Meet other MS&PC members from all over the world, get resources and information about life at MIT/Cambridge/Boston, exchange ideas, and engage in cultural conversations in a friendly and casual environment, while working on English fluency.Please email ecgatmit@gmail.com for more information.

Join us for the 2025 SECOND GLOBAL HUMANITIES FORUM! This session introduces The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences pillar inviting participants to explore how religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being can foster good lives and good living in an uncertain world.2nd GHI Forum· Title: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences · Date: April 11, 10:00–11:30 AM EDT · Where: Online (Zoom link and Online Registration HERE) · Speakers: Rafal K. Stepien, Simran Jeet Singh, Andreas Ohlemacher, Wiebke Denecke【Abstract】How do religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being nurture good lives? Taking this as a foundational question, this Forum of the MIT Global Humanities Intitiative is devoted to bringing greater clarity and honesty into our understandings of belief, reason, and human discovery in all its myriad dimensions. Hosted by the MIT Pillar on ‘The Good Life’, the Forum outlines the challenges facing our endeavor, discusses and debates diverse conceptions of the good life stemming from several of the world’s intellectual traditions and devotional practices, explores the experiential potential of engaged scholarship in the first-person, and proposes ways to harvest the meaning-making potentials of religions, philosophies, and sciences in the service of more cosmopolitan modes of inter-personal, inter-communal, and inter-religious human flourishing.Looking forward to seeing you at our events!The GHI Team————————JOIN OUR MAILING LIST (LINK) to get the latest announcements about our programs, and registration links!MIT Global Humanities Initiative Spring Events 2025GHI FORUM SERIES1st GHI ForumTitle: Cognition, Learning & Human FlourishingDate: February 21, 8:00–9:30 AM ESTSpeakers: Jonas Mago, Justus Wachs2nd GHI ForumTitle: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & SciencesDate: April 11, 10:00–11:30 AM EDTSpeakers: Rafal K. Stepien, Simran Jeet Singh, Andreas Ohlemacher, Wiebke Denecke3rd GHI ForumTitle: Public Literacies: Civic Systems, Media & Emotional IntelligenceDate: May 9, 10:00–11:30 AM EDTSpeakers: Richard Eberhardt, Gabor Hollbeck, Mikael Jakobsson4th GHI ForumTitle: Good Governance in Bad TimesDate: June 6, 10:00–11:30 AM EDTSpeakers: Wiebke Denecke, Johannes Makar, Michael PuettLAUNCH EVENTS:Launching the “Legacies for Our Future” Challenge: Celebrate the Planet with Mike Block, and Korean Folk Painting ExperienceWith Kim Jae-Hui, the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in BostonChung Byungmo, Director of the School of Minhwa (Korean Folk Painting)Kwak Yunmi, Minhwa ArtistTime: May 14 2025, 4:00-6:00 PMLocation: Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building @ MIT (Building W18: 201 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139)CELEBRATE: Launch of the Asian Hub of MIT’s Global Humanities Initiative at Korea UniversityLocation: Korea University, SeoulDate: April 24-25, 2025SAVE THE DATE:4th Annual Conference of the MIT Comparative Global Humanities InitiativeTitle: Creating Desirable Legacies for Our Future in an Age of STEM & Big TechLocation: Korea University, SeoulDate: November 20-21, 2025

Speaker: Siva Balakrishnan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital SeriesProgramTBDLivestream: https://mta.mit.edu/viewlisten/live-killian-hallAbout the PerformersAbout the Emerson/Harris Program for Private StudySupport for private musical study is available for students through the Emerson/Harris Program (E/HP), which offers merit-based financial awards for outstanding achievement on instruments or voice in classical, jazz, or world music. Each academic year, the program awards Scholarships and Fellowships to nearly seventy students who commit to a full year’s study and participate in the musical life of MIT.Auditions for the program are held at the beginning of each academic year. Private teacher selections, made in consultation with the E/HP jury heads, may include instructors from MIT staff and throughout Greater Boston. The Emerson/Harris Program is funded by the late Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Jr. (SM, 1941), in response to an appeal from AssociateProvost Ellen T. Harris (Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus of Music). The Emerson/Harris Masterclass Series is supported, in part, by the Robert L. Malster (1956) Fund.

A 50 minute, (usually) student-led tour of MIT D-Lab, D-Lab prototypes, and our workshop! Hear about the 23-year history of D-Lab, our founding director Amy Smith, our 12+ MIT classes, research groups, humanitarian innovation program and more! Not free at tour time? Stop by anytime to look around or email d-lab-tours@mit.edu.

1pm-5pm: presentations in 32-1553pm-5pm: poster session/refeshments in Building 18 Lobby