[Mitworld] Gustavo Dudamel on El Sistema, Victor Kattan on History of Arab-Israeli Conflict

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 35 |  April 28, 2010

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El Sistema: Social Support and Advocacy Through Musical Education
April 17, 2010

Even in the confines of a panel discussion, Gustavo Dudamel radiates so much passion and ebullience 
that it requires little imagination to see him at the podium with a baton in hand. MIT’s 2010 McDermott Award in the Arts winner is, at the tender age of 29, one of the world’s top conductors and music disseminators.  In conversation with two MIT music luminaries John Harbison and Tod Machover, Dudamel describes the remarkable music education system in Venezuela that set him on his path, and that continues to inspire his work in the U.S. and in the world.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/769

Moderator:
Maria Hinojosa
Managing Editor and Host, Latino USA, NPR
Senior Correspondent, NOW, PBS
Event Host:
Council for the Arts at MIT

"When El Sistema gave me an instrument, for me it was the best moment in my life, oh my God! 
Now I have a world, an opportunity to build something in my life."
-Gustavo Dudamel

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Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
February 22, 2010

Given the volume of writing on the Arab-Israeli conflict, “you might think that everything has been 
said,” says Noam Chomsky in his introduction. But Victor Kattan’s new book, Coexistence to 
Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, takes a fresh 
look at the prehistory of the dispute, as well as the evolution of international law and its 
import for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/764

Speakers:
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor; Professor of Linguistics

Victor Kattan
Teaching Fellow, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"I argue that neither the Arabs nor the Jews are to blame for starting the conflict. It doesn’t mean 
they haven’t undertaken terrible atrocities in the last 100 years, but (the conflict)... was 
manufactured by British and European powers.  "
-Victor Kattan

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In The Pipeline:

The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies

Presented By:
Communications Forum

Moderator:
James Paradis
Program Head/Professor
Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies

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