Time: 7:00 PMLocation: Worcester, MA

On view October 1 -- December 11, 2025This exhibition draws on archival materials from the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC) to explore a century of cultural heritage preservation in Aleppo, Syria. It takes as its point of departure the work of Kamil al-Ghazzi (1853–1933), the pioneering Aleppine historian whose influential three-volume chronicle, Nahr al-Dhahab fī Tārīkh Ḥalab (The River of Gold in the History of Aleppo), was published between 1924 and 1926.Ink, Stone, and Silver Light presents three modes of documentation—manuscript, built form, and photography—through which Aleppo’s urban memory has been recorded and preserved. Featuring figures such as Michel Écochard and Yasser Tabbaa alongside al-Ghazzi, the exhibition traces overlapping efforts to capture the spirit of a city shaped by commerce, craft, and coexistence. At a time when Syria again confronts upheaval and displacement, these archival fragments offer models for preserving the past while envisioning futures rooted in dignity, knowledge, and place.

Join the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative for a conversation with Professor Jason Jay and Hibah Khan (MBA ’25) to explore the emerging field of systemic investing. Unlike traditional investing, which often focuses on standalone transactions or near-term outcomes, systemic investing is about engaging with the root causes and system interdependencies to create lasting change.This session will introduce the Systemic Investing for Social Change Starter Kit, a new resource co-created by MBA students and practitioners that offers practical tools to help investors, ecosystem builders and leaders align multiple forms of capital toward systems change. The toolkit includes frameworks for stakeholder engagement, systems mapping, multicapital deployment strategies and other practical ways to turn systems thinking into action.We’ll discuss how the Starter Kit was developed through hands-on collaboration with host investors and how it reflects the growing demand for leaders who can use systems thinking, collaborate across sectors and design for impact at scale. So, whether you’re curious about systemic investing, preparing for a career in impact or looking for tools to bring into your own work, this session will offer an introduction to an approach that redefines what it means to invest for meaningful and lasting change.

Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

Francesco Fabbri UC Berkeley