The MIT professor‘s recent focuses have included climate change, the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea, the homeless and nuclear weapons and disarmament.

Saturday may bring the most improbable thing MIT has done: a single-hour panel discussion on “Holocaust and Technology: When Technology becomes Evil.”

Already a guiding light about law in the Internet age, Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig has turned his attention to the corrupting influence of money in politics.

Americans can vote at 18, but when when do you turn to a child to start their participation as a citizen? Fifteen? Twelve? In a talk Monday, educators will argue we can aim as low as 4.

Lesley University brings in speakers on radically different topics in the coming week – a school shooting expert Monday and environmental activist Tuesday.