hubevents: Energy (and Other) Events

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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.

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Monday, October 26
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12pm MASS Seminar - Tim Cronin (Harvard)
12pm Assessing Global Power Sector Climate Policy Initiative
12pm GSD Talks: Technologies of Design: Jun Sato
12pm Structural Optimization for a New Architecture
12:15pm Obstinate Harvest: Corporate Food and the Technoscience of Supply Chain Sustainability
3pm Prospects for Paris: The Role of the U.S., the EU, and China

4pm Diagnosing Drought in a Changing Climate

4pm #BlackLivesMatter – A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities
4pm American Revelation: Liberty, Freedom, and Capitalism in the Revolutionary Generation

4pm Storytelling, Learning, and Human Communication

4pm American Revelation: Liberty, Freedom, and Capitalism in the Revolutionary Generation
4:30pm HILT Scholar to Practitioner Speaker Series: "Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning"
5:30pm Tech and Walkability Panel: #WalkTechBOS
5:30pm Riptide Lecture & Reception
6pm Film Screening: "Dateline – Saigon" featuring Q&A with director Tom Herman, Bob Schieffer and Tom Patterson
6pm Fleeting Moments that Last Forever: Violence of and Against the Everyday

6:30pm Animal Cognition, Consciousness, and Ethics

7pm Public Space Is a Social Agreement

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Tuesday, October 27
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7:45am Building Boston 2030 - Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation
9am Innovating for Billions - Conference

9am Southeast Asia Explores Sustainable Development: Coping with Socio-Economic Difficulties, Renewed Big Power Rivalry, and Climate Change

11:45am Sanergy: Bringing Sanitation to Slums and Gaining Value from Waste
12pm The Internet of Garbage

12pm Changes to the Land: Four Scenarios for the Future of the Massachusetts Landscape
1pm ProtoPrint: How to Turn Plastic Waste into 3D Printing
1pm MA Senator Michael Barrett’s carbon pricing bill, S. 1747, An Act combating climate change, has been set for a hearing by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy
2:15pm The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

2:30pm Persistently Inefficient? Organizational Fragmentation, Coordination Failures, and Common Agency Problems in the US Healthcare System
3pm Hydrologic Similarity Across the United States: Understanding change, information transfer, and classification.

4:10pm Why Elections Fail
4:30pm Muslims in Europe: Transnational Integration Politics
5:30pm Political Prisoners: Incarceration methods vs. strategies for defenders and activists

6pm e4Dev Weekly Speaker: Kate Klopeck, Founder and Executive Director, Saha Global
6pm What to Expect from the Next UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris?

6pm Boston Green Drinks - October Happy Hour
6:30pm Design Symposium: "Informal Robotics"
7pm Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers

7:30pm The End of Violence: A Christian and a Secular Humanist discuss human nature and the possibility of peace

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Wednesday, October 28
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12pm Round-table Discussion: Political and Environmental Implications of the Tianjin Explosion

12pm Bob Schieffer: The Candidates and the Debates

12pm Reining in Citizens: Character and Citizenship Education in Singapore

12pm Assessing NATO's Role in the Ukraine-Russia Crisis

12pm Boston Startup Job Fair

12:10pm Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Phytoplankton Communities

12:30pm Urbanization and the Future of China

4pm Aging Brain Seminar Series: Dr. Philip De Jager

4pm Two Systems: A Lecture by Sarah Howe

4pm Next Generation Soft Wearable Robots

4pm The ecology of the microbiome: networks, competition, and stability

4pm BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series with Aidan O'Brien of EMC's Strategic Big Data Initiative

4pm The Time is NOW! Join us for the launch of our new Massachusetts Campaign

5pm Book Launch Party for The Power of Resilience by Yossi Sheffi

5:30pm Solve Talks at Google: REINVENTING HEALTHCARE

5:30pm On the Road to Paris

5:30pm Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub

6pm Architecture Lecture: Eva Diaz, Is "Spaceship Earth" Utopia?

6pm EARTHOS CONVERSATION #2: ALEWIFE BIOREGIONAL CORRIDOR

6pm Cryptoparty: Imagining What the Internet Will Look Like in 5 Years

7pm James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency

7pm Growing Together: How viruses have shaped human evolution

7pm October Mixer: "Science in the News"

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Thursday, October 29
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Help by Oct. 29th to lift solar net metering caps!

9am MAPC 2015 Fall Council Meeting

12pm Sustainable Diets: Science, Guidance, and Politics

12:15pm The Political Economy of Quagmires

3pm Greentown Labs DEMO Day 2015!

4pm “Big data pragmatics!”, or, “Putting computational linguistics in computational social science”

4pm Experimentation and Disclosure of News

4pm Race and the Future of Asian American Politics

4pm SSN Forum: Democracy Under Siege

5pm Funding for Small Business Technology Acquisition – U.S. Navy Rapid Innovation Fund Program

5pm Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens

5:30pm The Third Annual Food is Medicine Symposium

6pm Balancing Cyber Security and Privacy in the Digital Age

6pm Architecture Lecture: Anne Holtrop, Material Gesture

6pm MIT Water Innovation Prize Generator Dinner

6:30pm An Evening with Water Scientist Michal Kravčík

6:30pm CSR and Sustainability: From the Margins to the Mainstream

7:30pm GANG VIOLENCE IN EL SALVADOR--What is the popular response?

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Friday, October 30
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8am Northeastern University Energy Conference

10am How to evaluate the importance of the non-conservation of several thermodynamic variables such as entropy

3pm A Chemist’s Solution to Excessive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Catalytic Solar-Driven Reduction of Aqueous CO2 to Organics

4pm Claude Shannon and George Boole, Enablers of the Information Age

5pm Askwith Forum: Everybody's Talking about Equity, But Nobody Knows the Meaning of the Word

7pm Fright Factors: The Science of Fear

8pm Silent Film Screening with Live Music - FAUST

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Sunday, November 1
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2pm Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England

3pm Urban Male : 'Creating While Being Black in America' A Conversation w/Walter Mosley

7pm Garry Kasparov at First Parish Church

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Monday, November 2
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12pm MASS Seminar - Yuhang Wang (Georgia Tech)

12pm Gas Hydrates as an Energy Source

12:15pm Of Science and Scientism: Framing Science in the Postwar American Humanities

12:30pm The City and Me

4pm Climate Change and the Transition to Sustainable Energy

4pm Obfuscation Book Talk

4pm Tipping in Social Norms: Evidence from the LGBT Movement

6:30pm The Future of Nature: Making an Impact

6:30pm Calvin Klein

7pm Floral Rewards and Bee-havior

7pm Science and Cooking: Emulsions and Foams

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Tuesday, November 3
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8am Boston TechBreakfast

12pm The International Refugee Crisis and US Immigration Policy

12pm Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce

12pm Climate Change and Community Vulnerability: Hazard Mitigation Through Planning

12:30pm Washoku on the World Stage: UNESCO and the Promotion of Japanese Cuisine

1pm Clean Energy & Sustainable Affordable Housing Symposium and Expo

3pm Researching and Solving Problems of Water Quantity and Quality at a Nonprofit Research Institute

3pm Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability and impacts of tropical waves and Madden-Julian Oscillations

4pm Must China Be Faulted for Its Political System?

4:30pm Geek Heresy: What's Essential in an Age of Advanced Technology

5pm Transformable: Designing objects that change themselves

5:30pm StreetTalk: Connecting our Urban Greenways - Building the Emerald Network

6pm BASG: Business as a Change Agent

6pm #SheDemos Boston: #TechHubTuesday Demo Night

7pm Honoring the Artist: A Gathering of Visual Artists

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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

Zero Net Energy

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/22/1430596/-Zero-Net-Energy

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Monday, October 26
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MASS Seminar - Tim Cronin (Harvard)
Monday, October 26
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

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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Assessing Global Power Sector Climate Policy Initiative
Monday, October 26
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Larry Makovich, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

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/seminar.html

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693

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GSD Talks: Technologies of Design: Jun Sato
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Through collaborations with architects, workshops with students, and research in his laboratory, Jun Sato develops lightweight, ductile structures and transparent or translucent structures that serve as filters for environmental substances. Recent collaborations include Extreme Nature for the 2008 Venice Biennale and Balloon with architect Junya Ishigami; House NA and Naoshima Pavilion with architect Sou Fujimoto, Sunny Hills Japan with architect Kengo Kuma, and a glass structures seminar and workshop at Stanford University. Currently principal engineer at Jun Sato Structural Engineers Co., Ltd., and associate professor at the University of Tokyo, Sato previously worked at Toshihiko Kimura’s office (1995–1999), received the Japan Structural Design Award in 2009, and received his Doctor of Engineering degree at the University of Tokyo in 2013.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/gsd-talks-jun-sato.html

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Structural Optimization for a New Architecture
Monday, October 26
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Alessandro Behgini, Associate and Sr. Structural Engineer at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture Lecture Series

Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

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Obstinate Harvest: Corporate Food and the Technoscience of Supply Chain Sustainability
Monday, October 26
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

Susanne E. Freidberg, Chair, Department of Geography, Dartmouth

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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Prospects for Paris: The Role of the U.S., the EU, and China
Monday, October 26
3:00 pm

BU, Pardee House, 67 Bay State Road, Boston

The first of a two-seminar series co-hosted by the Pardee School of Global Studies. Pardee Center Faculty Associate Henrik Selin (Pardee School of Global Studies), Prof. Kelly Gallagher (Fletcher School, Tufts University), and Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos will discuss the outlook for the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Paris in early December, particularly from the perspective of the U.S., the EU, and China.

http://www.bu.edu/pardee/prospects-for-paris-the-role-of-the-u-s-the-eu-and-china/

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Diagnosing Drought in a Changing Climate

Monday, October 26
4:00 pm
Harvard, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Dr. Abigail Swann, University of Washington

Abstract: The demand for water by the atmosphere is widely predicted to increase due to climate change. It is commonly assumed that this will lead to more widespread and severe droughts. Many recent studies, however, ignore the impact of rising atmospheric CO2 on plant water use. In this talk I will separate the influence of climate and plant physiological responses to CO2 for metrics of future drought stress in experiments conducted with Earth system models. My analysis shows that physiological and radiative contributions to widely-used drought metrics are highly variable and helps to reconcile recent diverging reports of changing drought stress.

EPS Colloquium Series

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#BlackLivesMatter – A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) Mary T. Bassett, commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Welcome and discussion moderation by: David J. Hunter, acting dean, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Vincent L Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/deans-office/deans-distinguished-lecture-series-3/

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Storytelling, Learning, and Human Communication
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute and the Prince Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program
SPEAKER(S) Musharraf Ali Farooqi, author, translator, storyteller

COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Farooqi will offer his view of storytelling as a core function of human communication, discuss the special place of stories in the Indian subcontinent, and talk about his own work as a storyteller, writer and translator.
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/storytelling-learning-and-human-communication/

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American Revelation: Liberty, Freedom, and Capitalism in the Revolutionary Generation
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center
SPEAKER(S) John Larson, professor of history, Purdue University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkennedy@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/“american-revelation-liberty-freedom-and-capitalism-revolutionary-generation”

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HILT Scholar to Practitioner Speaker Series: "Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning"
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
SPEAKER(S) Chinmay Kulkarni, assistant professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
CONTACT INFO hilt@harvard.edu
DETAILS Learning with peers helps students reflect, generalize knowledge and apply it more successfully to new problems. How can we scale successful peer learning from the controlled environment of the small classroom to the wild, massive scale of online classes? In his talk, Chinmay Kulkarni will introduce computational systems that structure peer learning at massive scale, and demonstrate their efficacy through the results of randomized controlled experiments with more than 10,000 students.
These systems demonstrate how insights from educational theory can be distilled into interfaces that scale teaching to thousands of learners. For instance, he will describe how students using PeerStudio obtain improvement-oriented feedback on open-ended work in just twenty minutes at any time of day, enabling them to revise and gain mastery. Similarly, the Talkabout system assigns students to small geographically-diverse video discussion groups in real-time, and demonstrates how global diversity can promote reflection and a deeper understanding of concepts.
In classes across disciplines including computer science, psychology, and design, more than 100,000 students on Coursera and EdX have used these systems for peer assessment and discussion.
Finally, Kulkarni hopes to reflect on how the large scale and diversity of online classes can enrich learning at universities, and how computational systems can enable new kinds of learning and creative work.
LINK http://hilt.harvard.edu/scholar-practitioner-speaker-series

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Tech and Walkability Panel: #WalkTechBOS
Monday, October 26
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Arnold Worldwide, 10 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-and-walkability-panel-walktechbos-tickets-18739107174

Tech and Walkability: How can we use technology to improve the walking environment in our communities?
WalkBoston is celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, so we’re looking at many different aspects of walkability. In this panel, we’ll take a look at walkability and tech - how they are connected, how they can be used to improve health and communities, and where there is opportunity in the future. Thank you to Arnold Worldwide for hosting our event!
Panelists include:
Elizabeth Christoforetti (Placelet / MIT Media Lab)
Tim Fendley (Applied Wayfinding / Legible London)
Chris Osgood (City of Boston's Chief of Streets)
Caroline Smith (SeeClickFix)

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Riptide Lecture & Reception
Monday, October 26
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
BU, Trustee Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, Boston

Please join us at "Riptide: An oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, 1980 to the present". This lively discussion with the authors of this groundbreaking report and four prominent journalists who covered the disruption over the past 30 years, will take place in the Trustee Ballroom (1 Silber Way, 9th Floor) from 5:30-7 p.m. on Monday, October 26. A reception will immediately follow the event.

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Film Screening: "Dateline – Saigon" featuring Q&A with director Tom Herman, Bob Schieffer and Tom Patterson
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Thomas D. Herman, film director; Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, former CBS News anchor and host of “Face the Nation,” and first reporter from a Texas newspaper to visit Vietnam; and Tom Patterson, acting director of the Shorenstein Center
DIRECTED BY Thomas D. Herman
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Tim Bailey, tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617-495-8209
DETAILS Film screening of Dateline – Saigon, followed by Q&A with Thomas D. Herman, film director; Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, former CBS News anchor and host of “Face the Nation”, and first reporter from a Texas newspaper to visit Vietnam; and Tom Patterson, Acting Director of the Shorenstein Center.
5:30 p.m. – informal reception in Fisher Family Rotunda, Ground Floor, Taubman Building
6:00 p.m. – film screening in Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman Building
Dateline – Saigon is a documentary film directed by Thomas D. Herman and narrated by Sam Waterston. The film profiles five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists – The New York Times’s David Halberstam; The Associated Press’s Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and the legendary photojournalist Horst Faas; and United Press International’s Neil Sheehan. With all the high-stakes drama of All the President’s Men, the film chronicles their controversial and groundbreaking reporting during the early years of the Vietnam War as President Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is dismissed by some as a “nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.” Five young reporters took on a superpower – and who won?
Dateline – Saigon illuminates the difficulties of reporting war by focusing on America’s most important and controversial case study: Vietnam, the war that established many of the ground rules for coverage of wars that followed and ignited an antagonism between the media and the military that unfortunately endures. The parallels to the challenges journalists face in reporting today’s conflicts – and the consequences of not getting the story out – will become disturbingly obvious to the viewer.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/dateline-saigon/

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Fleeting Moments that Last Forever: Violence of and Against the Everyday
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Mahindra Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
SPEAKER(S) Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/fleeting-moments-last-forever-violence-and-against-everyday

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Animal Cognition, Consciousness, and Ethics
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard College Effective Altruism
SPEAKER(S) Irene Pepperberg, Harvard Department of Psychology
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO harvardea@gmail.com
DETAILS Irene Pepperberg is a researcher at Harvard University in the field of animal cognition, specifically of African Grey parrots. Her work began with Alex, a parrot who was shown to have the emotional age of about a 2 year old child and the intelligence of up to a 5-6 year old child. Her research in areas such as the labelling of objects, shapes, colors, and the understanding of categorical concepts, of bigger-or-smaller, same-different, and nonhuman numerical abilities, revolutionized what the world knew about avian cognition.
Arguments for human consciousness usually derive from introspective reports; we lack such reports for nonhumans. Not being able to derive data to posit human-like consciousness, Dr. Pepperberg argues that nonhumans have, at the least, a sense of awareness, which may or may not be distinct from full consciousness. She proposes that this awareness if required for complex tasks and is a form of higher order cognition.
LINK http://www.harvardea.org/events/2015/10/26/irene-pepperberg

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Public Space Is a Social Agreement

Monday, October 26

7 - 9pm

MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, ACT Cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Marjetica Potrč
Taking two case studies as references – Ubuntu Park, a community-organized public space in Soweto, South Africa, and sustainable extraction reserves and Indian territories in Acre, Brazil – Potrč argues that the appropriation of space by local communities, whether this is an urban public space or a territory in the rainforest, is fundamental for the construction of a new citizenship.

While the Ashaninka Indians in Acre, with their tradition of holistic knowledge, do not need artists, artists do have a role to play in the new participative society emerging in Western societies. While exchanging knowledge with communities and working together with them to create or improve a particular place, artists can use relational objects and performative actions as tools to change the culture of living– a change that is necessary in the construction of a conceptual framework for a more resilient future and the survival of societies in the Anthropocene Age.

Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect, and professor at HFBK in Hamburg, Germany. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, including the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2009) and the São Paulo Biennial (1996, 2006). She has shown her work regularly at the Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm since 2003; among her international important solo exhibitions are shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001) and the List Visual Arts Center at the MIT (2004). Her many on-site projects include Dry Toilet (Caracas, 2003) and The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (Stedelijk goes West, Amsterdam, 2009). She has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg, since 2011. Students of her course Design for the Living World engage in participatory practice during long-term residencies on locations such as Belgrade in Serbia and Soweto in South Africa. In Potrč’s view, the sustainable solutions that are implemented and disseminated by communities serve to empower these communities and help create a democracy built from below. Potrč has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship at The New School in New York (2007).

Marjetica Potrč’s lecture will be moderated by Ron Martin (ACT) with response by Anne Whiston Spirn (MIT Department of Architecture / MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning) and Rebecca Uchill (MIT History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art Program / MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology).

ACT’s Monday night lecture series is conceived by Gediminas Urbonas, ACT director, and coordinated by Amanda Moore, Communications and Public Programs Coordinator (ACT alumna ‘11), in conversation with ACT graduate students.

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Tuesday, October 27
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Building Boston 2030 - Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation
Tuesday, October 27
7:45 AM to 9:45 AM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre - Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-boston-2030-widett-circle-bostons-next-frontier-for-innovation-tickets-18187575528

The Center for Real Estate and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board presents: Building Boston 2030
Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation and Growth
Widett Circle-off the southeast expressway-is on the brink of major redevelopment. The area once slated to become a temporary stadium for the Boston Olympics could become Boston's next frontier for growth. But now, with Mayor Martin J. Walsh's support, developers are determined to transform it into a new section of the city that offers workforce housing and economic opportunities for new and existing industries.
What does that mean for Widett Circle? Will it become the next Kendall Square-a hotbed for technological innovation? A new place for people to live and work like Fenway? Or maybe an upscale shopping and entertainment center like Assembly Row in Somerville?
Panelists:
Panelists will be announced shortly!
Moderated by:
Peter Howe, Business Editor, NECN

This event is free and open to the public, registration is required.

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Innovating for Billions - Conference
Tuesday, October 27
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (EDT)
MIT Media Lab - 75 Amherst Street. 6th Floor Lecture Hall. Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovating-for-billions-conference-tickets-18958356956

Morning Session Kumbh@MIT
9am – MIT Media Lab Welcomes Kumbhathon
Opening Remarks from Professor Ramesh Raskar and MIT Team
10am – Panel from Kumbhathon thought leaders
11am – Nashik Government officials present on Smart City Initiative
12pm – Lunch at MIT Media Lab with MIT scientists

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Southeast Asia Explores Sustainable Development: Coping with Socio-Economic Difficulties, Renewed Big Power Rivalry, and Climate Change
Tuesday, October 27

9:00am to 5:30pm
Harvard, K262, Bowie-Vernon Room, Second Level, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register at: http://tinyurl.com/harvardasiacenter

Conference Agenda
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Cheah, Chancellor, Sunway University
Arthur Kleinman, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center
Wing Thye Woo, President, Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia

9:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Big Power Rivalry
James Chin, Director, Asia Institute, University of Tasmania
Mari Pangestu, Professor of International Economics, University of Indonesia
Anthony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance, Harvard Kennedy School
Wing Thye Woo, Professor of Economics, University of California at Davis

11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2: Sustainable Development
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University
Somkiat Tangkivanich, President, Thailand Development Research Institute

12:45 – 2:15 Working Luncheon with Presentation
Rema Hanna, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

2:15 – 3:45 Panel 3: Economic Challenges
Muhamad Chatib Basri, Harvard Kennedy School and University of Indonesia
See Yan Lin, Sunway University
Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University

4:00 – 5:30 Panel 4: Inclusive Social Programs
Hongtu Chen, Director of Research, Environment and Health Group
Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Social Sciences, Harvard University
Arthur Kleinman, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center
Mary Steedly, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

5:30 – 5:45 Closing Remarks
Arthur Kleinman, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center

5:45 – 7:00 Reception in honor of Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah
(Venue: CGIS Knafel 1F Fisher Family Commons)

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia

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Sanergy: Bringing Sanitation to Slums and Gaining Value from Waste
Tuesday, October 27

11.45 a.m.
TBA (please RSVP to receive location)
RSVP at http://bit.ly/1M4NdAX

Sanergy, a Kenya-based company and previous MIT $100K winner, tackles the sanitation crisis in slums. It provides sanitation to slum dwellers in Kenya and turns the human waste into fertilizer and energy. Our speaker, David Auerbach, is the CEO of Sanergy. David is a Legatum Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, and an Echoing Green Fellow. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Yale University. This event is co-sponsored by the Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development (SEID) and the MIT Waste Alliance, with support from the GSC Sustainability Fund.

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The Internet of Garbage
Tuesday, October 27
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong at 12:00 pm

Sarah Jeong
With the international attention on the torrent of Twitter threats sent to Caroline Criado-Perez in 2013 (and the later prosecution of some of the people who sent her those threats), and national attention on the months-long firestorm associated with #Gamergate, “harassment” is a word that is bandied around with increasing frequency. As it becomes more and more obvious that women are disparately impacted by harassment on the Internet, harassment is framed as a civil rights problem, legal solutions are proposed, and vitriol is hurled at platforms for failing to protect female users. There is a pervasive feeling that there is a crisis on the Internet that pits the safety of women against the freedom of speech. Yet the Internet has long grappled with what to do when unwanted speech makes it unusable. The history of the Web—from its oldest forgotten communities to the decades of anti-spam technology—can offer a new lens through which to understand online harassment, along with lessons and caveats.

About Sarah
Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was trained as a lawyer. She writes about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, and has bylines at The Verge, Forbes, The Guardian, Slate, and WIRED. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is currently a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.

In 2015, she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.

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Changes to the Land: Four Scenarios for the Future of the Massachusetts Landscape

Tuesday, October 27
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Jonathan Thompson, Senior Ecologist, Harvard Forest

Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series

Contact Name: Barbara Hanrahan
617-495-2365

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ProtoPrint: How to Turn Plastic Waste into 3D Printing
Tuesday, October 27
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building N51-310, D-Lab large classroom, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/1Ow5bTj

Speaker: Sidhant Pai
Protoprint, a Social Enterprise in India that produces 3D printer filaments from waste plastic.
Our speaker, Sidhant Pai, is the CEO and co-founder of ProtoPrint. Sidhant has a degree in Environmental Engineering from MIT. He focuses on low-cost grassroots technology, public policy, climate change, air pollution

Event brought to you by the MIT Waste Alliance in collaboration with D-Lab, with sponsorship from Graduate Student Life Grant (GSLG).

Web site: http://bit.ly/1Ow5bTj
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Life Grants, D-Lab
For more information, contact: trashiscash@mit.edu

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MA Senator Michael Barrett’s carbon pricing bill, S. 1747, An Act combating climate change, has been set for a hearing by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy
Tuesday, October 27
1pm
Hearing Room B-1 of the MA State House, Boston

WE NEED A VERY IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT. Sen. Barrett’s bill has been gaining huge momentum. We’re up to 44 co-sponsors -- more than 20% of the State Legislature. A big thank you to the most recent co-sponsors: Sen. Marc Pacheco, Rep. Paul Schmid and Rep. Ken Gordon. Outside the building, Sen. Barrett has been speaking to Democratic Town Committees across the state, with more than 20 endorsing carbon pricing.

Sen. Barrett’s even been invited to speak to his first Republican Town Committee. This thing needs to be bi-partisan and we have a solution that progressives and conservatives agree on. We’re working with businesspeople, religious leaders and concerned citizens who are worried about the impact climate change will have on their kids and grandkids.

That’s why it’s crucial that you come on Tuesday the 27th … and bring as many other supporters as you can.

You may also submit written testimony to the Chairs of the Committee:
Senator Benjamin B. Downing (D Pittsfield)
State House, Room 413F, Boston, MA 02133
Phone:617-722-1625
Fax:617-722-1523
Email: Benjamin.Downing@masenate.gov

Representative Thomas A. Golden, Jr. (D Lowell)
State House, Room 473B, Boston, MA 02133
Phone:617-722-2263
Fax:617-570-6578
Email: Thomas.Golden@mahouse.gov

Please forward this email to as many friends as you’d like.

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The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 2:15 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, investigative journalists and co-founders of Agentura.ru
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan offer an unprecedented report of the resurrection of the Russian security state—from its Soviet-era transformation to the present day, where Vladimir Putin’s clandestine intelligence agencies wield increasing power over the Internet and dissent. The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. In The Red Web, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan expose both how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of geopolitical warfare—and the Russian government’s battle with the future of the Internet.
LINK http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/red-web

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Persistently Inefficient? Organizational Fragmentation, Coordination Failures, and Common Agency Problems in the US Healthcare System

Tuesday, October 27
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Buiding E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Michael Powell (Northwestern)

Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/10730
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu

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Hydrologic Similarity Across the United States: Understanding change, information transfer, and classification.
Tuesday, October 27
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

Stacey Archfield, U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program, (Tufts PhD)

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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Why Elections Fail
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Foyer, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Pippa Norris, the Paul. F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us for a talk with Pippa Norris, the Paul. F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School as she discusses her new book, Why Elections Fail.
Unfortunately too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy on electoral integrity, Pippa Norris compares structural, international, and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards. The book argues that rules preventing political actors from manipulating electoral governance are needed to secure integrity, although at the same time officials also need sufficient resources and capacities to manage elections effectively. Drawing on new evidence, the study determines the most effective types of strategies for strengthening the quality of electoral governance around the world.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/why-elections-fail

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Muslims in Europe: Transnational Integration Politics
Tuesday, October 27
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Professor Riva Kastoryano, Sciences-Po, Paris

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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Political Prisoners: Incarceration methods vs. strategies for defenders and activists
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer B 500 Bell Hall, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Teng Biao, human rights lawyer, China; Antonio Rodiles, human rights activist, Cuba; Geraldine Afiuni, daughter of Maria Afiuni, political prisoner and victim of torture, Venezuela; Erik Jennische, program director for Latin America, Civil Rights Defenders
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Governments such as Venezuela, China and Cuba have structured a systematic scheme for political persecution against “politically inconvenient people” by using the criminal justice system as a weapon for political persecution. Not only there are thousands of people subjected to indefinite trials, but also there are many political prisoners and a large number of people forced to exile.
Is the international community aware about this situation?
Victims, families and Human Rights defenders will speak from their perspective.
LINK http://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/victims-political-persecution-live-and-skype

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e4Dev Weekly Speaker: Kate Klopeck, Founder and Executive Director, Saha Global
Tuesday, October 27

6:00pm-7:00pm
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jULNRjGlL4y1xsESiKi9yQ4DIndN87uMHsdjlzKy-sw/viewform (dinner included -- please bring your own utensils!)

Speaker Bio: Kate is the Executive Director for Saha Global. Since 2005, Kate has worked extensively on water improvement projects around the globe including Nicaragua, Cameroon and Ghana. She earned a Master’s of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT in 2009 where her research was focused on the sustained use of water treatment technologies in Northern Region Ghana. She holds Bachelor’s in Science from the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Prior to founding Saha, Kate was an associate engineer at Aerojet, an aerospace firm located in Virginia. Kate is passionate about finding simple yet effective solutions to complex problems.

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What to Expect from the Next UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris?
Tuesday, October 27
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Harvard, Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Brice Lalonde, former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20
Featuring a panel discussion with Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program; Adjunct Professor Muriel Rouyer Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; and Professor Henry Lee, Director of the Energy and Natural Resource Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

We are at a critical stage of the negotiations on climate change: the next UN Climate Change Conference (COP-21) will be held in Paris, early December 2015. As a former UN Assistant Secretary-General (Executive Coordinator of Rio+20) and key international negotiator in various climatic / sustainable development settings who happens to be from France (where the conference will be organized), Mr. Brice Lalonde’s brings a unique perspective on what is at stake and what to expect.

Presented by The Future Society at HKS. Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Science, Technology & Society Program at HKS, and the Energy and Natural Resource Program (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs).

Speaker’s bio: Brice Lalonde is the Former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Prior to this appointment Mr. Lalonde served as French Ambassador for climate change, French Minister for the Environment, Chairman of the Round Table for Sustainable Development at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Senior Adviser for the Environment to the French Government. In addition, he held the position of Director of the Paris office of the Institute for a European Environment Policy. Mr. Lalonde has also worked for non-governmental organizations, like Friends of the Earth. He is now Special Advisor on Sustainable Development to the U.N. Global Compact.

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-27-220000-2015-10-27-233000/future-society-harvard-kennedy-school-lecture#sthash.91re9qY5.dpuf

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Boston Green Drinks - October Happy Hour
Tuesday, October 27

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)

Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-october-happy-hour-tickets-19101416852

Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Boston Green Drinks builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues. We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.

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Design Symposium: "Informal Robotics" with Daniela Rus, Conor Walsh, and Robert Wood; Moderated by Chuck Hoberman
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unlike traditional robots, informal robots are light, flexible, and pliant; their fabrication involves the embedding of processors, sensors and actuators within materials such as folded laminates, soft gels, or woven fabric. Intelligence—both computational and material—emerges synergistically from these innovative configurations.This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together leading practitioners of informal robotics who will present their work in areas including ambulatory, swimming and flying robots, soft exo-suits to enhance mobility, and self-organizing robot collectives.
After these presentations, a moderated discussion will explore how informal robotics is situated within a broader convergence of computation, materials and manufacturing (e.g., metamaterials, programmable matter), and how these trends present opportunities for design at the product, architectural, and urban scales. Following the program, we will have a reception during which researchers and students will demonstrate their original informal robots.
Organized by:
Chuck Hoberman, Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard GSD and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
With speakers:
Daniela Rus, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Robert Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/informal-robotics.html

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Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers
Tuesday, October 27
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

José Andrés, (@chefjoseandres), ThinkFoodGroup

More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking

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The End of Violence: A Christian and a Secular Humanist discuss human nature and the possibility of peace
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sanders Theatre
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Veritas Forum
COST Harvard ID distribution date: Thursday, October 15th. General Public Distribution date: Thursday, October 22nd (pending availability), Admission is free. Tickets Required. Limit of 4 per person. Tickets valid until 7:15 PM.
TICKET WEB LINK www.boxoffice.harvard.edu
TICKET INFO The Harvard Box Office 617-496-2222
DETAILS The End of ViolenceA Christian and a Secular Humanist discuss human nature and the possibility of peace.

Presenters: David Skeel; Steven Pinker
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/event/end-violence-christian-and-secular-humanist-discuss-human-nature-and-possibility-peace

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Round-table Discussion: Political and Environmental Implications of the Tianjin Explosion
Wednesday, October 28
12pm-1pm

Tufts, Campus Center Room 203, 44 Professors Row, Medford

Are you interested in global environmental issues or Chinese politics? Tufts GCC is hosting an open discussion about the potential political and environmental implications of the Tianjin explosion. Discussion will be guided by Professor Weiping Wu, Director of the UEP program with research experience in urban policies in China. Food and drinks will also be provided!

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Bob Schieffer: The Candidates and the Debates
WHEN Wed., Oct. 28, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media & Democracy Fellow; former CBS News anchor and host of "Face the Nation"
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media & Democracy Fellow, will examine the 2016 debates, candidates, and the race for Speaker of the House.
Bob Schieffer has been a reporter for more than half a century and was a part of CBS News for 46 years. He is one of the few reporters in Washington to have covered all four of the major beats: the Pentagon, the White House, Congress and the State Department. Schieffer anchored the Saturday edition of the “CBS Evening News” for 23 years, became the network’s chief Washington correspondent in 1982 and was named the anchor and moderator of “Face the Nation” in 1991. Within these roles he has interviewed every president since Richard Nixon and moderated three presidential debates. Throughout his career Schieffer has written four books, won numerous awards and covered every presidential race and nominating convention since 1972. He will be in residence at the Shorenstein Center on a visiting basis for three semesters, throughout the 2016 election season. During his time on campus Schieffer will meet with students and faculty, speak at various events for the Harvard community and participate in Shorenstein Center activities.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/2016-campaign-series-event-with-bob-schieffer/

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Reining in Citizens: Character and Citizenship Education in Singapore
WHEN Wed., Oct. 28, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gutman Conference Center Area 1, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Civic & Moral Education Initiative, Harvard Graduate School of Education
SPEAKER(S) Jasmine B.Y. Sim, associate professor, Curriculum Teaching & Learning
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
With discussant Mitalene Fletcher, director of preK-12 and international programs, Programs in Professional Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CONTACT INFO bdm784@mail.harvard.edu
DETAILS This presentation will focus on Character and Citizenship Education (CCE), the latest innovation in citizenship education in Singapore. CCE is part of a “Student-Centric, Values-Driven education phase” in Singapore’s education. The aim is to develop the whole person to be ‘future-ready’ and there is a particular focus on values and character development. CCE is implemented in all schools in 2014 and 2015. In this presentation, I will examine the nature of CCE, and show that it is the most pervasive and intrusive of the citizenship education initiatives to date. To this end, I will outline the development of citizenship education in Singapore, and situate CCE in this chronology. I will then address three aspects of CCE, viz. CCE as a total curriculum, the emphasis on the implicit curriculum, and the focus on character. I will argue that a possible purpose of CCE is to rein in Singapore’s citizens at a time when the government fears its hold on them, as well as its ability to control events, is gradually being eroded in the globalized context.
LINK cmei-harvard.ning.com

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Assessing NATO's Role in the Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Wednesday, October 28
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan University

Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar

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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Boston Startup Job Fair

Wednesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

The Boston Startup Job Fair specializes in connecting Massachusetts area startups with the region’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional level job seekers. In the Fall of 2015 we’ll be featuring 45 hiring startups and expect to have over 400 open positions. Startups are hiring for both technical and non-technical roles. Past attendees have included Bookbub, Hubspot, Gazelle, Acquia and more! The event is FREE for all job seekers. Register now at http://boston.startupjobfair.org

Schedule:
12:00-2:00pm Developers Only
2:00-5:00pm All Candidates

Website: http://boston.startupjobfair.org

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Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Phytoplankton Communities

Wednesday, October 28
12:10pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Stephanie Dutkiewicz (MIT)

A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography.

Event website: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/sack-lunch-seminar-series-stephanie-dutkiewicz-mitical

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Urbanization and the Future of China
WHEN Wed., Oct. 28, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Professor Meg E. Rithmire, assistant professor, Harvard Business School

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Aging Brain Seminar Series: Dr. Philip De Jager
Wednesday, October 28
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 46-6309, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Dr. Philip De Jager
Aging Brain Seminar Series
The Aging Brain Initiative is dedicated to conquering Alzheimer's disease and the dementias of aging through fundamental research into how the brain ages in health and in decline. This multidisciplinary, highly collaborative effort is spearheaded by the Picower Institute and the MIT School of Science. It brings together experts in neuroscience, bioengineering, biology, computer science, artificial intelligence, medicine, health economics and health policy. Their mission is to deliver the basic research that makes possible new tools, technologies and pharmaceuticals to address the challenges of brain aging, always with the aim of moving knowledge quickly from bench to bedside.

Web site: https://picower.mit.edu/cms/events/aging-brain-initiative-seminar-series-with-dr-philip-de-jager/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
For more information, contact: Najat Kessler
617-452-2485

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Two Systems: A Lecture by Sarah Howe
WHEN Wed., Oct. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Sarah Howe, 2015-2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute; poet and editor (United Kingdom)
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Howe will share sequences from her new volume of poems, “Two Systems,” which explores the historical encounter between China and the West, working toward Hong Kong’s present struggle for democracy. The poems use techniques such as the reshaping of found material and poetic “erasures” as a way of giving shape to political uncertainty and cultural amnesia.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sarah-howe-fellow-presentation

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Next Generation Soft Wearable Robots
Wednesday, October 28
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Conor Walsh, Harvard Paulson School, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Next generation wearable robots will use soft materials such as textiles and elastomers to provide a more conformal, unobtrusive and compliant means to interface to the human body. These robots will augment the capabilities of healthy individuals (e.g. improved walking efficiency, increased grip strength) in addition to assisting patients who suffer from physical or neurological disorders. The fundamental premise of this research is that small to moderate levels of assistance, delivered through lightweight and flexible platforms can have significant and meaningful effects for both healthy and physically impaired individuals. This talk will focus on soft wearable robots for the lower and upper extremity that demonstrate the design and fabrication principles required to realize these systems as well evidence of their utility through experiments on human subjects studies. The first is a soft exosuit that that can apply assistive joint torques to synergistically propel the wearer forward and provide support to minimize loading on the musculoskeletal system. This is enabled through the unique use of force-transmitting, conformal textiles that anchor to the body, proximally-mounted cable-based actuation systems, and adaptive control algorithms that use the minimum number of sensors. Advantages of the suit over traditional exoskeletons are that the wearer's joints are unconstrained by external rigid structures, and the worn part of the suit is extremely light, which minimizes the suit's unintentional interference with the body's natural biomechanics. Results will be presented that demonstrate a bilateral exosuit’s ability to reduce the energy cost of walking for healthy persons carrying heavy load and a unilateral exosuit can improve gait mechanics and reduced energy cost for patients poststroke. The second is a soft robotic glove that can be used to restore an impaired patient’s ability to grasp objects during activities of daily living. The glove consists of a wearable textile with attached elastomeric fluid-powered actuators specially designed to match the natural movements of the fingers and thumb. This is achieved by combining elastomeric tubular bladders with anisotropic reinforcements in its wall to determine the resulting deformation upon pressurization. Demonstration of the soft robotic glove improving functional grasp in a muscular dystrophy patient will be shared, as well as preliminary efforts of a control system that can detect the intent of the wearer so as to enable intuitive operation.

Applied Mechanics Colloquia

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The ecology of the microbiome: networks, competition, and stability

Wednesday, October 28

4:00p–5:00p

MIT, Building 48-316, Parsons, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Kat Coyte, University of Oxford, https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/katharine.coyte

Microbial Systems Seminar

Web site: https://microbialsystems.wordpress.com/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Kathryn Kauffman or Chris Corzett
k6logc@mit.edu or corzett@mit.edu

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BigData@CSAIL Lecture Series with Aidan O'Brien of EMC's Strategic Big Data Initiative
Carrolee Moore
Wednesday, October 28

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)

MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Aidan O'Brien joined EMC four years ago as part of the Global Services Group. Aidan now runs the firm’s Strategic Big Data Initiative. He has built out a cross functional team to develop and drive Big Data Solutions that leverage and complement the various technology products that EMC brings to market. Prior to EMC, Aidan spent some time in the Indian outsourcing industry and a decade in Andersen Consulting/Accenture. Originally an Oxford economist, a missed vocation as a professional soccer player in the UK led to him turning to technology consulting.

Abstract: Running a start up inside the world’s largest privately owned technology company.
Aidan O’Brien is running EMC’s Strategic Big Data Initiative. This program has been designed to both establish EMC as a leader in the big data market and accelerate the transformation of how the 30-year-old storage giant does business. Come and learn about their early results, some of the biggest challenges they have faced over the last 2 years and how they’ve sought to address them, and what still remains to be done.

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The Time is NOW! Join us for the launch of our new Massachusetts Campaign
Wednesday, October 28

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Dewey Square, Boston

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/519526261554368/

The Time is NOW! We are mothers, grandmothers and allies who care deeply about our children’s health and future in the face of climate change. We are utility customers, and, as the bill payers in our households we urge them, in the strongest possible terms, to build clean now. We ask that they withdraw support for new fossil fuel infrastructure, and use their power today for all children’s health. We're choosing in our own households to make the switch from fossil fuels to renewables electricity. We ask that utilities make the same choice.

We're calling on the utility companies to commit to:
No New Gas Pipelines
Only Clean Renewable Energy Moving Forward

This announcement event will be trick-or-treat themed, so be sure to wear your Halloween costume:
Don't be tricked into paying for dirty gas pipelines!
Methane leaks make kids sicker than Halloween candy!

There will also be games, face painting, sidewalk chalk drawing, singing and dancing.

More updates coming soon, but in the meantime please RSVP and Invite your friends to attend!

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Book Launch Party for The Power of Resilience by Yossi Sheffi
Wednesday, October 28
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Yossi Sheffi
To celebrate the release of his new book, Professor Yossi Sheffi, the author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, will hold a one-hour talk at 5pm with beverages and light refreshments to follow.

Copies of his latest book will be available for purchase at the event.

Book Summary: A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning part. A strike halts shipments through a major port. A new digital device decimates the sales of other brands and senOctober 28ds established firms to the brink of bankruptcy. The interconnectedness of the global economy today means that unexpected events in one corner of the globe can ripple through the world???s supply chain and affect customers everywhere.

In this book, Yossi Sheffi shows why modern vulnerabilities call for innovative processes and tools for creating and embedding corporate resilience and risk management. Sheffi offers fascinating case studies that illustrate how companies have prepared for, coped with, and come out stronger following disruption from the actions of Intel after the 2011 Japanese tsunami to the disruption in the "money supply chain" caused by the 2008 financial crisis.

Web site: http://ctl.mit.edu/events/book_release_launch_power_resilience_yossi_sheffi
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for Transportation & Logistics
For more information, contact: Nancy L Martin
617-253-1547
nlmartin@mit.edu

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Solve Talks at Google: REINVENTING HEALTHCARE
Monday, October 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: Rushika Ferdandopulle, CEO of Iora Health, Denny Ausiello, Chairman at Mass General, Heidi Williams, MIT
Politicians have argued about healthcare for decades. But medicine gets more sophisticated. Costs go up. And government spending rises. Is a breaking point coming? Will healthcare have to fundamentally reinvent itself - and how will that reinvention impact doctors and patients?

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On the Road to Paris
Wednesday, October 28
5:30-7:30pm
Tufts, Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, 1 The Green, Medford

Dan Reifsnyder, Co-Chair of UNFCCC Climate Negotiations. Hosted by the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP)

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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, October 28
5:30p–8:30p
MA Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.masshist.org/events
Cost: $10

This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.

Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.

Program 2: Wednesday, October 28
Connecting the Communities Back to the City, 1960 -- 1990
Location: MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
With Langley Keyes, MIT; Paul Chan, MHIC; Ann Hershfang, WalkBoston; Karilyn Crockett, City of Boston; and moderator Rep. Byron Rushing, Massachusetts House of Representatives.

The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: 617-646-0578

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Architecture Lecture: Eva Diaz, Is "Spaceship Earth" Utopia?
Wednesday, October 28
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Eva Diaz

MIT Architecture Lecture Series

Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and History, Theory and Criticism Group Lecture Series

Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

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EARTHOS CONVERSATION #2: ALEWIFE BIOREGIONAL CORRIDOR
Wednesday, October 28
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-alewife-project-from-edge-to-vibrant-corridor-tickets-19148478615

Cost: $15

Join us on October 28th as we look at the Alewife/Mystic Corridor Project.
The Alewife Corridor is located along Route 16, a regional transportation corridor with bike path and links to Alewife MBTA station, this corridor is currently at the edge of our cities and our imaginations. This conversation seeks to help bridge efforts in the river corridor to foster a stronger sense of place, belonging, and economy with living systems. By connecting environmental stewardship efforts with leadership in the arts, creative urban placemaking, innovation, and resiliency we can bring this urban-regional gem into focus and re-envision its future together. What would it look like as an active, resilient eco-corridor engaging neighboring communities and the broader bioregion?

About Earthos Conversation Series 2015. Together, during the Earthos Conversation Series 2015, we will examine 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 will look at how the toolbox can help catalyze and incubate new and emerging projects in the region.
The Earthos Lab brings people together to research, learn, and collaborate towards robust regional systems.

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Cryptoparty: Imagining What the Internet Will Look Like in 5 Years
Wednesday, October 28
6-9pm
Parts and Crafts, 577 Somerville Avenue, Somerville

The theme of October's Cryptoparty is Community Jamboree: Imagining what the Internet will look like in 5 years. We need curious cats and experts in the art of the possible to come together and envision the near-future of online communication.

We'll start the discussion with a 30,000 foot overview of three interrelated and important fields relevant to our digital rights: Networking, cryptography, and broadband policy. Each field will be described in concrete terms as they exist in your everyday life and for everyday people.

Networking People connect to the Internet over thousands of miles of copper, fiber optic, and submarine (!) cable. We can use computers and digital communication to reach each other without accessing the Internet, though. Your typical Local Area Network (LAN) is closed to the outside but still good for sharing files and communicating. We'll talk about mesh networking, a network that works by line-of-sight connections of roof antennae. What services do you use on your smartphone or your laptop that could be supported by mesh networks – without the support of the Internet.

Cryptography Puzzles, ciphers, hashes, codes, secrets. Cryptography is a subfield of mathematics used to programmatically scramble messages. Public key cryptography, also called asymmetrical cryptography, uses pairings of public and private keys to encrypt messages between people. You create a public and a private key for yourself. You hide your private key and use your private key to decrypt messages sent to you. A friend uses your public key (hence public!) to encrypt a message to you, so that only you can decrypt the message your friend sent. See September's cryptoparty to learn more about how packet routing in computer networks gets encrypted (cjdns).

Broadband policy Here's where the rubber meets the road. How do we make sure that our privacy and community-driven networks are broadband ready? 1gps! There are 165 community fiber networks in the United States. Learn about them here: http://www.bbpmag.com/search.php.

From there, it's up to everyone present to engage each others about how we secure the right to communicate and share information.

Potluck snacks/BYOB. Kids welcome to join.

Address: 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143 (http://partsandcrafts.org) Closest MBTA: bus 87, or a walk from Porter Sq/red line. The space is wheelchair accessible.

Parts and Crafts is a makerspace and community workshop in Somerville. On this night, the usually kid-filled space is inviting grown-ups to come participate here. We ask that all grown-ups who use the space keep this in mind and respect the kid-friendly environment.

If you want to prepare before coming, you can find some encryption how-to guides here: https://www.cryptopartyatx.org/?page=1&os=win&js=auto-yes

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James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency
Wednesday, October 28
7:00pm
BC, Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill

Lowell Humanities Series Presents James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler had a successful career as a novelist and journalist. He published his first critique of American architecture and urban planning, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Manmade Landscape in 1993. He followed Geography with Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century in 1996. The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition (2001) is Kunstler’s third book in this urban-planning trilogy. In it he examines eight cities—Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Boston and London—discussing the ways in which their design and architecture have shaped their cultures and successes. For his next work, Kunstler trained his eye on the oil crisis. The bestselling book The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century (2005), explores the sweeping economic, political and social changes that will result from the end of access to cheap fossil fuels. A seasoned journalist, Kunstler continues to write for The Atlantic Monthly, Slate.com, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and the Op-Ed page where he often covers environmental and economic issues.

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Growing Together: How viruses have shaped human evolution
Wednesday, October 28
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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October Mixer: "Science in the News"
Wednesday, October 28
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/october-mixer-science-in-the-news-tickets-18780157958

Join SWE Boston members at a free science seminar presented by Science In The News at Harvard Medical School's Armenise Auditorium! This event will take place from 7-9 pm on Wednesday, October 28th.
New SWE Members to the Boston Section will be on hand to connect and mingle. No prior knowledge is necessary. All are welcome. This event is free! This particular lecture covers the topic "Growing Together: How Viruses have Shaped Human Evolution." The seminar is one of the last in the Fall Series by SITN.
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
This seminar will be held in the Armenise Auditorium at Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston. The school is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. The closest T stops are the Longwood Medical Area and Brigham Circle stops on the Green Line (the E/Lechmere branch).
Contact/RSVP
This is a casual networking event with no registration fee to attend. Contact Nicole Woon (nicole.woon AT swe DOT org) for the most up-to-date information. We may meet before/after the event for food; if so, it is a pay-for-your-own-meal event. Please RSVP early in case we need to make table reservations. Remember to bring your ID if ordering anything alcoholic, cash to make payment easier, and business cards to remember everyone's names. Hope to see you there!

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Thursday, October 29
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Action call from Mike Higgins of Boston Area Solar Energy Association:
Help by Oct. 29th to lift solar net metering caps!
Action Imminent on Net Metering Caps?
Legislature Ready to Make a Move...
Sound the Call to Lift the Caps!

The Massachusetts legislature intends to produce an omnibus energy bill - but it is clear that this will not happen this year. As public pressure (that's us, many of us) increases to remove barriers to the growth of solar energy (net metering caps), and time is running out for legislative action this year (basically, the Nov. 18th Thanksgiving holiday break is the effective deadline), there comes some very important news.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo said on Friday, Oct. 23rd, "I'm well aware obviously that the energy legislation is probably going to be taking a little bit longer than I had expected and looks like it's probably going to extend into next year," according to an audio clip of his remarks. "Because of that, I have asked the chairman of the committee on energy to make sure we take out of that bill so we can address it in a much shorter time issues relative to solar energy so we can take care of that more immediately this year and not next."

Speaker DeLeo is talking about the net metering caps, it would seem, because it is the burning issue related to solar energy. With three or four weeks to go to actually get some legislation done, the timing is crucial that we let our voices be heard this week.

** Call this Thursday - we are teaming together to get more than 300 phone calls in one day

Simply call and tell your representative to "raise the caps on net metering before Thanksgiving". Here is a guide from another Mass Power Forward partner, VoteSolar.org

(http://votesolar.org/campaigns/state-campaigns/massachusetts/tell-your-legislators-let-solar-grow/)

Plan some time to do this on Thursday, Oct. 29th - and spread the word: see if you can double or triple your efforts by having a friend, colleague, family member or two make calls to help move the House to act and restore opportunity for continued solar growth. The Senate has already voted to do this, and New York has just removed their caps, as they also work on a broader energy vision plan.

** The three easy steps for your call on Thursday (or before) are:
1. Call the House Switchboard (617) 722-2000 - ask to be put through to your Representative
2. Say to them: "Raise the caps on net metering before Thanksgiving so solar can continue to grow"
3. Get a friend to do the same and report back to help us keeps tabs - email sean@votesolar.org

Take part in a renewable energy future by participating in this effort to promote solar power!

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MAPC 2015 Fall Council Meeting
Thursday October 29
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
UMass Boston Campus Center, University Drive North, Dorchester
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebldn69ef3d2bda9&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4

Don't forget to register for MAPC's annual Fall Council Meeting on Thursday, October 29 at the UMass Boston Campus Center!

We will be honoring one exemplary staff member with the Davidson Achievement Award, as well as awarding one municipal leader from the region with our annual Mann Award for outstanding regional leadership.

We will also be hosting lightning presentations on our work, including climate adaptation in Quincy, local transportation funding, connecting immigrant entrepreneurs in Framingham, reimagining Hall's Corner in Duxbury, lowering municipal energy rates, and planning for equity and quality of life in Chelsea.

We will also hold MPO elections, in which city and town officials will elect members to the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO).

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Sustainable Diets: Science, Guidance, and Politics
Thursday, October 29
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Tim Griffin, Food, Agriculture & Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University
Dietary guidelines are about diets and health, but the ways people eat have many impacts. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) began its work in late 2013, and released its Scientific Report in February 2015. For the first time, the DGAC report included an assessment of the environmental impacts of human diets. Much has been made of the fact that the DGAC included these issues (both in support and in opposition), but the rationale for inclusion is clear: our ability to meet food security goals in the future is directly impacted by our use of resources now. There is a significant scientific assessment that connects dietary patterns to sustainability outcomes, which will be reviewed. The public and political response will also be discussed.

Timothy S. Griffin is an Associate Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. At Friedman, he directs the interdisciplinary graduate program, Agriculture, Food and the Environment, and teaches classes on U.S. agriculture, and agricultural science and policy. His current research focuses on: regional food system, and climate change impacts on agriculture. He served as an Advisor to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, focusing on Sustainability, and is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences study Genetically Engineered Crops: Past Experiences and Future Prospects. Before coming to the Friedman School in 2008, he was Research Agronomist and Lead Scientist with the USDA-Agriculture Research Service in Orono, ME, from 2000 to 2008. From 1992 to 2000, he was the Extension Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at the University of Maine, the first such position in the U.S. He graduated from Michigan State University (Ph.D) and the University of Nebraska (B.S. and M.S.)

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The Political Economy of Quagmires
WHEN Thu., Oct. 29, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, postdoctoral research fellow, International Security Program/Middle East Initiative
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6761/political_economy_of_quagmires.html

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Greentown Labs DEMO Day 2015!
Thursday, October 29

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
28 Dane Street, Somerville

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentown-labs-demo-day-2015-tickets-18478103505

Cost: $50.00 $0.00 Ticket Quantity Select

Featured Speakers:
Charlie Baker, Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Karyn Polito, Lieutenant Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Greentown Labs DEMO Day brings entrepreneurs, investors, strategic partners, VIPs and decision makers from around the world together to promote the cleantech companies solving global environmental issues.

DEMO Day is a showcase of cutting-edge clean technology and innovation in wind, water, energy efficiency, energy storage, energy generation, transportation, cleanweb and more. Founders and team members of our award-winning startups will display their prototypes and share recent milestones.
Company presentations will be held throughout the 33,000 SF Greentown Labs facility in Somerville, MA. In addition to viewing our custom built co-working and event space, guests will also have the unique opportunity to visit and explore our prototyping lab

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“Big data pragmatics!”, or, “Putting computational linguistics in computational social science”, or, if you think these title alternatives could turn people on, turn people off, or otherwise have an effect, this talk might be for you.
Thursday, October 29
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Lillian Lee, Cornell University
What effect does language have on people?
You might say in response, "Who are you to discuss this problem?" and you would be right to do so; this is a Major Question that science has been tackling for many years. But as a field, I think natural language processing and computational linguistics have much to contribute to the conversation, and I hope to encourage the community to further address these issues.
This talk will focus on the effect of phrasing, emphasizing aspects that go beyond just the selection of one particular word over another. The issues we'll consider include: Does the way in which something is worded in and of itself have an effect on whether it is remembered or attracts attention, beyond its content or context? Can we characterize how different sides in a debate frame their arguments, in a way that goes beyond specific lexical choice (e.g., "pro-choice" vs. "pro-life")? The settings we'll explore range from movie quotes that achieve cultural prominence; to posts on Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, and the arXiv; to framing in public discourse on the inclusion of genetically-modified organisms in food.
Joint work with Lars Backstrom, Justin Cheng, Eunsol Choi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg, Bo Pang, Jennifer Spindel, and Chenhao Tan.
Speaker Bio: Lillian Lee is a professor of computer science and of information science at Cornell University, and the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the ACL.
Her research interests include natural language processing and computational social science. She is the recipient of the inaugural Best Paper Award at HLT-NAACL 2004 (joint with Regina Barzilay), a citation in “Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004” by Technology Research News (also joint with Regina Barzilay), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; and in 2013, she was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Her group’s work has received several mentions in the popular press, including The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, and NBC’s The Today Show, and one of her co-authored papers was publicly called “boring” by Youtubers Rhett and Link in a video viewed over 2.1 million times.

Computer Science Colloquium Series

Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu

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Experimentation and Disclosure of News
Thursday, October 29
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-151, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Yingni Guo (Northwestern)

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT/Harvard Theory Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar

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Race and the Future of Asian American Politics
WHEN Thu., Oct. 29, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
SPEAKER(S) Janelle Wong, professor of American studies and director of Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland
CONTACT INFO emr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Janelle Wong will discuss the racial position of Asian Americans in U.S. politics past and present. She will use survey data and other evidence to explore Asian American political engagement around racialized issues like affirmative action. Will Asian Americans disrupt or reinforce status-quo politics? And is it possible for Asian Americans to prove a transformative force in the U.S. political system?
LINK http://emr.fas.harvard.edu/event/race-and-future-asian-american-politics

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SSN Forum: Democracy Under Siege
WHEN Thu., Oct. 29, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Scholars Strategy Network - scholarsstrategynetwork.org
SPEAKER(S) Jacob Hacker, Yale
Martin Gilens, Princeton
Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern
Theda Skocpol, Harvard
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Harvard
Shauna Shames, Rutgers
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Hacker: "What Changes in Business Organization Mean for American Democracy"
Gilens/Page: Thwarting the Majority: Unequal Voice and Gridlock in American Democracy"
Skocpol/Hertel-Fernandez: "The Hard Right Tilt – Roots, Results, and Remedies"
Shames: Moderator

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Funding for Small Business Technology Acquisition – U.S. Navy Rapid Innovation Fund Program
Thursday, October 29

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebkenhjn25a3b767&llr=xn9qlimab

Are you a small business with a technology you want to sell the US Navy? Do you have a technology developed through the SBIR program and are looking for commercialization opportunities? Are you a defense contractor looking for funding sources to integrate small business technologies into your platforms?

Please join NDIA New England and the Navy Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) for a panel discussion on how to do business with the US Navy RIF program. Panelists include:
Tom Gallagher, Program Manager of the Department of Navy’s Rapid Innovation Fund

Attila Lengyel, President and COO, Mide Technology, past recipient of RIF program

Matthew Taylor, Supplier Innovation, Raytheon IDS

Panelists will be available for questions during the seminar and will be available to meet with attendees at Venture Café after the panel event.

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Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
Thursday, October 29
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Net Vitality is a new analytic approach to examine ways to sustain long-term Internet vibrancy, both in the United States and around the world, and helps inform future government policies that impact the deployment and adoption of broadband technologies. Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart N. Brotman's Net Vitality Index, released earlier this year, also measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment, gauging the true vitality of a country's Internet ecosystem.

Based on five years of research, the Net Vitality Index is the first holistic analysis of the global broadband Internet ecosystem, identifying the United States, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and France as the top-tier leaders. Unlike the one-dimensional rankings that serve as the basis of most broadband comparative studies, Brotman's composite metric takes into account 52 factors developed independently to evaluate countries on an apples-to-apples basis. Overarching categories assessed encompass applications, devices, networks, and macroeconomic factors.

Brotman is a faculty member at Harvard Law School and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

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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The Third Annual Food is Medicine Symposium

Thursday, October 29

5:30pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, North Classroom, On the Corner of Everett Street and Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.foodday.org/jterranova/the_third_annual_food_is_medicine_symposium

Making the case for Food is Medicine with data and cutting edge research.

Seth Berkowitz, MD, Faculty Member, Mass. General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
David Waters, CEO, Community Servings
Sarah Downer, Clinical Instructor, The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School

How the healthcare system is integrating nutrition programs to improve population health.
Sandra Stenmark, MD, Kaiser Permanente Colorado
Jennifer Obadia, PhD, New England Regional Coordinator | Healthy Food in Health Care, Health Care Without Harm
Jody Adams, Chef, Rialto, and Member, Board of Directors, Partners In Health

The role of retailers in the Food is Medicine movement.
Annika Nielsen, BA, Fellow, Daily Table
Sue Joss, CEO, Brockton Neighborhood Health Center

Additional speakers to be announced

Contact: Jean Terranova

JTerranova@servings.org

617-522-7777 x 253

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Balancing Cyber Security and Privacy in the Digital Age
Thursday, October 29
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/balancing-cyber-security-and-privacy-in-the-digital-age-tickets-18779751743

The idea of privacy has undergone significant changes in the digital age, as has the idea of privacy harm. Fearful of British spying, influence, and intervention, the founding fathers granted citizens significant protections in the Constitution. Now, the tables have turned: concerns about what some see as a U.S. dragnet and unwarranted privacy intrusions have compelled other countries to revamp their own privacy protections. Legislation, both at home and abroad, hasn’t kept pace with technological developments, leaving some wondering if privacy as we know it is long dead.
SPEAKERS:
Michael Sulmeyer, Director of Cyber Security Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Architecture Lecture: Anne Holtrop, Material Gesture
Thursday, October 29
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Anne Holtrop

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture Lecture Series

Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

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MIT Water Innovation Prize Generator Dinner
Thursday, October 29
6:00-9:00pm
MIT, Stratton Student Center, Lobdell Dining Hall W20-208, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-water-innovation-prize-generator-dinner-tickets-18887164016?aff=es2

Join us for the launch of the MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP)

Idea pitch & dinner | Food and drinks provided
Who: MIT & non-MIT undergraduates, graduate students, fellows... all are welcome

At the event, you'll have an opportunity to pitch your water-related idea/research/project, find team members, and learn about the exciting water innovation happening at MIT and the surrounding area. Industry experts will also be in attendance to present real-world water challenges that need your help to solve.

The MIT Water Innovation Prize is a solutions-to-market competition for water startups. Teams will submit entry to the prize in late December and compete for seed funding in the spring. Visit mitwaterinnovation.com for more info. WIP is part of the MIT Water Club.

Space is limited, so RSVP to guarantee your seat!

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An Evening with Water Scientist Michal Kravčík

Thursday, October 29

6:30 PM

MIT, Building 4-149, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, ASHOKA fellow, and co-author of A New Water Paradigm: Water for the Recovery of the Climate, which emphasizes hydrologic cycles in addressing climate change. He is also a founding member and chairman of Slovakia’s NGO People and Water. In 1999, Kravčík was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his contributions to the water management of the Torysa River after galvanizing support to halt a dam planned during the Communist era by proposing effective democratic alternatives, including smaller dams, decentralized water management, and restored farmlands. Kravčík took his ideas to the national level in 1998, helping to organize a non-partisan national voter education campaign that resulted in unprecedented citizen participation in national elections. People and Water organized the Village and Democracy project in 164 villages in the Levoca mountain region to support democratic processes and build a sustainable open society. Kravčík and People and Water have continued to work toward integrated river basin management in the region via the sustainable development programs “Villages for the Third Millennium”, “Water for the Third Millenium” and “Blue Alternative”.

And check out Michal’s Global Action Plan for the Restoration of Natural Water Cycles and Climate!

http://bio4climate.org/downloads/Kravcik_Global_Action_Plan.pdf

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CSR and Sustainability: From the Margins to the Mainstream

Thursday, October 29

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston

RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Corporate-Social-Responsibility-Sustainability-Meetup/events/225650708/

Cost: $15.00 /per person

Michael Hopkins and Deborah Leipziger will present the key points of Michael's new book to be published by Greenleaf, UK in September 2015. Deborah has also been involved in its production and will share the short presentation followed by discussion and networking.

Rebecca Marsh, Publishing Director, GSE Research and Greenleaf Publishing writes:

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies, NGOs and the public sector. It has grown from being a concept embraced by a small number of companies such as The Body Shop in the early 1990s to a widespread global movement. At its weakest level, it is represented by a few philanthropic gestures by organisations, but when applied in its most complete form, it can steer the organization or sector to deliver a fully-fledged, system-wide, multi-stakeholder operation, accompanied by multiple types of certification.

For the first time, a book brings together key issues relating to CSR as they apply to different aspects of business; it is not another generalist title about CSR. Michael Hopkins, a leading expert in the field, is joined by a number of outstanding contributors to the book, to explain how CSR has evolved since the 1990s and to offer ground-breaking insights and practical and specific applications of the concept. For example, Mervyn King explains Integrating Reporting, Deborah Leipziger looks at CSR, Branding and the Supply Chain, George Starcher provides a framework for Socially Responsible Restructuring, and Adrian Henriques explores Social Accounting and Stakeholder Dialogue.

A one-stop reference book for professionals and students of CSR
Contributions from leading specialists in the application of CSR
Translates well-established theories into practical tools

We have to make charge to ensure we have a properly set up room ($15). Happily we shall also offer soft drinks, wine and a quick bite. Kindly pay at the door.

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GANG VIOLENCE IN EL SALVADOR--What is the popular response?
Date: Thursday October 29 from 7:30 - 9:30pm
Location: Encuentro5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston (next to the Orpheum, Park St T stop)
PETER ELVIS NATAREN will share the recent experience of his community, Santa Marta El Salvador
Hear about their struggle to deal with the issue and have justice served.
Join in the discussion. Who are the intellectual authors of the crimes? Whose interests do they serve? What is the role of the US Government? What should be our response as US citizens. Peter Elvis Nataren is was born in 1986 in a Refugee Camp in Honduras where his family had fled during the Civil War in El Salvador.
He is an active member of the group of Memoria Historica which is documenting the history of his community during the war and looking to bring restorative justice to the families of the victims of the many massacres that took place. He is also the founder and coordinator of INVER (Innovacion Vegetal Rural) a Youth Organization for a Dignified and Equitable Community Agriculture, which promotes sustainable agriculture rooted in the local mountainous environment and in so doing, challenges the conventional agricultural practices promoted by Monsanto and Bayer. He has been involved in the local resistance movement against Gold Mining in the Department of Cabanas.

Sponsored by Doctors for Global Health DGH (www.dgholine.org) and the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador CISPES (www.cispes.org).
For info contact Denise Zwahlen at denisezwahlen@yahoo.com

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Friday, October 30
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Northeastern University Energy Conference
Friday, October 30
8:00AM
Northeastern, McLeod Suites, 318 CSC, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://neu.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.aspx?id=1742&cid=140&p=1
Cost: $15-25

The Northeastern University Energy System Society (NU-ESS) welcomes all members of the community who are interested in taking a more active role in energy, sustainability, and environmental issues as both students in the classroom and professionals working in the industry. The conference will address the current and future scenario in clean power, entrepreneurship, energy efficiency opportunities in out built ecology, the grids of the future and energy policies in an interdisciplinary manner. Registration includes panel discussions, workshops, showcase area, breakfast, lunch, and a late afternoon Halloween style cocktail networking reception. For more details, check our website www.neuess.com

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-30-120000/northeastern-university-energy-conference#sthash.o6FbHvri.dpuf

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How to evaluate the importance of the non-conservation of several thermodynamic variables such as entropy
Friday, October 30
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Trevor McDougall, Scientia Professor of Ocean Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales

Houghton Lecture - "Lectures on the Thermodynamics of Seawater and Ice"
Supported through the Houghton Fund, Houghton Lecturers are distinguished visitors from outside MIT who we invite to spend a period of time, ranging from a week to several months as scientists-in-residence within our Program. During their stay it is customary for each lecturer to offer a short-course or a series of lectures on some topic of wide interest. Houghton Lecturer recommendations are welcome throughout the year. Contact Raffaele Ferrari with your suggestions.

Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Christine Maglio
617-253-6603
cliberty@mit.edu

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A Chemist’s Solution to Excessive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Catalytic Solar-Driven Reduction of Aqueous CO2 to Organics
Friday, October 30
3:00 PM
BU, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM

Andrew Bocarsly, Princeton University
Abstract: The electrochemical transformation of CO2 to methanol, a process involving 6-electrons and 6-protons requires a thermodynamic energy input of 690kJ/mole under standard conditions, about 5.5 times more energy than the free energy required to split water. But, for this “price” one obtains a liquid fuel that has an enthalpic combustion content, which is about 2.8 times larger than hydrogen. This combined with methanol’s density (compared to hydrogen) provides a volumetric energy density that makes this compound a potential liquid fuel. If one can convert CO2 to larger alcohols or other organics, the energy requirements appear even more appealing.

However, the energy landscape for this type of reactivity is complicated by the large activation barrier associated with the one-electron reduction of CO2. In electrochemical terms, this means that to achieve a reasonable rate of conversion to products requires ~1V of potential beyond that required by thermodynamics. A volt of “overpotential” is an extreme energetic burden. In certain cases, this issue can be overcome either by the choice of electrode materials employed or by introducing a protonated aromatic amine as an electrocatalyst. For example, addition of pyridinium to a platinum electrode based electrochemical cell reduces the overpotential for methanol to ~200mV. Similar advantage can be obtained with aromatic amine catalysts for other C1 species. Even more intriguing, we find that certain electrode material/aromatic amine combinations promote the formation of carbon-carbon bonds, leading to the formation of true fuel and/or chemical feedstock compounds. This electrocatalytic approach can provide commercially useful products, while removing CO2 from the environment, as long as a nonfossil based fuel is utilized as the energy source.

To this end, we have developed a class of photoelectrochemical cells that are light driven and electrocatalytic for the multielectron reduction of CO2. In this system, one or both of the electrodes in the electrochemical reactor is composed of a semiconductor that absorbs visible light, generating a voltage in-situ. In this presentation, the chemical and electrochemical mechanisms that can lead to a practical reaction scheme for the conversion of CO2 to organic products are evaluated.

Biography: Andrew Bocarsly received his Bachelor of Science degree jointly in chemistry and physics from UCLA in 1976, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from M.I.T. in 1980. He has been a member of the Princeton University, Chemistry Department faculty for thirty-four years. He is affiliated with Princeton’s Materials Institute, Princeton’s Environmental Institute and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Professor Bocarsly has published over 190 papers in peer reviewed journals and co-authored over a dozen patents. Research in his laboratory is focused on visible light photoelectrochemistry for the conversion of carbon dioxide to alcohols; elevated temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells; cyanogel sol-gel processing; and molecule-based multielectron photoinduced charge transfer processes.

Professor Bocarsly serves as a consultant and contractor to various fuel cell and alternate energy companies. He is a co-founder and President of the Science Advisory Board for Liquid Light Inc., a company formed to commercialize the formation of organic commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide using alternate energy sources. Professor Bocarsly has received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Sigma Xi (Princeton Section) Science Educator Award, and the American Chemical Society-Exxon Solid State Chemistry award. Currently, he sits on the Advisory Board for the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and has edited a volume for Structure and Bonding in the area of fuel cells and batteries, and served as the electrochemistry editor for Methods in Materials Research.

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Claude Shannon and George Boole, Enablers of the Information Age

Friday, October 30
4:00p–5:00p

MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Robert G. Gallager
Claude Shannon (1916-2001) and George Boole (1815-1864) created much of the intellectual foundation for the
evolution of the information age. Shannon???s magnum opus in 1948 clarified the basic nature of information and
how it could be communicated, stored, and processed. Boolean logic, developed a century before, was shown by
Shannon to be a key for digital design.

The purpose of this talk is not to compare the roles of Shannon and Boole to other pioneers of the information age,
but rather to show how their theoretical ideas found their way into the main stream of information technology.
Perhaps more important, we try to learn about doing research from how these grand masters practiced their trade.

Boole Shannon LECTURE SERIES

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Com-Seminar
For more information, contact: Michael Lewy
617-253-6171
mlewy@mit.edu

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Askwith Forum: Everybody's Talking about Equity, But Nobody Knows the Meaning of the Word
WHEN Fri., Oct. 30, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS
Remarks by: Robert Peterkin, Professor of Practice, Emeritus, HGSE
Moderator: Charles Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Panelists:
Jennifer Cheatham, Ed.M.’06, Ed.D.’10, Superintendent, Madison Metropolitan School District, WI
Joseph Davis, Ed.M.’00, Ed.D.’08, Superintendent, Ferguson-Florrisant School District, MO
Stephen Zrike, Jr., Ed.M.’03, Ed.D.’10, Receiver of the Holyoke Public Schools, MA
The equity mission of urban school districts — to provide an excellent education to all students — is more difficult than ever to achieve. This Askwith Forum examines the social responsibility superintendents bear in leading their districts in educating underserved students. How can these leaders move their districts beyond providing “equity of access” to achieve “equity of outcomes” with students’ more advantaged peers? Our panel of urban superintendents shares their unique perspectives on this work with Charles Ogletree, and Robert Peterkin closes the evening by examining the implications for future leadership practice.

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Fright Factors: The Science of Fear
Friday, October 30
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

What happens in our bodies and minds when we are frightened? Join us for an evening of "speed geeking": short presentations and fast-paced, hair-raising conversations!
Presentations by:
Ki Ann Goosens - Relationship between fear, anxiety, stress (MIT)
Sarah Alger - Frightful Tools (MGH)
Nauchine Hadjikhani - Capturing the Moment of Fear in the Brain (HMS)
Steven Schlozmon - Zombies and the Brain (HMS)
David Thorburn - Film and Fear (MIT)

Refreshments provided.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/visit/calendar.html
Open to: 21+ only
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

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Silent Film Screening with Live Music - FAUST
Friday, October 30
8:00p
MIT, Building 14w-111, Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Film Screening of FAUST, a 1926 Silent Film by F. W. Murnau, with live musical accompaniment, created and performed by Martin Marks, with soprano Divya Pillai (G). 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.

Faust is a visually lavish and mesmerizing film. Director Murnau was at the height of his powers, and his cast included several great European actors???most notably Emil Jannings in the role of Mephistopheles. Murnau???s version departs from Goethe???s in many respects, though the director, like the poet, does heavily emphasize the tragic love story of innocent Gretchen and not-so-innocent Faust. For his accompaniment, film music expert Martin Marks has compiled a wide array of 19th-century pieces, including vocal works by Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Rossini, Brahms, and Humperdinck. Intermixed with these are incidental ???mood??? pieces that were commonly used in the twenties to accompany silent films.

Web site: mta.mit.edu
Open to: the general public

Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
617-253-3210
mta-request@mit.edu

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Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England
WHEN Sun., Nov. 1, 2015, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Richard W. Judd, Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History, University of Maine
COST $10
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1456&DayPlannerDate=11/1/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS Historian Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years. He traces a succession of cultures through New England’s changing postglacial environment down to the 1600s, when the arrival of Europeans interrupted this coevolution of nature and culture. A long period of tension and warfare, inflected by a variety of environmental problems, opened the way for frontier expansion. This in turn culminated in a unique landscape of forest, farm, and village that has become the embodiment of what Judd calls “second nature”— culturally modified landscapes that have superseded a more pristine “first nature.” Judd will relate significant cultural and ecological changes that have influenced the evolution of the New England landscape over time.

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Urban Male : 'Creating While Being Black in America' A Conversation w/Walter Mosley
Sunday, November 1
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Paramount, 559 Washington Street, Bright Family Screening Room, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-male-creating-while-being-black-in-america-a-conversation-wwalter-mosley-tickets-19086654698

In November of 2013, Future Boston launched our Signature Series, The Urban Male – a panel discussion around the men of color within our city and our investment in their success. Artists, entrepreneurs and innovators are invited to highlight the amazing work being done in this city by men of color. Past dialogues have focused on the topics of: Entrepreneurship, Achievement, Freedom, & Social Investing. Dialogues from past discussions can be found on the homepage of our website.

On November 1st, Join Future Boston & Arts Emerson for an exclusive, but always inclusive - free & open to the public Urban Male Event!
Urban Male: Walter Mosley in Conversation with Malia Lazu.
Join Walter Mosley for a conversation about his recent work graphomania and what it mean to create as a Black Artist in America
Where: The Paramount Theatre | 559 Washington Streeet
When: Sunday, November 1st | 3pm - 5pm

PLEASE RSVP AT THIS LINK

This event is an alignment between Future Boston's Urban Male Series and the 2015 collaboration between ArtsEmerson and Future Boston Alliance for the Fresh Sounds Master Artist in Residence: Walter Mosley: The Obsessive Residency, featuring a variety of special events including film screenings, play readings, a Public Dialogue Series event, book launch of his autobiography, and visual art exhibition October 30 through November 8, 2015 at various locations throughout Emerson College in Boston, MA. All events are free and open to the public with advance reservation by calling the ArtsEmerson box office at 617.824.8400 or by visiting artsemerson.org.

“This residency made possible by Fresh Sound is an incredible opportunity to see a glimpse of a multi-faceted, renowned artist and his expansive body of work,” says Polly Carl, Creative Director. “He truly is a graphomaniac, constantly writing, constantly creating. His numerous awards and recognitions for his fiction box him in as a writer in a lot of people’s minds, and with the Obsessive Residency, we’re bursting that open. His plays, films, and artwork all give insight to what is constantly going on in his mind."

About Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 43 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into 23 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
He lives in New York City.

About Malia Lazu, Executive Director & Co-Founder Future Boston Alliance
Upon completing a two-year fellowship at MIT, Malia Lazu joins Future Boston with over two decades of experience establishing grass roots involvement in political advocacy and civic engagement. Malia took over
as Executive Director in November 2011 where she serves as chief operations officer of Future Boston,
credited for taking Future Boston from concept into reality. As Executive Director, Malia is responsible for
overseeing all aspects of the organization’s strategic planning, program development, fundraising, and
reporting to the Board of Directors. The passion and success of Malia’s work has earned her a reputation as
one of the most insightful and critical organizers of her generation, and caught the attention of MTV,
Showtime, ABC-TV’s Chronicle, Fox News, and print publications such as Newsweek, The Boston Globe, and
Boston Magazine. In addition to her extensive work advocating for our youth, Malia has managed campaigns
for numerous tastemakers including Grammy Award-winner and famed Civil-Rights Activist Harry Belafonte,
American novelist Walter Mosley, and Peter Lewis, philanthropist and Democratic Party donor.

Editorial Comment: Walter Mosley is a fine novelist and his continuing characters like Easy Rawlins and Socrates Fortlow are not only popular but say something important about the USA. Mosley's non-fiction essays, too, are well worth reading.

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Garry Kasparov at First Parish Church
Sunday, November 1
7:00 PM (EST)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Garry Kasparov discusses Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
$5 tickets on sale October 13 at 9am
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale September 29
This event includes a book signing
Harvard Book Store welcomes activist, bestselling author, and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation GARRY KASPAROV for a discussion of his latest book, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped.
Learn more at http://www.harvard.com/event/garry_kasparov/

All pre-sales tickets include a copy of Winter Is Coming, admission into the event, and a $5 coupon for use in the bookstore. Pre-sales tickets are available online for two weeks only, after which a $5 ticket option will go on sale. Books bundled with pre-sale tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.

$5 tickets will also be available at Harvard Book Store and over the phone at 617-661-1515. Unless the event is sold out, any remaining tickets will be on sale at the door of the venue when doors open.

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Monday, November 2
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MASS Seminar - Yuhang Wang (Georgia Tech)
Monday, November 2
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Yuhang Wang (Georgia Tech)

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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-yuhang-wang-georgia-tech
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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Gas Hydrates as an Energy Source
Monday, November 2
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Carolyn Ruppel, Chief, US Geological Survey's Gas Hydrates Project

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/seminar.html

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693

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Of Science and Scientism: Framing Science in the Postwar American Humanities
Monday, November 2
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Andrew Jewett, Associate Professor of History and Social Studies, Harvard,
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

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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The City and Me
Monday, November 2
12:30p–1:30p
MIT, Building 10-105, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Jing Du
Join us for the "The City and Me," Jing Du's personal reflection on social and urban development in China. A successful real estate entrepreneur, Jing Du has worked in top real estate firms in China, and currently serves as the co-founder and partner of "TOPCHAIN Real Estate." Jing Du will use case studies to share his thoughts on reusing and revitalizing buildings, capitalizing on virtual resources, and how to profitably expand real estate stocks. Lunch will be served.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Heather Mooney
617-715-2352
hmooney@mit.edu

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Climate Change and the Transition to Sustainable Energy
Monday, November 2
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
BU, CAS, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 226, Boston

Speaker: Dr. Cutler Cleveland, Professor of Earth and Environment, CAS
Energy is central to any discussion of the human condition because it is central to the three pillars of sustainability. In the economic dimension, energy is clearly an important motor of macroeconomic growth. In the environmental dimension, fossil fuel energy systems are major sources of environmental stress at global as well as local levels; the most notable example is climate change. In the social dimension, energy is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of many basic human needs and services, and inequities in energy provision and quality often manifest themselves as issues of social justice. Greenhouse gas emissions can be substantially reduced only by replacing fossil fuels with some combination of renewable energy, nuclear energy, and improvements in the efficiency of energy use. How do we do that? This talk explores the importance of energy in our lives and in climate change, and the barriers and opportunities in the transition to low-carbon energy system.

Contact Name Jennifer Berglund
Email berglund@bu.edu

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Obfuscation Book Talk

Monday, November 2

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EST)
MIT, Building 32-123m 32 Vassar Street, Room Kirsch Auditorium, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/obfuscation-book-talk-tickets-18959472292

MIT Press, in partnership with the MIT Libraries and MIT CSAIL, celebrates the publication of the Press’ 8,000th unique title: Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

With Obfuscation Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum offer us ways to fight today’s pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it.

Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users’ search queries and stymie online advertising.

Finn Brunton is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet.

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Computer Science at New York University, where she is Director of the Information Law Institute. She is the author of Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. She is one of the developers of the TrackMeNot software.

Panelists:
Stuart Madnick: John Morris Maguire Professor of Information Technologies, MIT Sloan School of Management
Urs Gasser: Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School and Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Moderator:
Alex (Sandy) Pentland: Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Engineering Systems and Director, MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program; Director, Human Dynamics Laboratory

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Tipping in Social Norms: Evidence from the LGBT Movement
Monday, November 2
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Nils Wernerfelt (MIT)

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar

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The Future of Nature: Making an Impact

Monday, November 2
6:30PM TO 8:00PM
Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/massachusetts/explore/ma-future-of-nature.xml?src=r.future

Cost: $10 - $25

Learn how the Nature Conservancy and other nonprofits are using impact investment to prompt social and environmental change. Impact investing is an exciting approach that seeks to attract new resources for critical conservation work with the intention to generate measurable environmental and social impact alongside a financial return. Join us for a networking reception at 5:30pm, followed by 60 minutes of moderated discussion among our knowledgeable panelists and a brief audience Q&A. Featuring Marc Diaz, Managing Director, NatureVest, The Nature Conservancy; Tracy Palandjian, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Social Finance; and David Wood, Director, Initiative for Responsible Investment at Hauser Institute for Civil Society and Adjunct Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Tickets are $10 for students, $25 general public. Reserve yours today at www.nature.org/future

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Calvin Klein
WHEN Mon., Nov. 2, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Calvin Klein is an award-winning fashion icon. He is recognized globally as a master of minimalism and has spent his career distilling things to their very essence. His name ranks among the best-known brands in the world, with Calvin Klein, Inc. reaching over seven billion dollars in global retail sales.
Klein studied at the School of Art & Design and Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After a short time working as a designer, in 1968, he launched Calvin Klein, Inc. with childhood friend, Barry Schwartz.
Whether in fashion, fragrance, beauty or his collections for the home, his work has been subtle, sophisticated and possesses a clarity that redefined modern living, and an American point of view. For him, the challenge is to create new things that fit a modern way of life. “It's about making people look and feel good about themselves and their homes,” he says.
The scope of Calvin Klein’s influence makes him unique among the world’s top designers. On the cutting edge of fashion with his Calvin Klein Collections for women, men, and the home, he reinvented many basic icons of modern dress. He pioneered designer jeans and redefined the idea of underwear and fragrance, making designer quality apparel affordable for virtually anyone; as well as revolutionizing the designer denim and underwear businesses with his overtly sexy advertising campaigns.
His advertising campaigns redefined the way products were marketed to consumers with Klein purchasing multiple ad pages in magazines. One of the most famous was his 1991 Calvin Klein Jeans supplement for Vanity Fair magazine, which totaled over 100 pages.
Time Magazine, in 1996, named Calvin Klein as one of the most influential Americans.
In 1973, Klein won the prestigious Coty American Fashion Critic’s Award, the fashion industry’s Oscar, and was the first designer to consecutively win again in 1974 and 1975. He was the youngest designer ever be elected into the Coty Hall of Fame in 1975.
Klein also received seven awards for outstanding design from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Strikingly tall panes of glass rise from the sidewalk to the third floor at John Pawson’s celebrated Calvin Klein flagship store (1993–1995), fitted into a former bank in uptown Manhattan; interiors for CK stores were designed by Deborah Berke; and in two decades Calvin Klein Home has been a source of inspiration for interior and textile design.
Calvin Klein, Inc. was sold to Philips Van Heusen Corporation in 2003, and Klein remained a creative consultant with the company until 2006.
Klein has one daughter, Marci Klein, a television producer. He resides in New York City.
Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/calvin-klein.html

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Floral Rewards and Bee-havior
Monday, November 2
7:00PM - 8:15PM
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain

Daniel Papaj, Professor and Associate Head, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, will discuss “Floral Rewards and Bee-havior.” How does learning shape behavior in bees? What roles do flowers play in influencing bee activity? Researcher Daniel Papaj will speak about floral rewards and discuss nectar guides, buzz pollination, and bee decision-making in that context. He will also share some great video of bees in action. This event is free, but registration is requested. Click here to register.

Contact Name: Pamela Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
617-384-5277

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-03-000000-2015-11-03-011500/floral-rewards-and-bee-havior#sthash.xsT1oAgZ.dpuf

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Science and Cooking: Emulsions and Foams
Monday, November 2
7 p.m.
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Bryan Voltaggio, (@BryanVoltaggio), Volt
Michael Voltaggio, (@MVoltaggio), Ink

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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, November 3
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002592/

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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The International Refugee Crisis and US Immigration Policy

Tuesday, November 3

12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Maria Sacchetti covers immigration for The Boston Globe. A Lawrence native, she has reported on the disappearance of immigrants along the US southern border and secrecy in the immigration system. Her work has led to the release of several immigrants from immigration detention. She covered the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and most recently reported on the refugee crisis in Europe, traveling with photographer Craig F. Walker

http://shorensteincenter.org/maria-sacchetti/

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Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
Tuesday, November 3
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray at 12:00 pm

with Berkman Fellow, Mary L. Gray
The presentation draws on findings from a two-year collaborative study of crowdwork--“the process of taking tasks that would normally be delegated to an employee and distributing them to a large pool of online workers, the ‘crowd,’ in the form of an open call" (Felstiner, 2010). We combine ethnographic and qualitative methods with computational analysis of backend metadata, comparing the cases of India and the United States, to understand the cultural meaning, political implications, and ethical demands of crowdwork. This talk examines how might we use the present day examples of people doing crowdwork as part-time, contingent employment to theorize the “last mile” of technological innovation-via-automation. What are the workforce demands such a restructuring of production suggests? People’s labor often goes unnoticed or unseen because it is embedded in computation and obscured by an API. This produces an ambient workforce: a distributed, always-on, at-the-ready, expansive labor market, dependent on a mix of intense bursts of activity AND a “long tail” of idling. Examined more closely, this bursty/idling pattern belays the different experiences of crowdsourcing: From the employer’s perspective, it is all burst and idle. Workers, on the other hand, turn crowdsourcing into a routine. We argue that before we can establish the legal, economic, and social regulatory regimes to manage crowdwork, we must have a clearer sense of the people doing this work, what it means to them, and how it fits into their daily lives.

About Mary
Mary is a Senior Researcher at MSR. She studied anthropology before receiving her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004. She draws on this interdisciplinary background to study how people use digital and social media in everyday ways to shape their social identities and create spaces for themselves. Her most recent book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (NYU Press), which won awards from scholarly societies in Anthropology, Media Studies, and Sociology, examined how lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender young people negotiate and express their identities in rural parts of the United States and the role that digital media play in their lives and political work. Mary served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association from 2008 until 2010 and, now, holds a seat on that Association's Committee on Public Policy. She maintains an appointment as an Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, with adjunct appointments in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies.

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Climate Change and Community Vulnerability: Hazard Mitigation Through Planning
Wednesday, November 3
12-1pm
Tufts, Crane Room, Paige Hall, 12 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Samuel Bell Wednesday

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Washoku on the World Stage: UNESCO and the Promotion of Japanese Cuisine
WHEN Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Theodore Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming

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Clean Energy & Sustainable Affordable Housing Symposium and Expo
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston

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Researching and Solving Problems of Water Quantity and Quality at a Nonprofit Research Institute
Tuesday, November 3
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

Michele Cutrofello Eddy, RTI International, Water and Ecosystems Management Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (Tufts BS/MS)

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability and impacts of tropical waves and Madden-Julian Oscillations
Tuesday, November 3
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)

Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015

Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-3
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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Must China Be Faulted for Its Political System?
WHEN Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This special presentation is part of the series "Democracy and China: Philosophical-Political Reflections" with Professor Ci Jiwei. Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium, the Department of Philosophy, and the East Asian Legal Studies Program at the Harvard Law School.
SPEAKER(S) Ci Jiwei, professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO FairbankCenter@fas.havard.edu
DETAILS One enduring legacy of the Cold War for China is an extremely widespread perception, at home and abroad, of its political system as morally inferior and hence in need of fundamental change. At the core of this perception is China’s supposed lack of democracy. Jiwei Ci will examine the political, ideological, and normative stakes in political-system hostility and discuss, as a matter of global justice, what approach to political-system differences is most conducive to peace and democracy.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/must-china-be-faulted-its-political-system

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Geek Heresy: What's Essential in an Age of Advanced Technology
Tuesday, November 3
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Kentaro Toyama
Over the last four decades, America experienced a golden age of digital innovation. Yet during the same span of time, the rate of poverty stayed put, social mobility stagnated, and inequality skyrocketed to levels not seen for a century. How is it that our most advanced technologies failed to impact our deepest social challenges?

This talk presents technology???s Law of Amplification ??? a simple idea that explains why gadgets alone consistently fail to deliver social progress, and why in an age of advanced technology, it???s all the more important to focus on nurturing human wisdom.

Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. In previous lives, he co-founded Microsoft Research India and taught at Ashesi University in Ghana.

Web site: http://thecenter.mit.edu/cent_events/geek-heresy-whats-essential-in-an-age-of-advanced-technology/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values
For more information, contact: The Center at MIT
617-244-6030
DalaiLamaCenter@mit.edu

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Transformable: Designing objects that change themselves

Tuesday, November 3

5:00pm - 6:30pm

MIT, Building N52-3rd floor, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

interdisciplinary Design Conversations
The International Design Center invites design experts to take part in the interdisciplinary Design Conversations series. The interdisciplinary Design Conversations series brings a prominent figure from industry, research, practice, or other domain to offer thoughts on interdisciplinary themes in design. These talks are meant to foster an ongoing and Institute-wide discourse on the evolving nature of the processes, tools, and outcomes of design in the 21st century. All members of the MIT community are invited to join us as we cultivate an inclusive environment for thinking about and initiating effective design in the world.

Nowhere do the disciplines of art, architecture, and engineering fuse as seamlessly as in the work of inventor Chuck Hoberman, internationally known for his "transformable structures." Through his products, patents, and structures, Hoberman demonstrates how objects can be foldable, retractable, or shape-shifting.

Hoberman is the founder of Hoberman Associates, a multidisciplinary practice that utilizes transformable principles for a wide range of applications including consumer products, deployable shelters and structures for aerospace. Examples of his commissioned work include the transforming video screen for the U2 360 world tour, the Hoberman Arch installed as the centerpiece for the Winter Olympic Games (2002), as well as exhibits at a number of major museums. In 2008, he co-founded the Adaptive Building Initiative with the global engineering firm, Buro Happold, which has since built a series of dynamic facades and operable roofs in the US, Japan and the Mideast.

Hoberman has over twenty patents for his transformable inventions, and has won numerous awards for his designs. He is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and teaches at the Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Web site: http://idc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Centre
For more information, contact: Deb Payson
617-324-8125
debp@mit.edu

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StreetTalk: Connecting our Urban Greenways - Building the Emerald Network
Tuesday, November 3
5:30 - 6:30 pm Emerald Networking Reception (cash bar)
6:30 - 8:00 pm StreetTalk: Connecting our Urban Greenways

Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress St #200, Boston
RSVP at http://www.livablestreets.info/streettalk_connecting_our_urban_greenways_building_the_emerald_network
Cost: $10 general admission; LivableStreets members get in for FREE

The Emerald Network—a vision for 200 miles of seamless shared-use paths across the Metro Boston area is an ambitious goal. With more than 100 miles of the network already built, and 30 miles in design or construction—the remaining 70 miles is a significant, but not impossible gap to fill. What role could the Emerald Network play in not only increasing mobility options for people in the Metro area, but also tackling challenges like economic development, equity, climate change and public health in urban Boston? How do we build it? What are the challenges? How do we get there?

Join us for a StreetTalk* discussion with a panel of experts who will grapple with these questions, chat with the audience and hopefully inspire you to get involved! The StreetTalk will be preceded by a short networking reception.

Our fall StreetTalk will explore what role the Emerald Network can play in not only increasing mobility options for people in the Metro area, but also tackling challenges like economic development, equity, climate change and public health in urban Boston. To learn more see http://www.livablestreets.info/streettalk_connecting_our_urban_greenways_building_the_emerald_network

StreetTalks sell out quickly. What are you waiting for, register today!

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BASG: Business as a Change Agent
Tuesday, November 3
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-nov-3-business-as-change-agent-tickets-19022589076
Cost: $10-$12

For our forum in November, we’re excited to take another but very different run at the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris. In September we dove into the history of COP and the in’s and out’s of what actually happens there. This month, we welcome several great speakers to lead us in discussion about the business community as a change agent, both an interesting contrast and also an important complement to the legislative nature of COP. The Climate Action Business Association will be co-hosting our event. CABA’s Executive Director, Michael Green, provided an insider look at COP back in September.

We are excited to hear our speakers give an update on how the business community is addressing climate change and creating value with its key stakeholders: customers, investors and employees. We have also asked them to connect their perspectives back to COP by considering the following questions as they provide updates from their vantage points:
How is the business community contributing to a positive outcome at COP?
What will outcomes from COP mean to the business community overall?
What is the worst case scenario and the best case scenario for the outcomes at COP and the businesses or industry you work with?
We’re honored to already have two great speakers confirmed. Nish Murthy is VP Customer Success at WeSpire and Larry Aller runs Business Development, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at Next Step Living.

Nish’s focus at WeSpire is helping companies engage and motivate their employees in positive actions (hint: connect with employees around their interests and passions re: sustainability, social purpose, philanthropy etc.) that achieve business impact. Prior to WeSpire, Nish led business development at Intrepid Pursuits and was VP of Strategic Programs at Flashnotes.com. Nish is a tech-marketer, through and through.

Larry is a seasoned clean tech executive and venture investor. His experience in the business community runs deep, including 10 years at Bain and at Next Step Living since 2010. Most recently he has been focusing on solar, energy efficiency (which includes serving on the Massachusetts Net Metering and Solar Policy Task Force) and financing, as well as technology hardware and software. You could say he has a knack for building strong businesses and making society more sustainable.

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#SheDemos Boston: #TechHubTuesday Demo Night

Tuesday, November 3
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
C-Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston

RSVP at https://boston.techhub.com/events/techhubtuesday-demo-night-12

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 a special #SheDemos to experience great demos from exciting female Tech Entrepreneurs hosted in partnership with SheStarts. Follow the #TechhubTuesday all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.

This month female entrepreneurs and/or startups with a woman on their founding team will be given time 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 beer and wine, network, and take a look around C-space.

Agenda
6:00 - Doors open. Meet people and get your first drinks.
7:00 - 8:00 Presenters Demo
8:00.... Networking

Interested in demoing your product at #TechHubTuesday? Get in touch at [masked]
Follow us https://twitter.com/TechHubBoston

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Honoring the Artist: A Gathering of Visual Artists
Tuseday, November 3

7PM
Jackie Liebergott Black Box | Emerson/Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston

So often we put ourselves into boxes. Creative people especially find themselves pigeonholed into what their craft is. Actors act; writers write; etc. This celebration breaks down the boxes. Walter Mosley is a prolific visual artist with an incredible attention to detail. Explore his work, celebrating that the limits of creativity cannot be defined.

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Wednesday, November 4

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Putin, Ukraine and the New Cold War

12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Marvin Kalb, the Shorenstein Center’s founding Director, was also the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. His distinguished journalism career encompasses 30 years of award-winning reporting for CBS and NBC News as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow bureau chief and anchor of Meet The Press.

His latest book is Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War. Kalb argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Putin did not “suddenly” decide to invade Crimea. He had been waiting for the right moment ever since disgruntled Ukrainians rose in revolt against his pro-Russian regime in Kiev’s Maidan Square. These demonstrations led Putin to conclude that Ukraine’s opposition constituted an existential threat to Russia. Imperial Gamble examines how Putin reached that conclusion by taking a critical look at the recent political history of post-Soviet Russia, and journeying deep into Russian and Ukrainian history to explain what keeps them together and yet at the same time drives them apart.

http://shorensteincenter.org/speaker-series-marvin-kalb/

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Wednesday, November 04, 2015
xTalks: 21st Century Instructional Design - Task Centered Instruction
3:00p–4:15p
MIT, Building NE-25, Whitehead Auditorium, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge

Speaker: Sanjoy Mahajan
Between the frying pan of the usual, topic-centered instruction (one darn thing after another) and the fire of pure discovery learning, how do you stay cool? Mahajan will describe task-centered instruction; its basis in cognitive science, especially in cognitive-load theory; how it synthesizes the good aspects of the frying pan and the fire to foster long-term learning; and how it helps us make principled choices about technology and residential teaching. Sanjoy Mahajan is Acting Dir of Digital Residential Learning and Visiting Associate Professor of EECS. This event is co-sponsored by the HHMI Education Group.(http://educationgroup.mit.edu/HHMIEducationGroup/)

xTalks: Digital Discourses
The xTalks series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.

Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/news-and-events/events/sanjoy-mahajan-21st-century-instructional-design-task-centered-instruction
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Office of Digital Learning
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu

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Brain Rewards, Plasticity, and Consumption: The Neurobiology of Sustainable Behavior
WHEN Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ann-Christine Duhaime, Nicholas T. Zervas Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Radcliffe Institute Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Did the human brain evolve adaptively to crave more–stuff, stimulation–making it particularly hard for us to do with less? In this talk, Duhaime explores how inherent brain drive and reward systems may influence behaviors affecting the environment. Duhaime is currently examining neuroscience, social science, economics, environmental science, and public health to learn whether considering these neurobiologic factors might help improve the effectiveness of behavioral approaches to mitigating excessive consumption.

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Climate Tipping Points and Solar Geoengineering

Wednesday, November 4
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, JFK School, Littauer Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340

For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.

Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054

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Science and Democracy Lecture: Climate Clubs: The Central Role of the Social Sciences in Climate Change Policy

Wednesday, November 4

5:00PM
Harvard, Science Center A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is on the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Cowles Foundation for Research. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1977 to 1979, he was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Nordhaus is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an elected Member of the Swedish Academy of Engineering, and is current president of the American Economic Association. His research has encompassed environmental economics, climate change, health economics, augmented national accounting, the political business cycle, and productivity. His latest book is The Climate Casino (Yale Press), published in 2013.

Science and Democracy Lecture Series

http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/lectures/

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Journalism Panel: How to Cover High-profile Cases
Wednesday, November 4

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
EC Boston, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/journalism-panel-how-to-cover-high-profile-cases-tickets-18909280166
Cost: $4

The Boston Globe's Maria Cramer and Kevin Cullen, WBUR's David Boeri, WMEX's Michele McPhee, and Brian Fraga of the Herald News will share their experiences on covering the Bulger, Tsarneav and Hernandez trials.
Light refreshments will be provided.

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Interrogating Whiteness (Part 1)
Wednesday, November 4

7PM
Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington Street, Boston

RSVP at https://artsemerson.org/online/seatSelect.asp?BOset::WSmap::seatmap::performance_ids=360F47BF-9019-411F-9582-2D912F8E3BF6&sessionlanguage=EN&utm_campaign=Announcement&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=All&utm_content=MosleyAnnounce102515Whiteness&SessionSecurity::correspondencedetail_id=B6D05923-36A3-4331-BF11-357CC3251A80

Co-Presented with the Future Boston Alliance
Featuring Walter Mosley, American novelist and recipient of the PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Join us as celebrated author Walter Mosely interrogates the notion of whiteness and how our assumptions around race, class and economic status contribute to continued systemic oppression.

Followed by Book Launch Party
7:30PM
Paramount Mainstage | Emerson/Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston

Celebrate the release of Walter Mosley’s delightful and unconventional take on an autobiography, The Graphomaniac’s Primer – A Semi-Surrealist Memoir. Published by Black Classic Press.

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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: Reportero
WHEN Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 7:40 – 9:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Extension ALM in Journalism Program
"From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film"
SPEAKER(S) Jacinto Rodríguez, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Fellow and investigative reporter will present the film "Reportero."
COST Free and open to the public

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Thursday, November 5

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Lost Antarctica: Drug Discovery in a Disappearing Land

Thursday, November 5

12-1pm

Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

James McClintock

The seafloor communities surrounding Antarctica have a long geological history where predation pressure and competition have facilitated the evolution of a rich chemical diversity including compounds with the potential to combat cancer and other human diseases. Rapid environmental change in Antarctica is now threatening biodiversity loss. McClintock has taken this important message to a broad global audience by successfully authoring books.

James B. McClintock is the Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. McClintock's research has been funded continuously over the past 25 years by the National Science Foundation and focuses on aspects of marine invertebrate nutrition, reproduction, and primarily, Antarctic marine chemical ecology. Over the past decade his research has also encompassed studies of the impacts of rapid climate change and ocean acidification on Antarctic marine algae and invertebrates. He recently returned from his 14th research expedition to Antarctica where over the past two decades he and his research collaborators have become among the world's authorities on Antarctic marine chemical ecology and drug discovery and have developed an award winning interactive educational outreach website. His book Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land has garnered considerable national and international praise. He has published over 235 scientific publications, edited and written books, and his research has been featured in a variety of public media outlets including NPR's "On Point", National Geographic Magazine, CNN, and the Washington Post, among many others. In 1998 the United States Board on Geographic Names designated the geographic feature "McClintock Point" in honor of his contributions to Antarctic science.

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xTalks: Sanjay Sarma on the MicroMasters Pilot Program: Democratizing Admissions, Globalizing MIT's Reach

Thursday, November 05, 2015
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E-15, Bartos Theater

Speaker: Sanjay Sarma
Dean of Digital Learning and Director of ODL, Professor Sanjay Sarma will speak on the newly announced "MicroMaster's" pilot program that allows learners worldwide to take a semester's worth of courses in its top-ranked, one-year Supply Chain Management (SCM) master's program completely online, then complete an MIT master's degree by spending a single semester on campus. (from MIT News)

"Inverted admission has the potential to disrupt traditional modes of access to higher education," says Sarma, one of the co-leaders of this initiative. "We're democratizing access to a master's program for learners worldwide."

xTalks: Digital Discourses
The xTalks series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.

Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/news-and-events/events/sanjay-sarma-micromasters-pilot-program-democratizing-admissions-globalizing
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Office of Digital Learning
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu

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Watson Analytics LIVE! - Cambridge
IBM Watson Analytics
Thursday, November 5

1:30 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
IBM Cambridge, 1 Rogers Street, Auditorium, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/watson-analytics-live-cambridge-tickets-18193500249

Watson Analytics LIVE! is a live event running in Cambridge on November 5 designed to introduce you to revolutionary approach to analytics that is smart data discovery. Learn from Watson Analytics experts how you can benefit from guided exploration, automated predictive analysis and effortless dashboard creation. See a live demonstration of the power of collaborative analysis combining data from Twitter, Cognos Enterprise Reporting systems, standard relational databases and cloud data storage sources.

Following the demonstration of the solution, spend some time networking with your peers and experts.

Agenda
1:30-2:00pm Registration
2:00-4:00pm Demonstration of power of Watson Analytics
4:00-5:00pm Networking Hour – Ask the Experts

What is Watson Analytics?
Watson Analytics is our cloud based analytics tool that provides quick guided data exploration, automated predictive analysis, and effortless dashboard creation (similar to Tableau or Qlik but unique in its predictive capabilities).
It requires no deep analytics skills or training required and it was intended for users that want to go far beyond Excel, but don’t need extensive data mining or programming training. As one CTO called it, "Analytics for Everyone".

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Prospects for Paris: The Role of Developing Countries
Thursday, November 5

3:30-5:00 pm

BU, Pardee School at 121 Bay State Road, Boston

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Prospects for Paris: The Views of Developing Countries.”

This will be the second of a two-seminar series co-hosted by the Pardee School of Global Studies. Pardee School Dean Adil Najam, Ali Tauqeer Sheikh (LEAD Pakistan and Climate & Development Knowledge Network), and Prof. Robert Timmons (Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine) will discuss the outlook for the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Paris in early December, particularly from the perspective of developing countries.

More information at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/prospects-for-paris-the-views-of-developing-countries/

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The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Human Rights

Thursday, November 5

4:30p–6:30p

MIT, Building 4-237, 182 Memorial Dr (Rear), Cambridge

Speaker: Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School
This Thursday afternoon talk, co-sponsored with MIT Radius, is entitled, "The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Human Rights," and will feature Dorothy Roberts, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. This talk will take place on the afternoon of 11/5/15.

Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!

Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series
The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI), with support from SHASS Anthropology, began hosting a Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series on campus on topics related to global health and the medical humanities during the fall 2014 semester.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, Radius
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu

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From Penguins to Plankton: Impacts of Climate Change on the Marine Ecology of the Antarctic Peninsula

Thursday, November 5

5pm

Tufts, Barnum 104, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford

James McClintock

More information at http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/seminars/

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Taming Tibet: Migration, Development, and Landscape Transformation

Thursday, November 5
5:00p
MIT, Building 4-163, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Speaker: Emily Yeh
Emily Yeh is a Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In this talk, based on Taming Tibet (Cornell UP, 2013), Yeh will examine how Chinese development projects in Tibet have served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of fieldwork between 2000 and 2009, she will trace the transformation of the material landscape of Tibet between the 1950s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, arguing that these transformations advance the project of state territorialization. In particular, she will focus on three key moments of development: agrarian change, Chinese migration, and urbanization.

Presented by The Global Borders Research Collaborative in MIT Global Studies and Languages, in conjunction with MIT Anthropology and MIT History.

Web site: http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/taming-tibet
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
lhickler@mit.edu

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Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas

Thursday, November 5

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Boston University 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS211, Boston

Dr. Laurie W. Rush is the Cultural Resources Manager and Army Archaeologist stationed at Fort Drum, NY. She will discuss efforts to protect cultural properties during military operations, including initiatives following in the wake of the US war in Iraq. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the BU Archaeology Department.

More information at http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/

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EnergyBar!
Thursday, November 5

5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
28 Dane Street, Somerville

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-registration-15734103126

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.
Join us on Thursday, November 5.

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How nature can save us

Thursday, November 5
6 pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

M. Sanjayan, Executive Vice President and Senior Scientist, Conservation International
We live in the Anthropocene, the age of humans, and not since cyanobacteria transformed Earth’s early atmosphere has one species–Homo sapiens–had such an outsized influence on the diversity of life on the planet. Saving nature in the human age is a challenging proposition, but perhaps a more relevant question might be how nature can save humankind. In an epic journey across 24 countries accompanied by a film crew from PBS and National Geographic, Sanjayan compiled awe-inspiring stories that illuminate the inextricable link between the environment and human beings. In this program, he will discuss his journey and the basic truth it revealed: that saving nature is really about saving ourselves.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard College Conservation Society.

Free and open to the public.

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CCVA Talk: Futurefarmers⎯A Farm Sailed Away and Came Back a Garden
WHEN Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
SPEAKER(S) Futurefarmers: Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP suggested
TICKET WEB LINK https://form.jotform.com/52885301689971
CONTACT INFO ccva@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Futurefarmers is a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in making work that is relevant to the time and place surrounding them. Participatory in nature, their work manifests as temporary public art, museum exhibitions, publications, bus tours, public programs and most recently permanent public art.
LINK http://ccva.fas.harvard.edu/futurefarmers⎯a-farm-sailed-away-and-came-back-garden

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The Press and the Polls: 26th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics

Thursday, November 5

6:00pm
Harvard Kennedy School, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jill Lepore will deliver the 26th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, titled “The Press and the Polls.” The David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism will be awarded to Gary Younge the same evening. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics.

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. In 2012, she was named Harvard College Professor, in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of several books, most recently The Secret History of Wonder Woman, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize. Her earlier books include: The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan and Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. Lepore received a B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995.

Gary Younge is an author, broadcaster and award-winning columnist for The Guardian. He also writes a monthly column for The Nation magazine and is the Alfred Knobler Fellow for The Nation Institute. He is the author of four books, most recently The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream. Younge has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the Tea Party to hip hop culture. He went to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and in 2007 he was awarded honorary doctorates by both his alma mater and London South Bank University.

Lepore and Younge will also join Candy Crowley and Peter Hart in a panel discussion on Friday, November 6.

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The Paris Climate Summit: Prospects for a Global Agreement

Thursday, November 5
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

In a few short weeks, the international community will converge in Paris for the 21st installment of the annual United Nations climate summit (COP21). Charged with elaborating an architecture for international climate cooperation beyond 2020, negotiators are expected to conclude an ambitious work stream that has spanned several years and faced countless diplomatic challenges. What can we realistically expect from the Paris climate summit, and what are the positions of some of the most influential actors going into the negotiations?

Please join leading authorities on international climate policy for a timely discussion of the prospects for COP21.

Panelists:
Professor Michael Grubb, University College London
Professor Henry D. Jacoby, MIT Sloan School of Management
Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor Valerie J. Karplus, MIT Sloan School of Management
Moderated by: Michael Mehling, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/publications/The%20Paris%20Climate%20Summit.pdf
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard University
For more information, contact: CEEPR
617-253-3551
ceepr@mit.edu

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Robotics and Grasping

Thursday, November 5

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Vecna Technologies, 35 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/robotics-interest-group/events/224806894/

There has been a ton of innovation in picking up and putting down objects. We'll hear from Soft Robotics and RightHand Robotics, two companies taking a slightly different approach to robot grasping. We'll also hear about some exciting work out of MIT.

This event will be held very close to the Alewife T stop and the end of route 2.

Rough agenda: 6 - 6:30: Networking and Pizza
6:30 - 7:20: Three Speakers
(1) Carl Vause, Soft Robotics Inc.
(2) Yaroslav Tenzer, RightHand Robotics
(3) Edward Adelson (we are hoping) MIT.
7:20 - 7:30: 1 min pitches from audience. Need help? Looking for a job? Let us know. 7:30 on: More networking.

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Harvard CGBC Inaugural Lecture: Norman Foster

Thursday, November 5
6:30–8 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Norman Foster was born in Manchester. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and gained a Master’s Degree in Architecture.

Established as Foster Associates in 1967 his practice, now known as Foster + Partners, is an international studio for architecture and design with projects on six continents. Over the past five decades the practice has pioneered a sustainable approach to architecture and ecology through a strikingly wide range of work, from urban masterplans, public infrastructure, museums, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design.

Projects include the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the redevelopment of the Reichstag, the New German Parliament in Berlin; the Great Court of the British Museum in London; the Clark Center at Stanford University, California and the new School of Management at Yale University, Connecticut; Hearst Tower, New York; the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, and airports in Beijing, Hong Kong and London. The practice has also developed sustainable masterplans for cities around the world, including Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and London’s Trafalgar Square in London. Current projects include a new London headquarters for Bloomberg, the new Apple Campus in Cupertino, Comcast Innovation and Technology Center in Philadelphia and several high-rise buildings in New York.

Norman Foster became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999. He has received the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York and he is a Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was granted a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, appointed by the Queen to the Order of Merit in 1997 and in 1999 was honoured with a Life Peerage in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, as Lord Foster of Thames Bank.

He has lectured widely, including as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Architecture at the University of Oxford. He holds Honorary Degrees and Doctorates from the London Institute, Royal College of Art London, University College London, the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Universities of London, Bath, East Anglia, Humberside, Manchester, Oxford, Durham, Robert Gordon Aberdeen, Dundee, Valencia, Ben-Gurion University in Israel, the University of Hong Kong, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Yale University.

More information at http://harvardcgbc.org/inaugural-lecture-lord-norman-foster/

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Faculty Speaker Series: Lessons from Ebola
WHEN Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE The Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Ed Portal
SPEAKER(S) Professor Ashish Jha
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK lessonsfromebola.eventbrite.com
DETAILSThe current Ebola outbreak has made clear, likeno other event in recent history, the frailty of our existing health infrastructure.While responding to current epidemic is of course critical, it is equallyimperative to strategize about what we can do to prepare for – or even prevent -the next global health catastrophe.
Join Professor Ashish Jha at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of the Faculty Lecture Series on November 5 at 7pm. Jha is a Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a director of the Harvard Global Health Institute,and a practicing Internal Medicine physician in the VA Boston Healthcare system.
He’ll discuss how we can build strong, resilient health systems that focus on patients and communities, how this epidemic presents an opportunity to forge partnerships across both borders and disciplines, and how we can demonstrate our commitment to value all human lives equally.
This lecture continues a conversation about the local response to the epidemic, what this means for global governance, and most importantly: How do we prevent the next pandemic?
LINK edportal.harvard.edu

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Friday, November 6

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Protecting Critical Infrastructure- ABC Panel Event
Friday November 6

8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST
Seaport Boston Hotel & World Trade Center, 1 Seaport Lane, Plaza C Ballroom, Boston

RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebjrxgf1f358e0a0&oseq=&c=f9aeb3e0-42a5-11e3-aaf4-d4ae5292c47d&ch=f9f16230-42a5-11e3-ab00-d4ae5292c47d

The region's infrastructure is essential to our economic prosperity. Severe weather events, a changing climate, and rising sea levels present a direct threat to our region.
Hear from those who have begun the important task of identifying these risks and developing strategies for investment in resilient infrastructure.
Facilitator: Sandra Lally, Oxford Properties

Featured Panelists:
Frank DePaola, MassDOT

Fred Laskey, MWRA

Thomas Glynn, Massport

Paul Renaud, Eversource

Legislative Perspective: Senator Marc Pacheco and Rep. Frank Smizik (Invited)
Co-Chairs , Global Warming & Climate Change Committee

A Better City
Sarah Shields
sshields@abettercity.org
617-502-6250

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Theodore H White Seminar on Press and Politics
Friday, November 6

9:00am-10:30am
Harvard, Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

A panel of experts continues the conversation after the previous night’s Theodore H. White Lecture on “The Press and the Polls.”

Panelists:
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University; staff writer, The New Yorker; 2015 Theodore H. White Lecturer

Gary Younge, columnist, The Guardian; winner of the 2015 David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism

Candy Crowley, former anchor and political correspondent, CNN; Fall Fellow, Harvard Institute of Politics

Peter Hart, founder, Hart Research Associates; pollster for NBC News & The Wall Street Journal

Moderated by Tom Patterson, acting director of the Shorenstein Center; Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press

http://shorensteincenter.org/theodore-h-white-seminar-on-press-and-politics-2015/

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Fall Conference: Sustainability in Scandanavia

Friday, November 6
9 am–12:30 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvard-cgbc-fall-conference-sustainability-in-scandinavia-registration-18384455401

Sustainability in Scandinavia will highlight green buildings and communities across Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and unravel a unique regional practice that integrates technology, culture, and design. Through the presentation of case studies and proven concepts, leading academicians and practitioners from the region will discuss how they’ve pushed the limits of this approach to define and pioneer the cutting edge within an advanced regulatory framework. View agenda.

Hosted by the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.

More information at http://harvardcgbc.org/2015-fall-conference-sustainability-in-scandinavia/

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From the Biomedical to the Wounds Inside: Developing a Framework and Metrics Relevant to the Context of Political Violence

Friday, November 6
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University
This event will feature Rita Giacaman, from Birzeit University, who will present a talk entitled, "From the Biomedical to the Wounds Inside: Developing a Framework and Metrics Relevant to the Context of Political Violence."

Coffee and pastries will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu

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BWH Hackathon- Digital Health
November 6-8, 2015

Friday, November 6
12PM – 7PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cabot Atrium, 45 Francis Street, Boston
RSVP at http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=99b4a0286b0b03e93dcbcf14a&id=1534db99fb

The BWH Hackathon in collaboration with Brigham Innovation Hub and MIT Hacking Medicine will bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today. A hackathon is an event in which clinicians, programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, and others collaborate intensively on software projects. This year, our 3rd annual Hackathon, focused on Digital Health, will bring together a diverse, multidisciplinary group to “pitch” problems impacting healthcare, develop solutions over a two-day period, and then present demos of solutions to a panel of judges for recognition and honors.

The event provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with experts in a variety of fields and novices with unbridled passion, pitch an idea for transforming a current health care process and then, together, ‘hack’ or devise a real solution. These solutions could be as straightforward as a wireframe sketch, or might require running to a local store for parts to build a prototype, or reaching out to a physician to ask a pressing question for a mobile app.

Whatever the process may be, the ultimate result could be the beginning of the next big health care transformation. End the weekend with a team, new connections, and prizes with potential access to BWH’s iHub resources, and a hack on its first steps towards disrupting healthcare. Past teams at hackathons just like this one have gone on to found companies, enter business plan competitions (MIT 100K), join an accelerator, and secure venture funding.

Interested? Please apply now and learn more about this year’s BWH Hackathon!

Friday, November 6
Schedule:

12PM -4:30PM learn from experts about innovation, startups, IP law and more

5PM- 7PM – Networking, drinks and pizza

Saturday, November 7
8AM – 10PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cabot Atrium, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA
8-9AM – Breakfast

9-10AM – Introduction/Ground Rules/Speaker

10-10:30AM – 1st Round of Pitches

11-11:30AM – 2nd Round of Pitches

11:30AM-12:30PM – Teams Form

12:30-2PM – Lunch

12:30-10PM – Teams work

6:00-8:00PM – Dinner

Sunday, November 8
8AM – 5PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cabot Atrium, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA
8-9:00AM – Breakfast

9-9:30AM – Announcements

9:30AM-2:30PM – Teams work on projects

12:30-2PM – Lunch

2-3:30PM – Team presentations

3:30-3:45PM – Judging/Discussion

3:45-4PM – Awards Ceremony / Closing Remarks

4 – 5PM – Reception

Brigham Innovation Hub with MIT Hacking Medicine
http://disruptingmedicine.org
Website: http://eepurl.com/byw4c9

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Pro Tour of Wayland MA Passive House

Friday, November 6

12:30-5 PM
Wayland, MA (exact location in confirmation email)

RSVP at https://nesea.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=131

Cost: $25 for NESEA Members, $35 for Non-members

Due to the overwhelming enthusiasm for the August Pro Tour of this project, NESEA is thrilled to be able to offer a second Pro Tour of the first Passive House in Wayland, MA!

The tour of this 2,500 sq.ft., foam-free Passive House residence will be led by hosts Mike Dutra and Nicholas Falkoff from Auburndale Builders, and other members from the project team. The tour will conclude with a reception, presentation, and an opportunity to chat with members of the project team. This second tour of the site will take a look at how the project has progressed over three months, including new interior fixtures.

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Architecture Lecture: Natasha Schull, Tracking, Sensing, Shifting: The Media of Mood Modulation

Friday, November 6,
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Natasha Schull, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Computation Group Lecture Series

Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Computation Group Events
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

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Q&A with Walter Mosley and Donna Latson Gittens following the screening
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Friday, November 6

7PM
Bright Family Screening Room | Emerson/Paramount Center, 599 Washington Street, Boston
Co-Presented with The Word Boston

See Walter Mosley’s work translated from gripping novel to a film starring Laurence Fishburne. Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his huge, rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working for the Bounty supermarket, and moving perilously close to invisibility, it is Socrates who throws a lifeline to a drowning man: young Darryl, whose shaky path is already bloodstained and fearsome. In a place of violence and hopelessness, Socrates offers up his own battle-scarred wisdom that can turn the world.

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Saturday, November 7

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Civic Tech Challenge
Saturday, November 7
9:00A-6:00P Hackathon
6:00P-9:00P Presentations & Awards Reception

Microsoft NERD Center, I Memorial Drive, Cambridge

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kgLNs9SxNtp5HUiv5u_X03mF7X240y74PrCqpkPD9FQ/viewform

Cost: $50

ARE YOU READY?
The Hackathon
9am-5pm: As part of the Generation Citizen action civics program, over 1,500 local students have launched action projects to advocate for change on Greater Boston’s most significant problems. At the Civic Tech Challenge on November 7th, students will team up with developers, designers,marketers, data scientists and creative problem-solvers from Greater Boston’s top tech companies and technology education programs to take their action project to the next level. Hackathon tracks include Data Visualizations, Information Communication Technologies, and Digital Storytelling tools.

The Presentation and Reception
6pm-9pm: At the evening presentation and reception, hackteams of Generation Citizen teens and technologists will present their hacked innovations to a Judging Panel of Greater Boston’s leading innovators, and an audience consisting of an illustrious Host Committee and 200+ guests from Greater Boston’s most influential finance, service, and startup companies. Event honoree, the New Urban Mechanics, will keynote. Delicious food and open beer and wine bar included.

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World Climate

Saturday, November 7

12:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston

RSVP at

World Climate is a model-based game that was developed by MIT professor John Sterman and Drew Jones of the nonprofit organization, Climate Interactive. Participants in this simplified version of an international climate change negotioation represent countries that span the development spectrum, and must negotiate to reach an agreement that will curb greenhouse gas emissions enough to limit global warming to 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels by 2100.

Mixed Paper will host World Climate in Boston in collaboration with the Boston Society of Architects. Our goal is to engage the greater Boston community in climate change policy ahead of the major COP21 climate talks happening this December in Paris. We want to encourage all to participate in this crucial and momentous discussion. The event is free and open to all. Thank you for registering!

Please note that by registering, you agree to have your likeness photographed and possibly published in print and/or web material associated with this event. If this is a problem, please let us know prior to registration.

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TEDxHarvard College
Saturday, November 7

1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxharvard-college-tickets-18664133927

Cost: $20 - $100

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Playing For The Planet: World Music Against Climate Change

Saturday, November 7

7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street #2, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/playing-for-the-planet-world-music-against-climate-change-tickets-18923005218

Cost: $16-$21GET TICKETS

On Saturday, November 7, the twelfth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert will showcase master musicians from three different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural improvisation, with all proceeds going to benefit the environmental advocacy group 350MA.org. The performers include flute master Geni Skendo’s “Astronauts of Albania,” the boundary-bending explorations of the String Theory Trio, and the acclaimed Hindustani vocal music of Smt. Shuchita Rao. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at The Community Church Of Boston, 565 Boylston Street (Copley Square), Boston. Admission is $20; $15 students & seniors. For information, please call 781-396-0734, or visit the event website at www.warrensenders.com.

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Monday, November 9

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What’s at Stake in Paris: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks

Monday, November 9
8–9:45 am
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

A panel discussion with:
Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations; Director, Future of Diplomacy Project

René Castro, former Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica; Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and chief climate negotiator, United States; Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project

Jairam Ramesh, former Minister of State for Environment and Forests and chief climate negotiator, India

Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Open to the public, breakfast provided. Hosted by the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. Event contact: Bryan_Galcik@hks.harvard.edu

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Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education
Monday, November 9

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)

WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Brighton

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-on-digital-media-for-stem-learning-climate-education-tickets-17920229890

Communities and creatures around the world feel the impacts of climate change. The Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education will explore how the stories and science behind these impacts are increasingly being integrated into classroom instruction and STEM education contexts, with a focus on digital media.

Held at WGBH’s Brighton, Mass. studio on Monday, November 9, 2015*, this highly-interactive and fast-paced event will examine emerging narratives in climate education, digital media tools and products that show unique potential for educational settings, and promising modes of engagement for students, teachers and schools.

*The Forum will be streamed live (streaming details to come). If you cannot attend in person, but plan to watch the live stream, you do not need to reserve a ticket.

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MASS Seminar - Bruce Anderson (BU)
Monday, November 9
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Bruce Anderson (BU)

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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-bruce-anderson-bu
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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Where Are We Heading? Pondering the Likelihood of Alternative Carbon Emissions Pathways

Monday, November 9
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, will lead the HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series discussion. 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/seminar.html

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693

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Food for Thought: Brown Bag Lunch on Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Monday, November 9

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Impact Hub, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-for-thought-brown-bag-lunch-on-sustainable-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-19123008433

Join a brown bag lunch discussion of best practices in sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. This event is part of City Awake, Boston’s second annual social impact festival. Facilitators with experience in this sector will guide the conversation, emphasizing renewable energy, research sciences, and natural resource management.

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What is a Scientific Conception of the World?

Monday, November 9
12:15PM TO 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.

Joseph Rouse, Hedding Professor of Moral Science, Wesleyan University

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
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-09-171500-2015-11-09-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.m8abAn5A.dpuf

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Should We Be Making Potential Pandemic Pathogens in the Lab?'

November 9
4.30-6.30

Harvard, Bell Hall (Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Camridge

Prof. Marc Lipsitch (Harvard, Dept. of Epidemiology)
Topic of the talk: A growing trend in experimental virology has been the modification of influenza viruses that are antigenically novel to, and virulent in humans, such that these variant viruses are readily transmissible in mammals, including ferrets which are thought to be the best animal model for influenza infection. Novel, contagious, virulent viruses are potential pandemic pathogens in that their accidental or malevolent release into the human population could cause a pandemic. This talk will describe the purported benefits of such studies, arguing that these are overstated; estimate the magnitude of the risk they create, argue for the superiority of alternative scientific approaches on both safety and scientific grounds, and propose an ethical framework in which such experiments should be evaluated.
Prof. Lipsitch will discuss the science policy, bioethical and biosafety issues raised and the recent developments in this field including the US Government funding pause on such experiments announced by the White House on October 17, 2014.

Speaker’s Bio: Marc Lipsitch is Professor of Epidemiology with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and a joint appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where his wet lab is located. He directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. He is also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.

About The Future Society at HKS:
TFS brings together HKS students interested in the better understanding the profound political consequences of the technological explosion we are going through. We organized speakers’ series, panels, movie screening and study groups.

Presented by The Future Society at HKS and the Harvard Effective Altruism Society welcome, with the support of the Program on Science, Technology and Society, HKS

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Science by the Pint: Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain

Monday, November 9, 2015

7 PM
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville

Dr. Suzanne Paradis
How is the brain is put together to control the most basic functions of the human body? How are we able to move our arms and legs, to learn and remember, to see and hear? The adult human brain contains a massive network of neurons that communicate with one another to control these tasks. Neurons talk to other neurons through synapses: specialized sites of cell-to-cell contact. Synapses come in two flavors: excitatory, which promotes information propagation through networks, and inhibitory, which prevents it. The billions of neurons in the human brain form trillions of synapses, ensuring proper information flow in the brain.

Many disorders of the nervous system – such as epilepsy and Autism – occur when neurons fail to form appropriate synaptic connections or when communication between neurons breaks down at the synapse. To understand what goes awry in these disorders, we must first understand how synapses are assembled in the typically developing nervous system. Dr. Paradis’ research explores the topic of synapse development and how disruptions to this process might underlie human neurological disorders.

Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.

More at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9

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Beauty and the Right to the Ugly

Monday, November 9

7 - 9pm

MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014 HD video, Dutch and English language, English subtitles, 55 min. Courtesy Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and the artist.
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly was the title of an exhibition in 1981 by the Brazilian-Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, which took a stand against bourgeois taste and values presented at her seminal building SESC Pompéia in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with employees of a national organization for social work and medical assistance. “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” became the title of a recent work by Wendelien van Oldenborgh in which she explores the life of an experimental multifunctional community center in the Netherlands from its opening in the 1970s to now, conceiving and implementing a filming methodology that translates architecture premises such as ‘open’, ‘user-led’ and ‘participative’ into cinematic devices. Taking her recent works “From Left to Night” (2015), “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” (2014) and “Bete & Deise” (2012) as a lead, Van Oldenborgh will talk about filmmaking as a perfomative device and of her ongoing engagement in ideas on collectiveness, its intersection with the private and the role cultural production plays in this.

Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works, whereby the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation. She often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome. With these works, which look at the structures that form and hinder us, she participated in various large biennials, and in smaller dedicated shows. Recent presentations include Form Left to Night (2015), solo at The Showroom London, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly (2014) in van Abbemuseum 2014; La Javanaise at the 12th Biennial of Cuenca (EC) (2014); Après la reprise, la prise in ‘Art Turning Left’, Tate Liverpool 2013. Van Oldenborgh has exhibited widely including in RAW Material Company Dakar (SN), Generali Foundation Vienna and Museum Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (PL) as well as the 2nd Biennial of Kochi-Muziris 2014, 54rth Venice Biennial 2011, the 29e Bienal de Sao Paulo 2010 and at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009. In 2014 she was the recipient of the prestigious Heineken Prize for the Arts, presented by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s lecture will be moderated by graduate student, Neil Sanzgiri (ACT) with response by Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, Vivek Bald (CMS) and Research Fellow Sandra Rodriguez(MIT Open Documentary Lab/CMS).

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Tuesday, November 10

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Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bulb
Tuesday, 10 November

12:00 pm eastern

Webinar

RSVP at https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=ieeemeetings&service=6&rnd=0.9946288980374539&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeemeetings.webex.com%2Fec0701lsp13%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26confViewID%3D3996736091%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000002270b783f1fa0e5ff975d06fedb9468b067e91a83404dc351d0d039ad22b0cfaa%26%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAAKyq_Hj4eoQArkI-1Ym6sThNq9tCfy7yowFRhdOJLCguw2%26%26siteurl%3Dieeemeetings

Presented by Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
IEEE Smart Village has been striving to get basic electrical services to a million people in 5 years, in the most underserved regions of the world, through renewable energy sources. Its ultimate goal is to get electrical services to 50 million people in the next 10 years. However, IEEE Smart Village aims to go beyond just lighting and electrical services. Through its model of partnerships with local NGOs and Entrepreneurs, it strives to create local businesses and local jobs. Through its initiatives in education and community based solutions, it aims to create community development with lasting change. All these initiatives make IEEE Smart Village unique, in the sense that it is going ‘beyond the light bulb’ to create truly Smart Villages around the world. This talk will introduce IEEE Smart Village and its various initiatives to achieve its vision.

The Presenter: Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
Niru obtained an undergraduate degree in power systems engineering from University of Mysore, India. After working for IT consulting companies, she decided to move to the U.S. and further her interests in power systems engineering. She finished her MS in Energy Systems from the University of Washington in Seattle and went on to work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Dept. of Energy run National Laboratory. Her research interests included effective demand response techniques to improve energy efficiency. She completed her MBA from Cornell University last summer where she was recognized both as an ‘Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow’ as well as an ‘Emerging Markets Fellow’. Her interests now include the most cost effective methods of making technology accessible to the base of the pyramid. She also works as a storage analyst in the Energy Storage Business Development Group at NextEra Energy Resources in Juno Beach, Florida.

PES WEBINAR SMART VILLAGE - GOING BEYOND THE LIGHT BULB
IEEE Power & Energy Society Women in Power Webinar Series

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Entertainment, News and Politics: From the News Room to "The News Room"

Tuesday, November 10

12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Richard N. Kaplan has worked for CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC. He has served as executive producer for Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour. He recently served as creative consultant on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show The Newsroom.

http://shorensteincenter.org/rick-kaplan/

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Conceptualizing Behavior Change
Tuesday, November 10

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EST)

Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/conceptualizing-behavior-change-tickets-19152309072

Come learn about Behavior Change at City Awake! This Food for Thought session will explore how our defaults (habits, environments and mindsets) drive our behavior in the absence of willpower. This can be applied to individual or group change and it can be conscious or forced from outside. We will discuss at a high level, a model for understanding what drives people's behavior and how we can make changes in our behavior or those of others. This conversation will be led by Justin Wright of Habitus Incorporated in conjunction with other Impact Hub members.
Bring your lunch and your questions. Food for Thought discussions at Impact Hub Boston are conversation-based brown bag lunches designed to share our big questions and innovative ideas with colleagues and friends over lunch, with a brief presentation to kick off the conversation.

This event is part of the 2015 City Awake Social Impact festival. Find out more at http://cityawake.is/the-festival/.

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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Diurnal variations and predictability of warm-season precipitation over the continents

Tuesday, November 10
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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-4
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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Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell: Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS The 21st century promises to be very different from the 20th century - so why are cities being planned using components that were developed during the last 100 years? In this talk, WOHA Directors share some ideas on what the designers of hyper dense cities of the 21st century could and should be doing to make them great places to live.

The architecture of WOHA, founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994, is notable for its constant evolution and innovation. A profound awareness of local context and tradition is intertwined with an ongoing exploration of contemporary architectural form-making and ideas, thus creating a unique fusion of practicality and invention. WOHA conceptualizes all aspects of the architectural process, and environmental principles have always been fundamental to the work of the practice, which is guided by a commitment to responsive place-making and to the creation of an invigorating and sustainable architecture.
WOHA’s built projects – throughout Southeast Asia, China, and Australia – range from apartment towers to luxury resorts, mass-transit stations, condominiums, hotels, educational institutions, and public buildings. WOHA has won an unprecedented amount of architectural awards for a Southeast Asian practice: they received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007 for 1 Moulmein Rise, they collected four awards in the RIBA International Awards of 2011 and 2010 for Alila Villas Uluwatu, School of the Arts, The Met and Bras Basah MRT Station, and they won the 2011 RIBA Lubetkin Prize and the 2010 International Highrise Award for The Met. As an emphatic indication of WOHA’s versatility and global recognition, the practice won two titles in two consecutive years (in four separate categories) at the World Architecture Festival in 2009 and 2010. The practice currently has projects under construction in Singapore, India, China and Indonesia. A travelling exhibition devoted exclusively to their work opened at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Germany, in December 2011, and three substantial monographs – WOHA: The Architecture of WOHA and WOHA: Selected Projects Vol. 1 and 2 – have already been published.

Mun Summ Wong is the joint Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated with Honours from the National University of Singapore in 1989. He was a Board member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Land Authority and served as member of several Design Advisory Panels for major developments in Singapore. He has mentored students under the National University of Singapore’s Embedded Studio in Practice programme and, together with Richard Hassell, served as Studio Masters for the University’s MSc in Integrated Sustainable Design Masterclass since 2011. He was appointed as Jury Chair in the 2015 Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards.

Richard Hassell is the co-Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1989, and was awarded a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT University, Melbourne, in 2002. He has served as a Board Member of DesignSingapore Council, the Board of Architects as well as the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. He has lectured at many universities, and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Western Australia.

LINK: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/wong-mun-summ.html

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Crisis Management Happy Hour & Networking (and free food!)
Tuesday, November 10
7pm
Daedalus, 45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge

Interested in crisis management and humanitarian assistance? Join the Harvard Crisis Management Policy Interest Council at Daedalus on November 10th to meet crisis management and humanitarian assistance practitioners, researchers, and students from Harvard, MIT, and Tufts. Appetizers are on us!

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Renewable Energy Progress --Despite Resistance from the Fossil Fuel Industry
Tuesday, November 10

7pm
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont

Jeff Deyette, Assistant Director of Energy Research and a senior energy analyst in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA. Mr. Deyette conducts analysis on the economic and environmental costs and benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency policies. He has written extensively for UCS and various renewable energy industry publications on the consumer, employment, and environmental benefits of increasing renewable energy use.

In this discussion, Mr. Deyette takes up the problem of the fossil fuel industry's resistance to renewable energy, and he gives an update on the progress that is being made across the US, despite that resistance. The Union of Concerned Scientists is a leader in the effort to transition to sustainable energy --and also to promoting an informed public about a wide range of science-related issues.

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations

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Wednesday, November 11

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A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

5pm
Harvard, JF Kennedy Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

As a bestselling author, 2015 MacArthur fellow, and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as one of the foremost thinkers about race and racial issues in America. His book, Between the World and Me, written as a letter to his teenage son, has brought a personal and powerful voice to bear on the centuries-old legacy of violence inflicted upon African Americans.

Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University, will moderate the event with remarks by Kathryn Edin, Distinguished Bloomberg Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University.

http://shorensteincenter.org/a-conversation-with-ta-nehisi-coates/

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Future of Energy

Wednesday, November 11

5:00PM
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 111 West, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Bryony Worthington, Founder and Director, Sandbag Climate Campaign; Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate, House of Lords
Baroness Worthington was a key member of the team that drafted the UK’s landmark Climate Change Act (2007) and helped to set up the Government’s first public awareness campaign on the subject of climate change. Baroness Worthington currently serves as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change in the House of Lords. She is also the founder and director of Sandbag, a non-profit think tank that conducts research and campaigns for environmentally effective climate policies.

Contact Name: Erin Harleman
eharleman@fas.harvard.edu

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Pitches & Pitchers with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

Wednesday, November 11

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitches-pitchers-with-the-boston-institute-for-nonprofit-journalism-tickets-19210651576

An alternative title for this crash course could be: “Mastering the Greater Boston Media Ecosystem,” or “Save Your Money. You Can Do Anything Your Publicist Can Do, But Better.”

Whether hiring a publicist or not, small business managers and owners should know how to navigate the dozens of influential local and statewide sites, stations, and newspapers, as well as the innumerable national outlets that might cover their idea or product.

This is a participatory event, and one unlike any taught by publicists or marketing professors. Hosted by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ)—and featuring local reporters and editors with experience ranging from Scout Somerville, to Boston Magazine, to DigBoston, to Esquire, to Buzzfeed to Fast Company—we tour you through the media gauntlet from the gatekeeper’s perspective.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS: Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas, both of BINJ, have a combined 40+ years of media experience, having written for publications ranging from The Nation, to Esquire, to BuzzFeed. Jason is an award-winning media studies professor who most recently taught at Lesley University, while Chris has lectured extensively at colleges around New England as well as at Columbia Journalism School. They will be joined by BINJ Projects Coordinator Emily Hopkins, who is the managing editor of Scout Somerville and Scout Cambridge and a contributor to Storybench, by Dan McCarthy, who has served as an editor at DigBoston and UrbanDaddy, and by other media makers from the BINJ network.

ABOUT BINJ: The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism produces bold reporting on issues related to social justice and innovation, and cultivates writers and multimedia producers to assist in that role.

BINJ supports independent publications in various reportorial and organizational capacities, collaborates with partners on sustainable journalism and civic engagement initiatives, and aims to empower promising muckrakers with training and professional compensation.

BONUS: The first 25 attendees at the door will receive a complimentary copy of the first edition of the Boston Bubble, a new premium print quarterly about tech and innovation in Greater Boston that is produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.

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Thursday, November 12

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Solar Power Comes of Age

Thursday, November 12
12:00-1:00pm

Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Philip Warburg, Author
Solar power is poised to become a mainstream US power resource, already visible on hundreds of thousands of rooftops, fast taking hold on farms and industrial "brownfields," and spreading across our Western deserts. In addition to exploring the full extent of solar's potential, this talk will examine some of the challenges it poses. How will utilities adapt as "distributed" solar supplants fossil and nuclear plants that have long been their revenue-generating mainstays? What are the wildlife impacts of utility-scale solar fields, and how can those impacts be mitigated? And how will we manage vast new quantities of solar waste as the industry matures? Specific solar projects will be studied; US and European policies will be explored.

Philip Warburg is a lawyer by training and a writer at heart. His work on energy issues dates back to the summer of 1973, when he staffed one of the nation's first challenges to nuclear power in Plymouth, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard College in 1978, he joined the staff of U.S. Senator Charles Percy, where he pioneered legislation to promote renewable energy. Later, as a graduate of Harvard Law School, Phil worked at the Washington-based Environmental Law Institute fostering environmental law reform in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This followed a two-year stint as a freelance reporter on the first Palestinian Intifada and the beginnings of a Middle East peace process in the late 1980s. In 1994, Phil went back to the Middle East, where he advised the Palestinian Authority's drafting of its first environmental legislation and coordinated a World Bank project in Jordan, protecting the Gulf of Aqaba's endangered coral reefs. He then spent several years at the helm of the Tel Aviv-based Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Israel's leading environmental advocacy group. Returning to his native New England in 2003, Phil became president of the Conservation Law Foundation, the region's oldest and largest environmental watchdog group. There, he found himself in the midst of one of America's most contentious wind farm siting battles—over the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. In Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability, Phil explored wind power's promise and the challenges facing this transformative technology. In his new book, Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future, Phil looks at inner-city solar projects and the development of solar power in Native American communities. He also examines some of the ways that solar developers are responding to concerns about wildlife protection, and he probes the life-cycle performance of different solar technologies.

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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Seminar: Structural Color in Nature
Speaker: Prof. Hui Cao, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University

Time: 4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Structural color has attracted much attention in a wide variety of disciplines. It originates from the physical interaction of light with nanostructure. Most studies have focused on ordered structures in the natural world which produce iridescent colors that change with viewing angle. However, nature has also used extensively quasi-ordered structures to create weakly iridescent colors. Prof. Cao and her research group at Yale investigated the physical mechanism for coloration of nanostructures with short-range order in bird feather barbs. Inspired by nature, her group developed a simple technique to fabricate large-scale biomimetic films which display isotropic structural color, that is amenable to potential applications in coatings, cosmetics, and textiles. To investigate how the structural color evolves in nature, she and her team conducted the artificial selection on a lab model butterfly to evolve the structural color of wing scales and compared to natural selection. This work reveals the physical mechanism of structural color evolution, which stands in sharp contrast to pigment color evolution.

Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Materials Processing Center collaborate to bring a wide variety of speakers from outside of MIT to meet with faculty and students, and to deliver lectures to which the entire MIT community are invited.

Refreshments will be served.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cmse/
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: n/a
Sponsor(s): Materials@MIT
For more information, contact: Gina Franzetta
617.253.6850
gfranzet@mit.edu

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Architecture Lecture: Sheila Kennedy, Graduate Open House Lecture

Thursday, November 12
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Sheila Kennedy

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group Lecture Series.

Web site: MIT Architecture, Professor of the Practice
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

Editorial Comment: Sheila Kennedy has done some very interesting work with solar bags and shades on buildings. She is an architect with an intriguing imagination.

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Friday, November 13

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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th

MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com

Cost: $5 - $15

The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
H. Curtis "Curt" Spalding, Regional Administrator, EPA New England
Curt Spalding serves as the Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in New England. For almost 20 years, he served as Executive Director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, a nationally recognized, 20,000-member environmental advocacy and education organization.

Since joining the EPA leadership team in February 2010, Spalding has been leading a holistic approach to finding environmental solutions in New England. He's emphasized efforts in community engagement, sustainability, environmental justice and green economy. Spalding has focused our efforts in the region on three cross-cutting initiatives: climate change, stormwater and community prosperity.

Kenneth Strzepek, Research Scientist, MIT Joint Program on Global Change, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor Strzepek has spent over 40 years as a researcher and practitioner at the nexus of engineering, environmental and economics systems. He has worked for a range of national governments as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and USAID. He was a lead author on the Second and Fifth IPCC Assessment, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the World Water Vision, and the UN World Water Development Report. He was the USAID Scientific Liaison Office on Water and Climate Change to the CGIAR.

He is an Arthur Maass-Gilbert White Fellow at the Institute for Water Resources of the US Army Corps of Engineers and received the Department of the Interior Citizen’s Award for Innovation in the applications of Systems Analysis to Water Management. Professor Strzepek is a co-recipient of the Zayed International Prize for the Environment and as a lead author for IPCC, he is a co-recipient of the 2007 Noble Peace Prize.

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The Internet of Cows Hackathon

Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM

9:00 AM
MassChallenge, 21 DryDock Avenue Floor 6, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-of-cows-hackathon-tickets-19028152717

BovControl is building the Internet of Cows (IoC), of which a critical aspect will be a new type of "wearable" sensor for data collection in the field. Join us at the MADE Hardware Lab at MassChallenge in the Seaport for a hackathon sprint to conceptualize, prototype, and test the next generation of cattle management hardware.

BovControl will provide all necessary resources: full access to our API, a state-of-the-art hardware lab, specific industry knowledge, pilot ranches for testing, and top-tier consultants for go-to-market strategies.

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Smart Home Robots

Friday, November 13

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Lunch: 12:30pm; Talk: 1pm

Chris Jones, iRobot
The Smart Home market is forecast to be a multi-hundred billion dollar market by 2025, with a typical family home containing more than 500 connected devices and sensors by that time. From connected lights and thermostats, to cameras and HVAC circulation vents, to door locks and chore robots. While this market is currently seeing rapid growth with compelling market forecasts, to hit these forecasts and to achieve long-term viability, the ecosystem will need to address growing complexity and usability challenges. It is not practical to assume the average consumer will be willing and able to configure the multitude of low-level interactions between hundreds of diverse connected devices to achieve desired high-level smart home functionality. This talk will outline how incorporating a physical understanding of the home (e.g., maps) built and maintained by home robots can help address these challenges.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Chris Jones is the Director of Strategic Technology at iRobot Corporation. Dr. Jones has over 15 years of experience in robotics research and development. At iRobot his responsibilities are centered on long-term technology planning and strategy and fostering strategic partnerships to advance the state-of-the-art in practical robotics. Prior to joining iRobot in 2005, he was involved in robotics research and development at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Southern California, the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich, the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center at Sandia National Laboratories, and the Robotics Research Lab at Texas A&M University. Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Host: Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS)
Contact: Natasha Baker
Phone: 617-496-2623
Email: iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu

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TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)

The Lincoln School 19 Kennard Road Brookline

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxbeaconstreet-2015-registration-13110240081

TEDxBeaconstreet is committed to providing free events to the greater Boston community. We are a volunteer army on a tight budget. Most of our expenses are covered by in-kind contributions and support from Superhero partners, grants, and community donors. If you’d like to offset event cost by making a tax-exempt donation, go to bit.ly/tedxbst-donate to help. Thank you!

3 Days of Inspiration: TEDxBeaconStreet 2015 Conference
TEDxBeaconStreet is a unique community event featuring diverse, multi-generational thought leaders from all walks of life. We support contemporary themes and highly interactive learning to facilitate community discussions and envision the impact of emerging ideas. Apply now to attend our fourth annual event.
FRIDAY SCHEDULE
7:00pm - 10:00pm: Escape Velocity Launch Party
Venue: Brookline Teen Center
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 12:00pm: TEDxYouthBeaconStreet
12:00pm - 7:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet
Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 6:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet continues

Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Brookline , MA

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Saturday, November 14

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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th
MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com
Cost: $5 - $15

The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.

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Monday, November 16

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Challenges in California's Transition to Lower-carbon Energy

Monday, November 16

12:00PM TO 1:30PM

Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jane Long, Chair, California Council on Science and Technology’s California’s Energy Future Committee; Senior Contributing Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund; and Visiting Researcher, U.C. Berkeley, will lead the HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series discussion. 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/seminar.html

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693

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MASS Seminar - Nicole Feldl (Caltech)

Monday, November 16
12:00p–1:00p

MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Nicole Feldl (Caltech)

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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-nicole-feldl-caltech
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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Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools: Working int he Digital Academy

Monday, November 16
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carlton Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Julia Flanders
Twenty-five years ago, jobs in humanities computing were largely interstitial: located in fortuitous, anomalous corners and annexes where specific people with idiosyncratic skill profiles happened to find a niche. One couldn't train for such jobs, let alone locate them in a market. The emergence of the field of "digital humanities" since that time may appear to be a disciplinary and methodological phenomenon, but it also has to do with labor: with establishing a new set of jobs for which people can be trained and hired, and which define the contours of the work we define as "scholarship."

This talk will look at the evolving landscape of digital humanities professional identity, considering the ways jobs are defined, the kinds of roles and skills they entail, and the different ways they imagine the incumbent's relationship with the domain of technology and "tools." I'll consider some factors that can lead to a strong working ecology and raise questions in conclusion about the kinds of training and education that may be most fruitful.

Web site: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-jobs-roles-skills-tools-working-digital-academy-julia-flanders
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Kelly Hopkins
617-253-3044
khopkins@mit.edu

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What We Talk About when We Talk About Disasters: Early Modern Precedents for 21st-Century Disaster Management
Monday, November 16
12:15 pm to 2:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Harvard Law School

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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Handmaiden to Extinction: Climate Change and Massive Loss of Ecosystem Services in Coral Reefs, Tropical Great Lakes, and Global Fisheries
Monday, November 16

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

BU, CAS, Room 226, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Speaker Dr. Les Kaufman, Professor of Biology, CAS, BU

Contact: Jennifer Berglund
Contact Email: berglund@bu.edu
Contact Organization Department of Earth and Environment

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Transversal Methodology: Labor, Love, Fear

Monday, November 16

7 - 9pm

MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Pelin Tan
Methodology is not only the means of a system for describing realities; it is a political tool that takes part in the process of knowledge production. From the perspective of an integrated relational practice in the field of urban, pedagogy and contemporary art, Pelin Tan conveys how collective experience of the translocal production of knowledge and of instant alliances leads to the creation of common spaces. How can transversal methodology function within it? As Felix Guattari puts it, rather an analytic method that cuts across multiple fields– is often affiliated with models of knowledge and pedagogy, such as methods of “assemblage”. Both on theoretical and practical levels, such processes could well be vital in enabling the knowledge of everyday life to intervene in institutional bodies, and vital to the flow of alternative pedagogies into different platforms, resulting in the emergence of creative forms of solidarity in extra-territorial spaces. Tan will speak about possibilities and limits of transversal methods in art and spatial realities.

Pelin Tan studied sociology and art history, completing her PhD on socially engaged art in urban space (ITU-Turkey) and her post-doc on the methodology of artistic research at MIT. Tan has received several research grants & residencies such as DAAD (2006-07), The Japan Foundation (2012), IASPIS curatorial (2008), Kitakyushu Contemporary Art Inst. (2015). Tan is an Associate Professor in the department of Architecture at Mardin Artuklu University. In spring 2016, Tan begins an appointment as Research Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic, Design Strategies (Spring, 2016).

Tan’s research on artist run spaces and urban justice spans continents– in Europe (2004), Asia and Japan (2012, 2015). She currently co-directs the sci-fi film series “2084” about the future of art with artist Anton Vidokle. Tan has participated in numerous biennales, including the Montreal Biennial (2014), the Bergen Assembly (2013) and most recently, the Istanbul Biennale (2015). She is a member of video collectives Artıkişler and co-founder of videoccupy and the bak.ma digital media archive of political movements in Turkey. In addition, Tan was the curator of Adhocracy– Athens exhibition (May, 2015). Tan’s publications on architecture, urbanism and art include, her recent chapter “Transversal Materialism” featured in 2000+: Urgencies of Architectural Theories (GSAPP, 2015) and Arazi (Sternberg Press, CSPS, Berlin, 2015). Tan is a principal researcher at the “Spatio-Social Analysis of Refugee Camps in Southeast Turkey” (2015 – 2016, MAU) and is currently working together with Ö.Özengi on the research project, Labor in Contemporary Art in Turkey (2013-2016).

Pelin Tan’s lecture will lecture will be moderated by Ursula August (ACT) and Angel Chen (ACT).

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Boston Talks Investigates: In Defense of Food
Monday, November 16

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)

WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-talks-investigates-in-defense-of-food-tickets-19121433723

Cst: $12

WGBH brings you the investigate stories that matter to our region. Now, you’re invited to join the conversation at our BostonTalks: Investigates series, featuring in-depth panel discussions with major players, followed by a reception.

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” With that seven-word maxim, journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. Traveling the globe and the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “eater’s manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy? Watch a preview of the film then join a conversation with Pollan and Dr. David Ludwig about the issues it raises.

You must be 21 to attend.

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Tuesday, November 17

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Neurotech 2015
Tuesday, November 17

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EST)
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neurotech-2015-registration-18660271374

The Neurotech 2015 symposium presents eight talks by neurotechnology pioneers whose cutting-edge innovations are changing the face of neurobiological research from molecules to cognition.

QUESTIONS: Contact Laura Halligan at laurahal@mit.edu

Registration is required and space is limited.

Speakers:
Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution”
Kristin Branson, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Mapping Behavior to Neural Anatomy using Computer Vision and Thermogenetics”
Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology
“Tools for Anatomical and Functional Analysis of Widely Distributed Brain Networks”
Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia University
“High Speed Optical Imaging of the Awake, Behaving Brain”
John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Soft, Bioresorbable Optoelectronic Interfaces to the Brain”
Bryan Roth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“New Tools for Illuminating Neuronal Functions”
Chandra Tucker, University of Colorado Denver
“Optical Control of Protein Activity Using Engineered Photoreceptors”
Lawrence Wald, Harvard/MGH
"New Directions in MR Hardware and Acquisition”

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Media and International Politics: What's Next? - A Conversation with the Joan Shorenstein Fellows

Tuesday, November 17

12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

David Ensor is the former director of Voice of America, the official external broadcast institution of the U.S. Government which provides multimedia programming to international audiences.

Marie Sanz is currently the bureau chief of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Lima, Peru, covering also Chile and Bolivia. Over her 25-year career as a foreign correspondent for AFP, she has reported at length from Latin America, Africa, the United States and Europe.

Paul Wood is a BBC world affairs correspondent, most recently based in Beirut. For the past four years he has covered the Syrian uprising, making a number of trips across the border from Lebanon and Turkey, often covert. He has reported first-hand on the growth of the insurgency, the siege in Homs, and the emergence of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria.

http://shorensteincenter.org/media-international-politics-fellows/

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Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability of regional scale climate variability

Tuesday, November 17
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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-5
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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Louis C. Elson Lecture: Angélique Kidjo
WHEN Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, abutting 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music
SPEAKER(S) Angélique Kidjo
COST Free and open to the public; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice/
TICKET INFO Free tickets available at the Harvard Box Office beginning Nov. 3
CONTACT INFO musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu
LINK www.music.fas.harvard.edu

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Wednesday, November 18

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Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work

Wednesday, November 18
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Scott Barrett, Columbia University, and Astrid Dannenberg, Kassel University

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340

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Massachusetts: THE Hub for Social Innovation Panel

Wednesday, November 18

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Wheelock College, Brookline Campus, Ladd Room, 2nd floor, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/massachusetts-the-hub-for-social-innovation-panel-tickets-19122995394

Please join us for an exciting conversation and exploration of the emerging social innovation ecosystem in the state of Massachusetts. Participants include some of our region’s leading non-profit, for-profit “B” corporations, and civic entrepreneurs – as well as those working to develop and engage the broader ecosystem in Boston and beyond.

This will be a great opportunity to discuss how we can move this effort forward together. We hope you will plan to join us!

Sponsored by the Massachusetts Chaper of the Social Enterprise Alliance and TWheelock College Department of Leadership and Policy

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TiE-Boston Solar Energy Deep-Dive
Wednesday, November 18

5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

East Arcade Conference Center, One Main Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember?PG=1521972182300&P=15219721911429920300

Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has grown significantly in the US and globally in the past decade driven by significant cost reduction in module prices, policy incentives and creative business models. This is a great success story in the clean / renewable energy sector. However, with just about 1% of the US electricity supply based on solar energy, there is significant potential for solar and renewables to significantly reduce the impact of fossil fuels in the energy supply chain.

The TiE-Boston Deep Dive event on Solar Energy, will present perspectives of the status of solar energy and some thoughts on what will influence the future deployment of solar energy in the US. To get a better appreciation of where things stand and what needs to be done going forward, TiE-Boston has assembled a great set of speakers to address various topics.

The speakers include:
Vikram Aggarwal, CEO, EnergySage
Andrew Belden, Solar Program Director, MassCEC
Colin Smith, Solar Research Analyst, Greentech Media
Rob Stoner, Deputy Director, MIT Energy Institute, & Director, MIT Tata Center
Frank van Mierlo, CEO, 1366 Technologies
Alison Ernst, Senior Manager Investments, MassCEC

This program has been organized by the TiE Boston Cleantech Special Interest Group and will be moderated by Vivek Soni.

The event will include perspectives on:
Customer expectations for solar energy

Current deployment in MA and in the US

Impact of storage

Drivers for significant future deployment

Technologies that will make a difference

Investor considerations going forward

Click here to register

TiE-Boston
617.225.0419
Email: tieadmin [at] boston.tie.org
Website: boston.tie.org

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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub

Wednesday, November 18

5:30p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Program 3: The New Economy: Eds & Meds, 1980s -- Today
With Anthony Pangaro, Millennium Partners; Barbara Rubel, Tufts University; Kathy Spiegelman, Northeastern University; Peter Kiang, UMass Boston; and moderator Kairos Shen, former BRA.

This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.

Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.

The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
617-646-0578

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Thursday, November 19

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Looking for Good News About Global Warming

Thursday, November 19
12:00-1:00pm

Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Daniel Grossman, Environmental journalist, National Geographic News Watch Editor
Daniel Grossman has reported for 15 years about the impacts of global warming around the world, from Greenland's Ice Sheet to Peru's rain forest. Recently he's also begun reporting on efforts to reduce carbon, especially in northern Europe, where people are responsible for only half as much carbon dioxide as residents of the U.S. He'll talk about his reporting on climate impacts and a reporting trip last summer to Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and Norway.

Daniel Grossman is an award-winning print journalist and radio and web producer with 20 years of experience. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and a B.S. in physics, both from MIT. He is a 2008 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. He was awarded a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he studied climate science. He has reported from all seven continents including from within 800 miles of both the south and north poles. Dan has written for the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Discover, Audubon and Scientific American, among other national publications. He has been interviewed on environmental topics more than a dozen times on national radio programs including The World, Here and Now and Living on Earth. He has produced three extensive micro-websites on environmental topics. He is coauthor of A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists (Rutgers University Press: 2006).

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"Courage First": Dissent, Debate, and the Origins of U.S. Responsiveness to Mass Killing
WHEN Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Amanda J. Rothschild, research fellow, International Security Program
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6775/courage_first.html

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Architecture Lecture: Julien de Smedt, A Post-Urban Agenda

Thursday, November 19
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Julien de Smedt

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group Lecture Series.

Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

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An Evening of Performance and Politics: Sliver of a Full Moon
WHEN Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Introduction by Joseph William Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderated by Daniel Carpenter, director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University
Maggie McKinley, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Mary Kathryn Nagle, playwright
Angela Riley, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Professor of Law and director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA School of Law
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sliver-full-moon-reading-discussion
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS “Sliver of a Full Moon” is a powerful reenactment of the historic congressional reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 2013—a movement that restored the authority of tribal governments to prosecute non-Native abusers who assault and abuse Native women on tribal lands. The story follows five Native women who took a stand and two Native men, including Congressman Tom Cole, who stood with them to win this victory. The reading of the play will feature compelling monologues from the voices of long-time Native women’s advocates, leaders, and survivors. The cast includes four courageous Native women who stepped forward to share publicly their stories of abuse, professional actors, and current Harvard students.
A panel discussion will follow the performance. Register online.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sliver-full-moon-reading-discussion

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Big Boys Gone Bananas

Thursday, November 19

doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor

This is a true David and Goliath story about a pair of Swedish filmmakers and a banana corporation. Dirty tricks, lawsuits, manipulation, and the price of free speech. (It's also a story about a country and it's media who refuse to knuckle-under to US corporate extortion. And of course that country is decidedly not the US.)

Big Boys Gone Bananas! is the sequel to Fredrik Gertten's award-winning documentary, /*Bananas!** that /recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. It was a groundbreaking legal battle for Dole's use of a banned pesticide, which was known by the company to cause sterility. The plantation workers claimed they had been poisoned by pesticides such as DBCP (also known as Nemagon, which was banned in the US in 1979, and which Dow Chemical had recalled). Dole had been ordered in Nicaraguan courts to compensate the victims, but failed to do so. So the case was taken to America; Bananas! tells that story.

Big Boys Gone Bananas shows how Dole sued and harassed The LA Film Festival, Gertten, and others - trying to prevent Bananas! from ever
being shown.

See trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LikhNC5T34

Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
free film & free door prizes
[donations are encouraged]
feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed

*UPandOUT film series* - see http://rule19.org/videos

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Friday, November 20

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Roundtable: New England Pipeline and Transmission Infrastructure: Recent Developments & Recent Studies
Friday, November 20

9:00 AM to 12:30 PM (EST)

Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/1120-roundtable-new-england-pipeline-and-transmission-infrastructure-recent-developments-recent-tickets-19052584794

Cost: $35 - $65.00

Livestream: https://signup.clickstreamtv.com/event/raab/events/

New England Pipeline and Transmission Infrastructure: Recent Developments & Recent Studies
Convener/Moderator: Dr. Jonathan Raab, Raab Associates, Ltd
Agenda
9:00 Welcome and Introductions — Dr. Jonathan Raab
9:05 New England Pipeline and Transmission: Recent Developments
Massachusetts State Senator Ben Downing
Connecticut Deputy DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes
10:15- Break
10:45 New England Pipeline and Transmission: Recent Studies
Richard Levitan, Levitan & Associates
Tanya Bodell, ENERGYZT & Joe Dalton, GDF SUEZ
Paul Hibbard, Analysis Group & Melissa Hoffer/Rebecca Tepper, MA AGO
12:30 Adjourn

Registration policy:
The Roundtable registration policies introduced last Fall will continue:

We are capping attendance and requiring pre-registration.

There is a fee for this Roundtable of $65 for non-Sponsors (There is a discounted fee of $35 for government or non-profit employees, students, retirees, and low-income individuals).

Register https://signup.clickstreamtv.com/event/raab/events/ for live-streaming ($50) or on-demand streaming (available for $40 after the Roundtable)

Both in-person attendance and live webstreaming will continue to be free for sponsors, but sponsors will have to pre-register like everyone else.

Twitter: #RaabRT Website: www.RaabAssociates.org

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Saturday, November 2

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Building Sustainable Security
Saturday, November 2

9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2364974

Cost: $10 - $25

Confirmed Speakers
Noam Chomsky, MIT Institute Professor, author, *Because We Say So
Michael McPhearson, Executive Director, Veterans For Peace
Harris Gruman, Co-Chair, RaiseUp Massachusetts; SEIU
Carl Williams, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Cassandra Bensahih, Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA)
Barbara Madeloni, President, Masachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
Susan Redlich, 350 Massachusetts divestment core team
Jimmy Tingle, Humor for Humanity

Will Hopkins, New Hampshire Peace Action

In the name of national security, our coun?try's policies are causing multiple, systemic crises. These include climate catastrophe, extreme inequality, constant wars, deep-seated racism, mass incarceration, and a militarized culture.

Only large social movements can remove these barriers to genuine security and construct a society based on Sustainable Security.

This conference will explore three pillars of sustainable national and
world security:
A fairly-shared global prosperity based on economic, social, and racial justice
Emergency action to address climate change and build a new, fossil-fuel-free energy system
A Foreign Policy for All based on even-handed diplomacy, ending our disastrous military interventions, abolition of nuclear weapons, and reclaiming war resources for the urgent needs that face our world

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Sunday, November 22
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HBs Tech Conference

Sunday, November 22

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Business School, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-conference-21-tickets-19090668704

Cost: $27.27

What is the Tech Conference?
Held at Harvard Business School for the past 20 years, the Tech Conference (formerly Cyberposium) is the largest student-run MBA technology conference in the world. The conference facilitates an interactive network of current and future business leaders to engage in a provocative dialog about technology and its impact on business and society. The Tech Conference is organized entirely by current MBA students at Harvard Business School and is the primary campus event of the school’s Tech Club.

Who attends the Tech Conference?
Each year, the Tech Conference seeks to unite the community of present and future business leaders who share a common passion to deliver technology’s greatest promises. The conference draws some 1,000 attendees from the tech/media industries as well as the VC and startup communities. Participants include CEOs, CTOs, founders, entrepreneurs, Wall Street and technology analysts, a broad range of media and press representatives, and students from over 25 leading MBA programs around the world.

What is Tech Conference 21 all about?
Given this is the 21st year of the conference, there’s quite some history surrounding the conference. Many of the speakers that have spoken at the Tech Conference (or rather, its predecessor, Cyberposium) in the past got a lot more famous and a lot more successful after the conference, not because of the conference, but because conference organizers managed to bring to campus those people who saw the future and built it. Jeff Bezos came when Amazon was just a bookstore. Marissa Mayer came when she was still at Google, before she was selected as the CEO of Yahoo and became one of the most prominent CEOs in tech. Elon Musk came in 2005 before Tesla became the first American carmaker to IPO in decades and before NASA surrendered American leadership in space to SpaceX. Travis Kalanick came last year, before he closed that monstrous round that valued Uber at $18 billion.

The goal of this year’s conference is to continue the tradition of bringing industry leaders to HBS not only whose past stories would inspire and educate, but who are leading organizations that will likely dominate the next decade in technology. This year’s speakers can not only see the future, they are actively building it.

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Monday, November 23

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MASS Seminar - Nadine Unger (Yale)

Monday, November 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Nadine Unger (Yale)

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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-nadine-unger-yale
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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The 'Nature' of Queer Families: Tracking the Socio-Technics of the Fertility Clinic

Monday, November 23

12:15–2 pm,

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.

Stu Marvel (Emory University)

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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Biogeographic influences on grassland community structure and function
Monday, November 23
12:10 pm
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab

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Demand Response: Architectures, Strategies and Theories

Monday, November 23

2-3pm
BU, Room 105, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Boston
Refreshments served at 1:45

P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, CISE Resident Scholar
Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are time-varying. To enhance their usage, demand will need to be adjusted to meet supply, rather than the other way around as is traditional. This raises several issues lying at the confluence of economic behavior and elasticity, demand pooling, implicit or explicit storage, information availability, privacy, adaptation and control. This talk will propose several designs and architectures, strategies and theories for demand response.

[Joint work with Rahul Singh, Abhishek Halder, Ke Ma, Jaeyong An, Gaurav Sharma, Xinbo Geng, Anupam Thatte and Le Xie.]

P. R. Kumar obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977-84 he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. From 1985-2011 he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Currently he is at Texas A&M University, where he is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering.

Kumar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. He is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. He was a Guest Chair Professor and Leader of the Guest Chair Professor Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad. He is a D. J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.

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Monday, November 30

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Dr. Temple Grandin: Livestock Behavior & Welfare: Experience, Research, and the Impact on My Life and Teaching
Mon-Tues, Nov 30-Dec 1, 2015
Tufts, Medford and Grafton campuses and livestreamed

Animal Matters Seminar Series with Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction
More information at http://vet.tufts.edu/center-for-animals-and-public-policy/capp-workshops-and-seminars/

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MASS Seminar - Roisin Commane (Harvard)

Monday, November 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Roisin Commane (Harvard)

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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-roisin-commane-harvard
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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Health and Climate Benefits of Different Energy-efficiency and Renewable Energy Choices

Monday, November 30

12pm-1:30pm

Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jonathan Buonocore, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693

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Universal Laws and the Case of Cholera

Monday, November 30
12:15–2 pm
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.

John P. McCaskey, Columbia University

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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Tuesday, December 1

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Boston TechBreakfast: Akili Software, Inc., Attollo Tech, and More!

Tuesday, December 1

8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

RSVP at http://bit.ly/1q7U6I6

Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.

And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)

Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Akili Software, Inc.: Savii Care - Michelle Harper

Attollo Tech: upace - Rachel Koretsky

~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words

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Thursday, December 3

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Using pollen analysis for monitoring ancient and modern environments

Thursday, December 3
12:00-1:00pm

Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Guy Robinson, Department of Natural Science, Fordham University
Paleoecology is the science of learning about ecosystems and environments of the distant past. Much of the paleoecological work at Fordham examines the proposition that our Paleolithic ancestors caused the extinction of the largest land animals late in the last Ice Age. To explore this controversial question, we examine fossil pollen, spores and microscopic charcoal from cores out of lakes and bogs. With radiocarbon dates we piece together narratives of environmental change, landscape fire, large animal density, and human arrival on prehistoric landscapes. The other side of our work is to measure current atmospheric pollen; what's in the air from day to day is a matter of public health. Fordham operates the only certified aeroallergen monitoring station in New York City and another in Armonk, in the northern suburbs. Dr. Robinson manages both these stations. With help from the NYC Dept of Health, he has been able to show that allergy medication sales at New York City pharmacies will increase sharply just after a peak in pollen counts of certain tree species.

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Monday, December 7

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Flowering plants mediating transmission of a common bumble bee pathogen
Monday, December 7

12:10 pm
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Lynn Adler, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Thursday, December 10

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Talloires Declaration: Past, present, future

Thursday, December 10
12:00-1:00pm

Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

William Moomaw, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

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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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Food For Free in Cambridge is seeking a number of volunteers for our biggest fundraising event of the year! By helping out at the Party Under the Harvest Moon, you can help us raise $60,000 in one night for our Food Rescue & Delivery work.

WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 16th
MIT's Morss Hall | 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

WHOM WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
folks with professional kitchen/restaurant industry experience (or confident home cooks who are willing to follow food handling instructions from our caterer)
friendly, outgoing folks who are comfortable using tablets/smartphones, and ideally willing to use their own devices while volunteering (though we have some available)
1-2 volunteer photographers (email me directly to inquire about this one!)
general helpers for a range of tasks, including coat check, setup, cleanup, etc.
Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/9M47Tn6J832D/

Thanks for helping make this fundraising event a success, to ensure access to healthy food for all in our communities.

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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

hubevents

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Energy (and Other) Events - October 25, 2015

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