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HASTS student @bachwards spent this past winter break teaching Yiddish Oberlin College! 👩‍🏫

Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing is now open for applications for the 2024 cycle. Find out more about the fellowship and how to apply through the link in our bio!! #utscanthro #utscanthropology #centreforethnography #uoft #utsc #anthropology

MIT Anthropology Professor Graham Jones is among the faculty featured in this post on "Expanding Horizons in Computing" series from MIT Schwarzman College of Computing - check out his talk "Data, Deception, and Design" bit.ly/ExpandingHoriz…

Very excited to be sharing some research on the idea of Pan-American Computing in a couple weeks MIT STS Program! sts-program.mit.edu/event/spring-s…

Please join us April 30th 2pm Central/3pm E. for the Tomash Fellow Lecture w/ 2023-24 Tomash Fellow HASTS / brb Alex Reiss-Sorokin's "From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994." The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Int. Group for History of Computing #sts Register now! (free, required) z.umn.edu/Reiss-Sorokin

Congratulations to MIT Anthropology Program Head @heather_paxson, named Associate Dean for Faculty of MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, effective July 1. news.mit.edu/2024/heather-p…

I cannot think of a better person to reimagine SHASS's efforts to create an inspiring and equitable working environment for our faculty and staff.” news.mit.edu/2024/heather-p… MIT Anthropology #MITSHASS #highered

PhD candidate Aja Grande presented her dissertation yesterday and became a doctor! Her dissertation is entitled “He Lāhui Hawaiʻi Ma O Ka Hoʻomomona Hou I Ka ʻĀina: Nā Moʻolelo Lōkahi Ma Ka Mokupuni ʻO Oʻahu.” Congratulations, Aja! 🎉

A key theme in MIT STS Program professor William Deringer’s work is that when quantitative reasoning gains more ground, the question is why, and to whose benefit. news.mit.edu/2024/william-d… #thisismit #MITSHASS #history #data #MITSTS #humanities #socialsciences

@lmesseri Rachel Douglas-Jones Dr. Sydney Yeager Svetlana Borodina Now to the speaker's remarks. @lmesseri opens the conversation with the idea that 'VR and AI don't flow on their own, they are always part of technological fantasies and what our technological futures might be like'. Her recent book, In the Land of the Unreal, follows this & more

Congratulations to MIT Anthropology colleagues Sonya Atalay, Amy Moran-Thomas, and @BettinaStoetzer!

Check out this SAPIENS podcast episode from HASTS PhD candidate Timothy Y. Loh, PhD on the journey of a deaf Jordanian from Amman to Tokyo 🔈 The episode webpage also includes a transcript and a summary of the episode in American Sign Language! sapiens.org/language/deaf-…

For the latest in The History of Technology: Past, Present, and Future A symposium held June 7-8, 2024 in E51-115. Free to the public. Organized by MIT’s STS. To attend, email [email protected]. For more info, go to sts-program.mit.edu/event/symposiu…

At #universities & other large organizations, #maintenance is not limited to isolated acts of #repair but includes the—dynamic, situated shaping of organizational goods & knowledges Read A. Reiss-Sorokin’s article here: doi.org/mvhf #Classification #WorkingKnowledge

Great new SAPIENS podcast featuring PhD candidate Tim Loh (Students of HASTS) on deaf migration, disability and agency, labor and education, and translation and globalization: sapiens.org/language/deaf-…

Interested in becoming a SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellow? 📝 Apply here! loom.ly/BHWIdTg To learn more, visit sapiens.org/templeton

On Monday, Timothy Y. Loh, PhD presented his dissertation “Entanglements of Language, Disability, and Religion: The Politics of Assistive Technologies for Deaf People in Jordan” and became a PhD in HASTS! He is pictured here presenting his work and with his committee. Congrats, Tim! 🎊🎊🎊

Also on Monday, HASTS PhD candidate Alex Reiss-Sorokin became the department’s latest graduate with a dissertation entitled “From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980.” Congratulations, Alex! 🎉

Wonderful profile of Students of HASTS alumna Michelle Spektor!