Dimitri Laboury, Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art History, Archaeology, History and History of Religions; Research Director, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research in Ancient Egyptian Art History and Archaeology; Director of the Ancient Egyptian Art Historical Research Unit, University of Liège, Belgium
Join MIT List Visual Arts Center on an indoor public art walking tour showcasing the MIT public art collection art across campus. View select artworks and consider how art and the architectural environment have enhanced MITs campus design on this tour of works installed inside MIT buildings as we lead the discussion of works featuring Sol LeWitt, Antony Gormley, Nick Mauss and more.
MIT’s Percent-for-Art Program, administered by the List Visual Arts Center, now allocates up to $500,000 to commission art for each new major renovation or campus construction project. The...
Hamit Bozarslan, Director of Studies, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Hamit Bozarslan (PhD in history 1992, and in political sciences 1994) teaches at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS...
Hamit Bozarslan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Cengiz Güneş (The Open University, Milton Keynes), and Veli Yadirgi (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
In March 2021, the Biden Administration released the American Jobs Plan, earmarking $213B for “quality” and “affordable” housing, yet the bill lacks specificity on how houses are to be built. Here housing’s problem is split into two: a social one of accessibility and equity, and a material one of wood, metal, and rocks. Architects can play a unique role in bridging abstract policy ambitions to real construction as these connections are made every day in practice.
Although accessible housing has been cast in many forms, accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have been a...
Candice Lin will be joined by Diane Ahn, Ph.D. student in History, Theory, and Criticism of Art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University to discuss Lin’s recent exhibition projects.
Dr. Yavuz Aykan is a historian of Early Modern Ottoman Society with a special focus on Islamic law and social praxis. He earned his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), department of History and Civilisations in June 2012. He taught language courses at the...
Salt prints represent the first negative-to-positive photographic technique. Introduced by Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839, it is the process from which most nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographic formats were derived. Collections of salt prints found in libraries, archives, and museums at Harvard University include some of the earliest photographic images created, and they represent a seminal chapter in the history of photography. Together, these holdings reveal technological developments in the medium and pioneering uses of photography across the sciences and...
