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Monday, March 25
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10am Connected Things 2019: Disruptive IoT
12pm How We Can Defeat the Extremist Threat
12:15pm Repossessing the Wilderness: New Deal Sciences in the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation
12:15pm Chris Hoofnagle: Cyber Security and the FTC
3:30pm Books@Baker with Amy Edmondson
4:30pm The Activists
5pm ISE 2019 Spring Symposium Series: Water, Energy, and the Utility of the Future
5:45pm A Revolutionary Harbor: Boston Harbor's Resiliency
6pm How You Can Help Climate & Wildlife Scientists
6pm President Carter: The White House Years
6:30pm The Personalized City: Parallel Reality Displays in the Urban Environment
6:30pm Ending Violence Against Children: Leadership in a Global Crisis
7pm Heavy: An American Memoir
7:15pm Globalization vs. Nationalism: What a Stupid Fight
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Tuesday, March 26
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12pm Civic Life Lunch - Monuments & Movements: The Art of Protest
12pm Fake News, Hate Speech, and the Future of Censorship
12pm Research Spotlight: Easing Traffic Congestion with Socially Optimal Routing
12pm Tuesday Seminar Series: Progressive Religion and Electoral Politics: Theory and Evidence from the Catholic Church in Brazil
12:30pm Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline
1pm Beyond Congestion: Pathways to Better Mobility
4:30pm A Campaign's True Colors
5pm Tales of Sweetgrass and Trees: Robin Wall Kimmerer and Richard Powers in Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
6pm How We Win: Beating Extremism Abroad and in the US
6pm Production of City Space in India: Class, Caste, and Grayness
6pm Frye Gaillard’s, A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence
6pm Boston Green Drinks - March 2019 Happy Hour
6:30pm 19th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture: Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”
7pm Mass Climate Action Network Legislative Conversation
7pm The Impacts of Online Hate
7pm Shifting into High Gear with Kyle Bryant
7pm Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
7pm Doubling Down: Preserving Our Humanity in the Digital Age
7pm Food Literacy Project Open Meeting: Nutrition & Health with Angela Shields & Brenna Kirk, FLP Fellows
7pm Solar Success 2019
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Wednesday, March 27
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11am Now Is a Great Time to Consider Solar! Come Find Out Why!
11:30am Wrong Again: Correction of Health Misinformation in Social Media
12pm The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities
12pm Global Governance of Geoengineering: Why the First Attempt at a Political Resolution Failed
12pm America, Compromised
12pm Democratizing Money & Land Distribution
12pm Leadership Begins in the Community: Peace Corps and Global Health
12pm Richard Gergel: "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring”
12:30pm Comparative Renewable Energy Policy
3pm Life After Death: Documenting Mass Extinctions and Great Recoveries
4pm Learning from the Nature: Biomimetic and Bioinspired Advanced Materials
4pm Civic Experience: The Power of Data featuring Nate Silver
4:30pm Inside the White House During an Investigation of the President
4:30pm More on Congressional Inaction and Broader Consequences
5pm When it Rains: Agroforestry as a Planetary Health Solution
6pm Picturing Science and Engineering
6pm Is Europe Setting a New Example on Addressing Monopolies?
6pm Music, Leadership, and Activism: A Conversation with Meklit Hadero
6pm New Insights: Native American History in the Colonial Period
6pm Advancing Economic Equity
6:30pm Flexible Architected Materials: Performance through Deformation
6:30pm Old North Speaker Series: LECTURE + COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: Populism and Nationalism: What We Can Do to Strengthen Our Democracy
7pm America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
7pm Energy: Where We Get It and Where We Are Going
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Thursday, March 28
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8:30am Emerging Trends Series: Where Transportation Converges with Cleantech
10am What? When? How? A Community Conversation on Accessible Information Design
11:45am Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Crimes Against Humanity — Uyghurs-Victims of China’s Quest for Power
11:45am North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?
12pm Environmental justice and indigenous land issues in Massachusetts
12pm Digital Storytelling + R
12:30pm Hydroelectric Energy
2pm 6th Annual State of Global Health Symposium
3pm ME Colloquium Series: Right Whales: Research and Stewardship at the Edge of Extinction
3:30pm A Ferguson Effect, the Drug Epidemic, Both, or Neither? Explaining the 2015 and 2016 U.S. Homicide Rises by Race and Ethnicity
3:30pm Potential Changes in the Sensitivities of Inorganic Fine Particulate Matter to Precursor Emissions in China
4pm Askwith Forums – Black Educators and the Struggle for Justice in Schools
4:30pm Economic Growth Depends on Participation of Women
5pm The Use and Abuse of the Trolley Problem: Self Driving Cars, Medical Treatments, and the Distribution of Harm
5:30pm Housing Justice and Health Equity: How Health Systems and Social Work Can Prevent Eviction and Displacement
6pm Extinction Rebellion: Heading Towards Extinction and What to Do About it
6pm A Slow Food Conversation: the intersectionality of race, gender & food justice
6pm Sustainable Swaps for a more Eco-friendly Lifestyle
6:30pm Janette Sadik-Khan, “Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution”
6:30pm How She Got There: An Evening with Female Entrepreneurs
7pm Liar Laurie: Breaking the Silence on Sexual Assault
7pm The Trial of Lizzie Borden
7pm How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
7pm Decoding the Climate from Ancient Lakes & Caves
7pm Sonnabend Lecture: This talk will consider scientific evidence that suggests that we can change our brains by transforming our minds
7pm Labor Law for the Rank and File
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Friday, March 29
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8am 2019 Massachusetts Sustainable Communities & Campuses Conference
8am 2019 Babson Sustainability Forum - Embracing the Future's Goals
9am ArtTechPsyche V
9:30am Digital Storytelling
12pm CEE Colloquium Series: Environmental and Social Benefits of Shared Mobility
12pm How AI can make precision public health a reality — the case of saving mothers and babies in rural Northern India
12pm The Cannabis Debate
3pm The Use of Wearable Sensors and Systems in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitations
3pm Green Sage: John Ruskin as Proto-Environmentalist
3pm Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
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Saturday, March 30
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9am The American Chestnut: When Will It Flourish Again?
11am Interfaith Solar Workshop
12:30pm How We Win: A Workshop with George Lakey on Nonviolent Direct Action Campaign
1pm Women’s History Walk: Visionary Women: Champions of Peace & Nonviolence
2pm Storytelling & Activism: What's Your Truth?
4pm F*ckup Night
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Sunday, March 31
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8am Entertainment & Media Conference: Evolution in Entertainment
1:30pm Equinox Lunch/Talk: Marie Manis on 'Values, Choices and Life's Last Chapter’
3pm What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape
3pm Humor for Humanity with Jimmy Tingle: Benefit for Solutions at Work
7pm BAHfest MIT 2019
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Monday, April 1
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12pm Civic Life Lunch - Speaking Out for New York: My Journey to City Hall
12pm Life Cycle Assessment for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
12pm Cambridge Talks Keynote: Michael Osman
12pm Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions
12:30pm Creating an Electric Utility Pathway for Aggressive Carbon Reductions: A Conversation with Xcel Energy
2:30pm Next in Data Visualization
3pm The Shattered Lens: A Conversation with Jonathan Alpeyrie and Bonnie Timmermann
4:15pm The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave Community Behind
4:15pm Challenges and Pressures Journalist Face in Asia: A Window into the Global Media Landscape
4:15pm Desert Shield of the Republic? Realism and the Middle East
5:30pm Why are there so few women in tech? How the digital gender gap tells a larger story
5:30pm 2019 Cambridge Innovation Party with Cleantech Open
6pm Design and social justice symposium
6pm critical mapping and tactical interventions
6pm Design Activism: Socially Purposed // Purposefully Social
6:30pm The Teen Brain: Under Construction
6:30pm Change in the Obama Era: A Conversation About Gender Based Violence and Equity
6:30pm Other Histories of the Digital
7pm Reading Minds & Mastering Gentle Touch: Robotic Futures
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Tuesday, April 2
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10:30am Climate One at Harvard: John Holdren and Gina McCarthy
11:30am Solving the Crisis with Opioid and Pain Innovations
12pm Tuesday Seminar Series: Climate Policy/Politics in Brazil: Recent Trajectories and Prospectives
12:30pm From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy
1pm Health and the Built Environment: Looking to the Future
1pm Sustainability, Resilience and Transformation for the Urban Century
2:30pm Other Histories of the Digital
3pm Anna Blom: The Future of Fashion
4pm A Particulate Solution: Data Science in the Fight to Stop Air Pollution and Climate Change (IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar)
5:30pm Askwith Forums – We Are What We Love: What Autism Teaches Us About Identity
6pm Living with White Sharks
6pm For the Love of BUGS! Where have all the insects gone?
6pm HEET's Annual Fundraiser
6pm Fuckup Nights Boston Vol. IX
6:30pm Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 2 (Food, Diet And Climate)
7pm The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
7pm Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others
7pm Dinner and conversation with Nancy MacLean, author of "Democracy in Chains”
7pm "The Experimental City" film screening
7:30pm Anatomy of a Genocide: Lessons of Studying Mass Murder from Below
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
Healing Earth (Through the Waters)
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Monday, March 25
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Connected Things 2019: Disruptive IoT
Monday, March 25
10:00am to 7:10pm
MIT Media Lab, E14, 6th Floor 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Cost: $30 - $325
We hope to see you at the MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) Cambridge 2019 Connected Things IoT conference on March 25 at the MIT Media Lab, in Cambridge Massachusetts. This year, our theme is disruptive IoT. Forces contributing to disruptive IoT include new networks, new devices and especially new business models.
Today, everything is a “connected thing.” At our 2018 conference entitled “The Future Arrives,” Dirk Didascalou, Vice President, Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT remarked that we should have named the conference, “The Future Arrived,” a fait accompli!
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How We Can Defeat the Extremist Threat
Monday, March 25
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Harvard Law School Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East A (Room 2036, Second Floor), Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfk3nzg70Vw9ua4l1jc5bcHwYh9fWarmS5L1cPH71MBnBVMLg/viewform
Farah Pandith
Urs Gasser
Join us for a featured author series hosted by Berkman Klein Center Executive Director Urs Gasser and Farah Pandith for an in-depth conversation about big topics and issues from her book, How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat.
In her new book, How We Win, Farah Pandith, a world-leading expert and pioneer in countering violent extremism, lays out a comprehensive strategy for how we can defeat the growing extremist threat, once and for all. Drawing upon her time as the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities, Pandith argues that this is not just a challenge for government or NGOs, but that we must go “all in” to counter extremist ideologies. From technology companies and entrepreneurs to businesses in the private sector, this is an all-encompassing global issue that we must address together.
Read the reviews of How We Win here
This event will be recorded and shared on our site shortly thereafter.
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Repossessing the Wilderness: New Deal Sciences in the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation
Monday, March 25
12:15PM
Harvard, CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Please RSVP via the online form at Please RSVP via the online form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu0kpmXh6oz11MgFw/viewform by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Eli Nelson, Williams College, Anthropology
STS Circle at Harvard
Contact: sts@hks.harvard.edu
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Chris Hoofnagle: Cyber Security and the FTC
Monday, March 25
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, 1 Brattle Square - Suite 470, Cambridge
The Cyber Security Project will host a lunch with Chris Jay Hoofnagle, UC Berkeley School of Information and School of Law, on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's cybersecurity.
Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. All lunches are off the record.
More information at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/chris-hoofnagle-cyber-security-and-ftc
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Books@Baker with Amy Edmondson
WHEN Monday, Mar. 25, 2019, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Business School, Spangler Center Auditorium, Soldiers Field Road, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Baker Library
SPEAKER(S) Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School
Author of "The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth”
COST Free
CONTACT INFO schurch@hbs.edu
DETAILS In The Fearless Organization, Professor Amy Edmondson offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent — but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind?
The traditional culture of “fitting in” and “going along” spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing.
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The Activists
WHEN Monday, Mar. 25, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer 150, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahassee, FL (2014-2018), 2018 Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Emma Gonzalez, Parkland activist
David Hogg, Parkland activist
DETAILS How do individuals transform tragedy into a cause? How does a single good deed become a movement? This session will examine the ways activists fight for change — and the reasons they succeed or fail. Civic and political activism are at the heart of Andrew Gillum's life: before he was an elected official and candidate, he sought to lift up voices he felt were not being heard. Thus talk will explore the ways activism is changing — for example, how social media has amplified everyone's voice — and the ways it has held constant.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/mayor-andrew-gillum-emma-gonzalez-and-david-hogg-activists
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ISE 2019 Spring Symposium Series: Water, Energy, and the Utility of the Future
Monday, March 25
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
BU, Kilachand Center, Conference Room 106B, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Energy utilities (electricity as well as natural gas distribution) and water utilities have functioned quite separately until recently. Today’s utility world finds several convergence points between electricity, in particular, and water services. For example, similar information infrastructure is required by both electric and water utilities for metering as well as for monitoring and controlling flows of electrons or water. Service interruptions can be as severe for water as for electricity or natural gas distribution. Conservation (demand management) may be as significant, if not more so, for water as for electricity.
Dr. Ashmore, Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Boston University, will talk about the distinctive characteristics of water utilities and engage attendees in discussion of the future of water utilities as they co-evolve with the emergence of the energy utility of the future.
Contact Peishan Wang pswang@bu.edu
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A Revolutionary Harbor: Boston Harbor's Resiliency
Monday, March 25
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Fort Point Room (Second Floor), Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-revolutionary-harbor-boston-harbors-resiliency-tickets-57613890698
Join the National Park Service and Boston Harbor Now in the third of three winter lectures exploring our Revolutionary Harbor.
The first environmental revolution in Boston Harbor was about restoration, creating the clean and vibrant harbor we know today - the next environmental revolution is all about adaptation. Join Rebecca Herst and Lucy Lockwood from UMass Boston and host Marc Albert from the National Parks of Boston to explore how the harbor, islands, and waterfront can be a living laboratory where science and society change along with the coastlines.
Lucy Lockwood is a marine ecologist with the Marine Science and Technology Program studying coastal protection strategies that can hold back waves while providing healthy coastal habitat. Rebecca Herst, Director of the UMass Sustainable Solutions Lab, will explore efforts to foster resilient communities and the social justice implications of coastal change in Boston Harbor.
Light refreshments and drinks provided.
Funded in part by Boston Harbor Now.
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How You Can Help Climate & Wildlife Scientists
Monday, March 25
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-you-can-help-climate-wildlife-scientists-tickets-52434339521
Climate Change Science & Biodiversity Science need you and the information you can collect. And the good news is that you can easily and really make a difference! This is a crash course about participative science (a.k.a. citizen science), that is the active public involvement in scientific research. In this class, we introduce you to what citizen science is, why it is needed, where it is needed, how you can help (individually or joining some of our local projects including at the Fresh Pond Reservoir), and some of the tools to help.
Join us. It's fun & exciting. Let's make a difference together!
For any question, contact Claire at claire.oneill@earthwiseaware.org
Learn about Earthwise Aware » https://www.earthwiseaware.org/
Free with a value: Our events are not meant to be free. The reason why we offer this one for free is to benefit Nature directly by having us all together connecting with 'It' —here through exploring together how we can better that connection. Donations to EwA are welcome though!
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President Carter: The White House Years
Monday, March 25
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston
Stuart E. Eizenstat, former chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter and Ambassador to the European Union, discusses his new book, President Carter: The White House Years, with Meredith Evans, Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
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The Personalized City: Parallel Reality Displays in the Urban Environment
Monday, March 25
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Harvard, 48 Quincy Street, Room 112, Cambridge
Speaker: Paul Dietz
Concepts such as universal design and design for all implicitly assume that the design choices we make will be jointly experienced by everyone. But what if you could craft each person’s reality separately to optimally serve his or her needs? Parallel Reality display technology provides this capability, allowing us to independently design how each person perceives an environment. Unlike smartphones and smart glasses, there is no need for a personal device – the environment itself is transformed for each person, even when many people are simultaneously sharing the same public space.
In this talk, I will briefly describe how it is possible to show different images to each person even when thousands are looking at the same sign or display at the same time, without special glasses. We will then consider the opportunities for Parallel Design and how one can make a city a vastly more accessible, informative and connected place.
Speaker Bio: Paul Dietz is a prolific creator of new technologies that surprise and delight, and occasionally make the world a slightly better place. He is best known as the co-inventor of DiamondTouch – an early multi-touch display system which helped launch the touch interface revolution. Paul received the ACM UIST 2012 Lasting Impact Award for this work. His career included stints as a researcher at Walt Disney Imagineering, Mitsubishi Electric, and Microsoft. He is currently Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Board of Misapplied Sciences, Inc. Paul holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. In his spare time, he teaches kids how to make animatronic shows, and is sometimes seen on the wrong end of a flugelhorn.
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Ending Violence Against Children: Leadership in a Global Crisis
WHEN Monday, Mar. 25, 2019, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman, 5th Floor, Room 520, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
Center for Public Leadership
SPEAKER(S) Marta Santos Pais, Special representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence Against Children
Stephen Blight, Senior advisor on Violence Against Children, UNICEF
Aisha Yousafzai, Associate professor of Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Moderator: Joan Lombardi, First deputy assistant secretary for Early Childhood Development, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Obama Administration
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3M3TYNW
CONTACT INFO CPL_Events@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS An estimated one billion children experience some form of violence each year. From detained migrant families and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border to sexual violence against girls in the midst of armed conflict to pervasive corporal punishment in schools and homes, violence against children has devastating consequences that reach across the lifespan and across generations.
Learn more about this urgent global crisis.
Engage in dialogue with public leaders at the forefront of the response.
Protect the right of every child to be safe from violence.
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Monday, March 25
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed writer and University of Mississippi professor KIESE LAYMON—author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America—for a discussion of his celebrated memoir, Heavy, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
About Heavy
In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. Heavy is a “gorgeous, gutting . . . generous” (New York Times) memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon’s experiences with abuse. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, he asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.
“A book for people who appreciated Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family through years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. “You won’t be able to put [this memoir] down . . . It is packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred, yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities” (The Atlantic).
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Globalization vs. Nationalism: What a Stupid Fight
WHEN Monday, Mar. 25, 2019, 7:15 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer 200, Starr Auditorum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Heidi Heitkamp, U.S. Senator for North Dakota (2013-2019) and IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), former president & COO of Goldman Sachs, and IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
DETAILS
Are trade deficits good or bad? Does the United States really need trade? Why do some call trade policies anti-worker? Join us this week for a discussion on the current state of trade policy, emerging trends, and how America must rethink its approach to globalization.
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Tuesday, March 26
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Civic Life Lunch - Monuments & Movements: The Art of Protest
Tuesday, March 26
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
The struggle over how to document U.S. history honestly and equitably is far from new, but it has taken center stage in recent years with debates about Confederate monuments and buildings named after slave-owners. Enter Steve Locke, Boston Artist-in-Residence, who proposed public art that tackles Faneuil Hall and its namesake’s profit from the slave trade. Locke has sparked debate over how to come to terms with complicated history, and how art can be a medium of advocacy, education, and protest.
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Fake News, Hate Speech, and the Future of Censorship
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 434, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Katherine Mangu-Ward, Editor in chief of Reason magazine
DETAILS Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason, the magazine of “free minds and free markets.” A few of her more memorable cover stories include a defense of plastic bags, an argument for why you almost certainly shouldn’t vote, and a welcome to our new robot overlords.
She started as Reason intern in 2000, and has worked at The Weekly Standard and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, and numerous other publications. She is a frequent commentator on radio and television networks such as National Public Radio, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. She is a Future Tense Fellow at New America.
Mangu-Ward is a graduate of Yale University, where she received a B.A. in philosophy and political science. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Research Spotlight: Easing Traffic Congestion with Socially Optimal Routing
Tuesday, March 26
12 pm-1:30 pm
BU, Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eg3bz6jae6bfdb30&llr=sgxoeyrab
Ioannis Paschalidis, Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering, shares his new research on ways to mitigate congestion through socially optimal – rather than selfish – traffic routing. Using real-time traffic data from the Boston region
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Tuesday Seminar Series: Progressive Religion and Electoral Politics: Theory and Evidence from the Catholic Church in Brazil
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Guadalupe Tuñón, Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS How do progressive religious leaders shape the objectives and electoral fortunes of the left? I argue that church leaders who advance doctrinal interpretations that favor progressive economic policies will mobilize their adherents in support of the left, as long as doing so does not advance policies that contradict the church’s moral agenda. I test this argument using original archival data from the Catholic Church and drawing on a natural experiment in Brazil after Pope John Paul II’s appointment in 1978.
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Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) David Leheny, Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
Moderated by Christina Davis, Acting Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
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Beyond Congestion: Pathways to Better Mobility
Tuesday, March 26
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
BU, Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
How do we change how we get around? This panel will discuss new ways to tackle congestion, from socially optimal routing to new embracing forms of mobility to methods to motivate mode shift. Speakers are Ioannis Paschalidis, Iram Farooq, Matthew Raifman, and Jascha Franklin-Hodge. Co-hosted with the Center for Information & Systems Engineering
Contact BU Initiative on Cities
617-358-8080
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A Campaign's True Colors
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School], Littauer 163 (Faculty Dining Room), 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Aisha Moodie-Mills, Democratic strategist, past president & CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Bernard Coleman, Global head of diversity at Uber
DETAILS Despite the growing diversity of political candidates, campaign and Capitol Hill staffers are still overwhelmingly white and male. The lack of diversity on the Hill remains such a big problem that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently announced plans to develop a House diversity initiative to recruit and retain employees of different backgrounds. Democratic Presidential candidates are also striving to diversify their campaigns and campaign leadership, and even some rank and file Republicans are pushing for greater diversity within their caucus. Can we take any candidate seriously — especially a candidate for state-wide office or President — whose campaign fails to reflect the full diversity of the constituents they seek to serve? Why does staff diversity even matter in this day and age of evolving demographics? And are there tangible policy and political outcomes that relate to the diversity of the team?
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/aisha-moodie-mills-and-bernard-coleman-campaigns-true-colors
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Tales of Sweetgrass and Trees: Robin Wall Kimmerer and Richard Powers in Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 1279 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Religion, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Robin Wall Kimmerer
Richard Powers
Terry Tempest Williams
COST free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO humctr@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-0738
DETAILS Scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the prize-winning "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants" and "Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses," and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Powers, author of "The Overstory," join Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams, author of "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" and "The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks," in conversation.
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How We Win: Beating Extremism Abroad and in the US
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Farah Pandith, Senior fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project, Belfer Center, HKS; IOP resident fellow, S’14
George Selim, Senior vice president of programs, Anti-Defamation League
Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, HKS
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS IOP Resident Fellow, S’14 and Belfer Fellow Farah Pandith, Anti-Defamation League George Selim, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Nicholas Burns consider how to combat domestic and international extremism.
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Production of City Space in India: Class, Caste, and Grayness
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) Sripad Motiram, Associate professor of economics and Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Boston
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Co-director, Asian Political Economy Program (Political Economy Research Institute) and associate professor of economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Selmon Rafey
DETAILS Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam will discuss how space is structured in two Indian cities, Hyderabad and Mumbai, along the axes of class and caste. By grouping individuals into classes, castes, and spatial units, they will show that these factors are all independently important in making sense of inequality. Together, they document high (relative to US cities) spatial co-existence — which they call “Grayness” — of groups, and will demonstrate its positive role in achieving development outcomes, arguing that the neoliberal restructuring of cities is eroding it.
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Frye Gaillard’s, A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence
Tuesday, March 26
6-7:30 p.m.
Suffolk, Sargent Hall, Fifth Floor Commons, 120 Tremont Street, Boston
Author Frye Gaillard will discuss his recent book, A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence. Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times ― civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the War in Vietnam, and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change ― music, literature, art, religion, and science ― and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater,and the Beatles. The evening’s moderator is Robert Poulton, Vice President, Marketing & Branding, NBC10 Boston, NECN & Telemundo Boston.
Praise for A Hard Rain
“A Hard Rain is essential reading for a time when an American president has willfully ignored the hard-earned lessons from our passage through the most tumultuous decade of social change since the Civil War.”
~Howell Raines, former executive editor, The New York Times, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Boston Green Drinks - March 2019 Happy Hour
Tuesday, March 26
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Warehouse Bar & Grille, 40 Broad Street, Boston
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community! Boston Green Drinks builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues. We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.
Know of another sustainability event that others ought to join? Add it to our Calendar of Events! For instance, on Tuesday March 12, a sustainable seafood networking event put on by the New England Aquarium's young professionals group, The Tide, is happening at EVOO in Cambridge. Check it out!
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19th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture: Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
SPEAKER(S) Kimberly Dowdell
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-dowdell-diverse-city-how-equitable-design-and-development-will-shape-urban-futures/
CONTACT INFO Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS How can real estate development and sustainable design be used to foster equitable and inclusive redevelopment in cities? That’s the challenge that has animated the career of Kimberly Dowdell, an architect, developer, and educator who is focused on leading projects that help contribute to the revitalization of cities like Detroit, and also preparing the next generation of urban change agents.
Dowdell, who will give the 19th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, presented by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, is a partner at Century Partners, an innovative real estate development firm in Detroit focused on equitable neighborhood revitalization, and a lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is also the new president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). In that position, she has outlined an ambitious agenda focused on helping to ensure that African-American architects — who make up less than two percent of the profession in a country that is 13 percent African-American — play a larger role in efforts to revitalize America’s cities.
In her lecture, Dowdell, who has designed or managed over $100 million in assets in her work as an architect, real estate project manager, government staffer and developer, will draw on her varied experiences to discuss steps needed to create neighborhoods in which all people feel safe and empowered to build a brighter urban future for generations to come.
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Mass Climate Action Network Legislative Conversation
Tuesday, March 26
7pm - 8pm
Webinar
Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, March 26th at 7:00 PM to learn about MCAN's legislative priorities - in conversation with climate champions in the statehouse! This webinar will is the second in a series covering our climate priority bills for this session.
Rep Joan Meschino of Hull will discuss her road map 2050 bill to avoid climate catastrophe by providing a new target of zero emissions. The bill resets the state's 2050 target to net zero and commits the state agencies to making a comprehensive and detailed plan for how to build a clean economy.
Rep Marjorie Decker of Cambridge has sponsored the 100% clean energy for all bill. There are no insurmountable technical or economic barriers to achieving clean energy for all and Massachusetts to lead the way.
Rep Jennifer Benson of Lunenburg is the lead house sponsor of the bill to put a price on carbon from the heating and transportation sectors. As a Commonwealth, we have placed a significant focus on cutting our climate change-causing pollution from electricity, but we now need to have a comprehensive approach to other areas of our lives.
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The Impacts of Online Hate
Tuesday, March 26
7 p.m. ET
Webinar
We know that White supremacists use platforms like Facebook and Twitter to organize and silence the speech of vulnerable communities and people fighting for justice.
But what do those harms really look like — and how are those lives changed?
Join the Change the Terms coalition on Tues., March 26, at 7 p.m. ET for an hour-long conversation on the impacts of far-right hate online.
Following the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the tech industry finally started to take real steps to address the spread of hate speech online and the ways their platforms are used to organize, fund and recruit for White supremacists and other hateful online movements. But these companies need to do much more.
Our all-star panel will explore the ways that online hate undermines the health and humanity of progressive activists, people of color, religious minorities, women and LGBTQIA people, and how we can hold tech companies accountable for the violence that occurs on their platforms.
You must register to participate in the webinar. Once registration is complete, you will receive custom call-in information. Be on the lookout for an email from no-reply@zoom.us
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Shifting into High Gear with Kyle Bryant
Tuesday, March 26
7:00pm
Trident Books Cafe, 338 Newbury Street, Boston
Author, Podcast-Host, Ted Talk speaker, and subject of a documentary film, Kyle Bryant was diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia (FA). a degenerative neurological disease that affects one in 50,000 people- making it officially a 'rare disease.' Kyle uses his life story to teach us how to replace the handicapping language of 'disability' with the agency to build a thriving and hopeful life. Hear how Kyle traveled on his trike twice across the United States.
About the book:
Author Kyle Bryant was diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia (FA). a degenerative neurological disease that affects one in 50,000 people- making it officially a 'rare disease.' Kyle uses his life story to teach us how to replace the handicapping language of 'disability' with the agency to build a thriving and hopeful life.
About the Author:
Diagnosed with a debilitating disease called Friedreich's ataxia (FA) at age seventeen, Kyle Bryant set off across the country to raise awareness. Today, he is the founder and director of rideATAXIA—a fundraising program of the Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) which welcomes thousands of participants who raise 1 million dollars for research every year.
As the public face of FA and spokesperson for FARA, Kyle is in the vanguard of individuals who lend their passionate voices to the rare disease community. As he struggles to manage his own declining health and keep the FA research torch burning for a cure, his one-to-one grassroots efforts provide hope for recently diagnosed patients and those well into their journey, inspiring and coaching them toward the finish line. Kyle lives outside of Philadelphia, which is the base of operations for FARA, where he rides his beloved recumbent trike throughout the year.
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Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
Tuesday, March 26
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
The author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human--and the ways we are (and aren’t) unique among animals.
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but are we really more special than other animals? In this original and entertaining tour of life on Earth, Adam Rutherford explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: We are not the only species that communicates, makes tools, uses fire, or has sex for reasons other than procreation. Evolution has, however, allowed us to develop a culture far more complex than any other observed in nature. Humanimal explains how we became the creatures we are today, uniquely able to investigate ourselves. Illuminating the latest genetic research, it is a thrilling account of what unequivocally fixes us as animals--and what makes us truly extraordinary.
Adam Rutherford wrote A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived--finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction--and Creation, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. He writes and presents BBC’s flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science; The Cell for BBC Four; and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for leading science series Horizon; in addition to writing for the Guardian.
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Doubling Down: Preserving Our Humanity in the Digital Age
Tuesday, March 26
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Museum of Science, 1 Museum of Science Driveway, Boston
Are the big digital technology companies actually modifying our behavior? Will that be the means to a beneficial end? We are inside a global-scale experiment in data gathering about human behavior. We have devices on us all the time. The devices give us real time feedback about our actions and provide that information to companies that are vying for our attention. Is this model of our society sustainable? Is it contributing to the demise of democracy occurring before our very eyes?
Join Jaron Lanier, the “father of VR” and bestselling author Sue Halpern, in conversation with Marcelo Gleiser, physicist and director of the Institute for Cross Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College, to talk about doubling down on being human, a step that just might rescue our world – and ourselves.
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Food Literacy Project Open Meeting: Nutrition & Health with Angela Shields & Brenna Kirk, FLP Fellows
WHEN Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Food Literacy Project
SPEAKER(S) Angela Shields
Brenna Kirk
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://flphsphtalk19.eventbrite.com
CONTACT INFO foodliteracy@harvard.edu
DETAILS We’re thrilled to hear from FLP Fellows, Angela Shields and Brenna Kirk, both second year masters’ students at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Angela’s interests lie at the intersection of nutrition and climate mitigation, specifically with regard to improving diets in climate-smart ways. Brenna, in the Department of Epidemiology, is concentrating in nutrition and global health. Join us to learn more about their latest research projects.
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Solar Success 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
7 to 9 PM
St. Matthews United Methodist Church 435 Central Street, Acton
RSVP at https://conta.cc/2ID5LDc
Learn from our team of experts: House of Worship solar project leaders, solar installers, and industry experts. Find out:
How it can work on your roof
How much you will save on energy costs and carbon footprint
How to select the right solar installation company
How to pay for it
Presenters include:
Jim Nail, President, Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light and homeowner
Daryl Warner, East Milton Congregational Church, Milton
Bill Schroeder, South Church, Andover
Loren Shapiro, Temple Beth Shalom, Needham
Maddie Barr, Resonant Energy
Bob Clarke, 621 Energy
Spencer Fields & Aliza Vaida, EnergySage
All are welcome!
Refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free will donations much appreciated
Registration is highly recommended so we can plan on enough handouts and refreshments.
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Wednesday, March 27
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Now Is a Great Time to Consider Solar! Come Find Out Why!
Wednesday, March 27
11 AM – 12 PM
Agassiz/Baldwin Community Room, North Hall, 1651 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Please join Green Cambridge, Mothers Out Front, 350 Cambridge and Neighborhood Solar for an informative presentation on the benefits of installing solar and why now is the perfect time to consider it.
Neighborhood Solar is a local nonprofit working to leverage group buying to make solar power more affordable. Right now, Cambridge residents, businesses, and nonprofits can save 20% on installation, receive a 30% federal tax credit and apply for a zero interest loan to get the work done! So come learn more!
We'll also share information about the Cambridge Community Electricity program and how to opt up to 100% renewable electricity sources if you haven't yet done so.
Parents and caregivers: feel free to bring children. If you'd like child care, please text Kristine Jelstrup at 617-833-3407.
To learn more, go to neighborhoodsolar.org. For a free solar assessment and proposal, email Neighborhood Solar at neighborhoodsolar@sunbugsolar.com or call 617-661-6098.
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Wrong Again: Correction of Health Misinformation in Social Media
Wednesday, March 27
11:30 AM- 1:00 PM
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Leticia Bode, Associate professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology master’s program at Georgetown University
Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.
Health misinformation is a growing problem on social media — it spreads quickly, and has implications for both personal behaviors and public health. But social media also offers a unique context for correcting misinformation. Our research agenda explores this potential, considering who can effectively correct health misinformation on social media and under what circumstances. For this talk I will present on several experiments, including published work and some of our newest findings.
Leticia Bode is an associate professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology master’s program at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her bachelor’s degree from Trinity University. Her work lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and political behavior, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition and use of political information. This covers a wide area, including projects looking at incidental exposure to political information on social media, effects of exposure to political comedy, use of social media by political elites, selective exposure and political engagement in new media, and the changing nature of political socialization given the modern media environment. Work on these subjects has appeared in Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media and Society, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Information, Communication, and Society, and other journals. She also sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Social Media + Society.
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The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities
Wednesday, March 27
12pm - 1pm
BU, Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg1x182n3b09338b&oseq=&c=&ch=
Lunch provided
Dan O’Brien, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and Criminology & Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, as well as Co-Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative, will discuss his new book, The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities.
The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, O’Brien explains the transformative insights gleaned from years researching Boston’s 311 reporting system, a sophisticated city management tool that has revolutionized how Bostonians use and maintain public spaces.
Analyzing a rich trove of data, O’Brien discovers why certain neighborhoods embrace the idea of custodianship and willingly invest their time to monitor the city’s common environments and infrastructure. On the government’s side of the equation, he identifies best practices for implementing civic technologies that engage citizens, for deploying public services in collaborative ways, and for utilizing the data generated by these efforts.
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Global Governance of Geoengineering: Why the First Attempt at a Political Resolution Failed
Wednesday, March 27
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 429, Cambridge
RSVP: acchang@seas.harvard.edu
Presentation by Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMD)
Lunch provided
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America, Compromised
Wednesday, March 27
12pm
Harvard, WCC Milstein West A/B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Lawrence Lessig
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Democratizing Money & Land Distribution
Wednesday, March 27
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Sophia Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Avenue, Somerville
Hear stories of 38 years of experimentation in the Berkshires from Susan Witt, Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for A New Economics. Light lunch served.
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Leadership Begins in the Community: Peace Corps and Global Health
WHEN Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Online or in Leadership Studio
Kresge Building, 10th Floor, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Voices in Leadership webcast program at Harvard T.H. School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S) Jody Olsen, Director of the Peace Corps
Moderator: Richard Frank, Professor at HMS
COST free
TICKET WEB LINK https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0wuDSn3HF443Lj7
CONTACT INFO Alison Barron - abarron@hpsh.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us for the next “Voices in Leadership” event of the semester, featuring Jody Olsen, director of the Peace Corps. Dr. Josephine (Jody) Olsen, Ph.D., MSW, was sworn into office as the 20th director of the Peace Corps in March 2018. Dr. Olsen began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer, serving in Tunisia from 1966 to 1968. She has since served the agency in multiple leadership positions — as acting director in 2009; deputy director from 2002-2009; chief of staff from 1989 to 1992; regional director, North Africa, Near East, Asia, Pacific from 1981 to 1984; and country director in Togo from 1979 to 1981. She also oversaw health research projects in Malawi while teaching courses on international social work, global social policy, and global women and children’s health. Throughout her career, Dr. Olsen has championed the expansion of service, learning and international opportunities for Americans of all backgrounds.
For lottery and live webcast details, visit hsph.me/olsen or contact Alison Barron at abarron@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Richard Gergel: "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring”
WHEN Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein 2036 East A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice; Harvard Law School Program on Law & History; Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Richard Gergel, U.S. District Judge of the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Kenneth Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
COST Free and Open to the Public
DETAILS On Feb. 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African-American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, SC, after he challenged the bus driver’s disrespectful treatment of him. Woodard, in uniform, was arrested by the local police chief, Lynwood Shull, and beaten and blinded while in custody. "Unexampled Courage" details the impact of the blinding of Sergeant Woodard on the racial awakening of President Truman and Judge Waring, and traces their influential roles in changing the course of America’s civil rights history.
Book talk followed by conversation. Book will be available for sale.
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Comparative Renewable Energy Policy
Wednesday March 27
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Murrow Room, Goddard 201, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Elin Lerum Boasson is an Associate Professor at the Department for Political Science, University of Oslo. She also holds a position at Cicero – Center for International Climate Research, Oslo. For the Academic year 2018 – 2019 she is a visiting scholar at SCANCOR/Weatherhead, Harvard University. She has published extensively on climate and energy policies; exploring the role of policy entrepreneurship, business influence and political steering. Boasson is a Lead Author in the Sixth Assessment report cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), WG III Mitigation, chapter 13 National and sub-national policies and institutions.
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Life After Death: Documenting Mass Extinctions and Great Recoveries
Wednesday, March 27
3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Harvard, Level B3, Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge
MCZ Open House: Paleontology
Join MCZ for an open house of their Invertebrate and Vertebrate Paleontology collections. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
Contact Name: Melissa Aja
617.495.2460
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Learning from the Nature: Biomimetic and Bioinspired Advanced Materials
Wednesday, March 27
4:00 pm
Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lecture by Panče Naumov RI '19
Panče Naumov’s research is in the domain of materials science, at the interface of solid-state chemistry, crystal engineering, and photochemistry, focusing on structural aspects of novel materials for efficient conversion of light, chemical, thermal, and mechanical energy in the solid state. It involves mechanistic studies and application of salient crystals, a new class of materials that can rapidly transduce energy into mechanical motion and work at a millisecond timescale. His most recent research is in the field of petroleomics (chemistry of oil).
Free and open to the public.
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Civic Experience: The Power of Data featuring Nate Silver
Wednesday, March 27
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Northeastern, East Village, 291 St. Botolph Street, 17th floor, Boston
Join the Civic Experience as we welcome Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, which uses statistical analysis to tell stories about politics, economics, science, and sports. The moderator is Costas Panagopoulos, director of Big Data and Quantitative Initiatives and professor of Political Science at Northeastern University.
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Inside the White House During an Investigation of the President
WHEN Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer 163 (Faculty Dining Room), 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Michael Zeldin, CNN legal analyst, former U.S. Department of Justice official, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
John Dean, White House Counsel, Nixon Administration (via Skype)
DETAILS What happens inside the White House once an Independent Counsel appointment is made? How are legal and political forces marshaled? What are the roles of White House Counsel, the White House Investigative Special Counsel, the Congressional liaison, the communications director? How is strategy set? Who’s in charge of responding to the Independent Counsel, Congress, the media, and the public?
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More on Congressional Inaction and Broader Consequences
WHEN Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer 166, IOP Conference Room, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Carlos Curbelo, U.S. Representative for Florida’s 26th District (2016-2018) and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Jim McLaughlin, Republican pollster, and president and partner at McLaughlin Online
DETAILS Americans' trust in confidence in government institutions is at an all-time low. Younger Americans in particular feel excluded from government and politics. There is a lot of hopelessness in society despite the fact that the economy is growing and unemployment is extremely low. It is odd that with a healthy economy, most Americans still believe the country is on the wrong track? Historically there has been a strong correlation between satisfaction with the economy and feelings about the direction of the country. What has happened in other countries and societies where citizens have lost faith in government institutions. We'll be joined by Jim McLaughlin, one of the foremost Republican national pollsters, who will help us understand how Americans feel about everything that's going on and what the future could look like for both parties.
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When it Rains: Agroforestry as a Planetary Health Solution
WHEN Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Room 429, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Research study, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Planetary Health Alliance and Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Cathy Watson, Chief of program development for World Agroforestry
CONTACT INFO Planetary Health Alliance
DETAILS Cathy Watson, chief of program development for World Agroforestry, will discuss how agroforestry — the deliberate integration of trees on to farms — can restore river flows, conserve soil, bolster livelihoods, build rich diets, meet energy needs, and act as a refugia for pollinators and other threatened biodiversity. Using examples from India, Ethiopia, Philippines, and Uganda, she will explain why trees are fundamental to human well-being and resilience on a planet in climate breakdown.
Cathy Watson has worked for over 30 years in Africa and more recently across the wider tropics. She is chief of program development for World Agroforestry, which focuses on trees as keys to landscape and human health. A longstanding journalist, she reported for the BBC during conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi and continues to write for The Guardian and other outlets. At the peak of Uganda’s HIV epidemic, she set up Straight Talk, which The Lancet termed a model for prevention. A believer in planetary health before it had a name, Cathy graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in biology and science in human affairs and from University of Missouri with a graduate certificate in agroforestry. She was made a senior Ashoka fellow in 2006.
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Picturing Science and Engineering
Wednesday, March 27
6:00 PM
Harvard Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
The Harvard University Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book Store welcome award-winning photographer and scientist FELICE C. FRANKEL for a discussion of her latest book, Picturing Science and Engineering.
About Picturing Science and Engineering
One of the most powerful ways for scientists to document and communicate their work is through photography. Unfortunately, most scientists have little or no training in that craft. In this book, celebrated science photographer Felice Frankel offers a guide for creating science images that are both accurate and visually stunning. Picturing Science and Engineering provides detailed instructions for making science photographs using the DSLR camera, the flatbed scanner, and the phone camera. The book includes a series of step-by-step case studies, describing how final images were designed for cover submissions and other kinds of visualizations. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, the book encourages the reader to learn by doing, following Frankel as she recreates the stages of discovery that lead to a good science visual.
Frankel shows readers how to present their work with graphics―how to tell a visual story―and considers issues of image adjustment and enhancement. She describes how developing the right visual to express a concept not only helps make science accessible to nonspecialists, but also informs the science itself, helping scientists clarify their thinking. The book includes references to Frankel's online tutorials at the book's website―visual “punctuations” of this printed edition―along with how-to videos and other additional materials.
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Is Europe Setting a New Example on Addressing Monopolies?
WHEN Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition; deputy Prime Minister of Denmark (2011-2014)
Moderator: Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, HKS
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager discusses the impact of monopolies on the EU economy with Harvard Kennedy School’s Jason Furman.
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Music, Leadership, and Activism: A Conversation with Meklit Hadero
WHEN Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Rubenstein 414, 4th Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School;
Office for the Arts at Harvard;
Arts and Culture Caucus, A Student Organization at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Meklit Hadero, Ethiopian American vocalist, singer-songwriter and composer
Moderator: Alicia Anstead, Associate director for programming, Office for the Arts at Harvard; Harvard Nieman Fellow, '08
COST Free and Open to the Public
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H8MNLN3
CONTACT INFO CPL_Events@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian American vocalist, singer-songwriter and composer, making music that sways between cultures and continents. Known for her electric stage presence, innovative take on Ethio-jazz, and fiery, emotive live shows, Hadero has rocked stages from Addis Ababa (where she is a household name) to San Francisco (her beloved home-base) and beyond. Join us for a conversation about the role of music in civic leadership and activism.
LINK https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/event/music-leadership-and-activism-conversation-meklit-hadero?delta=0
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New Insights: Native American History in the Colonial Period
Wednesday, March 27
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston
Colin Calloway, Dartmouth professor of history and author of The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, The First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation, and Julia A. King, St. Mary’s College of Maryland professor of anthropology, discuss recent historical research into Native American life with Philip Deloria, Harvard professor of history.
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Advancing Economic Equity
Wednesday, March 27
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Northeastern, West Village F, Room 20, 40A Leon Street, Boston
Join leaders from YW Boston, Ujima Project, Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Northeastern for an interactive discussion about economic equity in Boston.
Moderated by Beth Chandler, President & CEO of YW Boston & Kathryn Henderson, Assistant Vice President of YW Boston
Panelists:
Nia Evans, Executive Director of Boston’s Ujima Project
Celina Barrios-Millner, Director of Equity and Inclusion at Mayor's Office of Economic Development
Daylana Ervin-Parker, Director of Budget and Supplier Diversity at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
For more information* and directions to Northeastern,
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Flexible Architected Materials: Performance through Deformation
Wednesday, March 27
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
ArtScience Culture Lab & Café, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
Although the study of the effect of shape and geometry on the mechanical response of solid objects has a long history, the surge of modern techniques to fabricate structures of complex form paired with our ability to simulate and better understand their response has created new opportunities for the design of architected materials with novel functionalities (also referred to as metamaterials). Since the properties of architected materials are primarily governed by the geometry of the structure (as opposed to constitutive ingredients at the material level), we harness deformation and instabilities, which can significantly alter their initial geometry, to achieve new modes of functionality. We demonstrate that this approach enables the design of a variety of smart systems, including reconfigurable structures, materials with unusual and tunable properties and soft machines that operate with minimal input signals. Altogether, our studies can inform simplified routes for the design of tunable architected materials over a wide range of length scales.
Katia Bertoldi is the William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Applied Mechanics at the Harvard John A.Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She earned master degrees from Trento University (Italy) in 2002 and from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) in 2003, majoring in Structural Engineering Mechanics. Upon earning a Ph.D. degree in Mechanics of Materials and Structures from Trento University, in 2006, Katia joined as a PostDoc the group of Mary Boyce at MIT. In 2008 she moved to the University of Twente (the Netherlands) where she was an Assistant Professor in the faculty of Engineering Technology. In January 2010 Katia joined the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and established a group studying the mechanics of materials and structures. She is the recipient of the NSF Career Award 2011 and of the ASME's 2014 Hughes Young Investigator Award. She serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Extreme Mechanics Letters. She published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and several patents. For a complete list of publication and research information: https://bertoldi.seas.harvard.edu/
Dr Bertoldi’s research contributes to the design of materials with a carefully designed meso-structure that leads to novel effective behavior at the macroscale. She investigates both mechanical and acoustic properties of such structured materials, with a particular focus on harnessing instabilities and strong geometric non-linearities to generate new modes of functionality. Since the properties of the designed architected materials are primarily governed by the geometry of the structure (as opposed to constitutive ingredients at the material level), the principles she discovers are universal and can be applied to systems over a wide range of length scales.
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Old North Speaker Series: LECTURE + COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: Populism and Nationalism: What We Can Do to Strengthen Our Democracy
Wed, March 27, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Old North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston
Speaker: John Shattuck
Presented in partnership with the Ford Hall Forum
Populist discontent with democracy is on the rise. We see examples of this dissatisfaction in the economic and cultural rebellions of people feeling threatened by globalization and shut out by elites. John Shattuck, foreign affairs and human rights expert, will examine how that discontent is being manipulated by opportunistic politicians in the US and Europe. These political figures claim they can fix the situation by strengthening nationalism, which often translates into weakening democratic institutions and centralizing power. How does that affect our global and domestic communities? What are the potential sources of resilience of our democracy, and what can we do as citizens to save it?
Afterwards, join us for a reception and Community Conversation with John Shattuck and Brian Conley, Associate Professor and Program Director for the Graduate Program in Political Science in the Suffolk University Government Department, for an intimate discussion on the necessity of active citizenship and the role individuals play in governmental shifts.
John Shattuck is Professor of Practice in Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Tufts University, specializing in transatlantic affairs and US foreign policy, and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, focusing on the contemporary crisis of democracy in the US and Europe. Previously, he served as the President of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (2009-2016), the CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and the US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor under President Clinton. From 1984 to 1993 Shattuck was a Vice-President at Harvard University and taught at the Harvard Law School. His many publications include Freedom on Fire, a study of the international response to genocide and crimes against humanity, Rights of Privacy, and articles on higher education, human rights, foreign affairs, and international security.
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America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Wednesday, March 27
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people--from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity.
The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America's founding and Jewish identity, these women's lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.
Pamela S. Nadell is the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and director of Jewish studies at American University. Her books include Women Who Would Be Rabbis, a National Jewish Book Award finalist. She lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.
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Energy: Where We Get It and Where We Are Going
Wednesday, March 27
7pm to 9:00pm
Harvard, Pfizer Hall, Mallinckrodt Chemistry Labs, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Livestream at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/sitn-live/
Emily Kerr, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, March 28
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Emerging Trends Series: Where Transportation Converges with Cleantech
Thursday, March 28
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT
Convene, One Boston Place, 2nd Floor, Boston
Cost: $0 – $50
With an increasing number of cities and states prioritizing the reduction of carbon emissions in the transportation, the sector is going through dramatic changes such as the advancements of electrification, ride sharing and autonomous vehicles. Combine that with the the changes taking place in the energy sector, including decentralization, digitization and the need for decarbonization, which altogether create huge opportunities for innovation.
Please join NECEC for a robust discussion of the opportunities and challenges of converging transportation and cleantech. Experts will speak to the key issues including:
What does it mean to electrify transportation?
How does the future of clean transportation take advantage of new models such as ride-sharing?
How does clean transportation leverage new technologies such as autonomous vehicles and distributed / digitalization trends?
We know we need to install EV charging infrastructure and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure but how do we innovate with finance and business models to make this infrastructure cost-effective, inclusive, and responsive to public, private and other stakeholder needs?
How does urban planning and design change to accommodate ZEVs?
How will EV charging loads impact distribution system planning?
Speakers
Steve Pike, CEO, MassCEC (Introduction)
Rachel Ackerman, Senior Manager, MassCEC (moderator)
Tod Hynes, CEO, XL
Henrik Holland, Head of Corporate Development Electric Mobility, Shell
Yann Kulp, Co-Founder & VP Business Development, eIQ Mobility
Jay Verspyck, Co-Founder, Makoto-US
Edmond Young, Consultant, Hydrogen Fuel Infrastructure, Toyota North America
By registering for and attending this event you agree to event-related photographs being taken on this specific event day by NECEC approved photographers being used in future NECEC-related printed, published and/or broadcasted material. NECEC may exercise any of these rights itself or through any successors, transferees, licensees, distributors or other parties, commercial or nonprofit.
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What? When? How? A Community Conversation on Accessible Information Design
Thursday March 28
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
WGBH Educational Foundation, 1 Guest Street, Boston
Cost: $10
What are the challenges/opportunities when addressing information design? When should you consider asking for help? How do you reconcile aesthetics and comprehension? From business cards to weekly blogs, let’s examine the effective practices of designing marketing collateral, exhibit signage, style guides, and digital graphics. Using real life examples of the good, the bad, and the obtuse, join your colleagues in workshopping the information landscape that includes lighting and logos.
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Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Crimes Against Humanity — Uyghurs-Victims of China’s Quest for Power
WHEN Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman, Room 520, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress
DETAILS The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is excited to announce its 2019 Speaker Series: Human Rights in Hard Places, facilitated by Carr Center Executive Director, Sushma Raman.
The Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series was formed to underscore that despite the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, vast human rights abuses are still occurring 7 decades later.
We hope for this to serve as a platform for individuals to hear from the world's leading practitioners and academics in the human rights field, and to listen, question and engage.
Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, will give a talk titled, "Uyghurs-Victims of China’s Quest for Power."
Dolkun Isa: President of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and Vice President of the Unrepresented Nation & Peoples Organization (UNPO), Mr. Dolkun Isa is a former student-leader of the pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1988 in East Turkistan. He founded the Students’ Science and Culture Union at the university in 1987 and worked on programs to eliminate illiteracy and to promote science and to lead other students in East Turkestan. He was then dismissed from university but completed his physics degree via independent study, and went on to receive a Master’s degree in Politics and Sociology from Gazi University in Turkey and a degree in Computer Science in Munich, Germany. After enduring persecution from the Chinese government, Isa fled China in 1994 and sought asylum in Europe and became a citizen of Germany in 2006.
In November 1996, he played an important role in establishing the World Uyghur Youth Congress in Germany and served as Executive Chairman and President. In April 2004, he also played an important role in the establishment of the World Uyghur Congress through the merger of the East Turkestan National Congress and the World Uyghur Youth Congress and was elected General Secretary. He has since been presenting Uyghur human rights issues to the UN Human Rights Council, European Parliament, European governments and international human rights organizations. Dolkun Isa is the current President of the World Uyghur Congress.
Isa was also the leader of the students’ demonstration on 15 June 1988 and was expelled from the university in September 1988 after four months of house arrest and a six hour-long dialogue with government officials about the students’ demands. Following this, he operated a small business and travelled to various cities in China and East Turkestan to collect information about the Chinese government’s Uyghur policy between 1988 and 1990. From 1990 to 1994, he learnt English and Turkish at Beijing Foreign Language University and engaged in copying and distributing relevant Uyghur history books to the Uyghur community. In 1994, he was forced to leave China and fled to Turkey, where he received his Master’s Degree in Political Science from Gazi University in Ankara. He then founded the Eastern Turkestan Youth Union and served as the Chairman during his time in in the country.
Dolkun Isa has consistently advocated for the rights of the Uyghur people and has raised the issue in the United Nations, the institutions of the European Union and in individual states. He has worked to mobilize the Uyghur diaspora community to collectively advocate for their rights and the rights of the Uyghur population in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. He was recognized for his efforts in raising awareness of the human rights situation facing the Uyghur people and for calling for greater democracy and freedom in China by receiving the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Human Rights Award on 30 March 2016. In 2017, he was elected as the Vice-President of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), of which the World Uyghur Congress is a member. In this capacity, he works with other marginalized or unrepresented peoples to collectively strive for democracy, freedom and respect for basic human rights.
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North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?
WHEN Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) William H. Overholt, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS The North Korean nuclear crisis presents the contemporary world’s greatest risk, not just of major war but most importantly of nuclear war. Despite its importance the crisis is being managed in a treacherous context of public ignorance and misinformation. Most Americans could not locate Korea on a map. In his new book, William Overholt assembles the work of leading experts in the hope of dispelling the misinformation and lack of information.
Lunch will be served. RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Environmental justice and indigenous land issues in Massachusetts
Thursday, March 28
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Pete Westover, co-founder, Conservation Works
This talk will focus on the current indigenous struggles for land in New England and eastern Canada, focusing on the Penobscot, Nipmuc, Mashpee Wampanoag, Chappaquiddick Wampanoag, and Cree. Pete Westover will discuss the work of groups like Conservation Law Foundation, Arise for Social Justice, and Climate Action Now in partnership with Environmental Justice communities on land, energy and climate issues.
Pete Westover founded Conservation Works with Terry Blunt in 2005. In addition to his work for Conservation Works, he is a frequent adjunct professor of ecology at Hampshire College, a contractor for the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, and formerly long-time Conservation Director for the Town of Amherst. He serves on the Mass Board of the Conservation Law Foundation, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, and the Whately Land Preservation. He is a co-founder of Valley Land Fund and the Massachusetts Society of Municipal Conservation Professionals, and was a long-time advisor to the Kestrel Land Trust. Mr. Westover has a B.S. from Oberlin College and M.S. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has taught forest management at Antioch Graduate School, is the author of Managing Conservation Land, and is co-editor of Bird Finding Guide to Western Massachusetts and the recent Harvesting History, a history of farming in Amherst. He is also a marathon runner and a recipient of numerous awards for conservation work in the Pioneer Valley.
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Digital Storytelling + R
Thursday, March 28
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Northeastern, Holmes Hall, room 171, 39-41 Leon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVeJ7BTSp4JpP0-g4RSS1mEidlZm_Y_tKSTPqfq2-dB-2X7g/viewform
Mara Averick, aka @dataandme on Twitter, is a force in the #rstats community. She will be giving a talk on R and data storytelling.
We'll have pizza and drinks. This is for you if interested in things like R code, data wrangling, Python and D3, NCAA and sports analytics, Shiny apps, data visualization and even the TV show Archer. Chances are Mara will touch on all of those. She's an encyclopedia of R knowledge.
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Hydroelectric Energy
Thursday, March 28
12:30PM
Harvard, Room 429, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Eliza Spear will discuss hydroelectric energy. HEJC is open to Harvard and MIT students and postdocs. A technical background is not needed. Lunch will be provided.
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Contact Name: Dan Pollack
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6th Annual State of Global Health Symposium
WHEN Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019, 2 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S) Adolfo Rubinstein, National Secretary of Health, Argentina
Gauri Angrish, Founder & CEO at CAREDOSE
Thomas Burke, Chief, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Emergency Department, Massachusetts General Hospital
Phuong Pham, Director of Evaluation and Implementation Science at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Sema Sgaier, Co-founder and executive director, Surgo Foundation
Richard Cash, Senior lecturer on Global Health
Heather Mattie, Executive director, Master’s Program in Health Data Science
Trishan Panch, Co-founder and chief medical officer at Wellframe
Panacea
HERA
ZakaMed
w-ATMs
Medication Fraud Prevention
Hurricane Gardens
Innovation and Global Health Systems Student Presentations
CONTACT INFO estone@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Technology is transforming our world today and has the potential to dramatically improve human health. In the past decade, we have witnessed huge leaps in the capabilities of technology with the advancement in new low-cost diagnostics and treatments as well as machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, communications, and more.
However, in relation to technologies for global health three challenges are evident: (i) a technology that is needed is not available (ii) technology is available but is not accessible or affordable and (iii) technology is available and affordable but not widely used.
While investments in research and development could help address the first challenge, the second and third challenges of accessibility/affordability, and suboptimal use also need addressing.
While new technologies offer great promise for impact, most new technologies actually fail to have population wide impact because of challenges around their uptake and diffusion. So an important question that arises for policy makers, funders and innovators is “Why do so many great technologies remain on the shelf, when they could be improving population health?”
Evidence suggests that despite the best research and development producing new technologies, there are policy, regulatory, legal, behavior change, environmental and other issues that hinder scaling new technologies for improving health outcomes.
The 6th Annual State of Global Health Symposium will aim to explore emerging and available technologies that have the potential to transform global health, for example low cost patient diagnostic tools, large data for decision making and machine learning. Through case examples highlighting both successes and challenges, we will explore the potential impact of emerging technologies that assist in diagnostics, treatment, and analytics.
The Symposium will not just highlight the latest technologies, but will also explore more deeply what makes a viable and scalable solution. The participants in the Symposium will debate key issues that cut across new frontiers in technology and discuss how to better harness existing and new technologies, by creating an enabling environment for their uptake and use to positively impact population health, while effectively managing unintended consequences. We will work to identify some of the underlying constraints to scaling readily accessible and affordable technologies and conceptualize new pathways to achieving population level equitable impact.
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ME Colloquium Series: Right Whales: Research and Stewardship at the Edge of Extinction
Thursday, March 28
3 – 4PM
Tufts, Nelson Auditorium (Anderson 112), 200 College Avenue, Medford
Speaker: Charles Mayo, Center for Coastal Studies
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A Ferguson Effect, the Drug Epidemic, Both, or Neither? Explaining the 2015 and 2016 U.S. Homicide Rises by Race and Ethnicity
Thursday, March 28
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Northeastern, 909 Renaissance Park
Shytierra Gaston, Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
CSSH Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series
Presented by the CSSH Dean’s Office and the Northeastern Humanities Center
For more information, please contact Gaby Fiorenza at g.fiorenza@northeastern.edu
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Potential Changes in the Sensitivities of Inorganic Fine Particulate Matter to Precursor Emissions in China
Thursday, March 28
3:30PM TO 4:45PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Li Mingwei, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, will give a talk as part of the Harvard-China Project Seminar Series.
Abstract: Atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can penetrate deeply into the lungs and circulatory system, causing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. China has the highest PM2.5concentrations in the world, and inorganic PM2.5 is a major component. Inorganic PM2.5 is mainly formed in the atmosphere through non-linear chemical processes from its precursors—sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and ammonia (NH3), which come mostly from human activities. Examining how inorganic PM2.5 responds to changes in precursor emissions, i.e. sensitivities of PM2.5 to emissions, can help design effective pollution control policies. In this talk I will discuss potential changes in the sensitivities of inorganic PM2.5 to precursor emissions in China in response to the projected reductions in SO2 and NOx emissions using GEOS-Chem. Anthropogenic emissions through 2030 are predicted from an energy-economic model with sub-national detail for China (C-REM). We find that January PM2.5 is most sensitive to NH3 emissions regardless of the reductions in SO2 and NOx emissions, but its sensitivity declines by 30% when the projected SO2 and NOxemissions decrease by 60% and 30% in 2030, while the sensitivity to NOx emissions increases by nearly a factor of three. Inorganic PM2.5 is more sensitive to SO2 and NOx emissions in summer, and its sensitivities to three precursors remain almost unchanged in 2030.
Contact Name: Tiffany Chan
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Askwith Forums – Black Educators and the Struggle for Justice in Schools
WHEN Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Community Programming, Forum, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Askwith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
FEATURED EVENT Askwith Forums
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Special Events
DETAILS *Note the 4 p.m. start time*
Speaker: Vanessa Siddle Walker, Ed.M.’85, Ed.D.’88, president-elect, American Educational Research Association (AERA); Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American and Educational Studies, Emory University
Discussant: Edith Bazile, president, Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts
Moderator: Jarvis Givens, assistant professor of education, HGSE; Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute
Black educators were essential to the legal victory that was Brown vs. Board of Education, but over time, they saw the promise of greater access and greater equity grow dimmer, undermined by the way this now-iconic legal milestone was actually implemented. In a forum ranging widely over the past, present, and future of the long fight for justice in American schools, Emory University historian Vanessa Siddle Walker will explore the pedagogical and advocacy models that black educators developed, despite Jim Crow, that they hoped would be enhanced with the dismantling of racist school policies. She’ll describe how these practitioners came to make sense of what ultimately became a desegregation compromise, as the ruling took effect. And in a follow-on conversation moderated by HGSE assistant professor Jarvis Givens, Walker will be joined by Edith Bazile, the president of the Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts, to examine the contemporary legacy of Brown – and how the perspectives of those earlier practitioners can create a new lens through which to view the continuing critical challenges of race and education today.
PLEASE NOTE: Seating for this forum will be available on a first come, first seated basis.
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Economic Growth Depends on Participation of Women
WHEN Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer 166 (IOP Conference Room), 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Cathy Russell, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (2013-2018) and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Lael Brainard, Member of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Under Secretary for International Affairs at the Department of the Treasury (2010-2013)
DETAILS Women are critical to the economic success of their countries. A McKinsey report in 2016 estimated that closing the world's gender gap in workforce participation would add $28 trillion to global GDP by 2025. That amounts to about a quarter of the world's current GDP and almost half of the world's current debt. Yet progress on the full economic participation of women is slow. What steps should countries and the private sector take to expand women's economic participation?
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The Use and Abuse of the Trolley Problem: Self Driving Cars, Medical Treatments, and the Distribution of Harm
Thursday, March 28
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Harvard, Wexner 436, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Public Lecture by Frances Kamm
Description: Many people besides philosophers have become interested in the Trolley Problem and wondered about its relevance to their own professional concerns. After briefly presenting what are considered standard Trolley Problem cases along with common moral judgments about them, this talk considers conceptual and moral differences between them and other cases common in discussions of medical ethics and self-driving cars. This leads to examination of particular moral issues concerning the role of those who would program cars and the liability to harm of drivers, pedestrians, and passengers.
Frances Kamm is the Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy there. (She is also Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Emerita at Harvard University where she was also a senior fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.) Her work focuses on normative ethical theory and practical ethics. She is the author of numerous articles and eight books, including Morality, Mortality vols. 1 and 2, Intricate Ethics, Bioethical Prescriptions, and The Trolley Problem Mysteries (the 2013 Tanner Lectures at U. of California, Berkeley). Her new book on death and dying is forthcoming. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, centers for ethics at Harvard and Princeton, and Center for Advanced Study at Stanford. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Housing Justice and Health Equity: How Health Systems and Social Work Can Prevent Eviction and Displacement
Thursday, March 28
5:30 - 7:00pm
BU College of Arts and Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B12 (Basement), Boston
Speakers:
Thea James, VP of Mission and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Boston Medical Center
Gabrielle Rene, Staff Organizer, City Life/Vida Urbana
Noemi Rodriguez, Leadership Team Member, City Life/Vida Urbana
Dawn Belkin Martinez, Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University School of Social Work, moderator
This event will highlight the intersection of housing justice and health, with a focus on the opportunity for health systems and social workers to work together with community organizations to advocate and drive change to keep people in their homes.
The first half will be focused on panelists' experiences in the field and the second half will be a moderated panel discussion with Q&A from the audience.
Questions? Email: ciswh@bu.edu
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Extinction Rebellion: Heading Towards Extinction and What to Do About it
Thursday March 28
6pm - 8pm
Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender Street, Cambridge
The planet is in ecological crisis: we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event this planet has experienced. Scientists believe we may have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown. This is an emergency.
In this public talk, speakers from the Extinction Rebellion Boston will share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading, discuss some of the current psychology around climate change, and offer solutions through the study of social movements.
Everyone is welcome and entry is free. Contact john.burkhardt@gmail.com if you have questions.
The Extinction Rebellion is an international mobilization for non-violent disobedience to demand urgent action on the ecological crisis. Follow us on Facebook or sign up at xrmass.org/join for more meeting and event announcements!
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A Slow Food Conversation: the intersectionality of race, gender & food justice
Tuesday, March 26
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Remnant Brewing, 2 Bow Market Way, Somerville
Cost: $18
Speakers:
Darnell Adams, Co-Owner of Firebrand Cooperative
Cassandria Campbell, Co-Founder of Fresh Food Generation
Teresa Maynard, Founder of Sweet Teez Bakery
These ladies all have their own interesting perspective on the intersectionality of race, gender, and food in establishing their businesses. While we engage in this important dialogue, we'll also enjoy mouth-watering, locally sourced bites from Fresh Food Generation.
Slow Food Boston is highly committed to supporting food justice, celebrating diverse communities, and sharing the belief that benefits of the good food movement are to be enjoyed by everyone. That is why we are excited to host our first Slow Food Conversation on the intersectionality of race, gender, and food justice on March 26th! With Black History month still visible in our rear-view mirror and in the midst of Women’s History Month, join us for a lively conversation in recognizing these impressive women who have made a name for themselves as entrepreneurs on the local food scene, hear about the challenges they overcame to achieve success in a male-dominated food industry and take part in a thoughtful discussion on how the Slow Food community can work collectively in developing a more equitable food system that's inclusive of everyone.
Enjoy complimentary appetizers provided by Fresh Food Generation and grab a beer in tune with the seasons and current trends from our hosts Remnant Brewery. Additional food will be available for purchase. More details about participants to come.
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Sustainable Swaps for a more Eco-friendly Lifestyle
Thursday, March 28
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
For Now, 68 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
Embracing eco-friendliness: we all want to do it. The question is how and what's the best way? There's so much information out there it's hard to know where to focus.
Join us and our panel of sustainability pioneers for advice on how to cut through the clutter and make easy but impactful swaps in your life.
PANELISTS:
Hanadi Hamzeh, Founder of Covet, Boston's best consignment shop
Natalie Kathleen, Founder of Jibs Life, a shoe brand with sneakers made of recycled PVC soles.
Leslie Musser, Founder of Kinder Capsule, a sustainable and adaptable childrenswear brand.
Candice Peak, Wellness Influencer with a relatable approach to "wasting less"
Lauren Simonelli, Founder of ThreeMain, a cleaning products brand with a better approach to clean green.
MODERATED BY:
Kaity Cimo + Katharine Requa, co-founders of For Now
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Janette Sadik-Khan, “Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution”
WHEN Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Janette Sadik-Khan
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/janette-sadik-khan-streetfight-handbook-for-an-urban-revolution/
CONTACT INFO Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS If you can change the street, you can change the world. Streetfight discusses the transformative power of streets and shows how reclaiming space for people to walk, bike and take public transportation sets cities on a path toward a more sustainable future.
Janette Sadik-Khan is one of the world’s foremost authorities on transportation and urban transformation. She served as New York City’s transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, overseeing historic changes to the city’s streets — closing Broadway to cars in Times Square, building nearly 400 miles of bike lanes and seven rapid bus lines, launching the largest bike share program in North America and creating more than 60 plazas citywide. A founding principal with Bloomberg Associates, she works with mayors around the world to reimagine and redesign their cities. She chairs the National Association of Transportation Officials, implementing new, people-focused street design standards, including the Global Street Design Guide, which has been adopted by more than cities and organizations around the world. She is the author of Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution.
LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/janette-sadik-khan-streetfight-handbook-for-an-urban-revolution/
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How She Got There: An Evening with Female Entrepreneurs
Thursday, 28 March
6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT
GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston
Jodi-Tatiana Charles, Author, Marketing Strategist, Speaker , LCG Brands Consulting
Bobbie Carlton, Founder, Innovation Women
About This Event
Join us for an evening good conversation with a panel of female entrepreneurs spanning across different industries. These creative and inspirational women will share their stories on how they got to where they are today and share their insights into being a woman in business. Afterwards we will open up the floor for questions, followed by mingling with panelists and attendees.
Agenda:
6:15-6:30pm: Arrival and check-in
6:30-8pm: Panel
8-8:30pm: Additional Q&A, networking
By signing up for this event, you’re giving our partners and sponsors for this event permission to contact you about upcoming events and promotions.
About the Panelists
Jodi-Tatiana Charles, Author, Marketing Strategist, Speaker, LCG Brands Consulting
Jodi-Tatiana Charles, Owner and “Brandographer™” of LCG Brands, a unique brand and marketing consulting firm dedicated to educating entrepreneurs, non-profits, and small business professionals on the importance of growing their personal and corporate brands. With nearly 25 years of executive leadership in marketing, branding and communication successes with high profile organizations including Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, MassChallenge, Massachusetts Governor’s Office, Massachusetts Conference for Women (MCW), Comcast TV, and Clear Channel Communications/iHeart Radio, Charles has been coined the “Olivia Pope of Boston”. When not working, Charles dedicates her time to children, elderly and cancer causes, through road races, mentoring and volunteering. This year Charles added a third hat, as children’s book author, with her first book, It’s Just A Rug educating children about their heritage. She earned a BA from Suffolk University in communications in journalism with a minor in sociology and a Global MBA from Babson College – Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business. Follow @JodiTatiana @LCGBrands.
Bobbie Carlton, Founder, Innovation Women
Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights and Innovation Women, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. In 2008, she started her own company…the first one. Carlton PR & Marketing is a boutique agency servicing a wide variety of technology startups and small companies.
Innovation Women is an online “visibility bureau” helping drive visibility for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women through speaking engagements. Mass Innovation Nights (MIN) is a social media powered new product showcase. MIN has launched more than 1000 new products which have received a combined $2.1+ billion in funding.
In 2010 she was called one of the “Ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community”, and in 2011 she was a recipient of a Mass High Tech All-star award. In 2015 she was named a Boston Business Journal Woman to Watch. In 2017 she was named a PR Gamechanger by PR News.
Carlton has more than 30 years of experience in public relations and marketing, including stints as the head of global PR for large public companies like Cognos and PTC, the head of marketing for a girl brand focused on positive role models for tweens, and work with various agencies in the Boston market.
Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC or @WomenInno
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Liar Laurie: Breaking the Silence on Sexual Assault
Thursday, March 28
7pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
When Laurie went to college in Chicago, she was all set to embark on a new life. But on the third weekend of her freshman year, Laurie was raped. And everything changed. In the aftermath, Laurie reached out for help. But she didn’t get any. Friends didn’t believe her. The dean didn’t support her. Laurie had to fight not just for justice but for understanding. For validation. Laurie could have dropped out of college, she could have given up, but she carried on. And not even seeing her attacker on campus could stop her.
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
Thursday, March 28
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome lawyer, scholar, and writer CARA ROBERTSON for a discussion of her debut book, The Trial of Lizzie Borden.
About The Trial of Lizzie Borden
The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone—rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople—had an opinion about Lizzie Borden’s guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn’t she?
The popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years. Immortalized in rhyme, told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror, but one typically wrenched from its historical moment. In contrast, Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden’s culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom. Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden offers a window onto America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its most deeply held convictions and its most troubling social anxieties.
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How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
Thursday, March 28
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
A lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns.
Beginning as a trainer in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, George Lakey has been on the front lines of social change for decades.
Now, in this timely and down-to-earth guide, he passes the torch to a new generation of activists hitting the streets. He looks to successful campaigns across the world to help us see what has worked and what hasn’t: from choosing the right target, to designing a creative campaign; from avoiding burnout within your group, to building a movement of movements to achieve real progressive victories.
Drawing on the experiences of a diverse set of ambitious change-makers, How We Win shows us the way to justice, peace, and a sustainable economy. This is what democracy looks like.
George Lakey has been active in direct action campaigns for six decades. Recently retired from Swarthmore College, where he was the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change, Lakey was first arrested at a civil rights demonstration in March 1963, and his most recent arrest was March 29, 2018, as a participant in the Power Local Green Jobs Campaign. He lives in Philadelphia.
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Decoding the Climate from Ancient Lakes & Caves
Tuesday, March 19
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
It’s easy to look up how much rain fell in Boston in 2018, 2000, or even 1920. But how do we figure out how rainfall was different 1,000 or more years ago — and what does that have to do with modern climate change?
In this talk, Christine Y. Chen and Gabi Serrato Marks, two geoscientists at MIT, will discuss their research studying ancient lakes and caves in exciting, far-flung places like the high-altitude central Andes and northeast Mexico. Join us as they describe their search for ancient stalagmites, relict shorelines, and fossilized algae that serve as natural archives of Earth's changing climate and rainfall, and take the opportunity to hold specimens of these geologic “log books” of past rainfall yourself! Join on a trip back in time to explore the dramatic changes in water availability around the world and what it may mean for our future.
This event will take place at WGBH's Boston Public Library Studio. Overflow seating will be located in the Newsfeed Café and is not guaranteed.
Speaker Biographies:
Christine Y. Chen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. As a geologist fascinated by the incredible history of Earth’s changing climate, Christine aims to reconstruct past changes in Earth’s water cycle. These interests have led her to conduct field research in the desert drylands of the western United States and the central Andes, places where relict shorelines of ancient lakes are remarkably well-preserved. For her research, Christine was named a National Geographic Young Explorer in 2016. You can follow her on Twitter as @earth2christine.
Gabi Serrato Marks is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. She studies past climate change in southern and northeastern Mexico using stalagmites (cave deposits). She got her start in geochemistry while earning her B.A. in Earth and Oceanographic Science at Bowdoin College. Outside of lab, she writes science articles for a public audience, advocates for disabled people in STEM, and grows a lot of plants. You can find her on Twitter as @gserratomarks.
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Sonnabend Lecture: This talk will consider scientific evidence that suggests that we can change our brains by transforming our minds
Thursday, March 28
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Lesley University, Washburn Auditorium, 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge
This year’s lecture will be delivered by Dr. Richard Davidson, William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Davidson is best known for his groundbreaking work studying emotion and the brain. A friend and confidante of the Dalai Lama, he is a highly sought-after expert and speaker, leading conversations on well-being on international stages such as the World Economic Forum, where he serves on the Global Council on Mental Health. Time Magazine named Davidson one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2006.
This talk will consider scientific evidence that suggests that we can change our brains by transforming our minds and cultivate habits of mind that will improve well-being. These mental training strategies can be used to improve the well-being of children, teachers, parents and ultimately communities. The talk will provide an overview of neuroscientifically validated constituents of well-being and will illustrate how each of these is rooted in specific brain circuits that exhibit plasticity and thus can be modified through training.
This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited.
The public lecture will be followed with time for a Q&A along with a book signing.
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Labor Law for the Rank and File
Thursday, March 28
7:00pm to 9:00pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Tech workers are getting organized: here's a chance to learn how to use the law when it's on your side, and avoid it when its against you.
There are always risks involved when workers take action to improve conditions in their workplace. Lawyers are expensive and often inaccessible, so it’s important for workers to educate themselves to the basics of the law before taking action. Labor Law for the Rank and Filer provides an introduction to existing labor law in the United States, and is of particular use for workers who are beginning to wade into organizing efforts and campaigns. In this session, we’ll examine some relevant aspects of the law, and also create a space to discuss recent actions taken by workers at tech companies as they pertain to existing labor laws.
Optional prep reading here: https://sites.google.com/view/tech-workers-coalition/topics/labor-law-for-the-rank-and-file
This event is closed to press and off the record (including no recording devices).
This event is co-sponsored with the Tech Workers Coalition.
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Friday, March 29
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2019 Massachusetts Sustainable Communities & Campuses Conference
Friday, March 29
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
First Parish, Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
Cost: $63.99
This conference connects government, grassroots, education and business experts and learners to advance sustainability.
OBJECTIVES
Learn about best practices and current trends
Engage in cross-sector conversations about timely topics
Go home with knowledge and resources for community and campus sustainability
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Municipal and state government officials and staff
Higher education and K-12 staff, faculty, and students
Business owners, staff, representatives
Non-profit and community members and leaders
Everyone interested in learning more about sustainability
EXHIBITS
Resources for campus/community sustainability
Businesses with products and services
College certificate and degree programs
Government agencies
Community organizations and non-profits
PRESENTERS
State and local government officials
College and education representatives
Business experts with products and services
Nonprofit and community leaders
SCHEDULE Topics
8:00 Registration & Coffee
8:30 Welcome
9:00 Session I
10:00 Session II
11:00 Keynote
noon Lunch
1:00 Session III
2:00 Session IV
3:00 Closing
4:00 End
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2019 Babson Sustainability Forum - Embracing the Future's Goals
Friday, March 29
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM EDT
Baboon, Olin Hall, 4 Babson College Drive, Wellesley
Cost: $20 – $45
Babson College is excited to announce its 13th Annual Babson Sustainability Forum on March 29th, 2019.
Previously known as the Energy & Environment Conference, the Babson Sustainabiluty Forum is an annual gathering of thought leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals, and students who care about environmental sustainability and making an impact within their communities. The theme of this year's forum is, Embracing the Future's Goals, focusing on the United Nation's Sustainability Development Goals while celebrating entrepreneurs, institutions, and businesses taking ownership of those initiatives. This year’s forum will feature:
Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director - Project Drawdown
Dr. Stephen Spinelli, President Elect - Babson College
Lisa Conway, Vice President of Sustainability - Interface
Paul Sellew, CEO & Founder - Little Leaf Farms
Gwen Ruta, Executive Vice President, Climate & Energy - Environmental Defense Fund
Chris Sherman, President - Island Creek Oyster
Kathryn L. Hersey, CFA, Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager - Cambridge Trust
Eric Hudson, CEO & Founder - Preserve
Dr. Caroline Daniels, Faculty Director, Fashion Entrepreneurial Initiative - Babson College
Amy DuFault, Director of Communications for the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, Co-Director of the Southeastern New England Fibershed
Marc Breslow, Ph.D. Policy & Research Director - Climate XChange
Jess Brooks, Chief Development Officer - Sunwealth
Phil Guidice, Ambrii - Former CEO, Board Member
Mark Lyra, Senior Director - Sumitomo Corporation
Mitch Tyson, Principal - Tyson Associates
David Miller, Ph.D. Managing Director - Clean Energy Ventures
Mark Buckley, Founder - One Boat Collaborative & Former Vice President of Sustainability - Staples
Carlos Nouel, Vice President of Business Development - National Grid
Christine Riley Miller, Director of Sustainability - Samsonite
Renee Vassilos, Founder - Banyan Innovation Group
Jesse Devitte, Co-Founder & Managing Director - Borealis Ventures, Co-Founder & General Partner - Building Ventures
Aaron Niederhelman, CEO – OneHealthAg, Host – Sourcing Matters, Founding Principal - Hingeline
Jim Verzino, Director & Entrepreneur in Residence - Windham Grows
Santiago Villagomez, CEO & Co-founder - Energia Real
Panels on:
Financing Tomorrow's Goals
Energy Entrepreneurship
Environmental, Social, Governance - Hosted by the Cutler Center
Leaders in Sustainability
Agriculture & Food
Fashion & Sustainability
Samsonite Workshop
Energy Storage & Efficiency
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ArtTechPsyche V
Friday, March 29,
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Harvard, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Returning for a fifth year, ArtTechPsyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts through numerous immersive digital experiences, art installations, technology demos, and visionary speakers. This annual symposium run by Harvard’s Digital Futures Consortium is a unique collaboration between Academic Technology for the FAS, Harvard Art Museums Department of Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technology, Harvard Arts and Humanities Research Computing (DARTH), and the Harvard Library. We invite you to join us for ArtTechPsyche V on Friday, March 29, 2019 at Cabot Library in the Science Center.
Explore the creative process and its impact on emerging technologies. Discover the ways in which technology shapes us, and conversely, how the artist continually challenges and informs technological development. Interact with cutting edge art installations and software demos to experience the world in new ways. Meet like-minded faculty, staff, students, researchers, and colleagues of any skill level while exploring new projects and collaborations on and around campus.
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Digital Storytelling
Friday, Marcy 29
9:30am - 5pm
Northeastern, Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOP6BZ-q7S8F-idLRdPz-p3-C_HsT6l1NP4QYIUW-u0Nta9Q/viewform
On March 29, 2018, the NULab will be hosting its second annual conference, showcasing the work of faculty, graduate students, and research collaborators.
The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Center for Africana Studies and Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University.
More details coming soon!
Space is limited and registration is required; please RSVP.
Speaker biography: Johnson is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora. She is the author of Practicing Freedom: Black Women, Intimacy, and Kinship in New Orleans Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, under contract). She is co-editor with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University) of Black Code: A Special Issue of the Black Scholar (2017). Her work has appeared in Slavery & Abolition, The Black Scholar, Meridians: Feminism, Race and Transnationalism, Debates in the Digital Humanities, American Quarterly, Social Text, Forum Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Black Perspectives (AAIHS), and #DHPoco: Postcolonial Digital Humanities, as well as in edited volumes. She is the recipient of research fellowships and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, the Richards Civil War Era Center, and the Africana Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University.
As a digital humanist, Johnson explores ways digital and social media disseminate and create historical narratives, in particular, comparative histories of slavery and people of African descent. She is the founder of African Diaspora, Ph.D. (africandiasporaphd.com), co-organizer of the Queering Slavery Working Group with Dr. Vanessa Holden (University of Kentucky), a member of the LatiNegrxs Project (lati-negros.tumblr.com), and a Digital Alchemist at the Center for Solutions to Online Violence (http://femtechnet.org/csov/).
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CEE Colloquium Series: Environmental and Social Benefits of Shared Mobility
Friday, March 29
12:00 PM
Tufts, Nelson Auditorium (Anderson 112), 200 College Avenue, Medford
Speaker: Elena Renda, MIT
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How AI can make precision public health a reality — the case of saving mothers and babies in rural Northern India
WHEN Friday, Mar. 29, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Global Health Institute, 42 Church Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Education, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Global Health Institute
SPEAKER(S) Sema Sgaier, Co-founder and executive director of Surgo Foundation
TICKET WEB LINK https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg5jvmn2dca1606d&oseq=&c=&ch=
CONTACT INFO Megan Diamond
DETAILS AI can optimize your Google search, but can it optimize a public health intervention using messy real-world data at scale? It is estimated that 830 women die every day from preventable complications related to pregnancy and childbirth and more than five million children die each year before their fifth birthday. Getting women to deliver in hospital facilities instead of delivering at home and ensuring the provision of quality of care are key to address this public health crisis. Using novel data sets and integrating several machine learning approaches, we demonstrate how programs can develop a more precise approach to closing these gaps. Our case study is from India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh where 34 percent more newborns die than in India as a whole, and 55 percent more women die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. The talk will also outline the challenges of working with real world data and discuss innovations that are needed not only on the AI front, but also on the data side.
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The Cannabis Debate
Friday, March 29
12:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
Tufts, Granoff Music Center, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford
The Experimental College at Tufts University presents an interactive panel of experts to examine the brave new world of cannabis.
The Cannabis Debate will feature professionals and scholars from a range of backgrounds, including health, science, law enforcement, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, and government regulation. Together, they will explore cannabis as a sociocultural, medical, legal, and political phenomenon.
No cost to attend, however registration is required.
This is the fifth and final installment of the Voices from the Edge lecture series, made possible by the generosity of Sarah and Tom Janover.
Moderator
Ernest Anemone: Attorney, Advisor for the Cannabis Industry; Co-instructor of the current ExCollege course, The Cannabis Debate: The Intersection of Science, Culture, and the Law
Panelists include
Rachael Rollins: Suffolk County District Attorney
Shaleen Title: Commissioner, Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission
John de la Parra: Ethnobotany Research Scientist, MIT; Associate of the Harvard University Herbaria; Co-instructor of the current ExCollege course, The Cannabis Debate: The Intersection of Science, Culture, and the Law
Aja N. Atwood: CEO and Co-Founder, Trella Technologies, LLC
Andrea James: National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Dustin Sulak: Director, Integr8 Health; Co-founder, Healer.com
David Art: Professor of Comparative Politics, Tufts University
The event features a two-hour panel and two breakout sessions, in which speakers will host smaller discussions with attendees.
Schedule:
Interactive Panel: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Breakout Session 1: 2:15pm-2:45pm
Breakout Session 2: 2:50pm-3:20pm
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The Use of Wearable Sensors and Systems in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitations
3:00pm-4:00pm
BU Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary’s Street, PHO 211, Boston
Sunghoon Ivan Lee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Remote monitoring of functional performance or motor symptoms in patients with brain injuries (e.g., stroke or traumatic brain injuries) and neurological conditions (Parkinson’s disease or ataxia) can provide clinicians with information regarding the real-world impact of the prescribed interventions. Such information has potential to further allow clinicians to administer individually-tailored therapeutic interventions or fine-grained management of the conditions that can maximize patients’ motor performance during the performance of essential activities of daily living (ADLs) and thus, ultimately their quality of life and independent living.
The use of wearable sensors has emerged as an objective tool to monitor upper limb performance (for brain injuries) and motor symptoms (for neurological conditions) in real-world settings. However, current solutions demonstrate a number of technical limitations that hinder the translation and widespread use of wearable sensors in clinical practice. In this talk, I will review state-of-the-art approaches in the objective measurement of real-world upper limb performance and motor symptoms based on wearable computing, followed by our own contributions to the field. Specifically, I will introduce our recent work in 1) novel analytics approaches to extract clinically meaningful information from wearable inertial data, and 2) novel approaches to enable passive (battery-less) wearable sensors to monitor fine-grained hand movements.
Ivan Lee is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering at UMass Amherst. He received his PhD in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science, and MS in Electrical Engineering, all from the University of California Los Angeles in 2010, 2013, and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2016, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.
Ivan is a recipient of the NSF CRII Award and NIH Trailblazer Award for Young Investigators. He is currently an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. He is also serving as an elected Associate Member of the Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and System of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). Ivan has served as technical program committee members and workshop chairs for several flagship conferences in the area of wearable computing and health informatics. Ivan frequently serves on scientific review panels for funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH.
Ivan’s research interests are in Mobile & Personalized Health, focusing on developing wearable sensors and data analytic methodologies to understand the health conditions associated with neurological, neuromuscular, or muscular skeleton disorders. With a primary focus on evolution, his specific research interests include 1) designing and implementing novel sensors and remote monitoring systems that are motivated by practical medical needs, 2) constructing appropriate clinical trials, and 3) analyzing the obtained data to quantify patients’ conditions and validate the systems’ clinical efficacy.
More information at http://www.bu.edu/systems/sunghoon-ivan-lee/
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Green Sage: John Ruskin as Proto-Environmentalist
WHEN Friday, Mar. 29, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Quincy Street & Harvard Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Conferences, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Houghton Library
SPEAKER(S) Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephanie Cardon, Artist, assistant professor in Studio Foundation and Sustainability Fellow, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Sezen Unluonen, Doctoral candidate, Department of English, Harvard University
COST Free; RSVP appreciated
DETAILS Join us for a colloquium on proto-environmentalism in Victorian England.
The Victorian polymath John Ruskin (1819-1900) was among the earliest to recognize the threat posed by industrial and anthropogenic pollutants to the natural world. On the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth, Houghton Library hosts an interdisciplinary colloquium focusing on his prophetic concern for the environment and its continued relevance today.
This colloquium is in conjunction with the Houghton Library exhibition "Victorian Visionary: John Ruskin and the Realization of the Ideal" (on view through April 13). Free and open to the public.
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Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
Friday, March 29
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store welcomes UCLA assistant professor of history KATHERINE M. MARINO for a discussion of her new book, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement.
About Feminism for the Americas
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism. Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens. This Pan-American network drove a transnational movement that advocated women's suffrage, equal pay for equal work, maternity rights, and broader self-determination. Their painstaking efforts led to the enshrinement of women's rights in the United Nations Charter and the development of a framework for international human rights. But their work also revealed deep divides, with Latin American activists overcoming U.S. presumptions to feminist superiority. As Marino shows, these early fractures continue to influence divisions among today's activists along class, racial, and national lines.
Marino's multinational and multilingual research yields a new narrative for the creation of global feminism. The leading women introduced here were forerunners in understanding the power relations at the heart of international affairs. Their drive to enshrine fundamental rights for women, children, and all people of the world stands as a testament to what can be accomplished when global thinking meets local action.
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Saturday, March 30
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The American Chestnut: When Will It Flourish Again?
Saturday March 30
9 to 12:30
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Building, 1300 Centre Street, Roslindale
The American chestnut could be the first tree ever restored to its native forest after a devastating airborne blight in the early 1900s killed billions of trees. An impressive panel of experts discusses the tree’s history and significance, the blight, and ongoing research in blight tolerance that might let it come back. $20, students free.
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Interfaith Solar Workshop
Saturday, March 30
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
44 Moultrie Street, Boston
Across Massachusetts, houses of worship are joining the clean energy movement and using the financial benefits of clean energy to support the communities they serve. Mass Interfaith Power and Light (MIP&L) and Resonant Energy are teaming up to present this workshop to give houses of worship the tools to lead this movement.
Topics that will be covered include:
How to access available incentives
The electricity savings of going solar
Risks and FAQs
Monetize tax credits (without paying taxes)
How to access no-cost solar options
Hear from other congregations that have gone solar
Free lunch and beverages will be provided.
Check out some of the ways that Resonant can help support your congregation here: http://www.resonant.energy/riseupsolar/
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How We Win: A Workshop with George Lakey on Nonviolent Direct Action Campaign
Saturday, March 30
12:30 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Beacon Hill Friends House, 6-8 Chestnut Street, Boston
Cost: $10 – $30
In this participatory workshop led by social movement veteran George Lakey, participants will explore how to use direct action campaigns strategically, including:
choosing the right target
designing a creative campaign
avoiding burnout within your group
building a movement of movements to achieve real progressive victories.
Workshop participants who have read How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning will get the most out of the workshop, but it is by no means a prerequisite. Copies of the book will be available for sale and can be ordered at https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/how-we-win/
Bring a bag lunch and eat in community together at 12:30pm, or arrive by 1pm for the workshop.
This event is cosponsored by Beacon Hill Friends House and the Boston Democratic Socialists of America.
Admission
Admission is on a sliding scale. Recommended range $10-$30; all donations gratefully accepted. Scholarships are available: please email program@bhfh.org. Advance registration is required.
About George Lakey and How We Win
“If you want to be a soldier, you can go to West Point. If you want to be a nonviolent change-maker-- well, this is an awfully good place to start. George Lakey has been near the center of American resistance for decades, and so he has both remarkable stories and remarkable insights—not to mention some remarkable colleagues who add their perspective to this necessary manual.”
-- Bill McKibben, co-founder 350.org
George Lakey, author of How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning, has led over 1500 workshops on five continents. He was first arrested in the civil rights movement and was a trainer for 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. In 2018 he was arrested campaigning for Power Local Green Jobs. In between he gave leadership to campaigns on neighborhood, city-wide, state, national, and international levels, including cross-race, cross-class coalitions and the LGBTQ movement. He co-led strategy workshops with César Chavez. He’s worked with labor unions, Mohawks, high school students, environmentalists, and the Puerto Rican independence movement. He also taught conflict studies at colleges and universities, most recently Swarthmore College, and authored ten books on how to bring about change.
Childcare
Childcare is available by advance request (email program@bhfh.org). Please let us know by March 23 if you need childcare. We will do our best to accommodate you if you make the request afterward, but it can be difficult to find a childcare provider on short notice.
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Women’s History Walk: Visionary Women: Champions of Peace & Nonviolence
Saturday, March 30
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
Cost: $0 – $12
Mount Auburn Staff and Docents will share the stories of the women who they most admire on this walking tour celebrating Women’s History Month. The theme for 2019 is “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace & Nonviolence.” This year we honor women who have led efforts to end war, violence, and injustice and pioneered the use of nonviolence to change society. These Honorees embraced the fact that the means determine the ends and so developed nonviolent methods to ensure just and peaceful results. For more on Women’s History Month Visit the National Women’s History Project.
Experience a deeper connection to Mount Auburn Cemetery with free access to all our public programs and discounts on special events by joining the Friends of Mount Auburn. Our robust roster of programs each year is made possible through your generous support.
Funding for programs has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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Storytelling & Activism: What's Your Truth?
Saturday, March 30
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
The Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
Pilipinx Education, Advocacy, and Resources is an organization in the Boston area that aims to promote Pilipinx culture and history, advocate for the rights of Filipinos in the US and in the Philippines, and provide resources for community empowerment.
PEAR recognizes how art is connected to Activism and Organizing. We are excited to announce a collaboration with Seattle based ARTivist, Sara Porkalob.
Workshop Description:
Storytelling is one of the most rigorous tools we have to fight oppression and social injustice. This workshop provides accessible creative strategies to individuals interested in pairing activism with their specific practice via storytelling. In partner and individual exercises, we will engage in a series of written and performative fast-paced content generative prompts. You’ll learn how to create a dynamic physical world out of nothing and play multiple characters, all the while using YOUR unique strengths and truths to engage your audience towards a shared goal.
Participants will need something to write with, something to take notes with, a water-bottle, and comfortable clothing.
Accessibility:
The Democracy Center is partially wheelchair accessible, no accessible bathroom on site. The Mandela, Parks, and Chavez rooms are accessible, but the Library is not. Wheelchair users are welcome to use the accessible restroom at Daedalus while we plan our improvements for bathroom accessibility. To reach that bathroom, exit the ramp and turn left on Bow St, at the next building (Daedalus) use their accessible entrance and their restroom will be on the right.
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F*ckup Night
Saturday, March 30
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Rosebud Bar and Grill, 381 Summer Street, Somerville
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
-Robert Kennedy
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
-Samuel Beckett
Why do we need to talk about failures more? Watch this TED talk. Then join us for a discussion of failure and the success that can follow.
Why should your failures be mindful?
Come join us for IM's version of F*ckup nite. Bring a failure story from your personal life or business that you would like to share. It can be a huge once in a lifetime failure, or a small thing.
What did you learn? How did it impact your motivation and goals?
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Sunday, March 31
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Entertainment & Media Conference: Evolution in Entertainment
Sunday, March 31
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
Harvard Business School, Spangler Center, 117 Western Avenue, Boston
Cost: $30 – $50
Many forces are shaping the future of entertainment & media: digital transformation, globalization, representation, creative trends, and changing dynamics in media investment. How do we make sense of these forces and contribute to a future where media is enjoyeable, beneficial, and profitable?
Join the conversation at the 2019 HBS Entertainment & Media Conference on March 31, 2019.
Each year, the conference attracts several hundred attendees including professionals, entrepreneurs, technologists, and students from leading MBA programs to be part of an all-day event and discuss the latest trends in the entertainment and media industries.
This year we are excited to have Gigi Pritzker (MWM), Albert Cheng (Amazon Studios), and Courtenay Valenti (Warner Brothers) as our keynote speakers. We are also excited to hear from industry experts such as Chris Moore (writer and producer), Chris Brancato (writer and producer), Craig German (AWS and NBCU), Jean-Luc De Fanti (financier), Jonathan Frank (Fox), Michael Hall (NESN), Morgan Kruger (MWM), Niija Kuykendall (Warner Brothers), and Simon Kinberg (writer and producer)... more to be announced!
Visit https://emconference2019.com/ for more details on the event. We were sold out last year so please secure your tickets early.
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Equinox Lunch/Talk: Marie Manis on 'Values, Choices and Life's Last Chapter'
Sunday, March 31
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
India Pavilion, 17 Central Square, Cambridge
We'll gather to celebrate the recent Equinox, with a Luncheon on Sunday March 31 featuring an Indian buffet meal at the India Pavilion in Central Square Cambridge, followed by special guest speaker Marie Manis.
The topic is "'Should we have CHOICE at the END OF LIFE?': Values, Choices and Life's Last Chapter". Throughout our lives we make important decisions for ourselves: where to study, where to live, with whom to spend our life, what to do for a living. Decisions about our health and well-being -- even at the end of life -- often go on the back burner.
Marie Manis, MA Campaign Manager for Compassion & Choices will share her knowledge and wisdom about one of life’s most important choices - our end of life plans. She’ll also talk about aid-in-dying legislation which is under consideration currently in the MA State Legislature, co-sponsored by more than 60 lawmakers . . . and what you can do to support it.
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape
Sunday, March 31
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Join Porter Square Books for a presentation by Sohalia Abdulali, author of What We Talk about When We Talk About Rape.
Drawing on her own experience, her work with hundreds of survivors as the head of a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with rape as a feminist intellectual and writer, Abdulali tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the confounding way we account for who gets raped and why--and asking how we want to raise the next generation. In interviews with survivors from around the world we hear moving personal accounts of hard-earned strength, humor, and wisdom that collectively tell the larger story of what rape means and how healing can occur. Abdulali also points to the questions we don't talk about: Is rape always a life-definining event? Is one rape worse than another? Is a world without rape possible?
Sohaila Abdulali was born in Mumbai. She has a BA from Brandeis University in economics and sociology and an MA from Stanford University in communication. She is the author of two novels as well as children's books and short stories. She lives in New York with her family.
20% of sales from 3PM-5PM will be donated to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
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Humor for Humanity with Jimmy Tingle: Benefit for Solutions at Work
Sunday, March 31
3 - 5:30pm, Doors open at 2pm
First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Cost: $15 – $325
Includes reception!
Jimmy Tingle is a comedian, commentator and the founder of Humor for Humanity. He was a 2018 candidate for Lt Governor of Massachusetts.
He is a graduate of UMASS Dartmouth and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA). He was the graduate school commencement speaker at Harvard graduation for the class of 2010.
He has worked as a humorist and commentator for 60 Minutes II and MSNBC and has appeared on The Tonight Show, CNN, Conan O’Brien, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and in his own HBO half-hour comedy special. More info at JimmyTingle.com
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BAHfest MIT 2019
Sunday, March 31
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Kresge Auditorium, Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost$5 – $25
BAHFest is a celebration of well-argued and thoroughly researched but completely incorrect scientific theory.
About this Event
BAHFest is a celebration of well-argued and thoroughly researched but completely incorrect scientific theory. Our brave speakers present their bad theories in front of a live audience and a panel of judges with real science credentials, who together determine who takes home the coveted BAHFest trophy. And eternal glory, of course.
BAHFest returns to MIT in conjunction with MIT Lecture Series Committee and Cambridge Science Festival on Sunday, March 31st at Kresge Auditorium. Show begins at 7PM.
Keynote Speaker: John McWhorter
Host: Ben Lillie
Judges: Rosemary Mosco, John Urschel, Deborah Blum, and Ben Tolkin
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Monday, April 1
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Civic Life Lunch - Speaking Out for New York: My Journey to City Hall
Monday, April 1
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Corey Johnson is Speaker of the New York City Council. Since his election to City Council in 2013, Johnson has fought to pass legislation that protects tenants, provides affordable housing, supports victims of domestic violence, ensures resources to combat HIV/ AIDS, and advocates for transgender New Yorkers. Lunch will be provided.
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Life Cycle Assessment for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
Monday, April 1
12:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Joule Bergerson, Associate Professor in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Energy Technology Assessment
Lunch will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
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Cambridge Talks Keynote: Michael Osman
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Monserrat Bonvehi Rosich
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/montserrat-bonvehi-rosich/
CONTACT INFO Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS The historical narrative of digital architecture that has developed in the past two decades has been narrow in scope. Accounts have often focused on North American and European architects using personal computers and modeling software in schools and offices. Other Histories of the Digital aims to expand the discussion. What stories and methods come to the fore as we look at computation as a phenomenon with global reach, and which implicates many media and diverse forms of labor?
Organized by Ph.D. students in the History and Theory of Architecture program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Matthew Allen, Phillip Denny, Christina Shiveres
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Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East, Room 2036, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer D. Oliva, Associate professor of law and public health, West Virginia University and visiting scholar, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
Stephen Wood, Fellow in bioethics, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
J. J. Bartlett, President of Fishing Partnership Support Services
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg5bmaaea3d74801&oseq=&c=&ch=
DETAILS The Massachusetts Department of Public Health estimates that in 2018 alone, approximately 2,000 people died in the Commonwealth from opioid-related overdoses. The overwhelming majority of those who died of overdoses that year tested positive for substances banned under the Controlled Substances Act, such as fentanyl (89 percent), cocaine (48 percent), and heroin (34 percent). This panel will discuss community-driven, evidence-based public health strategies aimed at reducing overdose deaths in hard-to-reach populations in Massachusetts, including fishing families, veterans, and individuals who are incarcerated. The panel will also examine federal, state, and local obstacles that undermine the implementation and success of community-driven approaches to the crisis.
LINK https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/public-health-approaches-to-the-opioid-crises
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Creating an Electric Utility Pathway for Aggressive Carbon Reductions: A Conversation with Xcel Energy
Monday, April 1, 2018
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Webinar
Please join us for the next Blueprint for Clean Energy webinar.
Join our next Blueprint for Clean Energy Webinar, Monday, April 1st, on “Creating an Electric Utility Pathway for aggressive Carbon Reductions: A Conversation with Xcel Energy,” where Lauren Wilson, Environmental Policy Manager at Xcel Energy, will discuss Xcel’s recently announced carbon reduction goals to achieve 80% reductions by 2030 and 100% carbon –free electricity by 2050.
About our speaker:
Lauren is an energy industry professional, working as the Environmental Policy Manager in the Policy and Federal Affairs department at Xcel Energy. In her role, she uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand key State and Federal energy policies, develop corporate positions, and represent the company in key stakeholder groups. Her work covers the gamut of environmental issues including climate policy, air quality, natural gas, water and sustainability more broadly. Among other projects, she works on sustainability strategy, climate leadership strategies, and disclosure to help the company continuously improve and tell its clean energy story.
Lauren has a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor’s in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. She also has four years of experience working for a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. She speaks Spanish and has spent time abroad in Africa and Latin America. In 2009, she lived in Equatorial Guinea, where she was helping the government set up a Social Needs Fund to provide more services to their citizens.
In 2005, Lauren biked across the United States with a non-profit called Bike and Build. They spent 10 weeks of biking and built houses for the local Habitat for Humanity on their days off. She has remained an avid cyclist and supporter of Habitat for Humanity ever since. This bike ride is also where she fell in love with Colorado and what brought her back to Denver nearly 6 years later to start her career in energy policy.
About Xcel Energy:
Xcel Energy Inc. is a utility holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than 3.3 million electric customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico in 2017.
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Next in Data Visualization
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 2:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Research study, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Michelle Borkin, Assistant professor, Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University; co-director, Northeastern University Visualization Consortium
Blacki Migliozzi, Graphics editor, New York Times
Arvind Satyanarayan, Assistant professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Danielle Albers Szafir, Assistant professor, assistant professor of information science and affiliate professor of computer and cognitive science, University of Colorado Boulder
Moderated by Alyssa Goodman RI ’17, Faculty co-director of the science program, Radcliffe Institute; Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
COST Free
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose creative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area.
Innovative data visualization reveals patterns and trends otherwise unseen. The four speakers in this program represent a range of visualization expertise, from human cognition to user interaction to tool design to the use of visualizations in journalism. As data sets in science, medicine, and business become larger and more diverse, the need for — and the impact of — good visualization is growing rapidly. The presentations will highlight a wide scope of visualization’s applicability, using examples from personalized medicine, government, education, basic science, climate change, and more. Register online.
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The Shattered Lens: A Conversation with Jonathan Alpeyrie and Bonnie Timmermann
Monday, April 1
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Northeastern, Alumni Center, Pavilion Room, 716 Columbus Place, 6th Floor, Boston
Join us for a lecture and moderated conversation with journalist and author, Jonathan Alpeyrie and casting director, Bonnie Timmermann. Jonathan Alpeyrie is a war journalist who documented dozens of conflict zones and was held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013. Bonnie Timmerman is an acclaimed casting director and producer instrumental in launching the careers of stars such as Liam Neeson and Saoirse Ronan.
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The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave Community Behind
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, both at the Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016)
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar will be given by Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016).
Lunch will be served. RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Challenges and Pressures Journalist Face in Asia: A Window into the Global Media Landscape
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, 1st Floor, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Esther Htusan, Nieman Foundation Fellow; correspondent for the Associated Press, Myanmar
Yoshiaki Nohara, Nieman Foundation Fellow; reporter, Bloomberg News, Tokyo, Japan
Chair: Nicco Mele, Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, and lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Desert Shield of the Republic? Realism and the Middle East
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Porter, Professor of International Security and Strategy, University of Birmingham
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
DETAILS Please join us! Coffee, tea, and refreshments provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Why are there so few women in tech? How the digital gender gap tells a larger story
Monday, April 1
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Cabot 703, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Discussants:
Kathleen Fisher, Chair of the Computer Science Department
Susan Landau, Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy
Moderated by:
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business
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2019 Cambridge Innovation Party with Cleantech Open
Monday, April 1
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
CIC Cambridge, 245 Main Street, 3rd Floor Kitchen, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-cambridge-innovation-party-with-cleantech-open-tickets-56501861589
$0 – $10
Calling all cleantech entrepreneurs, students, and industry champions–Join us for a night of presentations and networking with some of the leading organizations in the Cambridge cleantech and sustainability innovation ecosystem. Co-hosted by CIC Cambridge, Cleantech Open Northeast, and Sustainable Minds, this event is a great opportunity to learn more about what these organizations are currently doing and all they have to offer. Leave with a handful of new friends and ways to get involved. Pizza will be provided.
We are welcoming the following organizations:
MIT $100k
J-WAFS
MIT Clean Energy Prize
MIT Climate CoLab
MIT Energy Club
MIT Food & Agriculture Club
Cleantech Open Northeast
Sustainable Minds
MIT Water Club and MIT Water Innovation Prize
MIT SOLVE
MIT Waste Alliance
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Design and social justice symposium
Monday, April 1
6:00pm
MIT, Building 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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critical mapping and tactical interventions
Monday, April 1
6:00pm
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Beth Stryker is Co-founder of CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) a platform for urban research, architecture, art, and design initiatives based in Downtown Cairo. CLUSTER has received critical recognition for its work, including a Curry Stone Design Prize (2017), and inclusion in the Egyptian National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016, 2018). Stryker has curated exhibitions and programs for the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival in Cairo, Beirut Art Center, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, the AIA/Center for Architecture in New York (where she held the position of Director of Programs), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among other venues. She is the Executive Director of ArteEast in New York. Stryker received her B.A from Columbia University, and her M.Arch from Princeton University.
ACT Spring 2019 Lecture Series: The Digital Hum of the Long, Slow Now
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Design Activism: Socially Purposed // Purposefully Social
Monday, April 1
6:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT DUSP’s 2019 City Design and Development Symposium focuses on contested design traditions. To be an “effective” designer today who strives to bridge the social world with a constructed one requires a pause — stepping away from the drafting table, digital screens, and design tools — to actively and purposefully engage the public.
As design professionals (and aspiring designers), our participation in the social world and the ways in which we allow design disciplines to directly affect social life must be ever present in our work and reflective practice.
Design Activism: Socially Purposed // Purposefully Social convenes practitioners whose work pushes the boundaries of design advocacy, pedagogical practice, and community engagement to challenge design and the designer’s role in today’s world.
We are collecting questions for the Q&A in advance, add your question, here: http://bit.ly/questionsForQandA
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The Teen Brain: Under Construction
Monday, April 1
6:30pm
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Dr. Leah Somerville
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Change in the Obama Era: A Conversation About Gender Based Violence and Equity
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE The Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response (OSAPR)
Harvard College
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard Law School
Harvard Divinity School
Memorial Church
Women’s Center at Harvard College
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School
The Radcliffe Institute
SPEAKER(S) Lynn Rosenthal, White House advisor on Violence Against Women and policy director for the Biden Foundation’s Violence Against Women Initiatives
Deesha Dyer, Former special assistant to the President and White House social secretary; co-founder of beGirl.world
Bea Hanson, Former director of the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice and current executive director of the Domestic Violence Task Force at the NYC Office of the Mayor
Marylouise Kelly, Former director of the Family Violence Prevention Services Act Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO OSAPR
617.496.5636
osapr.harvard.edu
624 Smith Center, Cambridge
DETAILS April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and you are cordially invited to join the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response for Change in the Obama Era, a reunion of high-profile women who worked in gender equity and against gender based violence during President Obama’s administration.
The conversation will center on U.S. policy initiatives during the Obama era, particularly around the work of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, the White House Council on Women and Girls, and the Working Group on HIV/AIDS and Violence Against Women.
The panel will also cover topics ranging from creating diversity in the workplace to eliminating barriers for gender equity, lethality assessment in cases of domestic violence, and LGBTQ protections. We hope the dialogue will set a tone of hope and aspiration for what passionate and visionary leaders can accomplish when they work together to address complex problems.
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Other Histories of the Digital
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Michael Osman
CONTACT INFO anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS Cambridge Talks 2019
The historical narrative of digital architecture that has developed in the past two decades has been narrow in scope. Accounts have often focused on North American and European architects using personal computers and modeling software in schools and offices. Other Histories of the Digital aims to expand the discussion. What stories and methods come to the fore as we look at computation as a phenomenon with global reach, and which implicates many media and diverse forms of labor?
Organized by PhD students in the History and Theory of Architecture program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Matthew Allen, Phillip Denny, Christina Shiveres
April 1
Ph.D. Colloquium (Stubbins 112)
Keynote (Piper Auditorium): Michael Osman (UCLA)
April 2
Symposium Presentations (Stubbins 112)
Panel 1: Global
The digital is global. Digital processes involve global infrastructures: data centers, trans-oceanic cables, programming outsourced to workers in developing countries. Computers have been used in unique ways by architects the world over. (Is not “global history” always about the details of local contexts?) And yet the modern electronic computer was initially a product of the Anglo-American military-industrial-academic complex. Nevertheless, computation has sometimes been portrayed as a thorn in the side of Western architecture’s canon: data is opposed to precedent, formal logic is set against creative intuition, automation versus autonomy. The computer arrived in architecture offices and schools as no more than (and no less than) a disruptive force. How can reframing the digital as a global phenomenon open up other histories of architecture?
Panel 2: Media
Media techniques, media infrastructures, media regimes: the many overlapping valences of “media” has made the term a favorite among historians seeking to reframe their subjects. At the same time, digital architecture involves one of today’s most ubiquitous mediators: the interactive computer. This poses a wicked problem for historians: potential directions of investigation tend to spiral outward, from mines of rare earth metals and factories producing chips, to corporate offices and management techniques, to manufacturing processes and software ecologies — the list goes on. Within such assemblages, buildings and their architects might begin to disappear as insignificant parts. One thing is certain: history is written differently when it is written from the perspective of media. What should be included in media histories of the digital? And what are the methods to use?
Lunch
Panel 3: Labor
Computation has often been understood as a threat to architecture in a very concrete way: optimizing workflows threatens to make architects obsolete. This has not happened, yet, but digital architecture has employed new forms of labor and redistributed power across the professional landscape. Offices now employ so-called “CAD monkeys” and “digital savants,” and “draftsman” is an anachronistic job description. Hierarchies have not disappeared, and yet authority sometimes consolidates in the hands of whomever “owns” the BIM file. Slick renderings of alluring forms might be all the more effective at occluding abhorrent working conditions than were their hand-drafted equivalents. Historians face their own conundrums in sorting out these issues. How can historians give voice to the voiceless? Where do we find the evidence of practices and thoughts so common as to be left unrecorded?
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Reading Minds & Mastering Gentle Touch: Robotic Futures
Monday, April 1
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
Cost: $15 in advance // $20 at the door. Students w/ID admitted free.
Audience participation is encouraged.
If Eventbrite tickets sell out, seating for walk-ups will unlikely be available due to room size.
Doors open @ 6pm -- Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers -- Presentation starts @ 7pm
A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Bruce Blumberg, Principal UX Engineer Universal Robots
Our intelligence enables us to survive in the physical and social world. While we celebrate our vaunted cognitive abilities, they are a thin veneer for far more impressive abilities: interacting gracefully in the physical world and using pre-cognitive skill in predicting and responding to other social beings.
Bruce believes that physical awareness is a far more difficult and fundamental challenge for robotics than Artificial General Intelligence. The physical knowledge of our bodies, so easily acquired by humans, has proven incredibly difficult for roboticists to program and robots to learn. Deep learning algorithms can probe massive databases a billion times faster than a human, yet the most sophisticated robots struggle in dealing with edges and surfaces. Tasks that seem so easy for dogs and babies to master are baffling the robots.
Yet this seemingly modest goal will likely be easy compared to another challenging functionality – communication. Dogs may lack the capacity for abstract reasoning, but they expertly communicate and share reciprocal affection with their human companions – while ignoring the punches and hair-pulling of the toddler and avoiding Grandpa as he shuffles towards a chair. These talents are very difficult to decompose to the level required for robotic programming. And the learning environment for robotic assistants is unforgiving – one inadvertent physical mishap is one too many.
Yet it seems remarkably easy to fool humans into thinking their robot assistants are sentient –perhaps that will be good enough for the robots!
Join other Long Now Boston enthusiasts as Bruce shares his insights about the human/robot interface and the trajectory of the robotic future. We can envision human lives significantly enhanced by an orchestra of robotic devices with exquisite physical and robust communication skills. The challenges say something profound about the nature of the machines that will increasingly inhabit our world.
The questions we'll explore may include:
Why is moving through the physical world so hard?
What are the ethical and technical challenges to robotic compassion?
What are the key milestones to a highly robotic future?
What should we do now to achieve the best result?
Join the conversation and be part of the solution.
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Tuesday, April 2
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Climate One at Harvard: John Holdren and Gina McCarthy
Tuesday, April 2
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, The Leadership Studio, Boston
With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are issues like economic equity, job security and public health outside the frame of climate action — or fundamental to its success?
Progressive Democrats contend a holistic solution would tackle all of the above. Critics such as former Congressman Barney Frank argue that society can only handle so much change at once. How bold does action need to be to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — and at what cost to citizens? Are environmental justice and human health central to the success of the climate action, or just a nice bonus? How can policy and innovation work together to decarbonize the economy?
Join us for a special recording of the Climate One podcast and radio show at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, featuring Harvard’s John Holdren and Gina McCarthy and hosted by Greg Dalton.
Guests:
John Holdren, Theresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Science Advisor to President Obama
Gina McCarthy, Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Former Administrator, U.S. EPA
RSVP required. Limited Space.
***No late entry. Studio doors close promptly at 10:30am.***
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Solving the Crisis with Opioid and Pain Innovations
Tuesday, April 2
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM EDT
First Floor Cafe, Hale Building for Transformative Medicine, 60 Fenwood Road, Boston
The opioid crisis has been dominating US headlines every day. This crisis has no boundaries when it comes to age group, race, ethnicity or socioeconomic groups. It has made its way into households, hospital emergency rooms, courthouses, and schools and universities across the country, not only directly affecting hundreds of thousands of people, but their families, loved ones and communities as well.
More recently, local communities and government officials have been looking to health care professionals to help address this crisis. Experts in the field have been working tirelessly to create more effective tools, processes, and overall initiatives to help aid the current crisis.
Join the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub and MassChallenge HealthTech as we welcome experts from across Brigham Health and the Boston digital health community to discuss current innovative initiatives and opportunities for innovation in the future of care and pain management. Attendees will also have the chance to learn about the opioid and pain innovation initiative at Brigham Health focused on facilitating collaboration between industry, researchers, and clinicians to eliminate the risk of addiction because of pain.
Keynote Speaker:
Jack Kelly, Author of Sharp Needle
Moderator:
Felice J. Freyer, Boston Globe
Panelists:
Hannah Maniates, Special Project Coordinator, Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Office of Recovery Services
Christian Price, MD, Program Administrative Director, Brigham Health Bridge Clinic
Peter Chai, MD, Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Tuesday Seminar Series: Climate Policy/Politics in Brazil: Recent Trajectories and Prospectives
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Eduardo Viola, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia; Senior Researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS After being the most irrational carbon emitter in the world (1987-2004), Brazil was successful in promoting a dramatic reduction of deforestation in the Amazon in 2005-2012. Because of this the Brazilian government was relatively successful in creating a myth of the country as a climate leader. Emissions from deforestation has been growing again since 2013 and stagnation has been the mark in energy transition. The last years of economic decline, political crisis and widespread corruption have undermined public attention to climate issues. At its beginning the Bolsonaro administration doesn't look climate friendly, it remains to be seen if an eventual success of the Paulo Guedes economic policy and Sergio Moro anti-corruption/crime policy will renew the interest on climate issues among Brazilians with correspondent impact in climate policy.
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From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K252), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Phillip Lipscy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Moderated by Christina Davis, Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
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Health and the Built Environment: Looking to the Future
Tuesday, April 2
1:00PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard School of Public Health Room 1302, Building 1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Michael Brauer, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, will present as part of the HSPH NIEHS Center Colloquium Speaker Series.
Michael Brauer is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at The University of British Columbia and an Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. His research focuses on the built environment and human health linkages, with a specific interest in transportation-related and biomass air pollution, the global health impacts of air pollution and relationships between multiple exposures mediated by urban form and population health. He has participated in monitoring and epidemiological studies throughout the world and served on numerous advisory committees at the international, national and local levels. His work has been recognized by a number of career achievement and publication awards.
Just over 50% of the global population is urbanized, with cities expected to absorb all future population growth. In general, urban populations are healthier, with improved access to services and healthcare. Densely populated cities also play a key role in efforts to reduce emissions related to global warming. Yet, cities face significant challenges, especially those in the rapidly developing megacities of low and middle-income countries. Urban design and management and the ways that we interact with this “built environment” can profoundly influence health. Air pollution, noise, mobility options, and land-use, among others, play a role and interact in multiple, complex ways. Understanding these interactions and using this knowledge to shape our cities as they grow has the potential improve population health and build resilience to climate change. In this presentation, Dr. Brauer will review a number of analyses using cohorts and linked administrative data combined with geospatial estimates of environmental exposure to examine built environment-health linkages, describe emerging trends, and discuss implications for population health.
Contact Name: Monica Russell
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Sustainability, Resilience and Transformation for the Urban Century
Tuesday, April 2
1:00PM
Harvard, Graduate School of Design, Room 111, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thomas Elmqvist, Professor, Stockholm University
GSD Lunchtime Lecture
Contact Name: Alaina Fernandes
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Other Histories of the Digital
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS Cambridge Talks 2019
The historical narrative of digital architecture that has developed in the past two decades has been narrow in scope. Accounts have often focused on North American and European architects using personal computers and modeling software in schools and offices. Other Histories of the Digital aims to expand the discussion. What stories and methods come to the fore as we look at computation as a phenomenon with global reach, and which implicates many media and diverse forms of labor?
Organized by PhD students in the History and Theory of Architecture program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Matthew Allen, Phillip Denny, Christina Shiveres
April 1
PhD Colloquium (Stubbins 112)
Keynote (Piper Auditorium): Michael Osman (UCLA)
April 2
Symposium Presentations (Stubbins 112)
Panel 1: Global
The digital is global. Digital processes involve global infrastructures: data centers, trans-oceanic cables, programming outsourced to workers in developing countries. Computers have been used in unique ways by architects the world over. (Is not “global history” always about the details of local contexts?) And yet the modern electronic computer was initially a product of the Anglo-American military-industrial-academic complex. Nevertheless, computation has sometimes been portrayed as a thorn in the side of Western architecture’s canon: data is opposed to precedent, formal logic is set against creative intuition, automation versus autonomy. The computer arrived in architecture offices and schools as no more than (and no less than) a disruptive force. How can reframing the digital as a global phenomenon open up other histories of architecture?
Panel 2: Media
Media techniques, media infrastructures, media regimes: the many overlapping valences of “media” has made the term a favorite among historians seeking to reframe their subjects. At the same time, digital architecture involves one of today’s most ubiquitous mediators: the interactive computer. This poses a wicked problem for historians: potential directions of investigation tend to spiral outward, from mines of rare earth metals and factories producing chips, to corporate offices and management techniques, to manufacturing processes and software ecologies — the list goes on. Within such assemblages, buildings and their architects might begin to disappear as insignificant parts. One thing is certain: history is written differently when it is written from the perspective of media. What should be included in media histories of the digital? And what are the methods to use?
Lunch
Panel 3: Labor
Computation has often been understood as a threat to architecture in a very concrete way: optimizing workflows threatens to make architects obsolete. This has not happened, yet, but digital architecture has employed new forms of labor and redistributed power across the professional landscape. Offices now employ so-called “CAD monkeys” and “digital savants,” and “draftsman” is an anachronistic job description. Hierarchies have not disappeared, and yet authority sometimes consolidates in the hands of whomever “owns” the BIM file. Slick renderings of alluring forms might be all the more effective at occluding abhorrent working conditions than were their hand-drafted equivalents. Historians face their own conundrums in sorting out these issues. How can historians give voice to the voiceless? Where do we find the evidence of practices and thoughts so common as to be left unrecorded?
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Anna Blom: The Future of Fashion
Tuesday, April 2
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building E14-633, Lecture Hall, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Fashion doesn't only leave sensory imprints—it often leaves dirty footprints. Nowadays, preventing waste and reducing toxic by-products are top priorities for fashion companies that want to remain successful. In this talk, Anna Blom will share personal stories of inspiring people who are changing the industry from the inside, one jumper at a time—and who will change how you view fashion forever. Their vision is a world in which everyone in the fashion supply chain thrives in harmony with our planet. So forget everything you've learned about fashion and fashion consumption in the past. It's time for a new way of thinking about clothes. Get started and find inspiration in the individuals and ideas of this talk.
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A Particulate Solution: Data Science in the Fight to Stop Air Pollution and Climate Change (IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar)
Tuesday, April 2
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building E18-304, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge
Abstract: What if I told you I had evidence of a serious threat to American national security – a terrorist attack in which a jumbo jet will be hijacked and crashed every 12 days. Thousands will continue to die unless we act now. This is the question before us today – but the threat doesn’t come from terrorists. The threat comes from climate change and air pollution.
We have developed an artificial neural network model that uses on-the-ground air-monitoring data and satellite-based measurements to estimate daily pollution levels across the continental U.S., breaking the country up into 1-square-kilometer zones. We have paired that information with health data contained in Medicare claims records from the last 12 years, and for 97% of the population ages 65 or older. We have developed statistical methods and computational efficient algorithms for the analysis over 460 million health records. Our research shows that short and long term exposure to air pollution is killing thousands of senior citizens each year. This data science platform is telling us that federal limits on the nation’s most widespread air pollutants are not stringent enough.
This type of data is the sign of a new era for the role of data science in public health, and also for the associated methodological challenges. For example, with enormous amounts of data, the threat of unmeasured confounding bias is amplified, and causality is even harder to assess with observational studies. These and other challenges will be discussed.
About the speaker:
Francesca Dominici is Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health and co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.
Her research focuses on the development of statistical methods for the analysis of large and complex data; she leads several interdisciplinary groups of scientists with the ultimate goal of addressing important questions in environmental health science, climate change, comparative effectiveness research in cancer, and health policy. Currently, Dominici’s team uses satellite data and multiple data sources to estimate exposure to air pollution in rural areas in the US, in India, and in other developing countries. Her studies have directly and routinely impacted air quality policy and led to more stringent ambient air quality standards in the United States.
Dominici was recognized on the Thomson Reuters 2015 Highly Cited Researchers list, ranking in the top 1 percent of scientists cited in her field. In 2017, she was named one of the top 10 Italian women scientists with the largest impact in biomedical sciences across the world. In addition to her research interests and administrative leadership roles, Dominici has demonstrated a career-long commitment to promoting diversity in academia. For her contributions, she has earned the Jane L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences and the Florence Nightingale David Award. Dominici currently chairs the University Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. Prior to Harvard, she was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also co-chaired the University Committee on the Status of Women. Dominici has degrees from University La Sapienza and the University of Padua.
Press coverage links:
Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-air-pollution-death-20170628-story.html
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/well/even-safe-pollution-levels-can-be-deadly.html?_r=0
Podcast: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/multimedia-article/harvard-chan-this-week-in-health-archive/
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Askwith Forums – We Are What We Love: What Autism Teaches Us About Identity
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Community Programming, Forum, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Askwith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
FEATURED EVENT Askwith Forums
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Special Events
DETAILS Speaker: Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; founder, The Affinity Project; author, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Even from infancy, we know what we like. We know what attracts us, what makes us feel good, what makes us curious about the world. And all those likes and dislikes fit together like puzzle pieces, or patches in a crazy quilt to make up our personalities – literally, who we are.
Many people with Autism Spectrum Disorder find their affinities and home in on them with laser-like intensity. They become experts about the topics and the things that they love; for them, that passion is the primary driver of their days. Being able to meet these individuals where they are – to share their enthusiasms for the things that they love – provides a path toward connection, not just for the differently-abled, but for all of us who can share a love for the world outside us and a respect for what lies within the people around us.
Pulitzer Prize-winning, former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind is the author of six best-selling books. Life, Animated, A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated documentary and recently won the 2018 Emmy for Best Documentary, tells the story of his youngest son, Owen, who, after being diagnosed with autism, found a way to reengage with the world around him through movies. Suskind is founder of The Affinity Project (TAP), which has developed technologies to support neurodiversity and a more humane social media.
This Askwith Forum is being held on World Autism Awareness Day.
PLEASE NOTE: Seating for this forum will be available on a first come, first seated basis.
Note: The Office of Student Affairs will host screenings of Life, Animated, the award-winning documentary based on Ron Suskind's best-selling book and personal experiences. Screenings will take place:
Thursday, March 14 at 4 p.m. in Longfellow Hall 228
Friday, March 29 at 12:30 p.m. in Larsen 203
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Living with White Sharks
Tuesday, April 2
6:00pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Gregory Skomal, Program Manager and Senior Scientist, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
The Cape Cod white shark population has increased in recent years in response to the dramatic increase in the seal population. Shark sightings—some close to popular swimming and surfing beaches—are becoming more frequent and negative interactions between sharks and humans have become a real concern. Gregory Skomal has studied and tracked white sharks in the Atlantic for more than 30 years. In this lecture, he will examine the behavior, ecology, natural history, and population dynamics of this species, and how scientific research can help sharks and humans coexist in the Cape Cod waters.
About the speaker: Gregory Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, and author. He has been a fisheries scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries since 1987 and currently heads the Massachusetts Shark Research Program. He is also adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology and an adjunct scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He holds a M.A. from the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. from Boston University. For more than 30 years, Greg has been actively involved in studying the life history, ecology, and physiology of sharks. He has written dozens of scientific research papers and has appeared in a number of film and television documentaries, including programs for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, BBC, and other television networks.
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For the Love of BUGS! Where have all the insects gone?
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
CiC Venture Cafe (Kendall Square), One Broadway, Cambridge
Cost: $8 – $12
Insects. They are all around us, in our homes, on our skin, in our soil, and buzzing around our ears. They fly, they dance, they sing, they swim, they pollinate. Some are huge and some are too tiny to see with the naked eye. Some we love for their beauty, others for their important ecological function, and others simply annoy us. Regardless, their survival is directly linked to ours (and ours to theirs!) and, unfortunately, many are in steep decline.
The evidence is mounting: the west-coast population of monarch butterflies has fallen by 90% over the last 20 years; the rusty-patched bumblebee, which was once found in 28 states, has declined by 87% in the same amount of time; and flying insects in German nature reserves have decreased by 75% in 27 years. We haven’t even identified all the insects on the planet, let alone their ecological function, yet many are dying with unknown consequences. And yet, you will hear anecdotes of booming insect populations or insects spreading well beyond their historical range, impacting the crops we eat and the forests we rely on.
So, what’s going on, why does it matter, and what can we do about it? Join us at BASG's April 2nd event to find out with featured speakers:
Nick Dorian, Tufts University
Nick Dorian is a second-year PhD student at Tufts University in Medford, MA. He studies native cellophane bees and the impact of landscape change on their populations. Nick’s passion for science communication and outreach leads him to share what he knows about insects and native plant gardening to anyone willing to listen. When he’s not in the field chasing bees, Nick photographs birds, tends to his many gardens, and tries to bake the perfect sourdough bread.
Richard Robinson, Northeast Organic Farming Association
Richard Robinson is a member of the Board of Northeast Organic Farming Association, Massachusetts chapter. With his wife, he runs Hopestill Farm in Sherborn, a certified organic farm where they have been growing organic vegetables, small fruits, and cut-your-own Christmas trees for over 40 years. He is also a science writer, specializing in neuroscience and biomedicine.
Dr. Mario Motta, American Medical Association
Dr. Mario Motta is well known as a doctor and an astronomer. He is a Cardiologist practicing in Salem Massachusetts, and has been in various roles in the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association, including authoring the AMA policy on outdoor lighting while on the council of science. He was elected to be a trustee of the AMA this past year. In 2013, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid in his honor. Dr. Motta will share insights on our night sky and what light is the best for bugs.
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HEET's Annual Fundraiser
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Home of Marilyn Ray Smith and Charlie Freifeld, 100 Goddard Avenue, Brookline
Help HEET Find the Best Path Forward!
April 2, 2019
Help HEET select its future path.
HEET has always rolled up our sleeves to cut carbon. For our second decade, we need help selecting our direction.
Some possible contenders:
Cut emissions from underground gas pipes in half in three years.
Pass a first-in-the-nation bill forcing gas companies to transition to renewables.
Go to Sundance, invited by Rocky Mountain Institute, to work on a revolutionary idea.
Help Merrimack Valley post-disaster to pilot getting off of gas.
Go national, partnered with Harvard, on our chemistry of gas study.
There is so much we have planned, to make a gas-free future, and we can’t wait to share it with you and get your vote on what we should prioritize. With food, drinks, and some surprises.
Join us! Tuesday, April 2 from 6-8:30 at the home of Marilyn Ray Smith and Charlie Freifeld.
Come and feel better about our shared future.
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Fuckup Nights Boston Vol. IX
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
GSVlabs, 2 Avenue de Lafayette, Boston
Cost: $10 – $20
Fuckup Nights is a regular non-profit event that celebrates the mother of all success: Failure! Overnight successes often take many years of trying and experimentation before hitting upon the magic formula.
"Experience is what you get when things don't go as you expected.”
A Fuckup Nights event contains the following three magic elements: Speakers, Beer, and You! The speakers tell a tale from their own experience about a project or a business that they were involved in where things did not quite go as planned. The beer oils the delivery and your acceptance of it. And the final magic element: You, to appreciate, to be entertained, and to learn.
With your modest contribution for the ticket we can make the beer free and pay for the "Hello My Name Is" name tag that you will receive.
Fuckup Nights Boston wants to thank GSV Labs Boston for their kind sponsorship of this event.
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Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 2 (Food, Diet And Climate)
Tuesday, April 2
6:30 pm
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Cost: $15.00
Buy Tickets
A five-part WBUR series in collaboration with Harvard Business School and Boston University Questrom School of Business
Business is the main source of the greenhouse gases that are causing the Earth’s climate to change. Business is also the main source of new products, services and business models that may save us from wholesale climate calamity. This 5-part series, featuring leading thinkers from business, environmental advocacy groups and area universities, will explore what businesses are doing, can do and should do to confront climate change.
Part 2: Food, Diet and Climate
The food industry contributes a lot to the climate change problem, but it also offers solutions. From sustainable supply chains to plant-based burgers with the taste and texture of beef and meat-like protein grown in the lab, new foods are exploding onto restaurant menus and family dinner plates. What challenges are companies facing as they introduce these new foods into the marketplace? How fast can we expect these new foods to catch on? And what are companies that are known for serving traditional meat doing to reduce their carbon footprint? Is big agribusiness getting on board with these changes--or standing in the way?
Panelists:
Bruce Friedrich, Founder and CEO, Good Food Institute
Ayr Muir, Founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab
David Perry, Founder and CEO, Indigo Agriculture
Nicole Johnson-Hoffman, President, Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, former VP of Cargill
Moderator, Barbara Moran, WBUR Senior Producing Editor, Enviroment
Click the links below to purchase tickets to other events in this series.
Part 1: Open for Business?, March 5
Part 3: Climate Politics and Business, April 22
Part 4: The Road Map of the Future: Transportation, May 7
Part 5: Energy Transitions, June 4
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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
Tuesday, April 2
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes quantitative futurist and founder of the Future Today Institute AMY WEBB for a discussion of her latest book, The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.
About The Big Nine
We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we—the everyday people whose data powers AI—aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into—one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM, and Apple—are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.
In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI—the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself—is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.
Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.
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Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others
Tuesday, April 2
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
* Co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School New England Alumni Council
Every day, you have an opportunity to use your voice to have a positive impact--at work or in your community. You can inspire and persuade your audience--or you can distract and put them to sleep.
Nervous, rambling robotic--these presentation styles can ruin a talk on even the most critical topics. And with each weak performance, career prospects dim.
To get ahead and make an impact, you need to deliver well-crafted messages with confidence and authenticity. You must sound as capable as you are.
Public speaking is a skill, not a talent. With the right guidance, anyone can be a powerful speaker. Learn to conquer fear, capture attention, motivate action, and take charge of your career with Speak with Impact. Written by an opera singer turned CEO, speaker, and executive communication coach, the book unravels the mysteries of commanding attention in any setting, professional or personal.
About the Author
Allison Shapira is founder and CEO of Global Public Speaking LLC. A former opera singer and TEDx speaker, she and her team deliver keynote speeches, workshops, and executive communication coaching for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations around the world. Shapira is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, a member of the National Speakers Association, and was a finalist for 2017 Woman Business Owner of the Year by the National Association of Women Business Owners, San Diego chapter. She is also an internationally-renowned singer and songwriter. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Dinner and conversation with Nancy MacLean, author of "Democracy in Chains"
Tuesday, April 2
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Northeastern, 909 Renaissance Park Street, Boston
Join us for a light dinner and conversation about Nancy MacLean's incredible work, "Democracy in Chains".
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"The Experimental City" film screening
Tuesday, April 2
7:00pm to 9:30pm
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
"The Experimental City" is a documentary about the Minnesota Experimental City project, a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota. At the heart of the story is renowned scientist, inventor and comic-strip author Athelstan Spilhaus, who dreams of a new kind of planned city -- a truly experimental city that continuously changes to find workable urban solutions. This new city would employ the newest technologies in communications, transport, pollution control, energy supply -- even large-scale domed enclosure -- in an attempt to create more livable cities for the 21st Century.
It was a compelling vision, with powerful backers, hundreds of experts, and its own state agency. But not everyone fell in line with this newfangled vision for the future...
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Anatomy of a Genocide: Lessons of Studying Mass Murder from Below
Tuesday, April 2
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Northeastern, Raytheon Amphitheater, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, along with several other well-respected scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine. He has written for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
27th Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture
More information at https://www.northeastern.edu/hac/#_ga=2.34023201.1026000035.1551928550-593491830.1457895416
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