Please join us in a celebration of the life of our friend and colleague

John Tirman
1949 - 2022

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

EB White

Friday, November 4, 2022

Service

9 AM - 10:30 AM

MIT Chapel
48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Reception

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

MIT Stratton Student Center
Twenty Chimneys, 3rd Floor
84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Welcome

• Richard Samuels, Director of the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) and Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT

Remembrances

• Ali Banuazizi, Research Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program in Islamic Civilization and Societies at Boston College
• Anat Biletzki, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Technology Program at CIS

Keynote

• Hussein Banai, Associate Professor of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington and CIS Research Affiliate

Remembrances

• Elizabeth Wood, Professor of History at MIT and Co-Director of the MIT-Eurasia Program
• Kurt Fendt, Senior Lecturer at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing and Director of MIT’s Active Archives

Closing remarks

• Richard Samuels, Director of the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) and Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT

There may be additions to the program 

Please join us after the service for a reception and multimedia presentation highlighting John's many accomplishments and activities

Music provided by McKinley James (cellist) and Andrew Barnwell (pianist)

For more information, contact Michelle English

Sponsored by the Center for International Studies