[1162] in peace2
Re: iap class
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicole S Immorlica)
Wed Oct 24 11:49:40 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicole S Immorlica <nickle@MIT.EDU>
To: Gabrielle M Magro <gmagro@mit.edu>
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here's my wish list of plausible speakers, in order of importance. of
course it costs money, but doesn't the asa have a fund for events that
will benefit the mit community at large? something like $10,000?
furthermore, it can always be a teleconference...
osama bin laden. kidding, of course. :) but if you're serious about the
original sources stuff, i think we could probably find some current osama
speeches from some arabic tv station.
susan sontag, brilliant brilliant brilliant.
robert fisk, need i say more?
arundhati roy, wrote the god of small things and has since become
politically active and i think has criminal problems in india. you can
find articles she wrote on the recent shit on znet.
errol morris, an amazing filmmaker most famous for fast cheap and out of
control or mr. death (about a holocaust denier who designs electric
chairs). he lives in cambridge. i don't know if he's very politically
active, but his commentary on american culture is really insightful.
art speigelman, a comic artist with a political bent. he does many new
yorker covers, including the one relating to the sept. 11th terrorist
attacks.
michael moore, beautifully bitter and cynical,
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
robert anton wilson, still living in a past decade but very whitty and a
true agnostic, http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml
a representative from medecin sans frontieres (doctors without borders) or
amnesty international, although this may prove to be pure propaganda,
these people have a unique perspective as they are actually in affected
areas
cary nelson, uic prof who believes we shouldn't teach classical
literature to our children because they will grow up liking just what we
liked (and many other things), http://www.english.uiuc.edu/nelson/
and some less serious suggestions...
thomas pynchon, writer and recluse believed by many to be the unibomber
(before the unibomber was arrested, of course)
and for that matter, the unibomber himself. :)
that housewife how is now being sued for kidnapping patricia hearst oh so
many years ago
ron rivest, i'm not sure how politically active he is, but afterall he did
invent the state of the art information hiding technique (RSA encryption),
and he's an mit prof
ralph nader, where is he anyway?
bill press
bill gates or negroponte or bush or clinton (i know these people are
unatainable, but i have some questions i'd like to ask them)
leonard cohen
suzanne vega
bob dylan
woody allen
kofi annan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Gabrielle M Magro wrote:
>
> based on the emails i have received regarding the iap class, i
> realize that many people do not know what i am talking about.
> last year, some of us (mostly associated with sjc) decided to
> organize a for-credit class during iap. here was it's
> description in the catalog:
>
> 17.919
> Special Topics in Political Science
> What the American Government Doesn't Want You to Know
>
> Level: U 6 units Graded P/D/F
>
> Reading and discussion of special topics in the field of social science.
> This class will cover the following four topics from a progressive view
> point:
> - the history of the labor movement in US since 1900
> - US foreign policy since World War II
> - human factors (civil rights, women's rights, etc.)in the US
> - the economic history of public funding of research and the privatization
> of its benefits
> The class will be a series of lectures by local activists, students, and
> intellectuals as well as MIT professors including Noam Chomsky and
> Jonathan King. The course work includes reading primary and secondary
> sources as well as writing a paper due at the end of IAP.
>
>
>
> this description in no way reflects how the class has to be this year.
> so far, the only person we have commited to speaking is chomsky. i think
> he is going to do about as many lectures as he did last year (3 or 4).
> the other speakers are yet to be determined by whoever wants to help
> organize this. all input is welcome as to how we could do this class
> differently this year. so if you are interested, come to a meeting
> tomorrow night (wednesday) at 8pm in 13-4106. hope to see some of you
> then, gabrielle
>
>
