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Monday, November 4 – Friday, November 8
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Confronting Climate Change: From Business as Usual to Business as Vital
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Monday, November 4 – Tuesday, November 5
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ZPH Workshop: Sustainable Infrastructure for Preventing Climate Change
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Monday, November 4
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10am Millennial Nuclear Caucus - New England
11:45am Diary of a Wimpy Carbon Tax: Carbon Taxes as Federal Climate Policy
12pm Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Daniele Bianchi
12pm China's Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts
12:15pm 'To Enter the Territory': Mosquitoes, Health, and Science in the Streets of Rio de Janeiro
12:30pm Andrey Baklitskiy: Is There a Future for Russia-U.S. Nuclear Arms Control?
1pm Starr Forum: America’s Immigration Dilemma
2pm MIT Waste Forum
3pm The Two Popes
4pm The Diffusion and Adoption of Welfare-Enhancing Innovations
4pm Causal Inference in the Age of Big Data (Jasjeet Sekhon, UC Berkeley)
4:15pm Book Talk -- Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis
4:30pm Study Group with Deesha Dyer: The Power is in the People: Keeping Community a Priority in Politics and Public Service
4:30pm HubWeek Open Doors: Allston
5pm The Once and Future Heart: A Converging of Art and Science
5pm Responses of Coral Reefs to Global Warming by Terry Hughes
5pm Flush: the documentary - directed by Karina Mangu-Ward
5:30pm Fletcher Reads the Newspaper: CEOs Serving Stakeholders: Will this Redeem Capitalism or Ruin it?
6pm Adapting to the Changing Local Foods Market
6pm Swiss Science Jam: Student Biology Talks
6:30pm Uncovering the Effects of Maternal Diet on Fetal Brain Development and Childhood Behavior
7pm The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
7pm Future Humans and the Price of Progress
7pm Climate Justice/Climate Equity and Judaism
An Open Circles Jewish Learning Program sponsored by JCAN-MA and Hebrew College
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Tuesday, November 5
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11am Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
12pm Regulating the Digital Platforms: Where will the antitrust investigations of Facebook and Google lead?
12pm “Medicine, Academia, and the Syrian Refugee Crisis” with Dr. Fadlo Khuri – Voices in Leadership
12pm China's Green Movement: Players, Style, and Strategy
12pm Lessons from Bolivia’s “Left Turn” (and Post-Electoral Scenarios)
12pm Open Doc Lab Talk: How to make AI for the People
1pm How Bad is Fake News? Motivations for Sharing Misinformation Online
4pm 2019 Annual Robert and Florence Dreben lecture: How Intellectuals Can Create Political Change
4pm Film Screening and Discussion: “One Child Nation,” Co-directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
5pm Open Doc Lab Talk: Antecedent Technologies and Malware in the Constitution
5:30pm “Broken Nature” and Other Design Exhibitions for the Real World
5:30pm The Psychology of Compassion
6pm They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy
6pm AUTHORS@MIT | Arthur I. Miller on The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
6pm FORUM: Harnessing the Power of the Disability Rights Community: Our Fight for Equality
6pm A Conversation with Barbara Lee
6pm Gutman Library Book Talk: Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism
6pm Spotlight on UN Sustainable Development Goals & Plastics
6pm Changing Places: Community Strategies for Sustainable Economic Development
6:30pm Saving Biodiversity in India
7pm The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier – a Conversation with Living on Earth
7pm FLP Open Meeting: Feed More, Waste Less
7pm November Actions: Special Screening on the 50th Anniversary of MIT's Historical Protests
7:30pm Climate beer: Have a drink. Speak your climate truth
8pm FORUM: A Conversation with Tara Westover
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Wednesday, November 6
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12pm A Solar Geoengineering and Global Income Inequality Paradox
12pm Cousteau: A History of Ocean Innovation from the Aqualung to Project Hermes
12pm Autocratic Diffusion and Great Power Politics
12pm Kiley Fellow Lecture: Paola Sturla, “Designer: the last humanist?”
12:15pm What It Takes to Build Climate Resilience: A Conversation with David Festa
2pm A League of Women Voters of Massachusetts webinar: Pipeline to the FUTURE Delivering Safe, Renewable, Geothermal Energy to Massachusetts
3:45pm Undermining Rights: Transnational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Activism across Settler States
4:15pm Can Pigou at the Polls Stop the U.S. Melting the Poles?
4:15pm Protest, Populism, and the Future of Democracy
4:30pm Work of the Future Book Series: Oren Cass, Author of "The Once and Future Worker”
5:30pm Are We There Yet? 21st Century Mobility
6pm Building a Resilient Future
6pm Do Whales Judge Us? Interspecies History and Ethics
6pm Life Without Basketball Film Screening and Panel Discussion
6:30pm Science for the People
7pm And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
7pm APPALACHIA: A CULTURAL CROSSROADS
7pm The many magnitudes of darkness
7pm Extinction Rebellion Community Meeting
8m Resistance Mic!
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Thursday, November 7
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9:30am Agricultural Land Reclamation in the 21st Century: Best practices for farmers, landowners, and service providers
10:30pm Standing Up Instead of Standing By: Being an Active Bystander
11:45am Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of Corporate Sustainability Ratings
11:45am The NRA's Worst Nightmare
12pm Upstream Emissions from the Production and Transport of Fuels
12pm Public Health Crisis at the Border: The Mexican Perspective
2pm Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: First Findings
3pm How to Change the World with Alan Khazei
3pm ENERGY CONNECT 2019
4pm Space Exploration Initiative Showcase: Prototyping our sci-fi space future
4:15pm Deliberative Democracy and Transforming Urban Policy Design in Buenos Aires
5pm Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
5pm Civil Disagreement Series with Doris Meissner and Reihan Salam
6pm Adversity, Belonging, and Survival among Baboons
6pm The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
6pm Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize: Kick Off Dinner
6pm Climate Change Negotiation Workshop
6:30pm Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
6:30pm "The Pleasures of Age": Old Women and Political Power in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement
7pm Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
7pm An Evening Discussing Oceans and Climate with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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Friday, November 8 – Monday, November 11
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WikiConference North America
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Friday, November 8
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8am 2nd Annual Challenges to Antitrust in a Changing Economy
12pm Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar
12:30pm National Energy Pathways: Policy Evolution and Scientists in Decarbonizing Times
3pm Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image and A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
3pm 2019 Hottel Lecture: Catalytic Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Biofuels and Bioproducts
7pm In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
7pm The Witches Are Coming
7pm The Great Pretender
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Saturday, November 9 - Sunday, November 10
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Boston Anarchist Book Fair
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Saturday, November 9
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9am Active Hope: The Work that Reconnects
10pm Polaroid Day
10:30am TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet
11am Mushroom Workshop
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Sunday, November 10
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9am Interactive meditation on the climate crisis
1:30pm Human Rights and Pluralism in Today's Pakistan
4pm Somerville Community Greening Celebration
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Monday, November 11
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10am Transit of Mercury - Live Viewing
11:45am Mike Catanzaro, former Special Assistant to President Trump for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy (2017-2018)
12:15pm Sin, Science and Seismic Shocks: The Jamaica Earthquake of 1692 and the Science of Disaster
3pm The Biggest Little Farm
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Tuesday, November 12
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11am On the Basis of Sex: Disparities in Nutrition, Research and Healthcare
12pm Speaker Series: Brandi Collins-Dexter
12pm Torture as a method of criminal prosecution: Democratization, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Mexican Drug War
12:30pm Veteran's Health: Caring for Those Who Served
2:30pm Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in Europe and the World
4pm Human Magnetoreception: Tests of Magnetite-Based Transduction
4pm AgConnect: The Future of Protein
4:30pm Emile Bustani Seminar: "Women Leaders as Conveyors of Change in Saudi Arabia”
6pm FORUM: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas
6pm Distributing Power Through Renewable Transformation for Climate Resilience
6pm Everyday Decisions and Environmental Challenges
6pm Above the Free Walls: Documentary Film of Graffiti Alley in Cambridge Screening & Discussion
6:30pm "After Migration": In Defense of Using Beauty to Illustrate the Journeys of Those Who Have Suffered
7pm The Mutual Admiration Society
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Monday, November 4 – Friday, November 8
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Confronting Climate Change: From Business as Usual to Business as Vital
Monday, November 4 – Friday, November 8
8 am–8 pm
HBS Spangler Lounge, 117 Western Avenue, Allston
Join us for an interactive exhibit addressing the climate crisis. Our goal: to expose MBAs to the role that climate change will play in their professional and personal lives; engage members of the community on these issues; and highlight HBS alumni, student, and faculty innovation. All are welcome to attend and consider the current and future realities of climate change and learn how business is and can be stepping up to this global challenge. The exhibit will feature ~50 alumni, students, and faculty using their careers to confront climate change.
Developed by the HBS Business and Environment Initiative in partnership with HBS Sustainability.
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Monday, November 4 – Tuesday, November 5
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ZPH Workshop: Sustainable Infrastructure for Preventing Climate Change
Monday, November 4, 12:30 PM – Tuesday, November 5, 4:00 PM EST
Harvard, 48 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Room 112 (Stubbins), Cambridge
Workshop dedicated to discuss the potential of sustainable infrastructure for preventing climate change.
ZPH Workshop: Sustainable Infrastructure for Preventing Climate Change
The world is facing a climate crisis that requires a response of planetary scale to limit global emissions below 1.5º C. Sustainable infrastructure is a pathway to prevent climate change. The November 2019 Zofnass Workshop is dedicated to discussing the potential of sustainable infrastructure for preventing climate change and making the case for the investments necessary to roll out at the pace needed.
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Monday, November 4
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Millennial Nuclear Caucus - New England
Monday, November 4
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM EST
MIT - Morss Hall in Walker Memorial (Building 50), 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Please join the U.S. Department of Energy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a Millennial Nuclear Caucus.
Hear from leaders in the nuclear field as we explore the merits of joining or creating a nuclear startup company. We will also exchange thoughts and best practices on how to be more effective in communicating the importance of nuclear as a vital source of clean energy. Network with thought leaders, industry, national labs, and government representatives.
Public parking available: http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitors/public_parking.html
Draft Agenda
10:00 am Doors open
10:45 am Kick-off
11:00 am Panel Discussion 1 Advocacy in Nuclear: How to become an effective voice for nuclear energy
Moderator: Isaac Meyer, MIT
Panelists:
Sam Brinton, Director of Legislative Affairs, Deep Isolation
Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT; Advocacy Council Member, Nuclear Matters
Natalia Saraeva, Co-chair, Millennials for Nuclear
Tay Stevenson, Partner, Envoy Public Labs
12:00 pm Lunch and Networking
1:30 pm Panel Discussion 2 Trial by Fire: Are energy startups worth starting and how to make them work
Moderator: Gavin Ridley, MIT
Panelists:
Temple Fennell, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Clean Energy Ventures
Ho Nieh, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Carl Perez, Co-Founder and CEO, Elysium Industries Ltd
Billy Valderrama, Technical Advisor, Idaho National Laboratory
2:45 pm Transfer to the tour (for those attending)
3:00 pm Tour of the MIT research reactor (space is limited, advanced registration is required)*
4:30 pm Networking Social (Meadhall, 4 Cambridge Center, 90 Broadway)**
7:00 pm Adjourn
* Closed toe shoes and government-issued photo ID are required for the tour. The tour involves two flights of stairs. Mobility restrictions can be accommodated with 48-hour advance notice.
** One free beverage ticket will be provided at the check in; hearty snacks will be provided.
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Diary of a Wimpy Carbon Tax: Carbon Taxes as Federal Climate Policy
Monday, November 4
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Christopher R. Knittel, MIT. Lunch is provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Contact Name: Julie Gardella
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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Daniele Bianchi
Monday, November 4
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
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China's Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts
Monday, November 4
12:00PM TO 1:15PM
Harvard, CGIS South Room S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
China’s future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world’s ability to meet climate change mitigation goals. Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, will discuss China’s national approach to climate change, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects of China’s climate pledge on the energy system, greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, and human health. Projected air quality and health co-benefits in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. will also be presented. Taken together, the findings provide a strong case for cooperation among China, the U.S., and other Asian countries to support the implementation of China’s climate goals.
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'To Enter the Territory': Mosquitoes, Health, and Science in the Streets of Rio de Janeiro
Monday, November 4
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Luisa Reis Castro, HASTS, MIT.
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to via the online form by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
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Andrey Baklitskiy: Is There a Future for Russia-U.S. Nuclear Arms Control?
Monday, November 4
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Crowe Room, Goddard 310, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a lunch conversation with Andrey Baklitskiy about the future of Russia-U.S. nuclear arms control. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite. Lunch will be provided.
Andrey Baklitskiy is a Consultant at PIR Center in Moscow. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at CSIS in Washington, D.C. and a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Trends and International Organizations of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Baklitskiy is a columnist for the Russian newspapers RBC and Kommersantand the website of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Baklitskiy has previously served as the "Russia and Nuclear Nonproliferation" Program Program at PIR Center. He was the Editor-in-Chief of monthly e-bulletin “Yaderny Kontrol” (“Nuclear Control”). He took part in the sessions of the Nonproliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee in 2013-2014 and the Review Conference in 2015. Baklitskiy holds a specialist degree in regional studies from the Ural Federal University. His research interests include international security, arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, U.S.-Russian relations, and the Middle East.
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Starr Forum: America’s Immigration Dilemma
Monday, November 4
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Cristina Rodríguez is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her research interests include constitutional law and theory; immigration law and policy; administrative law and process; language rights and policy; and citizenship theory.
Discussant: Justin Steil is assistant professor of law and urban planning. Broadly interested in social stratification and spatial dimensions of inequality, his research examines the intersection of urban policy with property, land use, and civil rights law.
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), The Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration
Free & open to the public | Refreshments served
Can't attend in person? Watch it on Facebook live or on-demand on YouTube.
For more information or accessibility accommodations please contact starrforum@mit.edu.
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MIT Waste Forum
Monday, November 4
2:00pm to 3:30pm
MIT, Building 1-390, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Join us for the MIT Waste Forum: Redesigning at MIT for a zero waste future
The Waste Forum is designed to catalyze a campus-wide conversation to engage and embolden the MIT community to individually and collectively “design out waste.”
Hear from faculty, students, and staff who bring their disciplinary expertise to design out waste at MIT. Join the conversation to share your unique ideas and insight.
Editorial Comment: MIT (and all other local colleges and universities) should have been thinking about how to become net zero emissions institutions for the last 20 or 30 years.
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The Two Popes
WHEN Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, 3 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Film, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events, Sustainability
SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School gratefully acknowledges the support of the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies for this event. Partners for the event are the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School; Harvard University Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies; and the Constellation Project.
CONTACT Gretchen Legler, glegler@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination," presents The Two Popes, a biographical drama, directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins. Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
Following the film, Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church at Harvard, will converse with producer and Harvard College alum Jonathan Eirich, '03. Dialogue with the audience will be encouraged.
This is the second of a special film series that focuses on issues of social and racial justice; ethics of data collection and its impact on free elections; moral leadership; gun violence; and dreams of farming and caring for the land. Discussions will center around what role the moral imagination plays in addressing societal concerns, how each film contributes to our understanding of social change, and how we as community might engage more fully in movement building rooted in creativity and compassion. This event is free and open to the public. To register for the film series, please contact Gretchen Legler. Priority seating will be given to registered participants. Doors close promptly at 3 pm.
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The Diffusion and Adoption of Welfare-Enhancing Innovations
WHEN Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Todd Rogers, 2019–2020 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School; behavioral scientist
COST Free
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS In this lecture, Rogers will discuss what leads to the diffusion and widespread adoption of welfare-enhancing innovations and practices, especially those leveraging behavioral insights. Rogers’ research is an extension from his work over the past two decades in the area of behavioral policy.
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Causal Inference in the Age of Big Data (Jasjeet Sekhon, UC Berkeley)
Monday, November 4
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Buidling E18-304, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge
Abstract: The rise of massive datasets that provide fine-grained information about human beings and their behavior offers unprecedented opportunities for evaluating the effectiveness of social, behavioral, and medical treatments. With the availability of fine-grained data, researchers and policymakers are increasingly unsatisfied with estimates of average treatment effects based on experimental samples that are unrepresentative of populations of interest. Instead, they seek to target treatments to particular populations and subgroups. Because of these inferential challenges, Machine Learning (ML) is now being used for evaluating and predicting the effectiveness of interventions in a wide range of domains from technology firms to clinical medicine and election campaigns. However, there are a number of issues that arise with the use of ML for causal inference. For example, although ML and related statistical models are good for prediction, they are not designed to estimate causal effects. Instead, they focus on predicting observed outcomes. In this talk, a number of meta-algorithms are presented that can take advantage of any supervised learning method to estimate the Conditional Average Treatment Effect function. Also, discussed are new theoretical results on confidence intervals and overlap in high-dimensional covariates and a new algorithm for optimal linear aggregation functions for tree-based estimators.
About the speaker: Jasjeet Sekhon is the Robson Professor of Political Science and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research focuses on creating new machine learning methods for estimating causal effects in observational and experimental studies and evaluating social science, digital, public health, and medical interventions. He is also the Head of Causal Inference at Bridgewater Associates.
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Book Talk -- Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis
WHEN Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Hollie Russon-Gilman, Ash Center Democracy Fellow
K. Sabeel Rahman, Columbia University, and Former Ash Center Fellow, Brooklyn Law School, President of Demos
Moderator: E.J. Dionne, Visiting Professor in Religion and Political Culture, HDS,
COST Free
CONTACT INFO info@ash.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us for a conversation with the authors of Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis, Ash Center Democracy Fellow Hollie Russon-Gilman, Columbia University, and Former Ash Center Fellow K. Sabeel Rahman, Brooklyn Law School, President of Demos. E.J. Dionne, Visiting Professor in Religion and Political Culture, HDS, will moderate.
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Study Group with Deesha Dyer: The Power is in the People: Keeping Community a Priority in Politics and Public Service
WHEN Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Institute of Politics (L-166), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Deesha Dyer, IOP Fall 2019 Resident Fellow; White House Social Secretary, Obama Administration, 2015-2017
Addie Whisenantm Founder and Principal, AMW Strategies; Former Senior Director, Bully Pulpit Interactive; Former White House Senior Director, African American Media
COST Free
DETAILS Too often politics forgets its purpose. It has become a circus of headlines, polls and drama that has people wondering if the government is working for or against them. In this session, we will talk with Addie Whisenant who formerly ran African-American communications for President Barack Obama and then for various clients at San Francisco based firm, Bully Pulpit. She will discuss why it was always important to include the people and community in the narratives around issues. We’ll also discuss how to stay rooted in community and make it a priority as one climbs the political ladder - staying true to yourself, your position and your community.
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HubWeek Open Doors: Allston
Monday, November 4
4:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Allston, Barry's Corner, Boston
Open Doors, presented by BNY Mellon, is a monthly event series that allows you to experience the innovation happening in different corners of Boston. It’s an opportunity for you to learn and find inspiration in neighborhoods across this vibrant, buzzing city that can sometimes be tricky to navigate.
Historically one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Boston, Allston is undergoing a lot of change to expand and redevelop the community. Named for American painter and poet Washington Allston, this long-standing creative district is home to a cross-section of students, immigrants, and young professionals in a mix that’s constantly evolving.
Beyond scoring secondhand delights during Allston Christmas, there’s more to be found in this dynamic and buzzing neighborhood than you may have heard. On November 4, we’re offering just a glimpse at the possibilities waiting in Allston. Connect with other curious and creative go-getters intent on changing the world and take away the inspiration you’re seeking to pursue your passion.
Train Adventurously
4:30 - 5:30 PM | Interactive | BKBX Fitness, 211 Western Avenue, Allston, MA
At BKBX, fitness, technology, and recovery come together for an experience inspired by adventure. Brooklyn Boulders’ new training concept, BKBX blends outdoor adventure with scientifically-backed and monitored programming. Join us for a HubWeek only recovery session in their specialty recovery studio (think: a cryotherapy and compression sleeves) while we hear from the Director of Sports Science about what makes these gadgets work and learn, too, about their proprietary Adventure Quotient algorithm.
Grab a Drink, a Bite, or Your Next Connection
5:00 - 6:00 PM | Gathering | Location: TBD
Modern Jewish Cuisine meets extensive gin selection. Sounds like the perfect collaboration to us! Come on by and try a fun cocktail and a nosh. You may even meet your next employer, investor, or partner (business or otherwise).
Change Makers: Live
6:00 - 7:00 PM | Listening In | Zone 3, 267 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02134
The history of a neighborhood lives through the stories that are told about and within it. Listen in as we interview and record three Allston Change Makers at Zone 3 to learn about the past, present and possible futures for this diverse community.
Speakers to be announced soon.
The Music of Strangers Screening
7:00 PM | Film | Zone 3, 267 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02134
Since the beginning of the new millennium, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Silkroad Ensemble exemplifies the ability of music to blur geographical boundaries, blend disparate cultures, and inspire hope for both artists and audiences.
Blending performance footage, personal interviews, and archival film, the film focuses on the personal journeys of a small group Silkroad Ensemble mainstays — Kinan Azmeh (Syria), Kayhan Kalhor (Iran), Yo-Yo Ma (France/United States), Wu Man (China), and Cristina Pato (Spain) — to chronicle passion, talent, and sacrifice. Through these moving individual stories, the film paints a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for the ties that bind.
Director: Morgan Neville
Cast/subjects: Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, Wu Man, Kayhan Kalhor, Cristina Pato, Silkroad artists, crew, staff, and friends
Producers: Caitrin Rogers, Morgan Neville
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Laura Freid, Julie Goldman
Running length: 96 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Website: silkroad.org/tmos
EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY FOR OPEN DOORS ATTENDEES
The Intersection of Music, Medicine, and Innovation
7:00 - 8:30 PM | Panel and Concert | Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA
Ah, the sweet sound of music, medicine, and innovation colliding. End your evening on a high note with a concert by the Longwood Symphony, a nationally recognized orchestra made up of primarily healthcare professionals from Boston's leading hospitals and universities, including doctors, medical students, research scientists, nurses, therapists, and caregivers. Following the performance, conducted by Ronald Feldman, some of the musical-medical stars will participate in a panel discussion.
Panelists include:
Lisa Wong, MD (violin); Milton Pediatric Associates, HMS, CHB, MGH, BWH; Assistant Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School
Leonard Zon, MD (trumpet); Director, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Psyche Loui, PhD (violin); Assistant Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice, Departments of Music and Psychology, Northeastern University
Thomas Sheldon, MD (oboe and English horn); Director, Radiation Oncology Concord Hospital / President, Radiation Oncology Associates
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The Once and Future Heart: A Converging of Art and Science
WHEN Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Dario Robleto, Exhibition Artist and Visiting Scholar, Radcliffe Institute
Doris. A Taylor, Director of Regenerative Medicine Research and Director of the Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology, Texas Heart Institute
Moderated by Jennifer L. Roberts, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
COST Free
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS For centuries, in both the arts and the sciences, the human heart has been a source of reverence and marvel. Recent advances in both fields provide surprising opportunities for art and science to converge around new insights and questions.
Join us for a conversation between the artist Dario Robleto, whose exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute rethinks the deep history of cardiological recording, and Doris A. Taylor, a doctor whose work toward regenerative transplantation is reshaping the metaphorical — as well as the medical — prospects of the human heart. Register online.
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Responses of Coral Reefs to Global Warming by Terry Hughes
Monday, November 4
5:00 - 6:30 pm
BU, 24 Cummington Mall, LSE B01, Boston
Join the BU Marine Program, the Department of Biology, and the Pardee Center for a special lecture titled "Responses of Coral Reefs to Global Warming," featuring Prof. Terry Hughes, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.
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Flush: the documentary - directed by Karina Mangu-Ward
Monday, November 4
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
MIT D-Lab, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT N51-310, Cambridge
Screening of FLUSH with introduction by MIT D-Lab Academic Program Manager Libby Hsu and Q&A with Shawn Shafner of The Poop Project.
FLUSH, directed by Karina Mangu-Ward, examines how our "out of sight, out of mind" attitude toward shit is harming our health and environment. More information at thepoopproject.org/flush-home.
Despite being stated as one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, 5.3 billion people still lacked access to safe, adequate sanitation services in 2017 - a number that can and must decrease in the coming years through collaborative action.
MIT D-Lab is presenting FLUSH because we care about access sanitation and because its absence affects billions of people around the world. d-lab.mit.edu
Refreshments will be served!
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Fletcher Reads the Newspaper: CEOs Serving Stakeholders: Will this Redeem Capitalism or Ruin it?
The Fletcher School
Monday, November 4
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
Tufts, Cabot 703, 160
We are pleased to announce this semester’s Fletcher Reads the Newspaper, which convenes a group of interdisciplinary Fletcher experts around a current news topic. This is a platform for integrating the skills and contextual knowledge that are central to a Fletcher education, where panelists and audience members participate in examining the problem – and the solutions – through multiple disciplinary lenses.
This November, we bring into focus the Business Roundtable’s recent announcement about the shift towards stakeholders, which generated a lot of debate. We will examine it through a uniquely Fletcher lens and ask the question:
Light refreshments will be served.
Discussants:
Eileen Babbitt, Professor of Practice of International Conflict Management
Laurent Jacque, Walter B. Wriston Professor of International Finance & Banking
Jeswald Salacuse, Henry J. Braker Professor of Law
Moderated by:
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business
Come and be prepared to join the conversation!
Martin Wolf: why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy| Financial Times
The Business Roundtable’s Recipe for Confusion | The Wall Street Journal
Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism | The New York Times
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Adapting to the Changing Local Foods Market
Monday, November 4
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
HI Boston Hostel, 19 Stuart Street, Boston
FREE food producer marketing workshop exploring the latest market trends and how to adapt your local food business to the changing market.
Are you a local food business?
Attend SBN's FREE marketing workshop for locally-owned food businesses.
Myrna Greenfield, from Good Egg Marketing, will share the latest market trends and how you can adapt your local food business to the changing market. The event is co-sponsored by Foundation Kitchen.
Read more about the workshop below:
Meal kits, delivery services, demographic changes, and other trends are changing consumer habits. New food products and services that look like they’re made by small local businesses are appearing every day, but many of these are backed by venture capital or the big consumer product companies with big budgets.
As the local foods market matures and competition increases, it’s becoming harder for experienced food producers and farmers to maintain market share and for newcomers to break in. This workshop will showcase current trends and show you tools and techniques to help your farm or local food business adapt to the changing market, differentiate yourself, and stay relevant.
Myrna Greenfield is the “Top Egg” at Good Egg Marketing, a Boston-based marketing agency specializing in local food and local businesses. She’s a frequent speaker at conferences, events, and workshops. Greenfield holds an MBA from Simmons School of Management. Learn more at https://goodeggmarketing.com.
About Foundation Kitchen:
Foundation Kitchen strives to provide a space that is inspiring and motivating to small owner-operators and start-ups, offering networking opportunities between members and within the local community. Foundation is equally passionate about food and human connection, and they work hard to provide unique options for hosting classes, events, and pop-ups. Learn more at foundationkitchen.com.
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Swiss Science Jam: Student Biology Talks
Monday, November 4
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
Join student teams from EPFL, ETH, UNIGE and UZH as they recap their 2019 iGEM projects - all revolving around advancements in synthetic biology. From helping wineries prevent grapevine disease to reducing drug testing on animals learn how students are pioneering innovative biological solutions! An audience Q&A will follow the presentations and we will close with a networking reception & refreshments.
Presentation Topics
EPFL | VITest - A rapid field-based diagnostic tool to detect grapevine diseases
ETH | T007 License to Lyse
UNIGE | Fluosphera
UZH | Pseudonuclus
The iGEM competition is an annual, worldwide competition in the field of synthetic biology. Each year undergraduate and postgraduate students gather in multidisciplinary teams and work all summer long to build genetically engineered systems. These systems will have applications in different fields, including therapeutics, diagnostics, food and nutrition, energy, and environment.
Program
6:00 pm Doors open
6:30 pm Student Presentations
7:30 pm Audience Q&A
8:00 pm Networking and refreshments
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Uncovering the Effects of Maternal Diet on Fetal Brain Development and Childhood Behavior
Monday, November 4
6:30pm
Foundry, 222 Third Street, Suite 0300, Cambridge
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/
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The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
Monday, November 4
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes PAUL TOUGH, the bestselling author of How Children Succeed, for a discussion of his latest book, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. He will be joined in conversation by professor ANTHONY ABRAHAM JACK, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. This event is co-sponsored by OneGoal Massachusetts.
About The Years That Matter Most
Does college still work? Is the system designed just to protect the privileged and leave everyone else behind? Or can a college education today provide real opportunity to young Americans seeking to improve their station in life?
The Years That Matter Most tells the stories of students trying to find their way, with hope, joy, and frustration, through the application process and into college. Drawing on new research, the book reveals how the landscape of higher education has shifted in recent decades and exposes the hidden truths of how the system works and whom it works for. And it introduces us to the people who really make higher education go: admissions directors trying to balance the class and balance the budget, College Board officials scrambling to defend the SAT in the face of mounting evidence that it favors the wealthy, researchers working to unlock the mysteries of the college-student brain, and educators trying to transform potential dropouts into successful graduates.
With insight, humor, and passion, Paul Tough takes readers on a journey from Ivy League seminar rooms to community college welding shops, from giant public flagship universities to tiny experimental storefront colleges. Whether you are facing your own decision about college or simply care about the American promise of social mobility, The Years That Matter Most will change the way you think—not just about higher education, but about the nation itself.
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Future Humans and the Price of Progress
Monday, November 4
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Doors open @ 6pm. Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers. Presentations start @ 7pm)
The Venture Cafe at the Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Kendall Square, Cambridge
Cost: $15 in advance // $20 at the door. Students w/ID admitted free.
Audience participation is encouraged.
A Long Now Boston Conversation with James Hughes (IEET) and Nir Eiskovits (UMAEC).
Humans invent technology to shape the world --- but technology also reshapes humans. What will future humans be like?
Recently, alarms have begun to sound about the impact of excessive screen time, the ethics of AI and the negative effects of social media on culture and politics. These technologies have increased communication and inspired social change – but they are also changing the human beings they are intended to serve, in unanticipated and potentially harmful ways. Nir Eiskovits (AEC UMass Boston), will discuss these impacts and how they could play out in the decades and centuries ahead.
At the same time, technologies are changing humans from the inside. The outsourcing of our short-term memory to smart phones is just the tip of the iceberg. We are moving into an era when human perception, reproduction, genetics, and even physiology and brain function, will be fundamentally enabled by engineering and biological technologies. James Hughes (IEET) will discuss the prospects for engineered super-humans, and the many ethical issues that will be raised.
Join Nir, James, and other Long Now thinkers as we explore some of these questions:
What will humans be like in 100 or 1,000 years? What does it even mean to be human?
Is humanity defined by physiology? By mental cognition? By emotional and moral capacity?
Will the post-human transition be a gradual process, or will a race of super-humans leap forward, leaving the bulk of humanity behind?
As we embrace new technology to become “better, stronger, smarter, healthier and more long-lived”, what do we give up?
Join the conversation and be part of the solution.
If Eventbrite tickets sell out, seating for walk-ups will unlikely be available due to room size.
About the speakers:
James Hughes Ph.D. is a bioethicist and sociologist, and the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), which he co-founded with philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2004. James also serves as the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts Boston. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he also taught bioethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. He is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future, and from 1999-2011 he produced the syndicated weekly radio program, Changesurfer Radio.
Nir Eiskovits is an associate professor of philosophy and founding director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, and has recently been working on the impact of AI of our everyday experiences. He was an associate professor of legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University and co-founded the Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy. Nir is author of A Theory of Truces (Palgrave MacMillan) and Sympathizing with the Enemy (Brill), and the guest editor the recent issue of Theoria on The Idea of Peace in the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare. In addition to his scholarly work, he advises several NGOs focused on conflict resolution and comments frequently on the Middle East conflict for American newspapers and magazines.
We’re proud and excited to welcome James and Nir to the Long Now Boston community.
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Climate Justice/Climate Equity and Judaism
An Open Circles Jewish Learning Program sponsored by JCAN-MA and Hebrew College
Mondays November 4, 11, 18; December 2, 9, 16
7:00-9:00 Eastern Time
Hebrew College, 43 Herrick Road, Newton
Cost: $120
This series of six classes will explore the issues of climate justice and climate equity in the context of Jewish tradition. Rabbi Katy Allen, Jewish Climate Action Network – MA, will facilitate and provide a Jewish lens for consideration of issues raised by guest leaders of frontline communities, who will share their stories and the work they are doing.
Guest speakers will be:
Leilani Mroczkowski, Food Justice Organizer - Youth Coordinator, Chelsea Green Roots
Andrea Nyamekye, Campaign and Policy Director, Neighbor to Neighbor
Dwaign Tyndal, Executive Director, Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)
Rev. Vernon K. Walker, Program Manager, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW)
The program will culminate with an action decided upon by the members of the class.
For information on scholarships or other questions, contact JCAN at jewishclimateaction@gmail.com
https://hebrewcollege.ed u/open-circles-registration/# register
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Tuesday, November 5
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Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Susan Fainstein, Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Bish Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning; Director of the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies/Humphrey Fellows Program, MIT
Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Selmon Rafey
DETAILS Economic corridors — ambitious infrastructural development projects throughout Asia and Africa — are dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization. As these corridors cut across croplands, the conversion of agricultural lands into new urban uses has erupted in volatile land conflicts. This talk will focus on urbanization along the first economic corridor built in India, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.
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Regulating the Digital Platforms: Where will the antitrust investigations of Facebook and Google lead?
Tuesday, November 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Join us for a seminar with the Shorenstein Center’s Digital Platforms & Democracy Senior Fellows: Tom Wheeler, Dipayan Ghosh, Philip Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman. The spread of hate speech and violent conduct. The disinformation problem and foreign election interference. Alleged suppression of political speech. Persistent breaches of public trust. These and countless other incidents have led competition policy regulators the world over to set their sights on the digital behemoths of Silicon Valley — and particularly, Facebook and Google. In the United States, state attorneys general, the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the House Judiciary Committee have all launched serious inquiries into potential anti-competitive aspects of internet firms’ commercial practices. While there are legitimate antitrust concerns to drive these probes, some are wondering if other political motives may be fueling some of this activity. And whether earnest or not, where will these inquiries lead in the end, and what impact will they have on broader policy concerns pertaining to the internet in the United States and around the world?
Tom Wheeler is a businessman, author, and was Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017. Presently, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. For over four decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services. At the FCC he led the efforts that resulted in the adoption of Net Neutrality, privacy protections for consumers, and increased cybersecurity, among other policies. His chairmanship has been described as, “The most productive Commission in the history of the agency.” During the Obama-Biden Transition of 2008/09 Mr. Wheeler led activities overseeing the agencies of government dealing with science, technology, space and the arts. As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies offering innovative cable, wireless and video communications services. He is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Hall of Fame, a fact President Obama joked made him “the Bo Jackson of telecom.” Prior to being appointed Chairman of the FCC by President Obama, Wheeler was Managing Director at Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early stage Internet Protocol (IP)-based companies. He is CEO of the Shiloh Group, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services. He co-founded SmartBrief, the Internet’s largest curated information service for vertical markets. From 1976 to 1984, Wheeler was associated with the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) where he was President and CEO from 1979 to 1984. Following NCTA Wheeler was CEO of several high-tech companies, including the first company to offer high-speed delivery to home computers and the first digital video satellite service. From 1992 to 2004, Wheeler served as President and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).
Mr. Wheeler’s newest book is From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future (Brookings Press, 2019). He is also the author of Take Command: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War (Doubleday, 2000), and Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War (HarperCollins, 2006). His commentaries on current events have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and numerous other leading publications. Mr. Wheeler served on President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board prior to being named to the FCC. Presidents Clinton and Bush each appointed him a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is the former Chairman and President of the National Archives Foundation, and a former board member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). He is a proud graduate of The Ohio State University and a recipient of Ohio State’s Alumni Medal. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rochester Institute of Technology. Mr. Wheeler resides in Washington, D.C.
Dipayan Ghosh is Co-Director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project and Shorenstein Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he works on digital privacy, artificial intelligence, and civil rights. Ghosh previously worked on global privacy and public policy issues at Facebook, where he led strategic efforts to address privacy and security. Prior, Ghosh was a technology and economic policy advisor in the Obama White House. He served across the Office of Science & Technology Policy and the National Economic Council, where he worked on issues concerning big data’s impact on consumer privacy and the digital economy. Ghosh has served as a Public Interest Technology fellow at New America, the Washington-based public policy think tank. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering & computer science at Cornell University and completed postdoctoral study in the same field at the University of California, Berkeley.
Philip Verveer has practiced antitrust and communications law as a private attorney and government official for 50 years. He twice served as an official at the FCC and was the U.S. ambassador for international communications and information policy during the first Obama Administration. He also served as the Justice Department’s first lead counsel in the investigation and early part of the litigation that eventuated in the breakup of AT&T.
Gene Kimmelman is a senior fellow for the Shorenstein Center’s Digital Platforms & Democracy Project, a non-resident senior fellow for the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund and a Senior Advisor for Public Knowledge. Previously, Gene served as President and CEO of Public Knowledge, Director of the Internet Freedom and Human Rights project at the New America Foundation, and as Chief Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Gene served as Vice President for Federal and International Affairs at Consumers Union. Gene has also served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Antitrust Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Legislative Director for the Consumer Federation of America. Gene began his career as a consumer advocate and Staff Attorney for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch. Regarding his education, Gene is a graduate of Brown University and holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia where he received the Fortsman Fellowship and was able to become a Fulbright Fellow as well. Presently, he serves as Adjunct Law Professor at George Washington University School of Law, a Senior Fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado and is on the Board of International Media Support
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“Medicine, Academia, and the Syrian Refugee Crisis” with Dr. Fadlo Khuri – Voices in Leadership
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Leadership Studio (Kresge Building, 10th floor), 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Health Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Division of Policy Translation & Leadership Development
SPEAKER(S) Fadlo Khuri, 16th president of the American University of Beirut (AUB)
Howard Koh, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/rsvp/
CONTACT INFO Shaina Martis (smartis@hsph.harvard.edu)
DETAILS Leadership Studio or Online
Join us for the next Voices in Leadership event, featuring Dr. Fadlo Khuri. Khuri is the 16th president of the American University of Beirut and professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology) at the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center. Prior, he was professor and chairman of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine where he held the Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research. Moderated by Howard Koh, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership.
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China's Green Movement: Players, Style, and Strategy
Tuesday, November 5
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard-Yenching Institute Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
While China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey sky and smog-obscured landmarks, frequently portrayed in Western media, what has been done inside of China trying to change the situation? Who has made efforts and how? This talk gives an introduction of the less-known but growing environmental movement undertaken by diverse players in China over the past two and a half decades. It will examine how the multiple agents and institutions of change interact with each other at different levels, engage in special coping strategies, and struggle to activate a green movement of its own style and nature. From a communication perspective, it will examine, both empirically and theoretically, the elements that construct a growing “green public culture” in China and China’s unique path to environmental protection.
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Lessons from Bolivia’s “Left Turn” (and Post-Electoral Scenarios)
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS What has gone right and what has gone wrong with the region’s so-called “left turn” that started in the early 21st century and that is arguably receding today? This presentation will examine the lessons from the left turn. It will focus on Bolivia, where the left in power remains popular, vibrant, and electorally competitive. It will discuss the major trend lines in the past decade, through the October 2019 presidential elections, in order to assess the direction of current trajectories in the country.
Editorial Comment: The recent demonstrations in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile have all been tied to climate, in my opinion. It is going to be in the background in politics from now on.
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Open Doc Lab Talk: How to make AI for the People
Tuesday, November 5
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E15-318, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Mutale Nkonde
In this talk, AI policy analyst and researcher Mutale Nkonde will make the case that in order for social justice concerns to become embedded into the design, deployment and regulation of advanced technologies, we need to use popular culture to inform general audiences about the human and civil rights implications of the widespread deployment of these technologies.
Mutale Nkonde is the founding Executive Director of AI For the People, a non profit that seeks to use popular culture to educate Black audiences about the social justice implications of the deployment of AI systems in public life. Prior to this, she worked as an AI Policy advisor and was part of the team that introduced the Algorithmic and Deepfakes Accountability Acts and No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act to the House. She has been working at the intersection of AI, race and policy for the last six years, and is currently a 2019-2020 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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How Bad is Fake News? Motivations for Sharing Misinformation Online
Tuesday, November 5
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Northeastern, 177 Huntington Avenue, 11th floor, Boston
Please join us for a talk by Miriam Metzger, Professor, Comm & Info Technologies, Department of Communication, UCSB.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Communication Studies and the Shorenstein Center.
This event is part of the Misinformation Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the NULab and the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy.
More information at https://web.northeastern.edu/nulab/event/miriam-metzger/
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2019 Annual Robert and Florence Dreben lecture: How Intellectuals Can Create Political Change
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 200, Ames Courtroom, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Jewish Studies, Robert and Florence Dreben Lecture and Publication Fund
Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Ruth Calderon, Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, Harvard Law School
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Center for Jewish Studies
617-495-4326
DETAILS Dr. Ruth Calderon is one of Israel’s leading figures in the effort to revive Hebrew culture and sustain a pluralistic Israeli-Jewish identity and was elected to the Israeli Knesset in January 2013. She became a national celebrity when she taught a page of Talmud in the Israeli parliament, arguing that the text was the heritage of the entire Jewish people. She is founder and former director of the Elul Beit Midrash in Jerusalem (the first secular yeshiva in the world) and founder and chair of Alma: Home for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv. After eighteen years as director of Alma, Ruth was appointed head of the culture and education department at the National Library of Israel. She also hosted a TV program, Ha-Heder, on which she invited guests to study Jewish texts with her.
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Film Screening and Discussion: “One Child Nation,” Co-directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 4 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S010, Tsai Auditorium, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation”
Mable Chan, Fairbank Center Associate in Research; Founder, One in a Billion Productions
Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University
Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Open Doc Lab Talk: Antecedent Technologies and Malware in the Constitution
Tuesday, November 5
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 4-231, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Amelia Winger-Bearskin will speak about her work re-creating peace-making technologies of the Haudenosaunee (Indigenous Confederacy of the US and Canada). The United States constitution was based on the Haudenosaunee consensus contract known as the "Great Law of Peace". What were the tenants of this first constitution? How can citizens today re-conceptualize their roles and responsibilities in our democracy? Can we use the tools that once divided us to reimagine a better world, or should we find a way to leave them behind? Winger-Bearskin seeks to bring accountability to algorithms, machine learning, and the broader tech community, and to uphold a practice of hopeful world building.
Amelia Winger-Bearskin is a 2019-2020 Mozilla Fellow hosted at the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. She is an artist/technologist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. In 2019 she was an invited presenter to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. In 2018 she was awarded a MacArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360-video immersive installation in collaboration with artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program). The non-profit she founded, IDEA New Rochelle, in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor’s Office, won the 2018 $1 Million Dollar Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge to empower the community to co-design their city using her VR/AR citizen tool kit. Amelia is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan.
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“Broken Nature” and Other Design Exhibitions for the Real World
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture and Design; Director, Research & Development at The Museum of Modern Art
COST Free and open to the public.
DETAILS The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, highlighted the concept of restorative design, plotting its role in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world, and in designing reparations when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. Antonelli will take stock of the experience, casting the exhibition against the turbulent geopolitical background of the past year, describing which among its ambitions were met, and which were not.
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The Psychology of Compassion
Tuesday, November 5
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EST
MIT, Building 3-270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Prof. Sara Byers of Boston College's philosophy department will give a lecture on "The Psychology of Compassion: Stoicism in the City of God", focusing on how St. Augustine's thinking about the Stoic critique of compassion in City of God 9.5 helps us understand some things about politics today. Prof Byers discusses how St. Augustine's thinking about the Stoic critique of compassion helps us understand aspects of politics today.
This event is free and open to all.
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They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
Cost: $6 - $28.75 (book included)
Harvard Book Store and Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome renowned author and Harvard law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG for a discussion of his latest book, They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy.
About They Don't Represent Us
America’s democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw—unrepresentativeness—has detached our government from the people. And as a people, our fractured partisanship and ignorance on critical issues drives our leaders to stake out ever more extreme positions.
In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with “them”—Washington’s politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also “us.” “We the people” are increasingly uninformed about the issues, while ubiquitous political polling exacerbates the problem, reflecting and normalizing our ignorance and feeding it back into the system as representative of our will.
What we need, Lessig contends, is a series of reforms, from governmental institutions to the public itself, including:
A move immediately to public campaign funding, leading to more representative candidates
A reformed Electoral College, that gives the President a reason to represent America as a whole
A federal standard to end partisan gerrymandering in the states A radically reformed Senate
A federal penalty on states that don’t secure to their people an equal freedom to vote
Institutions that empower the people to speak in an informed and deliberative way
A soul-searching and incisive examination of our failing political culture, this nonpartisan call to arms speaks to every citizen, offering a far-reaching platform for reform that could save our democracy and make it work for all of us.
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AUTHORS@MIT | Arthur I. Miller on The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Tuesday, November 5
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, Building N50, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Arthur I. Miller in Conversation with Mauro Martino discussing Miller's latest book The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity at the MIT Press Bookstore.
Today's computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? In this book, Arthur I. Miller takes us on a tour of creativity in the age of machines.
Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from “the need for introspection” to “the ability to discover the key problem.” He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, encountering computers that mimic the brain and machines that have defeated champions in chess, Jeopardy!, and Go.
But, Miller writes, in order to be truly creative, machines will need to step into the world. He probes the nature of consciousness and speaks to researchers trying to develop emotions and consciousness in computers. Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans—and someday will surpass us. But this is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.
Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. He is the author of Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art and other books including Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc.
Mauro Martino, PhD, is a scientist and artist who focuses on information technology related to exploration, dissemination and sharing of knowledge. He uses artificial intelligence to explore and enhance understanding of the world, transforming any type of information, whether it is visual, acoustic, or semantic, into interactive tools that are beautiful and simple to use. He is the founder and director of the Visual AI Lab at IBM Research.
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FORUM: Harnessing the Power of the Disability Rights Community: Our Fight for Equality
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, JKF Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Streeet, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Women and Public Policy Program
SPEAKER(S) Sara Minkara, MPP 2014
Judith Heumann, International Disability Rights Activist
Moderator: Hannah Riley Bowles, Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program
COST free - no ticket required
CONTACT INFO benjamin_hull@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS The 2019 Gustav Pollak Lecture with international disability rights activist Judith Heumann in conversation with Professor Hannah Riley Bowles.
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A Conversation with Barbara Lee
Tuesday, November 5
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Dorchester
Kennedy Library Forum | A Conversation with Barbara Lee
Congresswoman Barbara Lee discusses her distinguished career and contemporary civil rights issues. Kenneth Mack, professor of law and history at Harvard University, moderates.
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Gutman Library Book Talk: Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Gutman Library
SPEAKER(S) Presented by authors Tracey A. Benson, Ed.D.'16 and Sarah E. Fiarman, Ed.D.’09
DETAILS In Unconscious Bias in Schools, two seasoned educators describe the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and how it negatively affects the work of educators and students in schools.
More info about the book here: https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/unconscious-bias-in-schools
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Spotlight on UN Sustainable Development Goals & Plastics
Tuesday, November 5
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Hostelling International in Boston, 19 Stuart Street, Boston
The second event in a series dedicated to exploring and advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this event focuses on plastic pollution. Join us to hear about solutions being developed and implemented by global communities – organization program highlights by Unicef.
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Changing Places: Community Strategies for Sustainable Economic Development
Tuesday, November 5
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
CiC Venture Cafe (Kendall Square), One Broadway, Cambridge
Cost: $8 – $12
Communities, large and small, urban and rural, across the U.S. are designing for their version of sustainable economic development.
Art, events, food, public health, affordable housing, human-centric streetscapes, greenspace, parking, recreation, signage, main street beautification, small and new business support, nature tourism -- are any of these your community's theory of change?
Our Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) evening on November 5th considers how cities and neighborhoods approach sustainable economic development, how they build cross-stakeholder support, and how they fund plan implementation.
Join us to learn from a dozen communities from Maine to Alaska, including those closest to Boston, about their designs for thriving long into the future.
Our Speakers
Carlos Matos, Transformative Development Initiative Fellow, MassDevelopment
Carlos is MassDevelopment's TDI Fellow in Chelsea, Massachusetts helping to create a vibrant shopping district with a mix of affordable and market-rate housing that will engage the community, redevelop key sites, and improve the impact of a cluster of small businesses.
He previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Conexion, Associate General Manager at Hexaware, and Assistant Vice President in State Street Corporation’s Investment Management Services’ PMO/GCS business unit. Prior to joining State Street, Carlos worked at MassBay Community College as the school’s Senior Government Services Consultant and Vice President/CIO. He also managed a number of projects at Northern Essex Community College, including one in which he analyzed and researched strategies to foster economic improvement in majority Latino cities. Carlos has a bachelor’s degree from Saint Anselm College and has taken master’s level classes in regional economic and social development at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has also served as a Lawrence City Councilor, an assistant to the Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, and a legislative aide in the Massachusetts State House.
Danelle Marable, MA, Senior Director of Evaluation, Assessments & Coalitions MGH Center for Community Health Improvement (CCHI)
Danelle will represent the Healthy Chelsea coalition and share how its members collaborate to advance community empowerment and economic development.
Danelle Marable has been involved with nonprofit program evaluations and strategic planning for more than 16 years. In her current position, she is responsible for directing the evaluation activities at the Mass General Center for Community Health Improvement, which includes a team of 4 internal evaluators, as well as overseeing 4 multi-sector community coalitions. This involves working with over 50 staff to help shape initiatives and monitor progress in community activation and partnerships, increasing access to care and addressing the social determinants of health, and supporting the educational attainment of youth. Danelle also manages the Community Health Needs Assessment for Mass General, covering Revere, Chelsea, Boston, Winthrop and Everett. Previously, Danelle worked as the data and research coordinator at the American Academy of Physician Assistants where she was responsible for survey development, implementation, and reporting. Danelle received her B.A in Anthropology from the University of Central Florida and her M.A in Applied Social Research from West Virginia University. She is a member of the American Evaluation Association and is the President of the Greater Boston Evaluation Network.
Holly Fowler, Co-founder & CEO, Northbound Ventures
In addition to her role co-organizing BASG, Holly is a sustainable communities and food systems consultant. Since 2016, she has been a technical assistance provider for the U.S. EPA's Local Foods, Local Places program, working with almost 20 communities to help them vision and plan out economic development strategies focused around place-making and food systems. Holly will share project profiles from the communities she has supported and a number of federal resources available to community changemakers.
Additional speakers invited:
Chelsea Collaborative / Chelsea Community Fund (how communities fund themselves)
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Saving Biodiversity in India
Tuesday, November 5
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Kamaljit Bawa, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts-Boston Founder and President of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE). website. One of the most prominent conservationists and natural scientists in the world. Professor Bawa is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Elected Member of AAAS and American Philosophical Society. He has received many prestigious awards, most recently the Linnean Medal.
Dr. Bawa discusses the urgent effort to document India’s amazing biodiversity, and the unique character of ATREE, the unique conservation organization he founded. He also describes some of the scientific discoveries which have established him as an international leader in biology. His studies of of unusual breeding systems, novel pollination mechanisms, and long-distance gene flow in tropical forest trees changed the prevailing notions about population biology and evolution of these trees. Dr. Bawa eventually extended his work from population biology to sustainable use of forest resources, conservation of large tropical landscapes, and climate change. And now he is developing a program for documenting and preserving the biodiversity of India.
More information at http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/life/saving-biodiversity-in-india
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier – a Conversation with Living on Earth
Tuesday, November 5
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Simons Theatre New England Aquarium, Aquarium Wharf, Boston
Ian Urbina, Investigative Reporter for The New York Times and author of The Outlaw Ocean
This event is part of Good Reads on Earth, a series of events where public radio program Living on Earth holds live radio interviews with authors of the latest environmental books. To learn more about Living on Earth, please visit loe.org.
Join investigative reporter Ian Urbina and nationally syndicated environmental radio show Living on Earth for a discussion for Urbina’s new book, “The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier.” Urbina’s book tours a lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the untamed ocean, one of the last frontiers on our planet. The high seas are too big to police, and under no clear international authority, so these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.
Doors open at 6 p.m., and there will be a cash bar from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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FLP Open Meeting: Feed More, Waste Less
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel, K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Food Literacy Project
SPEAKER(S) Jasmine Crowe, CEO of Goodr (speaking via ZOOM)
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true
CONTACT INFO foodliteracy@harvard.edu
DETAILS Goodr believes that hunger isn’t a scarcity issue. It’s a logistics issue. Every year in the United States, over 72 billion pounds of edible food is wasted, yet millions of people are suffering from food insecurity. Goodr believes the solution is simple: Feed more, waste less. Joining us via ZOOM call, Goodr CEO, Jasmine Crowe, will tell us how Goodr is approaching wasted food differently, and how she hopes the company will continue to get food to those without access.
LINK https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true
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November Actions: Special Screening on the 50th Anniversary of MIT's Historical Protests
Tuesday, November 5
7:00pm to 9:00pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 182 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Join us for this exciting screening of the fully restored film by pioneering filmmaker Richard Leacock on the 50th anniversary of one of MIT's most significant campus protests in its history occuring between November 3rd and 5th, 1969. The screening will be followed by Q&A with participants of the protests and Leacock's associates, reflecting on the significance of the events and of Leacock's groundbreaking film making.
Richard Leacock was a prolific filmmaker who pioneered documentary styles known as Cinéma Vérité and Direct Camera by using small, mobile, hand-held cameras to capture moments of immediacy and spontaneity. He was a seminal figure in developing innovative approaches to nonfictional filmmaking, co-founding and teaching at MIT’s film school from 1968 through 1989.
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Climate beer: Have a drink. Speak your climate truth
Tuesday, November 5
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Democracy Brewing, 35 Temple Place, Boston
The idea is simple: meet with other people and take turns expressing how our knowledge and experience of climate breakdown makes us feel.
We don't talk about this stuff enough and it can be isolating. Eco-anxiety or climate despair are real. This is intended to help.
We'll take turns sharing how we feel about climate breakdown and then just hang out/chat afterward.
(Note: this idea originated with NASA scientist Peter Kalmus. For more info, check out the site. https://climatebeer.com )
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FORUM: A Conversation with Tara Westover
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 8 – 9:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Tara Westover, Author; A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Nancy Gibbs, Visiting Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice; Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Former Editor in Chief, TIME Magazine
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/918423838535929/
CONTACT INFO benjamin_hull@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS A discussion with author Tara Westover and Shorenstein Director Nancy Gibbs.
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Wednesday, November 6
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A Solar Geoengineering and Global Income Inequality Paradox
Wednesday, November 6
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Katherine Ricke, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Exploring heterogeneity in the economic impacts of solar geoengineering is a fundamental step towards understanding the risk tradeoff associated with a geoengineering option. To evaluate the impacts of solar geoengineering and greenhouse gas-driven climate change on equal terms, we apply macroeconomic impact models that have been widely applied to climate change impacts assessment. Consistent reduction in inter-country inequality can inform discussions of the distribution of impacts of solar geoengineering, a topic of concern in geoengineering ethics and governance debates.
Contact Name: Amy Chang
Solar Geoengineering Research Program Seminar
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Cousteau: A History of Ocean Innovation from the Aqualung to Project Hermes
Wednesday, November 6
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Special Lecture - SLS - Pierre Yves Cousteau
Cousteau Divers brings together scientists, managers, engineers and recreational divers worldwide to better understand the ocean and help monitor its vital signs. Thanks to this collaborative approach, Project Hermes will provide cost-effective, near real-time monitoring of shalllow water coastal temperatures, using open source technology deployed by citizen scientist divers.
About this Series
The Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Sack Lunch Seminar Series is an informal seminar series within PAOC that focuses on more specialized topics than the PAOC Colloquium. Seminar topics include all research concerning the science of atmosphere, ocean and climate. The seminars usually take place on Wednesdays from 12-1pm in 54-915. The presentations are either given by an invited speaker or by a member of PAOC and can focus on new research or discussion of a paper of particular interest.
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Autocratic Diffusion and Great Power Politics
Wednesday, November 6
12:00-1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Seva Gunitsky, University of Toronto
Abstract: The rise and fall of great powers has often produced cascades of regime diffusion, leading to both democratic and autocratic waves. What can these episodes tell us about the contemporary spread of autocracy? I examine how previous power transitions have contributed to autocratic cascades, cautiously apply these lessons to today, and conclude with a speculative postscript about the one-party state as an emerging organizational (rather than ideological) rival to liberal democracy.
Bio: Seva Gunitsky is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. His research examines how international forces like war and globalization shape the evolution of domestic regimes. He is the author of Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press), selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the best books of 2017. Some of his work has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Perspectives on Politics, as well as popular outlets like The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The American Interest, and the Toronto Globe and Mail.
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Kiley Fellow Lecture: Paola Sturla, “Designer: the last humanist?”
WHEN Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Paola Sturla
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS Is the designer the last humanist? In the age of data and artificial intelligence, this old but perhaps still relevant question is gaining new attention in various academic fields. As a consequence, the debate is intense also on the Harvard GSD trays, where hundreds of students every year become professional designers. In this lecture, the 2018 Kiley Teaching Fellow Paola Sturla reflects on her research topic, artificial intelligence in design practice, from the point of view of a design instructor and former practitioner who is training her students into addressing open-ended contemporary issues through the means of design.
Paola Sturla is a registered Architetto and Paesaggista in Italy, a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at Politecnico di Milano, and the 2018-19 Daniel Urban Kiley teaching fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture (Harvard GSD 2011, with distinction), as well as a Master of Architecture (PoliMi 2007).
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What It Takes to Build Climate Resilience: A Conversation with David Festa
Wednesday, November 6
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Belfer Building - Bell Hall, 5th Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Join the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) for a conversation with David Festa, Senior Vice President of Ecosystems at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), about what it takes to build climate resilience. David will look at the three major challenges to most climate adaptation projects: financing, building equity, and aligning diverse stakeholders and conflicting policy structures. He’ll share lessons learned from his years of work at EDF on water rights and costal erosion in dialogue with Professor Henry Lee, Director of Belfer's Environment and Natural Resources Program.
Please RSVP to isabelfeinstein@hks.harvard.edu by November 1. [Editorial Comment: But you can still ask.]
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A League of Women Voters of Massachusetts webinar: Pipeline to the FUTURE Delivering Safe, Renewable, Geothermal Energy to Massachusetts
Wednesday, November 6
2:00-3:00pm EST
Webinar
As the earth warms at an accelerating rate, there is an urgent need to reduce carbon emissions—the main cause of this warming. The FUTURE bill is a comprehensive approach to move away from natural gas and toward renewable, safe, and reliable sources of energy for heating and cooling homes and buildings, including the use of geothermal micro districts.
The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts (LWVMA) Environmental Action and Advocacy Committee is pleased to host a webinar on this important topic: Pipeline to the FUTURE Delivering Safe, Renewable, Geothermal Energy to Massachusetts, with special remarks from Massachusetts Senator Cynthia Creem, and featuring Audrey Schulman, HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) Co-founder and Executive Director, and Zeyneb Magavi, HEET Research Director as our guest panelists.
While focused on Massachusetts, geothermal renewable energy is already used around the globe, including all 50 states in the US, to safely heat and cool homes and buildings. It is a proven technology that works and provides a pathway for transitioning off dangerous and polluting fossil fuels.
Please join us for this important and informative webinar scheduled for broadcast on Wednesday November 6, 2019 from 2:00-3:00pm EST. The presentation will be followed by a Q & A with the panelists. This webinar will be recorded and distributed to attendees and posted on the LWVMA website after the event. Please help spread the word and share this information within your networks!
For a downloadable flyer, go HERE.
Registration is required for this webinar. To register, go HERE. Log-in details will be sent to all registrants by email after registration.
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Undermining Rights: Transnational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Activism across Settler States
Wednesday, November 6
3:45pm to 6:00pm
Harvard, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, History Department Conference Room
Speaker: Megan Black, Assistant Professor, Department of International History, London School of Economics.
Contact: Marino Auffant
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Can Pigou at the Polls Stop the U.S. Melting the Poles?
Wednesday, November 6
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Soren Anderson, Michigan State University, Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania, and Boris Shor, University of Houston
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054
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Protest, Populism, and the Future of Democracy
WHEN Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, Floor 2, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Yascha Mounk, Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow
COST Free
CONTACT INFO info@ash.harvard.edu
DETAILS From Hong Kong to Venezuela, citizens are taking to the streets and demanding respect for democratic values in authoritarian states. Join Yascha Mounk, Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow, for a conversation on what this means for the future of democracy. Introduction by Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government Director.
Refreshments will be served.
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Work of the Future Book Series: Oren Cass, Author of "The Once and Future Worker"
Wednesday, November 6
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Oren Cass will talk about his book, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America, in conversation with Professor David Autor, co-chair of the MIT Work of the Future Task Force.
Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, challenges some basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it comes from—exploring ways to reinforce the vital role of the American worker.
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Are We There Yet? 21st Century Mobility
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Colonnade Hotel, Boston Ballroom, 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/are-we-there-yet-21st-century-mobility-registration-76091067431
Transportation x MetroCommon 2050
Don't miss the second event in MAPC's MetroCommon speaker series! Join us for a riveting keynote by the transportation thinker David Zipper on the interplay between urban and transportation policy and new mobility technologies, followed by an interactive panel discussion with local transportation planners, advocates, and administrators.
Registration and networking will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the speaking portion of the event will begin at 6 p.m.
Light appetizers will be served.
The three local panelists are:
Jarred Johnson, Transit Matters Chief Operating Officer & Development Director
Brad Rawson, Somerville Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Mobility Divison Director
Monica Tibbits-Nutt,128 Business Council Executive Director
Register now!
About David Zipper
David Zipper is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government, where he focuses on the interplay between urban policy and new mobility technologies. David advises numerous startups and urban officials about the future of cities and mobility. His writing about urban innovation has been published in The Atlantic, WIRED, Slate, and Fast Company.
Learn more on his website, http://www.davidzipper.com
About MetroCommon 2050
MetroCommon 2050 is Greater Boston’s next long-range regional plan - a set of actions that local and state government can take to improve the region over time.
MetroCommon will focus on challenges and opportunities that are bigger than any one place. And it will look at how those issues are connected. Topics like traffic congestion, the rising cost of housing, our changing climate, equity of wealth and health, and efficient government – all will be part of the mix.
Learn more about MetroCommon 2050: https://metrocommon.mapc.org
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Building a Resilient Future
Wednesday, November 6
6 - 8pm
Hampshire House, 84 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP to Monika von Hillebrandt 202-572-3373, rsvp@edf.org
David Festa, VP Ecosystems
Kristin Kleisner, Scientist Oceans
Jake Kritzer, Director China Fisheries
Learn what communities in New England, Louisiana, Chile, Peru, and China are doing
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Do Whales Judge Us? Interspecies History and Ethics
WHEN Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University
DETAILS Bathsheba Demuth is Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University and the author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait.
Convened by Robin Kelsey, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University and Ian Jared Miller, Professor of History, Harvard University.
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Life Without Basketball Film Screening and Panel Discussion
WHEN Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Smith Campus Center, Harvard Commons, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Muslim Chaplain; Harvard Graduate School of Education; Common Spaces; Harvard Graduate Commons
SPEAKER(S) Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Harvard Chaplain
Tim O’Donnell, Director
COST Free
DETAILS Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir broke records and barriers on her way to become the first Division I athlete to play basketball while wearing hijab. When a controversial ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she re-examines her faith and identity as a Muslim American.
Come enjoy this thought-provoking film, centered around questions of faith, gender, and justice.
Stay as Harvard Muslim Chaplain, Khalil Abdur-Rashid, leads a discussion with members of the Harvard Muslim Community and the film’s director, Tim O’Donnell.
Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 6 p.m. in the Smith Campus Center, Harvard Commons. All Harvard Community Members are welcome to attend. This free event is co-sponsored by Harvard Chaplains, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Commons Spaces and Harvard Graduate Commons. Snacks provided.
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Science for the People
Wednesday, November 6
6:30 PM
Northeastern, Dockser Hall, 65 Forsyth Street, Boston
Our next general meeting will be held on November 6 at 6:30 PM in the basement of Dockser Hall (exact room TBA). This is not far from the Northeastern or Ruggles T stops or the 1 Bus along Mass Ave. Note the slightly earlier-than-usual time -- this is in part because Dockser Hall’s doors lock at 7:00pm, but we are considering moving meetings earlier moving forward, so let us know if this timing doesn’t work well. If the room or building is locked, please text or call Bennett at 720-468-0762.
The full agenda can be found here. This week we’ll be discussing membership recruitment and organizing, the organization’s proposed incorporation as a 501c3 and its implications for a hypothetical Scientists for Bernie effort. For our reading, we’ll be discussing David MacKay and Mara Prentiss’ opposing analyses on the role of nuclear in the green energy transition. (MacKay (transcript below video) | Short Prentiss | Longer Prentiss (video with no transcript))
For those who would like to join the meeting remotely, you can use the link or phone number below.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/240088715
Dial by your location: +1 646 876 9923 US (New York)/+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Meeting ID: 240 088 715
If you would like to add anything to the agenda, feel free to comment on the doc or email the admin committee at sftp-boston-internal@googlegroups.com.
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Wednesday, November 6
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed author and veteran New Yorker staff writer LAWRENCE WESCHLER for a discussion of his latest book, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks.
About And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings―the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years, the two men worked closely together until, for wracking personal reasons, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends, however, across the next thirty years and then, just as Sacks was dying, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty.
Weschler sets Sacks’s brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks’s capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious, ribald, hilarious, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say, How do you be?
A question which Weschler, with this book, turns back on the good doctor himself.
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APPALACHIA: A CULTURAL CROSSROADS
Wednesday, November 6
7:00pm
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Come out and enjoy a much-needed musical respite at this upcoming forum on Wednesday, November 6 @7:00pm.
This forum is a co-production with the Revels organization and will feature performances by musicians Jake Blount and Libby Weitnauer and interviews with the Revel’s creative team who will explore the history and roots of traditional music of Appalachia.
The Appalachian Mountains south of the Mason-Dixon Line, is one of the birthplaces of American music: the mountains of southern Appalachia, where Native American, African American, and European traditions combined to foster an astonishing wealth of artistic expression.
The forum will celebrate the quiet of the mountains in the songs passed on by Appalachian musicians from generation to generation, and examine the ideas that resonate in this music that speaks of the natural world, the hardship, the dark and light in human relationships.
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The many magnitudes of darkness
Wednesday, November 6
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium (in Goldenson Hall),200 Longwood Avenue,
Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Extinction Rebellion Community Meeting
Wednesday, November 6
7 p.m.
Ruggles Baptist Church, 874 Beacon Street, Boston
Please come to our monthly community meeting!
All are invited, new members, veteran members, young and old. Kids and families welcome.
Bring something to eat or drink to share (reusable utensils preferred).
We will have time to socialize and then some singing, updates from XR around the world, announcements about what's next and other fun activities.
Please RSVP so we know how many rebels to expect.
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Resistance Mic!
Wednesday, November 6
8PM
OBERON, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Cost: $10
The 2016 election inspired a broad-based Resistance not seen in the United States in decades. People from all walks of life have been protesting, marching, mobilizing, and organizing in an effort to take back the country and create a more compassionate and just world. Artists are vital to this work. The American Repertory Theater, in collaboration with the literary magazine Pangyrus, welcomes the third season of Resistance Mic!, a series of intimate, curated evenings where a diverse collective of artists will take the stage to perform truth to power in these troubled times.
This performance will feature writer Sue Katz, singer-songwriter Anne Stott, author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, and educator Adam Stumacher.
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Thursday, November 7
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Agricultural Land Reclamation in the 21st Century: Best practices for farmers, landowners, and service providers
November 7
9:30 - 11:30 AM EST
Webinar
Maine Farmland Trust presents: A webinar for farmers, landowners and service providers covering best practices and guidance for agricultural land reclamation. Topics will include identifying and assessing land suitability for reclamation, environmental and climate considerations, regulatory guidance, reclamation strategies and practices, economic and cost considerations, and post-reclamation management.
Speakers will include:
Amanda Beal, ME DACF Commissioner
David Rocque, ME State Soil Scientist
Graham Mallory, Farmer at Pastures of Plenty
and Andrew Marshall, Maine Farmland Trust Policy and Research Fellow
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Standing Up Instead of Standing By: Being an Active Bystander
Thursday, November 7
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
MIT, Building E19-202, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Workshop on lowering the barriers to appropriate bystander action through awareness, knowledge, preparation and practice
The goal of this workshop is to lower the barriers to appropriate bystander action through awareness, knowledge, preparation and practice. Often you, as a bystander, will face some difficult choices. There are usually more options than you may think...and no single 'right' response. We hope that this workshop will help you assess bystander situations you find yourself in and be able to evaluate a variety of options for responding.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, you will have been:
Considering yourself a "host" to others - setting the tone and expectations
Recognizing opportunities for intervention
Assessing when and how to intervene
Reviewing intervention strategies during and after an event
Practicing intervention strategies
About the Workshop Facilitator
Libby Mahaffy is a seasoned conflict management trainer, coach, facilitator, and mediator. As the Diversity and Inclusion Specialist in MIT’s Human Resources department, she consults with DLCs across campus to bring trainings and processes to aid inclusion initiatives. Additionally, she works with the internal Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to create an inclusive and equitable environment for MIT employees, and runs various diversity-related open enrollment courses through central Human Resources.
Libby is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and holds a certification in the Kantor Structural Dynamics Profile. With a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Spanish and social science, and a master's degree from Tufts University in urban and environmental policy and planning, Libby brings a social and environmental justice perspective to her interpersonal and diversity work.
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Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of Corporate Sustainability Ratings
WHEN Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building), 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Florian Berg, Research Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Environmental, social, and governance rating providers inform a wide range of decisions in business and finance. Eighty percent of CEOs look to sustainability ratings for guidance and benchmarking. An estimated USD 30 trillion of assets are invested relying in some way on ESG ratings. However, ratings from different providers disagree dramatically, which, among other things, frustrates the ambition of companies to improve their ESG performance because they receive mixed signals from rating agencies about which actions are expected and will be valued by the market. The seminar will discuss these and other implications of divergent sustainability ratings.
This seminar is part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series. Lunch will be served.
LINK https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/aggregate-confusion-divergence-corporate-sustainability-ratings
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The NRA's Worst Nightmare
WHEN Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Wexner-102, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Shannon Watts, Gun Violence Prevention Advocate & Founder, Moms Demand Action
DETAILS The Carr Center’s Human Rights in Hard Places talk series offers unparalleled insights and analysis from the frontlines by human rights practitioners, policy makers, and innovators. Moderated by Sushma Raman, the series highlights current day human rights and humanitarian concerns such as human rights in North Korea, migration on the US-Mexico border, Myanmar, and the dismantling of democracy.
Shannon Watts, Gun Violence Prevention Advocate & Founder, Moms Demand Action, will give a talk titled, "The NRA's Worst Nightmare."
Shannon Watts is a mother of five who, prior to founding Moms Demand Action, was a stay-at-home mom and former communications executive. The day after the Sandy Hook tragedy, Shannon started a Facebook group with the message that all Americans can and should do more to reduce gun violence. The online conversation turned into a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that protect people from gun violence. Moms Demand Action has established a chapter in every state of the country and is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country, with nearly 6 million supporters. In addition to her work with Moms Demand Action, Watts is an active board member of Emerge America, one of the nation’s leading organizations for recruiting and training women to run for office. Her book, Fight Like a Mother, was released in May of 2019. In 2018, Shannon was named as one of PEOPLE’s 25 Women Changing the World, and InStyle profiled her in its annual “Badass Woman” series.
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Upstream Emissions from the Production and Transport of Fuels
Thursday, November 7
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Anjuliee Mittelman, Environmental Engineer at USDOT/Volpe
The Volpe Center is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop an upstream emissions modelling tool, which will support future rulemakings for mobile sources (highway, rail, and marine). Upstream emissions occur during the production and transport of fuels used in transportation. Upstream sources include petroleum refineries and biorefineries, storage depos and fuel blending terminals, and the trucks, rail lines, and barges used to transport biofuel crops, crude, and finished fuels. The upstream component can be a significant portion of the impact of a new heavy-duty truck emissions standard, for example. This work shows the importance of considering emissions along the entire lifecycle of a fuel, from the field/well to tailpipe.
Dr. Anjuliee Mittelman joined the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe Center as an environmental engineer in 2015. She provides technical and policy support to federal and state agencies on air quality and water quality issues. Her recent work has focused on developing tools to assess the emissions benefits of alternative fuel vehicles and bicycle-pedestrian infrastructure and quantifying emissions from the production and transport of biofuels. Dr. Mittelman also works on air pollution and drinking water contamination stemming from the use of firefighting foams by the Federal Aviation Administration. Her PhD research at Tufts University focused on contaminant fate and transport in groundwater and drinking water treatment systems, with an emphasis on the environmental and public health implications of nanotechnology.
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Public Health Crisis at the Border: The Mexican Perspective
WHEN Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, 12 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Global Health Institute, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Boston College School of Social Work, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Harvard University Mexican Association of Students
COST Free
DETAILS The Trump Administration's new ‘remain in Mexico’ policy is causing an influx of migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the border. By the time they reach the border, many migrants are traumatized, have untreated chronic diseases and are in need of medical treatment.
In response to this dynamic situation, The Harvard Global Health Institute, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Boston College School of Social Work, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Harvard University Mexican Association of Students, will convene key policymakers, experts and frontline workers to discuss the current conditions on the border, extrapolate applicable lessons learned from other crises, and identify approaches to ensuring basic health coverage for this vulnerable population.
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Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: First Findings
WHEN Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Gutman Library and Project Information Literacy
SPEAKER(S) Alison Head
CONTACT INFO Alex Hodges
DETAILS Internet giants such as Google, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook have a pervasive presence in our lives. How much do students and faculty know about how these platforms filter, influence, and shape the news and information we receive? In this presentation, the researchers share early findings from their multi-institution study, and discuss what higher education must do to prepare students for navigating a dramatically changing new media landscape driven by algorithms.
Join us for a reception after the event in Gutman Gallery from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
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How to Change the World with Alan Khazei
Thursday, November 7
3:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 4-265, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Each week MIT Solve is inviting social impact leaders to speak in our First Year Discovery class, "How to Change the World: Experiences from Social Entrepreneurs." But it is so much more than a class! Join us for this free event with free refreshments open to the public to be inspired by incredible leaders. No RSVP needed!
This week, we'll have Alan Khazei, founder of Democracy Entrepreneurs, City Year, and Be the Change.
Alan Khazei is an American social entrepreneur. He founded Democracy Entrepreneurs, which promotes new change agents who are inventing new ways to engage people in our democracy, and Be the Change, Inc., a Boston-based group dedicated to building national coalitions of non-profit organizations and citizens that promoted advancing issues of national service, fighting poverty and empowering veterans. Previously, Alan served as chief executive officer of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program engaging 17- to 24-year-olds in a year of service in one of 29 U.S. cities and in Johannesburg, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Khazei co-founded City Year with Michael Brown, his friend and roommate at Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
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ENERGY CONNECT 2019
Thursday, November 7
3:00 – 8:30 PM
One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
Venture Cafe’s Energy Connect mini-conference takes place on November 7, 2019. This event will feature the latest advances in energy innovation and real-world applications of emerging technologies to the energy and cleantech sectors including solar, wind, fuel and nuclear.
Energy Connect is hosted by Venture Café Cambridge. #energyconnect
AGENDA AT A GLANCE 2018
3:00 – 8:30 PM NETWORKING
3:00 – 5:00 PM OFFICE HOURS
4:15 – 5:15 PM FUNDING ENERGY & CLEANTECH VENTURES
5:00 – 6:15 PM ROUND ROBIN: CRACKING THE CODE: BUILDING SUCCESSFUL ENERGY VENTURES
5:30 – 8:00 PM ENERGY & CLEANTECH DEMOS
6:30 – 7:30 PM ENTREPRENEUR PANEL: HOW I BUILT IT
7:00 - 7:45 PM FLASH TALKS
OFFICE HOURS (3:00 - 5:00 PM)
Early stage ventures and prospective entrepreneurs have an opportunity to sign up for Office Hours during this event. Entrepreneurs may sign up for 30-minute consultations with a variety of experts.
Appointments can be made on a first come, first served basis. Any cancellations will require 48-hour notification in order to accommodate entrepreneurs who have been placed on a wait-list. No-shows are frowned upon in the VenCaf community and we reserve the right to disallow future appointments for repeat offenders.
Appointments may be booked beginning October 24th, 2019
DETAILS COMING SOON
DEMOS & INFO TABLES (5:30 - 8:00 PM)
ENERGY / CLEANTECH FLASH TALKS (5:30 - 6:30 PM)
ENERGY CONNECT SHARK TANK (6:45 - 8:00 PM)
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Space Exploration Initiative Showcase: Prototyping our sci-fi space future
Thursday, November 7
4:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Media Lab, Building E14, 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Come and see projects from our Zero G Flight, Blue Origin Suborbital Launch, upcoming ISS Mission, and more!
Each year, after the Space Exploration Initiative's zero gravity flight, we host a research-results oriented symposium. This year, we are combining the 2019 summer flight results with our Blue Origin suborbital rocket launch, TRISH-SEI funded space health projects, and upcoming ISS science and art payloads for a demo showcase, poster session, and reception. We would be delighted to share this work with you and hope that you may be able to join us on November 7, 4-7pm (open house, at your leisure) in the Media Lab's 3rd floor atrium.
Learn more about the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative: explore-space.media.mit.edu
Follow us on Twitter: @ExploreSpace_ML
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Deliberative Democracy and Transforming Urban Policy Design in Buenos Aires
WHEN Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, Floor 2, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Juan Ignacio Maquieyra, MPP 2014, President of the Housing Authority of the City of Buenos Aires
COST Free
CONTACT INFO info@ash.harvard.edu
DETAILS In recent years, Buenos Aires City Government has set out to become a more inclusive and sustainable city, with a priority of serving the city's most vulnerable populations. The Housing Authority of the City of Buenos Aires has designed an innovative Socio-Urban Integration Plan which makes focus in the process by seeking to involve the relevant actors in the decision making of the slum upgrading intervention.
There are many examples in the global experience in slum upgrading. Unlike these experiences, the particularity of the Buenos Aires City program is that it starts from the premise that the community will design and implement the plan. In practical terms, this means that instead of a top-down approach to design and implementation of the public policy, the government's action concentrates on building local capacity so that neighbors are able to engage actively in a dialogue with the government and other stakeholders to further common goals, and ultimately, have the opportunity to influence the actions that shape their lives.
This process started three years ago, and today more than 120,000 households are benefiting from this program. Important results not only include the improved access to essential infrastructure, housing, social services and loans for repayments of the housing, it also shows that when mechanisms of participation are well designed, deliberative democracy can be massive, profound and effective.
Join Juan Ignacio Maquieyra MPP 2014, President of the Housing Authority of the City of Buenos Aires, in discussion. Candelaria Garay, Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Democracy, HKS, will moderate.
Refreshments will be served.
This event is co-sponsored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Thursday, November 7
5:00pm
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
[Co-hosted with the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society.]
In June of 2018, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. Defendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and, by implication, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other? The focus of a growing body of scholarship, this question haunts not only US military operations but an expanding array of technologies of social sorting. Understood as apparatuses of recognition (Barad 2007: 171), Project Maven and the US program of targeted killing are implicated in perpetuating the very architectures of enmity that they take as their necessitating conditions. Taking any apparatus for the identification of those who comprise legitimate targets for the use of violent force as problematic, this talk joins a growing body of scholarship on the technopolitical logics that underpin an increasingly violent landscape of institutions, infrastructures and actions, promising protection to some but arguably contributing to our collective insecurity. Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations. She closes with some thoughts on how we might interrupt the workings of these apparatuses, in the service of wider movements for social justice.
Lucy Suchman is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom.
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Civil Disagreement Series with Doris Meissner and Reihan Salam
Thursday, November 7
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Harvard Commons, Richard A and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Cambridge
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, with generous support from the Office of the President, is launching a new conversation series called the Civil Disagreement Series. These moderated conversations will bring together policy and subject experts from different political viewpoints to discuss a current-events topic. Our goal is to hold conversations that people may feel they can’t otherwise have, and model thoughtful, reflective engagement on hard issues in which we can learn about one another’s views. The Civil Disagreement talks will also exhibit to the public beyond the campus that the university supports productive conversations on fraught subjects that involve a wide diversity of viewpoints.
Our first event on November 7th will be a conversation on immigration with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, and Reihan Salam, Executive Director of National Review and President of the Manhattan Institute. This conversation will be moderated by Danielle Allen.
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Adversity, Belonging, and Survival among Baboons
Thursday, November 7
6:00pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Susan Alberts, Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
The social environment—both in early life and adulthood—has major effects on human health and survival. But how and why does the social environment get “under the skin” to also affect our physical health? Susan Alberts pursues this question by studying wild baboons in Kenya. Baboons, like humans, evolved as savannah dwellers. They rely on social relationships to solve problems and—like humans—their lives depend on these relationships. Alberts will discuss how the balance between the challenges and opportunities of social life affects health and belonging in both humans and baboons.
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The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
Thursday, November 7
6:00 PM
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome acclaimed author KAREN OLSSON for a discussion of her latest book, The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown.
About The Weil Conjectures
Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings―Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician―while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it’s the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures―an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life.
Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.
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Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize: Kick Off Dinner
Thursday, November 7
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MIT, Building E62-233 (Second Floor), 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Note: There is a limit at 2 tickets per person for this event.
Want to learn about start-ups like Bevi, Cambridge Crops, and Inari that are disrupting the global food and agriculture system? Do you have your own start up, but need resources to get it off the ground?
If you answered yes to either of these questions, then sign up to attend the kickoff dinner for the Rabobank-MIT Food & Agribusiness Innovation Prize!
What you’ll get:
Meet start-up leaders in food and agribusiness and hear their innovative solutions to these problems
Learn about the application process for the prize
Pitch your idea to the audience to recruit new teammates, or find a team to join
Eat some great food!
Agenda
6:00 to 6:30 pm: Doors open - Dinner & Networking
6:30 to 6:45 pm: Introductory remarks about the prize
Zhenya Karelina, Director - MIT Rabobank Prize & MIT Sloan MBA 2020
TBD, Rabobank
6:45 to 7:30 pm: Keynote presentations
Sean Grundy, Co-founder & CEO - Bevi
Manuel Waenke, Head of Corporate Development - Inari
Adam Behrens, CEO - Cambridge Crops (Winner of Rabobank Prize in 2017)
7:30 to 7:45 pm
Open pitch (30 seconds to pitch your idea or make an ask)
IMPORTANT: You do not need to enter the competition to attend this dinner. Anyone from the Boston area interested in the industry is welcome.
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Climate Change Negotiation Workshop
Thursday, November 7
6:00PM TO 8:30PM
Harvard, Longfellow Hall 319, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDQQVqeTJw844PZpPy9tNzd1OexYxDpzSFmZFptUxxwnlGpA/viewform
The workshop is a role-playing exercise of the UN climate change negotiations. It is unique in that it uses an interactive simulator designed by Climate Interactive to rapidly analyze the results of the mock-negotiations and display the forecasted impact on temperature rise. This allows you to experience the challenges in developing climate policies and see what actually works to keep the temperature rise below 2°C. The simulator has been used by thousands of policymakers, educators and business leaders all over the world. Limited space available, please RSVP here and you will be notified with a confirmation.
Contact Name: educationearth@gse.harvard.edu
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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
Thrusday, November 7
6:30 p.m.
Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Avenue, Somerville
If you are new to XR or would just like to learn more about how it works, please come to our next new member orientation session. We will cover the following:
Where did XR come from? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What is the extinction rebellion about? What do we want?
What are our principles and values? What brings us together?
How are we organized? What are working groups & affinity groups?
Come out and meet some of our local XRebels and learn how you can get involved!
The session will run for around 90 minutes.
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"The Pleasures of Age": Old Women and Political Power in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement
Thursday, November 7
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge
Presented by Professor Corinne T. Field, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia
On the occasion of her seventieth birthday in 1885, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered a speech on "The Pleasures of Age" in which she declared that "fifty not fifteen is the heyday of woman's life." Sojourner Truth, touring the country in the 1870s, turned her embodied performance of old age into a political claim for financial reparations owed formerly enslaved people. By the 1890s, white suffragists hailed Susan B. Anthony as the "grand old woman of America" and compared her favorably to presidents Lincoln and Washington. In this talk, Professor Corinne will explain why woman suffragists in the nineteenth century demanded respect and security for older women as an essential dimension of political empowerment and why these hopes remain largely unrealized over a century later.
Corinne Field is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Age, Race, and Power in the US Women's Rights Movement, 1870 to 1920 and co-editing with LaKisha Simmons an interdisciplinary anthology on the global history of black girlhood. She is the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America and co-editor with Nicholas Syrett of Age in America: Colonial Era to the Present. In 2018-2019, she was the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
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Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
Thursday, November 7
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
A moving chronicle of who belongs in America.
Like so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most Muslim towns in the US. Now about 6,000 of Lewiston's 36,000 inhabitants are refugees and asylum seekers, many of them Somali. Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient city near where she grew up, offering the unfolding drama of a community's reinvention--and humanizing some of the defining political issues in America today.
In Lewiston, progress is real but precarious. Anderson takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers: a single Muslim mom, an anti-Islamist activist, a Congolese asylum seeker, a Somali community leader. Their lives unfold in these pages as anti-immigrant sentiment rises across the US and national realities collide with those in Lewiston. Home Now gives a poignant account of America's evolving relationship with religion and race, and makes a sensitive yet powerful case for embracing change.
Cynthia Anderson grew up in western Maine. Her collection of stories, River Talk, was a Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014 and received the 2014 New England Book Festival award for Short Stories. Other work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Magazine, the Miami Herald, the Iowa Review, Redbook, Huffington Post, and others. Anderson lives with her family in Maine and Massachusetts. She teaches writing at Boston University.
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An Evening Discussing Oceans and Climate with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Thursday, November 7
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Simons Theatre New England Aquarium, Aquarium wharf, Boston
Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator for Rhode Island
Earth’s oceans are crying out. They are rising, they are warming, they are acidifying, and they are losing oxygen. They are also overfished and choking on plastic pollution. Though the challenges are great, and the news from Washington makes it difficult to see bipartisan momentum for nearly any issue right now, there is still much to maintain hope for in Congress.
Doors open at 6 p.m., and there will be a cash bar from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
About the Speaker: A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Sheldon Whitehouse served as Rhode Island’s Director of Business Regulation under Gov. Bruce Sundlun before being recommended by Senator Claiborne Pell and nominated by President Bill Clinton to be Rhode Island’s U.S. Attorney in 1994. Whitehouse was elected Attorney General of Rhode Island in 1998, a position in which he served until 2003. On November 7, 2006, Rhode Islanders elected Whitehouse to the U.S. Senate, where he is a member of the Budget Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), the Judiciary Committee and the Finance Committee.
He and his wife, Sandra, a marine biologist and environmental advocate, live in Newport. They have two children.
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Friday, November 8 – Monday, November 11
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WikiConference North America
Friday, November 8, 9:00 AM – Monday, November 11, 5:00 PM EST
MIT Building 32 - Ray and Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Cost: $0 – $75
WikiConference North America is partnering with the Credibility Coalitionat this year's conference to address the verification chain for knowledge, from reliable news production to dissemination through reference sites like Wikipedia to reliable long term discovery and access. This conference will feature presentations on Wikimedia-related activities and tools, workshops to improve the skills of editors, and discussions for the past, present, and future of the Wikimedia movement. Participants come from a wide variety of backgrounds including academia, museums, libraries and technology companies.
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Friday, November 8
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2nd Annual Challenges to Antitrust in a Changing Economy
Friday, November 8
8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Wasserstein Building - WCC 2036 Milstein East AB (2nd floor), Cambridge
8:00 - 8:40 am Registration & Breakfast
8:40 - 8:45 am
WELCOME REMARKS
Einer R. ELHAUGE, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
8:45 - 9:00 am
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Edward J. BLACK, President & CEO, CCIA
9:00 - 9:30 am
OPENING KEYNOTE
Makan DELRAHIM, Assistant Attorney General, US DOJ
9:30 - 10:45 am
COMPETITION, CONCENTRATION & COMMON OWNERSHIP: WHAT ARE THE ANTITRUST IMPLICATIONS?
Hadiye ASLAN, Assistant Professor of Finance, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Einer R. ELHAUGE, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Martin C. SCHMALZ, Associate Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Lucian A. BEBCHUK, Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Terrell MCSWEENY, Partner, Covington & Burling; Former Commissioner, US FTC
10:45 - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
COMPETITION IN DIGITAL ADVERTISING: IS THERE ONLINE AND OFFLINE CONVERGENCE?
Gregory K. LEONARD, Partner, Edgeworth Economics
Steve TADELIS, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy; Chair in Business, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
Daniel FRANCIS, Associate Director, Digital Markets, US FTC
Christopher S. YOO, Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science, Penn Law
Moderator: David MCLAUGHLIN, Reporter, Bloomberg
12:15 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm
A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH...
Noah J. PHILLIPS, Commissioner, US FTC
Nikhil SHANBHAG, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Competition and Regulatory Law, Facebook
William E. KOVACIC, Director, The GWU Competition Law Center; Former Chairman, US FTC
Moderator: Leah NYLEN, Chief Global Antitrust Correspondent, MLex
2:00 - 3:15 pm
THE ECONOMICS BEHIND DIGITAL SERVICES: HOW DO THEY COMPETE?
Catherine TUCKER, Professor of Management, MIT
Hal VARIAN, Chief Economist, Google; Professor of Business, Economics, and Information Management, University of California, Berkeley
Howard SHELANSKI, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law; Partner, Davis Polk
Jonathan B. BAKER, Research Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University
Moderator: Susan A. CREIGHTON, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
3:15 - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:45 pm
FTC HEARINGS & OTHER ONGOING CONSULTATIONS
Philip MARSDEN, Professor of Law and Economics, College of Europe; Deputy Chair of Enforcement Decision Making Committee, Bank of England
Reiko AOKI, Commissioner, JFTC
Henri PIFFAUT, Vice-President, Autorité de la Concurrence
Geoffrey A. MANNE, Founder & Executive Director, International Center for Law & Economics
Derek W. MOORE, Attorney Advisor, Policy Planning Office, US FTC
Moderator: D. Daniel SOKOL, Professor of Law, Levin College of Law, University of Florida
4:45 – 6:00 pm
FORMER ENFORCERS' ROUNDTABLE
Allan FELS, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne; Former Chairman, ACCC
A. Douglas MELAMED, Professor of the Practice of Law, Stanford Law School; Former Acting Assistant Attorney General, US DOJ
Bill BAER, Partner, Arnold & Porter; Former AAG for Antitrust, US DOJ
Maureen K. OHLHAUSEN, Partner, Baker Botts; Former Acting Chairman, US FTC
Moderator: Jon LEIBOWITZ, Partner, Davis Polk; Former Chairman, US FTC
6:00 - 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception
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Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar
Friday, November 8
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Bryan N. Duncan, NASA, will give a talk.
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National Energy Pathways: Policy Evolution and Scientists in Decarbonizing Times
Friday, November 8
12:30pm to 2:00pm
MIT, Building 9-451, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
DUSP's Environmental Policy and Planning Group is hosting a lunch seminar with DUSP Alumna Kathleen Araujo (PhD '13), who will speak about her book, 'Low Carbon Energy Transitions.'
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image and A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
Friday, November 8
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed authors and art historians CHRISTOPHER P. HEUER and ANDREI POP for a discussion of their latest books, Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image and A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century. Their discussion will be moderated by JOSEPH LEO KOERNER, Harvard professor and fellow art historian.
About Into the White
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North―a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination―offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “non-site,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts―and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art's very legitimacy.
In Into the White, Heuer uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earth―long before the nineteenth century Romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, he argues, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and impossible to be mastered, something beyond the idea of image itself.
About A Forest of Symbols
In A Forest of Symbols, Andrei Pop presents a groundbreaking reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century associated with the Symbolist movement. For Pop, “symbolist” denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning, and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to viewers and readers by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but as a revolution in sense and how to conceptualize the world. The concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, which made shared knowledge seem unattainable.
The problem of subjectivity in particular, of what in one's experience can and cannot be shared, was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop offers close readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and Mallarmé, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell―filling in a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.
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2019 Hottel Lecture: Catalytic Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Biofuels and Bioproducts
Friday, November 8
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Research in the catalysis community has been carried out with the aim of developing new catalytic processes for the effective utilization of renewable biomass resources, relying extensively on knowledge gained from studies of catalytic processes in the petroleum and chemical industries. To advance further the potential of developing a bio-based economy for the production of fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources, it is necessary to address key fundamental challenges that are especially important for biomass conversion processes. Biomass feed stocks are heterogeneous in nature, requiring processes to convert a diverse set of molecular structures and functionalities and/or to produce distinct feed streams, e.g., carbohydrates versus lignin. Biomass-derived feed streams are highly functional with low volatility, requiring catalysts that are highly selective and operate in the liquid phase. We will discuss key fundamental scientific bases for addressing the aforementioned challenges, with examples that illustrate (i) the promotion of supported metal catalysts to improve activity, selectivity, and stability, (ii) the use of liquid solvent systems to enhance catalyst performance, and (iii) synergistic coupling between catalytic and separation processes in the liquid phase. As an example, we will report results for production of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from C6 sugars, which utilizes solvent systems comprising of mixtures of polar aprotic solvents with water. We will report results for reaction kinetics studies of the hydrogenation of carbonyl groups (e.g., acetone) over supported platinum catalysts, showing that the experimental results collected over a wide range of reaction conditions can be explained with micro-kinetic models that include effects of surface coverage on the binding energies and activation energy barriers of adsorbed reaction intermediates.
James A. Dumesic earned his B.S. degree from UW-Madison and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, under the supervision of Professor Michel Boudart. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1976, and he is currently the Micek Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering and the Michel Boudart Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Dumesic has co-founded two companies (Virent and Glucan Biorenewables) and pioneered new processes for creating bio-derived fuels and chemicals. He and colleagues at the Wisconsin Energy Institute created an organosolv-type process for fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass for production of sugars and lignin that can be converted into biofuels and bioproducts.
Throughout his career, he has used spectroscopic, microcalorimetric, and reaction kinetics techniques to study the surface and dynamic properties of heterogeneous catalysts. He pioneered the field of microkinetic analysis, in which diverse information from experimental and theoretical studies is combined to elucidate the essential surface chemistry that controls catalyst performance. He has studied how aqueous-phase reforming of biomass-derived carbohydrates can be tailored to selectively produce H2 or directed to produce liquid hydrocarbons. Most recently, he has been studying the use of furan compounds, levulinic acid, and -valerolactone as biomass-derived platform chemicals for the production of fuels and chemicals. He has received a variety of awards and honors in the field of catalysis and chemical engineering. In 1998, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2006, he received the Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis from the American Chemical Society. In 2007 he was awarded the Burwell National Lectureship by the North American Catalysis Society. In 2008, he received the Hilldale Award for distinguished professional accomplishment at the University of Wisconsin, and he received the inaugural Heinz Heinemann Award by the International Association of Catalysis Societies. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and he was awarded the William H. Walker Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering literature. In 2011 he received the Michel Boudart Award for advances in catalysis at the North American Catalysis Meeting and at the meeting of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. In 2012 he received the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, he was elected to the National Academy of Inventors in 2013, and he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. In 2019, he received the ENI Award for Energy Transition.
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In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
Friday, November 8
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes JACK GOLDSMITH—author and Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University—for a discussion of his latest book, In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth.
About In Hoffa's Shadow
As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration and questioning its misuse of surveillance and other powers, that he began to reconsider his stepfather, and to understand Hoffa’s true legacy.
In Hoffa’s Shadow tells the moving story of how Goldsmith reunited with the stepfather he’d disowned and then set out to unravel one of the twentieth century’s most persistent mysteries and Chuckie’s role in it. Along the way, Goldsmith explores Hoffa’s rise and fall and why the golden age of blue-collar America came to an end, while also casting new light on the century-old surveillance state, the architects of Hoffa’s disappearance, and the heartrending complexities of love and loyalty.
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The Witches Are Coming
Friday, November 8
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $28.75 (book bundled)
Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome LINDY WEST—critically acclaimed New York Times columnist and author of Shrill—for a reading from her latest book, The Witches are Coming.
About The Witches Are Coming
THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE'RE WITCHES,
AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.
In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics—and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.
West writes, "We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form—like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'—white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House."
We cannot understand how we got here—how the land of the free became Trump's America—without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.
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The Great Pretender
Friday, November 8
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Susannah Cahalan
From “one of America’s most courageous young journalists” (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine.
Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She writes for the New York Post and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Saturday, November 9 - Sunday, November 10
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Boston Anarchist Book Fair
Saturday, November 9 - Sunday, November 10
10am-7pm
BU George Sherman Union building, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Join anarchists and community members for two days of learning and organizing for a better Boston and a better world! The Boston Anarchist Bookfair features workshops, films, food, art and books, organized around a vision of stateless, non-hierarchical society. We seek a sustainable future in a world without coercion, authority, capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, heterosexism, racism, colonialism, statism and all other forms of oppression.
The Boston Anarchist Bookfair is an event for anarchists and those curious about anarchist ideas and practice. You do not have to be an anarchist to attend. If you are interested in any of the programming we have to offer, we encourage you to join in on the fun.
The event will be held in Boston University's George Sherman Union building (775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215) from 10am-7pm, Saturday and Sunday, November 9th and 10th. The vendor tables will be located in the
Back Court, behind the cafeteria on the first floor.
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Saturday, November 9
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Active Hope: The Work that Reconnects
Saturday, November 9
9am-4pm
Beacon Hill Friends House, 6-8 Chestnut Street, Boston
$20/$10 student/low-income
Explore spiritual, emotional and intellectual aspects of envisioning and creating a
life-sustaining society.
How can we remain resilient, creative, and empowered to act for the healing of our irreplaceable world?
The Work That Reconnects, developed by teacher/activist Joanna Macy and others, draws on deep ecology, systems theory, and engaged Buddhism. Practices include group meditations, creative ritual, conversation in pairs, dance, and song. The work explores spiritual, emotional and intellectual aspects of envisioning and creating a life-sustaining society.
This day-long experiential workshop is facilitated by members of the Boston-area community of practice. We will offer practices in love and gratitude, a ritual to acknowledge and honor our pain for the world, sources of hope and insight, and tools for resilience and action to take into your life.
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Polaroid Day
Saturday, November 9
10:00am to 5:00pm
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Join us for a special day celebrating Polaroid and its development of instant photography. Hear stories of how artists informed the technology and how technology provided new ways for photographers to work.
Meet the curators responsible for the development of The Polaroid Project exhibition and offer your own personal Polaroid-inspired stories. Visitors are invited to bring their favorite Polaroid photographs as we build a temporary installation documenting the personal use of the technology over the decades. Explore polarization, Polaroid cameras and more in hands-on workshops in our Idea Hub and throughout the Museum.
Our Polaroid Spotlight Tour series kicks off at 2:00 p.m. with an inside look at the development of the exhibition offered by two of its curators, our own Curator of Science and Technology, Dr. Debbie Douglas, and Polaroid’s former Director of Cultural Affairs, Barbara Hitchcock.
Free admission for former Polaroid employees for the day.
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TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet
Saturday, November 9
10:30 AM – 3:30 PM EST
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet 2019 (#TXYB2019) Raise your voice. Walk the talk. Teen TEDx Talks: Accelerating Youth-Driven Change.
You are invited. Experience a festival of live teen activism TEDx talks, performances, exhibits, workshops hosted at MassArt in Boston, MA... No one pays...All are welcome...Registration and ticket required. Your tax deductable donation appreciated!
Our TEDxYouth talks are a vehicle for accelerating youth-driven change. Our program is a platform for creating and energizing youth change makers. We lead the world with our experimental and activism focused TEDxYouth programming. We continuously seek to wrap mission enhancing relationships and resources around our youth before, during, and after their TEDxYouth talk.
Live show mobilizing the community, featuring talks from powerful teen and adult change makers. Experimental multi-sensory simulcastand community placemaking by the Studio for Interrelated Media Eventworks team at MassArt. Performances and exhibits to propel movements after the stage goes dark.
"Youth Bulge" country talk: extends our live stage to mobilized Bangladeshi youth.
Peformances by: Evan Northrup, Illusionist. DJ and Experimental EDM Artist Andi Hanako. Food justice classical musical activism from musicforfood. Opera soprano Xoxi Mendez...and a other surprises...
Exhibits by: Mixed Reality Platform: Fun with Balls. Sonic innovation from Music Technology Lab at MIT. AI player development at the intersection of Esports from FalconAI , Light touch robotics from Ubiros, Yogibo designs...and a other surprises...
Drop-in community workshopping expert informed and facilitated community discussions at the intersection of AI, ethics, data privacy, and Esports.
Find our live stream at https://txyb.org
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Mushroom Workshop
Saturday, November 9
11 AM - 2 PM
The Urban Farming Institute, 487 Norfolk Street, Mattapan
RSVP at ldpalm4@gmail.com
Cost: $20
Explore some of New England's wild mushroom species, their edible and medicinal uses, as well as indoor/outdoor growing techniques.
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Sunday, November 10
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Interactive meditation on the climate crisis
Sunday, November 10
9 a.m.
Art and Soul Studio, 91 Hampshire Street, Cambridge
INSIGHT DIALOGUE Practice Group With Jan Surrey and Annie Hoffman Sunday, Nov. 10, 9-noon (also Dec. 15)
What would it mean to wholeheartedly face the magnitude of the growing threat to life on Earth? These sessions are dedicatedly to discovering and investigating what hinders our meeting and penetrating the full truth of the climate emergency, including the power structures that hold it in place. We will cultivate the factors of awakening (including mindfulness, tranquility, energy, joy, equanimity and compassion) that might allow us together to touch and bear the actuality of the crises we are facing today.
Coming face to face with each other and the facts of the climate emergency, we aspire to increase our capacity to engage skillfully and act wisely. Insight Dialogue is a fully engaged relational meditation practice in the Theravāda Insight tradition, originally taught by Gregory Kramer. We welcome those new to the practice as well as those with much experience. We do suggest some prior meditation experience. There will be periods of silent and relational practice, dharma dialogue, and mindful movement. All are welcome.
Donation to Studio, $5-20,sliding as needed Teaching offered freely, Opportunity for Dana in the Buddhist tradition
Jan Surrey is an Insight Dialogue retreat teacher in the Insight Dialogue Community. For any questions, Jan can be reached at janetsurrey@gmail.com or 617-966-4898.
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Human Rights and Pluralism in Today's Pakistan
Sunday, November 10
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Phillips Brooks House, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Freedom of religion or belief is one of the Universal Human Rights promoted by the United Nations, long promoted by believers as well as humanists and secularists. Defending our separation of religion and state has long been one of our primary goals as American humanists, but in other parts of the world this struggle goes on.
In this talk, Salman Khan (Sal Khan) will shed light on the pluralistic past of Pakistan, rising discrimination against minorities, including restrictions imposed on the civil society and media, and the limits to religious freedom under the current regime. He will also discuss how draconian laws such as blasphemy and cybercrime laws are being used to stifle dissent, and the particular plight of LGBT+ asylum seekers in the US. Salman will also share his experience of growing up in Karachi, his journey of coming to terms with his sexuality and being a spiritual atheist and activist in a religiously conservative country like Pakistan.
SPEAKER BIO:
Muhammad Salman Khan (Sal Khan) is an openly gay activist and journalist from Pakistan, who has worked extensively towards advancing LGBT+ equality, human rights and environmental literacy for the past five years. He is the founder of his country's only active LGBT+ magazine 'Queeristan' and was selected this year by the DC-based Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) as their 'Global Fellow' in recognition of LGBT+ activism. Due to the rising threats to his life, he has been forced to live in exile now in the US and is currently based in Boston awaiting his asylum decision. In the meantime, he continues to support secular, progressive and LGBT+ causes in the US and in Pakistan. Salman is working on a memoir about growing up gay and his work as a gay activist/journalist in Pakistan, and his present life as an LGBT+ asylum seeker in the US.
The event will be photographed and recorded.
Socializing will follow the talk.
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Somerville Community Greening Celebration
Sunday, November 10
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Somerville Museum, 1 Westwood Road, Somerville
Description: Somerville Garden Club and Somerville Community Growing Center invite you to join them to celebrate their 25th anniversaries!
Come celebrate 25 years of ‘community greening’ with the Somerville Community Growing Center and Somerville Garden Club.
Let's get together and:
Celebrate 25 years of history together
Get to know one another
Learn more about the great work each organization does
Enjoy live music, food, drink, and a raffle
Suggested donation: $10.
Please join us!
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Monday, November 11
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Transit of Mercury - Live Viewing
Monday, November 11
10:00am to 1:00pm
MIT, Building W20: Stratton Student Center, Outside Steps, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
To mark the rare occasion of Mercury’s transit of the sun, EAPS and the MIT Wallace Observatory will host a simultaneous event including in-person viewing through telescopes at MIT and live broadcasting of Mercury passing in front of the Sun from the Wallace Observatory. Mercury will pass directly in front of the sun on November 11 and will be observable through telescopes with solar filters as a small black dot crossing the face of the sun. The next transit of mercury won't be seen again until 2032!
On-Campus Viewing (EAPS)
St ratton Student Center Steps | Senior Lecturer Amanda Bosh
Tweets by @amanda_s_bosh
MIT Wallace Observatory Live Broadcast (Online)
Livestream Link TBA | Observatory Manager Tim Brothers
This event is also sponsored by MIT-TESS, observe@mit, and AstroGazers.
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Mike Catanzaro, former Special Assistant to President Trump for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy (2017-2018)
Monday, November 11
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Hear from Mike Catanzaro, former Special Assistant to President Trump for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy (2017-2018), about his perspective on the future of U.S. energy and climate policy. Catanzaro is a partner at CGCN Group and a Senior Associate at the CSIS Energy and National Security Program.
Throughout his career, Michael Catanzaro has served in several senior energy and environmental policy positions in the federal government, including the House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, the EPA, and the White House. From 2017-2018, Catanzaro served as special assistant to the president for domestic energy and environmental policy at the White House National Economic Council. In that role, he helped craft energy and environmental policy at multiple agencies and advised the president on the administration’s major policy decisions in that space. He previously served on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and on the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign as a top adviser on energy and environmental policy. He was associate director for policy in the White House Council on Environmental Quality and associate deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under former President George W. Bush. He also served as a senior adviser to then-Speaker John Boehner on energy and environmental policy. Now in the private sector, Catanzaro is a partner at CGCN Group, a policy consulting and public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C. Catanzaro received his B.A. from Fordham University in political science and philosophy and an M.A. in government from John Hopkins University.
Contact Name: Amanda Sardonis
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Sin, Science and Seismic Shocks: The Jamaica Earthquake of 1692 and the Science of Disaster
Monday, November 11
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard,CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Louis Gerdelan, Department of History.
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to via the online form by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
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The Biggest Little Farm
WHEN Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, 3 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Social Sciences, Special Events
SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School gratefully acknowledges the support of the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies for this event. Partners for the event are the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School; Harvard University Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies; and the Constellation Project.
CONTACT Gretchen Legler, glegler@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents The Biggest Little Farm, directed by John Chester and starring John and Molly Chester, follows two dreamers and a dog on an odyssey to bring harmony to both their lives and the land. John and Molly Chester make a choice that takes them out of the city and onto 200 acres in the foothills of Ventura County, naively endeavoring to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete coexistence with nature.
Following the film, Harvard Divinity School farmer Gretchen Legler converses with producer Laurie David. Dialogue with the audience will be encouraged. This is the third of a special film series that focuses on issues of social and racial justice; ethics of data collection and its impact on free elections; moral leadership; gun violence; and dreams of farming and caring for the land. Discussions will center around what role the moral imagination plays in addressing societal concerns, how each film contributes to our understanding of social change, and how we as community might engage more fully in movement building rooted in creativity and compassion. This event is free and open to the public. To register for the film series, please contact Gretchen Legler. Priority seating will be given to registered participants. Doors close promptly at 3:00 PM.
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Tuesday, November 12
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On the Basis of Sex: Disparities in Nutrition, Research and Healthcare
Tuesday, November 12
11am
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge
Cambridge Neighbors, an aging-in-place community, and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University present: On the Basis of Sex: Disparities in Nutrition, Research and Healthcare with Jessie Ellis, Ph.D. candidate.
Men and women are not the same when it comes to nutrition and managing chronic disease– a reality the medical and research community is finally recognizing. Learn how this affects you so you can better manage your health.
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Speaker Series: Brandi Collins-Dexter
Tuesday, November 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Brandi Collins-Dexter is the Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change, where she oversees the media, culture and economic justice team. She has led a number of successful and highly visible campaigns for corporate and government accountability and has also worked extensively with Silicon Valley companies on key corporate policy changes. Collins-Dexter has testified in front of congress on the issue of online privacy, and is a regular commentator in the media on racial justice and tech. While at the Shorenstein Center, Collins-Dexter will write a paper on the digital ecosystem and how it has forever altered the political, economic, sociological and psychological ways in which we engage offline.
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Torture as a method of criminal prosecution: Democratization, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Mexican Drug War
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A criminal trial is likely the most signicant interaction a citizen will ever have with the state; its conduct and adherence to norms of fairness bear directly on the quality of government, extent of democratic consolidation, and human rights. While theories of repression tend to focus on the political incentives to transgress against human rights, we examine a case in which the institutionalization of such violations follows an organizational logic rather than the political logic of regime survival or consolidation. We exploit a survey of the Mexican prison population and the implementation of reforms of the justice system to assess how reforms to criminal procedure reduce torture. We demonstrate that democratization produced a temporary decline in torture which then increased with the onset of the Drug War and militarization of security. Results show that democracy alone is insufficient to restrain torture unless it is accompanied by institutionalized protections.
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Veteran's Health: Caring for Those Who Served
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Medical School, Cannon Room, Building C, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership
SPEAKER(S) John C. Bradley, Director for Mental Health & Chief of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System
Jonathan Florance, Medical Student, Harvard Medical School; former Detachment Commander
Janet Fraser Hale, Associate Dean for Interprofessional and Community Partnerships, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Colonel (Retired) in U.S. Army
Eric Goralnick, Medical Director, Emergency Preparedness and Access Center, Brigham Health; U.S. Navy Veteran
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Teresa Carter: teresa_carter@hms.harvard.edu
DETAILS This panel discussion will address Veteran's Health. topics will include: a. Homelessness and Veterans; b. Transitioning to the Civilian World; c. Suicide, Mental Health and Veterans.
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Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in Europe and the World
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street
SPEAKER(S) Justin Gest, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy, Government and International Affairs
Chair: Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO Anna Popiel apopiel@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Europe is at the center of countervailing trends in the governance of global migration.
On the one hand, many European countries are among the fastest aging societies in the world, highly dependent on immigration, and reliant on supranational arrangements to circulate and shift labor supply around the free mobility zone. On the other hand, Europe is also the epicenter of xenophobic Far Right populism which has compelled many countries to limit the entry of third country nationals, externalize their borders, and process asylum seekers offshore. How do these trends define the nature of immigration governance across European states? And how is this governance contextualized in the broader, global landscape of immigration regimes?
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Human Magnetoreception: Tests of Magnetite-Based Transduction
Tuesday, November 12
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 46-3189, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Joseph L. Kirschvink, https://maglab.caltech.edu/, Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology
Although many migrating and homing organisms are sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field as illustrated in the attached figure, most humans are not consciously aware of the geomagnetic stimuli that we encounter in everyday life. Either we have lost the magnetosensory system shared by many of our not-too-distant animal ancestors, or a system still exists with detectable neural activity but lacks potent output to elicit perceptual awareness in us. With initial support from the Human Frontiers Science Program, we now have strong support for the existence of a subconscious human magnetic sensory system [1]. We have found some brief, ecologically-relevant rotations of Earth-strength magnetic fields that produce strong, specific, and repeatable decreases in EEG alpha band (8-13 Hz) power in the few seconds following magnetic stimulation. Similar brainwave changes are known to arise from visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli and are termed alpha event-related desynchronization (alpha-ERD). To date, our data show that: (1) the human geomagnetic compass response is polar in nature (can distinguish North from South), (2) can operate in total darkness, and (3) is not based on any form of electrical induction (and hence is not an electrical artifact). These results rule out both a quantum compass and an induction sensor as the transduction mechanisms, leaving a system based on biologically-precipitated nanocrystals of magnetite (Fe3O4) as the most likely. Humans are part of Earth’s Magnetic Biosphere.
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AgConnect: The Future of Protein
Tuesday, November 12
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
LifeHub Boston, 610 Main Street, Cambridge
Join LifeHub Boston for our third AgConnect Sustainability Series event, The Future of Protein. We'll be joined by our friends at J-WAFS at MIT to bring you a lively discussion on the future of protein and its impact on the future of sustainability in agriculture. Don't forget to bring your best to our Open Mic Nite, which is your time to pitch your passion project and get feedback from the community! This is your chance to network and get to know the Boston Innovation Ecosystem over a fun evening of drinks and discussion.
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Emile Bustani Seminar: "Women Leaders as Conveyors of Change in Saudi Arabia"
Tuesday, November 12
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E51-335, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Hala Aldosari, Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at MIT Center for International Studies, Former Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi Fellow
In Saudi Arabia, gender politics has been carefully constructed by the state to promote a specific national identity for women as citizens. In the recent years, and concurrent with the ascent of the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to power, women appointment in leadership positions have been significantly increased and widely promoted in local and international media as a symbol of change. The newly appointed women leaders emerge within a hyper-nationalist political environment that has shifted from a previously religious one. It commands an unconditional support to the new political leadership and its version for state feminism. The new state feminism will be explored as reflected by the public positions of the appointed women leaders on gender reforms. It invites caution in evaluating the influence of women leaders under authoritarianism. In fact, the appointments can be ineffective, if not detrimental, in advancing rights when women leaders reproduce the restrictive norms of the existing status quo, while other forms of organic feminism are severely repressed.
Hala Aldosari is a scholar and activist from Saudi Arabia, now based in the United States. Her research and writings explored the social determinants of women’s health, violence against women, legal reforms and the civil societies of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf States. She is currently the Robert E. Wihlem fellow at MIT Center for International Studies. She serves as an advisory board member for Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa, the Gulf Center for Human Rights and the “Every Woman” global initiative to prevent violence against women and girls. She has previously worked as a medical scientist and a consultant for health research and policies in Saudi Arabia. In addition, she worked as visiting scholar in leading think tanks and universities. Her advocacy for women's rights has been recognized with various awards; including the 2018 Alison Des Forge award from human rights watch and the 2016 Freedom award from Freedom House. As an op-ed writer, her analysis was featured in prominent media outlets. In 2009, she became the inaugural fellow of the Washington Post, Khashoggi fellowship.
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FORUM: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Anand Giridharadas, Author of Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling; Editor-at-large, TIME
Aditi Kumar, Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
COST Free
CONTACT INFO benjamin_hull@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join Belfer Center Executive Director Aditi Kumar in conversation with Anand Giridharadas on his new New York Times bestseller Winners Take All, which addresses the perils of philanthropy and policy in the hands of the global elite.
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Distributing Power Through Renewable Transformation for Climate Resilience
Tuesday, November 12
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, Renaissance Park, 909, 9th floor, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Talk by Jennie Stephens, Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University.
Each academic year, the Northeastern University’s Center for International Affairs and World Cultures, the Northeastern Humanities Center, and the Department of Political Science host a lecture series focused on “Contemporary Issues in Security and Resilience” (formerly “Controversial Issues in Security and Resilience”).
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Everyday Decisions and Environmental Challenges
Tuesday, November 12
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Dorchester
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everyday-decisions-and-environmental-challenges-tickets-74350730035
Tatiana Schlossberg, author of Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, and other panelists discuss the environmental impact inherent in our everyday choices. David Cash, dean of the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Boston, moderates.
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Above the Free Walls: Documentary Film of Graffiti Alley in Cambridge Screening & Discussion
Tuesday, November 12
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
A feature-length documentary exploring the legal graffiti art movement along the Graffiti Alley in Central Sq, Cambridge, MA.
Above the Free Walls is a feature-length documentary exploring the legal graffiti art movement along the Modica Way, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Please join us for a preliminary test screening of the documentary –– to provide feedback and commentary on it thus far. Director Weiying Olivia Huang will be present to discuss the making of the film and the legal graffiti movement in the community. State Senator Patricia D. Jehlen will provide opening remarks and join the discussion.
The documentary featuring interviews with numerous graffiti artists, reflecting on the complexity and depth of their world, along with street arts, public arts, graffiti arts, personal in-depth interviews. Developed a voice that spoke to a new generation of the legal graffiti world in public art. In doing so, they changed their view of graffiti itself, seeing it essentially as an art form of ephemeral creations.
This program is supported in part by a grant from Cambridge Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
View Trailer here : https://youtu.be/4T4PTH62RD0
More information: https://abovethefreewalls.yolasite.com/
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"After Migration": In Defense of Using Beauty to Illustrate the Journeys of Those Who Have Suffered
WHEN Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Film, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
COST Free admission, but seating is limited.
DETAILS Join us for a film screening of "After Migration: Calabria" (2020) and discussion with Walé Oyéjidé, who produced and co-directed the film, and Harvard professor Teju Cole.
Walé Oyéjidé, Esq., is a fashion designer whose work featured prominently in the Marvel studios blockbuster "Black Panther."
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
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The Mutual Admiration Society
Tuesday, November 12
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights
Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking “Are Women Human?” Women’s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers’s lifetime; she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Yet, as historian Mo Moulton reveals, it was clear from the many professional and personal obstacles they faced that society was not ready to concede that women were indeed fully human. Dubbing themselves the Mutual Admiration Society, Sayers and her classmates remained lifelong friends and collaborators as they fought for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their equal humanity. A celebration of feminism and female friendship, The Mutual Admiration Society offers crucial insight into Dorothy L. Sayers and her world.
About the Author: Mo Moulton is currently a lecturer in the history department of the University of Birmingham. They earned their PhD in history from Brown University in 2010 and taught in the History & Literature program at Harvard University for six years. Their previous book, Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, was named a 2014 “Book of the Year” by History Today and was the runner-up for the Royal History Society’s 2015 Whitfield Prize for first book in British or Irish history. Moulton regularly writes for outlets such as The Atlantic, Public Books, Disclaimer Magazine, and the Toast. They live in London, UK.
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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
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Envision Cambridge citywide plan
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Climate Resilience Workbook
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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. 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.
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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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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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Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy: https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston: http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at over 50 colleges and universities at Hubevents: http://hubevents.blogspot.com
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MIT Events: http://calendar.mit.edu
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Boston Science Lectures: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonsciencelectures/home
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
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
Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub: https://www.universalhub.com/
Extinction Rebellion: https://xrmass.org/action/
Sunrise Movement: https://www.facebook.com/SunriseBoston/events/
Mission-Based Massachusetts is an online discussion group for people who are interested in nonprofit, philanthropic, educational, community-based, grassroots, and other mission-based organizations in the Bay State. This is a moderated, flame-free email list that is open to anyone who is interested in the topic and willing to adhere to the principles of civil discourse. To subscribe email
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.
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