From anita1 at MIT.EDU Sun Oct 19 12:12:20 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:12:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] Thurs. ITSelf mtg Message-ID: Hi All, Just a reminder that the next ITSelf reading group meeting is coming up this Thursday, October 23, 11a-12:30p, when we'll be plunging into Castells' The Rise of the Network Society. The room we met in for the last meeting was booked, so we'll be meeting this week in the STS Reading Room, E51-191. We've also invited Prof. Roz Williams, STS's own local critic and aficionado of Castells' work, to the meeting, and hope she can join us. See you all soon, anita From candis at MIT.EDU Mon Oct 20 22:40:27 2003 From: candis at MIT.EDU (candis callison) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:40:27 -0400 Subject: [Itself] Fwd: Castells seminar application procedure Message-ID: FYI for all of you who found Castells' work interesting -- he'll be here during IAP (also known as January at MIT). >>>The Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Media Arts and >>>Sciences, and the Program in Science, Technology and Society are >>>collaborating to bring the eminent sociologist Manuel Castells to >>>the MIT campus to teach a (non-credit-bearing) graduate seminar on >>>"Information Technology and Society" during the Independent >>>Activities Period of 2004. DUSP, MAS, and STS expect that >>>Professor Castells will continue to make annual visits to MIT to >>>conduct seminars for graduate students and faculty. >>> >>>The 2004 graduate seminar will meet in the Stella Room [Room >>>7-338] for five sessions, each one starting 10:30 AM and ending at >>>12:30 PM, from Monday to Friday, January 12-16. A syllabus and >>>reading list will be available by the end of the fall term. >>> >>>Enrollment is limited to 25 graduate students. Since we anticipate >>>that we may have to limit enrollment, we are asking you to >>>indicate your interest in participating in this seminar by >>>November 14, 2003. To do this, please send a brief CV and a page >>>(ca. 250 words) explaining the reasons for your interest in the >>>Castells seminar to Kris Kipp at: kipp at mit.edu. These applications >>>will be reviewed by Larry Vale, Bill Mitchell, and Rosalind >>>Williams (heads of DUSP, MAS, and STS respectively). You will be >>>notified by December 7 if your application has been accepted. >>> >>>Also, please let Kris Kipp know if you are interested in serving >>>as Professor Castells's assistant during the week of January >>>11-18. This would be a paid half-time job that would appeal to >>>students who can keep a flexible schedule and who want to spending >>>informal time with Professor Castells. If you are interested in >>>this job, we will send you a more detailed job description and >>>other information about the selection process. >>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/itself/attachments/20031020/be327386/attachment.htm From anita1 at MIT.EDU Mon Oct 27 12:45:01 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:45:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] Next ITself Mtg. Message-ID: Hi All, The next ITSelf group meeting will be Thursday, Nov. 6th, 10A-11:30A (please note the *time change*) in the STS Reading Room, E51-091. We met last week to discuss Castells' The Rise of the Network Society - and after parsing through his meta-reading of cyberspace and information societies, we thought we'd try an author with a slightly more micro approach to each. So for the next meeting, we'll be covering two pieces by Zizek: "The Cyberspace Real" (at http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-the-cyberspace-real.html) and the Introduction to Mapping Ideology. Candis is making copies for the group of the Intro to Mapping Ideology. They should be ready to pick up from the STS student office in E51-070 (on top of the front cabinet) by late afternoon today. And thanks to everyone who helped make a great discussion last week, anita From anita1 at MIT.EDU Mon Oct 27 16:17:26 2003 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:17:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] correction: copies tomorrow Message-ID: Hi, In case anyone was thinking of stopping by the STS student office today for reading copies, a slight correction to the earlier email: copies of the Intro to Mapping Ideology actually won't be available until tomorrow afternoon. thanks, anita