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Since almost all events are online now, Energy (and Other) Events is now virtual and can happen anywhere in the world. If you know of online events that are happening which may be of interest to the editor of this publication, please let me know. People are connecting all across the world and I’d be more than happy to help facilitate more of that.
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Mutual Aid Networks
National
Spreadsheet of mutual aid networks
Mutual Aid Networks to Combat Coronavirus
Local
Boston COVID-19 Community Care
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15GYuPYEzBk9KIyH3C3419aYxIMVAsa7BL7nBl9434Mg/edit?usp=sharing
Boston + MA COVID19 Resources
(This is a different Google Doc with a similar name, compiled by the Asian
American Resource Workshop)
Cambridge Mutual Aid Network
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) network
Food for Free (for Cambridge and Somerville) volunteers to provide lunches for schoolchildren, elderly, and hungry
My notes to Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, about how people faced with emergency and disaster usually move towards providing mutual aid, at least until elite panic, a term in disaster studies, kicks in, are available at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/07/notes-on-rebecca-solnits-paradise-built.html
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Details of these events are available when you scroll past the index
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Daily Events
Entertainment!!!
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Monday, April 27
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12pm Cyber Security Program Seminar
5pm Virtual: How to Freak Out Skillfully, and Other Pandemic Survival Skills
7pm The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
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Tuesday, April 28
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8am Virtual event: Crossroads 2020 - The Future of Supply Chain Management
8:30am CCPA: What you need to know now and what to expect in the future
12pm [Virtual] Borderless COVID-19, Restricted Vaccines
12pm Indigenous Tech, Indigenous Knowledge: Wampum.codes as a model for decolonization
12:30pm Sanctions, Iran and the New Geopolitics of Energy in the Persian Gulf
12:30pm Concentration in a Time of Crisis: Concentration by Stefan Van Der Stigchel
1pm Webinar: How to Win Press For Your Startup
4pm Covid-19: Impact on the Energy Industry
4pm Health, Inequity, and COVID-19 (Online Event)
5:30pm Dance Dance (Dance Like Nobody's Watching)!
7pm Real Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation
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Wednesday, April 29
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9am Youth Climate Action Tools
9am Charting an Sustainable Development Goals 4.7 Roadmap for Radical, Transformative Change in the Midst of Climate Breakdown
11am COVID-19 brings persistent racial and ethnic disparities to focus: Implications for population mental health
12pm Virtual Event: Headhunters, Pirates, and Englishmen, Oh My!: Outsider Rule and Compellence in Sarawak
1pm E2 1 Hotels Fellowship: 2020 Fellow Showcase
1pm [Virtual] Challenges in Digital Technology Then and Now
2pm Compost and Soil Carbon Webinar
6:30pm The Future of Esports COVID-19
7pm Sustaining All Life: Tools for Climate Justice
7pm Sierra Club Plant-based Planet Team
8pm XR Online Movie Night: Before the Flood
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Thursday, April 30
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11am VIRTUAL - The Health Care Consumer's Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money - with author Deb Gordon
11:45am Sustainability Lunch Series: Business Initiatives for Massive Home-scale Climate Action
12pm Roots of Elite Cooperation: Coalition Building under Authoritarianism and Democratic Transitions in the MENA
12:30pm Pandemonium: Globalization and the Pandemic
1pm VIRTUAL EVENT: Starr Forum: Violence Against Women and Girls: The Case of Saudi Arabia
4pm After COVID-19: (Re)Building Resilient Cities
7pm Net Zero Stretch Code Webinar
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Friday, May 1 - Sunday, May 3
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MIT COVID - 19 Challenge
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Friday, May 1
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11am Soil and Climate Impact on the Growth and Competitiveness of Temperate Tree Species
12pm Startup Spotlight 2020 [VIRTUAL]
12pm The Cuban Economy in the Context of COVID-19
4pm Worker Resistance to Capitalism in Crisis
5pm A Working-Class Vision for the Future
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Saturday, May 2
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10:30am Blessed Unrest: Growing a Future for Life on Earth
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Monday, May 4
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5pm U.N. Perspective Series: Climate Action
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Tuesday, May 5
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10am Central Asian Economies and COVID-19: Bracing for Crisis
12:30pm Author Talk: #HashtagActivism
6:30pm Men's Caucus Virtual Meeting
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
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Sunrise Boston Daily Breakfast Boogie! (April 29 - May 1)
8:30am
Online - Zoom link: http://zoom.us/my/brian.sunrise
Covid-19 got you feeling isolated? Lonely? Wanting to start your day off with some connection, laughs, meditation or poetry? Join us for a daily “Breakfast Boogie” hosted by the Member Support Team.
It is so important that we remember and hold onto our connections with one another at a moment in time when we are still going all-out to build a powerful movement to stop climate change. We will be having this gathering on Zoom EVERY WEEK DAY from 8:30-9 am! We may offer different rituals, grounding practices, pair-shares, songs or poetry. Suggestions welcome! Let’s stay grounded and present in community even when we increasingly are apart physically.
Questions: Rosie at rosiemcinnes@gmail.com
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Swing Left Boston Virtual Activism Calendar
Daily electoral activist events with social distancing kept in mind.
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Entertainment!!!!
Stay At Home Fest - online music and performance events
Here Are All the Live Streams & Virtual Concerts to Watch During Coronavirus Crisis
A List Of Live Virtual Concerts To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown
Watch These Livestreamed Concerts During Your Social Distancing
Virtual Art Project (VAP-IT!)
Free virtual music, museums, and art round-up
300,000 ebooks to download for free from the NY Public Library
Free streaming services
Free nonprofit webinars
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Monday, April 27
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Cyber Security Program Seminar
Monday, April 27
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
WEBCAST
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBU6dg0u1Q_xguMdEWV8NJscINe1N80Ik5VuxK9IkyVTmnxw/viewform
Join the Cyber Project in welcoming Sean Plankey, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response in the Department of Energy.
Sean will discuss how the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) addresses the emerging threats of tomorrow while protecting the reliable flow of energy to Americans today by improving energy infrastructure security and supporting the Department of Energy’s (DOE) national security mission. CESER’s focus is preparedness and response activities to natural and man-made threats, ensuring a stronger, more prosperous, and secure future for the Nation.
Registration required.
Cyber Security Program Seminar
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Virtual: How to Freak Out Skillfully, and Other Pandemic Survival Skills
Monday, April 27 (More dates through May 25)
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/j/953792615
Even a few weeks ago, who could have imagined that the MIT community would be so abruptly disrupted and dispersed?! The new reality of physical social distancing is necessary for our society, but our need for social connection is as acute as ever—and all the more so as we confront the grief and uncertainty provoked by this pandemic. Fear, excitement, frustration, anxiety, dread, anger, despondency—these are all normal reactions to the situation, but they can be QUITE hard to manage with everything else on our plates! Join us for informal, online chats about managing these and other challenges of this new reality, with strategies to not only survive, but maybe even thrive, in the midst of the chaos.
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The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
Monday, April 13
7:00 PM
Online
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes New York Times reporter JENNIFER STEINHAUER for a discussion of her latest book, The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress. She will be joined in conversation by fellow Times reporter KATHARINE Q. SEELYE. This event is co-sponsored by Cambridge Women's Center.
About The Firsts
In November 2018, the greatest number of women in American history entered Congress. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “the Squad” to “the Badasses” with national security backgrounds, from the first two Native Americans in Congress to the first two Muslim women, all were swept into office on a wave of grassroots support, diverse in background, age, professional experience, and ideology.
In The Firsts, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer follows these women’s first year in the 116th Congress, chronicling their transition from running trailblazing campaigns to the daily work of governance. In committee rooms, offices, and conversations on the run through the halls of the Capitol, she probed the question: Would Washington, with its hidebound traditions, change the changemakers, or would this Congress, which looked a little more like today’s America, truly be the start of something new?
Vivid and smart, The Firsts delivers fresh details, inside access, historical perspective, and expert analysis as these women—inspiring, controversial, talented, and rebellious—do something truly surprising: make Congress essential again.
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Tuesday, April 28
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Virtual event: Crossroads 2020 - The Future of Supply Chain Management
Tuesday, April 28
8:00am to 5:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://ctl.mit.edu/xr20
Cost: $0 - $250
The year 2020 was less than a month old when the coronavirus outbreak erupted in China. The crisis provides a stark reminder of the uncertainties that supply chains face today – and throughout the new decade. Crossroads 2020 one-day conference will explore these uncertainties, as well as measures that companies can take to prepare for them.
A talk on the decoupling of China and the United States will look at the broad economic and supply chain ramifications of this seismic shift in global trade patterns.
The arrival of 5G wireless connectivity could redefine the way data is communicated and analyzed, and a leading authority on the technology from MIT will map 5G’s evolution over the next few years.
Sensing technology is another potential game-changer, and an MIT scientist who is developing innovative sensing devices will provide an overview of advances in the field.
Sustainability is a powerful force for change in supply chains. Findings from a ground-breaking study on the impact of sustainability efforts on supply chains carried out by MIT CTL in collaboration with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals will be discussed publicly for the first time at the conference.
Full agenda coming soon.
Discover how emerging innovations intersect with supply chain management. Crossroads is a one-day annual event offering a unique learning opportunity for participants. The event connects experts from MIT, the world’s foremost center for technological innovation with the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL), the global leader in supply chain education and research, for a day of discovery and learning.
No other event provides this blend of expertise in one day. This is one reason why the Crossroads conference series has become the SCM community's most important venue for new ideas since its inception more than 15 years ago.
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CCPA: What you need to know now and what to expect in the future (Virtual)
Tuesday, April 28
8:30 AM to 9:30 AM (EDT)
Online
Cost: $27.13
CCPA: What you need to know now and what to expect in the future of state by state regulations
We take the health and safety of our members and all of those in the tech ecosystem very seriously. Given that concern, we are in the process of reviewing each of our March and April programs to determine whether to postpone it or offer it as a virtual event. We will communicate all decisions this week. In the meantime, registration is closed.
This event is free for MassTLC members. Non-members can attend with the paid ticket option.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (or CCPA) went into effect on January 1, and enforcement will begin in July. Given the law’s complexities, significant substantive changes to the law adopted late in 2019, the unsettled nature of the California Attorney General’s CCPA regulations, and the numerous differences between the CCPA and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR), companies doing business in California may be at risk for failure to comply without even realizing it. Others may simply not have the bandwidth to comply. Either way, the CCPA can significantly impact how you conduct business.
The CCPA is also a harbinger of things to come. In the continued absence of a federal standard, states will continue to pass their own new or amended privacy laws. The already fragmented legal landscape risks further fracturing and continued fluidity, forcing small to mid-size companies to invest potentially significant resources to keep up with their compliance needs.
Colin Zick and Chris Hart, who co-chair Foley Hoag’s Privacy and Data Security Practice, will lead this online discussion about the current and future landscape of CCPA compliance, how states and the federal government are moving the privacy goalposts, and how your organization should be thinking about compliance.
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[Virtual] Borderless COVID-19, Restricted Vaccines
Tuesday, April 28
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Quenten Palfrey, Co-Director of Global Access in Action
John Stubbs, Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center
DETAILS As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) sweeps the world in devastating fashion, scientists are scrambling to develop effective vaccines and treatments. But how should those medicines be priced globally?
Following Donald Trump’s “America First” policy with respect to vaccine and drug pricing would be tragic, argue Quenten Palfrey and John Stubbs. Instead, Palfrey and Stubbs propose a pharmaceutical pricing policy modeled on progressive taxation to distribute costs equitably worldwide.
CONTACT INFO events@cyber.harvard.edu
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Indigenous Tech, Indigenous Knowledge: Wampum.codes as a model for decolonization
Tuesday, April 28
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Online
In this public panel, Amelia Winger-Bearskin brings together Indigenous artists, technologists and knowledge keepers to discuss how we can take an ethical approach to tech projects. The conversation will be a part of of Wampum.codes, her Mozilla Fellowship Project at the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s Co-Creation Studio. Wampum is the practice of encoding contracts and agreements into beaded patterns, which was commonly done by Winger-Bearskin’s own tribe (Seneca-Cayuga Haudenosaunee) in pre-contact times. Just like the craft that serves as its namesake, Wampum.codes is a recording of the stories, ideas, and wisdom that is collected through conversations with other native people. This panel is part of a virtualized delegation in collaboration with the Indigenous Screen Office.
Panelists include Asha Veeraswamy, Dawn Borchardt, DeLesslin Roo George-Warren, Erica Tremblay, Jade Begay, Joseph Clift, Martha Winger-Bearskin, MorningStar Angeline, and Eve-Lauryn LaFountain.
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 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 the artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program), exhibited at the Newark Museum and ASU in 2019.
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Sanctions, Iran and the New Geopolitics of Energy in the Persian Gulf
Tuesday, April 28
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://youtu.be/P-VQHPW_tiE
SPEAKER(S) David Jalilvand, Managing Director, Orient Matters GMBH; Center Associate, Energy Project, Davis Center
Aurélie Bros, Senior Fellow, Energy Project, Davis Center; Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
In the standoff over sanctions and the nuclear deal, Iran changed its strategy in May 2019. This ushered in a new phase in the geopolitics of energy in the Persian Gulf. Energy trade and infrastructure became targets for attacks as Tehran seeks to form a link between US economic sanctions, nonproliferation and regional security.
The event will shed light on the drivers behind Tehran’s strategy. It will examine the motivation for Iran to pursue a more assertive strategy, discuss the rationale of Tehran’s new approach, and assess the implications for energy and security in the Persian Gulf and beyond.
LINK https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/sanctions-iran-and-new-geopolitics-energy-persian-gulf
CONTACT INFO Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
617.495.4037
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Concentration in a Time of Crisis: Concentration by Stefan Van Der Stigchel
Tuesday, April 28
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Online
Never in recent history has the news been so distracting, or have so many of us been forced to work under unexpected stress and in unideal conditions. This talk from Stefan Van der Stigchel, Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University, will explain what makes it hard for us to concentrate and show you how to concentrate under the most distracting of circumstances.
About the Book
We are in the midst of an attention crisis—caused in large part by our smartphones. There's a constant stream of information that we are powerless to withstand because it shows up in our notifications. More and more of us are finding it harder and harder to concentrate. In this book, attention expert and cognitive psychologist Stefan Van der Stigchel explains how concentration works and offers advice on how to stay focused in a world of beeping smartphones, channel surfing, live-tweeting, pop-up ads, and other distractions.
The good news, Van der Stigchel reports, is that we now know more about brain and behavior than ever before, and he draws on the latest scientific findings in his account of concentration. He explains, among other things, that the battle for our attention began long before the digital era; why our phones are so addictive; the importance of working memory (responsible for executing complicated tasks) and how to increase its capacity; and why multitasking is bad for our concentration, but attention rituals help it. He describes the 2017 Oscars debacle (when the Best Picture presenter was given the wrong card) as a failure of multitasking; argues that daydreaming can be good for our concentration; and shows that the presence of a passenger in a car reduces the risk of an accident. He explains the positive effects of taking “tech breaks” (particularly in natural surroundings), meditation, and even daydreaming. We can win the battle for our attention, Van der Stigchel argues, if we have the knowledge and the tools to do it.
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Webinar: How to Win Press For Your Startup
Tuesday, April 28
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
Want to win media coverage for your startup but can’t afford to spend a small fortune on traditional PR agency fees?
Well, you’re definitely not alone.
The “as seen in” banner on a startup’s website is increasingly seen as the badge of legitimacy for any growing company. Being able to boast about a Tech Crunch, Venture Beat or Next Web feature can build a huge amount of trust, authority, and exposure with potential customers and investors.
But how do you bootstrap your way to media success?
Fortunately, the process for winning media coverage can be broken down and easily executed by anyone. That’s why our PR & Marketing partners Net Positive Agency are hosting a 1-hour webinar to deconstruct the process for you.
During the webinar, Net Positive Agency will provide a step-by-step guide on how to execute the following common PR functions:
When to write a press release and who to send it to
The do's and don'ts of guest posting
Using HARO and other journalist requests tools
How to pitch to journalists the right way
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Covid-19: Impact on the Energy Industry
Tuesday, April 28
4:00PM TO 5:00PM
Online
McKinsey & Company's Scott S. Nyquist (Director Emeritus - Senior Advisor) and Luciano Di Fiori (Partner - Energy Insights)
Scott S. Nyquist is a Senior Advisor and former Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company. During his 35-year tenure, he has led McKinsey's European and America's Oil and Gas practices, and co-led the Global Energy and Materials sector and the Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice. He has also served on McKinsey’s Board of Directors, as well as on the board of the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm’s internal think-tank. Scott holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Luciano Di Fiori is a Partner at McKinsey's Houston office and leads McKinsey’s Energy Insights in the Americas. He joined McKinsey in 2009 and has since served clients in the North American unconventionals, global upstream, oilfield services, and midstream sectors, advising them on a variety of strategy and M&A issues. Luciano holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Harvard Undergraduate Student Clean Energy Club Seminar
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Health, Inequity, and COVID-19 (Online Event)
Tuesday, April 28
4 – 5:15 p.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Mary T. Bassett, Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
International experience in recent months has powerfully illustrated that the COVID-19 virus has particularly harmful and disproportionate effects on already vulnerable populations. This webinar will examine inequity and public health in the time of COVID-19, exploring how the virus encounters existing inequalities, replicates these inequalities, and, in many cases, amplifies them.
Registration is required for this Zoom webinar. Instructions can be found by visiting the event web page.
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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Dance Dance (Dance Like Nobody's Watching)!
Tuesday, April 28
5:30PM - 6:15PM EST
Online
RSVP at http://xrr.nyc/zoom
Increase your emotional, mental, and physical health by letting loose on your (home) dance floor.
Join our XR community for weekly virtual, playful, regenerative dance parties.
Everyone’s welcome!
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Real Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation
Tuesday, April 28
7:00 PM
Online
Cost: $5.00 suggested - pay what you can
Harvard Book Store's virtual events series welcomes SHARON SALZBERG—renowned author and teacher of Buddhist meditation for a discussion of the 10th anniversary edition of her New York Times bestselling book, Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation. She'll be joined in conversation by CAROLINE WELCH, CEO and co-founder of The Mindsight Institute. Her latest book, The Gift of Presence: A Mindfulness Guide for Women, is available for purchase at https://bookshop.org/books/the-gift-of-presence-a-mindfulness-guide-for-women/9780593086803
In lieu of our traditional ticketing at this time, we ask that you pay what you can to support our virtual event series and this indie bookstore. We recommend a $5 contribution, or you can support Harvard Book Store by purchasing a copy of Real Happiness from our affiliate Bookshop page at https://bookshop.org/books/real-happiness-10th-anniversary-edition-a-28-day-program-to-realize-the-power-of-meditation-second-edition-revised/9781523510122
We are so excited to be able to continue bringing authors and their books to our community, particularly during such challenging times, and your patronage and enthusiasm are what make it possible.
About Real Happiness
From Sharon Salzberg, a pioneer in the field of meditation and world-renowned teacher acclaimed for her down-to-earth style, Real Happiness is a complete guide to starting and maintaining a meditation practice. Beginning with the simplest breathing and sitting techniques, and based on three key skills—concentration, mindfulness, and lovingkindness—it’s a practice anyone can do and that can transform our lives by bringing us greater resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity, and balance.
This updated 10th anniversary edition includes exercises, journal prompts, and ten guided meditations available.
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Wednesday, April 29
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Youth Climate Action Tools
Wednesday, April 29
9am - 11am EST
Online
RSVP at https://zoom.us/j/123720700
Join us for a 2-hour training hosted by XR international on tools to build a movement! Meet youth rebels from around the world and learn how to make a real impact.
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Charting an Sustainable Development Goals 4.7 Roadmap for Radical, Transformative Change in the Midst of Climate Breakdown
Wednesday, April 29
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online
Key Note Speaker:
Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor Columbia University and the Director of Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute
Invited Speakers include:
Jahnavi Bhatt, Bob Jickling, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Priyadarshani Joshi, Nidhi Thakur, Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, Adriana Valenzuela, Antonia Wulff, Caroline Lewis, Abby Rusky, Jess Cooke, Frank Neopold, Kartikeya Sarabhai, Priya Patel, Vanita Gangwal, Anna Bertmar Khan, William Bertolotti, Vidya Bindal, Aalok Bhatt, Srinivas Akula, John Mugabo, Sahana Gosh, Gopal Patel and more.
The purpose of this workshop is to build off of the Brookings report and to bring together stakeholders from the fields of ESD, GCED, GE, and HR education to begin laying out a shared vision, or roadmap, for the global education sector in climate action. The aim is that this workshop will serve as a launching pad for a series of working meetings over the course of 2020 for those who express interest at the workshop to continue being engaged. The working meetings will culminate in an edited volume focused on education and climate action.
This event is a part of the virtual Conference of International Education Society. More information at http://www.CIES202020.org
Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 states, “by 2030 ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development”
For updates on this event and registration, use the Eventbrite link above.
Event contact: Radhika Iyengar, iyengar@ei.columbia.edu
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COVID-19 brings persistent racial and ethnic disparities to focus: Implications for population mental health
Wednesday, April 29
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Margarita Alegria, Professor, Departments of Medicine & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Cindy Liu, Director, Developmental Risk and Cultural Disparities Program; Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatric Newborn Medicine & Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Kimberlyn Leary, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management; Enabling Change Program Director, DrPH Program
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Psychology, McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School
As with everything in public health, we are seeing disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minorities. Based on data coming from some states in the US, there are disparities in who gets infected, gets tested, and dies from COVID-19. We also know that mental and behavioral health are frequently unaddressed in racial and ethnic minority communities. Given the growing evidence showing mental health effects of COVID-19, this panel discussion is focused on the roles communities and institutions can play in addressing racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care. Hosted by Dr. Karestan Koenen and Dr. Bizu Gelaye.
CONTACT INFO Shaili Jha
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Virtual Event: Headhunters, Pirates, and Englishmen, Oh My!: Outsider Rule and Compellence in Sarawak
Wednesday, April 29
12:00pm to 1:30am
Online
An adventurous Englishman established a durable political order amid the contestation of sea and land Dayaks, ethnic Chinese, Muslims, and other peoples in Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, in the middle of the 19th century. Three generations of the Brooke family maintained personal rule over Sarawak until after World War II. After the British Crown bought the territory from the last of the so-called White Rajahs, an insurgency formed to call for the return of personalistic Brooke rule. Given the difficulties that liberal Western powers have had in creating or restoring political order in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere since World War II, how did the Brooke family succeed without creating an institutionalized state, without delivering public goods beyond security, and without creating an appealing ideology? Paradoxically, it was the Brookes’ lack of institutions and ideology that enabled their rule. The Brookes flourished without the trappings and tools of empire, using personal influence; organized violence by a small number of armed Englishmen sufficient to balance power among armed groups; and partnerships with indigenous groups to take and retain power. Their success as outsider rulers rested on their use of compellence. This fine-grained archival case has relevance for theorizing compellence, balancing, and bandwagoning. It is also useful for understanding military intervention in multiple forms, including peacekeeping, state building, and counterinsurgency.
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E2 1 Hotels Fellowship: 2020 Fellow Showcase
Wednesday, April 29
1:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern
Online
The E2 1 Hotels Fellowship supports emerging business leaders develop and implement projects that amplify the business and economic case for smart policies to address pressing environmental issues. This will be the first webinar showcasing our third class of fellows who are working on a diverse set of issues ranging from clean water, energy and agriculture.
Please join us to learn more about the fellowship program and hear from three of our fellows about their projects.
Featuring
Bonnie Gurry, Green Portfolio, New York City, NY
Bonnie is working to create www.greenportfol.io - a website where average investors can easily find more information on how to invest in renewable energy. Greenportfol.io will make it simple for anyone to find the information they need to make informed green investment choices, allowing their dollars to help fuel a cleaner economy and future while providing a fair return.
Caroline Normile, Building the Carbon Economy, San Francisco, CA
Caroline’s project will bring together farmers and landowners, along with researchers and E2 advocates, to help establish productive partnerships and long-term carbon sequestration monitoring networks in California’s Central Valley.
Scott Tate, Advancing Clean Energy and Sustainable Enterprise in Central Appalachia, Roanoke, VA
Social entrepreneurship and sustainability-focused companies are on the rise in central Appalachia, and many focus on clean energy. There remains a relatively low public awareness of these enterprises and the quality and variety of jobs and impacts they represent. This project will focus on telling these stories.
Dial-in information will be provided upon registration. If you have any questions, please contact Marcus Rodriguez at merodriguez@e2.org.
About the Speakers:
Bonnie Gurry is a renewable energy engineer turned technology and research consultant based in New York City. She previously worked for the New York State government developing renewable energy projects and at BASF coordinating products for renewable energy manufacturing in North America. Currently, she works with clients to help organize their market research and coordinate investment strategies. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, an MS from the California Institute of Technology, and an MBA from NYU Stern.
Caroline Normile is a Principal Air Quality Specialist with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), a regional government agency, where she implements state and federal policies to monitor and reduce air pollution. Previously, she served as the 2017–2018 American Meteorological Society Congressional Science Fellow in the Office of U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, where she was responsible for a portfolio including environment, climate, and energy issues. As a NASA Earth and Space Science Graduate Fellow at Penn State University, she examined variability in uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide from vegetation across North America. Caroline holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Science and Meteorology from Penn State and a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia.
A writer, teacher, and consultant, Scott Tate helps people, places, and organizations address challenges and pursue opportunities for positive change. Currently Associate Director for the Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development, Scott has worked with public, private, and nonprofit sector organizations and communities on entrepreneurship, sustainability, strategy, and development. He teaches college courses on leadership, planning, and policy and his writing has appeared in a number of academic journals and books, including his co-edited Routledge volume, Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas. Tate is also founder and director of the Social Possibility Lab, a project that shares stories and explores ways to see, think, and do – for the greater good.
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[Virtual] Challenges in Digital Technology Then and Now
Wednesday, April 29
1 – 2:15 p.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Co-Founder of BKC
Brad Smith, President of Microsoft
DETAILS Governments and publics are increasingly asking that tech companies work to address the challenges and adapt to the changes technology has unleashed, from digital security to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the core of these new expectations is the sense that world-changing technologies must be governed in accordance with a broad ethic of responsibility – to individual users and to society at large.
In this conversation, Jonathan Zittrain will be joined by Microsoft President Brad Smith to discuss how big tech might rise to these new challenges and opportunities.
This event is part of the AI Policy Practice.
CONTACT INFO events@cyber.harvard.edu
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Compost and Soil Carbon Webinar
Wednesday, April 29
2pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHMgQFN8EkDMNKdWDkvdwZiuXc-LlNs4gSFBCDnPwcikYdPg/viewform
With Marianda Lachman
Compost is more than a natural fertilizer - it's a powerful tool in the fight against climate change! Please join Miranda Lachman of Bootstrap Compost to find out how compost not only prevents the creation of methane but also helps put atmospheric carbon back where it belongs - in the soil - and what you can do to start composting right now.
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The Future of Esports COVID-19
Wednesday, April 29
6:30 – 8 pm EDT
Online
Tyler Schrodt, Founder, COO, Electronic Gaming Federation
Danny Martin, Founder/CEO, Geekletes
Caleb Smith, CEO and Founder / Owner, GM , CVS Entertainment and Contender eSports
Markel Lee, Co-Founder & CCO, AoE Creative
Simon Bennett, CEO / Co-Founder, AoE Creative
The Future of Esports After COVID-19 is a virtual event that features a moderated panel of national/local thought leaders who share insights into where esports is today, where it may be going in the coming years, and how people can break into industry professions or start entrepreneurial ventures.
Takeaways
What is esports?
What does the esports industry look like today? In the future?
How is esports growing at a local, national, and international level?
What professions are there beyond players?
About the Panelists
Tyler Schrodt, Founder, COO, Electronic Gaming Federation
Tyler Schrodt founded the Electronic Gaming Federation (EGF) in 2015 and has grown the organization from a single collection of high school esports teams to a full-scale federation across collegiate, high school and youth esports ecosystems. Tyler started as a Counter-Strike 1.6 player then as a team manager, and a tournament organizer before attending college at Rochester Institute of Technology where he worked as part of Residence Life and served on the institution’s Conduct Board. In addition to his position at EGF, Tyler serves as an advisor to PowerSpike and mental health non-profit, Rise Above the Disorder.
Danny Martin, Founder/CEO, Geekletes
Danny has 10+ years of experience in the industry of Esports. He has aided in the professional development of students, interns, and post-graduates. These students have received Esports scholarships and employment from acclaimed Universities and Esports Organizations like Central Missouri University, Complexity Gaming, Pacers Gaming, and Mavs Gaming.
Caleb Smith, CEO and Founder / Owner, GM, CVS Entertainment and Contender eSports
I am the founder and CEO of CVS Entertainment. We provide premier experiences to enhance the eSports community in North America with a focus on the Triangle area of North Carolina. We build business and partner with others to grow a strong community.
I am a franchisee owner of Contender eSports in Cary, NC which is an eSports gaming center. This is the first project of CVS Entertainment where we will be hosting community nights, training, tournaments, and more.
Markel Lee, Co-Founder & CCO, AoE Creative
Finalist for Up and Comer of 2019, Markel has been the creative power behind; OpTic Gaming, The Houston Outlaws, PVP Live, and Panda x Gaming. As a founding member of Infinite Esports & Entertainment and the Houston Outlaws, Markel has a passion for championing diversity, excellence and professionalism In the gaming world and often mentors younger designers into strong roles. Markel has over 10 years executive design agency experience working on design, branding and vision both inside and outside the gaming world.
Simon Bennett, CEO / Co-Founder, AoE Creative
"A firm believer that if you work hard enough you can achieve almost anything you set your sights on.
16 years leadership experience in esports, marketing, events, PR, broadcasting, management, partnerships and content creation in the gaming industry with gaming giants Activision-Blizzard, Wargaming, Razer, OpTic Gaming, Houston Outlaws, Faceit and most recently the co-founder of AoE Creative."
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Sustaining All Life: Tools for Climate Justice
Wednesday, April 29, May 6, May 13
7:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHMgQFN8EkDMNKdWDkvdwZiuXc-LlNs4gSFBCDnPwcikYdPg/viewform
For Organizers and Environmental Activists
Marya Axner, Sustaining All Life
In this class, learn tools that will help people overcome barriers to building a massive movement to stop climate change and limit its effects. We will learn:
Basic listening skills: People will learn to listen to another person without giving advice, without judgement and with respect and caring. Each person will also experience what it is like to be listened to without someone judging them or interrupting them. In these exercises, people are encouraged to talk about personal experiences: We learn that we can heal from hurtful experiences if someone listens to us attentively and allows and encourage us release grief, fear, and other painful emotions. People will be expected to agree on confidentiality during certain exercises. These listening exercises will help us overcome discouragement and powerlessness that impede our ability to build movements.
We will also learn how to overcome longstanding divisions between groups of people, based in oppression. To do this we talk about the role of oppression in our own lives-- how we personally have been targeted by oppression and also how we each were unwittingly pushed into the role of oppressing others. In doing so we can heal from these experiences and be empowered to bring people together to work for change.
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Sierra Club Plant-based Planet Team
Wednesday, April 29
7:00pm-8:30pm
Online
Promote a Plant-based Diet to Protect the Earth
The Sierra Club Massachusetts Chapter's Plant-based Planet Team does outreach on the environmental effects of meat, dairy, and production, as well as fishing. We encourage people to reduce or eliminate their consumption of animal foods by eating a healthy, plant-based diet. We are currently working on several projects, including a plant-based cooking show. If you would like to help, please join us for a virtual meeting.
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XR Online Movie Night: Before the Flood
Wednesday, April 29
8 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://youtu.be/6UGsRcxaSAI
Join us for a virtual movie night via Netflix party on Wednesday April 29th, 8pm!
Before the flood: Although most known for his acting, Leonardi DiCaprio is highly engaged in environmental issues. He's the narrator in Before the flood, and we get to follow his journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
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Thursday, April 30
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VIRTUAL - The Health Care Consumer's Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money - with author Deb Gordon
Thursday, April 30
11 – 11:45 a.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Deb Gordon, Author and former M-RCBG senior fellow
This virtual seminar will be given via Zoom by author and former M-RCBG senior fellow Deb Gordon. Registration is required: harvard.zoom.us…
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Sustainability Lunch Series: Business Initiatives for Massive Home-scale Climate Action
Thursday, April 30
11:45pm to 12:45am
Online
With new recognition of the climate emergency, cities and towns are seeking business partners to retrofit homes for comprehensive decarbonization; applying efficiency, heat electrification, as well as solar+storage. Guests with startups will describe new services which leverage utility programs to foster high carbon impacts in low income/urban as well as suburban communities. Each has a strategy for a local, comprehensive approach that may improve retrofit economics for consumers, and increase social equity, while helping reach the penetration necessary for climate goals.
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Roots of Elite Cooperation: Coalition Building under Authoritarianism and Democratic Transitions in the MENA
Thursday, April 30
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Tahir Kilavuz
A webinar with Tahir Kilavuz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative and PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame.
Moderated by MEI Faculty Chair, Professor Tarek Masoud.
This seminar will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance: harvard.zoom.us…
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
This event will also be live streamed on Facebook: www.facebook.com…. To participate in the Q&A portion of the event, you must be registered on Zoom using the link above.
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Pandemonium: Globalization and the Pandemic
Thursday, April 30
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Online
Our era of globalization has been facing a profound crisis of legitimacy in the developed world for more than a decade. How will the pandemic affect globalization? Will it strengthen it? Weaken it? Or transform it altogether? In this session Rawi Abdelal will share his reflections on what has happened so far and what might happen next. Please bring your thoughts, reflections, and most difficult questions!
Speaker(s):
Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Moderator: Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center; Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, please call 617-495-4037.
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Starr Forum: Violence Against Women and Girls: The Case of Saudi Arabia
Thursday, April 30
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/j/476681252
The speakers will also address the Covid-19 pandemic and how it exacerbates violence
This talk will explore violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Saudi Arabia as a case study to understand the interconnectedness of violence with gender inequality and women’s limited representation in power and decision-making. VAWG will be explored in the context of Saudi Arabia, while drawing parallels with neighboring countries and the Arab region as a whole. In particular, a focus on patriarchal relations, honor-related cultural norms, and social and economic policies will be presented in relation to violence perpetration and prevention. Also explored will be how the Covid-19 pandemic impacts VAWG. Finally, an overview of culturally-tailored prevention strategies will be discussed.
Speaker: Hala Aldosari is a Saudi scholar and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights in Arab societies, violence against women, and the “guardianship” system in Saudi Arabia. She joined the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) as its 2019-20 Robert E Wilhelm Fellow.
Discussant: Rothna Begum is senior researcher for the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining HRW, Rothna worked for Amnesty International researching human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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After COVID-19: (Re)Building Resilient Cities
Thursday, April 30
4–5 p.m.
This panel will explore the role of cities in creating the conditions for health, particularly in a time of pandemic. It will address how cities can be rebuilt with a focus on resilience and on promoting healthy populations.
Cohosted with the Boston University Initiative on Cities.
Agenda
4 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.
OPENING REMARKS
Sandro Galea (@sandrogalea), Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
4:05 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
SETTING THE STAGE
Jennifer Keesmaat, CEO, The Keesmaat Group, and Former Chief Planner, Toronto
4:15 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR HEALTH
Katie Swenson, Senior Principal, MASS Design Group
4:25 p.m. – 4:35 p.m.
DESIGN FOR HEALTH AND RESILIENCE
Joan Saba, Partner, NBBJ
4:35 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
THE FUTURE OF BUILDING RESILIENT CITIES
Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Boston University Initiative on Cities
4:45 p.m. – 5 p.m.
MODERATED DISCUSSION AND Q&A
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Net Zero Stretch Code Webinar
Thursday, April 30
7:00-8:00 pm
Online
Net Zero Stretch Code Webinar. We know that in order to meet our climate goals, we have to start building our buildings the right way today. That's why we are continuing the fight to give Massachusetts communities the option to require a Net Zero standard for all new construction.
Join us on Thursday to learn what has been happening on the state level in the fight for a stronger, safer, and more efficient stretch code, and what YOU can do to take action. We'll be presenting with our partners at the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, and Built Environment Plus to give you the latest update on the campaign, and discuss how we can continue to put pressure on our decision-makers for the best possible version of a zero code.
Once you RSVP you will receive more information on how to tune into the webinar. If you RSVP but don't attend you will still receive a recording and other materials in your inbox the next day.
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Friday, May 1 - Sunday, May 3
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MIT COVID - 19 Challenge
Friday, May 1 - Sunday, May 3
Online
Thank you again for your application to the MIT COVID-19 Challenge, Beat the Pandemic. We are sorry we were not able to accommodate your application for our previous event, but applaud your desire to engage with the MIT community and develop solutions for the COVID-19 crisis.
We invite you to apply to our next hackathon, Africa Takes on COVID-19. In this 48-hour virtual event, taking place May 1-3, 2020, we will tackle the most critical unmet needs caused by the COVID-19 outbreak in Africa. The event will be focused on:
Flattening The Curve: How to prevent disease transmission and protect vulnerable populations from effects of COVID-19?
Supporting Our Health Systems: How to strengthen the health systems and health facilities that may face staff, supplies, and resource shortages?
Apply today!
Submissions are due Monday, April 27th at 11:59pm EST. All backgrounds / areas of expertise are welcome.
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Friday, May 1
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Soil and Climate Impact on the Growth and Competitiveness of Temperate Tree Species
Friday, May 1
11:00AM TO 12:00PM
Online
Paulino Pinto, Widen Horizon Fellow, AgroParisTech, University of Lorrain, INRA.
Harvard Forest Seminar
Contact Name: HFoutreach@fas.harvard.edu
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Startup Spotlight 2020 [VIRTUAL]
Friday, May 1 (More dates through May 29)
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
The Startup Spotlight, usually held in June, has traditionally been a time for us to gather together for a cocktail networking reception, peruse tables of startup demos….and vote for our favorites. While we don’t know what life will be like in June, or even next week, we do know this:
Startups and small businesses are everything for our economy and they need our support and encouragement now more than ever!
So, this year, instead of hosting a one-night, in-person affair, we’re adapting to our new reality and changing things up.
Here’s how
Every week starting April 24, we’ll highlight 4 startups in a series of 6 virtual demo days
Startups (located anywhere!) should apply online to be chosen to demo LIVE to registered attendees (applications will roll over week to week)
Startups chosen will demo LIVE to our weekly audience
The LIVE demos will be recorded and shared for the crowd to vote for their favorites
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The Cuban Economy in the Context of COVID-19
Friday, May 1
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Emeritus
Before the covid-19 pandemic, Cuba was already suffering the worst economic crisis since the 1990s after the collapse of the socialist camp. In addition to basically maintaining the central planning model (with some modest reforms) that was unable to increase GDP growth and production, Cuba has suffered significant cuts in its economic relationship with Venezuela and Trumps' aggressive policies that strengthened the U.S. embargo. Evaluating the impact of these three factors, the presentations shows the domestic macroeconomic indicators and the impact of the two external variables.
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
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Worker Resistance to Capitalism in Crisis
Friday, May 1
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Online
Cost: $0 – $50
Noam Chomsky joins historian and author Erik Loomis for an urgent conversation on the implications of recent labor actions during the crisis
The New Press is a nonprofit, public interest book publisher.
Every dollar we take in from this event will go directly to support our joint project of spreading the ideas vital to maintaining our democracy.
While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our continuing to do this important publishing and organizing work. All donations will go toward producing the books and events that bring bold ideas to the world.
Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the stream on the day of the event.
This event is part of #RadicalMay, a collective endeavor by a group of publishers to host virtual events on a variety of topics in honor of May Day. Radical publishers need your support more than ever during the current crisis. https://leftbookclub.com/partners
What do recent pandemic-related strike actions mean for the future of the labor movement?
What demands can labor make heading into the November election?
How do we build worker power in a world where many can't leave their homes?
After the COVID-19 crisis abates, many Americans may never view work the same way again. As essential workers engage in call-outs and strikes to fight for safe working conditions, the labor movement, and indeed the entire economy, are in a state of unprecedented flux. Join two thinkers to piece together the implications of the pandemic on the labor landscape.
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language; Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel; American Power and the New Mandarins; For Reasons of State; Problems of Knowledge and Freedom; Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship; Towards a New Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan; The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove); On Anarchism; and (with Michel Foucault) The Chomsky-Foucault Debate, all published by The New Press. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Erik Loomis is an associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. He blogs at Lawyers, Guns & Money on labor and environmental issues past and present. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Dissent, and the New Republic. The author of Out of Sight and A History of America in Ten Strikes (both from The New Press) as well as Empire of Timber, he lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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A Working-Class Vision for the Future
Friday, May 1
5:00 PM EDT
Online
Celebrate May Day by joining leading labor voices in conversation about how we can build a radical working class response to the current crisis.
May Day, international workers' day, is a time to honor and celebrate the radical traditions of the labor movement. In the midst of the current crisis it is more important than ever to build on the militant legacy of May Day and organize a fighting, working-class resistance that demands a better world for us all.
Join Haymarket Books and Labor Notes for this important discussion featuring Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, Stacy Davis Gates, Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union, and Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
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Saturday, May 2
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Blessed Unrest: Growing a Future for Life on Earth
Saturday, May 2
10:30am - 1:30pm
Online
Cost: $15 - $80
We will start on Saturday, April 18, 2020, as originally planned. Additional sessions will be:
Sunday, April 19th
Saturday, April 25th
Saturday, May 2nd
Saturday, May 9th
Saturday, May 16th
All sessions will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., EDT. On each day at around 1:30 p.m. there will be an option to attend an hour-long workshop with one of the day’s speakers, depending on speaker availability.
Ecological urgency remains of primary concern as we work our way through the immediate threat of the corona virus.
Let’s face it: Emissions reduction strategies to address global ecological catastrophes, including massive climate disruption, have not worked. Of course we should go to zero for many reasons, but this doesn’t offer solutions at the scale needed in the time we have left. We have to do something else. That something else is to invoke the power of the natural world.
Blessed Unrest offers many practical nature solutions from speakers around the world. Collectively we can change course to a healthy and bountiful planet for all.
Join us as we move to an interactive online forum. This promises to be an exciting, informative and hopeful event in its new form, and we look forward to having you join us!
More information at https://bio4climate.org/blessed-unrest/
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Monday, May 4
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U.N. Perspective Series: Climate Action
Monday, May 4
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
Online
Is now the moment to rework our economy in support of Climate Action? Join Impact Hub Boston and UNAGB to learn about the Green New Deal.
The U.N. Perspective Series are free events aiming to build community and convene global and local perspectives on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Presented by United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNAGB) and Impact Hub Boston, each U.N. Perspective Series focuses on a specific SDG and opens dialogue between global experts, local leaders, and the Greater Boston community.
This May we will focus on SDG 13: Climate Action and the Green New Deal. You will also have the chance to engage with other community members on SDG campaigning and advocacy in Boston during a brief SDG Committee Meeting at the beginning of the event.
This event is free, but registration is required. Please note as well that the event is open to all ages, but the lecture is tailored to adult audiences.
U.N. Perspective Series: Climate Action and the Green New Deal
Monday, May 4 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. online via Zoom
This event will feature…
Global Perspective
Michael Green, Executive Director of Climate XChange and Representative to the United Nations on international climate science and policy
Local Perspective
Anny Martinez, former IPS Director of the Jamaica Plain Forum
To be announced
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Tuesday, May 5
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Central Asian Economies and COVID-19: Bracing for Crisis
Tuesday, May 5
10:00am to 11:00am
Online
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/DCRES/
Difficult times are upon us. Central Asian states are dealing with the outbreak of COVID-19 and bracing for the second “tsunami wave” – the impact of the pandemic on their economies. With borders sealed, supply chain interrupted, prices on natural resources going down, and businesses forced to scale down or close, the unprecedented crisis requires strong and smart policies. Join Program Director Nargis Kassenova in conversation with Christian Josz, IMF Mission Chief for the Kyrgyz Republic, Roman Mogilevskii, Associate Director of the University of Central Asia Institute of Public Policy and Administration, and Darmen Sadvakassov, Managing Partner, Dasco Consulting Group, for a discussion on the state of affairs and key trends in Central Asian economies with the focus on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, potential “windows of opportunities” for successful management of the crisis, and prospects for the regional development and economic cooperation and integration projects in Eurasia.
Christian Josz is the mission chief for the Kyrgyz Republic in the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund, where he has worked for the last 21 years with assignments on Senegal, Madagascar, Chad, Mali, the West African Monetary Union, Iraq and at the Executive Board. He also worked at the Ministry of Economy and central bank of Belgium, at the OECD, and in the private sector.
Roman Mogilevskii is Associate Director of the Institute of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Central Asia. He has extensive experience researching trade policy, public finance, social protection, and macroeconomics in Central Asia and Central Europe. He has held advisory positions at a variety of international organizations operating in Central Asia, such as the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, and the European Commission. He has also served as the Executive Director of the Center for Social and Economic Research in Kyrgyzstan (CASE-Kyrgyzstan).
Darmen Sadvakassov is Managing Partner at the Dasco Consulting Group. He has many years of experience of working for Kazakhstan’s national energy company Kazmunaigas in the capacity of Director of the Department of Analytics and Forecasting and Director of the Department of Strategy and Coordination. He also served in the government as Head of the Sector of economic analysis and competitiveness of the Center for
Strategic Research and Analysis, Administration of the President of Kazakhstan and Head of Planning and External Relations Department, Agency of the Republic of
Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs.
Strategic Research and Analysis, Administration of the President of Kazakhstan and Head of Planning and External Relations Department, Agency of the Republic of
Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs.
Speaker(s):
Christian Josz, IMF Mission Chief, Kyrgyz Republic
Roman Mogilevskii, Associate Director, Institute of Public Policy and Administration, University of Central Asia
Darmen Sadvakassov, Managing Partner, Dasco Consulting Group
Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia; Associate Professor, KIMEP University
Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, please call 617-495-4037.
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Author Talk: #HashtagActivism
Tuesday, May 5
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Online
MIT Press Live! presents a virtual author talk with the authors of #HashtagActivism.
Join authors Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles to look at how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.
The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags, including #JusticeForTrayvon, #BlackLivesMatter, #YesAllWomen, and #MeToo to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people. They show how marginalized groups, long excluded from elite media spaces, have used Twitter hashtags to advance counternarratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.
The authors describe how such hashtags as #MeToo, #SurvivorPrivilege, and #WhyIStayed have challenged the conventional understanding of gendered violence; examine the voices and narratives of Black feminism enabled by #FastTailedGirls, #YouOKSis, and #SayHerName; and explore the creation and use of #GirlsLikeUs, a network of transgender women. They investigate the digital signatures of the “new civil rights movement”—the online activism, storytelling, and strategy-building that set the stage for #BlackLivesMatter—and recount the spread of racial justice hashtags after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and other high-profile incidents of killings by police. Finally, they consider hashtag created by allies, including #AllMenCan and #CrimingWhileWhite.
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Men's Caucus Virtual Meeting
Tuesday, May 5
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Online
Come hang out and discuss things related to masculinity and society :) This event is encouraged for people that have no experience with caucusing and for those with lots of experience. Some specific topics we plan on talking about are relationship building and movement building as men. Bring your full self ready to learn and engage!
We will be sending a zoom link to this facebook event to join before the call. Hope to see you there and feel free to message us with any questions!
This call is open to anybody that identifies as a man or has been socialized as masculine at some point in their life.
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Wednesday, May 6
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Institutions Versus Networks of Power: How ‘By The Book’ Politics Works - And When it Doesn’t - Under Autocracy
Wednesday, May 6
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Online
SPEAKER(S) Erin York, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
A seminar with Erin York, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.
Moderated by MEI Faculty Chair, Professor Tarek Masoud.
This seminar will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance: harvard.zoom.us…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
This event will also be live streamed on Facebook: www.facebook.com…. To participate in the Q&A portion of the event, you must be registered on Zoom using the link above.
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COVID-19 & Cities: Municipal Fiscal Health
Wednesday, May 6
1pm
Online
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/ioc/
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Emerging Trends Series: New Business Models for Electrification
Wednesday, May 6
3:00pm to 5:30pm
Online
Combating climate change will depend on accelerating electrification...
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is clearly affecting clean energy and electrification businesses across the United States, NECEC and our sponsor Foley Hoag have decided to adjust this event to foster dialogue on critical issues resulting from the global crisis. In addition to focusing on the topics below, our speakers will present ideas and insights on how implications of the pandemic could, or already are, impacting strategic electrification business models.
According to a 2018 special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global emissions will need to drop to net zero by 2050 to limit global temperature increase to less than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level. Though there has been much debate about the best way to achieve this decarbonization, one thing is certain: combating climate change will depend on continuing the shift to electricity generation with no or very-low carbon emissions and accelerating electrification.
Transportation and building energy use are critical areas for electrification in the United States. With increased load, the grid will need to be strengthened and modernized. In each of these sectors, opportunities abound for a range of companies, from startups to corporate giants, to develop new technologies and deploy new business models.
Join us on May 6 via Zoom to learn...
Why focus on electrification now?
What roadblocks does the market face in scaling electrification?
Where are real-world examples of electrification?
SPEAKERS
Welcome:
Peter Fox Penner, Founder and Director, BU Institute for Sustainable Energy and Chief Strategy Officer, Energy Insight Partners
Panelists:
Robyn Beavers, CEO & Co-Founder, Blueprint Power
Patty DiOrio, Vice President, US Strategy, National Grid
Judith Judson, Vice President, Distributed Energy Systems, Ameresco
Colin Murchie, Senior Director of Business Development, EVgo
Peter Kelly Detwiler, Principal, NorthBridge Energy Partners (moderator)
AGENDA
2:45pm - 3:00pm: Connect to Zoom
3:00pm - 5:30pm: Welcome, Panel Discussion
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Sustaining All Life: Tools for Climate Justice
Wednesday, May 6, May 13
7:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHMgQFN8EkDMNKdWDkvdwZiuXc-LlNs4gSFBCDnPwcikYdPg/viewform
For Organizers and Environmental Activists
Marya Axner, Sustaining All Life
In this class, learn tools that will help people overcome barriers to building a massive movement to stop climate change and limit its effects. We will learn:
Basic listening skills: People will learn to listen to another person without giving advice, without judgement and with respect and caring. Each person will also experience what it is like to be listened to without someone judging them or interrupting them. In these exercises, people are encouraged to talk about personal experiences: We learn that we can heal from hurtful experiences if someone listens to us attentively and allows and encourage us release grief, fear, and other painful emotions. People will be expected to agree on confidentiality during certain exercises. These listening exercises will help us overcome discouragement and powerlessness that impede our ability to build movements.
We will also learn how to overcome longstanding divisions between groups of people, based in oppression. To do this we talk about the role of oppression in our own lives-- how we personally have been targeted by oppression and also how we each were unwittingly pushed into the role of oppressing others. In doing so we can heal from these experiences and be empowered to bring people together to work for change.
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How and Why to Talk About the Climate Crisis with Friends and Family-- Video Watch & Discussion
Wednesday, May 6
7 p.m.
Online
Nadia Colburn, PhD, has produced three short videos to help you find your voice to talk with friends and family about the climate crisis. The videos will explain why this seemingly simple act--of just talking about the climate and ecological crisis--is so very important, and they will give you tools to feel more comfortable communicating about the issue with the people in your life.
We'll watch the videos (each about 12 minutes) together with Nadia, taking time for questions/discussion between and after the videos. There will also be a short video designed to help us address the climate crisis in the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
We look forward to having you join us! And feel free to invite any friends and family (who are interested in this kind of thing) to join!
Zoom link for this event will be posted at 6:45pm on May 6th.
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Thursday, May 7
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Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Project Showcase
Thursday, May 7
1 – 5 p.m.
Online
Engage with student innovators as they pitch their bold solutions to vexing educational challenges. Developed in Professor Fernando Reimers' course A132: Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective. Please RSVP at bit.ly… to receive Zoom link.
CONTACT INFO Lee Marmor
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Preparing to Manage an Online Meeting
Thursday, May 7
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Online
According to The Muse, we spend a lot of time in meetings: middle managers spend about 35% of their time in meetings, and upper management can spend up to 50%. Time is money, so meetings should be well planned. In part 1 of this 3-part series, Jill Slye, instructor at Harvard University Extension School, will discuss how to define a meeting's objectives to learn if a meeting is necessary, and establishing meeting structure. This includes:
How to structure the meeting
How to set the tone and culture
How to set ground rules and expectations for technology
Please note: Participants must be able to connect to the workshop with video and audio using Zoom. This workshop provides no technical training. We highly recommend you take the Introduction to Zoom workshop with the Harvard Ed Portal as a pre-requisite.
RSVP for additional workshops in this series:
May 14: Conducting an Online Meeting, 6:00pm–7:30pm
May 21: Taking a Leadership Role on an Online Meeting, 6:00pm–7:00pm
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Beer and the Climate Crisis
Thursday, May 7
8 p.m.
Online
Come join us online for a beverage of your choice and learn about Extinction Rebellion. This will be a casual meeting to discuss climate change and upcoming actions. Come, have a drink, have a laugh, and join the movement.
You don't need to bring anything, just a rebellious spirit.
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Friday, May 8
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Building a Resilient Future
Friday, May 8
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Online
You are invited to join EDF’s Nat Keohane, Senior Vice President, Climate and Ilissa Ocko, Senior Climate Scientist for a webinar presentation on Friday, May 8 at 11:30am EST. The focus will be on current and future climate pollution sources that are driving the climate crisis, and the emissions reductions and removal opportunities globally. Both near and long term climate impacts will be considered.
Dial in instructions will be emailed to you a few days before the webinar.
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Startup Spotlight 2020 [VIRTUAL]
Friday, May 1 (More dates through May 29)
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
The Startup Spotlight, usually held in June, has traditionally been a time for us to gather together for a cocktail networking reception, peruse tables of startup demos….and vote for our favorites. While we don’t know what life will be like in June, or even next week, we do know this:
Startups and small businesses are everything for our economy and they need our support and encouragement now more than ever!
So, this year, instead of hosting a one-night, in-person affair, we’re adapting to our new reality and changing things up.
Here’s how
Every week starting April 24, we’ll highlight 4 startups in a series of 6 virtual demo days
Startups (located anywhere!) should apply online to be chosen to demo LIVE to registered attendees (applications will roll over week to week)
Startups chosen will demo LIVE to our weekly audience
The LIVE demos will be recorded and shared for the crowd to vote for their favorites
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Saturday, May 9
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Blessed Unrest: Growing a Future for Life on Earth
Saturday, May 9
10:30am - 1:30pm
Online
Cost: $15 - $80
We will start on Saturday, April 18, 2020, as originally planned. Additional sessions will be:
Sunday, April 19th
Saturday, April 25th
Saturday, May 2nd
Saturday, May 9th
Saturday, May 16th
All sessions will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., EDT. On each day at around 1:30 p.m. there will be an option to attend an hour-long workshop with one of the day’s speakers, depending on speaker availability.
Ecological urgency remains of primary concern as we work our way through the immediate threat of the corona virus.
Let’s face it: Emissions reduction strategies to address global ecological catastrophes, including massive climate disruption, have not worked. Of course we should go to zero for many reasons, but this doesn’t offer solutions at the scale needed in the time we have left. We have to do something else. That something else is to invoke the power of the natural world.
Blessed Unrest offers many practical nature solutions from speakers around the world. Collectively we can change course to a healthy and bountiful planet for all.
Join us as we move to an interactive online forum. This promises to be an exciting, informative and hopeful event in its new form, and we look forward to having you join us!
More information at https://bio4climate.org/blessed-unrest/
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Monday, May 11
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Intro To XR's Self Organizing System
Monday, May 11
12-2pm
Online
A mass movement has to unlock the leadership and creativity of far more people than a top-down structure will allow. XR's approach to governance has been vital to our growth and effectiveness, and a shared understanding of our structure and decision-making will be key to continued success!
This training covers the building blocks of SOS, including: 1) working groups and mandates 2) creating roles that empower people to get stuff done 3) making decisions and learning from them
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Tuesday, May 12
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Author Talk: Technologies of the Human Corpse, by John Troyer
Tuesday, May 12
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Online
MIT Press Live! presents a virtual author talk with John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse.
John Troyer grew up as the son of a small-town undertaker and went on to become the Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. His book explores the relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today. Beyond that, it hopes to make us more aware of death, and to consider death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways.
About the Book
Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination—not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examines the relationship of the dead body with technology, both material and conceptual: the physical machines, political concepts, and sovereign institutions that humans use to classify, organize, repurpose, and transform the human corpse. Doing so, he asks readers to think about death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways.
Troyer explains, for example, how technologies of the nineteenth century including embalming and photography, created our image of a dead body as quasi-atemporal, existing outside biological limits formerly enforced by decomposition. He describes the “Happy Death Movement” of the 1970s; the politics of HIV/AIDS corpse and the productive potential of the dead body; the provocations of the Body Worlds exhibits and their use of preserved dead bodies; the black market in human body parts; and the transformation of historic technologies of the human corpse into “death prevention technologies.” The consequences of total control over death and the dead body, Troyer argues, are not liberation but the abandonment of Homo sapiens as a concept and a species. In this unique work, Troyer forces us to consider the increasing overlap between politics, dying, and the dead body in both general and specifically personal terms.
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Local Voices Network (lvn.org) was hosting conversations across Boston in gathering places such as libraries, community centers, etc. with residents to surface underheard voices and to better understand hopes and concerns, which are then made available to all participants as well as members of the media.
We have recently transitioned our conversations over to Zoom, and have been hosting conversations with people across our chapters (MA, NY, WI, AL) acutely affected by COVID-19 (food pantry and grocery store workers, faith leaders, students/professors, etc.) and some really powerful stories have emerged.
We are now opening the conversations up to anyone in our communities who wants to come together and share their frustrations, struggles, and hopes surrounding COVID-19 in a 3-5 person (60-75 min) conversation. Each conversation will be recorded, transcribed, indexed using natural language processing (AI) technology, and made available to policy makers and our media partners (such as the Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism and WBUR).
I'll be hosting three conversations in the next couple of weeks that I wanted to invite you to join. Please find the links online at lvn.org/boston.
Thanks and take care,
Jess
Jess Weaver
Head of Local Voices Network - Boston
Cortico: fostering a healthy public sphere
617.655.8412
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Living With Heat - Urban Land Institute report on expected climate impact in Boston
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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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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
Thanks to
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.
