Upcoming Events
The Knight Science Journalism Program offers a variety of programming, including seminars featuring world-class scientists and storytellers, and workshops designed to help journalists hone their craft. Click on an event to learn more.
Events
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Book Talk: Felice Frankel on Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Felice Frankel science photographer and research scientist in MIT's the Department of Chemical Engineering for a talk on her new book Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us. Phenomenal Moments is a joyful invitation to discover just how amazing our world truly is. […]
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Book Talk: Melanie Kaplan on Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program is excited to welcome Melanie Kaplan, KSJ Project Fellow '22, for a talk about her new book, Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research. When journalist Melanie D.G. Kaplan adopted her beagle Hammy, all she knew was that he had spent nearly four […]
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Seminar: Kate Quinn on Collecting, Stewarding, and Interpreting Human Remains in Museum Collections
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Kate Quinn, MFA, AFAAR for a seminar on the complex problem of human remains in museum collections. This seminar will examine how museums steward human remains and scientific specimens, and why these collections raise some of the most complex ethical questions in public history […]
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Book Talk: Journalist Angela Saini on The Patriarchs
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Angela Saini, KSJ '13 and faculty at the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT, for a talk on her book The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality. In her 2023 book, The Patriarchs, Angela Saini explores how gendered inequality first emerged. Drawing from biology, […]
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CANCELLED: Joseph Lee on Nothing More of This Land
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPlease note that this in person event has been cancelled due to weather conditions. The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is honored to welcome journalist Joseph Lee, an Aquinnah Wampanoag journalist and the author of Nothing More of This Land. In addition to discussing his book and publication journey, Joseph will join us to talk […]
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Panel Discussion: Undark Magazine 10th Anniversary
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program is excited to welcome former KSJ Director Deb Blum, Editor in Chief of Undark Tom Zeller, and Deputy Editor of Undark Jane Reza for a panel discussion of Undark Magazine in celebration of its 10th anniversary. They will discuss the founding of the magazine, its achievements over the years, and […]
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Panel Discussion: How AI is Impacting Journalism, Free Speech, and Public Discourse
MIT Welcome Center Auditorium 292 Main St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us for a discussion on how AI is impacting the way news is reported and disseminated, the way we learn and communicate, and how this is impacting free speech and democracy. The discussion will feature journalists who are examining more ethical ways to report on and use AI, an MIT Media Lab researcher who […]
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Matt Kaplan on Broken Beakers and Brilliant Minds: Fixing The Machinery of Science
MIT Welcome Center Auditorium 292 Main St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFrom the energy crisis and feeding eight billion people to defeating cancer and coping with climate change, humanity faces some rather large challenges today. To tackle them, we need science running like a well-oiled machine. Unfortunately, it has more often resembled a clunky old engine: loud, temperamental and prone to breaking down at the worst […]
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Seminar: Steven Levitsky on the US’s Slide into Authoritarianism
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard for a seminar on the current political moment in the United States. Dr. Levitsky will discuss United […]
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Seminar: Dr. Danna Freedman on MIT’s Quantum Initiative
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Danna Freedman, Faculty Director of the MIT Quantum Initiative. Dr. Freedman will speak about the Initiative, her research on quantum computing, the research on quantum computing across the Institute. Please contact Learning and Events Coordinator Claire Sadar if you are interested in attending.
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Seminar: Laura Helmuth on workplace success and fighting misinformation
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome journalism and editor Laura Helmuth for a discussion on the current state of journalism. Laura will share advice for succeeding in the workplace, drawn from her experience as a manager and leader at multiple publications and as a work advice columnist for Slate magazine. […]
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Seminar: Beneath the Surface: Marine Archaeology, Technology, and Reclaiming the Human Story from the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie
Knight Science Journalism Office 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Prof. Michael Cottman, former reporter for The Washington Post, Newsday, and The Miami Herald, and current Assistant to the Dean with Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communication. His seminar will examine the Henrietta Marie slave-ship wreck as a case study at […]