[Mitworld] Andrew Bacevich on America's Permanent War, CMS Panel on Hypermediated Society

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 7 |  October 13, 2010

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Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
September 14, 2010

In a talk that leads to a candid and sometimes impassioned give and take with his audience, 
Andrew J. Bacevich describes a national security consensus that has over time “thrust us into a 
situation which is really akin to permanent war.”

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/822

Speaker:
Andrew Bacevich
Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"If we want to bring moral considerations into the argument (for perpetuating the war in Afghanistan), 
and I’d argue we ought to, then please let’s do it in a serious way. It has to be about something 
more than we want to be able to sleep well tonight, so let me send some American soldiers 
somewhere so I can sleep well. That’s not moral. That’s not even serious."
-Andrew J. Bacevich

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Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society
April 23, 2010

Even back in the early days of Comparative Media Studies (CMS), when Henry Jenkins and colleagues 
met in the basement of the Media Lab, there was much discussion of how new media might shape learning 
and spur novel forms of expression and community engagement.  Over the years, as Jenkins and 
these panelists attest, CMS has both refined and broadened its study of the impact of new technologies 
on education, culture and politics.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/823

Moderator:
Henry Jenkins
Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Event Host:
MIT Comparative Media Studies

"I’ve been distressed about the phrase Learning 2.0. because Web 2.0 is a business model, not a pedagogy, 
or a set of cultural practices. One value of the concept of participatory culture is that it insists 
something cultural about what we’re describing doesn’t come from technology, but from using technology 
to support longer-standing practices."
-Henry Jenkins

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In The Pipeline:

Stem cells, Reprogramming and Personalized Medicine: Promise, Problems, Reality

Presented By:
James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award Lecture

Speaker:
Rudolf Jaenisch
Founding Member
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
 Professor of Biology, MIT

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