The SHASS 75th Anniversary Symposium is a two-day celebration Sept. 24-25, 2026 in the Thomas Tull Concert Hall in MIT’s Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building. The symposium will feature faculty panel thematic sessions (including with Literature faculty), student performances, and alumni talks. Between sessions, attendees will have opportunities for connecting and networking.
The SHASS 75th Anniversary Symposium is a two-day celebration Sept. 24-25, 2026 in the Thomas Tull Concert Hall in MIT’s Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building. The symposium will feature faculty panel thematic sessions (including with Literature faculty), student performances, and alumni talks. Between sessions, attendees will have opportunities for connecting and networking.
Come by for snacks & lea with Literature Section friends, instructors, and students.
Reading across literature, film, oral history, archival documents, legal history, and scientific texts, The Suicide Archive (2024) shows how aesthetic forms (literature, film, visual art, performance) preserve powerful histories of resistance and loss.
Join the MIT Global Humanities Initiative a lecture and discussion with Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on the movement of Cantonese-speaking people and their language through and beyond China during the late Qing and early Republican periods.
Literature Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue 14N-407
Cambridge, MA 02139
tel: (617) 253-3581
