

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: MIT Literature Section presents, Author Talk & Live Musical Performance wit
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Can literature teach empathy? And how much empathy is too much? Join award-winning author Ling Ling Huang in conversation &amp; music at MIT.About this EventReception: Hayden Library Courtyard @ 5:00 – 5:30 PMAuthor Talk &amp; Live Musical Performance: Killian Hall (14S-111) @ 5:30 PMCan literature teach empathy?And how much empathy is too much?Join award-winning author Ling Ling Huang for a live conversation on Immaculate Conception.Moderated by Prof. Sandy Alexandre (Literature), with insights from Prof. Rebecca Saxe (Cognitive Neuroscience).Together, they’ll explore empathy in fiction: its power, its limits, and what science can tell us about it.Music will be part of the experience.See you there. Looking forward to your questions for the Q&amp;A period after the conversation.Ling Ling Huang is a writer and violinist. She plays with several ensembles, including the Oregon Symphony, Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and the Experiential Orchestra, with whom she won a Grammy Award in 2021. Her debut novel, Natural Beauty, was a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Her second novel, Immaculate Conception, was published in May 2025.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Killian Hall
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- **full address**: Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** MIT Literature Section
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, music, entertainment, live-music, music-festivals, festivals
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