Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

MIT's arts, humanities, and social sciences play crucial roles in generating positive change around the globe.

During the open house, you can learn about language and the mind, future media, technology in our lives, computer-aided musicology, reducing global poverty; and exploring cultures. You can also meet authors, enjoy musical concerts and readings, and tour a game lab. Be surprised!

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• Scheduled Activities
• All Day Activities

(All day)	The future of humanities education
11:00am - 1:00pm	Turning metals into medals
11:00am - 1:00pm	Glass Lab tours and demonstrations
11:30am - 12:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Sandy Pentland, author of "Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World"
12:00pm - 12:40pm	Panel discussion: What can a graduate degree do for you?
12:00pm - 2:30pm	Showcase of performing arts: from dance to gospel
12:30pm - 3:00pm	Ballroom dance: learning session and performance
12:30pm - 1:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Jay Keyser, author of "Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows"
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Stopping time at the Edgerton Center
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Language and the human mind
1:00pm - 3:00pm	MIT Public Service Center
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Soapbox talks: US Civil War, making fire, Pluto, camouflage and everything in between
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Do-It Tours by the Hobby Shop, Edgerton Center Student Shop, and D-Lab
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Poems/duets
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Media Laboratory project demonstrations
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Bagpipes and ballads
1:30pm - 4:00pm	Distinguished faculty lectures with chemist Richard Schrock and economists Peter Diamond and Esther Duflo
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Philip Alexander, author of "A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT"
2:00pm - 2:40pm	Panel discussion: What can a graduate degree do for you?
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Erik Brynjolfsson, author of "Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy"
2:25pm - 3:10pm	Distinguished faculty lecture with Professor Peter Diamond, 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Do-It Tours by the Hobby Shop, Edgerton Center Student Shop, and D-Lab
2:45pm - 4:00pm	Gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology
3:15pm - 4:00pm	Distinguished faculty lecture with Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics
3:15pm - 4:00pm	Learn to folk dance
7:00pm - 8:30pm	Alan Lightman in conversation about "Mr. g"
8:00pm - 10:00pm	MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble

11:00am - 4:00pm	A day of discovery, music, and great ideas presented by MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
11:00am - 4:00pm	A showcase of invention as public service at MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	Build a city with urban planners
11:00am - 4:00pm	Celebrating discovery at MIT: an undergraduate research poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	Celebrating MIT's public art collection
11:00am - 4:00pm	Center for Bits and Atoms Digital Fabrication Facility and Fab Lab network
11:00am - 4:00pm	Change the world through media
11:00am - 4:00pm	Compton Gallery — MIT150 exhibition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Confronting the climate change challenge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Creative talents: music performances, yo-yo's, and more
11:00am - 4:00pm	Eliot K. Wolk Gallery — design competition exhibit
11:00am - 4:00pm	Exhibits from the MIT Glass Lab, Student Art Association, and the MIT Hobby Shop
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Bibliodoptera
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Dis[Course]4
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Gradated Field
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): MIT Mood Meter
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Night of Numbers
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Overliner
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Soft Rockers
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): String Tunnel
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): voltaDom
11:00am - 4:00pm	Festival of Art + Science + Technology Installations (FAST): Wind Screen
11:00am - 4:00pm	GAMBIT game lab open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hart Nautical Gallery exhibit
11:00am - 4:00pm	Koch Institute Public Galleries
11:00am - 4:00pm	Literature at MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	Mens et Manus: reinterpreting the seal of MIT in a display of origami, wood, and glass
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)—poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Museum inside out
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT OpenCourseWare: unlocking knowledge and empowering minds
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Portugal program video
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT student mini-concerts: the sounds of minds and hands at work
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 welcome lounge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Music, theatre, comedy, and more performed by MIT students
11:00am - 4:00pm	Participate in video game research
11:00am - 4:00pm	Preserving your family's history
11:00am - 4:00pm	Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning
11:00am - 4:00pm	Technology through time: 150 years of MIT history at the MIT Libraries' Maihaugen Gallery
11:00am - 4:00pm	The Student Art Association (SAA) open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	Use brain wave sensors in SCRATCH
11:00am - 4:00pm	What is the Engineering Systems Division (ESD)?
11:00am - 4:00pm	Wiesner Student Art Gallery
11:00am - 4:00pm	WMBR 88.1 FM: broadcasting live