Date/Time
3/4/2026
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Eastern
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Eastern
Event Type(s)
Other MIT Campus & Community Events
Event Description
Social psychologist and bestselling author Jonathan Haidt delivers MIT's prestigious Karl Taylor Compton lecture. Open to all members of the MIT community.
Location
Setting: In-Person
Huntington Hall (10-250)
UNITED STATES
Huntington Hall (10-250)
UNITED STATES
Contact Person
Details
New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, will deliver MIT's Karl Taylor Compton Lecture on March 4, 2026. This year's Compton Lecture is titled "Life After Babel: Democracy and Human Development in the Fractured, Lonely World That Technology Gave Us."
About the Compton Lecture Series:
About the Compton Lecture Series:
The Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series was established in 1957 to honor the late Karl Taylor Compton, who served as president of MIT from 1930 to 1948 and as chairman of the MIT Corporation from 1948 to 1954. The lecture series gives the MIT community direct contact with the important ideas of our times and with people who have contributed much to modern thought.
More available at the Compton Lectures website.
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