This talk traces the political power of motherhood and childrearing in Arabic thought between 1850 and 1939. It shows how writers used ideas about childrearing (tarbiya in Arabic) to address key issues in modern social thought, such as freedom, labor, and democracy. While debates about childrearing in Arabic led to expansions in girls' education and women writers' authority, they also attached the fate of nations to women's unwaged labor in the home. Highlighting Arab women's writing offers a new way to think about the devaluation of social reproduction under capitalism, the stubborn maleness of the liberal subject, and why the idea of embodied, binary gender difference has proven so difficult to overcome.

Silent Meditation in the Chapel on Thursdays 6-8pm, open to everyone in the MIT Community. Some sessions include Guided Meditation at 6:30pm.

All are welcome to join our visiting monks and MIT Prajnopaya - the Buddhist Community for Prayers for Healing and Peace. A part of Healing the Divide: Unity, Compassion & Flourishing, 2025 Mandala @ MIT.Please bring an MIT i.d. or govt-issued i.d. for access.

MIT Tango Club invites you to our Fall Milonga! Join us in the iconic Sala de Puerto Rico, and enjoy light snacks and refreshments while dancing to the music of DJ Nanying! Dress up and experience Argentine Tango at its finest.Tickets must be purchase online: https://cglink.me/2cy/r916484$5 MIT Students $10 Non-MIT Students $10 MIT Community (Alumni, Staff, Affiliates) $25 GeneralLocation: MIT Stratton Student Center, Sala de Puerto Rico (W20-202), 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/MpghbEYgTSt2i6F89)MIT Tango Club has been promoting Argentine Tango at MIT for nearly 25 years. For more information, see our website: https://sites.google.com/site/mittangoclub/home

Vincent Anioke, ’17, returns to MIT to read from his book of short stories, Perfect Little Angels, published to acclaim last year by Arsenal Pulp Press.Set in both Nigeria and Canada, these stunning stories have been praised for their candor, tenderness, and deep humanity, and described as “brilliant and harrowing.” Through masterful writing, Anioke evokes complex and unforgettable characters who “grapple with the harsh consequences of unforgiving traditions and defiant desires”.Anioke was born and raised in Nigeria, now lives in Canada, and works as a software engineer at Google. His short stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Split Lip Magazine, Carve, and Pithead Chapel. He was the 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize Winner and was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.At MIT, Anioke was an Admissions blogger and Course 6 major. He won numerous writing prizes, including CMS/W’s Robert A. Boit Prize for short stories, Boit Manuscript Prizes for essays and fiction, the King Prize for Science Fiction Writing, and the Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women’s & Gender Studies.