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<p class="sidebar"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/joan-jonas-selected-films-and-videos-1972-2005"><img src="http://holyurl.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/JoanJonasred.png" height="155" width="155">
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<p class="sidebar"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://kabinetarchitektury.cz/architektura-zmocnujici-se-prostoru-alfred-neumann-zivot-a-dilo-kabinet-architektury-ostrava/"><img src="http://holyurl.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/AlfredN.png" height="148" width="155">
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<p class="sidebar"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/news/gyorgy-kepes-display-tate-liverpool"><img src="http://holyurl.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kneaps.jpg" height="155" width="155">
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<strong>New Professor Timothy Hyde</strong></a></p>
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<p><span class="style39">QUOTES OF NOTE</span></p>
<p class="style29">The moment we generate a choice between beauty and utility is the moment we compromise our calling as designers.</p>
<ul>
<li class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.media.mit.edu/people/neri">Neri Oxman,</a> whose work aims to ‘unify computation, digital fabrication and the material itself as inseparable and harmonized dimensions’; Oxman has received the
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7930#.VRVg6mZbY1Y">
Emerging Voices Award</a> from The Architecture League of New York. <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7930#.VRVg6mZbY1Y" target="_blank">
<em>The Architect’s Newspaper</em></a>, March 26. </li></ul>
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<p class="style29">There will be no more important issue in the world – not energy, not oil, not water.</p>
<ul>
<li class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/phillip-clay" target="_blank">Phillip Clay
</a>speaking at the African Higher Education Summit in Dakar about Africa’s most precious resource - talent; ‘if it is developed and deployed it will be more valuable than all the minerals in the ground,’ he said.
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20150318134042272&amp;query=phillip&#43;clay" target="_blank">
<em>University World News</em></a>, March 20. </li></ul>
<p class="style29">Kepes must have found it quite alienating to be the first artist on the staff at MIT.</p>
<ul>
<li class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephanie-straine/71/363/644" target="_blank">Stephanie Straine</a>, curator of a show on Gyorgy Kepes at the Tate Liverpool in England, talking about the founder of
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://act.mit.edu/about-act/history/#CAVS-h3" target="_blank">
SA&#43;P’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies</a>; ‘the scientists there wouldn’t necessarily have wanted to work with him, but he was determined to find areas of overlap and collaboration.’ Which he did.
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/artsspecial/gyorgy-kepes-wizard-of-light-and-motion-comes-back-into-focus.html?_r=0" target="_blank">
<em>New York Times</em></a>, March 18. </li></ul>
<p class="style29">[It] brings together a particular type of personality. </p>
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<li class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-crauderueff/16/902/259" target="_blank">Robert Crauderueff</a> (MCP’11) talking about operating
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://crauderueffassociates.com/" target="_blank">
his business</a> from a co-working space in Manhattan; ‘I’ve found a community of individuals who each have some sort of unique take on how to contribute to the world that does not fit into the traditional corporate structure,’ he said.
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/as-coworking-spaces-scale-can-they-keep-their-communal-vibe/385653/" target="_blank">
<em>The Atlantic</em></a>, February 27. </li></ul>
<p class="style29">How do we talk about that?</p>
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<li class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://mitcityfarm.media.mit.edu/team/" target="_blank">Caleb Harper</a> questioning whether consumers will embrace produce grown in the sort of vertical farms he’s developing as part of the
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://mitcityfarm.media.mit.edu/" target="_blank">
City Science Initiative</a>; ‘people are incredibly skeptical of science and technology in food,’ he said. ‘Will people accept or understand it, and ultimately will they buy it?’
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/vertical-farm-industry_n_6818402.html" target="_blank">
<em>Huffington Post</em></a>, March 12. </li></ul>
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<p><span class="style39">NEW FEATURES ONLINE</span></p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/article/standard/introducing-two-new-professors" target="_blank"><strong>Introducing Two New Professors</strong></a><br>
Experts in Architectural History and Collective Intelligence</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/article/standard/future-suburbia" target="_blank"><strong>The Future of Suburbia</strong></a><br>
A Workshop and Design Charrette at the Center for Advanced Urbanism</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/article/standard/joan-jonas-selected-films-and-videos-1972-2005" target="_blank"><strong>Joan Jonas: Selected Films and Videos, 1972-2005</strong></a><br>
An Exhibit to Complement Her US Pavilion in Venice</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/article/standard/photographing-places" target="_blank"><strong>Photographing Places</strong></a><br>
The Photographers of Places Journal, 1987 - 2009</p>
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<p><span class="style39">SELECTED PRESS CLIPS</span></p>
<p><span class="style29">Full Listing <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/press-clips">
available here</a>.</span></p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/mit-professional-education-and-center-real-estate-new-certificate-real-estate-finance-0302">MIT Professional Education and Center for Real Estate announce new Certificate Programs</a>
<em>(MIT News)</em>The Professional Certificate in Real Estate Finance and Development program, comprised of five courses and taught by world-renowned MIT faculty, will be offered June 8-19 in Cambridge. It is open to professionals from around the world and
 provides an opportunity to obtain insights and skills in real estate development and investment strategies, and other key factors driving real estate markets.
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<p class="style29">style = &quot;color:#DE610F;&quot;<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/03/10/helen-frankenthaler-foundation-gives-mit-list-visual-arts-center-support-joan-jonas-project-venice-biennale/dAKebMy3lBhCP9ba4bJa1H/story.html" target="_blank">MIT’s
 List receives $200,000 gift</a><em> (The Boston Globe) </em>The MIT List Visual Arts Center has received a gift of $200K from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in support of SA&#43;P’s Joan Jonas’s presentation for the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale;
 in 1966, Frankenthaler represented the US at the 33d Venice Biennale (along with Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski.)
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<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=388518887" target="_blank">Should We Be Wary of Algorithms?</a>
<em>(NPR) </em>SA&#43;P’s Kevin Slavin talks about the Age of Algorithms – a time when we’re creating mathematical models of such complexity they’re far beyond what any human could ever hope to understand.
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<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sectioncut.com/collections/nader-tehrani/" target="_blank">Interview: Nader Tehrani</a>
<em>(Section Cut) </em>Nader Tehrani speaks about NADAAA’s current work and previous work at Office dA as a means of discussing ornament, structure and typology. The lecture weaves impeccable representation and narrative with captivating tectonic and theoretical
 arguments – as to be expected.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://spectrum.mit.edu/articles/mobile-technologies-to-visualize-the-city/" target="_blank">Mobile Technologies to Visualize the City</a>
<em>(Spectrum)</em> Data-driven storytelling is the journalistic wave of the future. MIT Assistant Professor Sarah Williams, director of the Civic Data Design Lab, is at the forefront of the movement.</p>
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<p><span class="style39">NEWS FLASHES</span></p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Gyorgy-Kepes-The-Years-1945-1977/dp/0262610272" target="_blank">Gyorgy Kepes</a>, founder of
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://act.mit.edu/about-act/history/" target="_blank">
SA&#43;P’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies</a>, is the subject of <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition-display/gyorgy-kepes" target="_blank">
an exhibit at Tate Liverpool</a> in northern England through May 31, devoted to a decade of his work, from his arrival in the US until 1947, when he was teaching at MIT; his work at MIT is to be explored in another exhibition in Liverpool, ‘The New Landscape’,
 opening on April 15 at the Exhibition Research Center at Liverpool John Moores University.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/fadi-masoud" target="_blank">Fadi Masoud</a> is featured in an exhibition titled
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://arch.iit.edu/life/dialogues-on-urbanization-emerging-landscapes" target="_blank">
<em>Emerging Landscape</em></a> at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture; Masoud’s project for &quot;The Jordan Valley: A Vision for Integrated Agrarian Urbanism&quot; was selected as one of eleven speculative and eleven built projects by landscape
 architects and urbanists from around the world.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/rafi-segal" target="_blank">Rafi Segal</a> has curated the first-ever exhibition on the Czech architect Alfred Neumann, opening at Gallery of Fine Art (Kabinet architektury)
 in Ostrava on April 2. Focusing on Neumann’s major design projects in Israel from the 1960s,
<em><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://kabinetarchitektury.cz/architektura-zmocnujici-se-prostoru-alfred-neumann-zivot-a-dilo-kabinet-architektury-ostrava/" target="_blank">Space Packing Architecture:The Life and Work of Alfred Neumann</a></em> explores
 Neumann’s vision for a new kind of modern architecture. The exhibition team included Yonatan Cohen, Ariel Noyman, Caroline Murphy and Grigori Enikolopov, all of MIT.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.we-aggregate.org/people/aggregate" target="_blank">The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative</a> – whose members include eight from SA&#43;P’s History, Theory and Criticism program – has been
 recognized as one of the <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.metropolismag.com/January-2015/Game-Changers-2015-Aggregate/" target="_blank">
2015 Game Changers</a> by <em>Metropolis Magazine</em>. The SA&#43;P members are professors
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/arindam-dutta" target="_blank">
Arindam Dutta</a> and <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/timothy-hyde" target="_blank">
Timothy Hyde</a>, and alumni <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://soa.princeton.edu/content/lucia-allais" target="_blank">
Lucia Allais</a> (PhD’08), <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://artarchitecturehistory.org/and-yet-another-example-blog-post/" target="_blank">
Zeynep Celik Alexander</a> (PhD’07), <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/people/ed-eigen.html" target="_blank">
Ed Eigen</a> (PhD’00), <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/faculty/karimipamela/" target="_blank">
Pamela Karimi</a> (PhD’09), <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://www.risd.edu/academics/havc/faculty/Ijlal-Muzaffar/" target="_blank">
M. Ijlal Muzaffar</a> (PhD’07) and <a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.aud.ucla.edu/faculty/michael_osman_16.html" target="_blank">
Michael Osman</a> (PhD’08).</p>
<p class="style29"><em><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://placesjournal.org/" target="_blank">Places Journal</a></em>, the environmental design journal founded in 1983 by architecture faculty at MIT and UC/Berkeley, has launched a ‘Reading Lists’ tool
 to encourage readers to share topical lists of articles and books in their areas of expertise. Public lists are archived
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://placesjournal.org/reading-lists/" target="_blank">
here</a> and readers can also save private lists of stories they’ve read or wish to read, build annotated bibliographies or share syllabi with colleagues and students. The effort is part of the journal’s continuing commitment to public scholarship and innovative
 practice.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://plus.google.com/113873855543594901135/posts" target="_blank">Erioseto Hendranata</a> (MArch’14), known as Seto, was the recipient, we have just learned, of the
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.somfoundation.som.com/fellows-2014" target="_blank">
SOM Foundation 2014 SOM Prize</a>. Seto traveled to regions on three continents in carrying out his winning research proposal on the notion of ‘Risk and Crises in the field of architecture and landscape as a natural or man-made event or process which impacts
 both the society and the territory it inhabits’.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://bumjinkim.com/" target="_blank">Bumjin Kim</a> (MArch’14) has won first place in
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://en.archmedium.com/Competitions.php" target="_blank">
ARCHmedium’s Lisbon</a> Open Room competition for his project ‘<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.archdaily.com/611966/urban-platform-wins-first-in-lisbon-open-room-competition/" target="_blank">Urban Platform</a>’, co-authored with Minyoung Kim of
 Columbia University; one of 67 teams to enter the competition’s ‘Young Architects’ category, the team developed a modular urban intervention for
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.archdaily.com/tag/portugal/" target="_blank">
Lisbon, Portugal,</a> with the intention of providing a more flexible space for the city’s urban center.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.quadrangle.ca/our-practice/our-people/principals/les-klein/" target="_blank">Les Klein</a> (SB’72, Architecture, MArch’74), founding partner of
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.quadrangle.ca/" target="_blank">Quadrangle</a>, has been named recipient of the prestigious
<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://www.oaa.on.ca/the%20oaa/awards" target="_blank">
OAA Award</a> by the Ontario Association of Architects; he is being honored with the Order of Da Vinci for his leadership within the profession and the community at large.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.nation.lk/edition/business-tbl/item/38735-new-heads-at-uda.html" target="_blank">Nayana Mawilmada</a> (MCP’00) has been named Director General of the Sri Lanka Urban Development Authority (UDA).
 He is an Urban Development Specialist with extensive experience in planning, facilitating and managing large-scale urban development, real estate and infrastructure projects across 15 countries.</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://nophones.org/" target="_blank">Micah Silver</a> (SMACT’13) has a new book coming out with Inventory Press,
<em><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://www.inventorypress.com/product/figures-in-air" target="_blank">Figures in Air</a></em>, exploring the impact of sound on human behavior and social space; Silver’s installation and performance work has been produced
 by Mass MoCA, Issue Project Room, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and OK Zentrum, among other venues in the US and internationally.</p>
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<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/katr%C3%ADn-sigurdard%C3%B3ttir-drawing-apart"><em>Katrin Sigurdardottir: Drawing Apart</em></a><br>
Through April 12, 2015, List Visual Arts Center.</p>
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<a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/calendar">available here</a>.</span></p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 8</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/research-seminar-john-duca-federal-reserve-bank-dallas">Research Seminar- John Duca with Federal Reserve Bank Dallas</a><br>
12:00pm, 9-357</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/thought-leader-speaker-series">Thought Leader Speaker Series: Making Sense of Housing Recovery</a><br>
6:00pm, 9-354</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 9</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/sap/event/gsc-thursday-list-0">Graduate Students Meet up at the List</a><br>
5:30pm, E-15</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/sap/lecture/conversation-renee-green-joan-jonas-selected-films-and-videos-1972-2005">Conversation with Renee Green: &quot;Joan Jonas, Selected Films and Videos, 1972-2005&quot;</a><br>
5:30pm, E15-070</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-lecture-series-elizabeth-diller">Architecture Lecture Series: Elizabeth Diller</a><br>
6:00pm, 10-250</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/starr-forum-science-innovation-diplomacy">Starr Forum: Science &amp; Innovation Diplomacy</a><br>
6:00pm, 54-100</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 11</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/scaling-development-ventures-conference-bridging-innovation-impact">Scaling Development Ventures Conference: Bridging Innovation &amp; Impact</a><br>
8:30am, 10-250</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/sap/lecture/slow-art-day">Courtney Klemens: Slow Art Day</a><br>
12:00am, E-15</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 13</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-lecture-series-joel-loveland">Architecture Lecture Series: Joel Loveland</a><br>
12:30pm, 7-429</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-lecture-series-robin-schuldenfrei">Architecture Lecture Series: Robin Schuldenfrei</a><br>
6:00pm, 7-429</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/art-culture-and-technology-lecture-claire-pentecost-quick-and-dirty">Art, Culture and Technology Lecture: CLAIRE PENTECOST, &quot;The quick and the dirty&quot;</a><br>
7:00pm, E15-070</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 14</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/rescheduled-pink-globalization-hello-kittys-trek-across-pacific">Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific</a><br>
5:00pm, E40-496</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 15</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/nation-builder-john-quincy-adams-and-grand-strategy-republic">Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic</a><br>
12:00pm, E40-496</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 16</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/planning/event/duspcareers-epp-alumniae-career-forum">DUSPCareers: EPP Alumni/ae Career Forum</a><br>
6:00pm, TBD</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 17</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-lecture-series-sara-hendren-function-and-friction-rethinking">Architecture Lecture Series: Sara Hendren, &quot;Function and Friction: Rethinking Design, Disability,
 and Assistive Technology&quot;</a><br>
5:30pm, 7-429</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 20</strong><br>
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<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/financial-health-members-mit-community">Financial Health for members of the MIT community</a><br>
5:15pm, E40-496</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 22</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/thought-leader-speaker-series-0">Thought Leader Speaker Series</a><br>
6:00pm, 9-354</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 23</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-lecture-series-karl-willis">Architecture Lecture Series: Karl Willis</a><br>
6:00pm, 7-429</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/screening-immigrant-america">Screening: Immigrant America</a><br>
6:00pm, 32-155</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 24</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-cast-symposium-active-matter-summit-programming-materials-sense">Architecture &amp; CAST Symposium: Active Matter Summit, Programming Materials to Sense, Transform,
 and Self-Assemble</a><br>
9:00am</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 25</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-cast-symposium-active-matter-summit-programming-materials-sense">Architecture &amp; CAST Symposium: Active Matter Summit, Programming Materials to Sense, Transform,
 and Self-Assemble</a><br>
9:00am</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 25</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/glass-structures-lateral-studio-diablo-glass-school">Glass Structures Lateral Studio with Diablo Glass School</a><br>
12:30pm</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 27</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/aga-khan-program-islamic-architecture-lecture-culture-and-identity-architecture">Culture and Identity: The Architecture of Jewish Holy Spaces in Isfahan, Iran</a><br>
6:00pm, 3-133</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/art-culture-and-technology-lecture-michael-rakowitz">Art, Culture and Technology Lecture: Michael Rakowitz</a><br>
7:00pm, E15-070</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 28</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/understanding-global-innovation-economies-guide-mit-students-working-abroad">Understanding Global Innovation Economies: A Guide for MIT Students Working Abroad</a><br>
7:00pm, 76-156</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/migration-national-security-and-new-forms-policing-dubai-and-abu-dhabi">Migration, National Security, and New forms of Policing: Dubai and Abu Dhabi</a><br>
4:30pm, E40-464</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 29</strong><br>
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<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/event/hrant-dink-memorial-lecture-human-rights-forced-migration-and-human-rights-can-we-maintain">Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Human Rights: Forced Migration and Human Rights: Can we maintain
 the promise of protection?</a><br>
4:30pm, E51-115: Wong Auditorium</p>
<p class="style29"><strong>April 30</strong><br>
</p>
<p class="style29"><a style="color:#DE610F;" href="http://sap.mit.edu/architecture/lecture/architecture-lecture-series-finbarr-barry-flood">Architecture Lecture Series: Finbarr Barry Flood
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6:00pm, 7-429</p>
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