiration to write something. Any type of creative writing is welcomed:  e.g., fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, memoirs, personal essays, plays, blog entries, book reviews. We help each other get started on a creative writing project, we help each other develop ideas and style, and we function as engaged and encouraging readers of each other's material.  The Group includes emerging and established writers. We meet every Monday from noon-1:00 p.m. Open to MIT undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, lecturers, staff, faculty, spouses and partners. Please note that this is not a class and not a group for technical writing or for thesis writing. Meeting time: noon-1:00 p.m.

Please email <smstrang@mit.edu> to register.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Steven Strang, none during Covid, 401-714-1933, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU

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MIT Writers Group

	Jan/04	Mon	Time TBD	Zoom
	Jan/11	Mon	Time TBD	Zoom
	Jan/25	Mon	Time TBD	Zoom

Meeting time noon to one pm

Please email to register.

Steven Strang

Chia Po Cheng, LPC, Psychology Intern

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Curiosity about a Path Not Yet Taken

Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you did not attend MIT?Have you ever thought about changing your major to something different?  Is there another side of you that is eager to come out?  Or are you simply sick of the choices other people made for you?

All decisions we have made in life lead us to our current reality.  The concept of parallel universes believes that there could be other universes besides our own where everyone is living an infinite amount of simultaneous lives, where all relinquished desires are played out in alternate realities.

This 2 session workshop helps you explore the ideas you have entertained but have yet to pursue.  This workshop may allow you to release your inhibitions through the element of career counseling, narrative/storytelling, cinema, and creativity.

Sponsor(s): MIT Medical
Contact: Chia Po Cheng, Student Mental Health & Counseling, ccheng@med.mit.edu

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	Jan/14	Thu	03:00PM-04:30PM	ZOOM
	Jan/21	Thu	03:00PM-04:30PM	ZOOM

Maureen Rezendes, PhD - Staff Psychologist, Chia Po Cheng, LPC - Psychology Intern

Ezra Glenn, Lecturer

Jan/19

Tue

03:00PM-04:00PM

virtual

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18

Join us in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning for a fun and interactive discussion of our favorite cities from science fiction and fantasy worlds.  Moon colonies? Underground lairs? Floating cloud-cities?  You names it, we'll discuss it. 

Please come with your own example of a place you'd like to discuss from the world of science fiction and fantasy literature.  (Movies, TV, comics, video-games all welcome, too -- it's a big tent!)

Preregister at https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkc--qrz8rG9xgbQkzY2mAyC9f0kG9BX4G

 

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, 617 253-2024, EGLENN@MIT.EDU

Noel Jackson, Associate Professor of Literature

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

This popular activity – which aims to reach all those with an interest in poetry, regardless of experience level – has been offered every IAP for more than twenty years. Each one-hour session is devoted to a poet or two, often a single poem, chosen by session leaders who volunteer to facilitate conversation for that day. Discussion and collaborative close reading are the aim and ideal of each hour. Some participants attend every session, but many others may drop in only once or twice during the series to discuss a favorite poet or poem. The roster of poets is typically diverse: from ancient Chinese masters to American poets laureate, and from such greats as Shakespeare, Keats, Auden, and Bishop to contemporary poets including Eve L. Ewing, Alice Notley, and many more. Free and open to the public; as well as staff, alumni, and students.

Sponsor(s): Literature
Contact: Jessica Tranvo, Register for Zoom ID, 617 258-5629, TRANVOJ@MIT.EDU

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Pleasure of Poetry 2021

	Jan/04	Mon	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/05	Tue	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/06	Wed	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/07	Thu	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/08	Fri	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/11	Mon	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/12	Tue	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/13	Wed	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/14	Thu	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/15	Fri	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/19	Tue	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/20	Wed	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/21	Thu	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom
	Jan/22	Fri	01:00PM-02:00PM	Zoom

Register in advance for this meeting: mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkf-qqrD4jGdGpkMPO0A09w2cNsNzyhoNt

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For the calendar & reading list, please check: lit.mit.edu/category/news/