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What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my lastings writings.
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Monday, September 28
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11:45am Genome in 3D: Modeling Genome (Re)Organization
12pm MASS Seminar - Dennis Hartmann (Washington)
12pm Financial Arbitrage and Efficient Dispatch in Wholesale Electricity Markets
12:15pm Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
1pm Future of Solar Design
4pm Learning By Doing in Renewable Energy: Evidence from US Wind and Solar Farms
4pm From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
5pm Mayor Walsh Kicks Off the Urban Farming and Education Center at Historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
5:30pm Solve Talks at Google: REBALANCING INEQUALITY
7pm MIT Energy Week: Libby Wayman, Department of Energy
7pm Science and Cooking: Elasticity and Bread
7pm Kim Bernard and Jacob Barandes: It's Physical
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Tuesday, September 29
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12pm Rally for Clean Energy
12pm The Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity Study: Towards a User Centric Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
12pm Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
12:30pm The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
1pm Speak UP for Clean Energy - MA State House Hearing
2:30pm The Impact of Free Media on Regime Change: Evidence from Russia
3pm Local Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) Work: Coming Full-Circle
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Spontaneous balance adjustment and gravity waves from moist baroclinic jets and fronts
3pm Materials Lab Workshop: Light
4:30pm Fall Lecture Series: Leonard Miller – A Personal Overview of U.S. Water Pollution Control from a Co-Founder of the EPA
4:30pm Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
5pm An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
6pm Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science
6pm e4Dev: Accelerating Access To Energy Through Technology and Business Model Innovation
6pm Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
6pm African Women: Changing the World!
6pm Startupalooza Boston
6:30pm Humanitarian Happy Hour
6:30pm One Foot In, One Foot Out: The Role of Scientists as Activists
7pm MIT Energy Week: Introduction to our Flagship Events - Energy Conference, Energy Prize, Energy Night
7pm The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
7pm Merchants of Doubt Film Screening with Live Q & A
7pm Catching the Sun Film Screening and Panel
8pm Boston - The Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival
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Wednesday, September 30
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8am Cleantech Scandinavia Startup Showcase
12pm Will MIT rise to the climate challenge?
12pm Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
12pm The Levantine Ceramics Project - a crowd-sourced Archaeological Digital Humanities project
12pm How the Wizards of Armageddon Became the High Priests of the Cult of the Irrelevant
12pm ANIMAL FARM: A talk by Farm Sanctuary's President & Founder
12:10pm Sack Lunch Seminar Series - Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)
4pm The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers: Lecture by Ben Rivers
4:15pm Energy Tax Incidence under Imperfect Competition: An Application to Automotive Fuel
5pm The Aftermath: Reflections on Terror and Performance
5pm Visualizing Marine Conservation Presentation and Panel Discussion
5pm Gene Baur, President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary
5pm Super Subs, Not Superbugs
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - From DNA to Designer Genomes
6pm cove launch party
6pm Footprint: Building a Dialogue
6pm EARTHOS CONVERSATION #1: The U-STEAM Center for Resilience
6:30pm Music-Tech: Learn. Teach. Demo. Eat
7pm MIT Energy Week: Introduction to research and education on campus
7pm Engineering Life: How Synthetic Biology Is Improving the World Around Us
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Thursday, October 1
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8:30am Microgrid Controller Symposium
11am Green Transportation Celebration
4pm The Cruel Cut - a film on female genital mutilation
4pm Russia's Military: Capabilities, Conflict in Ukraine, and Challenges for NATO"
5pm Will the Courts Strike Down the President's Clean Power Plan?
5pm Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan's Mass Media Revolution
5:30pm Starr Forum: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
5:30pm EnergyBar!
5:30pm Designing the High School of the Future
6pm Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
6pm Your Obedient Servant: The Unlikely History of the Handheld Navigational Device
6pm Iran Nuclear Deal
6pm Sustainability Collaborative
6pm CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS FORUM
6pm Interrogating the Silence: A Conversation
6:30pm The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age - film showing
6:30pm Urban Films: Revolution for the Present
7pm MIT Energy Week: The Boston area Energy Ecosystem – Startup Success Stories
7pm Program on Negotiation Film Series: "Two Days, One Night"
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Friday, October 2
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Food Law Student Leadership Summit
Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium
9:30am The Past, Present, and Future of DNA
12pm EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
12pm Rally for Climate Action
1:30pm Fundamentals of Cyber Conflict and a Research Agenda for International Relations and Computer Science
1:30pm Taking Stock: Ingredients for a Regional Food System
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Saturday, October 3
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Hubweek
10:30am Let's Talk About Food Festival
1pm TEDxJamaicaPlain
6:30pm Illuminus - Light, Sound, Spectacle
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Sunday, October 4
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10am 3rd annual Boston Fermentation Festival
4pm Fenway Forum: What's the Right Thing to Do?
6:30pm Illuminus - Light, Sound, Spectacle
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Monday, October 5
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8am From Opioids to Alcohol: Designing an Effective Response to Addiction
9am HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
12pm MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
12pm Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
12:15pm Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
1pm Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
4:15pm Global Sustainability
6pm How does the environment affect our health?
6pm The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
7pm The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
7pm Art. Science. Learning.
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Tuesday, October 6
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8am Crowds & Climate Conference
12pm Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
12pm State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
12pm The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
1pm Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
2:30pm A Networked Market for Information
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series: Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Impacts of air-sea and boundary layer fluxes on the intensity and structure of TCs
3pm Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
5pm Solve: Fuel Roundtable
6pm The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
6pm e4Dev: Learnings for "Energy-as-a-Service" Business Models with Examples from the Health Sector
6pm Driving Ourselves Happy
6pm BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
6pm #TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
6:30pm FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
6:30pm Soil: The Skin of the Earth
7pm World Hunger: 10 Myths
7:30pm Media Storytelling
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
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Index
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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my lastings writings.
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Monday, September 28
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11:45am Genome in 3D: Modeling Genome (Re)Organization
12pm MASS Seminar - Dennis Hartmann (Washington)
12pm Financial Arbitrage and Efficient Dispatch in Wholesale Electricity Markets
12:15pm Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
1pm Future of Solar Design
4pm Learning By Doing in Renewable Energy: Evidence from US Wind and Solar Farms
4pm From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
5pm Mayor Walsh Kicks Off the Urban Farming and Education Center at Historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
5:30pm Solve Talks at Google: REBALANCING INEQUALITY
7pm MIT Energy Week: Libby Wayman, Department of Energy
7pm Science and Cooking: Elasticity and Bread
7pm Kim Bernard and Jacob Barandes: It's Physical
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Tuesday, September 29
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12pm Rally for Clean Energy
12pm The Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity Study: Towards a User Centric Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
12pm Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
12:30pm The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
1pm Speak UP for Clean Energy - MA State House Hearing
2:30pm The Impact of Free Media on Regime Change: Evidence from Russia
3pm Local Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) Work: Coming Full-Circle
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Spontaneous balance adjustment and gravity waves from moist baroclinic jets and fronts
3pm Materials Lab Workshop: Light
4:30pm Fall Lecture Series: Leonard Miller – A Personal Overview of U.S. Water Pollution Control from a Co-Founder of the EPA
4:30pm Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
5pm An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
6pm Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science
6pm e4Dev: Accelerating Access To Energy Through Technology and Business Model Innovation
6pm Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
6pm African Women: Changing the World!
6pm Startupalooza Boston
6:30pm Humanitarian Happy Hour
6:30pm One Foot In, One Foot Out: The Role of Scientists as Activists
7pm MIT Energy Week: Introduction to our Flagship Events - Energy Conference, Energy Prize, Energy Night
7pm The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
7pm Merchants of Doubt Film Screening with Live Q & A
7pm Catching the Sun Film Screening and Panel
8pm Boston - The Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival
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Wednesday, September 30
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8am Cleantech Scandinavia Startup Showcase
12pm Will MIT rise to the climate challenge?
12pm Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
12pm The Levantine Ceramics Project - a crowd-sourced Archaeological Digital Humanities project
12pm How the Wizards of Armageddon Became the High Priests of the Cult of the Irrelevant
12pm ANIMAL FARM: A talk by Farm Sanctuary's President & Founder
12:10pm Sack Lunch Seminar Series - Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)
4pm The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers: Lecture by Ben Rivers
4:15pm Energy Tax Incidence under Imperfect Competition: An Application to Automotive Fuel
5pm The Aftermath: Reflections on Terror and Performance
5pm Visualizing Marine Conservation Presentation and Panel Discussion
5pm Gene Baur, President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary
5pm Super Subs, Not Superbugs
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - From DNA to Designer Genomes
6pm cove launch party
6pm Footprint: Building a Dialogue
6pm EARTHOS CONVERSATION #1: The U-STEAM Center for Resilience
6:30pm Music-Tech: Learn. Teach. Demo. Eat
7pm MIT Energy Week: Introduction to research and education on campus
7pm Engineering Life: How Synthetic Biology Is Improving the World Around Us
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Thursday, October 1
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8:30am Microgrid Controller Symposium
11am Green Transportation Celebration
4pm The Cruel Cut - a film on female genital mutilation
4pm Russia's Military: Capabilities, Conflict in Ukraine, and Challenges for NATO"
5pm Will the Courts Strike Down the President's Clean Power Plan?
5pm Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan's Mass Media Revolution
5:30pm Starr Forum: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
5:30pm EnergyBar!
5:30pm Designing the High School of the Future
6pm Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
6pm Your Obedient Servant: The Unlikely History of the Handheld Navigational Device
6pm Iran Nuclear Deal
6pm Sustainability Collaborative
6pm CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS FORUM
6pm Interrogating the Silence: A Conversation
6:30pm The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age - film showing
6:30pm Urban Films: Revolution for the Present
7pm MIT Energy Week: The Boston area Energy Ecosystem – Startup Success Stories
7pm Program on Negotiation Film Series: "Two Days, One Night"
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Friday, October 2
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Food Law Student Leadership Summit
Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium
9:30am The Past, Present, and Future of DNA
12pm EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
12pm Rally for Climate Action
1:30pm Fundamentals of Cyber Conflict and a Research Agenda for International Relations and Computer Science
1:30pm Taking Stock: Ingredients for a Regional Food System
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Saturday, October 3
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Hubweek
10:30am Let's Talk About Food Festival
1pm TEDxJamaicaPlain
6:30pm Illuminus - Light, Sound, Spectacle
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Sunday, October 4
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10am 3rd annual Boston Fermentation Festival
4pm Fenway Forum: What's the Right Thing to Do?
6:30pm Illuminus - Light, Sound, Spectacle
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Monday, October 5
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8am From Opioids to Alcohol: Designing an Effective Response to Addiction
9am HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
12pm MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
12pm Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
12:15pm Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
1pm Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
4:15pm Global Sustainability
6pm How does the environment affect our health?
6pm The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
7pm The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
7pm Art. Science. Learning.
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Tuesday, October 6
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8am Crowds & Climate Conference
12pm Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
12pm State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
12pm The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
1pm Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
2:30pm A Networked Market for Information
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series: Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Impacts of air-sea and boundary layer fluxes on the intensity and structure of TCs
3pm Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
5pm Solve: Fuel Roundtable
6pm The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
6pm e4Dev: Learnings for "Energy-as-a-Service" Business Models with Examples from the Health Sector
6pm Driving Ourselves Happy
6pm BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
6pm #TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
6:30pm FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
6:30pm Soil: The Skin of the Earth
7pm World Hunger: 10 Myths
7:30pm Media Storytelling
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
City Agriculture Links List
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/23/1424020/-City-Agriculture-Links-List
I've also begun a new blog which archives all my previous (since 2013) City Agriculture links at
I've also begun a new blog which archives all my previous (since 2013) City Agriculture links at
http://cityag.blogspot.com
The Last Socialist Campaign: Upton Sinclair for Governor of CA in 1934
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/24/1424355/-The-Last-Socialist-Campaign-Upton-Sinclair-for-Governor-of-CA-in-1934
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Monday, September 28
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Genome in 3D: Modeling Genome (Re)Organization
WHEN Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Biological Laboratories, Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Professor Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science & Department of Physics, MIT
CONTACT INFO mcbevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Chromosome Conformation Capture technique (Hi-C) provides comprehensive information about frequencies of spatial interactions between genomic loci. Inferring 3D organization of chromosomes from these data is a challenging biophysical problem. We develop a top-down approach to biophysical modeling of chromosomes. Starting with a minimal set of biologically motivated interactions we build ensembles of polymer conformations that can reproduce major features observed in Hi-C experiments. I will present our work on modeling organization of human metaphase and interphase chromosomes. Our works suggests that active processes of loop extrusion can be a universal mechanism responsible for formation of domains in interphase and chromosome compaction in metaphase.
WHEN Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Biological Laboratories, Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Professor Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science & Department of Physics, MIT
CONTACT INFO mcbevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Chromosome Conformation Capture technique (Hi-C) provides comprehensive information about frequencies of spatial interactions between genomic loci. Inferring 3D organization of chromosomes from these data is a challenging biophysical problem. We develop a top-down approach to biophysical modeling of chromosomes. Starting with a minimal set of biologically motivated interactions we build ensembles of polymer conformations that can reproduce major features observed in Hi-C experiments. I will present our work on modeling organization of human metaphase and interphase chromosomes. Our works suggests that active processes of loop extrusion can be a universal mechanism responsible for formation of domains in interphase and chromosome compaction in metaphase.
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MASS Seminar - Dennis Hartmann (Washington)
Monday, September 28
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Dennis Hartmann (Washington)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
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Financial Arbitrage and Efficient Dispatch in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Monday, September 28
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management
This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
Monday, September 28
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
David A. Mindell, Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS), MIT; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Future of Solar Design
SEBANE (Solar Energy Business Association of New England)
Monday, September 28
On Monday, September 28, SEBANE will be hosting a discussion on the future of solar design. The event will feature two speakers who stand ready to help as your organization faces new code requirements and an increasing need for high quality performance monitoring for all PV systems - from residential scale to multi-MW scale projects. In addition, David O'Connor of ML Strategies will provide a briefing on the state of play of solar legislation in Massachusetts.
I'm a constituent of yours and a solar [worker / customer / supporter]. Solar is bringing real energy savings, economic growth and health benefits to our community. I am calling to urge you to make raising the caps on our successful net metering program your first order of business this month so that solar can keep working for the Commonwealth. Will you urge Speaker DeLeo and Energy Chairman Golden to raise the net metering caps immediately?
Feel free to add your own sunny solar story! Why do you care about solar success in Massachusetts? Personalize your message to have a bigger impact.
3) Report back:
Let Vote Solar know what they said!
Email Sean Garron (sean@votesolar.org) with your legislators' response so we track progress. [Thanks to Vote Solar for handling this!]
Speaker: Javier Garcia-Arenas (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Job Market Seminars
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
MASS Seminar - Dennis Hartmann (Washington)
Monday, September 28
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Dennis Hartmann (Washington)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
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Financial Arbitrage and Efficient Dispatch in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Monday, September 28
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management
This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
Monday, September 28
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
David A. Mindell, Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS), MIT; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Future of Solar Design
SEBANE (Solar Energy Business Association of New England)
Monday, September 28
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
ML Strategies, 1 Financial Center #38, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-solar-design-tickets-18398360993
Cost: $25.00$50.00
Cost: $25.00$50.00
On Monday, September 28, SEBANE will be hosting a discussion on the future of solar design. The event will feature two speakers who stand ready to help as your organization faces new code requirements and an increasing need for high quality performance monitoring for all PV systems - from residential scale to multi-MW scale projects. In addition, David O'Connor of ML Strategies will provide a briefing on the state of play of solar legislation in Massachusetts.
Speakers will include:
Bob Anderson, Tigo,
Stephen Condon, Director of Sales East, Solar Data Systems, Inc.
David O'Connor, Senior Vice President for Energy & Clean Technology, ML Strategies
Bob Anderson, Tigo,
Stephen Condon, Director of Sales East, Solar Data Systems, Inc.
David O'Connor, Senior Vice President for Energy & Clean Technology, ML Strategies
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Learning By Doing in Renewable Energy: Evidence from US Wind and Solar Farms
Monday, September 28
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Richard McDowell (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
WHEN Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center and the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital.
SPEAKER(S) Judith G. Edersheim, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital; assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and attending psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), senior lecturer on law, Harvard Law School; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Kinscherff, faculty in the doctoral program in clinical psychology and associate vice president for community engagement at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology; and senior associate at the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Leah Somerville, assistant professor of psychology, Harvard University; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen, professor of law, Harvard Law School, and faculty director, Petrie-Flom Center
CONTACT INFO chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us after the panel discussion for the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Open House!
The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on this neuroscience in Roper v. Simmons (2005) in barring execution for capital crimes committed as a juvenile and in Miller v. Alabama (2012) in holding that mandatory life without possibility of parole for juveniles is also unconstitutional. This panel will examine the implications of developmental neuroscience for law in specific domains including death penalty mitigation for young adults over age 18 such as the Tsarnaev case, a developmentally informed view of Miranda and Competence to Stand Trial for juveniles, trial of youth as adults, and conditions of confinement in juvenile and adult incarceration. The panel will also discuss the promises and perils for constitutional jurisprudence, legal and public policy reform, and trial practice of relying upon a complex body of science as it emerges.
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/new-event-from-troubled-teens-to-tsarnaev
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Learning By Doing in Renewable Energy: Evidence from US Wind and Solar Farms
Monday, September 28
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Richard McDowell (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
WHEN Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center and the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital.
SPEAKER(S) Judith G. Edersheim, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital; assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and attending psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), senior lecturer on law, Harvard Law School; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Kinscherff, faculty in the doctoral program in clinical psychology and associate vice president for community engagement at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology; and senior associate at the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Leah Somerville, assistant professor of psychology, Harvard University; faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen, professor of law, Harvard Law School, and faculty director, Petrie-Flom Center
CONTACT INFO chutchisonjones@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us after the panel discussion for the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Open House!
The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on this neuroscience in Roper v. Simmons (2005) in barring execution for capital crimes committed as a juvenile and in Miller v. Alabama (2012) in holding that mandatory life without possibility of parole for juveniles is also unconstitutional. This panel will examine the implications of developmental neuroscience for law in specific domains including death penalty mitigation for young adults over age 18 such as the Tsarnaev case, a developmentally informed view of Miranda and Competence to Stand Trial for juveniles, trial of youth as adults, and conditions of confinement in juvenile and adult incarceration. The panel will also discuss the promises and perils for constitutional jurisprudence, legal and public policy reform, and trial practice of relying upon a complex body of science as it emerges.
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/new-event-from-troubled-teens-to-tsarnaev
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Mayor Walsh Kicks Off the Urban Farming and Education Center at Historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
Monday, September 28
5 to 7 p.m.
The former and future Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, 487 Norfolk Street, Mattapan
WHAT: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh joins a team including Historic Boston Inc., The Trust for Public Land, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, North Bennet Street School, and the Mattapan community to celebrate the near-future transformation of the historic, 18th-century Fowler Clark Epstein Farm house, barn, and land into an urban farm and education/training center, under the auspices of the Urban Farming Institute.
WHO: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh; Kathy Kottaridis, Executive Director of Historic Boston Inc.; Patricia Spence, Executive Director of the Urban Farming Institute of Boston; Kevin Essington, Massachusetts State Director of The Trust for Public Land; Glynn Lloyd, Urban Farming Institute Board Member, Founder of City Growers, and Managing Director at the Boston Impact Initiative; Kathy MacNeil, President of Historic Boston Inc.; Claire Fruitman, Provost of North Bennet Street School; elected representatives and public officials; Mattapan Neighborhood Organization representatives; neighbors; supporters and donors of the partner organizations; preservation advocates; friends, and the public.
Editorial Comment: This is really something. The combination of these institutions and the establishment of a permanent site for an urban farming training center means that the city of Boston has institutionalized the concept of urban farming as part of the metropolitan fabric of life. This is something I and many others have been working towards for forty years. Check out my extensive City Agriculture links at http://cityag.blogspot.com, an outgrowth of the occasional emails I send out on the subject. Contact me if you want to be added to that mailing list or just check the CityAg blog as I will be archiving my material there. (I also do occasional emails on Net Zero Energy buildings and Geometry Links if anyone is interested in those and will be establishing blog archives for those projects as well.)
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Solve Talks at Google: REBALANCING INEQUALITY
Monday, September 28
5:30p-7:30p
Google Cambridge, 355 Main Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/solve-talks-at-google-a-thought-leadership-speaker-series-in-the-heart-of-kendall-square-tickets-18214057737
Guests: David Autor, MIT; Ian Condry, MIT; Marybeth Campbell, SkillWorks
Is there anything we can actually do about growing inequality? Top scholars explain how we got here, and what real solutions might look like.
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MIT Energy Week: Libby Wayman, Department of Energy
Monday, September 28
7pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Monday, September 28
5 to 7 p.m.
The former and future Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, 487 Norfolk Street, Mattapan
WHAT: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh joins a team including Historic Boston Inc., The Trust for Public Land, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, North Bennet Street School, and the Mattapan community to celebrate the near-future transformation of the historic, 18th-century Fowler Clark Epstein Farm house, barn, and land into an urban farm and education/training center, under the auspices of the Urban Farming Institute.
WHO: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh; Kathy Kottaridis, Executive Director of Historic Boston Inc.; Patricia Spence, Executive Director of the Urban Farming Institute of Boston; Kevin Essington, Massachusetts State Director of The Trust for Public Land; Glynn Lloyd, Urban Farming Institute Board Member, Founder of City Growers, and Managing Director at the Boston Impact Initiative; Kathy MacNeil, President of Historic Boston Inc.; Claire Fruitman, Provost of North Bennet Street School; elected representatives and public officials; Mattapan Neighborhood Organization representatives; neighbors; supporters and donors of the partner organizations; preservation advocates; friends, and the public.
Editorial Comment: This is really something. The combination of these institutions and the establishment of a permanent site for an urban farming training center means that the city of Boston has institutionalized the concept of urban farming as part of the metropolitan fabric of life. This is something I and many others have been working towards for forty years. Check out my extensive City Agriculture links at http://cityag.blogspot.com, an outgrowth of the occasional emails I send out on the subject. Contact me if you want to be added to that mailing list or just check the CityAg blog as I will be archiving my material there. (I also do occasional emails on Net Zero Energy buildings and Geometry Links if anyone is interested in those and will be establishing blog archives for those projects as well.)
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Solve Talks at Google: REBALANCING INEQUALITY
Monday, September 28
5:30p-7:30p
Google Cambridge, 355 Main Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/solve-talks-at-google-a-thought-leadership-speaker-series-in-the-heart-of-kendall-square-tickets-18214057737
Guests: David Autor, MIT; Ian Condry, MIT; Marybeth Campbell, SkillWorks
Is there anything we can actually do about growing inequality? Top scholars explain how we got here, and what real solutions might look like.
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MIT Energy Week: Libby Wayman, Department of Energy
Monday, September 28
7pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
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Science and Cooking: Elasticity and Bread
Monday, September 28
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jim Lahey, (@jimlaheySSB), Sullivan Street Bakery
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Kim Bernard and Jacob Barandes: It's Physical
Monday, September 28
Monday, September 28
7-8 pm
Bartos Theater, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street E15, Cambridge,
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebekmcvgf11b2a3d&oseq=&c=d6d25590-9140-11e3-8dae-d4ae527b77f8&ch=d6d6e970-9140-11e3-8dae-d4ae527b77f8
Reception to follow
Artist Kim Bernard and Harvard theoretical physicist Jacob Barandes will engage in a lively conversation about the overlap and synergy between physics and her interactive kinetic sculptures. Kim Bernard is presently the artist in residence at the Harvard University Physics Department. She says, "It's fascinating that there are predictable patterns in matter and motion. I'm interested in creating work that demonstrates this phenomena simply, with an aesthetic that allows the viewer easy access, and provides a tangible way of seeing physics."
Kim Bernard shows her sculpture, installations and encaustic works nationally and has been invited to participate in many exhibits, some of which include the Portland Museum of Art, Currier Museum of Art, Fuller Craft Museum, Colby College Museum of Art, Art Complex Museum and UNH Museum of Art. Her work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe and Art News and featured in 100 Artists of New England. Bernard is the recipient of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant, several Maine Arts Commission Grants. She received her BFA from Parsons in 1987, her MFA from Mass Art in 2010 and currently teaches at the Maine College of Art. Bernard gives presentations, lectures and offers workshops nationally as a visiting artist.
Dr. Jacob Barandes is Associate Director of Graduate Studies and Lecturer on Physics for the Department of Physics, Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 2011 from Harvard, and a B.A. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics from Columbia University where he was the Class of 2004 Valedictorian. His research areas include quantum theory, quantum gravity, and high-energy theoretical physics. His recent awards and honors include a Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate of Excellence from Harvard University.
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Tuesday, September 29
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Bartos Theater, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street E15, Cambridge,
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebekmcvgf11b2a3d&oseq=&c=d6d25590-9140-11e3-8dae-d4ae527b77f8&ch=d6d6e970-9140-11e3-8dae-d4ae527b77f8
Reception to follow
Artist Kim Bernard and Harvard theoretical physicist Jacob Barandes will engage in a lively conversation about the overlap and synergy between physics and her interactive kinetic sculptures. Kim Bernard is presently the artist in residence at the Harvard University Physics Department. She says, "It's fascinating that there are predictable patterns in matter and motion. I'm interested in creating work that demonstrates this phenomena simply, with an aesthetic that allows the viewer easy access, and provides a tangible way of seeing physics."
Kim Bernard shows her sculpture, installations and encaustic works nationally and has been invited to participate in many exhibits, some of which include the Portland Museum of Art, Currier Museum of Art, Fuller Craft Museum, Colby College Museum of Art, Art Complex Museum and UNH Museum of Art. Her work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe and Art News and featured in 100 Artists of New England. Bernard is the recipient of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant, several Maine Arts Commission Grants. She received her BFA from Parsons in 1987, her MFA from Mass Art in 2010 and currently teaches at the Maine College of Art. Bernard gives presentations, lectures and offers workshops nationally as a visiting artist.
Dr. Jacob Barandes is Associate Director of Graduate Studies and Lecturer on Physics for the Department of Physics, Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 2011 from Harvard, and a B.A. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics from Columbia University where he was the Class of 2004 Valedictorian. His research areas include quantum theory, quantum gravity, and high-energy theoretical physics. His recent awards and honors include a Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate of Excellence from Harvard University.
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Tuesday, September 29
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Speak UP for Clean Energy
Tuesday, September 29
Rally at noon
Tuesday, September 29
Rally at noon
Outside State House
hearing at 1pm
MA Statehouse, Gardner Auditorium, Boston
RSVP at http://www.massclimateaction.net/speak_up_for_clean_energy
In the first major hearing of the fall, ALL the energy bills about wind, hydro, natural gas, solar, and net metering will be discussed.
Come make your support for clean energy heard!
MA Statehouse, Gardner Auditorium, Boston
RSVP at http://www.massclimateaction.net/speak_up_for_clean_energy
In the first major hearing of the fall, ALL the energy bills about wind, hydro, natural gas, solar, and net metering will be discussed.
Come make your support for clean energy heard!
If you cannot make it at all to the State House on that date, you can make a great impact in support of the solar power sector by doing this:
1) Call your Representative:
Dial the numbers below and ask to be put through to your Representative (you can give them your address if you don't know the names of your state legislator or find it at https://malegislature.gov/People/Search?utm_source=Sept.+29th+Hearing+needs+you+%40+State+House+1pm&utm_campaign=2015last+callSept29hearing&utm_medium=email).
1) Call your Representative:
Dial the numbers below and ask to be put through to your Representative (you can give them your address if you don't know the names of your state legislator or find it at https://malegislature.gov/People/Search?utm_source=Sept.+29th+Hearing+needs+you+%40+State+House+1pm&utm_campaign=2015last+callSept29hearing&utm_medium=email).
House Switchboard (617) 722-2000
2) Say:I'm a constituent of yours and a solar [worker / customer / supporter]. Solar is bringing real energy savings, economic growth and health benefits to our community. I am calling to urge you to make raising the caps on our successful net metering program your first order of business this month so that solar can keep working for the Commonwealth. Will you urge Speaker DeLeo and Energy Chairman Golden to raise the net metering caps immediately?
Feel free to add your own sunny solar story! Why do you care about solar success in Massachusetts? Personalize your message to have a bigger impact.
3) Report back:
Let Vote Solar know what they said!
Email Sean Garron (sean@votesolar.org) with your legislators' response so we track progress. [Thanks to Vote Solar for handling this!]
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The Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity Study: Towards a User Centric Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
Tuesday, September 29
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Francois#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Francois at 12:00 pm
with Camille François, Josephine Wolff, Andy Ellis, and Bruce Schneier
Join us on September 29th for a discussion of the "Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity 1.0. Study: Towards A User Centric Policy Framework," presented by lead researcher Camille François with Berkman community members Josephine Wolff, Andy Ellis, and Bruce Schneier, who participated in the study.
Camille worked for several months with the Mozilla Foundation to orchestrate the study and resulting report. The study used a modified version of the Delphi research technique. More than 30 leading cybersecurity experts from a wide variety of backgrounds – including academia, civil liberties, government and military, security, and technology – participated in the study. Using a pseudonymous format to encourage candid feedback and open dialogue on the issues, the study tackles the following questions: what is the role of policy in cybersecurity? How consensual is the definition of cybersecurity? What are the current priorities for cybersecurity policy? Which issues get too little or too much attention? What are measures that a diverse set of cybersecurity actors can agree on as being both feasible and desirable?
The study produced a map of priorities, issues, and solutions for cybersecurity that highlights consensus and dissensus in the space. Join us to discuss the lessons learned in this process and the report's findings.
About Camille
Camille François is a researcher and consultant on cyber policy, with a focus on questions relating to cybersecurity, human rights and state interactions in cyberspace.
A Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society from 2013-2015, Camille focuses her work on the building of norms for cyber peace and rights-respecting cybersecurity policies, and related questions in the robotics field.
She has led initiatives with institutions such as the French Prime Minister Office Task Force on Open Data & Open Government; the Mozilla Foundation; the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); as well as Google, the French-American Foundation & the Software Freedom Law Center.
She serves as a member of the Freedom Online Coalition international Working Group on An Internet Free and Secure. Camille has also been involved in a wide range of free culture advocacy projects and serves as a Digital Advisor for Libraries Without Borders and on the Scientific Committee of the French Wikimedia Foundation.
A Fulbright Fellow, Camille holds a Masters Degree in Human Rights from the French Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) & a Masters Degree in International Security from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she won first prize at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 National Challenge in Cyber Policy and later held a Visiting Scholarship at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. She completed her Bachelor at Sciences-Po Paris, with a year as a visiting student at Princeton University, and received legal education at Paris II - Sorbonne Universités.
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Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
Tuesday, September 29
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Peter Hamby is Head of News at Snapchat, and a political contributor for CNN. Hamby is known as an early adopter of social media platforms, and as a Spring 2013 fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he authored “Did Twitter Kill…
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The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
Tuesday, September 29
12:30 - 2pm
Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Jane Nakano, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, will moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/jane-nakano-center-strategic-and-international-studies-csis-geopolitical-implications
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The Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity Study: Towards a User Centric Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
Tuesday, September 29
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Francois#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Francois at 12:00 pm
with Camille François, Josephine Wolff, Andy Ellis, and Bruce Schneier
Join us on September 29th for a discussion of the "Mozilla Delphi Cybersecurity 1.0. Study: Towards A User Centric Policy Framework," presented by lead researcher Camille François with Berkman community members Josephine Wolff, Andy Ellis, and Bruce Schneier, who participated in the study.
Camille worked for several months with the Mozilla Foundation to orchestrate the study and resulting report. The study used a modified version of the Delphi research technique. More than 30 leading cybersecurity experts from a wide variety of backgrounds – including academia, civil liberties, government and military, security, and technology – participated in the study. Using a pseudonymous format to encourage candid feedback and open dialogue on the issues, the study tackles the following questions: what is the role of policy in cybersecurity? How consensual is the definition of cybersecurity? What are the current priorities for cybersecurity policy? Which issues get too little or too much attention? What are measures that a diverse set of cybersecurity actors can agree on as being both feasible and desirable?
The study produced a map of priorities, issues, and solutions for cybersecurity that highlights consensus and dissensus in the space. Join us to discuss the lessons learned in this process and the report's findings.
About Camille
Camille François is a researcher and consultant on cyber policy, with a focus on questions relating to cybersecurity, human rights and state interactions in cyberspace.
A Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society from 2013-2015, Camille focuses her work on the building of norms for cyber peace and rights-respecting cybersecurity policies, and related questions in the robotics field.
She has led initiatives with institutions such as the French Prime Minister Office Task Force on Open Data & Open Government; the Mozilla Foundation; the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); as well as Google, the French-American Foundation & the Software Freedom Law Center.
She serves as a member of the Freedom Online Coalition international Working Group on An Internet Free and Secure. Camille has also been involved in a wide range of free culture advocacy projects and serves as a Digital Advisor for Libraries Without Borders and on the Scientific Committee of the French Wikimedia Foundation.
A Fulbright Fellow, Camille holds a Masters Degree in Human Rights from the French Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) & a Masters Degree in International Security from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she won first prize at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 National Challenge in Cyber Policy and later held a Visiting Scholarship at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. She completed her Bachelor at Sciences-Po Paris, with a year as a visiting student at Princeton University, and received legal education at Paris II - Sorbonne Universités.
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Peter Hamby - Digital Media on the Campaign Trail
Tuesday, September 29
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Peter Hamby is Head of News at Snapchat, and a political contributor for CNN. Hamby is known as an early adopter of social media platforms, and as a Spring 2013 fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he authored “Did Twitter Kill…
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The Geopolitical Implications of the U.S. Shale Revolution for Japan and China
Tuesday, September 29
12:30 - 2pm
Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Jane Nakano, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, will moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/jane-nakano-center-strategic-and-international-studies-csis-geopolitical-implications
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The Impact of Free Media on Regime Change: Evidence from Russia
Tuesday, September 29
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-446, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-446, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Javier Garcia-Arenas (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Job Market Seminars
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Local Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) Work: Coming Full-Circle
Tuesday, September 29
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Ana Fernandes, MWH Global, (Tufts BS/MS) (The first WSSS student!)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Spontaneous balance adjustment and gravity waves from moist baroclinic jets and fronts
Tuesday, September 29
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Materials Lab Workshop: Light
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Francesca Bewer
COST $15
CONTACT INFO 617.495.9400
DETAILS Francesca Bewer, research curator for conservation and technical studies, along with guest experts, will lead this exploration of light in art. The workshop will combine close looking at select objects in the collections with hands-on experimentation in the museums’ Materials Lab, a space designed to encourage the investigation of materials and techniques used in works of art.
The event will be held in the Materials Lab, Lower Level.
$15 materials fee. Registration is required and payment must be made in advance. Please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu or stop by the museums’ admissions desk to register. Space is limited to 12 participants. Minimum age of 14.
LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-light-2
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Fall Lecture Series: Leonard Miller – A Personal Overview of U.S. Water Pollution Control from a Co-Founder of the EPA
Tuesday, September 29
4:30 pm
MIT, Building 1-150, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This Water Club Lecture will provide an overview of the historical evolution of the US EPA, and the regulation of wastewater in the United States. While discussing regulation development from the 60’s until now, Len Miller will touch on relevant policy/engineering issues, and present some short “case histories” – all with a little humor and some ideas of what it is like to help grow the environmental regulations.
Leonard A. Miller is a 2015 Advanced Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He is also Senior Counsel to the international law firm Sullivan & Worcester and Senior Advisor to Dawson & Associates, a consulting firm providing assistance on U.S. water issues. He has consistently been ranked as one of the leading environmental lawyers in the U.S. Mr. Miller was one of the founding members of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), where, among other things, he developed the U.S. national pollutant discharge elimination system and headed the U.S. water permit and enforcement programs. Mr. Miller has a BA from Brandeis University and a JD from the Harvard Law School.
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Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
Tuesday, September 29
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Loren Landau, TUFTS University
A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute
Paula A. Johnson, executive director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; chief, Division of Women’s Health Brigham and Women’s Hospital; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Rebecca Skloot, author of the award-winning book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," will be speaking about her book and her path to writing it. The event will conclude with a panel discussion, moderated by health care pioneer Paula A. Johnson '80, MD '84, MPH '85, about the intersection of biomedical science, research ethics, poverty, and race. Register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-rebecca-skloot-lecture
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Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Complimentary parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Brian D. Farrell, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Can the reconciliation of the arts and sciences inform our understanding of nature and our place in it? Drawing on neurobiological, paleontological, and genetics research, philosophical studies of music and other arts, and our current understanding of the influence of nature on human health, Brian Farrell will suggest an evolutionary framework for integrating these fields, offering new perspectives on human culture and humanity’s role in fostering a productive and sustainable future.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/biology-culture-bridging-art-and-science
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Local Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) Work: Coming Full-Circle
Tuesday, September 29
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Ana Fernandes, MWH Global, (Tufts BS/MS) (The first WSSS student!)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Spontaneous balance adjustment and gravity waves from moist baroclinic jets and fronts
Tuesday, September 29
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Materials Lab Workshop: Light
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Francesca Bewer
COST $15
CONTACT INFO 617.495.9400
DETAILS Francesca Bewer, research curator for conservation and technical studies, along with guest experts, will lead this exploration of light in art. The workshop will combine close looking at select objects in the collections with hands-on experimentation in the museums’ Materials Lab, a space designed to encourage the investigation of materials and techniques used in works of art.
The event will be held in the Materials Lab, Lower Level.
$15 materials fee. Registration is required and payment must be made in advance. Please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu or stop by the museums’ admissions desk to register. Space is limited to 12 participants. Minimum age of 14.
LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-light-2
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Fall Lecture Series: Leonard Miller – A Personal Overview of U.S. Water Pollution Control from a Co-Founder of the EPA
Tuesday, September 29
4:30 pm
MIT, Building 1-150, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This Water Club Lecture will provide an overview of the historical evolution of the US EPA, and the regulation of wastewater in the United States. While discussing regulation development from the 60’s until now, Len Miller will touch on relevant policy/engineering issues, and present some short “case histories” – all with a little humor and some ideas of what it is like to help grow the environmental regulations.
Leonard A. Miller is a 2015 Advanced Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He is also Senior Counsel to the international law firm Sullivan & Worcester and Senior Advisor to Dawson & Associates, a consulting firm providing assistance on U.S. water issues. He has consistently been ranked as one of the leading environmental lawyers in the U.S. Mr. Miller was one of the founding members of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), where, among other things, he developed the U.S. national pollutant discharge elimination system and headed the U.S. water permit and enforcement programs. Mr. Miller has a BA from Brandeis University and a JD from the Harvard Law School.
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Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
Tuesday, September 29
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Loren Landau, TUFTS University
A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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An Evening with Rebecca Skloot
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute
Paula A. Johnson, executive director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; chief, Division of Women’s Health Brigham and Women’s Hospital; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Rebecca Skloot, author of the award-winning book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," will be speaking about her book and her path to writing it. The event will conclude with a panel discussion, moderated by health care pioneer Paula A. Johnson '80, MD '84, MPH '85, about the intersection of biomedical science, research ethics, poverty, and race. Register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-rebecca-skloot-lecture
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Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science
WHEN Tue., Sep. 29, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Complimentary parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Brian D. Farrell, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Can the reconciliation of the arts and sciences inform our understanding of nature and our place in it? Drawing on neurobiological, paleontological, and genetics research, philosophical studies of music and other arts, and our current understanding of the influence of nature on human health, Brian Farrell will suggest an evolutionary framework for integrating these fields, offering new perspectives on human culture and humanity’s role in fostering a productive and sustainable future.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/biology-culture-bridging-art-and-science
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e4Dev: Accelerating Access To Energy Through Technology and Business Model Innovation
Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday, September 29
6:00pm-7:00pm
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X2Ze3GPzTIhP48E4z6FVxLh08Fd_wPERFeLfWBtA8Wc/viewform
Speaker: Dr. Jason Prapas, Chief Technology Officer, Factor-E Ventures
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Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-september-happy-hour-tickets-18262697219
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Job hunting?
This month's Green Drinks is co-hosted by Next Step Living. They will have staff on hand to discuss career opportunities in sustainable residential buildings.
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African Women: Changing the World!
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-west-africa-tickets-17944767282
On Tuesday September 29, 2015, the West African Research Association and The YWCA Cambridge will host a panel discussion that should be of interest to both the general public and more specifically the Kendall Square community. This will be the kick-off event for our annual Giving Common Campaign.
From Queen Nzingha in the 17th century who bravely fought and defended her people, to Funmilayo Ransome Kuti well-known Nigerian women’s rights activist and mother of musician activist Fela Kuti in the mid-20th century, African women continue to take leadership roles on the continent and beyond. Today Folorunsho Alakija is one of the richest women in the world and a pioneer in philanthropy.
The goal of this presentation is to highlight the important contributions of African Women—in politics, business, the arts, philanthropy, journalism, and other fields. There will be a panel of three distinguished scholars, each of whom will talk about different aspects of African women’s leadership.
Featured Speakers:
Ousseina Alidou, Rutgers University
Muslim Women Reshaping Islam: West Africa in a Global Context
An active feminist scholar, Dr. Ousseina D. Alidou is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. She is Affiliate Graduate Faculty of the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses mainly on African Muslim Women’s Education, Agency and Leadership. She is the author of Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, Political and Social Change; Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger Republic; Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa (co-edited with Ahmed Sikainga); and A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities (co-edited with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis); and the forthcoming Writing through the Visual and Virtual in Africa and the Caribbean(co-edited with Renée Larrier).
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNY
African Women and Migration
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome is an international political economist whose regional specialization is on the African continent. Professor of Political Science, Okome has served as Women’s Studies Program Director and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College. This past year, Okome founded #BringBackOurGirlsNYC after consulting with the founders of the movement in Nigeria.
Born in Nigeria, she has worked on international development issues as a consultant for clients including the United Nations. Okome's teaching interests include a focus on the meanings of inclusive, equitable citizenship in the context of the interplay between globalization, democratization and economic development. Her research interests include: Effects of globalization, post-colonialism, and post-modernity on economic and political transformation; Gender, democracy and citizenship in Africa and African Diaspora Studies.
Okome founded and edits the journal Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration (www.africamigration.com), and was co-founder of Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies (www.jendajournal.com). Her most recent publications are two edited books published in 2013: State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria; and Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization; and one book co-edited with Afia Serwaa Zakiya, Nigeria: Women’s Political and Legislative Participation in Nigeria: Perspectives From the 2007 Elections.
Okome was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Long Island University, and Columbia University.
Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University
West African Women in Politics
Pearl T. Robinson is Associate Professor of Political Science and a former Director of the Program in International Relations at Tufts University. She has been a Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at Makerere University in Uganda, a Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and a Research Affiliate of the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niger. She helped establish the Tufts study abroad program with the University of Ghana in Legon.
With interests focusing on African and African American Politics, she has authored more than forty articles and book chapters, is co-editor and contributor to Transformation and Resiliency in Africa, and a co-author of Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society. Her work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Political Science Quarterly, African Studies Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa Today, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Robinson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a past President of the African Studies Association, and a former chair of the SSRC/ACLS Joint Committee on African Studies. She has served on the national boards of Oxfam-America, TransAfrica and the National Council of Negro Women’s International Division. Her two current projects are “Mama Kiota,” a documentary film about Islam and female empowerment among the Tidjaniyya in Niger, and Ralph Bunche the Africanist, an intellectual biography.
Sponsoring Organizations:
West African Research Association. Established in 1989, WARA is a 501(c) 3 non-profit whose mission is to promote research and scholarly exchange and production among West African scholars and their counterparts in the US and elsewhere. WARA is a consortium of more than 50 colleges and universities with significant academic interests in West Africa. WARA is headquartered at Boston University’s African Studies Center, and operates a major research center in Dakar, Senegal.
YWCA Cambridge. The YWCA Cambridge, since its inception in 1891, has advocated for women's rights and provided affordable accommodations and support services for women. Today, the YWCA Cambridge is a Cambridge institution with a variety of classes and programs, including the largest women's residential facility in the city. As a place for women, children and families to find shelter, support and opportunities to learn and grow, the YWCA Cambridge is committed to being a welcoming resource and center of vibrant activity, responding to the ever-changing needs of the community in the 21st century.
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Every Start-Up gets to pitch before our team of Investors. The audience finds out what’s coming up in the market and what VCs are really looking for!
After more than 10 years of helping selected Entrepreneurs raise capital – we’ve figured how to open it up to everyone! This innovative event gives every Entrepreneur a shot at getting the attention of Angel Investors looking out for new deals. Tech & Digital Media VCs and execs get a unique opportunity to survey the marketplace at their own pace.
Speaker: Richard Levins
Richard Levins is an ecologist, activist, mathematical biologist and philosopher of science. He was a farmer, labor organizer and pioneer of the environmental movement in Puerto Rico, investigated birth defects caused by defoliants in Vietnam. He founded Science for Vietnam, is a member of Cuban Academy of Science, wrote Evolution in Changing Environments and with R. Lewontin coauthored The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence. He was a key member of Science for the People in the 70s and 80s.
Web site: radius.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Science for the People
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE OF CINEMA
We've curated 20 amazing virtual reality experiences made by independent artists from around the world. Come celebrate the pioneers of virtual reality filmmaking with an evening of artist presentations, VR demos, and engaging discussions.
And thanks to our sponsors Vrideo and Samsung you'll have the opportunity to experience the full line-up of films on Gear VR and Oculus Rift headsets.
SCHEDULE:
7:00pm to 8:00pm: The event is open only for VIP ticket holders.
8:00pm to 11:00pm: The event is open for general admission ticket holders.
8:30pm to 9:00pm: There will be a panel of VR Filmmakers discussing their work.
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Wednesday, September 30
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Greentown Labs has partnered with Cleantech Scandinavia to host a Startup Showcase on September 30th.
Highlights of the day include:
15 pitches from Boston, Toronto, and Scandinavia-based startups
For a detailed overview of the day, please visit http://www.cleantechscandinavia.com
Getting antibiotics out of our meat is the key to keeping our subs “super” and keeping our bacteria from becoming “super.” The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is tied closely to unsafe practices on factory farms that reduce the effectiveness of the same antibiotics we rely on. Help us save antibiotics by raising awareness of this important public health issue! MASSPIRG and the Harvard Environmental Action Committee host a screening of Michael Graziano's documentary “Resistance,” followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with experts on the subject of antibiotics overuse.
This event is part of MASSPIRG's campaign to stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Up to 70% of the antibiotics sold in the US are used on livestock and poultry, most often on healthy animals, and as a result the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been on the rise. The CDC estimates that 2 million people get sick with antibiotic-resistant illnesses each year, and 23,000 die. Fast food restaurants are among the biggest purchasers of meat raised on factory farms, so MASSPIRG, along with concerned consumers and health professionals across Massachusetts, is calling on Subway, the largest fast-food chain in the country, to commit to only serving meat raised without routine antibiotics.
Refreshments will be served.
Leyla Hussein will be speaking about the movement against female genital mutilation in the UK at a luncheon at Harvard Law School, (WCC 3016) at noon and then showing her film "The Cruel Cut" at 4 at First Church
Designing the High School of the Future
Thursday, 1 October
Here is a brief summary:
"Moving, living witnesses, survivors of two of the world's most momentous crises of our nuclear age; Nagasaki in 1945 and Fukushima in 2011 - interlaced with experts and archival footage, some shocking, illuminating the largely unrecognized connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and the growing global movements to abolish both."
WWW.THEULTIMATEWISH.NET
Speaker: Herb Lin, Stanford University
Cyber conflict and cyber war are in the news every day, but public discussion is often confused and ill-informed. This talk will present some of the fundamental realities of cyber conflict with reference to current events and thinking and articulate a research agenda of interesting problems at the nexus of international relations and computer science where the insights of both disciplines are relevant.
Bio: Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. His research interests relate broadly to policy- related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace.
He is also Chief Scientist, Emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity (not in residence) at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT.
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Let's Talk About Food Festival
Saturday, October 3
10:30am - 5pm
Copley Square, Boston
The fourth Let's Talk About Food Festival returns to Copley Square on Saturday, October 3—this year as part of the city's first HUB Week celebration. This festival lets participants dive into the most important food conversations and debates happening in society today. Through hands-on cooking demonstrations, edible gardens, and more, participants can also explore how to take advantage of the food around them by cooking better and eating healthier.
More information at http://www.boston.com/sponsored/extra/letstalkaboutfood/festival
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TEDxJamaicaPlain
Saturday, October 3
1-5pm
First Church of Jamaica Plain, 6 Elliot Street, Jamaica Plain
After-Party: 5-8pm
The Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain
After-party includes food, drink, music and games - and an opportunity to connect with speakers and attendees around the ideas shared at the day's event.
RSVP at http://www.tedxjamaicaplain.com/#!tedxjp-2015/c1tom
Cost: General Admission ($25)
This ticket grants admission to the TEDx event only, (1-5pm).
General Admission + After-Party ($35)
This all-access ticket includes admission to the TEDx event and After-Party
In response to the epidemic of substance use disorders, clinicians, researchers, policy leaders, and community members convene in a highly interactive and hopeful discussion. Structured as a mini-hackathon, small groups will use case studies—and the latest neuroscience—to take a fresh look at building prevention, treatment and recovery management approaches that work.
Speaker: Nageeb Ali (Penn State)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
Speaker: Dr. Anjali Sastry, MIT Sloan School of Management
Speaker: Pamela Silver, Peter Carr
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a series of discussions about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the conversation while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
Harvard Book Store welcomes editor of Boston University-based journal AGNI SVEN BIRKERTS for a discussion of his latest book, Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age.
In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art—the very cultural activities that make us human.
After two decades of rampant change, Birkerts has allowed a degree of everyday digital technology into his life. He refuses to use a smartphone, but communicates via e-mail and spends some time reading online. In Changing the Subject, he examines the changes that he observes in himself and others—the distraction when reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of "hive" behaviors. "An unprecedented shift is underway," he argues, and "this transformation is dramatically accelerated and more psychologically formative than any previous technological innovation." He finds solace in engagement with art, particularly literature, and he brilliantly describes the countering energy available to us through acts of sustained attention, even as he worries that our increasingly mediated existences are not conducive to creativity.
It is impossible to read Changing the Subject without coming away with a renewed sense of what is lost by our wholesale acceptance of digital innovation and what is regained when we immerse ourselves in a good book.
What's the Buzz on Urban Bees?
Thursday, October 8
On Beauty: Emily Eveleth and David Tester
Thursday, October 8
Cultural construct or biological predisposition? Explore the concept of beauty with painter Emily Eveleth, and Senior Software Engineer at Google and Visiting Researcher at the Broad Institute, David Tester, in a spirited conversation on the ways in which beauty resonates, overlaps, influences and emerges in both worlds. Reception to follow.
Hosted by Catalyst Conversations, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
LOCAL FOOD POTLUCK FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER JOHN LEE OF ALLANDALE FARM + AN AFTER-DARK DOCUMENTARY SCREENING OF "INHABIT: A PERMACULTURE PERSPECTIVE"
6:00-6:30 p.m.
Bring a locally flavored dish* to share at our "local" food potluck, featuring a talk from guest speaker John Lee of Allandale Farm, Boston's last working farm.
Afterwards, we'll watch the documentary INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective among the raised bed of vegetables and flowers under the starlit night sky.
http://inhabitfilm.com
"ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
Monday, October 12
Speaker: Angela Kilby (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
Boston Green Drinks - September Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-september-happy-hour-tickets-18262697219
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Job hunting?
This month's Green Drinks is co-hosted by Next Step Living. They will have staff on hand to discuss career opportunities in sustainable residential buildings.
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African Women: Changing the World!
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-west-africa-tickets-17944767282
On Tuesday September 29, 2015, the West African Research Association and The YWCA Cambridge will host a panel discussion that should be of interest to both the general public and more specifically the Kendall Square community. This will be the kick-off event for our annual Giving Common Campaign.
From Queen Nzingha in the 17th century who bravely fought and defended her people, to Funmilayo Ransome Kuti well-known Nigerian women’s rights activist and mother of musician activist Fela Kuti in the mid-20th century, African women continue to take leadership roles on the continent and beyond. Today Folorunsho Alakija is one of the richest women in the world and a pioneer in philanthropy.
The goal of this presentation is to highlight the important contributions of African Women—in politics, business, the arts, philanthropy, journalism, and other fields. There will be a panel of three distinguished scholars, each of whom will talk about different aspects of African women’s leadership.
Featured Speakers:
Ousseina Alidou, Rutgers University
Muslim Women Reshaping Islam: West Africa in a Global Context
An active feminist scholar, Dr. Ousseina D. Alidou is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. She is Affiliate Graduate Faculty of the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses mainly on African Muslim Women’s Education, Agency and Leadership. She is the author of Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, Political and Social Change; Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger Republic; Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa (co-edited with Ahmed Sikainga); and A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities (co-edited with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis); and the forthcoming Writing through the Visual and Virtual in Africa and the Caribbean(co-edited with Renée Larrier).
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNY
African Women and Migration
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome is an international political economist whose regional specialization is on the African continent. Professor of Political Science, Okome has served as Women’s Studies Program Director and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College. This past year, Okome founded #BringBackOurGirlsNYC after consulting with the founders of the movement in Nigeria.
Born in Nigeria, she has worked on international development issues as a consultant for clients including the United Nations. Okome's teaching interests include a focus on the meanings of inclusive, equitable citizenship in the context of the interplay between globalization, democratization and economic development. Her research interests include: Effects of globalization, post-colonialism, and post-modernity on economic and political transformation; Gender, democracy and citizenship in Africa and African Diaspora Studies.
Okome founded and edits the journal Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration (www.africamigration.com), and was co-founder of Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies (www.jendajournal.com). Her most recent publications are two edited books published in 2013: State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria; and Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization; and one book co-edited with Afia Serwaa Zakiya, Nigeria: Women’s Political and Legislative Participation in Nigeria: Perspectives From the 2007 Elections.
Okome was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Long Island University, and Columbia University.
Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University
West African Women in Politics
Pearl T. Robinson is Associate Professor of Political Science and a former Director of the Program in International Relations at Tufts University. She has been a Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at Makerere University in Uganda, a Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and a Research Affiliate of the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niger. She helped establish the Tufts study abroad program with the University of Ghana in Legon.
With interests focusing on African and African American Politics, she has authored more than forty articles and book chapters, is co-editor and contributor to Transformation and Resiliency in Africa, and a co-author of Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society. Her work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Political Science Quarterly, African Studies Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa Today, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Robinson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a past President of the African Studies Association, and a former chair of the SSRC/ACLS Joint Committee on African Studies. She has served on the national boards of Oxfam-America, TransAfrica and the National Council of Negro Women’s International Division. Her two current projects are “Mama Kiota,” a documentary film about Islam and female empowerment among the Tidjaniyya in Niger, and Ralph Bunche the Africanist, an intellectual biography.
Sponsoring Organizations:
West African Research Association. Established in 1989, WARA is a 501(c) 3 non-profit whose mission is to promote research and scholarly exchange and production among West African scholars and their counterparts in the US and elsewhere. WARA is a consortium of more than 50 colleges and universities with significant academic interests in West Africa. WARA is headquartered at Boston University’s African Studies Center, and operates a major research center in Dakar, Senegal.
YWCA Cambridge. The YWCA Cambridge, since its inception in 1891, has advocated for women's rights and provided affordable accommodations and support services for women. Today, the YWCA Cambridge is a Cambridge institution with a variety of classes and programs, including the largest women's residential facility in the city. As a place for women, children and families to find shelter, support and opportunities to learn and grow, the YWCA Cambridge is committed to being a welcoming resource and center of vibrant activity, responding to the ever-changing needs of the community in the 21st century.
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Startupalooza Boston
Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday, September 29
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
WeWork Fort Point, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.startupalooza.com/
RSVP at http://www.startupalooza.com/
Cost: $15
Every Start-Up gets to pitch before our team of Investors. The audience finds out what’s coming up in the market and what VCs are really looking for!
After more than 10 years of helping selected Entrepreneurs raise capital – we’ve figured how to open it up to everyone! This innovative event gives every Entrepreneur a shot at getting the attention of Angel Investors looking out for new deals. Tech & Digital Media VCs and execs get a unique opportunity to survey the marketplace at their own pace.
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Humanitarian Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 29
6:30PM
Green Street Grill (280 Green St, Cambridge
Tuesday, September 29
6:30PM
Green Street Grill (280 Green St, Cambridge
Please join the MIT Humanitarian & Disaster Relief Working Group for the first Humanitarian Happy Hour of the school year. Come on out to Green Street Grill in Central Square to enjoy drinks and conversation with local humanitarian practitioners, researchers, and students from humanitarian groups at MIT, Tufts, and Harvard.
Appetizers provided.
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One Foot In, One Foot Out: The Role of Scientists as Activists
Tuesday, September 29
6:30p–8:00p
MIT, Building 4-253, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
6:30p–8:00p
MIT, Building 4-253, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Richard Levins
Richard Levins is an ecologist, activist, mathematical biologist and philosopher of science. He was a farmer, labor organizer and pioneer of the environmental movement in Puerto Rico, investigated birth defects caused by defoliants in Vietnam. He founded Science for Vietnam, is a member of Cuban Academy of Science, wrote Evolution in Changing Environments and with R. Lewontin coauthored The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence. He was a key member of Science for the People in the 70s and 80s.
Web site: radius.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Science for the People
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann@mit.edu
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MIT Energy Week: Introduction to our Flagship Events - Energy Conference, Energy Prize, Energy Night
Tuesday, September 29
7pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
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The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
Tuesday, September, 29
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1446&DayPlannerDate=9/29/2015
Kamal Bawa, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore will discuss “The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons”. The Eastern Himalaya—land of Gods, of ancient mountain kingdoms, of icy peaks and alpine meadows—is like no other place on Earth. The life and landscapes of the region are as diverse, spectacular and fragile as the mountains themselves. Even today, these mountains hold many mysteries: unnamed species, primeval cultures and the promise of magical cures to heal all of humanity. But development superimposed on global change will have an incalculable impact on this area. Dr. Kamal Bawa will discuss the role and limitations of science in addressing the pressing issues arising out of interaction between nature and society in the Himalaya, and suggest ways to move forward in resolving critical issues. Dr. Bawa is a newly elected Fellow of the Royal Society. His book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free but registration is required.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-29-230000-2015-09-30-003000/himalaya-global-change-land-primulas-and-rhododendrons#sthash.Gz2nPBxG.dpuf
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Merchants of Doubt Film Screening with Live Q & A
Tuesday, September 29
7-9pm
MIT, Building 26-100, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1646087868968497/
Join us for a free screening of Merchants of Doubt, a powerful film that exposes the anti-science tactics devised to mislead the public on matters ranging from the risks of smoking to the reality of global warming.
The movie will be followed by a 30-min Q & A session with Jean Sideris, the Climate Campaign Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Refreshments will be provided, and we’ll have giveaways for early arrivers!
MIT Energy Week: Introduction to our Flagship Events - Energy Conference, Energy Prize, Energy Night
Tuesday, September 29
7pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
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The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons
Tuesday, September, 29
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1446&DayPlannerDate=9/29/2015
Kamal Bawa, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore will discuss “The Himalaya: Global Change in the Land of Primulas and Rhododendrons”. The Eastern Himalaya—land of Gods, of ancient mountain kingdoms, of icy peaks and alpine meadows—is like no other place on Earth. The life and landscapes of the region are as diverse, spectacular and fragile as the mountains themselves. Even today, these mountains hold many mysteries: unnamed species, primeval cultures and the promise of magical cures to heal all of humanity. But development superimposed on global change will have an incalculable impact on this area. Dr. Kamal Bawa will discuss the role and limitations of science in addressing the pressing issues arising out of interaction between nature and society in the Himalaya, and suggest ways to move forward in resolving critical issues. Dr. Bawa is a newly elected Fellow of the Royal Society. His book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free but registration is required.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-09-29-230000-2015-09-30-003000/himalaya-global-change-land-primulas-and-rhododendrons#sthash.Gz2nPBxG.dpuf
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Merchants of Doubt Film Screening with Live Q & A
Tuesday, September 29
7-9pm
MIT, Building 26-100, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1646087868968497/
Join us for a free screening of Merchants of Doubt, a powerful film that exposes the anti-science tactics devised to mislead the public on matters ranging from the risks of smoking to the reality of global warming.
The movie will be followed by a 30-min Q & A session with Jean Sideris, the Climate Campaign Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Refreshments will be provided, and we’ll have giveaways for early arrivers!
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Catching the Sun Film Screening and Panel
Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday, September 29
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Boston University, SCI 109, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/catching-the-sun-film-screening-and-panel-tickets-18764519182
Impact and Environment Massachusetts Catching the Sun Film Screening
Through the stories of workers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China, Catching the Sun is a feature length documentary that explores the global race to lead the clean energy future. Catching the Sun follows the hope and heartbreak of unemployed American workers seeking jobs in the solar industry. The film is an unlikely ensemble of characters contrast with preconceived notions about who is at the forefront of a transition to clean energy. By telling personal, emotional stories that deal with the universal theme of hope for a better life, set against the urgent struggle to build a ‘green economy’, Catching the Sun aims to inspire new audiences to engage in solutions to climate change and income inequality.
http://www.catchingthesun.tv/trailer/
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with experts to answer audience questions about the film.
This advanced film screening is hosted by Impact, Environment Massachusetts, and BU Net Impact. You'll also have an opportunity to hear more about job opportunities and internships with Impact. Impact is a nonprofit that runs action campaigns. We work in states where we can win positive change for our environment, our democracy and our future.
Impact and Environment Massachusetts Catching the Sun Film Screening
Through the stories of workers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China, Catching the Sun is a feature length documentary that explores the global race to lead the clean energy future. Catching the Sun follows the hope and heartbreak of unemployed American workers seeking jobs in the solar industry. The film is an unlikely ensemble of characters contrast with preconceived notions about who is at the forefront of a transition to clean energy. By telling personal, emotional stories that deal with the universal theme of hope for a better life, set against the urgent struggle to build a ‘green economy’, Catching the Sun aims to inspire new audiences to engage in solutions to climate change and income inequality.
http://www.catchingthesun.tv/trailer/
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with experts to answer audience questions about the film.
This advanced film screening is hosted by Impact, Environment Massachusetts, and BU Net Impact. You'll also have an opportunity to hear more about job opportunities and internships with Impact. Impact is a nonprofit that runs action campaigns. We work in states where we can win positive change for our environment, our democracy and our future.
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Boston - The Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival
Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday, September 29
8:00 PM to 11:00 PM (EDT)
Artists for Humanity, 100 W 2nd Street, Boston
Artists for Humanity, 100 W 2nd Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-the-kaleidoscope-vr-film-festival-tickets-18027634139
Cost: $11.54 -$105.44
EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE OF CINEMA
We've curated 20 amazing virtual reality experiences made by independent artists from around the world. Come celebrate the pioneers of virtual reality filmmaking with an evening of artist presentations, VR demos, and engaging discussions.
And thanks to our sponsors Vrideo and Samsung you'll have the opportunity to experience the full line-up of films on Gear VR and Oculus Rift headsets.
SCHEDULE:
7:00pm to 8:00pm: The event is open only for VIP ticket holders.
8:00pm to 11:00pm: The event is open for general admission ticket holders.
8:30pm to 9:00pm: There will be a panel of VR Filmmakers discussing their work.
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Wednesday, September 30
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Cleantech Scandinavia Startup Showcase
Wednesday, September 30
Wednesday, September 30
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cleantech-showcase-in-boston-september-30th-tickets-18308423989
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cleantech-showcase-in-boston-september-30th-tickets-18308423989
Greentown Labs has partnered with Cleantech Scandinavia to host a Startup Showcase on September 30th.
Highlights of the day include:
15 pitches from Boston, Toronto, and Scandinavia-based startups
Keynote talks from industry experts
Ample networking opportunity with startups and industry professionals
Complimentary food and refreshments
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Will MIT rise to the climate challenge?
Wednesday, September 30
12-1pm
MIT, Student Center W20-201, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/467792230047933/
Join us for a panel discussion to find out what MIT is currently doing about climate change, and to discuss what MIT could be doing in the near future.
Last year, the MIT community participated in the campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, an effort that resulted in a myriad of suggestions on what MIT could to tackle the climate crisis. President Reif is now reviewing the recommendations made in the report of the Conversation Committee, and will announce this fall how (or if) the institute will take action. This event aims to provide context for this much-awaited decision. Will our administration choose to take bold action on this pivotal issue of our generation?
Panelists:
Jason Jay – Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management and Director of the Sustainability Initiative
Jeremy Poindexter – Ph.D. student in Materials Science & Engineering and member of Fossil Free MIT
Jonathan King – Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biology
Jacqueline Kuo – Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Chair of UA Sustainability
Ian Condry – Professor of Japanese Culture & Media Studies and Head of Global Studies & Languages
Lunch will be served at 11:45am.
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Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
Wednesday, September 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Marco De Fazio, STMicroelectronics
MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Will MIT rise to the climate challenge?
Wednesday, September 30
12-1pm
MIT, Student Center W20-201, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/467792230047933/
Join us for a panel discussion to find out what MIT is currently doing about climate change, and to discuss what MIT could be doing in the near future.
Last year, the MIT community participated in the campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, an effort that resulted in a myriad of suggestions on what MIT could to tackle the climate crisis. President Reif is now reviewing the recommendations made in the report of the Conversation Committee, and will announce this fall how (or if) the institute will take action. This event aims to provide context for this much-awaited decision. Will our administration choose to take bold action on this pivotal issue of our generation?
Panelists:
Jason Jay – Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management and Director of the Sustainability Initiative
Jeremy Poindexter – Ph.D. student in Materials Science & Engineering and member of Fossil Free MIT
Jonathan King – Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biology
Jacqueline Kuo – Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Chair of UA Sustainability
Ian Condry – Professor of Japanese Culture & Media Studies and Head of Global Studies & Languages
Lunch will be served at 11:45am.
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Finding the Sweet-Spot for Technology Amidst the Changing Face of Healthcare
Wednesday, September 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Marco De Fazio, STMicroelectronics
MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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The Levantine Ceramics Project - a crowd-sourced Archaeological Digital Humanities project
Wednesday September 30
12pm
Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 349
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/newenglanddigitalhumanities/events/225429878/
Welcome back Digital Humanists! Let's kick off a semester of events by getting together for a brown bag lunch and meet-and-greet. We will also have a quick demo of a crowd-sourced Archaeological Digital Humanities project -- The Levantine Ceramics Project (http://www.levantineceramics.org) -- that has been "live in production" since 2012 with an ever-growing collection of data and users.
What to bring: Yourself, a brown bag lunch for yourself, and a desire to meet fellow Digital Humanists!
What to expect: A friendly gathering of scholars and technologists, and a "behind-the-scenes" look at the Levantine Ceramics Project (http://www.levantineceramics.org)
What to bring: Yourself, a brown bag lunch for yourself, and a desire to meet fellow Digital Humanists!
What to expect: A friendly gathering of scholars and technologists, and a "behind-the-scenes" look at the Levantine Ceramics Project (http://www.levantineceramics.org)
Thanks to: Professor Andrea Berlin at BU for letting us use the room at BU.
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How the Wizards of Armageddon Became the High Priests of the Cult of the Irrelevant
Wednesday, September 30
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Michael Desch (University of Notre Dame)
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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ANIMAL FARM: A talk by Farm Sanctuary's President & Founder. FREE CHINESE FOOD.
Wednesday, September 30
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 102, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, #102, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/978250598882787/
We invite you to hear Farm Sanctuary's President and Founder, Gene Bauer, discuss his national animal rescue organization. Sponsored by Harvard Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.
Gene Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine. For 25 years he has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our cheap food system. Gene’s latest book, published by Rodale, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better Every Day, is available for sale April 2015. His previous bestseller, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, was published by Touchstone in March 2008.
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Sack Lunch Seminar Series - Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)
Wednesday, September 30
12:10p–1:10p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)
Sack Lunch Seminars (SLS)
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Darius Collazo
617-253-2127
dcollazo@mit.edu
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The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers: Lecture by Ben Rivers
WHEN Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ben Rivers, filmmaker, Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow, David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS In this lecture, Rivers will be sharing his perspective on different forms of storytelling from his new ethnographic film, The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers. As its backbone, Rivers' new work is a film about a film being made in Morocco, which includes fictional stories spoken by writer Mohammed Mrabet, reenacted fictional stories acted by non-professionals in Tangier and the Atlas Mountains, also written by Mrabet, and a short story by Paul Bowles.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-ben-rivers-fellow-presentation
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Energy Tax Incidence under Imperfect Competition: An Application to Automotive Fuel
Wednesday, September 30
4:15-5:30 pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Samuel Stolper, Harvard University
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The Aftermath: Reflections on Terror and Performance
WHEN Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall, Room 203, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Dance, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Music, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences, Special Events, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cosponsored by the Mahindra Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence and the Committee on Degrees in Theater, Dance, and Media.
SPEAKER(S) Rustom Bharucha, professor of theatre and performance Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Seating is limited.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/aftermath-reflections-emterror-and-performanceem
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Visualizing Marine Conservation Presentation and Panel Discussion
Wednesday, September 30
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 6C-442, Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen with Caleb McClennen Executive Director, Marine Conservation Wildlife Conservation Society and Merry Camhi, Director New York Seascape Program, Wildlife Conservation Society.
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen is an acclaimed underwater photographer and videographer who focuses on environmental conservation. Ellenbogen documents marine life to showcase its beauty and to elicit an emotional connection to the underwater world. He aims to inspire social change and action toward protecting the marine environment.
In collaboration with MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams, Ellenbogen will develop high-speed and long-duration camera systems to create images of nature in exquisite (and previously unseen) detail. As part of his residency, Adams and Ellenbogen developed an Underwater Conservation Photography Course at MIT that will challenge students to push technical and aesthetic boundaries, with a goal of marine environmental conservation and positive social change. Ellenbogen's residency will feature a public seminar series on underwater photography throughout fall 2015, culminating in the in-depth course to be offered during IAP 2016.
Web site: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/keith-ellenbogen/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Arts at MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information, contact: Leah Talatinian
617.252.1888
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Gene Baur, President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary
Wednesday, September 30
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Babson College, Olin Auditorium, Olin Hall, 231 Forest Street, Babson Park
On September 30, Gene Baur of Farm Sanctuary will visit Babson for a conversation on how the food industry impacts people and planet and on entrepreneurial opportunities for food solutions.
Gene is a food entrepreneur of the highest order, having launched his venture in 1986 selling veggie hotdogs outside Grateful Dead concerts. TIME Magazine has hailed him “the conscience of the food movement” and his writing has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal. This spring he appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Audience: This event is free and open to all.
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How the Wizards of Armageddon Became the High Priests of the Cult of the Irrelevant
Wednesday, September 30
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Michael Desch (University of Notre Dame)
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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ANIMAL FARM: A talk by Farm Sanctuary's President & Founder. FREE CHINESE FOOD.
Wednesday, September 30
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 102, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, #102, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/978250598882787/
We invite you to hear Farm Sanctuary's President and Founder, Gene Bauer, discuss his national animal rescue organization. Sponsored by Harvard Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.
Gene Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine. For 25 years he has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our cheap food system. Gene’s latest book, published by Rodale, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better Every Day, is available for sale April 2015. His previous bestseller, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, was published by Touchstone in March 2008.
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Sack Lunch Seminar Series - Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)
Wednesday, September 30
12:10p–1:10p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira (LaDO)
Sack Lunch Seminars (SLS)
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Darius Collazo
617-253-2127
dcollazo@mit.edu
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The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers: Lecture by Ben Rivers
WHEN Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ben Rivers, filmmaker, Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow, David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS In this lecture, Rivers will be sharing his perspective on different forms of storytelling from his new ethnographic film, The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers. As its backbone, Rivers' new work is a film about a film being made in Morocco, which includes fictional stories spoken by writer Mohammed Mrabet, reenacted fictional stories acted by non-professionals in Tangier and the Atlas Mountains, also written by Mrabet, and a short story by Paul Bowles.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-ben-rivers-fellow-presentation
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Energy Tax Incidence under Imperfect Competition: An Application to Automotive Fuel
Wednesday, September 30
4:15-5:30 pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Samuel Stolper, Harvard University
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The Aftermath: Reflections on Terror and Performance
WHEN Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall, Room 203, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Dance, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Music, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences, Special Events, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cosponsored by the Mahindra Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence and the Committee on Degrees in Theater, Dance, and Media.
SPEAKER(S) Rustom Bharucha, professor of theatre and performance Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Seating is limited.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/aftermath-reflections-emterror-and-performanceem
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Visualizing Marine Conservation Presentation and Panel Discussion
Wednesday, September 30
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 6C-442, Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen with Caleb McClennen Executive Director, Marine Conservation Wildlife Conservation Society and Merry Camhi, Director New York Seascape Program, Wildlife Conservation Society.
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen is an acclaimed underwater photographer and videographer who focuses on environmental conservation. Ellenbogen documents marine life to showcase its beauty and to elicit an emotional connection to the underwater world. He aims to inspire social change and action toward protecting the marine environment.
In collaboration with MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams, Ellenbogen will develop high-speed and long-duration camera systems to create images of nature in exquisite (and previously unseen) detail. As part of his residency, Adams and Ellenbogen developed an Underwater Conservation Photography Course at MIT that will challenge students to push technical and aesthetic boundaries, with a goal of marine environmental conservation and positive social change. Ellenbogen's residency will feature a public seminar series on underwater photography throughout fall 2015, culminating in the in-depth course to be offered during IAP 2016.
Web site: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/keith-ellenbogen/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Arts at MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information, contact: Leah Talatinian
617.252.1888
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Gene Baur, President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary
Wednesday, September 30
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Babson College, Olin Auditorium, Olin Hall, 231 Forest Street, Babson Park
On September 30, Gene Baur of Farm Sanctuary will visit Babson for a conversation on how the food industry impacts people and planet and on entrepreneurial opportunities for food solutions.
Gene is a food entrepreneur of the highest order, having launched his venture in 1986 selling veggie hotdogs outside Grateful Dead concerts. TIME Magazine has hailed him “the conscience of the food movement” and his writing has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal. This spring he appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Audience: This event is free and open to all.
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Super Subs, Not Superbugs
Wednesday, September 30
5:00PM
Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/810212292433168/
Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/810212292433168/
Getting antibiotics out of our meat is the key to keeping our subs “super” and keeping our bacteria from becoming “super.” The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is tied closely to unsafe practices on factory farms that reduce the effectiveness of the same antibiotics we rely on. Help us save antibiotics by raising awareness of this important public health issue! MASSPIRG and the Harvard Environmental Action Committee host a screening of Michael Graziano's documentary “Resistance,” followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with experts on the subject of antibiotics overuse.
This event is part of MASSPIRG's campaign to stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Up to 70% of the antibiotics sold in the US are used on livestock and poultry, most often on healthy animals, and as a result the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been on the rise. The CDC estimates that 2 million people get sick with antibiotic-resistant illnesses each year, and 23,000 die. Fast food restaurants are among the biggest purchasers of meat raised on factory farms, so MASSPIRG, along with concerned consumers and health professionals across Massachusetts, is calling on Subway, the largest fast-food chain in the country, to commit to only serving meat raised without routine antibiotics.
Refreshments will be served.
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - From DNA to Designer Genomes
Wednesday, September 30
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Christopher Voigt, John Doench
Join us on Wednesday evenings this September and October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Explore what "synbio" is, how scientists are using innovative techniques to modify organisms, and for what purposes. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Wednesday, September 30
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Christopher Voigt, John Doench
Join us on Wednesday evenings this September and October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Explore what "synbio" is, how scientists are using innovative techniques to modify organisms, and for what purposes. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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cove launch party
Wednesday, September 30
Wednesday, September 30
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
cove, 297 Newbury Street, Boston
cove is excited to officially open the doors of its first Boston location! To celebrate, we are having a party, and you’re invited. Meet cove’s team and enjoy beer and wine, desserts, giveaways, music, and more. All are welcome, but everyone must RSVP to receive an event pass.
About cove:
No one likes to work, but everyone likes to be productive. cove provides a place in your neighborhood to get things done, alongside others doing just the same. If you ever find yourself trying to work out of the lonely living room, noisy coffee shop, or boring office, cove is for you.
We offer flexible plans that are designed around the way you get things done. Our convenient locations have everything you need—unlimited coffee, fast wifi, color printing—but it’s the small things that make the difference: accessible outlets, call boxes, and a diverse community focused on being productive.
https://cove.is/events/wt7bqFOTv4
About cove:
No one likes to work, but everyone likes to be productive. cove provides a place in your neighborhood to get things done, alongside others doing just the same. If you ever find yourself trying to work out of the lonely living room, noisy coffee shop, or boring office, cove is for you.
We offer flexible plans that are designed around the way you get things done. Our convenient locations have everything you need—unlimited coffee, fast wifi, color printing—but it’s the small things that make the difference: accessible outlets, call boxes, and a diverse community focused on being productive.
https://cove.is/events/wt7bqFOTv4
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Footprint: Building a Dialogue
Wednesday, September 30
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
A collaborative art/science project between swissnex Boston, the University of Zurich (Institute of Evolutionary Biology) and Boston based artist Edward Monovich, Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/footprint-he1-epi2/#sthash.MMnaaNNk.dpuf
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EARTHOS CONVERSATION #1: The U-STEAM Center for Resilience
Wednesday, September 30
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthos-conversation-1-the-u-steam-center-for-resilience-tickets-14269858531
Cost: $16.82 (suggested donation)
Together, during the Earthos Conversation Series 2015, we will be examining the power of the Bioregional Resilience Toolbox to inform important projects in the Boston area, and to address complex environmental and social issues of today.
Building on past successes, such as the ARTFarm Initiative in Somerville, we be looking at how the toolbox can help catalyze and incubate new and emerging projects in the region during the Conversation Series 2015-16
During Conversation #1 we will examine the need for education and training centers that prepare our young people and communities for bioregional resilience. We will be exploring this as a larger topic, as well as exploring how to bring to fruition the GROVE HALL U-STEAM CENTER a project located at the heart and epicenter of Boston.
The Earthos Lab brings people together to research, learn, and collaborate towards robust regional systems.
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Music-Tech: Learn. Teach. Demo. Eat
Wednesday, September 30
6:30 PM
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Music-Technology-Group/events/225020873/
We're excited to announce the next Boston Music-Tech Meetup will take place on Thursday, September 30th at Workbar in Cambridge. Big thanks to BerkleeICE for sponsoring the event and providing food for everyone! RSVP now for free to reserve your spot!
Event Overview:
6:30 - 7:00: Pizza and networking (yay and yum).
7:00-7:30: Breakaway group networking exercise – we'll be keeping things (inter)active in the first hour to get the blood and creative juices pumping. We have something fun planned. We've done this before. Trust us.
7:30 - 7:50: Featured Presentation TBD
8:00 - 9:00: Product demos from group members and local music-tech startups. Lineup TBA soon!
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MIT Energy Week: Introduction to research and education on campus
Wednesday, September 30
7pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
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Engineering Life: How Synthetic Biology Is Improving the World Around Us
Wednesday, September 30
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Armenise Auditorium
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, October 1
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Microgrid Controller Symposium
Thursday, October 1
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/microgrid-controller-symposium-tickets-16631822228
You’re invited to attend the Microgrid Controller Symposium. The event will bring together microgrid controller developers, energy infrastructure decision makers, utility representatives, as well as state and national energy leaders.
The goal is to introduce the latest developments in microgrid controller technology and standards, demonstrate functionality of existing microgrid controllers, and foster connections between microgrid developers & Massachusetts distribution utilities.
DHS S&T, in collaboration with DOE OE, is developing a microgrid controller hardware-in-the-loop evaluation platform. The platform, which simulates microgrid operation in real-time, will allow developers to demonstrate the functionality of their controllers during the Symposium.
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Green Transportation Celebration
Thursday, October 1
11 am–1 pm
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join Harvard for the 2nd annual Green Transportation Celebration on the Plaza. New this year, take a glimpse into the future of sustainable transportation.
CommuterChoice and their transportation partners will feature the many options for making your travel safer, healthier, and more efficient.
Learn about the many sustainable transportation options Harvard offers, including Hubway, Zipcar, and Shuttle Services, and enjoy food and prizes.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/green-transportation-celebration-0#sthash.6WHBxEzW.dpuf
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Footprint: Building a Dialogue
Wednesday, September 30
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
A collaborative art/science project between swissnex Boston, the University of Zurich (Institute of Evolutionary Biology) and Boston based artist Edward Monovich, Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/footprint-he1-epi2/#sthash.MMnaaNNk.dpuf
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EARTHOS CONVERSATION #1: The U-STEAM Center for Resilience
Wednesday, September 30
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthos-conversation-1-the-u-steam-center-for-resilience-tickets-14269858531
Cost: $16.82 (suggested donation)
Together, during the Earthos Conversation Series 2015, we will be examining the power of the Bioregional Resilience Toolbox to inform important projects in the Boston area, and to address complex environmental and social issues of today.
Building on past successes, such as the ARTFarm Initiative in Somerville, we be looking at how the toolbox can help catalyze and incubate new and emerging projects in the region during the Conversation Series 2015-16
During Conversation #1 we will examine the need for education and training centers that prepare our young people and communities for bioregional resilience. We will be exploring this as a larger topic, as well as exploring how to bring to fruition the GROVE HALL U-STEAM CENTER a project located at the heart and epicenter of Boston.
The Earthos Lab brings people together to research, learn, and collaborate towards robust regional systems.
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Music-Tech: Learn. Teach. Demo. Eat
Wednesday, September 30
6:30 PM
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Music-Technology-Group/events/225020873/
We're excited to announce the next Boston Music-Tech Meetup will take place on Thursday, September 30th at Workbar in Cambridge. Big thanks to BerkleeICE for sponsoring the event and providing food for everyone! RSVP now for free to reserve your spot!
Event Overview:
6:30 - 7:00: Pizza and networking (yay and yum).
7:00-7:30: Breakaway group networking exercise – we'll be keeping things (inter)active in the first hour to get the blood and creative juices pumping. We have something fun planned. We've done this before. Trust us.
7:30 - 7:50: Featured Presentation TBD
8:00 - 9:00: Product demos from group members and local music-tech startups. Lineup TBA soon!
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MIT Energy Week: Introduction to research and education on campus
Wednesday, September 30
7pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
--------------------------------
Engineering Life: How Synthetic Biology Is Improving the World Around Us
Wednesday, September 30
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Armenise Auditorium
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, October 1
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Microgrid Controller Symposium
Thursday, October 1
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/microgrid-controller-symposium-tickets-16631822228
You’re invited to attend the Microgrid Controller Symposium. The event will bring together microgrid controller developers, energy infrastructure decision makers, utility representatives, as well as state and national energy leaders.
The goal is to introduce the latest developments in microgrid controller technology and standards, demonstrate functionality of existing microgrid controllers, and foster connections between microgrid developers & Massachusetts distribution utilities.
DHS S&T, in collaboration with DOE OE, is developing a microgrid controller hardware-in-the-loop evaluation platform. The platform, which simulates microgrid operation in real-time, will allow developers to demonstrate the functionality of their controllers during the Symposium.
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Green Transportation Celebration
Thursday, October 1
11 am–1 pm
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join Harvard for the 2nd annual Green Transportation Celebration on the Plaza. New this year, take a glimpse into the future of sustainable transportation.
CommuterChoice and their transportation partners will feature the many options for making your travel safer, healthier, and more efficient.
Learn about the many sustainable transportation options Harvard offers, including Hubway, Zipcar, and Shuttle Services, and enjoy food and prizes.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/green-transportation-celebration-0#sthash.6WHBxEzW.dpuf
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The Cruel Cut - a film on female genital mutilation
Thursday, October 1
4:00pm - 5:30pm
First Church Cambridge Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Hastings Room, Cambridge
Editorial Comment: Susan McLucas, an old friend, sent me this event. She has been working to stop female genital mutilation around the world and especially in Mali for many years now.
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Russia's Military: Capabilities, Conflict in Ukraine, and Challenges for NATO
Thursday, October 1
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Kofman, Johan Norberg
Focus on Russia
Focus on Russia is a seminar series sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies, The MIT Security Studies Program and MISTI Russia.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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Will the Courts Strike Down the President's Clean Power Plan?
Thursday, October 1
5 pm
Harvard, Northwest Science Building, Room B-103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School
Richard Lazarus, Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderated By:
Daniel Schrag, Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor, Harvard Paulson School; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Jody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. She is a leading scholar of both administrative law and environmental law. Professor Freeman’s new book, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND U.S. LAW (co-edited with Michael Gerrard) was published in 2015.
Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10, where she was the architect of the president’s historic agreement with the auto industry to double fuel efficiency standards, launching the administration’s greenhouse gas program under the Clean Air Act. In her role, she also contributed to a host of initiatives on renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission policy and oil and gas drilling, as well as the administration’s effort to pass legislation placing a market based cap on carbon.
After leaving the administration, Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory process, and elected the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2012, Professor Freeman was elected as an outside director of ConocoPhillips, where she serves on the public policy and compensation committees.
Professor Freeman has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and Los Angeles Times.
Richard Lazarus is the Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he teaches environmental law, natural resources Law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts. Professor Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the United States Supreme Court in 40 cases and has presented oral argument in 13 of those cases. His primary areas of legal scholarship are environmental and natural resources law, with particular emphasis on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. He has published two books, The Making of Environmental Law (U. Chicago 2004), and Environmental Law Stories (Aspen Press, co-edited with O. Houck 2005). He was also the principal author of Deep Water - The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), which is the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission, for which he served as the Executive Director. The Commission was charged with investigating the root causes of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and recommending changes in law and policy to reduce the risk of future spills and to mitigate their impacts. Prior to joining the Harvard law faculty, Professor Lazarus was the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he also founded the Supreme Court Institute. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979 and has a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois.
Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He is particularly interested in how information on climate change from the geologic past can lead to better understanding of anthropogenic climate change in the future. In addition to his work on geochemistry and climatology, Schrag studies energy technology and policy, including carbon capture and storage and low-carbon synthetic fuels.
Schrag currently serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among various honors, he is the recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and a MacArthur Fellowship. Schrag earned a B.S. in geology and geophysics and political science from Yale University and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He came to Harvard in 1997 after teaching at Princeton.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/will-courts-strike-down-presidents-clean-power-plan#sthash.PIR1VRfJ.dpuf
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Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan's Mass Media Revolution
Thursday, October 1
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Modern Japan experienced what could be described as its first wave of "mass media revolution" in the period stretching from the mid-1920s into the 1930s, when new forms of media industry as well as technology vastly expanded the number of potential consumers of media products. This talk, with Hiromu Nagahara, explores the political implications of this development, especially as it relates to how the rise of mass media reshaped existing social and cultural hierarchies in Japan (and how, in some cases, it didn't). Based on his current book project, Japan's Pop Era: Music in the Making of Middle-Class Society, this talk will focus on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizo (M.S. 1923), an MIT grad who found himself in the center of all of this as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/hiromu-nagahara-hierarchy-democracy-modern-japan-mass-media-revolution/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Starr Forum: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
Thursday, October 1
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
A conversation with William McCants
William McCants is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has served in government and think tank positions related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, including as State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. He is the author of "Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam" (Princeton University Press, 2011) and most recently "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State" (St. Martin's Press, 2015).
Refreshments will be served.
Copies of the book, "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State," will be available for purchase at the event.
CIS Starr Forum
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_100115.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
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EnergyBar!
Greentown Labs
Thursday, October 1
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-registration-15734102123
About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30 pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual.
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Russia's Military: Capabilities, Conflict in Ukraine, and Challenges for NATO
Thursday, October 1
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Kofman, Johan Norberg
Focus on Russia
Focus on Russia is a seminar series sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies, The MIT Security Studies Program and MISTI Russia.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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Will the Courts Strike Down the President's Clean Power Plan?
Thursday, October 1
5 pm
Harvard, Northwest Science Building, Room B-103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School
Richard Lazarus, Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderated By:
Daniel Schrag, Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor, Harvard Paulson School; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Jody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. She is a leading scholar of both administrative law and environmental law. Professor Freeman’s new book, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND U.S. LAW (co-edited with Michael Gerrard) was published in 2015.
Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10, where she was the architect of the president’s historic agreement with the auto industry to double fuel efficiency standards, launching the administration’s greenhouse gas program under the Clean Air Act. In her role, she also contributed to a host of initiatives on renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission policy and oil and gas drilling, as well as the administration’s effort to pass legislation placing a market based cap on carbon.
After leaving the administration, Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory process, and elected the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2012, Professor Freeman was elected as an outside director of ConocoPhillips, where she serves on the public policy and compensation committees.
Professor Freeman has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and Los Angeles Times.
Richard Lazarus is the Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he teaches environmental law, natural resources Law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts. Professor Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the United States Supreme Court in 40 cases and has presented oral argument in 13 of those cases. His primary areas of legal scholarship are environmental and natural resources law, with particular emphasis on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. He has published two books, The Making of Environmental Law (U. Chicago 2004), and Environmental Law Stories (Aspen Press, co-edited with O. Houck 2005). He was also the principal author of Deep Water - The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), which is the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission, for which he served as the Executive Director. The Commission was charged with investigating the root causes of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and recommending changes in law and policy to reduce the risk of future spills and to mitigate their impacts. Prior to joining the Harvard law faculty, Professor Lazarus was the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he also founded the Supreme Court Institute. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979 and has a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois.
Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He is particularly interested in how information on climate change from the geologic past can lead to better understanding of anthropogenic climate change in the future. In addition to his work on geochemistry and climatology, Schrag studies energy technology and policy, including carbon capture and storage and low-carbon synthetic fuels.
Schrag currently serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among various honors, he is the recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and a MacArthur Fellowship. Schrag earned a B.S. in geology and geophysics and political science from Yale University and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He came to Harvard in 1997 after teaching at Princeton.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/will-courts-strike-down-presidents-clean-power-plan#sthash.PIR1VRfJ.dpuf
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Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan's Mass Media Revolution
Thursday, October 1
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Modern Japan experienced what could be described as its first wave of "mass media revolution" in the period stretching from the mid-1920s into the 1930s, when new forms of media industry as well as technology vastly expanded the number of potential consumers of media products. This talk, with Hiromu Nagahara, explores the political implications of this development, especially as it relates to how the rise of mass media reshaped existing social and cultural hierarchies in Japan (and how, in some cases, it didn't). Based on his current book project, Japan's Pop Era: Music in the Making of Middle-Class Society, this talk will focus on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizo (M.S. 1923), an MIT grad who found himself in the center of all of this as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/hiromu-nagahara-hierarchy-democracy-modern-japan-mass-media-revolution/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Starr Forum: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
Thursday, October 1
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
A conversation with William McCants
William McCants is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has served in government and think tank positions related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, including as State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. He is the author of "Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam" (Princeton University Press, 2011) and most recently "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State" (St. Martin's Press, 2015).
Refreshments will be served.
Copies of the book, "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State," will be available for purchase at the event.
CIS Starr Forum
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_100115.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
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EnergyBar!
Greentown Labs
Thursday, October 1
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-registration-15734102123
About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30 pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual.
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Designing the High School of the Future
Thursday, 1 October
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall Room 319-20, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-the-high-school-of-the-future-tickets-18582829744
Join the Teach for America Alumni Board and the Education Redesign Lab in reimagining the high school of the future. Over the last six months, Boston Public Schools and the Mayor's Education Cabinet have been seeking input across Boston to answer two questions:
On October 1st we will come together to discuss and workshop a vision for a more rigorous, more relevant and equitable modern high school learning environment that can be applied to BPS and across Massachusetts. We will first hear from Paul Reville, Director of the Education Redesign Lab to learn more about his Lab's vision and work. We will then engage in a dynamic conversation and workshop where we will work together to shape visions of Massachusetts' high schools.
Interested in reading about the process - check it out at http://highschoolredesign-boston.org
RSVPs are requested, although not necessary, so we can plan for food and drinks.
We look forward to seeing you, discussing high schools of the future and having an impact across Massachusetts.
Join the Teach for America Alumni Board and the Education Redesign Lab in reimagining the high school of the future. Over the last six months, Boston Public Schools and the Mayor's Education Cabinet have been seeking input across Boston to answer two questions:
What should future high school graduates know and be able to do to succeed in life?
What does the high school learning experience need to look like in order to prepare all graduates for future success?
The answers to these questions will shape the vision for Boston's high schools and will be used to drive the program, practice, policy and systems changes needed to create the city's future high schools.On October 1st we will come together to discuss and workshop a vision for a more rigorous, more relevant and equitable modern high school learning environment that can be applied to BPS and across Massachusetts. We will first hear from Paul Reville, Director of the Education Redesign Lab to learn more about his Lab's vision and work. We will then engage in a dynamic conversation and workshop where we will work together to shape visions of Massachusetts' high schools.
Interested in reading about the process - check it out at http://highschoolredesign-boston.org
RSVPs are requested, although not necessary, so we can plan for food and drinks.
We look forward to seeing you, discussing high schools of the future and having an impact across Massachusetts.
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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Thursday, October 1
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/robert_reich/
Cost: $5.00
Harvard Book Store welcomes Professor ROBERT B. REICH, former Secretary of Labor and author of The Work of Nations, for a discussion of his latest book, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the “free market” is, and how it has masked the power of moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit.
Reich exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by huge corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street: that all workers are paid what they’re “worth,” that a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, and that corporations must serve shareholders before employees. He shows that the critical choices ahead are not about the size of government but about who government is for: that we must choose not between a free market and “big” government but between a market organized for broadly based prosperity and one designed to deliver the most gains to the top. Ever the pragmatist, ever the optimist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity when we shore up the countervailing power of everyone else.
Passionate yet practical, sweeping yet exactingly argued, Saving Capitalism is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.
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Your Obedient Servant: The Unlikely History of the Handheld Navigational Device
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center (Hall A), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
SPEAKER(S) Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and chair, Program in American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2779
DETAILS Handheld devices that can provide an exact location with a click, tap, or swipe have become ubiquitous. The brand and cost of these devices often contribute to the owner’s perceived social standing, and the ultimate status symbols are increasingly devices that are worn, not held, such as Google Glass® and the Apple Watch®. There is historical precedent for this: in the past, only low-ranking people held instruments in their hands. Highborn individuals and navigators would have other people carry their instruments unless they could attach them to their bodies, as with eyeglasses or wristwatches. Joyce Chaplin will discuss the historical connections between handheld devices and social status, and the impact of people becoming the self-navigating holders of their own devices.
LINK http://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/your-obedient-servant-history-hand-held-navigational-device
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Iran Nuclear Deal
Thursday, October 1
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/iran-nuclear-deal-registration-18564687480
The United States has had an uneasy relationship with Iran ever since the Iranian Revolution over 30 years ago. In the past two decades, the country has developed nuclear technology, which has many countries -- including the U.S. -- concerned that it could develop nuclear weapons.
After many months of difficult negotiations, an international agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached this year by Iran, the U.S., the European Union and other nations. The agreement, however, was met by opposition by the American Republican Party and several countries that neighbor Iran.
How did we get here? Why is there so much mistrust between Iran and the U.S.?
Who is for and who is against this agreement, and why?
The agreement will lift sanctions on Iran in return for limiting its nuclear capabilities. What does all this mean for the Iranian people, and for the rest of the world?
Join us for a brief background presentation followed by Q&A and open discussion.
Speaker: Jim Walsh
Dr. Jim Walsh is an expert in international security and a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. Dr. Walsh's research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons and terrorism.
Dr. Walsh has testified before the United States Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and on Iran’s nuclear program. He is one of a handful of Americans who has traveled to both Iran and North Korea for talks with officials about nuclear issues.
His comments and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Economist, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and numerous other national and international media outlets (over 1000 TV appearances since 2001). He has many recent and upcoming writings, including, “Rivals, Adversaries, and Partners: Iran and Iraq in the Middle East” in Iran and Its Neighbors, Palgrave Macmillan (2015); “50 Years After Gilpatrick: Reflections on Nuclear Age,” in Reassessing the Global Nuclear Order – Past, Present, and Future (2015); [Contributor], Iran and Its Neighbors: Regional Implications for U.S. Policy of a Nuclear Agreement,The Iran Project (2014).
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Sustainability Collaborative
Thursday, October 1
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
The Venture Café Foundation has partnered with EcoMotion to bring the Sustainability Collaborative to monthly Venture Café gatherings.
Stay tuned for more information about this month’s Sustainability Collaborative.
Questions? Contact Sierra at sflanigan@ecomotion.us
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CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS FORUM
Thursday, October 1
6:00 p.m.
Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP by email to caroline_miller@harvard.edu with the subject of "Climate+Change+Solutions+Forum+RSVP"
From rising sea levels and increased drought, to heat-related illness and economic losses, the consequences of global climate change will be felt for centuries to come. Confronting these threats and transforming the energy systems on which we rely are among the greatest challenges of our time.
Please join hosts John K. F. Irving AB '83, MBA '89; Robert Kaplan MBA '83; Richard D. McCullough; and Jane Mendillo and Ralph Earle III AB '79 to hear about some of the research innovations Harvard University faculty and students are pursuing to hasten the transition to renewable energy and accelerate progress toward a greener world.
The program will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. A reception will follow. Please reserve your seat today.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Richard D. McCullough, Vice Provost for Research; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Jisung Park, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
RSVP
Please reply by September 17, even if you are unable to attend, to caroline_miller@harvard.edu or 617-496-2464.
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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Thursday, October 1
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/robert_reich/
Cost: $5.00
Harvard Book Store welcomes Professor ROBERT B. REICH, former Secretary of Labor and author of The Work of Nations, for a discussion of his latest book, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the “free market” is, and how it has masked the power of moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit.
Reich exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by huge corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street: that all workers are paid what they’re “worth,” that a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, and that corporations must serve shareholders before employees. He shows that the critical choices ahead are not about the size of government but about who government is for: that we must choose not between a free market and “big” government but between a market organized for broadly based prosperity and one designed to deliver the most gains to the top. Ever the pragmatist, ever the optimist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity when we shore up the countervailing power of everyone else.
Passionate yet practical, sweeping yet exactingly argued, Saving Capitalism is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.
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Your Obedient Servant: The Unlikely History of the Handheld Navigational Device
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center (Hall A), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
SPEAKER(S) Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and chair, Program in American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2779
DETAILS Handheld devices that can provide an exact location with a click, tap, or swipe have become ubiquitous. The brand and cost of these devices often contribute to the owner’s perceived social standing, and the ultimate status symbols are increasingly devices that are worn, not held, such as Google Glass® and the Apple Watch®. There is historical precedent for this: in the past, only low-ranking people held instruments in their hands. Highborn individuals and navigators would have other people carry their instruments unless they could attach them to their bodies, as with eyeglasses or wristwatches. Joyce Chaplin will discuss the historical connections between handheld devices and social status, and the impact of people becoming the self-navigating holders of their own devices.
LINK http://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/your-obedient-servant-history-hand-held-navigational-device
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Iran Nuclear Deal
Thursday, October 1
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/iran-nuclear-deal-registration-18564687480
The United States has had an uneasy relationship with Iran ever since the Iranian Revolution over 30 years ago. In the past two decades, the country has developed nuclear technology, which has many countries -- including the U.S. -- concerned that it could develop nuclear weapons.
After many months of difficult negotiations, an international agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached this year by Iran, the U.S., the European Union and other nations. The agreement, however, was met by opposition by the American Republican Party and several countries that neighbor Iran.
How did we get here? Why is there so much mistrust between Iran and the U.S.?
Who is for and who is against this agreement, and why?
The agreement will lift sanctions on Iran in return for limiting its nuclear capabilities. What does all this mean for the Iranian people, and for the rest of the world?
Join us for a brief background presentation followed by Q&A and open discussion.
Speaker: Jim Walsh
Dr. Jim Walsh is an expert in international security and a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. Dr. Walsh's research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons and terrorism.
Dr. Walsh has testified before the United States Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and on Iran’s nuclear program. He is one of a handful of Americans who has traveled to both Iran and North Korea for talks with officials about nuclear issues.
His comments and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Economist, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and numerous other national and international media outlets (over 1000 TV appearances since 2001). He has many recent and upcoming writings, including, “Rivals, Adversaries, and Partners: Iran and Iraq in the Middle East” in Iran and Its Neighbors, Palgrave Macmillan (2015); “50 Years After Gilpatrick: Reflections on Nuclear Age,” in Reassessing the Global Nuclear Order – Past, Present, and Future (2015); [Contributor], Iran and Its Neighbors: Regional Implications for U.S. Policy of a Nuclear Agreement,The Iran Project (2014).
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Sustainability Collaborative
Thursday, October 1
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
The Venture Café Foundation has partnered with EcoMotion to bring the Sustainability Collaborative to monthly Venture Café gatherings.
Stay tuned for more information about this month’s Sustainability Collaborative.
Questions? Contact Sierra at sflanigan@ecomotion.us
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CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS FORUM
Thursday, October 1
6:00 p.m.
Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP by email to caroline_miller@harvard.edu with the subject of "Climate+Change+Solutions+Forum+RSVP"
From rising sea levels and increased drought, to heat-related illness and economic losses, the consequences of global climate change will be felt for centuries to come. Confronting these threats and transforming the energy systems on which we rely are among the greatest challenges of our time.
Please join hosts John K. F. Irving AB '83, MBA '89; Robert Kaplan MBA '83; Richard D. McCullough; and Jane Mendillo and Ralph Earle III AB '79 to hear about some of the research innovations Harvard University faculty and students are pursuing to hasten the transition to renewable energy and accelerate progress toward a greener world.
The program will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. A reception will follow. Please reserve your seat today.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Richard D. McCullough, Vice Provost for Research; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Jisung Park, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
RSVP
Please reply by September 17, even if you are unable to attend, to caroline_miller@harvard.edu or 617-496-2464.
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Interrogating the Silence: A Conversation
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School, Serry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School, Serry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Ahmed Ragab, SRC director; Rick Santos, IMA World Health president and CEO; Amy Gopp, IMA World Health vice president of external relations; Kera Street, SRC assistant director for academic affairs; Marie Fortune, Faith Trust Institute founder and senior analyst; and Shavonne Moore, clinical psychologist, Mass. Mental Health Center, and chairwoman of the Shatter the Silence Initiative at Bethel AME Church in Boston.
CONTACT INFO kstreet@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS The Science, Religion, and Culture Program (SRC) at Harvard Divinity School, in conjunction with IMA World Health, will release the findings of the "Interrogating the Silence" report, a study on religious leaders' attitudes toward sexual and gender-based violence. This event is the culmination of this year-long qualitative research on faith communities in the Boston area, and looks to illuminate the particular relationship between religion and sexual and domestic violence.
Please join us for this important panel discussion on the findings of the "Interrogating the Silence" report. Panelists include: Ahmed Ragab, SRC director; Rick Santos, IMA World Health president and CEO; Amy Gopp, IMA World Health vice president of external relations; Kera Street, SRC assistant director for academic affairs; Marie Fortune, Faith Trust Institute founder and senior analyst; and Shavonne Moore, clinical psychologist, Mass. Mental Health Center, and chairwoman of the Shatter the Silence Initiative at Bethel AME Church in Boston.
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/srcp/ima-sex-and-gender-based-violence
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Ahmed Ragab, SRC director; Rick Santos, IMA World Health president and CEO; Amy Gopp, IMA World Health vice president of external relations; Kera Street, SRC assistant director for academic affairs; Marie Fortune, Faith Trust Institute founder and senior analyst; and Shavonne Moore, clinical psychologist, Mass. Mental Health Center, and chairwoman of the Shatter the Silence Initiative at Bethel AME Church in Boston.
CONTACT INFO kstreet@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS The Science, Religion, and Culture Program (SRC) at Harvard Divinity School, in conjunction with IMA World Health, will release the findings of the "Interrogating the Silence" report, a study on religious leaders' attitudes toward sexual and gender-based violence. This event is the culmination of this year-long qualitative research on faith communities in the Boston area, and looks to illuminate the particular relationship between religion and sexual and domestic violence.
Please join us for this important panel discussion on the findings of the "Interrogating the Silence" report. Panelists include: Ahmed Ragab, SRC director; Rick Santos, IMA World Health president and CEO; Amy Gopp, IMA World Health vice president of external relations; Kera Street, SRC assistant director for academic affairs; Marie Fortune, Faith Trust Institute founder and senior analyst; and Shavonne Moore, clinical psychologist, Mass. Mental Health Center, and chairwoman of the Shatter the Silence Initiative at Bethel AME Church in Boston.
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/srcp/ima-sex-and-gender-based-violence
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The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age - film showing
Thursday, October 1
Thursday, October 1
6:30pm
Central Square Branch Library in Cambridge, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
Here is a brief summary:
"Moving, living witnesses, survivors of two of the world's most momentous crises of our nuclear age; Nagasaki in 1945 and Fukushima in 2011 - interlaced with experts and archival footage, some shocking, illuminating the largely unrecognized connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and the growing global movements to abolish both."
WWW.THEULTIMATEWISH.NET
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Urban Films: Revolution for the Present
Thursday, October 1
6:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Humanity seems to be stuck in the perpetual now that is our networked world. More countries are witnessing people taking to the streets in search of answers. REVOLUTION OF THE PRESENT features interviews with thought leaders designed to give meaning to our present and precarious condition. This historic journey allows us to us re-think our presumptions and narratives about the individual and society, the local and global, our politics and technology. This documentary analyzes why the opportunity to augment the scope of human action has become so atomized and diminished. REVOLUTION OF THE PRESENT is an invitation to join the conversation and help contribute to our collective understanding.
As sociologist Saskia Sassen states at the outset of the film, "We live in a time of unsettlement, so much so that we are even questioning the notion of the global, which is healthy.'' One could say that our film raises more questions than it answers, but this is its goal.
REVOLUTION OF THE PRESENT is structured as an engaging dinner conversation: there is no narrator telling you what to think, it is not a film of fear of the end time or accusation, it is an invitation to sit at the table and join an in depth conversation about our diverse and plural world.
Please join us for after the screening for a special discussion and Q&A with director Marc Lafia.
6:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Humanity seems to be stuck in the perpetual now that is our networked world. More countries are witnessing people taking to the streets in search of answers. REVOLUTION OF THE PRESENT features interviews with thought leaders designed to give meaning to our present and precarious condition. This historic journey allows us to us re-think our presumptions and narratives about the individual and society, the local and global, our politics and technology. This documentary analyzes why the opportunity to augment the scope of human action has become so atomized and diminished. REVOLUTION OF THE PRESENT is an invitation to join the conversation and help contribute to our collective understanding.
As sociologist Saskia Sassen states at the outset of the film, "We live in a time of unsettlement, so much so that we are even questioning the notion of the global, which is healthy.'' One could say that our film raises more questions than it answers, but this is its goal.
REVOLUTION OF THE PRESENT is structured as an engaging dinner conversation: there is no narrator telling you what to think, it is not a film of fear of the end time or accusation, it is an invitation to sit at the table and join an in depth conversation about our diverse and plural world.
Please join us for after the screening for a special discussion and Q&A with director Marc Lafia.
Urban Planning Film Series
A semi-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
A semi-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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MIT Energy Week: The Boston area Energy Ecosystem – Startup Success Stories
Thursday, October 1
7pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Guest Speakers: Geoff Chapin (Next Step Living), Emily Reichert (Greentown Labs)
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Program on Negotiation Film Series: "Two Days, One Night"
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School Campus, Langdell South, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Film, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Professor Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
DIRECTED BY Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Beth Hankes, bhankes@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join PON for a free film screening of "Two Days, One Night." In the film, Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne team up with a major international star, Marion Cotillard, to create a universal story about working-class people living on the edges of society. This engaging film also raises enduring questions about work, negotiations, and gender.
The screening will be followed by a lively discussion with Professor Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, a scholar of labor-management negotiation. Pizza, popcorn, and drinks will be provided.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/two-days-one-night-screening-and-discussion/
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Friday, October 2
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Food Law Student Leadership Summit
Friday, October 2– Sunday, October 4
application instructions and requirements:
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/application-instructions-and-requirements/
Food law and policy is a fast-growing field of interest among law students, legal professionals, and society at large. Communities around the country and the world are searching for ways to improve the environmental, public health, and social impacts of the food system. Law students and lawyers are uniquely situated to make significant contributions to this emerging field. In response, growing numbers of law schools now offer food law and policy courses, operate student food law organizations, have undertaken clinical work related to food policy, and have hosted conferences on various food law and policy topics.
The Food Law Student Leadership Summit is the first conference to convene law students from around the country who share a passion for food law and policy. Participants will hear from national experts about key food law and policy issues related to the environment, health, food safety, and food waste; develop strategies to start or expand student food law organizations; build a national network of food law and policy colleagues; and begin to develop coordinated strategies for addressing some of society’s most pressing food law and policy concerns.
We are excited to welcome Michele Merkel, Co-Director of the Food & Water Justice Project at Food & Water Watch, as the keynote speaker. Michele’s bio may be viewed here.
The Summit will be held October 2-4, 2015 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Travel to and from Boston, accommodations in Cambridge, as well as meals during the Summit will be provided for all accepted applicants. Law students interested in applying to attend the Summit should read the application instructions and requirements:
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/application-instructions-and-requirements/
The Summit will be hosted by the Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), a Division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. The FLPC is an experiential learning program for law students, which works to address the health, environmental, and economic consequences of the laws and policies that govern our food system. Click here to learn more about our work and email any questions about the Summit to flpc@law.harvard.edu.
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/food-law-student-leadership-summit/
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/food-law-student-leadership-summit#sthash.mQV9viKR.dpuf
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Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium
Friday, October 2, 2015 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
Boston University Photonics Center, 8 Saint Marys Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-university-digital-humanities-2015-symposium-tickets-18454380549
What ARE the digital humanities? How can digital pedagogy change the classroom experience, and revolutionize your scholarship? What skills do you need to make your way in the "digital academy"? JOIN US on 2-3 October 2015 for the inaugural BU Digital Humanities Symposium 2015, an interdisciplinary forum of roundtables (Day 1) and workshops (Day 2) designed to orient you in the major methodologies and debates of this emerging field. Online registration is required. #BUDH2015
Program:
FRIDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2015
8:00-9:00 Registration Check-in & Welcome Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Roundtable 1: What are the Digital Humanities?
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:30 Roundtable 2: Digital Humanities at Work
12:30-2:00 Lunch (provided)
2:00-3:30 Roundtable 3: Digital Humanities in the Classroom
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:00 Keynote: Julia Flanders, Digital Scholarship Group Director, Northeastern University: "Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools: Working in the Digital Academy"
5:00-6:00 Reception
SATURDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2015
9:00-10:00 Registration Check-in & Welcome Breakfast
10:00-12:00 Workshop 1: Introduction to Mapping
12:00-2:00 LUNCH (on your own)
2:00-4:00 Workshop 2: Introduction to Crowdsourcing
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The Past, Present, and Future of DNA
Friday, October 2
9:30 am - 4:30pm
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://radcliffe-nenmf.formstack.com/forms/dna
The one-day science symposium will focus on the explosion of knowledge about past and present DNA, and will include discussions about possible directions and applications for future research. The event will include experts in ancient DNA, de-extinction, human origins, population genetics, forensic science, ethics, business, future synthetic life, and the personal genome.
This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is required.
Contact events@radcliffe.harvard.edu with questions.
SCHEDULE
9:30 a.m.
WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
INTRODUCTION
Janet Rich-Edwards, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10 a.m.
MAMMOTHS, NEANDERTHALS, AND YOUR ANCESTORS
Moderator: George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
John Hawks, Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beth Shapiro, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Spencer Wells, Director, Genographic Project, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic
11:45 a.m.
LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION
1 p.m.
FORENSIC DNA INVESTIGATION
Introducer: Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School
Greg Hampikian, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Joint appointment in Department of Criminal Justice, Director of the Idaho Innocence Project, Boise State University
1:45 p.m.
THE ETHICAL FRONTIER OF DNA
Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine
2:30 p.m.
BREAK
2:45 p.m.
THE FUTURE UTILITY OF DNA SCIENCE
Moderator: Christine Seidman, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jacob Corn, Scientific Director, Innovative Genomics Initiative; Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Head of Department, Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Fertility Centre for Life, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Floyd Romesberg, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
4:15 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS
Janet Rich-Edwards
4:30 p.m.
RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION
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EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Friday, October 2
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Melissa Weitz, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Climate Change Division, EPA
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/84526
Contact Name: Bram Maasakkers
maasakkers@seas.harvard.edu
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Rally for Climate Action
Friday, October 2
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building W20-Steps, Student Center Steps & Kresge Oval, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT Climate Countdown
Following last year's campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, President Reif has now committed to deciding this fall semester how (or if) our university will take action against climate change. In the run-up to this potentially game-changing moment of decision, help us tip the balance by joining MIT Climate Countdown - a series of public events, starting September 28, culminating in a rally on October 2, the day of the MIT Corporation's Annual Board Meeting. So mark the Countdown on your calendar, and then we'll explain...
mitclimatecountdown.org
Flood the campus in a sea of blue to urge MIT to take bold and immediate action against the threats of climate change. Show up at the student center steps wearing blue or dressed for the beach since that's what Kresge oval would look like if a hurricane like Sandy hit Boston in 2050 due to sea level rise from climate change. Enjoy music by Melodeego, a band that uses a bike powered sound system, before hearing from students and faculty about the importance of MIT taking action on climate change and following through on recommendations from the Climate Change Conservation Committee. Following the event will be an ice cream social.
Why flood? Because we need to show the administration, who is meeting with the MIT board that day, that there is overwhelming support for MIT to take action on climate change. So flood the president with postcards, flood the open letter calling for action with signatures, and most importantly help us flood Kresge oval with a sea of blue. Let's celebrate the progress we've made last year and encourage MIT to stand with its community, stand with science, and make history.
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1647245262213215/
Web site: mitclimatecountdown.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
For more information, contact: Fossil Free MIT
fossilfree@mit.edu
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MIT Energy Week: The Boston area Energy Ecosystem – Startup Success Stories
Thursday, October 1
7pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Guest Speakers: Geoff Chapin (Next Step Living), Emily Reichert (Greentown Labs)
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Program on Negotiation Film Series: "Two Days, One Night"
WHEN Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School Campus, Langdell South, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Film, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Professor Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
DIRECTED BY Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Beth Hankes, bhankes@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join PON for a free film screening of "Two Days, One Night." In the film, Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne team up with a major international star, Marion Cotillard, to create a universal story about working-class people living on the edges of society. This engaging film also raises enduring questions about work, negotiations, and gender.
The screening will be followed by a lively discussion with Professor Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, a scholar of labor-management negotiation. Pizza, popcorn, and drinks will be provided.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/two-days-one-night-screening-and-discussion/
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Friday, October 2
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Food Law Student Leadership Summit
Friday, October 2– Sunday, October 4
application instructions and requirements:
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/application-instructions-and-requirements/
Food law and policy is a fast-growing field of interest among law students, legal professionals, and society at large. Communities around the country and the world are searching for ways to improve the environmental, public health, and social impacts of the food system. Law students and lawyers are uniquely situated to make significant contributions to this emerging field. In response, growing numbers of law schools now offer food law and policy courses, operate student food law organizations, have undertaken clinical work related to food policy, and have hosted conferences on various food law and policy topics.
The Food Law Student Leadership Summit is the first conference to convene law students from around the country who share a passion for food law and policy. Participants will hear from national experts about key food law and policy issues related to the environment, health, food safety, and food waste; develop strategies to start or expand student food law organizations; build a national network of food law and policy colleagues; and begin to develop coordinated strategies for addressing some of society’s most pressing food law and policy concerns.
We are excited to welcome Michele Merkel, Co-Director of the Food & Water Justice Project at Food & Water Watch, as the keynote speaker. Michele’s bio may be viewed here.
The Summit will be held October 2-4, 2015 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Travel to and from Boston, accommodations in Cambridge, as well as meals during the Summit will be provided for all accepted applicants. Law students interested in applying to attend the Summit should read the application instructions and requirements:
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/application-instructions-and-requirements/
The Summit will be hosted by the Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), a Division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. The FLPC is an experiential learning program for law students, which works to address the health, environmental, and economic consequences of the laws and policies that govern our food system. Click here to learn more about our work and email any questions about the Summit to flpc@law.harvard.edu.
http://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/food-law-student-leadership-summit/
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/food-law-student-leadership-summit#sthash.mQV9viKR.dpuf
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Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium
Friday, October 2, 2015 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
Boston University Photonics Center, 8 Saint Marys Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-university-digital-humanities-2015-symposium-tickets-18454380549
What ARE the digital humanities? How can digital pedagogy change the classroom experience, and revolutionize your scholarship? What skills do you need to make your way in the "digital academy"? JOIN US on 2-3 October 2015 for the inaugural BU Digital Humanities Symposium 2015, an interdisciplinary forum of roundtables (Day 1) and workshops (Day 2) designed to orient you in the major methodologies and debates of this emerging field. Online registration is required. #BUDH2015
Program:
FRIDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2015
8:00-9:00 Registration Check-in & Welcome Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Roundtable 1: What are the Digital Humanities?
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:30 Roundtable 2: Digital Humanities at Work
12:30-2:00 Lunch (provided)
2:00-3:30 Roundtable 3: Digital Humanities in the Classroom
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:00 Keynote: Julia Flanders, Digital Scholarship Group Director, Northeastern University: "Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools: Working in the Digital Academy"
5:00-6:00 Reception
SATURDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2015
9:00-10:00 Registration Check-in & Welcome Breakfast
10:00-12:00 Workshop 1: Introduction to Mapping
12:00-2:00 LUNCH (on your own)
2:00-4:00 Workshop 2: Introduction to Crowdsourcing
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The Past, Present, and Future of DNA
Friday, October 2
9:30 am - 4:30pm
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://radcliffe-nenmf.formstack.com/forms/dna
The one-day science symposium will focus on the explosion of knowledge about past and present DNA, and will include discussions about possible directions and applications for future research. The event will include experts in ancient DNA, de-extinction, human origins, population genetics, forensic science, ethics, business, future synthetic life, and the personal genome.
This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is required.
Contact events@radcliffe.harvard.edu with questions.
SCHEDULE
9:30 a.m.
WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
INTRODUCTION
Janet Rich-Edwards, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10 a.m.
MAMMOTHS, NEANDERTHALS, AND YOUR ANCESTORS
Moderator: George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
John Hawks, Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beth Shapiro, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Spencer Wells, Director, Genographic Project, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic
11:45 a.m.
LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION
1 p.m.
FORENSIC DNA INVESTIGATION
Introducer: Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School
Greg Hampikian, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Joint appointment in Department of Criminal Justice, Director of the Idaho Innocence Project, Boise State University
1:45 p.m.
THE ETHICAL FRONTIER OF DNA
Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine
2:30 p.m.
BREAK
2:45 p.m.
THE FUTURE UTILITY OF DNA SCIENCE
Moderator: Christine Seidman, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jacob Corn, Scientific Director, Innovative Genomics Initiative; Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Head of Department, Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Fertility Centre for Life, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Floyd Romesberg, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
4:15 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS
Janet Rich-Edwards
4:30 p.m.
RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION
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EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Friday, October 2
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Melissa Weitz, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Climate Change Division, EPA
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/84526
Contact Name: Bram Maasakkers
maasakkers@seas.harvard.edu
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Rally for Climate Action
Friday, October 2
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building W20-Steps, Student Center Steps & Kresge Oval, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT Climate Countdown
Following last year's campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, President Reif has now committed to deciding this fall semester how (or if) our university will take action against climate change. In the run-up to this potentially game-changing moment of decision, help us tip the balance by joining MIT Climate Countdown - a series of public events, starting September 28, culminating in a rally on October 2, the day of the MIT Corporation's Annual Board Meeting. So mark the Countdown on your calendar, and then we'll explain...
mitclimatecountdown.org
Flood the campus in a sea of blue to urge MIT to take bold and immediate action against the threats of climate change. Show up at the student center steps wearing blue or dressed for the beach since that's what Kresge oval would look like if a hurricane like Sandy hit Boston in 2050 due to sea level rise from climate change. Enjoy music by Melodeego, a band that uses a bike powered sound system, before hearing from students and faculty about the importance of MIT taking action on climate change and following through on recommendations from the Climate Change Conservation Committee. Following the event will be an ice cream social.
Why flood? Because we need to show the administration, who is meeting with the MIT board that day, that there is overwhelming support for MIT to take action on climate change. So flood the president with postcards, flood the open letter calling for action with signatures, and most importantly help us flood Kresge oval with a sea of blue. Let's celebrate the progress we've made last year and encourage MIT to stand with its community, stand with science, and make history.
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1647245262213215/
Web site: mitclimatecountdown.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
For more information, contact: Fossil Free MIT
fossilfree@mit.edu
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Fundamentals of Cyber Conflict and a Research Agenda for International Relations and Computer Science
Friday, October 2
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Tufts, Halligan 111A, 161 College Avenue, Medford
Friday, October 2
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Tufts, Halligan 111A, 161 College Avenue, Medford
Speaker: Herb Lin, Stanford University
Cyber conflict and cyber war are in the news every day, but public discussion is often confused and ill-informed. This talk will present some of the fundamental realities of cyber conflict with reference to current events and thinking and articulate a research agenda of interesting problems at the nexus of international relations and computer science where the insights of both disciplines are relevant.
Bio: Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. His research interests relate broadly to policy- related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace.
He is also Chief Scientist, Emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity (not in residence) at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT.
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Taking Stock: Ingredients for a Regional Food System
Friday, October 2
1:30-3:30
Tufts, Goddard Chapel, 3 The Green, Medford
Robin Alden (Penobscot East Resource Center), Brian Donahue (Brandeis University), Liz Morningstar (Boston Public Market), Bob Perschel (New England Forestry Foundation), and Greg Watson (Schumacher Center for New Economies) will share their visions for what the next decade looks like.
Moderator: Julian Agyeman (Tufts University)
Free and open to the public.
More information at http://ase.tufts.edu/anthropology/documents/events2015oct2.pdf
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Saturday, October 3
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Hubweek
Saturday, October 3 - Saturday, October 10
http://www.hubweek.org
Taking Stock: Ingredients for a Regional Food System
Friday, October 2
1:30-3:30
Tufts, Goddard Chapel, 3 The Green, Medford
Robin Alden (Penobscot East Resource Center), Brian Donahue (Brandeis University), Liz Morningstar (Boston Public Market), Bob Perschel (New England Forestry Foundation), and Greg Watson (Schumacher Center for New Economies) will share their visions for what the next decade looks like.
Moderator: Julian Agyeman (Tufts University)
Free and open to the public.
More information at http://ase.tufts.edu/anthropology/documents/events2015oct2.pdf
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Saturday, October 3
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Hubweek
Saturday, October 3 - Saturday, October 10
http://www.hubweek.org
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Let's Talk About Food Festival
Saturday, October 3
10:30am - 5pm
Copley Square, Boston
The fourth Let's Talk About Food Festival returns to Copley Square on Saturday, October 3—this year as part of the city's first HUB Week celebration. This festival lets participants dive into the most important food conversations and debates happening in society today. Through hands-on cooking demonstrations, edible gardens, and more, participants can also explore how to take advantage of the food around them by cooking better and eating healthier.
More information at http://www.boston.com/sponsored/extra/letstalkaboutfood/festival
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TEDxJamaicaPlain
Saturday, October 3
1-5pm
First Church of Jamaica Plain, 6 Elliot Street, Jamaica Plain
After-Party: 5-8pm
The Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain
After-party includes food, drink, music and games - and an opportunity to connect with speakers and attendees around the ideas shared at the day's event.
RSVP at http://www.tedxjamaicaplain.com/#!tedxjp-2015/c1tom
Cost: General Admission ($25)
This ticket grants admission to the TEDx event only, (1-5pm).
General Admission + After-Party ($35)
This all-access ticket includes admission to the TEDx event and After-Party
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Illuminus - Light, Sound, Spectacle
Saturday, October 3
6:30pm – 12:30am
Lansdowne Street, Boston
Lansdowne Street, Boston
More at http://www.illuminusboston.org
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Sunday, October 4
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Sunday, October 4
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3rd annual Boston Fermentation Festival
Sunday, October 4
10a-4p
Boston Public Market, 100 Hanover Street, Boston
Join fellow foodies and food enthusiasts at the third annual Boston Fermentation Festival on Sunday, October 4 in the brand new Boston Public Market located at 100 Hanover Street in downtown Boston. Come learn about fermentation and all the foods that are made through fermentation or come engage your taste buds as you sample the delicious fermented fare.
The free festival has something for everyone.
Beyond sauerkraut and kimchi, fermentation is used to build the flavor and nutrients in everything from wine and beer to cheese, yogurt and breads.
Local chefs, cheesemongers, distillers and researchers will be leading workshops and lectures, authors will be signing their fermentation related books, dive in on the fun and make your own sauerkraut at the Kraut Mob or explore the bacteria and microbes at the hands-on Culture Petting Zoo.
Sample fares from over two dozen exhibitors showcasing their delicious food and drink and don't miss the pickle-off contest where local chefs will show off their pickling creativity (and yes, the public will have an opportunity to taste the creations!)
Join us! For event updates follow our https://www.facebook.com/events/627204540715309/ or learn more at www.bostonferments.com and www.facebook.com/bostonferments
Boston Public Market, 100 Hanover Street, Boston
Join fellow foodies and food enthusiasts at the third annual Boston Fermentation Festival on Sunday, October 4 in the brand new Boston Public Market located at 100 Hanover Street in downtown Boston. Come learn about fermentation and all the foods that are made through fermentation or come engage your taste buds as you sample the delicious fermented fare.
The free festival has something for everyone.
Beyond sauerkraut and kimchi, fermentation is used to build the flavor and nutrients in everything from wine and beer to cheese, yogurt and breads.
Local chefs, cheesemongers, distillers and researchers will be leading workshops and lectures, authors will be signing their fermentation related books, dive in on the fun and make your own sauerkraut at the Kraut Mob or explore the bacteria and microbes at the hands-on Culture Petting Zoo.
Sample fares from over two dozen exhibitors showcasing their delicious food and drink and don't miss the pickle-off contest where local chefs will show off their pickling creativity (and yes, the public will have an opportunity to taste the creations!)
Join us! For event updates follow our https://www.facebook.com/events/627204540715309/ or learn more at www.bostonferments.com and www.facebook.com/bostonferments
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Fenway Forum: What's the Right Thing to Do?
WHEN Sun., Oct. 4, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Fenway Park, Yawkey Way, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hosted by HUBweek
SPEAKER(S) Professor Michael Sandel, Arianna Huffington, Yo-Yo Ma, Alexis Wilkinson
TICKET WEB LINK http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ticketing/hub_week.jsp
DETAILS Should we try to live forever? Make machines that can outthink us? Create perfect kids? Trade our privacy for convenience? HUBweek invites you to an unprecedented civic event, led by one of the world's leading political philosophers, in an iconic Boston setting: Fenway Park.
Harvard's Michael Sandel has been described as "the most relevant living professor" and a "rockstar moralist." (Newsweek) Join us as he leads an all-star panel of authors, artists, entertainers and other well-known public figures in a lively discussion-with audience participation- about some hard ethical questions and the meaning of citizenship today. The event will feature musical performances by the Silkroad Ensemble and a special guest, as well as previews of the coming HUBweek events.
LINK http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ticketing/hub_week.jsp
COST: $18.00 plus online service fees
Fenway Forum: What's the Right Thing to Do?
WHEN Sun., Oct. 4, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Fenway Park, Yawkey Way, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hosted by HUBweek
SPEAKER(S) Professor Michael Sandel, Arianna Huffington, Yo-Yo Ma, Alexis Wilkinson
TICKET WEB LINK http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ticketing/hub_week.jsp
DETAILS Should we try to live forever? Make machines that can outthink us? Create perfect kids? Trade our privacy for convenience? HUBweek invites you to an unprecedented civic event, led by one of the world's leading political philosophers, in an iconic Boston setting: Fenway Park.
Harvard's Michael Sandel has been described as "the most relevant living professor" and a "rockstar moralist." (Newsweek) Join us as he leads an all-star panel of authors, artists, entertainers and other well-known public figures in a lively discussion-with audience participation- about some hard ethical questions and the meaning of citizenship today. The event will feature musical performances by the Silkroad Ensemble and a special guest, as well as previews of the coming HUBweek events.
LINK http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ticketing/hub_week.jsp
COST: $18.00 plus online service fees
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Illuminus - Light, Sound, Spectacle
Sunday, October 4
6:30pm – 11:30am
Lansdowne Street, Boston
Sunday, October 4
6:30pm – 11:30am
Lansdowne Street, Boston
More at http://www.illuminusboston.org
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Monday, October 5
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Monday, October 5
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From Opioids to Alcohol: Designing an Effective Response to Addiction
Monday, October 5
Monday, October 5
8:00 am to 11:00 am
Wyndham Hotel, 5 Blossom Street, Boston
Wyndham Hotel, 5 Blossom Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.massgeneral.org/hubweek/Calendar/
In response to the epidemic of substance use disorders, clinicians, researchers, policy leaders, and community members convene in a highly interactive and hopeful discussion. Structured as a mini-hackathon, small groups will use case studies—and the latest neuroscience—to take a fresh look at building prevention, treatment and recovery management approaches that work.
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HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
Monday, October 5
9am - 1:30pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8gBM6lI9MKxGzr
Join faculty from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a wide-ranging discussion examining four major global health threats that are challenging the lives and health of people in the US and globally. Learn what new research and public policy solutions can begin to solve these threats on a large scale for millions of people.
Panel discussions will focus on: 1) Old and New Pandemics, ranging from AIDS, TB, and malaria to new threats including ebola , obesity and diabetes; 2) Social and Environmental Threats, ranging from air and water pollution to violence and war; 3) Poverty and Humanitarian Crises and their effects on health; and 4) Failing Health Systems as we seek to get more and better health care for the money we spend, both here in the US and internationally.
Please visit this page again for more information. Registration for attendance will be required. Register here.
Draft Agenda
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
David Hunter
9:15-10:15 AM Old and New Pandemics: Developing tools to reverse killer diseases
Dyann Wirth (Moderator), Flaminia Catteruccia, Sarah Fortune, Marc Lipsitch, Richard Marlink
10:15-11:15 AM Harmful Physical and Social Environments: Preventing Pollution, promoting healthy communities
Francesca Dominici (Moderator), Aaron Bernstein, David Christiani, Ichiro Kawachi, Eric Rimm
11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Poverty and Humanitarian Crises: Advancing health as a human right
Michael VanRooyen (Moderator), Theresa Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Jennifer Leaning
12:30-1:30 PM Failing Health Systems: Leading change, changing leaders
Ashish Jha (Moderator), Katherine Baicker, Peter Berman, Margaret Kruk
Visit the HUBWeek homepage for a comprehensive list of events.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-four-global-health-threats-four-global-health-opportunities#sthash.Mu3A4YmW.dpuf
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MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
Monday, October 5
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Joan Alexander (NWRA)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
Monday, October 5
12pm - 1:30pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, Room 324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harry Singh, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
Monday, October 5
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Michael Aaron Dennis, U.S. Naval War College
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
Monday, October 5
1:00 to 6:30 pm
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
A Call to Solve Hard Problems
Welcome by L. Rafael Reif, President, MIT and Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MIT Technology Review; Keynote by Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Solve Roundtable: CURE - Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare
Introduction by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor, MIT; Nobel Laureate
The CURE roundtable will undertake the challenge of how to leverage innovations in healthcare delivery and medical research to make care affordable and universally available. To deliver on this challenge, CURE seeks to impact near-term productivity improvement and longer-term radical innovation as a path to transform everything from fundamental research to delivery of patient services at all points of care. CURE will focus on five areas of research and healthcare innovation, tackling issues that include cancer, brain disorders, mitigating the risk of infectious disease, leveraging IT, and more.
Solve Roundtable: MAKE - Internet Access for All: A Civic Responsibility or a Corporate Opportunity
Introduction by Dr. Rodney Brooks, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Founder and Chairman, Rethink Robotics
The MAKE roundtable addresses the issues of basic infrastructure, the future of work, and new foundations for innovation in the digital economy. MAKE invites members of the greater Boston community who seek to better understand the social and economic factors that foster prosperity. Explore ways to reconcile the economic goals of more jobs, more automation, and greater efficiency. How will we create modern cities, using less energy and producing less waste? How can we make the tools required to usher in a new era of entrepreneurship? How can we spark a new era of business innovation that enables all who work to benefit equitably from the value they create?
These events are hosted in conjunction with HUBweek and as part of Solve, which will hold its inaugural meeting on the MIT campus October 5-8, 2015. Solve aims to inspire extraordinary people to work together to solve the world’s greatest challenges in the context of four content pillars- Learn, Cure, Fuel, and Make- with a common purpose: to make the world a better place. For more information about Solve, please visit solve.mit.edu.
This is a free event, please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
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Global Sustainability
Monday, October 5
4:15PM
Harvard, S010 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Han Seung-Soo, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water; former Prime Minister of South Korea, will lead a discussion on global sustainability. This event is sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Korea Institute.
Asia Center/Korea Institute Special Event
http://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/global-sustainability
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HUBweek: Four Global Health Threats, Four Global Health Opportunities
Monday, October 5
9am - 1:30pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8gBM6lI9MKxGzr
Join faculty from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a wide-ranging discussion examining four major global health threats that are challenging the lives and health of people in the US and globally. Learn what new research and public policy solutions can begin to solve these threats on a large scale for millions of people.
Panel discussions will focus on: 1) Old and New Pandemics, ranging from AIDS, TB, and malaria to new threats including ebola , obesity and diabetes; 2) Social and Environmental Threats, ranging from air and water pollution to violence and war; 3) Poverty and Humanitarian Crises and their effects on health; and 4) Failing Health Systems as we seek to get more and better health care for the money we spend, both here in the US and internationally.
Please visit this page again for more information. Registration for attendance will be required. Register here.
Draft Agenda
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
David Hunter
9:15-10:15 AM Old and New Pandemics: Developing tools to reverse killer diseases
Dyann Wirth (Moderator), Flaminia Catteruccia, Sarah Fortune, Marc Lipsitch, Richard Marlink
10:15-11:15 AM Harmful Physical and Social Environments: Preventing Pollution, promoting healthy communities
Francesca Dominici (Moderator), Aaron Bernstein, David Christiani, Ichiro Kawachi, Eric Rimm
11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Poverty and Humanitarian Crises: Advancing health as a human right
Michael VanRooyen (Moderator), Theresa Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Jennifer Leaning
12:30-1:30 PM Failing Health Systems: Leading change, changing leaders
Ashish Jha (Moderator), Katherine Baicker, Peter Berman, Margaret Kruk
Visit the HUBWeek homepage for a comprehensive list of events.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-four-global-health-threats-four-global-health-opportunities#sthash.Mu3A4YmW.dpuf
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MASS Seminar - Joan Alexander (NWRA)
Monday, October 5
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Joan Alexander (NWRA)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Financial Trading in Electricity Markets – Who Benefits and How?
Monday, October 5
12pm - 1:30pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, Room 324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harry Singh, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Memex takes Manhattan: Vannevar Bush's other History of the Future
Monday, October 5
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Michael Aaron Dennis, U.S. Naval War College
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Solve Convocation, Open Sessions, and Reception
Monday, October 5
1:00 to 6:30 pm
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
A Call to Solve Hard Problems
Welcome by L. Rafael Reif, President, MIT and Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MIT Technology Review; Keynote by Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Solve Roundtable: CURE - Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare
Introduction by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor, MIT; Nobel Laureate
The CURE roundtable will undertake the challenge of how to leverage innovations in healthcare delivery and medical research to make care affordable and universally available. To deliver on this challenge, CURE seeks to impact near-term productivity improvement and longer-term radical innovation as a path to transform everything from fundamental research to delivery of patient services at all points of care. CURE will focus on five areas of research and healthcare innovation, tackling issues that include cancer, brain disorders, mitigating the risk of infectious disease, leveraging IT, and more.
Solve Roundtable: MAKE - Internet Access for All: A Civic Responsibility or a Corporate Opportunity
Introduction by Dr. Rodney Brooks, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Founder and Chairman, Rethink Robotics
The MAKE roundtable addresses the issues of basic infrastructure, the future of work, and new foundations for innovation in the digital economy. MAKE invites members of the greater Boston community who seek to better understand the social and economic factors that foster prosperity. Explore ways to reconcile the economic goals of more jobs, more automation, and greater efficiency. How will we create modern cities, using less energy and producing less waste? How can we make the tools required to usher in a new era of entrepreneurship? How can we spark a new era of business innovation that enables all who work to benefit equitably from the value they create?
These events are hosted in conjunction with HUBweek and as part of Solve, which will hold its inaugural meeting on the MIT campus October 5-8, 2015. Solve aims to inspire extraordinary people to work together to solve the world’s greatest challenges in the context of four content pillars- Learn, Cure, Fuel, and Make- with a common purpose: to make the world a better place. For more information about Solve, please visit solve.mit.edu.
This is a free event, please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1741236
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Global Sustainability
Monday, October 5
4:15PM
Harvard, S010 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Han Seung-Soo, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water; former Prime Minister of South Korea, will lead a discussion on global sustainability. This event is sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Korea Institute.
Asia Center/Korea Institute Special Event
http://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/global-sustainability
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How does the environment affect our health?
Monday, October 5
6 pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
John D. Spengler, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Joseph Allen, Program Leader, Healthy Buildings, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Julia Africa, Program Leader, Nature, Health, & the Built Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The world is becoming increasingly urban. Factors such as overcrowding, air pollution, excessive noise, and lack of access to nature contribute to the emotional and physical stress of urban life. As cities continue to grow, there is a pressing need to design buildings, neighborhoods, and common spaces to foster a vital connection with nature and promote human health and the health of the planet. The speakers will share current research about environmental impacts on health and discuss new technologies, initiatives, and policies designed to promote human well-being.
Panel Discussion. Free and open to the public.
Presented in collaboration with the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/how-does-environment-affect-our-health#sthash.hXqJLHIz.dpuf
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, October 5
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
Andrea Wulf reveals in her new book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today. Though almost forgotten today, his name lingers everywhere from the Humboldt Current to the Humboldt penguin. Humboldt was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. Wulf traces Humboldt’s influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution, ecology, conservation, art and literature. In The Invention of Nature, Wulf brings this lost hero to science and the forgotten father of environmentalism back to life. This event is free for members, $20 for non-members. There will be a reception at 5:30pm. Sponsored by The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
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Monday, October 5
6 pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
John D. Spengler, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Joseph Allen, Program Leader, Healthy Buildings, Center for Health and the Global Environment and Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Julia Africa, Program Leader, Nature, Health, & the Built Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The world is becoming increasingly urban. Factors such as overcrowding, air pollution, excessive noise, and lack of access to nature contribute to the emotional and physical stress of urban life. As cities continue to grow, there is a pressing need to design buildings, neighborhoods, and common spaces to foster a vital connection with nature and promote human health and the health of the planet. The speakers will share current research about environmental impacts on health and discuss new technologies, initiatives, and policies designed to promote human well-being.
Panel Discussion. Free and open to the public.
Presented in collaboration with the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/how-does-environment-affect-our-health#sthash.hXqJLHIz.dpuf
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, October 5
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
Andrea Wulf reveals in her new book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today. Though almost forgotten today, his name lingers everywhere from the Humboldt Current to the Humboldt penguin. Humboldt was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. Wulf traces Humboldt’s influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution, ecology, conservation, art and literature. In The Invention of Nature, Wulf brings this lost hero to science and the forgotten father of environmentalism back to life. This event is free for members, $20 for non-members. There will be a reception at 5:30pm. Sponsored by The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Monday, October 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/eileen_pollack/
Harvard Book Store and WAM: Women, Action & the Media welcome EILEEN POLLACK, author of the bestselling book Breaking and Entering, for a discussion of her latest book, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club.
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist.
Years later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer’s institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades.
Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates, as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, The Only Woman in the Room is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women—and minorities—in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women’s experiences in a way that simple data can’t, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face.
The Only Woman in the Room shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit, and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.
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Monday, October 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/eileen_pollack/
Harvard Book Store and WAM: Women, Action & the Media welcome EILEEN POLLACK, author of the bestselling book Breaking and Entering, for a discussion of her latest book, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club.
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist.
Years later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer’s institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades.
Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates, as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, The Only Woman in the Room is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women—and minorities—in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women’s experiences in a way that simple data can’t, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face.
The Only Woman in the Room shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit, and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.
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Art. Science. Learning.
WHEN Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Boston,
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops, Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Ed Portal
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS What happens when we bring art and science together in the classroom: their approaches, their values, the learning potentials inherent in both? What is it like for a student to combine approaches drawn from the arts and sciences either in a classroom activity or in their individual work? What is it like for an instructor to develop learning experiences that are similarly cross-cutting and interdisciplinary? The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Harvard Ed Portal hosts an evening of interactive demonstrations and discussion exploring the remarkable power of art and science brought together in the classroom. Come explore and experience a multimedia happening that spans the perspectives of instructors, students, artists and scientists.
LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-science-learning-tickets-18523386949
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Tuesday, October 6
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Crowds & Climate Conference
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 am - 7:30 pm
MIT, W20-202, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
WHEN Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Boston,
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops, Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Ed Portal
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS What happens when we bring art and science together in the classroom: their approaches, their values, the learning potentials inherent in both? What is it like for a student to combine approaches drawn from the arts and sciences either in a classroom activity or in their individual work? What is it like for an instructor to develop learning experiences that are similarly cross-cutting and interdisciplinary? The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Harvard Ed Portal hosts an evening of interactive demonstrations and discussion exploring the remarkable power of art and science brought together in the classroom. Come explore and experience a multimedia happening that spans the perspectives of instructors, students, artists and scientists.
LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-science-learning-tickets-18523386949
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Tuesday, October 6
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Crowds & Climate Conference
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 am - 7:30 pm
MIT, W20-202, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Cost: $0-$50
The MIT Climate CoLab (www.climatecolab.org) is an online community of over 40,000 people, where experts and non-experts work together to develop proposals for how to address climate change.
Join us at Crowds & Climate, the Climate CoLab's event on the MIT campus, where we bring together leaders from businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and communities around the world to advance an online global problem-solving effort to more effectively tackle climate change.
We will celebrate the innovative proposals that emerged from the 2015 Climate CoLab contests. These winners will present how their work tackles specific climate change challenges and will engage with leaders in the field to help accelerate their ideas. Presentations will be followed by a highly interactive workshop, where you can meet and contribute to these winners yourself, as well as engage in conversations with other attendees about how the world's experts and citizens can work together to solve the complex, complicated problem of climate change.
Sessions will be followed by Solve's roundtable panel on fuel, where world-class thought leaders will discuss the future of energy, food and water.
Attendees are also invited to join the Solve opening session on Monday afternoon, as well as the other events that are a part of HUBweek, a week-long city-wide festival celebrating ideas and innovation in the Boston area.
Student scholarships are available.
Web site: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0-$50
Tickets: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Sponsor(s): Climate CoLab, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Energy Initiative, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Sustainability@Sloan
For more information, contact: Richard Hill
conference@climatecolab.org
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Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Kristen Soltis Anderson is co-founder of Echelon Insights, an opinion research, data analysis and digital intelligence firm. She is author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America
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State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
Tuesday, October 6
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast at 12:00 pm
In September 2002 the Berkman Center helped launch the RSS 2.0 spec, paving the way for the subscription-based audio downloading services that make podcasts work.
In the 13 years since, podcasts have become the default news and entertainment option of choice for millions, launching audio producing careers, companies, and an entire industry, and upending traditional media models.
Join us for a discussion with pioneering figures in the field of podcasting and Internet audio to talk about how podcasting emerged, and what trends could be determining its future.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists, location, and how to RSVP!
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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Cost: $0-$50
The MIT Climate CoLab (www.climatecolab.org) is an online community of over 40,000 people, where experts and non-experts work together to develop proposals for how to address climate change.
Join us at Crowds & Climate, the Climate CoLab's event on the MIT campus, where we bring together leaders from businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and communities around the world to advance an online global problem-solving effort to more effectively tackle climate change.
We will celebrate the innovative proposals that emerged from the 2015 Climate CoLab contests. These winners will present how their work tackles specific climate change challenges and will engage with leaders in the field to help accelerate their ideas. Presentations will be followed by a highly interactive workshop, where you can meet and contribute to these winners yourself, as well as engage in conversations with other attendees about how the world's experts and citizens can work together to solve the complex, complicated problem of climate change.
Sessions will be followed by Solve's roundtable panel on fuel, where world-class thought leaders will discuss the future of energy, food and water.
Attendees are also invited to join the Solve opening session on Monday afternoon, as well as the other events that are a part of HUBweek, a week-long city-wide festival celebrating ideas and innovation in the Boston area.
Student scholarships are available.
Web site: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0-$50
Tickets: http://climatecolab.org/conference2015/register
Sponsor(s): Climate CoLab, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Energy Initiative, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Sustainability@Sloan
For more information, contact: Richard Hill
conference@climatecolab.org
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Kristen Soltis Anderson - The Selfie Vote: Can Republicans Win Millennials in 2016?
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Kristen Soltis Anderson is co-founder of Echelon Insights, an opinion research, data analysis and digital intelligence firm. She is author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America
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State of the Podcast, 2015: How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go
Tuesday, October 6
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/podcast at 12:00 pm
In September 2002 the Berkman Center helped launch the RSS 2.0 spec, paving the way for the subscription-based audio downloading services that make podcasts work.
In the 13 years since, podcasts have become the default news and entertainment option of choice for millions, launching audio producing careers, companies, and an entire industry, and upending traditional media models.
Join us for a discussion with pioneering figures in the field of podcasting and Internet audio to talk about how podcasting emerged, and what trends could be determining its future.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists, location, and how to RSVP!
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
Tuesday, October 6
Tuesday, October 6
12:00-1:30 PM
Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200 North, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion moderated by Arn Howitt, PCL Faculty Co-Director and Executive Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and featuring:
Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Bartel Van De Walle, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
Tina Comes, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, Department for ICT, University of Agder (Norway)
Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200 North, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion moderated by Arn Howitt, PCL Faculty Co-Director and Executive Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and featuring:
Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Bartel Van De Walle, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
Tina Comes, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, Department for ICT, University of Agder (Norway)
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Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and HDS Student Association
CONTACT rsl@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Casper ter Kuile is a fourth year joint degree MDiv and Master of Public Policy student. Working toward UU ordination, Casper's work is at the intersection of the sacred and the secular, particularly the growing number of millennial non-religious communities.
This presentation is part of a series co-sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and the HDS Student Association, "Practicing Divinity: HDS Students Sharing Wisdom on Spiritual Practices," consisting of four, one-hour informal lunchtime presentations/workshops.
The series will feature HDS students sharing some of their expertise, research, and wisdom about a particular spiritual practice with other students, faculty, and staff, and each presentation will briefly highlight a different spiritual practice.
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Singing as a Spiritual Practice with Casper ter Kuile
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and HDS Student Association
CONTACT rsl@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Casper ter Kuile is a fourth year joint degree MDiv and Master of Public Policy student. Working toward UU ordination, Casper's work is at the intersection of the sacred and the secular, particularly the growing number of millennial non-religious communities.
This presentation is part of a series co-sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and the HDS Student Association, "Practicing Divinity: HDS Students Sharing Wisdom on Spiritual Practices," consisting of four, one-hour informal lunchtime presentations/workshops.
The series will feature HDS students sharing some of their expertise, research, and wisdom about a particular spiritual practice with other students, faculty, and staff, and each presentation will briefly highlight a different spiritual practice.
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A Networked Market for Information
Tuesday, October 6
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nageeb Ali (Penn State)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series: Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Impacts of air-sea and boundary layer fluxes on the intensity and structure of TCs
Tuesday, October 6
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
Tuesday, October 6
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
A. Sankarasubramanian, Professor, North Carolina State University, (Tufts PhD)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Synthesis on National Water Use : Spatial Patterns and Controls
Tuesday, October 6
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
A. Sankarasubramanian, Professor, North Carolina State University, (Tufts PhD)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Solve: Fuel Roundtable
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Technology Review, Office of the President, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Technology Review, Office of the President, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
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The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Gym, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) David Grossman
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Arrangements for the appearance of David Grossman made through Greater Talent Network, Inc., NYC.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/writing-jerusalem
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The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman, "Facts of Life and Death"
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Gym, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) David Grossman
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Arrangements for the appearance of David Grossman made through Greater Talent Network, Inc., NYC.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/writing-jerusalem
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e4Dev: Learnings for "Energy-as-a-Service" Business Models with Examples from the Health Sector
Tuesday, October 6
Tuesday, October 6
6:00pm-7:00pm
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Anjali Sastry, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Driving Ourselves Happy
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/driving-ourselves-happy-tickets-17456696449
Nancy Etcoff, PhD, cognitive researcher, looks at the science of happiness and beauty, how we work to achieve it and its surprising effect on our bodies. She is instructor of "The Science of Happiness" at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being at Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of Survival of the Prettiest.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
Nancy Etcoff, PhD, cognitive researcher, looks at the science of happiness and beauty, how we work to achieve it and its surprising effect on our bodies. She is instructor of "The Science of Happiness" at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being at Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of Survival of the Prettiest.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
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BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-oct-6-clean-energy-renewables-tickets-18571587117
$10 - $12
The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) is excited to continue our fall event series with a focus on clean energy and renewables. Interest and investment in this industry continues to grow globally and there are numerous initiatives in the US and our own back yard to explore together. With our guest speakers, we will discuss where the different types of renewable energy are in their evolution, outstanding barriers to scaling implementation and adoption, the regulatory environment, the innovative approaches of companies and organizations leading the way to a cleaner future, and what we can each do as consumers and professionals.
Speakers:
Tom Kinneman, VP & Chief Operating Office, North Shore InnoVentures
NSIV is a non-profit, public/private partnership, focused on turning breakthrough technologies into thriving businesses. As part of the senior leadership team, Tom’s responsibilities include establishing and managing facilities for the Cleantech InnoVenture Center and the Biotech Innoventure Center. He is also an advisor for selected portfolio companies.
Mark Vasu, Executive Vice President, Greentown Labs
As Executive Vice President, Mark Vasu leads and supports revenue-generating activities that sustain and grow Greentown Labs. This includes managing corporate sponsors, partnerships and overseeing the member pipeline. He leads the effort to build the brand, visibility and partnerships. He also consults to and supports a national network of cleantech incubators, helping to build the ecosystem given Greentown Labs’ position as the nation’s largest clean tech incubator.
Prior to Greentown Labs, Mark was the founder of perCent Inc., a software company focused on reducing personal energy use and spending. He also founded and led CMV Marketing, a marketing and sustainable strategy-consulting firm for social-purpose companies and high-performing social enterprises.
He served in marketing and business development leadership roles for three high growth social enterprises: City Year, ChildrenFirst (acquired by Bright Horizons), and Jumpstart.
Mark was on the founding steering committee, co-chair, and ran the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon (2012, 2013, 2014). He has served on the Board of uAspire, a Boston based education non-profit from 2007 – 2015. Mark holds a BA Economics from Duke University.
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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
The Bell In Hand Tavern, 45 Union Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-october-2015-tickets-16129832764
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!
Join #TechHubTuesday at TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community. Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for a beer and networking
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FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Needs a location
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Climate-Action-Business-Association-Meetup/events/224772405/
Firstly, we are using this meetup to garner support and find the right audience to have these discussions. Also, we will be polling our members to find a good time that works for everyone! Lastly, look for our guest speakers, who will share a quick success story from a climate action or sustainability project.
More at http://cabaus.org
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Soil: The Skin of the Earth
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Andrew Kurtz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University.
2015 is the International Year of Soil, and soil expert Professor Kurtz is sharing his expertise with the public. We take soil for granted, but it is the indispensable "skin" of the Earth, a vital component of the global ecosystem, and it needs some respect. Dr. Kurtz explains how soils evolve, diversify and enable plant and animal life. And why there is increasing concern today about threats to soil, the "pedosphere".
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BASG Oct 6: Clean Energy & Renewables
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-oct-6-clean-energy-renewables-tickets-18571587117
$10 - $12
The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) is excited to continue our fall event series with a focus on clean energy and renewables. Interest and investment in this industry continues to grow globally and there are numerous initiatives in the US and our own back yard to explore together. With our guest speakers, we will discuss where the different types of renewable energy are in their evolution, outstanding barriers to scaling implementation and adoption, the regulatory environment, the innovative approaches of companies and organizations leading the way to a cleaner future, and what we can each do as consumers and professionals.
Speakers:
Tom Kinneman, VP & Chief Operating Office, North Shore InnoVentures
NSIV is a non-profit, public/private partnership, focused on turning breakthrough technologies into thriving businesses. As part of the senior leadership team, Tom’s responsibilities include establishing and managing facilities for the Cleantech InnoVenture Center and the Biotech Innoventure Center. He is also an advisor for selected portfolio companies.
Mark Vasu, Executive Vice President, Greentown Labs
As Executive Vice President, Mark Vasu leads and supports revenue-generating activities that sustain and grow Greentown Labs. This includes managing corporate sponsors, partnerships and overseeing the member pipeline. He leads the effort to build the brand, visibility and partnerships. He also consults to and supports a national network of cleantech incubators, helping to build the ecosystem given Greentown Labs’ position as the nation’s largest clean tech incubator.
Prior to Greentown Labs, Mark was the founder of perCent Inc., a software company focused on reducing personal energy use and spending. He also founded and led CMV Marketing, a marketing and sustainable strategy-consulting firm for social-purpose companies and high-performing social enterprises.
He served in marketing and business development leadership roles for three high growth social enterprises: City Year, ChildrenFirst (acquired by Bright Horizons), and Jumpstart.
Mark was on the founding steering committee, co-chair, and ran the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon (2012, 2013, 2014). He has served on the Board of uAspire, a Boston based education non-profit from 2007 – 2015. Mark holds a BA Economics from Duke University.
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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - October 2015
Tuesday, October 6
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
The Bell In Hand Tavern, 45 Union Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-october-2015-tickets-16129832764
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!
Join #TechHubTuesday at TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community. Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for a beer and networking
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FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Needs a location
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Climate-Action-Business-Association-Meetup/events/224772405/
Firstly, we are using this meetup to garner support and find the right audience to have these discussions. Also, we will be polling our members to find a good time that works for everyone! Lastly, look for our guest speakers, who will share a quick success story from a climate action or sustainability project.
More at http://cabaus.org
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Soil: The Skin of the Earth
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Andrew Kurtz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University.
2015 is the International Year of Soil, and soil expert Professor Kurtz is sharing his expertise with the public. We take soil for granted, but it is the indispensable "skin" of the Earth, a vital component of the global ecosystem, and it needs some respect. Dr. Kurtz explains how soils evolve, diversify and enable plant and animal life. And why there is increasing concern today about threats to soil, the "pedosphere".
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World Hunger: 10 Myths
Tuesday, October 6
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store, Small Planet Institute, and Food First welcome bestselling author of Diet for a Small Planet Francis Moore Lappé for a discussion of World Hunger: 10 Myths, co-authored by Joseph Collins.
From best-selling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century’s definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, "Why hunger despite an abundance of food?" Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions—from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more.
Brimming with little-known but life-changing examples of solutions to hunger worldwide, this myth-busting book argues that sustainable agriculture can feed the world, that we can end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s people, and that most in the Global North have more in common with hungry people than they thought. For novices and scholars alike, World Hunger: Ten Myths will inspire a whole new generation of hunger-fighters.
“World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense, and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action.”—Noam Chomsky
Tuesday, October 6
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store, Small Planet Institute, and Food First welcome bestselling author of Diet for a Small Planet Francis Moore Lappé for a discussion of World Hunger: 10 Myths, co-authored by Joseph Collins.
From best-selling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century’s definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, "Why hunger despite an abundance of food?" Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions—from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more.
Brimming with little-known but life-changing examples of solutions to hunger worldwide, this myth-busting book argues that sustainable agriculture can feed the world, that we can end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s people, and that most in the Global North have more in common with hungry people than they thought. For novices and scholars alike, World Hunger: Ten Myths will inspire a whole new generation of hunger-fighters.
“World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense, and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action.”—Noam Chomsky
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Media Storytelling
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by HUBweek and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
DETAILS Join Boston’s best chroniclers of innovation for an evening of unforgettable storytelling at historic Faneuil Hall.
This signature HUBweek event will feature the city’s best journalists, authors and innovators offering a behind-the-scenes look at stories that originated in Boston and reverberated around the world.
From best-selling author Ben Mezrich’s gripping tale of the Harvard undergrad who went on to help found Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, to Tom Ashbrook’s amazing story of dancing in the living room of legendary MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, this is a rare chance to hear the stories-behind-the-stories about Boston’s most renowned innovators.
Hosted by author Steve Almond, this intimate HUBweek event features Ashbrook, the host of the nationally syndicated radio program On Point, and Mezrich, the best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires, the book on which the film The Social Network was based, as well as the head of MIT’s Media Lab – the incomparable Joi Ito – Kara Miller, host and executive editor of the nationally syndicated radio show Innovation Hub, the award-winning Boston Globe technology columnist Hiawatha Bray, and Laurie Penny, feminist, journalist and author writing on social justice, pop culture, gender & digital politics.
LINK http://hubweek.org/events/media-storytelling-at-faneuil-hall
Media Storytelling
WHEN Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by HUBweek and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
DETAILS Join Boston’s best chroniclers of innovation for an evening of unforgettable storytelling at historic Faneuil Hall.
This signature HUBweek event will feature the city’s best journalists, authors and innovators offering a behind-the-scenes look at stories that originated in Boston and reverberated around the world.
From best-selling author Ben Mezrich’s gripping tale of the Harvard undergrad who went on to help found Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, to Tom Ashbrook’s amazing story of dancing in the living room of legendary MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, this is a rare chance to hear the stories-behind-the-stories about Boston’s most renowned innovators.
Hosted by author Steve Almond, this intimate HUBweek event features Ashbrook, the host of the nationally syndicated radio program On Point, and Mezrich, the best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires, the book on which the film The Social Network was based, as well as the head of MIT’s Media Lab – the incomparable Joi Ito – Kara Miller, host and executive editor of the nationally syndicated radio show Innovation Hub, the award-winning Boston Globe technology columnist Hiawatha Bray, and Laurie Penny, feminist, journalist and author writing on social justice, pop culture, gender & digital politics.
LINK http://hubweek.org/events/media-storytelling-at-faneuil-hall
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Wednesday, October 7
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Libraries: the Next Generation: Drawing on our past, and creating new resources for our future
Wednesday October 7
10:00am-11:30am
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/libraries#RSVP
In 2013, the Berkman Center helped to launch the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. This online portal delivers incredible resources and artifacts from all over America to the fingertips of students, teachers, scholars, and the public at large. Meanwhile at Harvard and many universities across America, libraries of all kinds are negotiating the opportunities of the digital with enterprise, ingenuity, and experimentation.
Join us for an exploration of how libraries are drawing on their past, and using technology to create new resources for scholarship and education.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists and how to RSVP.
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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Wednesday, October 7
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Libraries: the Next Generation: Drawing on our past, and creating new resources for our future
Wednesday October 7
10:00am-11:30am
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/10/libraries#RSVP
In 2013, the Berkman Center helped to launch the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. This online portal delivers incredible resources and artifacts from all over America to the fingertips of students, teachers, scholars, and the public at large. Meanwhile at Harvard and many universities across America, libraries of all kinds are negotiating the opportunities of the digital with enterprise, ingenuity, and experimentation.
Join us for an exploration of how libraries are drawing on their past, and using technology to create new resources for scholarship and education.
Stay tuned to this page for more information on panelists and how to RSVP.
This event is part of Boston's Hubweek.
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The Rise of Geekpolitik: How Cyber Impacts Geopolitics and International Security
Wednesday, October 7
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Chris Bronk, University of Houston's College of Technology
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series: Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data
Wednesday, October 7
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Laura Haas, IBM
Event Abstract: Today, businesses and scientists alike struggle to get to the value in their data. Their challenges include finding and gaining access to the data they need, wrangling the data into a form they can use, and setting up the systems and software to be used all before even tackling the analysis. With no coordination, multiple groups may re-do the heavy lifting to ready the data for use, or struggle to figure out what data is already available. Further, the skills required to get from raw data to insight span a broad range from systems to data management, optimization, statistics, algorithms, story-telling and visualization. Rarely can you find such multi-disciplinary expertise in one team it is typically scattered across multiple business units or departments.
The IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab is a unique, collaborative environment specifically designed to facilitate complex analytic projects by tackling these challenges. One of the key elements of the Lab is the notion of a data lake, accessed through an easy-to-use, collaborative tool called LabBook, which, together with new practices such as datastorming, helps bridge the gaps between experts from different disciplines. We will highlight some successful applications of these technologies, from diverse fields such as medical research, food safety, social media analytics and predictive equipment maintenance.
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Laura Haas, IBM
Event Abstract: Today, businesses and scientists alike struggle to get to the value in their data. Their challenges include finding and gaining access to the data they need, wrangling the data into a form they can use, and setting up the systems and software to be used all before even tackling the analysis. With no coordination, multiple groups may re-do the heavy lifting to ready the data for use, or struggle to figure out what data is already available. Further, the skills required to get from raw data to insight span a broad range from systems to data management, optimization, statistics, algorithms, story-telling and visualization. Rarely can you find such multi-disciplinary expertise in one team it is typically scattered across multiple business units or departments.
The IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab is a unique, collaborative environment specifically designed to facilitate complex analytic projects by tackling these challenges. One of the key elements of the Lab is the notion of a data lake, accessed through an easy-to-use, collaborative tool called LabBook, which, together with new practices such as datastorming, helps bridge the gaps between experts from different disciplines. We will highlight some successful applications of these technologies, from diverse fields such as medical research, food safety, social media analytics and predictive equipment maintenance.
BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series
The goal of the MIT Big Data Initiative is to identify and develop new technologies needed to solve next generation data challenges that will require the ability to scale well beyond what today's computing platforms, algorithms, and methods can provide. We want to enable people to leverage Big Data by developing systems and platforms that are reusable and scalable across multiple application domains.
Web site: http://bit.ly/1USOx49
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL Alliance Program
For more information, contact: Jessica Gibson
617- 324-7302
industry@csail.mit.edu
The goal of the MIT Big Data Initiative is to identify and develop new technologies needed to solve next generation data challenges that will require the ability to scale well beyond what today's computing platforms, algorithms, and methods can provide. We want to enable people to leverage Big Data by developing systems and platforms that are reusable and scalable across multiple application domains.
Web site: http://bit.ly/1USOx49
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL Alliance Program
For more information, contact: Jessica Gibson
617- 324-7302
industry@csail.mit.edu
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HUBweek: Managing the Impact of Climate Change
Wednesday, October 7
4–6 pm
Harvard, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://environment.harvard.edu/hubweek
We know climate change is rapidly altering our environment with a momentum that is now imposed on future generations. But we have the tools to make it better.
Join a panel of industry leaders, and local experts to examine the disruptive technologies, renewable energies, and broad political policies that are potential pathways for effective action and meaningful solutions that can help mitigate the impact of climate change. Look at the obstacles to change, including the challenge to communicate the science behind climate change and the impact of climate change beyond politics to view the problem from a risk perspective. See examples of working collaborations between universities, public and private sectors, and NGO’s, who are together, playing a critical role in the discovery of theoretical and actionable solutions to climate change through research, the implementation of educational programs, and community engagement.
This is a free event.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-managing-impact-climate-change#sthash.wsD98Wds.dpuf
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Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
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HUBweek: Managing the Impact of Climate Change
Wednesday, October 7
4–6 pm
Harvard, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://environment.harvard.edu/hubweek
We know climate change is rapidly altering our environment with a momentum that is now imposed on future generations. But we have the tools to make it better.
Join a panel of industry leaders, and local experts to examine the disruptive technologies, renewable energies, and broad political policies that are potential pathways for effective action and meaningful solutions that can help mitigate the impact of climate change. Look at the obstacles to change, including the challenge to communicate the science behind climate change and the impact of climate change beyond politics to view the problem from a risk perspective. See examples of working collaborations between universities, public and private sectors, and NGO’s, who are together, playing a critical role in the discovery of theoretical and actionable solutions to climate change through research, the implementation of educational programs, and community engagement.
This is a free event.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/hubweek-managing-impact-climate-change#sthash.wsD98Wds.dpuf
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Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
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Solve: Learn Roundtable
Wednesday, October 7
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E40, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E40, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Office of the President, Technology Review, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
SOLVE
Solve is a cross-disciplinary leadership program led by MIT to convene the change agents who are addressing the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy. Solve takes a pragmatic and collaborate approach that brings urgency to these difficult problems, examines essential questions and drives consensus to discover what we know and need to know in order to set a course to a solution. Through a process of continual evaluation and re-calibration, the program seeks to drive substantial and positive action to solve these real-world problems.
Solve will convene its inaugural meeting October 5-8 on the MIT Campus, inviting 350 business, research, philanthropic, and policy leaders who share MIT's commitment to addressing these global issues. Solve will take place during Boston's HUBweek, as city-wide festival that celebrates the innovation, creative arts, and culture of the city. Ticketholders may join the public sessions of Solve.
Web site: solve.mit.edu/MITregistration
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): Office of the President, Technology Review, HUBweek
For more information, contact: Solve
solve@mit.edu
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Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Showcase and Celebration
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
WHEN Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Information Technology, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Innovation Lab
DETAILS Harvard Innovation Lab, a resource for fostering vibrant, sustainable, disruptive, and global ventures, will host an Open House and Startup Showcase. Successful ventures incubated at the Innovation Lab will return to demonstrate their product, and discuss their work. The greater Boston community is invited to learn about the latest trends launching into the tech industry, the resources needed for moving an idea into market, the balance of investing in research and development, and the importance of mentoring. Join entrepreneurs and innovators for lively Open House focused on sharing big ideas, and fostering new ones.
LINK https://i-lab.harvard.edu/calendar-event/hub-week-open-house-and-showcase
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Breaking the "SynBio Barrier"
Wednesday, October 7
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Pamela Silver, Peter Carr
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a series of discussions about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the conversation while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Dispatches From The Front Lines of Climate Justice
Wednesday, October 7
7 pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue
Journalist and author Wen Stephenson discusses his new book What We’re Fighting For Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice. Stephenson provides a candid look at some of the “new American radicals” who are risking everything to build a stronger climate justice movement. What motivates them? How can individual, local actions really affect a larger global movement?
Come and learn more or take part in the dialogue with others.
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org/?p=2894
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Dispatches From The Front Lines of Climate Justice
Wednesday, October 7
7 pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue
Journalist and author Wen Stephenson discusses his new book What We’re Fighting For Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice. Stephenson provides a candid look at some of the “new American radicals” who are risking everything to build a stronger climate justice movement. What motivates them? How can individual, local actions really affect a larger global movement?
Come and learn more or take part in the dialogue with others.
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org/?p=2894
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Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
Wednesday, October 7
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Wednesday, October 7
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes editor of Boston University-based journal AGNI SVEN BIRKERTS for a discussion of his latest book, Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age.
In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art—the very cultural activities that make us human.
After two decades of rampant change, Birkerts has allowed a degree of everyday digital technology into his life. He refuses to use a smartphone, but communicates via e-mail and spends some time reading online. In Changing the Subject, he examines the changes that he observes in himself and others—the distraction when reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of "hive" behaviors. "An unprecedented shift is underway," he argues, and "this transformation is dramatically accelerated and more psychologically formative than any previous technological innovation." He finds solace in engagement with art, particularly literature, and he brilliantly describes the countering energy available to us through acts of sustained attention, even as he worries that our increasingly mediated existences are not conducive to creativity.
It is impossible to read Changing the Subject without coming away with a renewed sense of what is lost by our wholesale acceptance of digital innovation and what is regained when we immerse ourselves in a good book.
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The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana: Marijuana's effects on physiology, health, and society
Wednesday, October 7
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, October 8
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Undersea Research and the Future of Science
Thursday, October
10am - Noon
Harvard University
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvardundersea-research-and-the-future-of-science-tickets-18501263778
***Due to the limited number of spots for this adventure, exact location will be shared with those who are accepted to join HUBweek and Ideas in Action on this adventure.***
Explore the underground laboratory of Dr. Peter Gurguis, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In his labyrinth of underwater discoveries, meet the creatures that sparked animators' imagination for Finding Nemo. Shed some light on modern oceanographic research and how the deep sea and its denizens play a critical role in supporting all life on Earth. Hear how renewable energy is finally becoming competitive with fossil-fuel sources. Finally, find out how discoveries in natural ecosystems are being used to treat and cure disease.
Though the deep sea represents the vast majority of our biosphere, we have literally seen less of our ocean floor than we’ve seen of the surface of Mars. Nonetheless, the deep sea is a critical part of our ecosystem, and the Girguis lab at Harvard University is committed to understanding how animals and microbes make a living in the deep sea. Their lab features some of the best-preserved deep sea specimens, a live high-definition video feed from the sea floor, one of the world’s few deep sea simulation facilities, and novel deep sea sensors developed in the lab. A visit to the lab will include all of these aspects, and ends with a visit to their underground research facility, which is currently under renovation. Notably, the Girguis lab is also working towards developing a “maker space” for ocean science instruments in this underground lair, and Professor Girguis is looking to get your thoughts on how to establish and operate such a space. A tour of the Girguis lab takes you down into the deep, dark sea…right here in your own town.
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Report from the front line
Thursday, October 8
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Carolyn Kirk
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The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana: Marijuana's effects on physiology, health, and society
Wednesday, October 7
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, October 8
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Undersea Research and the Future of Science
Thursday, October
10am - Noon
Harvard University
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvardundersea-research-and-the-future-of-science-tickets-18501263778
***Due to the limited number of spots for this adventure, exact location will be shared with those who are accepted to join HUBweek and Ideas in Action on this adventure.***
Explore the underground laboratory of Dr. Peter Gurguis, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In his labyrinth of underwater discoveries, meet the creatures that sparked animators' imagination for Finding Nemo. Shed some light on modern oceanographic research and how the deep sea and its denizens play a critical role in supporting all life on Earth. Hear how renewable energy is finally becoming competitive with fossil-fuel sources. Finally, find out how discoveries in natural ecosystems are being used to treat and cure disease.
Though the deep sea represents the vast majority of our biosphere, we have literally seen less of our ocean floor than we’ve seen of the surface of Mars. Nonetheless, the deep sea is a critical part of our ecosystem, and the Girguis lab at Harvard University is committed to understanding how animals and microbes make a living in the deep sea. Their lab features some of the best-preserved deep sea specimens, a live high-definition video feed from the sea floor, one of the world’s few deep sea simulation facilities, and novel deep sea sensors developed in the lab. A visit to the lab will include all of these aspects, and ends with a visit to their underground research facility, which is currently under renovation. Notably, the Girguis lab is also working towards developing a “maker space” for ocean science instruments in this underground lair, and Professor Girguis is looking to get your thoughts on how to establish and operate such a space. A tour of the Girguis lab takes you down into the deep, dark sea…right here in your own town.
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Report from the front line
Thursday, October 8
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Carolyn Kirk
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Dissolve Unconference: A Summit at MIT on Inequality
Thursday, October 8
1:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building 32, In SOLVE Pavilion, on lawn near Stata, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join a discussion on inequality featuring faculty and students from MIT and Harvard. This unconference asks: How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today's inequalities? Summit features 10-minute ignite sessions (talk/discussion) on central topics of our time: climate change; civic media; black lives matter; gender inequality; society and economy from anthropological and humanist perspectives; community activism and co-design; affordable DIY health solutions; and more. The final hour will focus on open discussion and networking, including art and light food. Cambridge-based Toscanini's owner Gus Rancatore will also unveil a new ice cream flavor called "This is what democracy tastes like." Speakers include anthropologists, media theorists, activists, and more. For more details, go to mitdissolve.com
Web site: mitdissolve.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Ian Condry
617-452-2676
condry@mit.edu
1:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building 32, In SOLVE Pavilion, on lawn near Stata, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join a discussion on inequality featuring faculty and students from MIT and Harvard. This unconference asks: How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today's inequalities? Summit features 10-minute ignite sessions (talk/discussion) on central topics of our time: climate change; civic media; black lives matter; gender inequality; society and economy from anthropological and humanist perspectives; community activism and co-design; affordable DIY health solutions; and more. The final hour will focus on open discussion and networking, including art and light food. Cambridge-based Toscanini's owner Gus Rancatore will also unveil a new ice cream flavor called "This is what democracy tastes like." Speakers include anthropologists, media theorists, activists, and more. For more details, go to mitdissolve.com
Web site: mitdissolve.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Ian Condry
617-452-2676
condry@mit.edu
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What's the Buzz on Urban Bees?
Thursday, October 8
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Marriott Plaza in Kendall Square, 315 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-the-buzz-on-urban-bees-registration-18447676497
Meet our city beekeepers, taste the local honey, build your own take-home bee hotel and find out how you can help foster ecological sustainability in your own back yard.
Hosted by The Urban Beekeeping Laboratory & Bee Sanctuary, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
Meet our city beekeepers, taste the local honey, build your own take-home bee hotel and find out how you can help foster ecological sustainability in your own back yard.
Hosted by The Urban Beekeeping Laboratory & Bee Sanctuary, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
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Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
Thursday, October 8
4:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
Panelists:
George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of PersonalGenomes.org
Adam Finkel, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Penn Program on Regulation
This event is free and open to the public.
Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
Thursday, October 8
4:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
Panelists:
George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of PersonalGenomes.org
Adam Finkel, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Penn Program on Regulation
This event is free and open to the public.
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Sony After the Hack: Lessons in Leadership
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Memorial Church, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business Review
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS Harvard Business Review Editor-in-Chief, Adi Ignatius, will host a conversation with Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment about leadership and adaptation amidst disruption in the wake of one of the most prominent hacks in corporate history. Join a discussion that explores the unique opportunities presented during a crisis to strengthen and reevaluate organizational culture while examining the evolution and intersection of business technology, security, and privacy.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sony-after-the-hack-lessons-in-leadership-tickets-18268635982
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Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
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WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Memorial Church, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business Review
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS Harvard Business Review Editor-in-Chief, Adi Ignatius, will host a conversation with Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment about leadership and adaptation amidst disruption in the wake of one of the most prominent hacks in corporate history. Join a discussion that explores the unique opportunities presented during a crisis to strengthen and reevaluate organizational culture while examining the evolution and intersection of business technology, security, and privacy.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sony-after-the-hack-lessons-in-leadership-tickets-18268635982
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Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy, and Ethics
WHEN Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Casperson Student Center, Harkness South Dining Room (205), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Synthetic biology, "which aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,”* offers the potential for tremendous benefit, alongside a range of possible risks. How should these benefits and risks be balanced, from a scientific, ethical, and policy perspective? Please join us for a discussion of these issues with a leader in the field of synthetic biology and an expert in risk regulation and policy.
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From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
Thursday, October 8
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
For thousands of years, humans have experienced cycles of empire building and retreat, from the neolithic settlers of Levant and the Indus Valley to the ancient Cahokia and Maya civilizations. What can new discoveries teach us about how to plan our next thousand years as a global civilization? Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Charles C. Mann is the author, most recently, of 1493, a New York Times best-seller, and 1491, winner of the National Academies of Science's Keck award for best book of the year. His next project, The Wizard and the Prophet, is a book about the future that makes no predictions. An early version of the introductory chapter was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
Annalee Newitz writes science nonfiction and science fiction. She's editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and founding editor of io9.com. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker and Technology Review to 2600 and Lightspeed Magazine. Her next book is a novel about robots, pirates, and the future of property laws.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Communications Forum
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
For thousands of years, humans have experienced cycles of empire building and retreat, from the neolithic settlers of Levant and the Indus Valley to the ancient Cahokia and Maya civilizations. What can new discoveries teach us about how to plan our next thousand years as a global civilization? Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Charles C. Mann is the author, most recently, of 1493, a New York Times best-seller, and 1491, winner of the National Academies of Science's Keck award for best book of the year. His next project, The Wizard and the Prophet, is a book about the future that makes no predictions. An early version of the introductory chapter was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
Annalee Newitz writes science nonfiction and science fiction. She's editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and founding editor of io9.com. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker and Technology Review to 2600 and Lightspeed Magazine. Her next book is a novel about robots, pirates, and the future of property laws.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Communications Forum
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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The Healing Arts of Music and Medicine
hursday, October 8
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
Russell Museum, 2 North Grove Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-healing-arts-of-music-and-medicine-tickets-17681066546
Lisa Wong, MD, is a Mass General Hospital pediatrician, president of Longwood Symphony and author of Scales to Scalpels about the healing power of music. Dr. Wong will be joined by Mass General’s music therapist and members of the Longwood Symphony who represent Boston hospitals.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
Lisa Wong, MD, is a Mass General Hospital pediatrician, president of Longwood Symphony and author of Scales to Scalpels about the healing power of music. Dr. Wong will be joined by Mass General’s music therapist and members of the Longwood Symphony who represent Boston hospitals.
This program is part of the Perspectives in Healing: Women in Medicine Series
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On Beauty: Emily Eveleth and David Tester
Thursday, October 8
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-beauty-emily-eveleth-and-david-tester-tickets-18448743689
Cultural construct or biological predisposition? Explore the concept of beauty with painter Emily Eveleth, and Senior Software Engineer at Google and Visiting Researcher at the Broad Institute, David Tester, in a spirited conversation on the ways in which beauty resonates, overlaps, influences and emerges in both worlds. Reception to follow.
Hosted by Catalyst Conversations, this event is part of HUBweek's Inside Kendall Square, a moveable feast of events on Thursday, October 8 that invite the community to visit innovative labs and connect with thought leaders at iconic institutions. Visit hubweek.org to explore all the other activities and programs at HUBweek and in Kendall Square.
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Fall Generator Dinner: IDEAS Global Challenge
Thursday, October 8
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 50-140, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Working on a project to help underserved communities? Need funding?
Want to recruit new members for your IDEAS Global Challenge team?
Want to get involved, but don't yet have an idea?
Join us for dinner. Pitch an idea. Find a team.
This is one of the best venues to find a team to join, pitch your idea to woo and recruit teammates, or pitch your skills to get hired onto a team. With the first chance to submit a Scope Statement just a few weeks away (October 29, 2015), get started at this event!
Learn more about the IDEAS Global Challenge here: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu.
Web site: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free, but please RSVP
Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Sponsor(s): IDEAS Global Challenge, MIT Public Service Center
For more information, contact: Keely Swan
globalchallenge@mit.edu
Thursday, October 8
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 50-140, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Working on a project to help underserved communities? Need funding?
Want to recruit new members for your IDEAS Global Challenge team?
Want to get involved, but don't yet have an idea?
Join us for dinner. Pitch an idea. Find a team.
This is one of the best venues to find a team to join, pitch your idea to woo and recruit teammates, or pitch your skills to get hired onto a team. With the first chance to submit a Scope Statement just a few weeks away (October 29, 2015), get started at this event!
Learn more about the IDEAS Global Challenge here: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu.
Web site: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free, but please RSVP
Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-fall-generator-dinner-2015-tickets-17729165411?aff=mitcal
Sponsor(s): IDEAS Global Challenge, MIT Public Service Center
For more information, contact: Keely Swan
globalchallenge@mit.edu
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pre-HONK!
Thursday, October 8
7pm – midnight
7pm – midnight
Union Square and Aeronaut, Somerville
Come out to Union Square in Somerville and get an early taste of the festival, before the festival! Get yourself ready for the weekend by checking out performances from a handful of HONK! bands who get into town early. Performances outside in Union Square Plaza and later at Aeronaut Brewing Company.
Come out to Union Square in Somerville and get an early taste of the festival, before the festival! Get yourself ready for the weekend by checking out performances from a handful of HONK! bands who get into town early. Performances outside in Union Square Plaza and later at Aeronaut Brewing Company.
http://honkfest.org/2015-festival/schedule-2015/
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Friday, October 9
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Honkfest!
Friday, October 9 - Sunday, October 11
http://honkfest.org
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Friday, October 9
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Honkfest!
Friday, October 9 - Sunday, October 11
http://honkfest.org
HONK! in the Neighborhoods
4pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands visit schools and community groups for educational workshops around the city.
Day of Action
3pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands and political organizations team up for a day of action downtown.
Lantern Making Workshops
4pm – 6pm at Hodgkins Park near Davis Square
Kids, parents, neighbors, and friends are all invited to make homemade, DIY lanterns in preparation for the evening Lantern Parades around Davis Square.
Lantern Parades
7pm – 8pm, leaving from Hodgkins Park
Sidewalk processions around Davis Square accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of DIY lighting.
HONK! at Johnny D’s
8:30pm – 12:45am at Johnny D’s
Come hear some of your fellow HONK! musicians perform at Johnny D’s Night Club after the lantern parades. 17 Holland St, Davis Square, Somerville
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4pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands visit schools and community groups for educational workshops around the city.
Day of Action
3pm – 6pm, location(s) TBA
Bands and political organizations team up for a day of action downtown.
Lantern Making Workshops
4pm – 6pm at Hodgkins Park near Davis Square
Kids, parents, neighbors, and friends are all invited to make homemade, DIY lanterns in preparation for the evening Lantern Parades around Davis Square.
Lantern Parades
7pm – 8pm, leaving from Hodgkins Park
Sidewalk processions around Davis Square accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of DIY lighting.
HONK! at Johnny D’s
8:30pm – 12:45am at Johnny D’s
Come hear some of your fellow HONK! musicians perform at Johnny D’s Night Club after the lantern parades. 17 Holland St, Davis Square, Somerville
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The Future of Privacy and Security in a Big Data World
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Hall B, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Institute for Applied Computational Science, at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS Data is the exhaust of the information age. When we carry our cell phone, use apps on those phones, browse websites, send emails or texts, drive in our cars, or make purchases with a credit card, we send digital information about where we are, our associations, our interests, and our desires and needs to the corporations that serve us and the governments that monitor us. Because the information is digitized, it is relatively cheap to store, and can be analyzed by computers in great detail.
Join Harvard Berkman Fellow and renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier for a master seminar at Harvard’s Institute for Applied Computational Science on the corporate and government surveillance enabled by the vast amount of digital data available, the tension between privacy and security and the implications for government policy and reform, along with a discussion of the technological and mathematical solutions for reform.
LINK http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebcody0586255628&llr=odyvocsab
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Hall B, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Institute for Applied Computational Science, at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
COST Free; registration required
DETAILS Data is the exhaust of the information age. When we carry our cell phone, use apps on those phones, browse websites, send emails or texts, drive in our cars, or make purchases with a credit card, we send digital information about where we are, our associations, our interests, and our desires and needs to the corporations that serve us and the governments that monitor us. Because the information is digitized, it is relatively cheap to store, and can be analyzed by computers in great detail.
Join Harvard Berkman Fellow and renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier for a master seminar at Harvard’s Institute for Applied Computational Science on the corporate and government surveillance enabled by the vast amount of digital data available, the tension between privacy and security and the implications for government policy and reform, along with a discussion of the technological and mathematical solutions for reform.
LINK http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebcody0586255628&llr=odyvocsab
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Lessons from Boston: Using Technology to Improve City Services
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye ABC, 5th floor of the Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS The City of Boston has achieved remarkable performance improvements through its use of data. Using internal resources, as well as external partnerships, the city has used technology to improve city services and allow greater access for residents. Join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government to hear panelists explore the city’s approach to using data, its successes, and remaining challenges.
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/rappaport/events-and-news/upcoming-boston-101-and-other-events/lessons-from-boston-using-technology-to-improve-city-services
WHEN Fri., Oct. 9, 2015, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye ABC, 5th floor of the Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
DETAILS The City of Boston has achieved remarkable performance improvements through its use of data. Using internal resources, as well as external partnerships, the city has used technology to improve city services and allow greater access for residents. Join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government to hear panelists explore the city’s approach to using data, its successes, and remaining challenges.
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/rappaport/events-and-news/upcoming-boston-101-and-other-events/lessons-from-boston-using-technology-to-improve-city-services
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15 Years — and a Boat.
Friday, October 9
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Joan Lorentz Park (Public Library Green), 420 Broadway, Cambridge
In the fall of 2000, Switzerland opened the world’s first ‘scientific consulate’ in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Come celebrate our 15th anniversary with us – together with the Canton of Basel-Stadt (a sister-state of Massachusetts!) and with a very special eye-catcher!
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/15years/#sthash.3UwBwo3x.dpuf
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#Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge
Friday, October 9
5:00-7:00pm
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The #Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge welcomes all civic tech start-ups and anyone interested in learning more about civic tech. Hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center
15 Years — and a Boat.
Friday, October 9
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Joan Lorentz Park (Public Library Green), 420 Broadway, Cambridge
In the fall of 2000, Switzerland opened the world’s first ‘scientific consulate’ in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Come celebrate our 15th anniversary with us – together with the Canton of Basel-Stadt (a sister-state of Massachusetts!) and with a very special eye-catcher!
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/15years/#sthash.3UwBwo3x.dpuf
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#Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge
Friday, October 9
5:00-7:00pm
Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The #Tech4Democracy Showcase and Challenge welcomes all civic tech start-ups and anyone interested in learning more about civic tech. Hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center
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Harvard Community Garden Pot Luck, Talk, and Movie
Friday, October 9
Friday, October 9
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Harvard Community Garden, 27 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
http://garden.harvard.edu
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-food-potluck-with-guest-speaker-john-lee-of-allandale-farm-an-outdoor-screening-of-inhabit-a-tickets-18801752548
Harvard Community Garden, 27 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
http://garden.harvard.edu
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-food-potluck-with-guest-speaker-john-lee-of-allandale-farm-an-outdoor-screening-of-inhabit-a-tickets-18801752548
LOCAL FOOD POTLUCK FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER JOHN LEE OF ALLANDALE FARM + AN AFTER-DARK DOCUMENTARY SCREENING OF "INHABIT: A PERMACULTURE PERSPECTIVE"
6:00-6:30 p.m.
Bring a locally flavored dish* to share at our "local" food potluck, featuring a talk from guest speaker John Lee of Allandale Farm, Boston's last working farm.
Afterwards, we'll watch the documentary INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective among the raised bed of vegetables and flowers under the starlit night sky.
http://inhabitfilm.com
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Saturday, October 10
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Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil
Saturday, October 10
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/559598744189515/
Dear Friends,
Please join us in recognizing Saturday, October 10th, 2015, as Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil. Activities planned for the day will promote soil as our ecological ally, a key “second front” in the climate movement.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the worst consequences of global warming can be prevented only by a significant and rapid drawdown of carbon from the atmosphere. Reducing -- or even eliminating -- emissions from fossil fuel combustion will not stop the warming. To secure a livable climate, both emission reductions and atmospheric carbon drawdown are crucial. The best way to achieve drawdown is through photosynthesis and the rebuilding of the world’s soils - the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon.
On Soil Saturday, soil advocates are encouraged to promote this message. This can be done by hosting events, writing blog posts, tweeting, or posting photos of “Soil4Climate” signs made and displayed in creative ways. Any post, picture, or illustration emphasizing the role of soil should be posted with appropriate tags (see suggestions below).
In 2007, the climate movement launched a successful campaign to encourage propagation of the number “350”, the highest concentration (in parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere considered “safe”. “350” photos from around the world flooded social media. To complement this effort and create a movement leading to dialogue and policy that will reverse global warming (and not just slow it down), awareness of soil as a climate solution must grow.
We invite -- and need! -- your participation. Together, we can elevate soil to its rightful place in the climate narrative. Please do what you can.
Cool regards,
Soil4Climate
#Soil4Climate. #SoilSaturday #SoilCarbon #ClimateSolutions#RegenerativeAg
Please join us in recognizing Saturday, October 10th, 2015, as Soil Saturday: A Celebration of Reversing Global Warming with Soil. Activities planned for the day will promote soil as our ecological ally, a key “second front” in the climate movement.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the worst consequences of global warming can be prevented only by a significant and rapid drawdown of carbon from the atmosphere. Reducing -- or even eliminating -- emissions from fossil fuel combustion will not stop the warming. To secure a livable climate, both emission reductions and atmospheric carbon drawdown are crucial. The best way to achieve drawdown is through photosynthesis and the rebuilding of the world’s soils - the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon.
On Soil Saturday, soil advocates are encouraged to promote this message. This can be done by hosting events, writing blog posts, tweeting, or posting photos of “Soil4Climate” signs made and displayed in creative ways. Any post, picture, or illustration emphasizing the role of soil should be posted with appropriate tags (see suggestions below).
In 2007, the climate movement launched a successful campaign to encourage propagation of the number “350”, the highest concentration (in parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere considered “safe”. “350” photos from around the world flooded social media. To complement this effort and create a movement leading to dialogue and policy that will reverse global warming (and not just slow it down), awareness of soil as a climate solution must grow.
We invite -- and need! -- your participation. Together, we can elevate soil to its rightful place in the climate narrative. Please do what you can.
Cool regards,
Soil4Climate
#Soil4Climate. #SoilSaturday #SoilCarbon #ClimateSolutions#RegenerativeAg
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Engineering + Entrepreneurship: Making Robotics Fly
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Exhibitions, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, co-hosted by Xfund
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
DETAILS Robots and drones are part of daily life in more ways than most of us realize, provoking emotions ranging from fear to fascination. What are their practical applications? Ubiquitous use of robotics is poised to transform the way we live, work and play during the next 20 years much as the Internet did in last 20 years. This event is meant to entertain, educate, and demystify by showcasing a range of robotics, with an emphasis on unmanned aerial vehicles. The Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will place this emerging field in the perspective of engineering and entrepreneurship and the role that Boston can play in the emerging robotics ecosystem. This event is co-hosted by Xfund.
LINK makingroboticsfly.com
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Exhibitions, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, co-hosted by Xfund
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
DETAILS Robots and drones are part of daily life in more ways than most of us realize, provoking emotions ranging from fear to fascination. What are their practical applications? Ubiquitous use of robotics is poised to transform the way we live, work and play during the next 20 years much as the Internet did in last 20 years. This event is meant to entertain, educate, and demystify by showcasing a range of robotics, with an emphasis on unmanned aerial vehicles. The Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will place this emerging field in the perspective of engineering and entrepreneurship and the role that Boston can play in the emerging robotics ecosystem. This event is co-hosted by Xfund.
LINK makingroboticsfly.com
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HONK! in Davis Square
Saturday, October 10
12pm – 9pm
12pm – 9pm
all around Davis Square
More than 20 activist street bands from around the world perform all day, outdoors, for free at venues around Davis Square. Opening ceremonies begin at noon. Band performances from 1pm – 9pm.
More than 20 activist street bands from around the world perform all day, outdoors, for free at venues around Davis Square. Opening ceremonies begin at noon. Band performances from 1pm – 9pm.
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A Pop-Up Makerspace: The Future of Learning Laboratory
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 1 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Public Schools, and Harvard Ed Portal
DETAILS At the makerspace, new technologies intersect with familiar tools and materials to open up new possibilities for creating, making, and learning — combining high-tech and low-tech for exciting explorations in art, science, and engineering. Join us for a lively and playful afternoon of hands-on workshops, interactive activities, and participatory demonstrations that explore learning through making.
Designed primarily for families, people of all ages are welcome to attend the event. At our pop-up makerspace, you'll have opportunities to:
design your own stories and games with the Scratch programming language
tinker with electronics and crafts to create musical instruments
collaborate and create with others who love to make
ASL interpreters will be available at the event.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-pop-up-makerspace-the-future-of-learning-laboratory-tickets-18439092823
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 1 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Public Schools, and Harvard Ed Portal
DETAILS At the makerspace, new technologies intersect with familiar tools and materials to open up new possibilities for creating, making, and learning — combining high-tech and low-tech for exciting explorations in art, science, and engineering. Join us for a lively and playful afternoon of hands-on workshops, interactive activities, and participatory demonstrations that explore learning through making.
Designed primarily for families, people of all ages are welcome to attend the event. At our pop-up makerspace, you'll have opportunities to:
design your own stories and games with the Scratch programming language
tinker with electronics and crafts to create musical instruments
collaborate and create with others who love to make
ASL interpreters will be available at the event.
LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-pop-up-makerspace-the-future-of-learning-laboratory-tickets-18439092823
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Film Screening: Sneak Preview of Nova's "Making North America"
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 2 – 2:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Haller Hall, enter at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Film, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented in collaboration with NOVA, produced for PBS by WGBH Boston
COST Free with museum admission
TICKET INFO http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Attend a preview of the new NOVA-WGBH series, Making North America, an eye-opening adventure through our continent’s three-billion-year geological history. Filled with panoramic vistas and immersive animation, Making North America explores the colossal geological forces at work beneath our feet that have shaped this continent.
Complimentary event parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
WHEN Sat., Oct. 10, 2015, 2 – 2:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Haller Hall, enter at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Film, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented in collaboration with NOVA, produced for PBS by WGBH Boston
COST Free with museum admission
TICKET INFO http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS Attend a preview of the new NOVA-WGBH series, Making North America, an eye-opening adventure through our continent’s three-billion-year geological history. Filled with panoramic vistas and immersive animation, Making North America explores the colossal geological forces at work beneath our feet that have shaped this continent.
Complimentary event parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/sneak-preview-novas-making-north-america
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Sunday, October 11
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The HONK! Parade
Sunday, October 11
12pm – 2pm
12pm – 2pm
down Mass. Avenue from Davis Square to Harvard Square
Parade from Davis Square down Mass Ave to Harvard Square to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”, featuring HONK! bands and community groups, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration.
HONK! in Harvard Square & All Band Concert
2pm – 6pm all around Harvard Square
The all band concert will be held on the Main Stage of Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest. In addition, some bands will play sets on smaller stages around Harvard Square throughout the afternoon.
Parade from Davis Square down Mass Ave to Harvard Square to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”, featuring HONK! bands and community groups, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration.
HONK! in Harvard Square & All Band Concert
2pm – 6pm all around Harvard Square
The all band concert will be held on the Main Stage of Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest. In addition, some bands will play sets on smaller stages around Harvard Square throughout the afternoon.
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Opportunity:
Bread & Puppet needs your help on Sunday, October 11th, to make the theater's contingent of the 2015 Honk! Festival Parade big, bold, exciting, entertaining, and compelling!
Bread & Puppet is looking for 50 plus volunteers to join them on that Sunday morning at 11 am at Day Street and Hebert Street in Davis Square, Somerville, to carry banners, wave flags, operate puppets, wear masks and costumes, help operate a giant puppet sailboat, and otherwise create the kind of spectacular participatory processional theater for which Bread & Puppet is so well known and loved.
So mark your calendars! No experience is necessary to jump on board!
Please contact John Bell directly at john.bell.puppeteer@gmail.com if you are interested in being part of this joyous performance of engaged community puppet theater. Also please feel free to contact John if you have any questions as we
Bread & Puppet is looking for 50 plus volunteers to join them on that Sunday morning at 11 am at Day Street and Hebert Street in Davis Square, Somerville, to carry banners, wave flags, operate puppets, wear masks and costumes, help operate a giant puppet sailboat, and otherwise create the kind of spectacular participatory processional theater for which Bread & Puppet is so well known and loved.
So mark your calendars! No experience is necessary to jump on board!
Please contact John Bell directly at john.bell.puppeteer@gmail.com if you are interested in being part of this joyous performance of engaged community puppet theater. Also please feel free to contact John if you have any questions as we
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Monday, October 12
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"ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
Monday, October 12
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
Evans Way Park, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 Fenway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-energy-necklace-solar-lanterns-at-opening-our-doors-tickets-18781373594
Be part of the Energy Necklace on the Emerald Necklace!! Make your own solar-powered lantern (nothing technical required, just artsty fun). Take one home or help make a community solar powered string of lights.
AND - ASK! Put your burning climate change questions to our friendly and outgoing scientistswho are 50% performer/100% scientist. Memeory Card game and plenty of info to get you ready to start answering your friends' climate queries. All ages, free. Sponsored by the Transatlantic Climate Bridge and produced by Energy Necklace Project. Hosts: Fenway Alliance, Opening Our Doors & Emerald Necklace Conservancy.Questions: EnergyNecklace@gmail.com
Be part of the Energy Necklace on the Emerald Necklace!! Make your own solar-powered lantern (nothing technical required, just artsty fun). Take one home or help make a community solar powered string of lights.
AND - ASK! Put your burning climate change questions to our friendly and outgoing scientistswho are 50% performer/100% scientist. Memeory Card game and plenty of info to get you ready to start answering your friends' climate queries. All ages, free. Sponsored by the Transatlantic Climate Bridge and produced by Energy Necklace Project. Hosts: Fenway Alliance, Opening Our Doors & Emerald Necklace Conservancy.Questions: EnergyNecklace@gmail.com
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Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
Monday, October 12
7 pm
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andoni Aduriz, (@mugaritz), Mugaritz
*Ramon Perisé, Mugaritz
Andoni Aduriz, (@mugaritz), Mugaritz
*Ramon Perisé, Mugaritz
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Science Monday
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
Have you ever wished for a re-do of your middle school science fair? So have we! Gather your friends and come to Ames Street Deli on October 12 to compete in a test of knoweledge (a science quiz!) and a test of skill (a science project!). Also, there will be delicoius cocktails, and real live scientists to judge your work!
Our theme this Monday is Science in the Movies. Please bring a team of 2 - 6. Registration is free.
We look forward to seeing you!
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-monday-tickets-18749207384
Our theme this Monday is Science in the Movies. Please bring a team of 2 - 6. Registration is free.
We look forward to seeing you!
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Tuesday, October 13
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Tuesday, October 13
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The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
Tuesday, October 13
Tuesday, October 13
7:30 AM to 9:30 AM (EDT)
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Center, 10 Winter Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-transportation-in-the-commonwealth-tickets-18652252389
The State House News Service and MASSterList will host a conversation about one of the commonwealth’s most vital public policy issues: improving the quality and availability of public transportation and road infrastructure in the Commonwealth. Beyond the short-term strategy to shore up the system, what’s the vision five, ten, and twenty years down the road?
Panelists: Stephanie Pollack, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Charlie Chieppo, principal at Chieppo Strategies; and Rick Dimino, President and CEO of A Better City.
Moderator: The event will be moderated by George Donnelly, publisher of MASSterList and State House News Service contributor.
Networking until 8 a.m. - panel will begin at 8:05. The conversation will be formatted by moderator questions and free-flowing conversation, leaving 20 minutes at the end for audience questions. The event will be covered by the State House News Service; other media will be welcome to attend and cover.
The State House News Service and MASSterList will host a conversation about one of the commonwealth’s most vital public policy issues: improving the quality and availability of public transportation and road infrastructure in the Commonwealth. Beyond the short-term strategy to shore up the system, what’s the vision five, ten, and twenty years down the road?
Panelists: Stephanie Pollack, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Charlie Chieppo, principal at Chieppo Strategies; and Rick Dimino, President and CEO of A Better City.
Moderator: The event will be moderated by George Donnelly, publisher of MASSterList and State House News Service contributor.
Networking until 8 a.m. - panel will begin at 8:05. The conversation will be formatted by moderator questions and free-flowing conversation, leaving 20 minutes at the end for audience questions. The event will be covered by the State House News Service; other media will be welcome to attend and cover.
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, October 13
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002742/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
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Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow at 12:00 pm
with science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow in discussion with Jonathan Zittrain
Cory Doctorow wants to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade and as an EFF Special Advisor, he's working with them to do just that.
From the Electronic Frontiers Foundation:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies attempt to control what you can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. Corporations claim that DRM is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and keep consumers safe from viruses. But there's no evidence that DRM helps fight either of those. Instead DRM helps big business stifle innovation and competition by making it easy to quash "unauthorized" uses of media and technology.
DRM has proliferated thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), which sought to outlaw any attempt to bypass DRM.
Fans shouldn't be treated like criminals, and companies shouldn't get an automatic veto over user choice and innovation. EFF has led the effort to free the iPhone and other smartphones, is working to uncover and explain the restrictions around new hardware and software, has fought for the right to make copies of DVDs, and sued Sony-BMG for their "rootkit" CD copy-protection scheme.
About Cory
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the YA graphic novel IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE< and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
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Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
Tuesday, October 13
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, October 13
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002742/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
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Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow at 12:00 pm
with science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow in discussion with Jonathan Zittrain
Cory Doctorow wants to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade and as an EFF Special Advisor, he's working with them to do just that.
From the Electronic Frontiers Foundation:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies attempt to control what you can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. Corporations claim that DRM is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and keep consumers safe from viruses. But there's no evidence that DRM helps fight either of those. Instead DRM helps big business stifle innovation and competition by making it easy to quash "unauthorized" uses of media and technology.
DRM has proliferated thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), which sought to outlaw any attempt to bypass DRM.
Fans shouldn't be treated like criminals, and companies shouldn't get an automatic veto over user choice and innovation. EFF has led the effort to free the iPhone and other smartphones, is working to uncover and explain the restrictions around new hardware and software, has fought for the right to make copies of DVDs, and sued Sony-BMG for their "rootkit" CD copy-protection scheme.
About Cory
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the YA graphic novel IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE< and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
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Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
Tuesday, October 13
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
Tuesday, October 13
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Angela Kilby (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
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Opportunity
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
-------------------------------
Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
-----------------------------
Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
———————————
Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
---------------------
Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
---------------------
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
-----------------------
HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Resource
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
--------------------------------------------------
Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
---------------------------------------
Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
----------------------
The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
---------------------
Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
------------------------
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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-----------------------------------------------------
Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
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