Speaker/ Moderator: Manish Bharadwaj, Ph.D.Manish directs Keller Center's Design for Innovation program for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. He was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Keller, where he taught idealism in entrepreneurship. Manish is the CEO and co-founder of Innovators In Health, which is devoted to delivering world-class healthcare to the rural poor in India. Manish is also a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Manish believes that a venture to make the world more just is fundamentally a moral, not technical, undertaking. It requires cultivating a moral imagination, an ability to imagine why people do right or wrong, the root of empathy, itself the root of all enduring change. He believes that accompaniment, to stand with the marginalized, literally and figuratively, is a moral imperative, and in and of itself a powerful means of change.

Conor Walsh Univ. of Columbia

Time: 3:30 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

Sugarcane is a powerful documentary by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie that explores the impact of Canada's Indian residential schools through the lens of a community reckoning with long-suppressed truths and generational trauma. As they follow the investigation into unmarked graves at St. Joseph’s Mission, the filmmakers uncover both personal and collective stories of pain, resilience, and enduring love within Indigenous families.Resources for survivors & families, those who are unfamiliar with the history, and educators can be found on the Sugarcane website.If you have any questions please email cbsoll@mit.edu.

Join us for MAD in Dialogue, a conversation with leading faculty on the future of design at MIT and beyond.Through short talks and discussion, speakers will share their perspectives on the role of design in research, teaching, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.The event will also celebrate new appointments to named professorships at the Morningside Academy for Design and introduce the 2025 cohort of MAD Design Fellows.A reception will follow.

"Do you ever feel that life holds a deeper meaning beyond what you currently understand? The truth is profound—there are countless mysteries of existence, divinity, and the self that lie beyond our awareness. There is so much we don’t know, and even more that we don’t realize we don’t know."Join us on this exciting journey of Discover Your Self to explore the unknown territories of life and delve into the science of spirituality. This course, based on the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, will equip you with proven methods to achieve true inner joy and answer your deepest questions about life's higher principles. This Course explains Proven methods to attain the true inner joy of heart and gives answers to all the Inquiries about Higher Principles in life like the pathway for unlimited and everlasting happiness from the eyes of scriptures like Bhagavad Gita in a scientific perspective.Salient Features:Discover the Game of LifeDiscover Inner SelfDiscover The Ultimate GeniusDiscover Manual of LifeDiscover Lasting SolutionDiscover Sublime Joy Through SoundDiscover The Real Eternal LoveDiscover The Happy PlanetYou are invited to join us every Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm. To your pleasure we have free delicious sattvik vegetarian dinner is available after every session.Event details:6:00 pm-6:10 pm: Mantra Meditation and kirtan6:10 pm-6:50 pm: : Session7:00pm : Dinner along with Q&A.Venue: MIT Room 56-180, 32 Vasaar Steeet, Cambridge MA Kindly RSVP here https://forms.gle/DEXUz6ig6dJZoU1k7Regards, MIT Vedic Vision Forum