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SUMMARY:MingKwai: The Chinese Typewriter that Globalized the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Wende Museum for the story of the MingKwai Chinese Typewriter\, a machine of near-mythical reputation that debuted in 1947\, disappeared for decades\, and was rediscovered in a basement in New York. \nInvented by Chinese-born author and translator Lin Yutang\, the MingKwai was a revolutionary attempt to rethink the typewriter for the Chinese language. Far more than an unusual writing machine\, its ingenious design anticipated ideas that would later become central to Chinese computing and the global digital age. \nDr. Thomas S. Mullaney\, Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University\, brokered the agreement that secured the sole surviving prototype for the public\, arranging for it to be entrusted to the Stanford University Libraries. The rediscovery was featured in a front-page article in The New York Times. \nIn this talk\, Mullaney tells the extraordinary story of the MingKwai: how it worked\, why it mattered\, how it traveled across continents and vanished from view\, and how its rediscovery culminated in an effort to preserve it for the public. Drawing on nearly 20 years of research into Chinese information technology\, he shows how efforts to solve the challenges of Chinese writing shaped technologies that extend far beyond China. \nThe program invites audiences to reconsider a larger question: What does the history of the digital age look like when we tell it from beyond the English-speaking world? \nThe talk is followed by a Q&A and a wine reception in the garden. \nBio \nTom Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Author of The Chinese Typewriter (John King Fairbank Prize) and How We Disappear\, he built the world’s largest collection on East Asian information technology history and negotiated Stanford’s acquisition of the legendary MingKwai typewriter.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/mingkwai/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Navigating Our Media Ecosystem: Reclaiming Our Stories & Media
DESCRIPTION:The stories we hear and see shape the world we live in. During these two free hands-on workshops\, we will explore our relationships with media\, technology\, and popular culture. We will analyze media and create our own alternative messages with a focus on the ways environmental and climate justice impact our health. \nThese events are free for everyone. We are all part of a media ecosystem\, whether we’re on social media\, watching YouTube\, reading articles\, or sharing links with our friends and family. We will explore tools for critical media literacy and – as a community- discover how we can tell our own stories and create our own media. \nJoin Dr. Jeff Share\, PhD\, award-winning photojournalist and educator\, UCLA senior lecturer\, and author of numerous articles and books on critical media literacy and Dr. Amanda d’Almeida MD\, MPH\, family medicine physician at UCLA with a background in social media and environmental justice for these community events! We hope to see you there.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/navigating-our-media-ecosystem-reclaiming-our-stories-media/2026-09-19/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Partner,Conversation
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SUMMARY:Racist by Design: Kelly Lytle Hernández in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Kelly Lytle Hernández launches her new book Racist by Design in conversation with New York Times contributing opinion writer Jean Guerrero. \nThe book traces the American immigration system from its origins to the way it works today. Most accounts begin with the Chinese Exclusion Act of the late nineteenth century. Lytle Hernández starts a full century earlier\, with the Haitian Revolution of the 1790s\, which prompted both the country’s first immigration bans and its first refugee resettlement program. She shows how eugenicists and Jim Crow segregationists built much of the current system as expressly whites only\, and how Congress amended that system during the Civil Rights Movement while leaving many of its rules intact. She calls the book “an act of sabotage\,” a blueprint published so the system can be dismantled. \nLytle Hernández and Guerrero will discuss that history and what rebuilding a just immigration system would take. \nVillage Well Books & Coffee will sell copies on site. A reception with wine and light bites follows the conversation in the garden. \nSeating for this free program is first come\, first served. \nKelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA and a MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of Racist by Design\, Bad Mexicans\, and other award-winning books on race\, immigration\, policing\, and incarceration. She lives in Los Angeles. \nJean Guerrero is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and a visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is the author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller\, Donald Trump\, and the White Nationalist Agenda\, and of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir\, which won a PEN Literary Award. She was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times and covered the U.S.-Mexico border as an investigative reporter at KPBS\, where she won an Emmy and contributed to NPR and the PBS NewsHour. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair\, Politico\, The Nation\, Wired\, the Washington Post\, and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/racist-by-design/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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