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Monday, October 14
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11am Sunrise Movement Teaching Workshop
6:30pm Impacts of the Climate Crisis in our Communities
7pm Climate Grief Listening Circle in JP
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Tuesday, October 15
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11am Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease with Jimmy Crott, PhD
12pm Systems Thinking Webinar: Michael A. Cusumano, “The Business of Platforms”
12pm Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America
12pm Open Doc Lab Talk: Michelle Cortese on Designing Respect for Virtual Reality
12pm Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador
1pm MADMEC Final Presentations and Award Ceremony
3pm Virtual Reality Pedagogical Initiatives across Harvard
5pm Action on Climate Change: The Sustainable Growth Story of the 21st Century
6pm The Changing Face of Poverty: Can Africa Surprise the World?
6pm Lessons Learned in Building Collaborative Cyber Defenses
6:30pm Reparations: A Revolutionary Demand! - Boston
6:30pm Waylaid in Tijuana Documentary Pre-screening
7pm City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
7pm More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
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Wednesday, October 16
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7:30am Boston Sustainability Breakfast
8:30am Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition
11am Weaving indigenous knowledge and science in environmental decision making
11:45am Nourishing Africa's 2.4 Billion People: Leapfrogging Through Innovation and Technology
12pm Engaging citizen scientists: Will the walls of the ivory towers come tumbling down?
12pm From “Fire and Fury” to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
3:30pm Refugees, Cellphones, and Information Precarity
3:30pm When Hackers Attack: A View of the Ensuing Chaos from the Inside
4pm Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive? Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in Europe
4pm The Holy Land of Industrialism: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution
4:15pm Coase, Hotelling, and Pigou: The Incidence of a Carbon Tax and CO2 Emissions
5pm The Immersive Tech Lab at Berklee College of Music
5:15pm The optimum allocation of available budget to joint climate control mechanisms
5:30pm Housing as History: Villa Victoria and the Fenway Community Development Corporation
5:30pm Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
6pm FORUM: A Conversation with Mark Carney and Lawrence H. Summers
6pm Zero Waste Campus Forum (CRC)
6pm Land Loss, Wealth, and Reparations
6:15pm #BUcityplanning Fall 2019 Keynote Lecture: Former Rep. Michael Capuano
6:15pm Immigration Crisis: Lives at Risk at our Southern Border
6:30pm Curious Forms & Other Houses by Sean Canty
6:30pm Panel Discussion: Slavery and Its Legacies at Old North
6:30pm Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination, and Long-Term Thinking
7pm Why Trust Science
7pm Mutants on the Rise: Survival tricks of a flu virus
7pm William Belden Noble Lecture Series: Lecture 1
7pm Ashley LeMieux BORN TO SHINE 10/16
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Thursday, October 17
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8am Beyond 2020 Conference
8:30am Civic Tech Coffee Meet Up
12pm Moral Disruption: Power of Youth to Make Lasting Change
12pm The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health
12pm The Education of an Idealist: A Conversation with Samantha Power
12:15pm Playing with Fire: Provocation, Signaling, and Unwanted Crisis Escalation
1pm The Aftermath of Zika in Brazil
3pm How to Change the World with Shruti Sehra at New Profit
3pm Robotics Connect
4pm Zero Waste Campus Forum (BUMC)
4:30pm ‘Erdogan’s Empire’: Continuity and ‘Revolution’ in Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East?
4:30pm The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
5pm Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
5pm DUSPx + Lightning Talks
5:30pm Does Nature Make Laws?
5:30pm Climate action on the inside: Engaging Representatives on a Green New Deal
6pm No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
6pm Hate Speech and Free Speech in America today
6pm "Freedom from Truth: Self Portraits of Nell Painter”
6pm Our Dogs, Ourselves
6pm Grolier Film Screening & Discussion
6:30pm Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
7pm Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
7pm MORALITY, POLITICS AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS Can Massachusetts Lead the Way Forward?
7pm Getting Smarter about Visual Information with Alberto Cairo
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Friday, October 18 & Saturday, October 19
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Turning Up The Heat: Climate Resilience & Community Engagement
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Friday, October 18
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12pm A tale of two molecules: NH3 [Ammonia] and CH4 [Methane]
12pm Underground markets in mutualisms: making fertilizer from thin air
12pm Rip off or Reasonable? Cities & Corporate Financial Incentives
1:30pm On the Detection of Malware on Virtual Assistants Based on Behavioral Anomalies
2pm Alicja Kwade Panel Discussion: Visibility of Time
2pm Passive House Affordable Multifamily Design Manual Workshop
2:30pm Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
4pm FORUM: A Public Address by Michelle Bachelet: UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
4:30pm EAPS Active Talk Series (EATS): Andrew Babbin and Glenn Flierl
5pm Reimagine This Place
6pm FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience
6pm Facial Recognition as Surveillance: The Need for Public Oversight
6pm LASER Boston – Beauty and the Brain- Exploring the intersection of art, design and neuroscience
7pm The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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Saturday, October 19 - Sunday, October 20
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Hack/ED: Hacking Emergency Care
MICE -- The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
Boston Book Fest
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Saturday, October 19
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9am Careers in Conservation 2019
10am oiConference: The Green Future of Investment
10am 2019 MIT AgeLab OMEGA Summit
11am Twelve Blocks of Boston - A People's Walking Tour
1:30pm Transforming a City: Honoring Boston’s Visionaries
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Sunday, October 20
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11am MassRobotics Robot Block Party
2pm Sunrise Boston Full Hub Meeting
3pm Be the Change: Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Book Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
6pm Healing the Internal and External Landscape - Upper Peruvian Amazon Shamanism
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Monday, October 21
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9am U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee Meetings
11am Environmental and Climate Science Under Attack
11:45am The Energy and Climate Change Puzzle
12pm Theological Bioethics Within Marginalized Communities: Women’s Mass Incarceration and Food Insecurity
1pm The Military-Industrial-Aesthetic Complex: Gyorgy Kepes at MIT
4:30pm What on Earth is Going on With Brexit?
5:30pm The Power of Playful Learning: Creating educational settings that bring “school” and “play” together
6pm Authors@MIT | John R. Blakinger: Gyorgy Kepes
6pm Voices of the Rainforest: Film Screening & Discussion
6pm Six Locked Doors: The Legacy of the Cocoanut Grove
6pm Boston New Technology Artificial Intelligence & IoT Startup Showcase #BNT106
6:30pm Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We
6:30pm The United States and Ukraine: Reflections of an American Diplomat
7pm Axiomatic
7pm Jamaica Plain Solar Meetup
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Tuesday, October 22
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8am TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
8:30am EcoRise: Classroom Grants & Environmental Stewardship
12pm Pathways to Public Service: A Computer Scientist and a Mayor on ways to make service a career
12pm A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It's not fake news if we believe the thread.
1:30pm E2 National Webinar: The Business of Recycling
1:30pm Food Innovation Summit
4pm Excitons for Light and Energy
4:30pm Election Security
4:30pm Europe’s Travails: Forging a French-German Response in an Era of Transatlantic Disequilibrium
5:30pm Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter
6pm There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead
6pm Chat & Chowder with Dr. Angela Stent | Putin's World
6pm Wireless Connectivity: The 6th Sense for Self-Driving Vehicles
6pm Dangerous Exposures: Work and Waste in Victorian Photography & the Chemical Trades
6pm Heritage in Peril – Alternative Approaches to Preservation
6:30pm Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
6:30pm Innovative Models for Resolving Disputes after Mass Disasters and Catastrophic Harms
6:30pm Mystic River Watershed Association Annual Meeting
7pm American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
7pm The Cult of Trump
7pm Technology, Amnesia, & the Future: A Conversation with a Messenger from the Past
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
Donella Meadows' Guidelines for Living in a World of Systems
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Monday, October 14
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Sunrise Movement Teaching Workshop
Monday, October 14
11 AM – 3 PM
encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
Join us to be part of the first ever Education Team Teaching Workshop! This is the first in a series of gatherings aimed at building our communication and understanding skills through the lens of teaching culture.
During the workshop, we'll talk about our educational experiences in life and why they're often not engaging, practice teaching culture, learn to critique without blame, and build a mentality for teaching in our lives and our organizing.
Since this is a longer workshop, we do encourage bringing some food or water for yourself, but vegetarian snacks will be provided! If you've ever been interested in teaching, or want to learn some new skills for your day-to-day organizing, this is the place for you.
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Impacts of the Climate Crisis in our Communities
Monday, October 14
6:30 p.m.
Northeastern, 109 Robinson Hall, 336 Huntington Ave, Boston
Extinction Rebellion MA is joining Northeastern University's Latin American (LASO) and Filipino (Barkada) Student Organizations to discuss the impacts of the climate climate crisis in these communities. Join us on Monday, October 14, 6:30pm, 109 Robinson Hall, Northeastern University. We will cover the latest scientific facts on our climate and ecological emergency, and what we can do to overcome the inability and/or unwillingness of our institutions to effectively tackle this crisis. This event is free and open to the public.
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Climate Grief Listening Circle in JP
Monday, October 14
7 p.m.
14 Miles Street, Jamaica Plain
Gather with fellow human beings to share and connect about the changing climate and its emotional toil.
In our fast-paced, responsibility-driven lives, there is often little space to reflect and process the impact of this profound loss of our shared home and future embedded in this unfolding ecological crisis.
Join with others and fight the temptation to dissociate and wallow in isolation. Together let us find our voice, our power and our common nature.
All all welcome.
Location: 14 Miles St, Jamaica Plain (private home, 2nd floor; 5 min walk from Stony Brook/Jackson Sq on the MBTA Orange Line)
Host contact: Christopher Collins, cmcollins8@gmail.com, 310-600-7562
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Tuesday, October 15
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Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease with Jimmy Crott, PhD
Tuesday, October 15
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge
Cambridge Neighbors, an aging-in-place community, and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University present: Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease with Jimmy Crott, PhD.
Each of us has a unique collection of microbes in your gut that directly influence our health and risk for disease. Learn how to choose foods that are most beneficial to our health.
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Systems Thinking Webinar: Michael A. Cusumano, “The Business of Platforms”
Tuesday, October 15
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday, October 15 at 12:00 PM EDT with Michael A. Cusumano, Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lecture, “The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power,” will summarize key findings from a new book by Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David Yoffie of the same title.
Michael A. Cusumano specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in computer software and Internet services as well as automobiles and consumer electronics. From 2016 to 2017, he served as Vice President and Dean at Tokyo University of Science and Founding Director of the Tokyo Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center, established with support from the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program (MIT REAP). He has lived in Japan for more than eight years, published 14 books and more than 120 articles, and has consulted for approximately 100 companies around the world.
About the series: The MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series, sponsored by the System Design & Management (SDM) program, features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges. Recordings and slides from prior SDM webinars can be accessed on our website: http://sdm.mit.edu/news-and-events/webinars/
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Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Wexner 434, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center
SPEAKER(S) April De Simone
Katie Swenson
Moderator: Miriam Aschkenasy
DETAILS Join us for Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America, a lecture by April De Simone and Katie Swenson, moderated by Miriam Aschkenasy MD, MPH, MPA, Program Manager, Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability.
Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America is an explorative and visioning framework for addressing systemic challenges. These challenges — inequalities in housing, education, income, criminal justice, and health — are far from separate issues. These challenges are rooted in a deep and entangled history of policies, practices and processes that remain unrevealed and misunderstood. As new forces begin to transform cities and towns, decisions about interconnected challenges are, therefore, often made ‘in the dark.’ Gone unanswered are fundamental questions about our communities: how did we get here, and what does that mean for where we are going? Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America explores these reframed opportunities from a shared value perspective, and grounds discussions about race, wealth, opportunity and power in an honest context that is not about guilt and blame. This allows everyone to contribute their value to the design and development of projects, partnerships, and decisions that seek to transform communities and move beyond the challenging and often clouded situation of our entangled past.
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Open Doc Lab Talk: Michelle Cortese on Designing Respect for Virtual Reality
Tuesday, October 15
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E15-318, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge
Virtual reality designers accept the ethical responsibilities of removing a user’s entire world and replacing it with a reality of their own creation. These unique challenges are intensified when virtual experiences become public and socially-driven. As a female VR designer in the age of #METOO, Cortese sees an opportunity to fold the language of consent and body sovereignty into VR design practice to build safer, more accessible, and more inclusive virtual spaces.
This discussion unpacks Cortese’s experience co-authoring “Designing Safe Spaces for Virtual Reality”—a Facebook Research publication and chapter from an upcoming book, Ethics in Design and Communication: New Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London)—and the Facebook Horizon comfort and safety features it helped inspire. Takeaways include: (1) Edward T. Hall’s zones of interpersonal space, (2) ethical responsibilities of designing embodied virtual spaces, (3) body sovereignty ideology as a VR design practice, and (4) specific VR design solutions that promote safety and inclusivity.
Michelle Cortese is a Canadian virtual reality designer, artist and futurist residing in Brooklyn. She splits her professional time between designing VR experiences for Oculus at Facebook and teaching creative technology at NYU Steinhardt. Most of her work investigates the transmutation of communication across new technologies and formats. Michelle was previously a Design Technologist at Refinery29; an Experiential Art Director at The New York Times’ Fake Love; and has exhibited work at CES, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Sundance Film Festival.
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Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Eduardo Montero, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS This presentation examines the effects of cooperative ownership — a form of ownership particularly prevalent in Latin America — on agricultural productivity and economic development. It focus on the 1980 El Salvador land reform program, where properties owned by individuals with cumulative holdings over 500 hectares were targeted for redistribution to the former hacienda workers in the form of cooperatives, but properties belonging to individuals with less than 500 hectares were to remain as privately-owned haciendas. Relative to properties that were never expropriated, the reform cooperatives are (i) less likely to produce cash crops and more likely to produce staple crops; (ii) less productive at cash crops; but more productive at staple crops, and (iii) have higher worker incomes and more compressed wage distributions.
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MADMEC Final Presentations and Award Ceremony
Tuesday, October 15
1:00pm to 2:30am
MIT, Building 6-120, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Materials science can provide solutions for energy storage, building efficiency, transportation, and many other critical needs in today's society. MADMEC invites student teams to develop and build prototypes that address these and more challenges.
Come to 6-120 at 1:00pm to see the inventions and innovations created by MIT students to improve sustainability! Join us afterward for the Awards Ceremony in 6-104, the Chipman Room.
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Virtual Reality Pedagogical Initiatives across Harvard
Tuesday, October 15
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Harvard, Boylston Hall -110 Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Talk and panel discussion detailing innovative applications of VR in pedagogy across Harvard University.
Join us for an overview of virtual reality and pedagogy by VR specialist Rus Gant followed by a discussion with panelists from various disciplines about the affordances of VR in education and the VR pedagogical initiatives taking place across Harvard’s schools. Brainstorm new possibilities for the integration of virtual reality in education.
Sponsored by a HILT Spark Grant.
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Action on Climate Change: The Sustainable Growth Story of the 21st Century
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall (100), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Harvard’s Center for International Development, and Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government; Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO Erin Harleman, HUCE Events Coordinator
617-495-8883
DETAILS Lord Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He was President of the Royal Economic Society (2018-19) and President of the British Academy (2013-2017). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2014).
He has held academic appointments in the U.K. at Oxford, Warwick, the LSE and abroad at MIT, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People’s University of China in Beijing. He was Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1994-1999, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, 2000-2003.
He was knighted in 2004, made a cross-bench life peer in 2007 and appointed Companion of Honour in 2017 for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change.
Lord Stern was Second Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury from 2003-2005; Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa from 2004-2005; Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published in 2006; and Head of the Government Economic Service from 2003-2007.
He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles. His most recent books include "Why Are We Waiting? "The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change" (MIT Press, 2015), followed by "How Lives Change." Palanpur, India and Development Economics (Oxford University Press, 2018).
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The Changing Face of Poverty: Can Africa Surprise the World?
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics, JFK Jr. Forum
Cosponsored by the Belfer Center
SPEAKER(S) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chair of the Board, Gavi, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Former Managing Director of Operations, World Bank, Nigeria’s Finance Minister (2003-2006, 2011-2015)
Moderator: Zoe Marks
COST Free
DETAILS Join us for the 2019 Robert S. McNamara Lecture on War and Peace with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on solutions to global poverty, moderated by Professor Zoe Marks.
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Lessons Learned in Building Collaborative Cyber Defenses
Tuesday, October 15
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Talk by Michael Figueroa, Independent Executive Security Advisor and former Executive Director of the Advanced Cyber Security Center
Each academic year, the Northeastern University’s Center for International Affairs and World Cultures, the Northeastern Humanities Center, and the Department of Political Science host a lecture series focused on “Contemporary Issues in Security and Resilience” (formerly “Controversial Issues in Security and Resilience”).
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Reparations: A Revolutionary Demand! - Boston
Tuesday, October 15
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville
Cost: $5 suggested donation - no one turned away for lack of funds
Uhuru Solidarity Movement presents: Days of Reparations to African People speaking tour REPARATIONS: A REVOLUTIONARY DEMAND
A call for white people to stand in solidarity with African liberation and the Black Power Blueprint.
Featured Speakers:
Omali Yeshitela - Founder of the Uhuru movement, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, creator of African Internationalism, author of several books including Vanguard: The Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution
Penny Hess - Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, author of Overturning the Culture of Violence
Days of Reparations to African People is an annual speaking tour of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement that brings the issue of reparations and African liberation to the white community. It takes the discussion of reparations out of the courtrooms and classrooms and makes it a reality through a people’s movement lead by the black working class.
The Black Power Blueprint is a black-led self-determination project of the Uhuru Movement building economic institutions for the black community of St. Louis to feed, clothe, and house themselves. To learn more go to blackpowerblueprint.org
Uhuru Solidarity Movement is an organization created by the African People’s Socialist Party as a strategy to win white solidarity with black power and white reparations to African people.
#whitesolidaritywithblackpower
#daysofreparationstoafricanpeople
#unitythroughreparations
#reparationsnow
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Waylaid in Tijuana Documentary Pre-screening
Tuesday, October 15
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Tufts, Asean Auditorium, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
The Henry J. Leir Institute of Fletcher, in partnership with Tufts Latin American Studies, FLAG, and IMG, will present a documentary film which tells the story of Haitians and Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States whose journeys are disrupted by sudden changes in US policy.
Produced by Professor Katrina Burgess from the Fletcher School. Directed by Tim Ouilette from Northeastern University. The event will include a conversation with the production team and special guest Father Pat Murphy, Director, Casa del Migrante, Tijuana.
Audience members are invited to provide feedback in a live poll and should bring a phone or laptop to participate.
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City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
Tuesday, October 15
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes leading urban planner and scholar ALEX KRIEGER for a discussion of his new book, City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities.
About City on a Hill
The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment.
The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal―one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare―and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas.
Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.
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More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
Tuesday, October 15
7:00 PM EDT
First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Cost: $6 – $29.75
Harvard Book Store welcomes Andrew McAfee, bestselling author and a principal researcher for MIT, for a discussion of his latest book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next.
Tickets are available online only. All tickets for this event include a $5 coupon for use in the bookstore. Pre-sale tickets include a copy of More from Less. Books bundled with pre-sale tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.
Learn more at http://harvard.com/events/andrew_mcafee
Tickets are non-refundable and non-returnable.
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Wednesday, October 16
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Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, October 16
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT
Pret A Manger, 101 Arch Street, Boston
Join us every month for Net Impact Boston's informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals for networking, discussion, and moral support. It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good! Feel free to drop by Pret a Manger any time between 7:30 and 8:30 AM.
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Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition
Wednesday, October 16
8:30am to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 46, Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join hundreds of colleagues as 10 speakers from around the country and the world discuss the latest research underlying brain function.
Speakers list:
Jessica Cardin, PhD, Yale University
Martin Fuhrmann, PhD, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lisa Giocomo, PhD, Stanford University
Michael Halassa, PhD, MIT
Christopher Harvey, Harvard University
Thomas McHugh, PhD, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Elly Nedivi, PhD, Picower Institute at MIT
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Mu-ming Poo, PhD, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai
Andreas Schaefer, PhD, Francis Crick Institute
Registration is free, but is required.
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Weaving indigenous knowledge and science in environmental decision making
Wednesday, October 16
11:00am to 12:00pm
MIT Media Lab, Building E14 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Join us on Wednesday at 11am in the E14 3rd floor atrium for a talk with Doug Jones, General Manager Māori at the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority, on the opportunities and challenges of integrating indigenous knowledge into environmental decision-making. By identifying shared values and concerns using language that avoids forcing people to choose sides, Doug is working to bridge cultural and philosophical divides over certainty, reductionism, genome engineering, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
Doug Jones in conversation with Kevin Esvelt
The New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has committed to a mātauranga (Māori indigenous knowledge) work programme that focuses on ways of weaving mātauranga into its decision-making processes. The aspiration is to weave an understanding of mātauranga into the daily work of the EPA, and to build on Māori partnerships to better protect the environment. The EPA has engaged proactively with Ngā Kaihautū Tikanga Taiao—its statutory Māori advisory committee, Te Herenga—the Māori national network centered in the regions, and Ngā Parirau o te Mātauranga—a group of elders who are treated as trusted advisors. One of the most critical strands of the mātauranga programme is creating an understandable framework for use by decision-makers, to examine the veracity of mātauranga when presented as evidence for environmental consent applications.
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Nourishing Africa's 2.4 Billion People: Leapfrogging Through Innovation and Technology
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Ndidi Nwuneli, Founder, LEAP Africa
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar, given on World Food Day, will be led by Ndidi Nwuneli, former M-RCBG senior fellow and Founder of LEAP Africa. Lunch will be served.
RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Engaging citizen scientists: Will the walls of the ivory towers come tumbling down?
Wednesday, October 16
12:00 p.m. ET
Webinar
Chris Lintott, Ph.D., Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Renata van der Weijden, Ph.D., University College Roosevelt, Middleburg, The Netherlands
François Taddei, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Paris, France
Olivier Le Gall, Ph.D., INRA Bordeau, Bordeaux, France
Moderated by Sean Sanders, Ph.D., Science/AAAS, Washington, DC
Science is meant to serve and advance humanity. For more than 200 years, however, it has been conducted only by scientists, making it the domain of the highly (some might say over-) educated. An exclusive club, science is most often cloistered in the ivory towers of academia. While some argue that this exclusivity is critical for the success of science, we also live in a world where openness and accessibility are increasingly valued. Yet accrediting members of the public with the label “scientist” could be viewed as a threat to the closed system that keeps scientists in their privileged position. Fortunately, optimism has won the day as the scientific community, through the power of the Internet, has begun to embrace members of the public as scientific partners. Citizen scientists have been engaged to measure bird migration, the proliferation of plastics pollution, and disease outbreaks. As a scientist, are you afraid of competition from members of the public? If you are a member of the public, would you like to join this movement? Listen in as a group of citizen science gurus discusses its pros and cons. Together, let’s change the world for the better.
This webinar will last for approximately 60 minutes.
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From “Fire and Fury” to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 308, Morgan Courtroom, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR East Asian Legal Studies, HLS
Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund, Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
SPEAKER(S) John Park, Director, Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
DETAILS EALS Lunchtime Talk Series
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Refugees, Cellphones, and Information Precarity
Wednesday, October 16
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
BU, 640 Commonwealth Avenue (COM), Room 209, Boston
Dr. Dana Janbek: Master Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations
Based on years of field research with refugees, NGOs, and volunteers, Dr. Janbek will give an overview of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis and the conditions under which refugees live in urban areas and refugee camps in Jordan and Germany. The presentation will explore how information and communication technologies, especially cellphones, are used during refugees’ migration journeys and while navigating displacement to overcome information precarity.
Contact Name Susie Blair, Lab & Research Manager
Phone 6173581300
Contact Email susieb@bu.edu
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When Hackers Attack: A View of the Ensuing Chaos from the Inside
Wednesday, October 16
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm on
BU, Seminar Room, Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston
Please RSVP to tgabs@bu.edu
This Cyber Alliance talk, featuring Cyber Security Affairs CEO and Pepperdine Adjunct Hemu Nigam, will explore the chaotic and conflicting challenges that arise inside a company when hackers attack or a critical privacy breach occurs. These events trigger concerns including legal compliance, public relations management, and protection of the interests of stakeholders, including customers and employees. Mr. Nigam will describe the typical reactions of key decision-makers within a firm—the CEO, CTO, CSO, CMO, CFO, GC, PR, and employees—and will consider the legal and economic incentives that shape their behavior.
Mr. Nigam will also explore the gap between perception and reality in corporate leaders' views about the stakeholders they are serving, as well as the reasons for this gap and what can be done about it. He will showcase the events that take place prior to the first press release or statement about an attack, including efforts to change the narrative. Never is there a more clear intersection of technology, policy, and law, than when hackers attack. The question is, how does one balance the fundamental challenges of today's digital and physical worlds while ensuring one's business can survive and continue to thrive?
There will be time for casual conversation and light refreshments before and after the presentation.
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Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive? Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in Europe – A Lecture by Bart Bonikowski
Wednesday, October 16
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
BU, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor), Boston
Despite the centrality of national identity in the exclusionary discourse of the European radical right, scholars have not investigated how popular definitions of nationhood are connected to dispositions toward Muslims. Moreover, survey-based studies tend to conflate anti-Muslim attitudes with general anti-immigrant sentiments. Bonikowski demonstrates that varieties of national self-understanding are predictive of anti-Muslim attitudes, above and beyond dispositions toward immigrants. Moreover, conceptions of nationhood are heterogeneous within countries and their relationship with anti-Muslim attitudes is contextually variable. Consistent with expectations, anti-Muslim attitudes are associated with “thicker” conceptions of nationhood in most countries. In Northwestern Europe, however, it is civic nationalism that is linked to greater antipathy toward Muslims. He suggests that in this region, elective criteria of belonging have become fused with exclusionary notions of national culture that portray Muslims as incompatible with European liberal values, effectively legitimating anti-Muslim sentiments in mainstream political culture.
Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and Resident Faculty at the Minda the Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Relying on surveys, large-scale digital data, and experimental methods, his research applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on populist claims-making in political discourse and the political implications of nationalist beliefs.
More information at https://www.bu.edu/european/news/calendar/?eid=229714
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Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture: The Holy Land of Industrialism: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Economics Department
SPEAKER(S) Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
CONTACT INFO Claire Paddock:
617-495-2144
DETAILS Each semester the Department of Economics hosts the Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture. This fall, Professor Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) will be the speaker. The title of his talk is "The Holy Land of Industrialism: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution.”
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Coase, Hotelling, and Pigou: The Incidence of a Carbon Tax and CO2 Emissions
Wednesday, October 16
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Geoffrey Heal and Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054
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The Immersive Tech Lab at Berklee College of Music
Wednesday, October 16
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Immersive Tech Lab at the Berklee School of Music, 150 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
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The optimum allocation of available budget to joint climate control mechanisms
Wednesday, October 16
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM EDT
MIT, Building 66-110, Landau Building, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
John Deutch, Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In this seminar, Institute Professor Emeritus John Deutch will introduce a model that couples the modes of action of four different climate control mechanisms—emission reduction, CO2 removal, adaptation, and geoengineering—that can help limit future increases in average global temperature. The model solves for the optimal allocation of available budget to these different control mechanisms over their entire range of action. The results provide powerful insights into the factors that influence efficient climate control deployment and point to research needed to improve understanding.
About the speaker: John Deutch is an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970, and has served as chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science , and Provost. Deutch has published over 160 technical publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues. He is an active member of the MIT Energy Initiative and a faculty associate of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy.
Reception with light refreshments will follow.
Please note that we will open our doors to unregistered participants 15 minutes before the event start time. To guarantee your seat, we recommend you register and arrive at least 15 minutes early.
If you are not able to attend, note there will be a high-quality recording of this seminar made available on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/MITEnergyInitiative) about a week following the event.
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Housing as History: Villa Victoria and the Fenway Community Development Corporation
Wednesday, October 16
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Blackstone Community Center, 50 W. Brookline Street, Boston
In the 1960s and 1970s Boston struggled to stem urban flight and a landscape of deteriorating housing stock. Massive redevelopment projects, such as the razing of the West End, sent shockwaves through the city. By the mid-1960s, the South End found itself the focus of redevelopment plans. A group of mostly Puerto Rican residents began to meet and then incorporated as the Emergency Tenants’ Council, which became Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Inc. (IBA). In 1969, following a widespread campaign, the IBA won the right to serve as the developer for their neighborhood and; using the architecture of Puerto Rico as inspiration, built Villa Victoria. A few years later and few blocks away, the Fenway neighborhood faced the Fenway Urban Renewal Plan (FURP), which planned to clear sections of the neighborhood. local residents sued the city to block FURP and won the right to have a neighborhood-elected board become part of the decision-making process. Out of these efforts came the Fenway CDC with a mission to develop and maintain affordable housing and advocate on behalf of a vibrant and diverse community.
Please note: This program will be held at Blackstone Community Center, 50 W. Brookline St, Boston, MA 02118.
This discussion will be led by Mario Luis Small, Grafstein Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Mathew Thall, founding Executive Director, Fenway Community Development Corporation; and Mayra I. Negrón-Roche, COO, IBA - Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción
This program is made possible by the generosity of Mass Humanities and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
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Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Wednesday, October 16
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Tufts, Cabot 703, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a conversation with Serhii Plokhy about his book Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (2018). The book talk will be accompanied by a screening of selected scenes from the critically acclaimed HBO historical drama television miniseries Chernobyl (2019), created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite.
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist Party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else.
Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has lived and taught in Ukraine, Canada, and the United States. Plokhy is the author of ten books, including the award-winning The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2015), which received the Lionel Gelber Prize, the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize and the Antonovych Ukrainian Book Prize.
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FORUM: A Conversation with Mark Carney and Lawrence H. Summers
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer 145 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S) Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of England; Chair, Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee and the Board of the Prudential Regulation Authority
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/436772240288436/
CONTACT INFO rsvp_iop@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS A conversation with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and Professor Lawrence H. Summers on the new international order.
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Zero Waste Campus Forum (CRC)
Wednesday, October 16
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
BU, 1 Silber Way, Metcalf Trustee Center, Boston
Do you want to help BU reduce its environmental impact? We want to hear from YOU!
One of the recommendations of the Climate Action Plan is for the University to pursue a goal of zero waste. In response, sustainability@BU has recently assembled a Zero Waste Implementation Task Force, consisting of approximately 50 staff, faculty, and students from different areas of the University. Over the next five months, they are tasked with developing recommendations and clear actions the University can take to meet this goal.
We are hosting two Zero Waste Campus Forums in order to incorporate essential and valuable insight from our community in our planning process.
Are you interested in learning more about zero waste and what BU is planning? Do you want to get involved in shaping BU culture around waste, recycling, composting and more? Come participate in one of our forums this October to share your thoughts and help BU become a leader in redesigning our resource lifecycles.
The forums are open to all BU community members.
Snacks provided. We encourage you to bring a travel mug to help reduce waste.
Hope to see you there!
Forum Structure:
1.What is “zero waste,” why you should care, and what BU is doing
2.Zero Waste Implementation Task Force Co-Chairs present initial ideas
3.Breakout sessions - share feedback and bring your own ideas to the table
4.Present ideas to the group
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Land Loss, Wealth, and Reparations
Wednesday, October 16
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Austin Hall, Cambridge
The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic Presents Land Loss, Wealth, and Reparations
Black farmers owned over 16 million acres of land in 1910, a time when black families owned “the largest amount of property they would ever own in the United States,” according to one scholar. These farmers were often respected in their communities, held civic leadership positions, and many were civil rights activists. Yet by the end of the 20th century, almost all black owned farmland—and the way of life—was gone. Black farmers faced widespread discrimination and violent reprisal from local white residents, as well as federal policy designed to drive them out of business.
We invite you to join us on October 16, 2019, for a panel presentation on black land loss, wealth, and reparations. The panel presentation is hosted by Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and will be held in Harvard University’s Austin Hall North at 6:00 pm.
The panelists will discuss their research estimating that black farmers have lost hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of land and income as a result of discrimination, the impact this loss has had on racial wealth inequality, and efforts to address these disparities through legal reform, certain policy initiatives, and reparations.
Panelists include:
Dania Francis, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University.
Thomas Mitchell, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, Texas A&M University School of Law.
Bryce Wilson Stucki, independent researcher and journalist
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#BUcityplanning Fall 2019 Keynote Lecture: Former Rep. Michael Capuano
Wednesday, October 16
6:15 PM to 7:30 PM
BU, College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, CGS 511, Boston
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Immigration Crisis: Lives at Risk at our Southern Border
Wednesday, October 16
6:15 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Courtyard Marriott Downtown Boston, 275 Tremont Street, (near the Boylston St/Green Line and Tufts Medical Center/Orange Line T Stations), Boston
Join us for a conversation with people on the front lines
Every day, we are bombarded with news reports of a new policy or program intended to stop migration across our southern border. These policies are putting lives at risk as God’s people seek a new life of peace, hard work, and prosperity in the United States. In Massachusetts, thousands of miles away, we sorrow for them and we empathize with them. But we struggle with how to help them.
Please join us for a conversation with people on the front lines, helping those seeking a better life to safely immigrate to our country. From this conversation, you will hear firsthand stories about the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, connect with others committed to standing up for the human dignity of all God’s people and learn what you can do to make a difference.
We will hear from:
Father Pat Murphy is the Director of the Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico a house for 150 for migrants and refugees. He was ordained a priest in 1980 and since then his ministry commitments have been mostly with the Hispanic community in places like Chicago, Los Angeles and Kansas City.
Iván Espinoza-Madrigal is the Executive Director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, the organization that filed the first lawsuits in the country against the Trump Administration to protect sanctuary cities; to save temporary protected status on behalf of Honduran and Salvadoran immigrants; and to block immigration arrests in courthouses.
Westy Egmont is Professor Emeritus of Macro Practice at the Boston College School of Social Work. With a Doctor of Ministry and experience both in pastoral counseling and executive leadership at anti-poverty social service agencies, Egmont has focused his work on the human needs and social services of newcomer communities, immigrant rights, and the complex, dynamic process of immigrant integration.
This event will also be live-streaming beginning at 6:30PM EST at www.faith-justice.org
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Curious Forms & Other Houses by Sean Canty
Wednesday, October 16
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
ArtScience Culture Lab & Café, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
Sean Canty will present six design proposals of recent work from his independent practice, Studio SC. Curious Forms & Other Houses is a collection of work and research which explores the formal, spatial, and perceptual misalignment's between geometry and building typology as a speculative process of design. The work draws inspiration from conceptual frameworks found in art and architecture as well as techniques of descriptive geometry. These frameworks and techniques are combined to complicate disciplinary ideas around building organization with artistic practices around shape, form and perception. Through these convergences of geometry and typology, new architectural typologies can curiously call into question assumptions embedded within existing typologies, while playfully speculating on the production of other typologies.
Sean Canty's biography
Sean Canty is a Designer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and teaches architectural design in the Core Design Studios.
Canty's teaching, research and practice explores unexpected forms of visuality, motivated by architectural type and geometry. Exploring the interrelationships between interior, envelope, and building, Canty explores montage as a spatial practice.
Sean directs Studio SC and is also one of the founding principals of Office III, an experimental architectural collective based in New York, San Francisco and Cambridge. Office III was selected in November 2016 as a finalist for the Young Architect's competition at MoMA PS1. They have also recently completed the Governors Island Welcome Centre for The Friends of Governors Island and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the storefront for art and architecture, the Cooper Union, and the A+D Museum in Los Angeles. Before establishing these two respective practices, Canty was a project Designer at IwamotoScott Architecture in San Francisco, during which he led projects including the Pinterest headquarters, Bloomberg TechHub, The Goto House, Noe Valley Residence, and HeavyBit Industries.
Canty has been a Visiting Professor at the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and a Lecturer at both the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and The College of Environmental Design at the University of California Berkeley. He received a MArch from the GSD and BArch from California College of the Arts.
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Panel Discussion: Slavery and Its Legacies at Old North
Wednesday, October 16
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Old North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston
An inside look into how a historic site comes to terms with information that alters its self-identity, its interpretation, its public face
Slavery and Its Legacies at Old North: Confronting the Past, Envisioning the Future
Speakers: Jared Hardesty, PhD, Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University; Jonathan Chu, PhD, Professor of History at UMass Boston; Madeleine Rodriguez, JD, associate at Foley Hoag in the Litigation Department; and the Rt. Rev. Gayle E. Harris, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Captain Newark Jackson was a merchant, mariner, and congregant of Old North Church in the 1730s and 1740s who made and sold chocolate near Clark’s Shipyard in the North End. In 2013, Old North Church & Historic Site opened a living history chocolate experience named after the seemingly innocuous seafarer and cacao importer. Over the past seven years, Captain Jackson’s Historic Chocolate has become an integral part of the historic site and a beloved gem along the Freedom Trail. The story of colonial chocolate and Jackson is woven into the story of Old North Church. In 2016, historian Jared Hardesty became intrigued with this man about whom very little was known. So began a three-year international research project that revealed significant insights into Old North’s past that affects its future. Jackson’s personal history, as that of Old North and the city of Boston, reveals a complicated past involving slave owning and slave trading that weighs upon the present and alters our sense of ourselves.
Join us for an inside look into how a historic site comes to terms with information that alters its self-identity, its interpretation, and its public face. The panelists – two historians, a lawyer, and a bishop (three of whom are Old North board members) – weave together their differing perspectives and areas of expertise to illustrate the complexity of past narratives, the impact of the past upon the present, and the necessity of history in correcting a fractured identity.
There will be plenty of time for Q&A at the end, and the community is invited to weigh in on the research revealed.
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Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination, and Long-Term Thinking
Wednesday, October 16
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Emerson College, Jackie Liebergott Black Box theatre, 559 Washington Street, Boston
Join Emerson College and Long Now Boston for a conversation on "Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination, and Long-term Thinking."
Join Emerson College, Media Art Gallery and The Long Now Boston for a provocative conversation about indigenous science fiction, the imagination, and long-term thinking. Featured speakers are artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and author Dr. Jimena Canales. Both speakers are concerned with the nature of time – historic, present, and future – and how science/fiction, storytelling and long-term thinking intersect.
The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury, Henry and Lois Foster Chair of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College.
This event is co-presented by Long Now Boston, an organization that fosters long-term thinking on the local and global level. They encourage individual and collective responsibility in a time-scale of the next ten thousand years, and offer tools and resources to our future leaders.
Reception 6:30-7:30pm and Talk 7:30-8:30pm.
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition FUTURE ANCESTRAL TECHNOLOGIES nágshibi, featuring new art work by Cannupa Hanska Luger on view at Emerson College's Media Art Gallery October 17- December 15, 2019. Future Ancestral Technologies is an approach to making art objects, videos, and performance with the intent to influence global consciousness. This Indigenous-centered science fiction uses creative storytelling to radically reimagine the future. Moving sci-fi theory into practice, this methodology conjures innovative life-based solutions that promote a thriving Indigeneity. **An optional exhibition preview will follow the talk.
SPEAKER BIOS
Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel and repurposed materials, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity. Luger lectures and produces projects around the globe and his work is collected internationally. He is a 2019 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, a 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Honoree and the recipient of the 2018 Museum of Arts and Design’s inaugural Burke Prize. Luger holds a BFA in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Dr. Jimena Canales is an expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences, working for a better understanding of science and technology in relation to the arts and humanities. Her book, A Tenth of a Second: A History explored the relation between science and history as one of the central intellectual problems of modern times. Her second book, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time explores the nature of time, the meaning of relativity, and the place of philosophical thought in a scientific age. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of Science and a BSC in Engineering Physics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
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Why Trust Science
Wednesday, October 16
7:00PM TO 8:30PM
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
Naomi Oreskes
Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, Oreskes explains that, contrary to popular belief, there is no single scientific method. Rather, the trustworthiness of scientific claims derives from the social process by which they are rigorously vetted. This process is not perfect—nothing ever is when humans are involved—but she draws vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong. Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy. Based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University, this timely and provocative book features critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.
About the Author: Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her books include The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future and Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Twitter @NaomiOreskes
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Mutants on the Rise: Survival tricks of a flu virus
Wednesday, October 16
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium (in Goldenson Hall),200 Longwood Avenue,
Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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William Belden Noble Lecture Series: Lecture 1
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, The Memorial Church Sanctuary, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Memorial Church of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-5508
DETAILS Presented by the 2019-2020 William Belden Noble Lecturer in Residence, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock. Rev. Warnock is Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A national voice on social justice issues such as voting rights and criminal justice, Rev. Warnock will deliver four lectures over the course of the academic year on Oct. 16, Nov. 20, March 11, and April 22. All lectures will take place at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Church Sanctuary and are free and open to the public.
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Ashley LeMieux BORN TO SHINE 10/16
Wednesday, October 16
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Cost: $15
Seating space for this reading is limited.
Attendees who purchase signing line tickets may not enter the 7pm reading but can listen to Ashley's talk over the loudspeakers upstairs, then meet the author and get their book autographed afterward.
Born to Shine is a story of loss, resilience, and the life-changing lessons found in the darkest seasons of life.
When Ashley LeMieux and her husband lost their children in an adoption battle, it sent her into a tailspin that, ultimately, taught Ashley how to soar. Most people live with constant fears, burdens, and pains. Born to Shineshares Ashley’s message of hope for women brave enough to say that everything is not okay. The message is also for those who want the courage to believe they are not done yet—the unique message that acknowledges the overwhelming truth that even when life is in ruins, people can still shine. Born to Shine tells the LeMieux’s story in installments with alternating chapters and practical applications in between. It shares stories, lessons, and practical tools to help women shine despite the darkness, to press forward one day at a time even when there is no end in sight, and to turn their most painful moments into their greatest teachers and signposts to true, deep, unassailable joy.
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Thursday, October 17
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Beyond 2020 Conference
Thursday, October 17
8am - 7pm
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), 245 Main Street, Cambridge
Innovations in emerging technologies, services, and programs for blindness and low vision. OCTOBER 17, 2019
Brief Description: This day conference invites members of the blind and low vision community, organizational leaders, technologists, entrepreneurs and government leaders to learn, discuss and share ideas about innovative programs, services and emerging technologies that are advancing and empowering the blind and low vision community. The event will host panel discussions, talks and demonstrations. The conference will conclude with a social mixer and exhibits.
Join experts, clinicians, innovators leading companies and influencers to share ideas, experiences and our passion for assistive technology and services at the all new Beyond 2020 Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Who - Members of the blind and low vision community; professionals in the field, innovators, caregivers and family.
Why - Empower those with blindness and vision loss; Educate the fully sighted
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Civic Tech Coffee Meet Up
Thursday, October 17
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EDT
District Hall Boston, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Creating space for innovators who want to discuss the vital relationship between people, technology, and civic engagement.
Venture Cafe New England is excited to continue hosting Civic Tech Coffee at District Hall in the Boston Seaport! We look forward to providing space for innovators who want to improve the relationship between citizen and government, and the role technology serves in creating better outcomes for communities.
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Moral Disruption: Power of Youth to Make Lasting Change
Thursday, October 17
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Dowling Hall, Room 745B, 419 Boston Avenue Medford, Medford
Saya Ameli Habani, Sunrise Movement
According to the UN’s IPCC report, we only have 11 years left to solve the climate crisis, the urgency of which has given rise to a new youth-powered movement determined to ensure this deadline is met by the U.S. government. The Sunrise Movement has been at the forefront of the fight to unite the interwoven complexities of climate justice and a widespread economic shift towards sustainability. The movement that hosted a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s office alongside Alexandria Ocasio Cortez when she first proposed the Green New Deal on Nov. 24th, 2018, has since empowered and mobilized thousands and thousands of youth to take action. This talk will discuss the emerging shift in our political atmosphere as we move away from a passive approach to solving the climate crisis and towards an ambitious plan to secure a green future, while elucidating how the Sunrise Movement has been instrumental in initiating a diverse campaign led by young people, normally left unheard in politics, towards a national transformation of the U.S. economy.
Saya Ameli Hajebi became an environmental activist soon after she stepped off the long plane ride from her birthplace in Tehran, Iran. After experiencing pollution so extreme that her school was often cancelled due to the exposure risk, she was determined to put a stop to climate change alongside her peers. After establishing a
composting system at her High School and expanding the program to local elementary schools with the Brookline High School Environmental Action Club, she joined the Sunrise Movement. She has since helped organize a number of Youth Climate Strikes
outside the MA statehouse, and co-leads the local press/media team at the Sunrise Boston Hub. She is also a national Spokesperson and trainer for the Sunrise Movement, and has represented Sunrise on various media outlets including the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Univision News and Buzzfeed News.
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The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health
Thursday, October 17
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, Boston
Informality -- the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside legal and regulatory frameworks or outside the modern economy -- is considered one of the most difficult challenges facing developing countries. Informality not only reflects underdevelopment but may also lead to further economic decline. This presents two questions: what is the role of informality in socioeconomic development, and how does informality influence welfare and sustainability? This seminar brings together thought leaders on different aspects of informality and sustainability, thus facilitating a discussion around these issues vis-à-vis the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a view of forging a conversation around meaningful and timely solutions to the challenge of informality.
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The Education of an Idealist: A Conversation with Samantha Power
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Malkin Penthouse, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of the Practice of Human Rights at Harvard Law School, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
DETAILS The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs welcome Samantha Power for a discussion of her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist. Power, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of the Practice of Human Rights at Harvard Law School. Power will be joined in conversation with Director of the Belfer Center and former United States Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter.
The event will be followed by a book signing. Please note that while books will not be available for purchase at the event, attendees are encouraged to bring a copy for Amb. Power to sign.
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Playing with Fire: Provocation, Signaling, and Unwanted Crisis Escalation
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1 Brattle Square, Room 350, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Hyun-Binn Cho, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
DETAILS Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
LINK https://www.belfercenter.org/event/playing-fire-provocation-signaling-and-unwanted-crisis-escalation
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The Aftermath of Zika in Brazil
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, GHP 12th floor conference room (SPH-1, 1208), 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in collaboration with the HSPH Department of Global Health and Population
SPEAKER(S) Debora Diniz, CLACS Visiting Scholar, Brown University
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS While media attention about Zika has all but disappeared, there are still new cases being identified in Brazil, as well as other countries in the region such as Cuba and Venezuela. However, governments and other health authorities are doing little to stem the spread of the virus, particularly sexual transmission which can be prevented by sexuality education and other sexual and reproductive health services such as contraception. As a result, women continue to bear the brunt of the epidemic; particularly poor, young, women of color who have little access to health care and live in areas with high mosquito populations.
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How to Change the World with Shruti Sehra at New Profit
Thursday, October 17
3:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 4-265, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Each week MIT Solve is inviting social impact leaders to speak in our First Year Discovery class, "How to Change the World: Experiences from Social Entrepreneurs." But it is so much more than a class! Join us for this free event with free refreshments open to the public to be inspired by incredible leaders.
This week, we'll have Shruti Sehra, the Managing Director of New Profit. Read more about Shruti at https://www.newprofit.org/about-us/the-team/shruti-sehra/
Class description:
Every week, we’ll meet role models who will provide a taste of what it means to change the world through social innovation. We’ll span from micro to macro: interviewing individual entrepreneurs, and exploring the broader ecosystem that supports change-makers, both around MIT and globally. Each session will cover an aspect of making an impact, from identifying opportunities for change, to market fit, and planning for scale. We will feature conversations with social entrepreneurs from MIT Solve’s portfolio. Each student will get hands-on mentoring from established leaders within the Solve, MIT and, Kendall Square ecosystem. This includes visits to MIT labs and offices in the Cambridge innovation community. Through these speakers and field trips, students will gain a greater understanding of how technology-based, impactful solutions can address global challenges.
At the end of the semester, students will be confident in their ability to identify and address social and environmental problems. They will understand the relevance of this work for their time at MIT. They will see how to bring their ideas to fruition and extend their ties with the Solve community.
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Robotics Connect
Thursday, October 17
3:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Venture Café Cambridge @ Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), 5th Floor, 1 Broadway 5th Floor, Cambridge
Venture Cafe’s Robotics Connect is a mini-conference taking place on October 17, 2019. This special ‘conference night’ event seeks to bring together the brightest minds who are building, funding, and innovating in the Greater Boston area’s Robotics & A.I. Communities. Come prepared to not only hear the best ideas and see the latest technologies but also to participate in building Boston’s Robotics ecosystem.
Please visit vencaf.org/roboticsconnect for more details!
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Zero Waste Campus Forum (BUMC)
Thursday, October 17
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
BU, Hiebert Lounge, L Building, 72 E Concord Street, Floor 14, Boston
Do you want to help BU reduce its environmental impact? We want to hear from YOU!
One of the recommendations of the Climate Action Plan is for the University to pursue a goal of zero waste. In response, sustainability@BU has recently assembled a Zero Waste Implementation Task Force, consisting of approximately 50 staff, faculty, and students from different areas of the University. Over the next five months, they are tasked with developing recommendations and clear actions the University can take to meet this goal.
We are hosting two Zero Waste Campus Forums in order to incorporate essential and valuable insight from our community in our planning process.
Are you interested in learning more about zero waste and what BU is planning? Do you want to get involved in shaping BU culture around waste, recycling, composting and more? Come participate in one of our forums this October to share your thoughts and help BU become a leader in redesigning our resource lifecycles.
The forums are open to all BU community members. Snacks provided. We encourage you to bring a travel mug to help reduce waste.
Hope to see you there!
Forum structure:
1. What is “zero waste,” why you should care, and what BU is doing
2. Zero Waste Implementation Task Force Co-Chairs present initial ideas
3. Breakout sessions - share feedback and bring your own ideas to the table
4. Present ideas to the group
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‘Erdogan’s Empire’: Continuity and ‘Revolution’ in Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East?
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Soner Cagaptay, Director, Turkish Research Program, Beyer Family Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; author: "'Erdogan's Empire': Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East", www.erdogansempire.com
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the 'Wall Street Journal', 'Washington Post', 'New York Times',' Foreign Affairs', and 'The Atlantic'. He appears regularly on CNN, PBS, NPR, and BBC.
A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. He has also served on contract as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. He is the author of, most recently, 'The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey'.
His forthcoming book, "'Erdogan's Empire': Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East" will be published in October 2019 by I.B. Tauris. For more information: cagaptay.com.
CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed.
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The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, GCC2, Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Universities: Past, Present, and Future
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer Morton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and Senior Fellow, Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
COST Free
DETAILS This talk discusses the ethical costs upwardly mobile students must bear if they are to dramatically transform their life circumstances. These costs affect their relationships with family and friends, their sense of cultural identity, and their place in their community. Morton argues they are ethical in so far as they concern those aspects of life that give it value and meaning. Using social science evidence, Morton shows how these costs are the result of a complex tangle of economic, cultural, and structural factors that unjustly and disproportionately affect disadvantaged students and their communities. Morton suggests that we need to offer students a new ethical narrative of upward mobility that recognizes and acknowledges these ethical costs. Morton concludes with some thoughts on how institutions of higher educate might mitigate some of these costs.
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Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
Thursday, October 17
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building E15-318 (Open Area), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status. He will also provide an update on his documentary film, In Search of Bengali Harlem, recently funded by the PBS-affiliated Center for Asian American Media, and currently being edited by Comparative Media Studies master’s alum, Beyza Boyacioglu. Between the essay and film, Bald will reflect on South Asian American experiences of multi-racial identity and histories of cross-racial community-making.
Bald is a scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013), and co-editor, with Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013).
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DUSPx + Lightning Talks
Thursday, October 17
5:00pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Department of Urban Studies and Planning talks
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Does Nature Make Laws?
Thursday, October 17
5:30 PM
MIT, Building 3-Room 270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
A lecture by Prof. Raymond Hain (Providence College)
This event is free and open to all.
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Climate action on the inside: Engaging Representatives on a Green New Deal
Thursday, October 17
5:30 PM
625 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Climate action on the inside: Engaging representatives on a GND
The climate crisis is upon us, and we must act fast. As activist groups push politicians to realize the urgency of the crisis, some elected officials are already hard at work on implementing a local Green New Deal inside city halls and the State House.
Join ClimateXChange and Cambridge City Councilor Quinton Zondervan, State Rep. Nika Elugardo, and State Rep. Mike Connolly for a discussion on their work to implement a Green New Deal at the state and local levels. The panel will be moderated by ClimateXChange Executive Director Michael Green and will focus on the challenges and opportunities the elected officials face in implementing the just transition we need to tackle this crisis. The panel will be followed by a discussion on how to grow partnerships between citizens and politicians trying to build towards a Green New Deal. Join us for this important opportunity to engage directly with your representatives on a local and state level Green New Deal!
Co-sponsors: @[1461892927387110:274:Climate XChange], @[442669706120413:274:Sunrise Movement Boston]
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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
Thursday, October 17
6:00 PM
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
Cost: $6 - $32.00 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes esteemed New York Times columnist GAIL COLLINS for a discussion of her new book, No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities.
About No Stopping Us Now
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad—for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it—and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not.
In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
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Hate Speech and Free Speech in America today
Thursday, October 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Museum of African American History, Boston Campus, 46 Joy Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hate-speech-and-free-speech-in-america-today-tickets-65123572358
This event part of our "Race in the Public Dialogue" Series
Race in the Public Dialogue: Hate Speech and Free Speech in America today
Randall L. Kennedy (Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School), Maya Wiley (Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment), and Nina McConigley (Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming and Fiction Writer) discuss the state of free speech in a political and cultural climate of deep divisions and heightened polarization. Has hate speech become ubiquitous as hate crimes are on the rise? Must free speech be at odds with anti-racism and inclusion? How do we protect the right to freely express and debate opposing views when Americans are more and more divided? How do we (re)build a common ground?
Doors at 5:30pm, Program at 6:00pm
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"Freedom from Truth: Self Portraits of Nell Painter”
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
SPEAKER(S) Nell Irvin Painter
COST Free
CONTACT INFO histlit@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Nell Irvin Painter will be in conversation with Winthrop Professor of History Walter Johnson in the Distinguished Lecture, which inaugurates two exhibits of her art curated by History & Literature Lecturer Jonathan Square. The main show, Freedom from Truth: The Self-Portraits of Nell Irvin Painter, will be held in the Arts Wing of the Smith Center, while a satellite show at the Center for Government and International Studies, White History as Told Through Art, will focus on her cartographic work.
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Our Dogs, Ourselves
Thursday, October 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Boston Central Library in Copley Square
Alexandra Horowitz in conversation with Harriet Ritvo and Craig LeMoult
We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes; we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing.
As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, sterilized and/or euthanized as we wish. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful.
Alexandra will appear in conversation with Harriet Ritvo, author and professor at MIT, where they will explore the nature of “family”, property and reproductive rights as they apply to animals/pets/dogs.
Alexandra Horowitz is the author of three previous books, Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell (2016); On Looking(2013); and Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (2009), a New York Times best-seller. She is Senior Research Fellow and head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is owned by canines Finnegan and Upton, and tolerated by feline Edsel.
Harriet Ritvo teaches courses in British history, environmental history, the history of human-animal relations, and the history of natural history. She is the author of The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1987), Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History (2010), and several others. Her current research concerns wildness and domestication. She serves on the Board of Incorporators of Harvard Magazine; on the editorial boards of Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Agricultural History Review, and Animals and Society, and as editor of the "Animals, History, Culture" series published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past President of the American Society for Environmental History. She has received a Whiting Writers Award and a Graduate Society Award from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Craig LeMoult produces sound-rich features and breaking news coverage for WGBH News in Boston. His features have run nationally on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, as well as on PRI's The World and Marketplace. Craig has won a number of national and regional awards for his reporting, including two national Edward R. Murrow awards in 2015, the national Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award feature reporting in 2011, first place awards in 2012 and 2009 from the national Public Radio News Directors Inc. and second place in 2007 from the national Society of Environmental Journalists. Craig is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Tufts University.
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Grolier Film Screening & Discussion
Thursday, October 17
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Northeastern, Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Place, 6th Floor, Boston
Olivia Huang’s, MS’17 digital media capstone project and short film, Grolier Poetry Book Shop: The Last Sacred Place of Poetry, has premiered in numerous film festivals across the world such as the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, Barcelona Planet Film Festival, and the World Premiere Film Awards. Join us for a special screening of the film and a discussion with the filmmaker and Mary Loeffelholz, Dean of the College of Professional Studies.
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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
Thursday, October 17
6:30 p.m.
Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
If you are new to XR or would just like to learn more about how it works, please come to our next new member orientation session. We will cover the following:
Where did XR come from? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What is the extinction rebellion about? What do we want?
What are our principles and values? What brings us together?
How are we organized? What are working groups & affinity groups?
Come out and meet some of our local XRebels and learn how you can get involved!
The session will run for around 90 minutes.
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Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
Thursday, October 17
7 PM – 8:30 PM
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Discussion, Q & A and signing -
Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East (2019), which details Turkey's foreign policy under Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ankara's evolving ties with the U.S., Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in the context of Turkish and Ottoman history, is the final book in the Cagaptay trilogy. The previous two editions of the trilogy are: The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power (2014), which describes the economic growth that Erdogan delivered in the last decade, and The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey (2017), which sheds light on Turkey's domestic political crisis under Erdogan
About the Author:
Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, New Republic, and Newsweek Turkiye. He has been a regular columnist for Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey's oldest and most influential English-language paper, and a contributor to CNN's Global Public Square blog. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, BBC, and CNN-Turk. A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. His spring 2003 course on modern Turkish history was the first offered by Yale in three decades. From 2006-2007, he was Ertegun Professor at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies.Dr. Cagaptay is the recipient of numerous honours, grants, and chairs, among them the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships, as well as the Ertegun chair at Princeton.
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MORALITY, POLITICS AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS Can Massachusetts Lead the Way Forward?
Thursday, October 17
7–-9pm
Temple Shalom, 175 Temple Street, West Newton
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egk72a3fa0aed2c0&llr=evkqo7bab
Keynote speakers:
Jennifer Benson
Representative Jennifer Benson, is the principal sponsor of An Act to Promote Green Infrastructure and Reduce Carbon Emissions (H.2810). The Benson carbon fee and rebate bill would fund between $400 to $600 million of local clean energy, transportation and resilience projects while protecting low and middle-income households. She represents the 37th Middlesex District consisting of Boxborough, Shirley, Harvard, and parts of Lunenberg, Acton and Ayer.
Roger Gottlieb
In Morality and the Environmental Crisis, Professor Roger Gottlieb combines compassion for the difficulties of contemporary moral life with an unflinching ethical commitment to awareness and action. Gottlieb is the author or editor of over 20 books and 150 articles on religious environmentalism. He is a member of Temple Israel in Boston.
Light refreshments served.
Donations gratefully accepted
Book signing following the event.
For more information contact Mary Anne Schoonover at maryanne@MIPandL.org or Vince Maraventano at vince@MIPandL.org or 617-244-0755.
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Getting Smarter about Visual Information with Alberto Cairo
Thursday, October 17
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Northeastern, 102 ISEC, 805 Columbus Avenue, Boston
Data vis guru Alberto Cairo from the U of Miami will talk about "How Charts Lie"
More information at https://www.meetup.com/hackshackersboston/events/265350976/
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Friday, October 18 & Saturday, October 19
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Turning Up The Heat: Climate Resilience & Community Engagement
October 18 & 19
Northeastern, Raytheon Amphitheater, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgOirsuInBaHMZE1Gk1Fu88L6bkFAM9PalmC88XJYTeTg75w/viewform
Climate resilience is rarely stated as a top priority by diverse urban communities struggling with issues of housing affordability, economic mobility, education, food deserts, crime, opioid addiction, homelessness, and youth employment and training. Yet community engagement with climate resilience opens pathways to STEAM education, youth employment and training, lowered energy consumption, and knowledge sharing across global communities in ways that can create approaches to solutions to the generally prioritized issues.
Resilience planning and community engagement is a humanistic way of combining disciplines such as community planning, infrastructure development, health and wellness, architecture and urban policy development, youth education and training, place-making and the arts, AI and data analysis, social psychology, law, and engineering. Our goal with the Turning Up the Heat conference will be to bring together people from these multiple disciplines and community stake-holders, to engage in discussions and a planning charrette around how communities can be better engaged in resilience planning and training for green jobs of the future.
More information at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/policyschool/event/turning-up-the-heat-climate-resilience-and-community-engagement/
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Friday, October 18
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A tale of two molecules: NH3 [Ammonia] and CH4 [Methane]
Friday, October 18
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Haarvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Kang Sun, University at Buffalo
Contact Name: Maryann Sargent
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Underground markets in mutualisms: making fertilizer from thin air
Friday, October 18
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Environmental Science Seminar Series
Prof. Maren Friesen, Washington State University
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Rip off or Reasonable? Cities & Corporate Financial Incentives
Friday, October 18
12 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
Register: bit.ly/financial-incentives
Businesses are potentially more mobile today than ever before and have a wide range of options on where to locate. Cities and states try hard to attract investment; as in the competition for Amazon’s HQ2, they often promise significant sums in tax rebates, subsidies and services. Are these offers surrenders to corporate power or are they intelligent investments in future growth? Are these concessions reasonable or rip offs?
Speakers:
Professor Nathan Jensen, University of Austin, TX, and author of Incentives to Pander
Professor David Glick, Boston University
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IACS Seminar: "On the Detection of Malware on Virtual Assistants Based on Behavioral Anomalies”
WHEN Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Spiros Mancoridis, Auerbach Berger Chair in Cybersecurity and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University
COST Free and open to the public; no registration required.
CONTACT INFO Email: nrbaker@seas.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-2623
DETAILS Lunch will not be provided.
Dr. Spiros Mancoridis's work explores some of the security concerns pertaining to running software similar to Amazon Alexa home assistant on IoT-like platforms. Researchers implemented a behavioral-based malware detector and compared the effectiveness of different system attributes that are used in detecting malware, i.e., system calls, network traffic, and the integration of system call and network traffic features. Given the small number of malware samples for IoT devices, researchers created a parameterizable malware sample that mimics Alexa behavior in varying degrees, while exfiltrating data from the device to a remote host. The performance of the anomaly detector was evaluated based on how well it determined the presence of the parameterized malware on an Alexa-enabled IoT device.
LINK https://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/event/detection-malware-virtual-assistants-based-behavioral-anomalies
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Alicja Kwade Panel Discussion: Visibility of Time
Friday, October 18
2:00pm to 3:30pm
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alicja-kwade-panel-discussion-visibility-of-time-tickets-69744966071
In conjunction with the exhibition Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances, this conversation explores the relationship between Alicja Kwade’s work and principles of science and history that relate to visualizing the concept of time. How do we perceive time; what are the theories of time; what is fabricated and what is illusion? Join artist Alijca Kwade, Jimena Canales, historian of the physical sciences, and Taylor Perron, Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at MIT in a discussion about visualizing time through both abstract and concrete terms. This discussion will reconsider what is actually real, and explore the possibilities of the imagination
Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances is organized by Henriette Huldisch, Director of Exhibitions & Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Huldisch will serve as moderator for the panel discussion.
*The event will be Real-time translated for personal devices.
All programs are free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.
For more information, contact:
Emily A. Garner
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Passive House Affordable Multifamily Design Manual Workshop
Friday, October 18
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Mintz - 40th Floor, One Financial Center, Boston
This workshop provides cost-effective strategies and a practical guide for affordable multi-family Passive House projects.
In the next eleven years, everyday architects, builders, developers, and engineers will face challenges tonormalize the Net-Zero Energy (NZE) housing design.. Simplified, demystified, comprehensive, and straightforward strategies for approaching any sized NZE multi-family building is necessary to effectively and quickly train industry professionals. While there is an ever-increasing array of products and systems currently flooding the sustainable building market, how does one begin to ask the right questions with choosing the best energy efficiency measures and methodology?
We are energy efficiency building experts with twenty years of designing multi-family high-performance buildings and more recently, five years of working on multi-family affordable Passive House projects. We created this workshop to provide design, development, and building professionals with a step-by-step guide to cost-effective strategies for approaching affordable multi-family Passive House buildings.We will provide a manual, delivered in the form of a “decision tree” with pros and cons associated with the two or three most cost-effective and energy efficient strategies for managing all aspects of designing a multi-family Passive House building, including metering, monitoring, heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water, site-built and prefabricated envelopes, foundations, and airtightness. An Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) provides a strategic backbone to the manual and is demonstrated through several case study projects.
Presenters:
Tim McDonald, Onion Flats
David Salamon, Re:Vision Architecture
Location
Due to popular demand, this event has been moved to a larger space at the Mintz office on the 40th floor of One Financial Center. Please arrive 15 minutes early and bring a photo ID to get through building security.
About the Passive House Training Program
The Sponsors of Mass Save®, in partnership with Passive House Massachusetts, have launched a Passive House Training offer to support workforce development and market transformation in the energy efficiency and building construction industries. Our goal is to enhance the skill set of the energy efficiency workforce in Massachusetts. You can keep up with the growing demand for high-performance housing and become certified as a Passive House builder, consultant, designer, rater, or verifier.
Have a question? Visit MassSave.com/PassiveHouseTraining
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Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
Friday, October 18
2:30pm - 4:30pm
MIT Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
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FORUM: A Public Address by Michelle Bachelet
WHEN Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer 145 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
Co-Sponsered by Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, President of Chile (2006-2010, 2014-2018)
Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/761258537657666/
CONTACT INFO Free
DETAILS United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will deliver a public address on global human rights.
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EAPS Active Talk Series (EATS): Andrew Babbin and Glenn Flierl
Friday, October 18
4:30pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker #1: Andrew Babbin (Professor), A bacterial view of Earth's climate
Speaker #2: Glenn Flierl (Professor), Spread of plastic in the ocean
EAPS Active Talk Series (EATS) is a space where members of our community share their science, prepare for conferences, practice communication skills, and engage in multidisciplinary conversations. EATS meets weekly on Fridays, at 4:30p, with two 15 minutes talks (12 minutes lecture + 3 minutes questions) by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, research scientists and professors.
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Reimagine This Place
Friday, October 18
5:00pm to 10:00pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 6th floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reimagine This Place is an art-based benefit fundraiser organized by Media Lab students and staff in response to recent revelations of MIT’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. We invite members of the MIT community (including students, faculty, employees, and alumni) to a night of art-making and music on Friday, 10/18 from 5pm to 10pm at the MIT Media Lab (6th Floor). At the event, attendees will be able to create poster designs reimagining this place, referring to both MIT and the larger world. Posters created will be distributed around campus as a way to reimagine the space that surrounds us. Proceeds from the event, as well as from the sale of posters created, will benefit victims of trafficking through the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking.
The evening will include poetry readings and music performances, as well as food and drinks. For tickets and additional information, go to reimagine-mit.org.
Find the Facebook event link at https://www.facebook.com/events/517970295438035/
If you cannot attend, you can still participate by donating or submitting a poster design to reimagine-mit@mit.edu. See website for details.
If you would like to volunteer, please email reimagine-mit@mit.edu
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FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience
Friday, October 18
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Have you ever felt your productivity and creativity hindered by the constant pressure of an environment where “failure is not an option”? A misstep can happen to everyone.
FAIL! is an event aimed at embracing the deeper meaning of failures and learning how to make the most of them. Through the stories of personal and professional life shared by renowned speakers, you will be challenged to look at failures differently, learning how to accept, understand, and conquer them, rather than giving up or ignore the lessons they can provide us with.
Come and join the next edition of FAIL! at MIT, featuring exceptional individuals sharing their personal and professional failures:
Eva Wolfnagel, journalist and Knight Science Fellow
Ramesh Raskar, Professor and head of the Camera Culture Lab, MIT,
Rodney Mullen, professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and inventor,
Ronald Kessler, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School,
Sara Saeger, Professor of Physics and Planetary Science at MIT,
Yang Shao-Horn, Professor of Material Science and Engineering at MIT
Additionally, John Werner, curator of TEDxBeaconStreet will be our special guest. The event will be hosted by Raymond Coderre, director of People Development at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The conference will be followed by a reception dinner, discussion tables and more!!
Come and be inspired!
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Facial Recognition as Surveillance: The Need for Public Oversight
Friday, October 18
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join us for a substantive discussion on facial surveillance and other remote biometric monitoring technologies that pose unprecedendted risks to personal autonomy, privacy and democracy. Some have referred to these technologies as "nuclear waste". Others have called it "the perfect tool for oppression." Never before has a technology equipped governments with the power to automatically generate and store permanent, detailed records of every person's every public movement, habit, and association—until now.
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LASER Boston – Beauty and the Brain- Exploring the intersection of art, design and neuroscience
Friday, October 18
6- 9pm
swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://laserboston_beautyandthebrain.eventbrite.com/
How do art and design influence our perception of the world? How does what we see affect how we feel? How can aesthetics deepen our understanding of science and medicine?
On October 18th, LASER Boston will explore these questions and more as we hear from three speakers across the arts and sciences. With the ultimate goal of fostering cross-disciplinary discovery and dialogue, this event will feature psychologist and designer Claire Reymond, sculptor Ralph Helmick and cognitive neuroscience researcher Sarah Schwettmann.
Presented by swissnex Boston and SciArt Initiative.
Program
6:00 pm Community Networking - Speakers and audience members are welcome to join in a pre-talks networking session.
6:30 pm Talks - See descriptions below.
7:30 pm Networking Reception - Stick around to continue the discussion over drinks and snacks.
Talks
Claire Reymond
“Image Interactions. A subtle way to influence the message of a picture”
Claire Reymond is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Basel and a visiting researcher at Harvard University’s metaLAB. At Harvard, she is conducting research on image perception in the fields of art, design and psychology. Claire is interested in how images interact with each other in a perceptual field and how this interaction may manipulate an image’s message. She also researches how images need to be used in therapeutic settings or neuropsychological analysis. She earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Basel and has as an MA in Visual Communication and Iconic Research from the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Art. She also trained as a graphic designer at the Basel School of Design.
Ralph Helmick
“From Body to Brain”
Ralph Helmick is an award-winning sculptor and public artist based in Newton, Massachusetts. Ralph’s work can be seen at over 50 institutions across the United States including courthouses, parks, airports, schools, hospitals, museums and other civic spaces. One such work hangs in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, by whom he was commissioned to create a work in celebration of the brain. Ralph’s sculptures often involve themes of science and incorporate elements that explore perception, anamorphosis and optical consolidation. Ralph studied at the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and earned his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Sarah Schwettmann
“Vision in Art and Neuroscience”
Sarah Schwettmann is a PhD candidate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Sarah’s research focuses on “intuitive physics” – our perceptual capacity to make inferences about our physical world. Her research also explores perception as it relates to the structure underlying artistic creation, a theme also present in her own artwork and the MIT course she teaches: Vision in Art and Neuroscience. Sarah earned BAs in Computational & Applied Mathematics and Cognitive Science at Rice University.
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Friday, October 18
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $6 - $32.00 (book bundled) - On Sale Now
Harvard Book Store welcomes BILL BRYSON—the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything—for a discussion of his latest book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants.
About The Body
Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body—how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Bodywill lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information.
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Saturday, October 19 - Sunday, October 20
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Hack/ED: Hacking Emergency Care
WHEN Saturday, Oct. 19 – Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019
WHERE Boston University EPIC Lab, 750 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR BMC Emergency Department
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyT-1rfCGI85K78L1JEzpjaLa5JAXVw7gP0rcUmcj-q-q1xg/viewform
DETAILS Sign ups are now open for a new emergency medicine hackathon. At Hack/ED, Boston Medical Center ED physicians will outline problems they’ve noticed that impact patient care, and you’ll work as part of a team to prototype solutions. This is a great chance to join forces with folks from other disciplines including computer science, business, and engineering to see how our combined efforts can improve emergent care.
LINK bostonhack-ed.com
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MICE -- The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo -- will be Saturday and Sunday, October 19th and 20th! It's FREE and open to the public! You can find it at University Hall at Lesley University, which is 1815 Massachusetts Ave (in Porter Square, steps from the Porter Square T station on the Red Line and Commuter Rail). http://www.micexpo.org/
Schedule:
Saturday: 10am - 6pm
Sunday: 11am - 5pm
MICE 2019 Guest Creators:
Jaime Hernandez!
Ben Hatke!
Diane Noomin!
Ronald Wimberly!
Ellen Crenshaw!
Colleen AF Venable!
MICE 2019 Local Spotlight Creators:
Travis Dandro!
Erica Henderson!
Cathy G. Johnson!
Kurt Ankeny!
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Boston Book Fest
Saturday, October 19 - Sunday, October 20
Copley Square and Roxbury
Celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire, Boston Book Festival presents year-round events culminating in an annual festival that promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the vibrancy of our city.
More information at https://bostonbookfest.org
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Saturday, October 19
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Careers in Conservation 2019
Saturday, October 19
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Harvard Northwest Science Building, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge
Cost: $0 - $10
The Harvard College Conservation Society invites you to this year's Careers in Conservation Conference. The theme for this year is environmental justice in conservation through the increase of diverse perspectives within the field.
Careers in Conservation (CiC) is an annual event, hosted by the Harvard College Conservation Society, which provides inspiration, career advice, and connections for students from Harvard and nearby Boston area universities who are interested in pursuing careers in any of many disciplines within the field of conservation. CiC includes renowned speakers from the field, various workshops for students to gain more information on various subfields within conservation, and an interdisciplinary panel. We are also expanding our networking opportunities this year, inviting more alumni and representatives from various organizations in the hopes of connecting with students with potential job/internship opportunities and mentors. Lunch will be provided free to attendees.
This year's event schedule is:
9 am-10am: Registration and breakfast in Northwest Basement.
10 am-11am: Keynote Address by Lisa Famolare, Vice President, Amazonia at Conservation International.
11 am-11:50 am & 11:50 am-12:40 pm: Workshops on topics including conservation communication, technology in conservation, environmental legislation, environmental leadership/advocacy, and conservation education.
12:40 pm-2 pm: Networking lunch with local environmental organizations.
2 pm-3:30 pm: Interdisciplinary panel featuring Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University; Angelou Ezeilo, author of "Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders"; and José González, Founder and Director Emeritus of Latino Outdoors.
3:30 pm-4 pm: Closing Remarks
If you cannot attend the entire day, please come for as many sessions as you are able to!
This event is made possible by our generous sponsors: Harvard Forest, Harvard Office for Sustainability, Harvard Office of Careers Services, Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), and Academics for Land Protection in New England (ALPiNE).
Please reach out to harvardconservation@gmail.com with any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!
NOTE: If you are a student, please select the student ticket. If you are a non-student, we ask that you please choose the $10 ticket in order to help us fund this conference. However, if cost is a burden (which we recognize deeply as it is intrinsic to the topic this year), please choose the student ticket (we will not see what type of ticket you chose at check-in).
Contact Name: Sophie Pesek
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oiConference: The Green Future of Investment
Saturday, October 19
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oiconference-the-green-future-of-investment-tickets-71673277703
oikos International and Harvard’s Environmental Club are partnering to bring you a virtual, student-led conference focused on helping you learn about Sustainable Investing.
This series of workshops will be held in an interactive style, encouraging you to learn and discuss. Each session will run about 45mins long with plenty of time for Q&A. Come learn from experts in the field, your fellow students, and professors/researchers.
Agenda - Saturday, October 19, 2019 (EDT):
Session 1, 10am - What does Sustainable Finance/Investing Mean?
Session 2, 11am - The Environment and Profit - an Industry Perspective
Session 3, 12pm - Innovation, Sustainability, and the Financial Revolution
Session 4, 1pm - World Cafe and Breakouts - Reflection and Networking
Read more about the agenda here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EV7NUZZLO_EYA231yzeJdq6KGWyiUHZufEuwn_plSCw/edit?usp=sharing
Purpose: Sustainable Investing is a growing niche within traditional finance as investment professionals around the world are increasingly considering Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in their decision making. This conference will delve into this niche by having both theoreticians and practitioners present their take on the current state and the development of sustainable investing. We will critically discuss the connections between theory and practice as well as the limits of this approach, and we will question the validity of the supposed trade-off in our investment decisions between profitability, risk, and considerations for the planet and people.
Are you curious about how you can get involved? Do you want to learn what all the jargon really means? Is Responsible Investing just a trend? We will tackle these questions, and more together!
Participation: This eConference will be live-streamed globally. ZOOM video conferencing will be used. You do not have to download the application, but for the best quality video, it is advised to do so. You also have the option to call in using your phone. Details to follow.
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2019 MIT AgeLab OMEGA Summit
Saturday, October 19
10am - 2pm
MIT, 3rd floor, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet-otsVfI5uu5mOQgbY-XCUhBkm8rLrfcC3AjyCUrw67X52A/viewform
Students will learn about community-based intergenerational programming and brainstorm ideas for intergenerational exchange. The OMEGA Summit prepares students to take on leadership roles in their school and community to develop and sustain relationships between older adults and high school students. All high school students from across New England are invited to participate! It’s not too late to sign up!
Please help us spread the word to teachers, parents, students, community organizations,
and members of your community!
Questions can be directed to omegamit@mit.edu [mailto:omegamit@mit.edu] or 617-253-1894.
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Twelve Blocks of Boston - A People's Walking Tour
Saturday, October 19
11 AM – 1 PM
encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twelve-blocks-of-boston-a-peoples-walking-tour-tickets-74009334913
Cost: $1.00
Walk through Boston's movement history visiting places of moment and movement: we'll meet Malcolm X, John Brown, Anne Hutchinson, William Lloyd Garrison, Sacco & Vanzetti, Phillis Wheatley, and a host of other movement figures who helped define our times. The tour lasts 90 - 120 minutes and we will begin (and end) at 9A Hamilton Place. Bring your walking shoes! This is a walking tour based on “A People's Guide to Greater Boston” (forthcoming, 2020) by Joseph Nevins, Suren Moodliar and Eleni Macrakis. We have requested a nominal $1/person registration fee. Donations to encuentro5 (completely optional) are recommended.
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Transforming a City: Honoring Boston’s Visionaries
Saturday, October 19
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, 2300 Washington Street, Roxbury
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transforming-a-city-honoring-bostons-visionaries-tickets-71737768597
Cost: $25 – $500
Join us for a celebration of the lives and legacy of Mel King and Chuck Turner, two Boston visionaries who shaped and empowered coalitions!
Transforming a City: Honoring Boston’s Visionaries will bring people together from all over Boston to celebrate the lives and legacy of Mel King and Chuck Turner, that dynamic duo, who changed the course of Boston’s history.
More than fifty years ago, Boston’s black community was in motion with a spirit and a need, challenging the longstanding racist status quo in public education, housing, employment, policing, neighborhood development, and political representation. As an awakened community organized to assert its right to the City, the efforts of Mel King and Chuck Turner stand out. They exposed the white power structure dominated by moneyed interests that oppressed all communities of color, and that also left behind working-class white Bostonians. They built powerful new coalitions – a “rainbow” of folks – that insisted on the inclusion of formerly marginalized peoples to security, prosperity, and dignity. Mel and Chuck saw the need, felt the spirit of change and put their imprint on the city.
We are just a few of the many residents inspired by their example and touched by the transformation they set in motion. And while our work is far from finished, it is the clear-eyed and far-sighted vision of Mel King and Chuck Turner of a 21st century “city upon a hill” based on caring and respectful relationships that continues to light the way forward for Boston and beyond.
Let’s show our deep love, abiding respect and firm commitment to these city fathers and the principles they embody!
Please consider an extra donation for those who can't afford to pay.
For questions, email mel.chuckevent@gmail.com
*Community Labor United is a fiscal sponsor of this event. The event is hosted by loving fans of Mel & Chuck*
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Sunday, October 20
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MassRobotics Robot Block Party
Sunday, October 20
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Seaport Innovation District, Boston
The MassRobotics Robot Block Party is back! Dozens of robots will descend upon Boston’s Seaport Innovation District for our 3rd Annual Robot Block Party on Sunday, Oct. 20th, marking the first day of the State’s STEM week. Families, professionals and students can check out the latest in robotics and experience exciting demos of the products that will shape our future, and maybe even win an opportunity to ride in an autonomous vehicle. The Robot Block Party is a free event and open to the public, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Along with robots of all shapes and sizes there will be music and food trucks and special guests.
Expanding upon popular activities from the last 2 years – robot demonstrations, presentations from area robotics companies and universities, FIRST teams, hands-on interactions with robots, games and more – 2019 will be even bigger than last year!
Check out personal home robots, from companion to cleaning & weeding
“Design your own robot” using tools for robot design, making the process of creating robots accessible to beginners and experts alike
Watch drones, from consumer to surveillance to agriculture, fly
Get up close to an autonomous vehicle, and maybe even ride in one
See what humanoid robots can do today, and what they might be able to do in the future
Learn about robotic arms and how they are used in a variety of applications including manufacturing
Find out how logistics robots are helping your online orders to you faster
See how robots are promoting a healthy lifestyle that move indoors and outdoors
Discover what exciting things are going on at local university robotics programs, including interactive and language-guided learning, NASA Mars Ice Challenge robot and research drones
Participants (confirmed to date) in this year’s block party included: Analog Devices, Aptiv Autonomous Mobility, Ava Robotics, ChartaCloud, Cleo Robotics, FLIR Unmanned Ground Systems, Franklin Robotics, GreenSightAG, Harmonic Drive, iRobot, MITRE, MVP Robotics, National Guard, Next Era Innovations, Optimus Ride, Piaggio Fast Forward, RightHand Robotics, RSE, SMC, SoftRobotics, UAS Development, Waypoint Robotics, FIRST robotics teams from the area and universities including Harvard, Northeastern, Tufts and UMass Lowell.
The MassRobotics Block Party is made possible by a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
No registration necessary to attend. If you are interested in participating, please contact us at info@MassRobotics.org with the subject line “Robot Block Party”.
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Sunrise Boston Full Hub Meeting
Sunday, October 20
2 PM – 4 PM
Old South Church in Boston, 645 Boylston Street, Boston
All are welcome! Come join us, get to know the Boston Hub, and hear what's next for Sunrise Boston!
The meeting will take place in the Guild Room of Old South Church, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Directions: Come into Old South Church through the double doors and take the elevator to the left of the reception desk to the 4th floor. The Guild Room is to the right when you get off the elevator.
Questions? Email: SunriseMovementBoston@gmail.com or message our facebook page.
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Be the Change: Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Book Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
Sunday, October 20
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Join Porter Square Books for a workshop drawn from the book Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Book Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather by Shawna Potter
Shawna Potter, singer for the band War On Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she's turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up. The steps she outlines are realistic, practical, and actionable. With the addition of personal stories, case studies, sample policies, and no-nonsense advice like "How to Flirt without Being a Creep," she shows why safer spaces are important, while making it easier to achieve them. Eschewing theory, she assumes the reader is already an ethical creature and jumps right in with candor, punk passion, and righteous anger to get the job done
Shawna Potter is a musician, activist, educator, and writer. She fronts the political hardcore punk band War On Women and is the founder of Hollaback! Baltimore. Shawna trains venues for the Safer Spaces Campaign, which she also co-founded. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her partner and a porch cat that visits when the weather's nice.
The workshop will be followed by a book signing.
20% of sales will be used to provide free copies of Making Spaces Safer to venues, conferences, and other organizations.
Learn more about Be the Change here.
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Healing the Internal and External Landscape - Upper Peruvian Amazon Shamanism
Sunday, October 20
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
One Fayette Park, Cambridge
You can heal your inner world as you work to heal the outer world, and the ancient wisdom practices of shamanism offer a powerful means of doing it.
RANDY CHUNG GONZALES was initiated by disembodied spirits into shamanic knowledge and power during an ayahuasca shamanic ceremony in 2016. Such initiations by spirits are extremely rare, the most common method being initiation by an embodied, living shaman. Since then he has been given powers by other indigenous spirits, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and other sacred beings. He directs a retreat-cum-ecological workshop center — called in English “The Place of the Sacred Mountain,” because it faces the mountain sacred to the local indigenous people, the Kichwa-Lamistas — located in the forest near the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in Lamas, Peru, where he is from. He is also a painter and a self-taught architect.
FRÉDÉRIQUE APFFEL-MARGLIN, PhD, is Professor Emerita, Dept. of Anthropology at Smith College and founded Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in the Peruvian Upper Amazon, which she directs, in 2009. She has spent years in India and Peru working with indigenous peoples and with farmers. She has authored or edited 15 books, including Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World, and published some 70 articles and book chapters.
AND, before our meetup . . .
You may also join Randy and Frédérique for a weekend workshop at the Rowe Center in Western Mass. on October 18 - 20, 2019. More at https://rowecenter.org/wp/events/randy-chung-gonzales-frederique-apffel-marglin-shamanic-healing-for-the-interior-and-exterior-landscape/
An extraordinary opportunity to work with a native Peruvian shaman and curandero near to home, at The Rowe Center in Rowe, Massachusetts. Shamanic Healing for the Interior and Exterior Landscape will be a deeply personal experience where you will learn how plants, trees, waters, and mountains manifest agency via their spirits and the importance of experiencing such spirits for developing a caring and sustaining relationship with the non-human world of nature.
What to bring to our potluck/discussion
An item of food or drink to share, tending to the healthy and organic.
Important to know
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate is a small non-profit so a $10 donation is requested.
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Monday, October 21
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U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee Meetings
Monday, October 21
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
Boston Park Plaza, 50 Park Plaza, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-offshore-wind-standards-subcommittee-meetings-tickets-74192151723
Join us for the semi-annual U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee Meeting on October 21, 2019 in Boston, MA
U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Meeting Subcommittee Agenda (DRAFT)
8:00am - 9:00am Registration Open
9:00am - 10:00am Opening Plenary – Briefing of Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee (OWTAP) and Working Group Members (Room TBD)
Walt Musial, Chairman of the OWTAP committee, will lead a plenary discussion to introduce the AWEA offshore standards initiative to new members, provide an update on progress, and describe next steps for the project.
Working Group Convener Presentations: The conveners from each of the five Working Groups will introduce the working groups and provide a progress update.
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 12:30pm Working Group Meetings (Morning Session)
Working Group 1: Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices (OCRP) Maintenance (Room TBD)
Working Group 2: U.S. Floating Offshore Wind Systems (Room TBD)
Working Group 3: U.S. Offshore Wind Metocean Conditions Characterization (Room TBD)
Working Group 4: U.S. Geotechnical and Geophysical Investigations and Design (Room TBD)
Working Group 5: Offshore Wind Submarine Cables (Room TBD)
12:30pm - 1:45pm Lunch Break* & WG Liaison Breakout Meetings
1:45pm - 4:00pm Working Group Meetings (Afternoon Session)
4:00pm - 4:15pm Break
4:15pm - 5:00pm Closing Plenary – Briefing of Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee (OWTAP) and Working Group Members – Review & Wrap-Up (Room TBD)
Working Group Conveners present outcomes and progress report from WG meeting. WG & OWTAP members discuss goals for the working groups and address any issues.
Q&A
Walt Musial wrap up the discussion and conclude session.
Background Information on U.S. OSW Standards
The U.S. Offshore Wind Standards initiative is underway, a collaboration between the Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the Business Network for Offshore Wind, and the American Wind Energy Association.
The anticipated outcome will be a new suite of consensus-based offshore wind standards and guidelines that will clarify the requirements for developers and original equipment manufacturers in U.S. waters and allow U.S. regulators to adopt best industry practices. For background information visit the AWEA Offshore Wind Subcommittee community page.
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Environmental and Climate Science Under Attack
Monday, October 21
11:00AM
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents a panel discussing featuring:
Tasso Azevedo, General Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University
Beto Veríssimo, Co-founder, Imazon; Director, Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University
Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator, Director, C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderated by Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment; Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, HKS; Area Chair for Environmental Science and Engineering
Presented in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Contact Name: Tiago Genoveze
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The Energy and Climate Change Puzzle
Monday, October 21
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Haarvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Amy Harder, Axios. Lunch is provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Contact Name: Julie Gardella
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Theological Bioethics Within Marginalized Communities: Women’s Mass Incarceration and Food Insecurity
WHEN Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Conference Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT CSWR, 617.495.4476
DETAILS Women’s mass incarceration has grown exponentially in the last 40 years yet the lasting impact that the carceral system has on women and the array of subsequent challenges remain largely unaddressed and under-discussed. As women are more likely to face charges related to illegal substances, the negative impact of policy in conjunction with the
"War on Drugs" continues to affect women and their families post-incarceration. This event will explore this negative impact particularly through the lens of food security and will pose the question of the role of faith-communities and faith-based institutions in addressing these negative outcomes. Please join us for food and conversation!
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The Military-Industrial-Aesthetic Complex: Gyorgy Kepes at MIT
Monday, October 21
1:00pm
MIT, Building E15-207, Wiesner Room, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Gyorgy Kepes was MIT's first tenured artist, a pioneer of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies. But despite his success relating artistic, scientific, and technological research at MIT, his tenure was also defined by backlash and controversy. Kepes found himself entangled in a new military-industrial-aesthetic complex during the Vietnam War era.
In this talk and discussion, John R. Blakinger shares from his book Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2019) -- the first comprehensive study of artist, designer, and visual theorist Gyorgy Kepes's career in the US. Blakinger demonstrates the profound resistance Kepes faced while trying to "undream" the Bauhaus into reality at MIT in the early years of the Cold War. This discussion focuses specifically on Kepes's complex and contradictory relationship with MIT through various projects completed at the Institute from 1946 until his retirement in 1974.
This event is cohosted by the History Theory and Criticism, Department of Architecture at MIT.
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What on Earth is Going on With Brexit?
WHEN Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer 280, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Ed Balls, Former UK Shadow Chancellor and M-RCBG Research Fellow
Sir Paul Tucker, Chair of the Systemic Risk Council and M-RCBG Research Fellow
Pippa Norris, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS.
CONTACT INFO mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar will include a panel discussion with Ed Balls, former UK Shadow Chancellor and M-RCBG Research Fellow; Sir Paul Tucker, Chair of the Systemic Risk Council and M-RCBG Research Fellow; and Pippa Norris, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS.
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The Power of Playful Learning: Creating educational settings that bring “school” and “play” together
WHEN Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Forum
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Askwith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Donor and Alumni Relations
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
FEATURED EVENT Askwith Forums
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Panelists:
Susan Harris MacKay, Pedagogical Director, Museum Center for Learning and Opal School, Portland Children’s Museum
Jack Shonkoff, Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, HGSE and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Lynneth Solis, Ed.M.’10, Ed.D.’18, Senior Research Manager, Project Zero, HGSE
Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Vice-President and Chair of Learning through Play, The LEGO Foundation
Moderator:
Benjamin Mardell, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, HGSE
We learn through play. In play, we learn how to collaborate and negotiate rules and relationships. In play, we imagine, create, think flexibly and critically, and solve problems. Play provides important pathways for social, intellectual, physical, and emotional growth. Yet informal play and formal schooling are not always an easy combination. This session focuses on creating formal educational settings (preK through high school) where playful learning thrives.
We invite you to attend the Ed School’s signature public lecture series which highlights leaders in the field, shares new knowledge, generates spirited conversation, and offers insight into the highest priority challenges facing education.
**Seating is first come, first seated.
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Authors@MIT | John R. Blakinger: Gyorgy Kepes
Monday, October 21
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Please join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming author John R. Blakinger to discuss his book, Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus.
About the Book
Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of László Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that, by opening the research laboratory to the arts, Kepes established a new paradigm for creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and sciences—what he termed “interthinking” and “interseeing.” Kepes and his colleagues—ranging from metallurgists to mathematicians—became part of an important but little-explored constellation: the Cold War avant-garde.
Blakinger traces Kepes's career in the United States through a series of episodes: Kepes's work with the military on camouflage techniques; his development of a visual design pedagogy; the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), an art-science research institute established by Kepes at MIT in 1967; and the Center's proposals for massive environmental installations that would animate the urban landscape.
Generously illustrated, drawing on the vast archive of Kepes's papers at Stanford and MIT's CAVS Special Collection, this book supplies a missing chapter in our understanding of midcentury modern and Cold War visual culture.
John R. Blakinger studies modern and contemporary American art, with a focus on the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and is particularly interested in the intersection of the visual arts with science and technology. He is the 2018–2019 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford. He comes to Oxford from the University of Southern California, where he has been in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities since 2016.
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Voices of the Rainforest: Film Screening & Discussion
Monday, October 21
6:00PM
Harvard, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Free admission, but tickets are required. Visit http://harvardartmuseums.org for parking and event details.
Voices of the Rainforest is an experiential documentary about the ecological and aesthetic coevolution of Papua New Guinea’s Bosavi rainforest region and its inhabitants. The film immerses viewers in the rainforest, making myriad connections between the everyday sounds of the rainforest biosphere and the creative practices of the Bosavi people who sing to, with, and about it. Following the screening, Steven Feld will discuss the film with Amahl Bishara, an associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University.
Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Documentary Educational Resources, the Film Study Center at Harvard University, the Sensory Ethnography Lab, and the Harvard Art Museums.
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Six Locked Doors: The Legacy of the Cocoanut Grove
Monday, October 21
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/six-locked-doors-the-legacy-of-the-cocoanut-grove-tickets-74368483135
The Nov 1942 Cocoanut Grove tragic fire
SIX LOCKED DOORS: THE LEGACY OF COCOANUT GROVE examines the story behind the deadliest nightclub fire in American history, which occurred in 1942 in Boston’s Bay Village. The Cocoanut Grove attracted a mix of socialites, athletes, celebrities and military personnel. With double the allowed occupants, locked doors, and flammable materials, the fire left 492 people dead. Featuring interviews with survivors and local notables including The Boston Globe’s Kevin Cullen and former mayor Ray Flynn, SIX LOCKED DOORS explores how corruption and greed led to an unimaginable tragedy. The film was chosen as the closing night selection at this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival. The film’s director, Zachary Graves-Miller, will be on hand to answer audience questions after the screening.
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Boston New Technology Artificial Intelligence & IoT Startup Showcase #BNT106
Monday, October 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Hult International Business School, 1 Education Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/BNT106
Cost: $15
To save on tickets and enjoy exclusive benefits, purchase a BNT VIP Membership: http://bit.ly/BnTvip
Join us to:
See 6 innovative and exciting local Artificial Intelligence & IoT Tech demos, presented by founders
Network with attendees from the startup/tech community
Get your free headshot photo (non-intrusively watermarked) from The Boston Headshot!
Enjoy pizza, veggies, fruit and more
Each company presents an overview and demo of their product within 5 minutes and discusses questions with the audience.
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Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We
Monday, October 21
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge
Join us for a reading with Sasha Sagan, joined on-stage by Harvard University chaplain Greg Epstein, from her new book For Small Creatures Such as We. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, For Small Creatures Such as We is the first book from the daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan—a luminous exploration of Earth’s marvels that require no faith in order to be believed.
Sagan grew up learning that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. When she became a mother herself, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions—from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and more—growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience; of the natural world, of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.
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The United States and Ukraine: Reflections of an American Diplomat
WHEN Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Ambassador John F. Tefft, Former United States Ambassador to Russia (2014-2017), Ukraine (2009-2013), Georgia (2005-2009), and Lithuania (2000-2003); Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation Ambassador
COST Free
CONTACT INFO kconroy@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice, Ambassador Tefft, donor James Temerty, and other guests for a special lecture followed by light refreshments to celebrate the start of a promising program.
Ambassador Tefft offers his perspective on the current situation in Ukraine, prospects for peace, the evolution of U.S.-Ukrainian relations, and his assessment of the future challenges facing the U.S.
and Ukraine.
The Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program (TCUP) is the Ukrainian Research Institute’s new initiative to promote a deeper understanding of Ukraine through contributions from social scientists and policy makers.
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Axiomatic
Monday October 21
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Small Press Book Club
Discussing Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
Read something off the beaten path! Our Small Press Book Club will meet to discuss a book from an independent publisher. To contact our moderator, email smallpress@brooklinebooksmith.com.
Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections–each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present–Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide, a grandmother’s quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe, one community lawyer’s struggle inside and against the criminal justice system, a larger-than-life Holocaust survivor, and the history of the author’s longest friendship.
Maria Tumarkin is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of three previous books of ideas, Traumascapes, Courage, and Otherland, all of which received critical acclaim in Australia, where she lives. Her most recent work, Axiomatic, won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award.
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Jamaica Plain Solar Meetup
Monday, October 21
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Doyle's Cafe, 3484 Washington Street, Boston
Monthly meetup of solar and allied professionals from Jamaica Plain and nearby neighborhoods.
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Tuesday, October 22
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TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Tuesday, October 22
8 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
The UMass Club, 1 Beacon Street, 32nd Floor, Boston
Parenting Journey’s second annual Social and Family Justice Institute will reconvene cross-sector stakeholders and partners to continue last year’s conversation around uplifting parents and cultivating leadership.
Building on last year’s theme, Harnessing Parent Power for Change, speakers at this year’s institute will focus on Transforming Our Communities through Civic Engagement.
Join like-minded professionals from non-profits, government agencies, philanthropic foundations, and corporations to address systems in our society that disproportionately affect people of color, low-income families, and immigrants.
Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director, Parenting Journey
Introductory Remarks
Marty Meehan, president, The University of Massachusetts
Harnessing Community Power for Social Change
Meghan Irons, reporter, The Boston Globe (moderator)
Sheena Collier, director of economic opportunity, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and founder and CEO, The Collier Connection
Mac D’Alessandro, executive director and campaign manager, Voter Choice Massachusetts
Betty Francisco, general counsel, Compass Working Capital and co-founder, Latina Circle and Amplify Latinx
Segun Idowu, executive director, Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, Inc.
Progressive Policy Making: Reclaiming ‘Family Values’
A broadcasted conversation sponsored by State House News Service
Robert Lewis Jr., founder and president, The Base
State Representative Jim O’Day
Michael Curry, Esq., senior vice president of government affairs and public policy and general counsel, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and immediate past president, Boston Branch of the NAACP
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EcoRise: Classroom Grants & Environmental Stewardship
Tuesday, October 22
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM EDT
Structure Tone, 711 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecorise-classroom-grants-environmental-stewardship-tickets-69419959969
Re-imagine your campus as a laboratory for applied sustainability education!
Join EcoRise and fellow Boston-area teachers in a day of learning and collaboration to empower your students to solve sustainability challenges on your campus through scientific inquiry, eco-audits, and the use of grant funds for green campus projects.
Using EcoRise's Sustainable Intelligence and Design Studio curricula, we'll collect data and tackle an environmentally-themed design challenge. We'll also explore exemplary student projects that have been funded by EcoRise's Student Innovation Fund, complete a mock grant application, and network with experienced teachers to create an action plan that you can take back to your classroom and implement right away.
This workshop is for current K-12 teachers. New and experienced EcoRise teachers from all content areas are welcome! Please be sure to bring a laptop.
EcoRise teachers in Boston have access to the Sustainable Intelligence Program through the generous support of Salesforce.org. Get started today: ecorise.org/enroll.
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Pathways to Public Service: A Computer Scientist and a Mayor on ways to make service a career
Tuesday, October 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Join us for a conversation on careers in public service with Shorenstein Center fellow Kathy Pham, and executive director Setti Warren.
Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and researcher on ethics and technology. She has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. Her work has spanned Google, IBM, Harris Healthcare, and the federal government at the United States Digital Service at the White House, where she was a founding product and engineering member. She is a Fellow at Mozilla co-leading the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, and Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center where she leads the Ethical Tech working group. Most recently, she founded Product and Society, and The Ethical Tech Collective. While at the Shorenstein Center she will work closely with the Technology and Social Change Research Project.
Setti Warren is the Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy. He served as mayor of Newton, Massachusetts from 2010 to January 2018, where he represented 90,000 citizens and managed a $390 million budget, 24 city departments, and over 900 city employees. He worked closely with unions and community members to create a balanced budget without sacrificing vital services. He also worked as deputy state director for Senator John Kerry’s Massachusetts office (2004-2008), national trip director for Kerry for President (2003-2004), and held numerous positions in the Clinton White House (1997-2000). From 2000 to 2002 he served as New England regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University Law School. From 2007 to 2008 he served on active duty in Iraq and from 2002 to 2011 was an intelligence specialist in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
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A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It's not fake news if we believe the thread.
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Ernesto Calvo, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Social networks are today the primary source of political content among the unsteadily informed voters of Latin America. Much of the content, produced and published by traditional news organizations, caters to communities of partisans who activate posts among their peers. In this presentation, Ernesto Calvo provides a tweeted version of network activation, and describes one out of several possible 2019 roads to the Argentine Pink House. Alternating facts, theories, and fiction, the presentation introduces readers to new debates in political communication that shed some light on the 2019 presidential election.
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E2 National Webinar: The Business of Recycling
Tuesday, October 22
1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern
Webinar
Dial-in information will be provided immediately upon registration. If you have any questions, please contact Michelle Embury at membury@e2.org
We all know recycling is the right thing to do. It keeps trash out of landfills, saves energy and reduces carbon pollution. While people, companies and public institutions recycle, questions remain about how to reduce waste.
Please join E2 to learn from experts on the front lines about the challenges and solutions to America’s waste problem. What are the business opportunities to expand recycling programs now and in the future? What will it take to become a Net Zero Waste society and manage our resources sustainably? Can we simply recycle our way out of the growing mass of so-called recyclable materials, or do we need to seek other solutions? What policies are leading this effort and driving an increase in jobs in investments?
Speakers:
Nick Lapis, Director of Advocacy, Californians Against Waste
Kate Bailey, Director of Policy & Research, Eco-Cycle
John Shegerian, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, ERI
Moderated by Susan Nedell, E2 Mountain West Advocate
About the Speakers:
Nick Lapis, Nick is Director of Advocacy for Californians Against Waste-(CAW). Founded in 1977, Californians Against Waste is a non-profit environmental research and advocacy organization that identifies, develops, promotes and monitors policy solutions to pollution and conservation problems posing a threat to public health and the environment.
Since joining the organization in 2007, Nick has led several campaigns to enact nation-leading waste reduction legislation and regulatory action in California. In addition to coordinating CAW's overall advocacy strategy, Nick leads the organization's efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change and recover organic wastes. He also engages in policy development and coalition-building, representing CAW on a variety of boards, committees, work-groups, and coalitions. Before joining CAW, he interned at the Coalition for Clean Air and California State Parks and worked on ecological restoration and youth leadership development through several positions at the Golden Gate National Parks.
Kate Bailey is Director of Policy & Research for Eco-Cycle, one of the largest non-profit recyclers in the USA and has an international reputation as a pioneer and innovator in resource conservation.
She is a leading authority on Zero Waste best practices and focuses on the facts, details, and logistics that help Zero Waste initiatives succeed. She has more than 10 years of experience creating national reports, websites, webinars, and tools to empower citizens, government staff and elected officials to adopt Zero Waste solutions. She is a frequent speaker on Zero Waste, particularly as a climate solution, for audiences from citizen groups to state officials to industry panels.
John Shegerian is a serial social entrepreneur who focuses on solving global problems through game changing innovation to build successful, socially responsible impact companies.
As cofounder and Executive Chairman of ERI, he has played a significant role in paving the way for the electronic recycling, data protection and ITAD industries as a whole.
Building ERI from the ground up, Shegerian has helped lead ERI to its current standing as the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company in the United States. Under his stewardship, ERI now has the capacity to process more than a billion pounds of electronic waste annually at its eight certified locations, serving every zip code in the United States.
Shegerian is also a sought-after speaker, panelist and electronic recycling and ITAD industry authority, presenting “state of the industry” analyses at events all over the world, including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. He has also authored articles on the industry for Recycling Today, E-Scrap News and various business journals and regularly provides his expert knowledge to news media, including The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, Gizmodo and Wired, among others.
Shegerian is currently a member of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business’ Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) Advisory Board and was named the Clean Tech Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California by Ernst & Young.
About E2:
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate for smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. Our members have founded or funded more than 2,500 companies, created more than 600,000 jobs, and manage more than $100 billion in venture and private equity capital. For more information, see http://www.e2.org or follow us on Twitter at @e2org.
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Food Innovation Summit
Tuesday, October 22
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
The Summit features a symposium on three mega-trends shaping the future of food and nutrition.
The mission of the Food & Nutrition Innovation Council is to foster an ecosystem of science-driven innovation and entrepreneurship to catalyze a healthier, more sustainable, and more equitable food system. The Council bring together diverse stakeholders, including major insurance, pharma, global food companies, exciting start-ups, investment funds, and leading national and international advocacy organizations.
Our 2019 Summit will highlight cutting–edge science related to specific grand challenges in food and nutrition innovation, including in the areas of: (1) Financial rewards for tackling obesity and diabetes; (2) the sustainability of novel plant-based meat replacements; (3) skepticism of Big Food and brand communication. The Summit will include a keynote address on the scientific evidence for each grand challenge as well as moderated panel discussions comprised of leading scientists in each field.
Innovation Summit Schedule
1:30PM – 4:00PM Innovation Summit, Behrakis Auditorium
Grand Challenge 1: Financial Rewards for Tackling Obesity & Diabetes
Grand Challenge 2: Sustainability of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
Grand Challenge 3: Skepticism of Big Food and Brand Communication
4:00PM – 5:00PM Reception, Jaharis Cafe
Speaker Information
Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean & Jean Mayer Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Jason Karp, Founder & CEO at HumanCo
Tom Crohan, Assistant VP at Hancock Life Insurance
Michel Nischan, Founder & President at Wholesome Wave
Pamela Schwartz, Senior Director at Kaiser Permanente
Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Assistant Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Tim Griffin, Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Nicole Negowetti, Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School
Bernhard Van Lengerich, Board Member at Beyond Meat
Jeffrey Blumberg, Research Professor & Director of Entrepreneurship at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Lucy Sullivan, Founder & Executive Director at 1000 Days
William Layden, Entrepreneurship Advisor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Adjunct Professor at Indiana University
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Excitons for Light and Energy
Tuesday, October 22
4:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Professor Dan Congreve, Harvard U. Rowland Institute
Physical Chemistry Seminar
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Election Security
Tuesday, October 22
4:30-5:30pm
Harvard, Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Ronald L. Rivest (MIT)
Ronald L. Rivest is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a founder of the Cryptography and Information Security research group within CSAIL. His research has been in the areas of algorithms, machine learning, cryptography, and election security, for which he has received multiple awards, including: the ACM Turing Award (with Adleman and Shamir), the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award, National Inventor’s Hall of Fame membership, and the Marconi Prize.
Prof. Rivest is also well-known as a co-author of the textbook “Introduction to Algorithms” (with Cormen, Leiserson, and Stein), and as a co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem (with Adleman and Shamir). He is a co-founder of RSA and of Verisign.He has served on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (advisory to the Election Assistance Commission), in charge of the Security subcommittee. He is a member of the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project, on the Board of Verified Voting, and an advisor to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Additionally, he has served on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (advisory to the Election Assistance Commission), as a member of the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and as an advisor to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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Europe’s Travails: Forging a French-German Response in an Era of Transatlantic Disequilibrium
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Henrik Enderlein, President and Professor of Political Economy, Hertie School
Sigmar Gabriel, Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; CES Senior Fellow, Harvard University
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Professor of Economics and Public Management, Hertie School; Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School
Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University
Moderator: Hans-Helmut Kotz, Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO Anna Popiel
DETAILS As a new EU Parliament and Commission take up their duties, the historic challenges facing Europe, such as migration and border control, fiscal policy and rule of law, loom large. These issues represent cleavages, both between North and South, as well as East and West, which continue to widen. Moreover, Brexit and strains on the transatlantic relationship add to Europe’s travails. This panel of eminent experts will explore what implications these background conditions may have on le couple franco-allemand, what core projects it might pursue, and what a "Franco-German economic space" may look like.
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Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Wexner-434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Megan Phelps-Roper, Author of "Unfollow" & Granddaughter of the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church
DETAILS Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a new talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on society and human life.
Megan Phelps-Roper, Author of "Unfollow" & Granddaughter of the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, will give a talk titled, "Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter."
Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church — the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, and jubilant about AIDS and natural disasters. From the age of five, Megan participated in the church's picketing almost daily and spearheaded the use of social media in the church.
Dialogue with "enemies" online proved instrumental in her deradicalization, and in 2012, at the age of twenty-six, Megan left the church, her family, and her life behind. Since then she has become an advocate for people and ideas she was taught to despise — especially the value of empathy in dialogue with people across ideological lines.
A light dinner will be served.
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There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead
Tuesday, October 22
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Harvard, Taubman Building 5th floor, Allison Dining Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Join us for a discussion with Kristin Gilger and Julia Wallace, authors of “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead,” moderated by Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs.
There’s No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view and think about the world. These women, who were calling in news stories while in labor and parking babies under their desks, never imagined that 40 years later young women entering the news business would face many of the same battles they did – only with far less willingness to put up and shut up.
Kristin Grady Gilger is Senior Associate Dean and Reynolds Professor in Business Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She spent the first twenty years of her career as a reporter and editor at newspapers that include The Arizona Republic; the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon; and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. At Cronkite, she directs the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and the National Center on Disability and Journalism. She has done training in media management, leadership, ethics and writing around the country and the world. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in journalism from the University of Nebraska.
Julia Wallace is the Frank Russell Chair at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She is an award-winning news industry executive with deep experience in investigative journalism, industry leadership, digital transformation and change leadership. She was the first female editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was named Editor & Publisher Editor of the Year in 2004. She also served as managing editor of USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times and The Arizona Republic and led Cox Media Group Ohio. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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Chat & Chowder with Dr. Angela Stent | Putin's World
Tuesday, October 22
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
McDermott Will & Emery, 28 State Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chat-chowder-with-dr-angela-stent-putins-world-tickets-74707083899
Cost: $15 – $25
Join us for October's Chat & Chowder with Dr. Angela Stent!
Angela Stent examines Russia’s turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russian’s understanding of their position on the global stage, and their future ambitions, as well as their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed. This book looks at Russia’s key relationships — its downward spiral with the U.S., Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, and the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. Putin’s World will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world—one in which Russia poses a threat in every corner of the globe, and has become a toxic and divisive subject in U.S. politics.
Angela Stent is Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies and a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution, and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-2006 she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001, she served in the office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. Stent was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Philip Breedlobe. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on several editorial boards.
WorldBoston's Chat & Chowder features key authors on international affairs in an engaging setting. In addition to discussion of a featured book (usually sold at a significant discount), the program offers the opportunity for discussion among members and guests - and of course a selection of chowders and beverages. Tickets $15 for WorldBoston members and $25 for general admission.
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Wireless Connectivity: The 6th Sense for Self-Driving Vehicles
Tuesday, October 22
6 p.m.
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://bit.ly/2pWUHrS
*Can wireless connectivity make self-driving cars safer? *
Accurate, real-time, and comprehensive situational awareness of the road environment is critical for the safe operation of any vehicle, whether it is human-operated or self-driving. Although almost all self-driving vehicles rely on sensor technologies such as LIDAR, RADAR, and vision systems to gather data about the surrounding road conditions to achieve situational awareness, wireless connectivity between cars and nearby infrastructure is often overlooked in the discussion about autonomous vehicles. In fact, wireless connectivity with other vehicles, roadside units, and remote services offer significant advantages over all these other sources of information.
In this talk, Alex Wyglinski, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will present the current state-of-the-art in vehicular wireless connectivity, including approaches that facilitate vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Some of these innovative techniques are based on bumblebee behavioral models and advanced signal processing algorithms that manipulate the electromagnetic properties of wireless signals.
After the presentation, audience members will get a sneak peek at the new NOVA film *Look Who's Driving* airing on Wednesday, October 23 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
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Dangerous Exposures: Work and Waste in Victorian Photography & the Chemical Trades
Tuesday, October 22
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Jennifer Tucker
This paper discusses how the alkali industry transformed two towns in northwestern England and considers some of the complexities of environmental systems and stories that are still embedded in the landscape – long after many of the physical traces of the Victorian chemical industry have long since disappeared.
The towns of Widnes and St. Helens, where many of the world’s first chemical factories and towns were created in open farmland during the nineteenth century, are especially important places to study historical responses to industrial pollution and its associated costs. Like modern-day alchemists, chemical industrialists transformed the rural landscape, their factories churning out base elements that were transformed into textile dyes, soap, and glass: materials that seemingly defined the Victorian era. Yet while many contemporary observers praised the alkali industry for providing materials that facilitated modern activities, others saw a different side to the new chemical industry. Not only did the process of generating salt cake from salt and sulfuric acid release hydrochloric acid gas into the atmosphere, it also produced an insoluble, smelly solid waste that became piled in heaps and spread on fields near the soda works. The chemical trade harmed not only the local air, water, and land, however, it also injured people: especially chemical workers.
Drawing on newly recovered archival sources in northwest England this paper explores the nature and significance of the Victorian alkali industry in addressing a range of questions in environmental history, history and theory of photography, law, and public health. Photography emerged in the nineteenth-century as both a new mode of documenting chemical pollution and a technological process that was itself the product of a chemical industry that produced chemical waste and photographic pollution. The paper offers new evidence of the importance of visual imagery (particularly news illustrations, photographs and lantern slides) in raising public awareness about the potential dangers of alkali waste products for local environments and chemical workers. It suggests that an understanding of the language of visual imagery of alkali industry is useful for understanding the later transformations of public environmental law and policy in the region.
Jennifer Tucker is a historian of science and technology at Wesleyan University specializing in the study of photography, visual culture and law. The author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science(2005), she has published several articles and edited several works including, most recently, A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019) . She currently is finishing a Photography and Law Reader and a book on photography and Victorian facial likeness.
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Heritage in Peril – Alternative Approaches to Preservation
Tuesday, October 22
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston
Join swissnex Boston and Swiss Touch for a special event at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on protecting at-risk heritage.
How do we protect cultural heritage? How do we build future heritage in communities threatened by conflict? How can we meaningfully engage local populations in creative actions that are grounded in ethical practice?
“Swiss Touch Presents: Heritage in Peril – Alternative Approaches to Preservation” will explore these questions with keynote presentations by Patrick Michel of the University of Lausanne (Unil) and Azra Akšamija of MIT, followed by a panel discussion moderated by journalist and author Rania Abouzeid.
The University of Lausanne is home to the Collart Collection, the world’s most comprehensive archeological archive of the Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra, Syria, which was destroyed by ISIS in 2015. Through an international collaboration which digitized the archives of the Collart Collection, researchers at the University of Lausanne were able to create a digital double of the Temple. This has laid the foundation for further research and for alternative approaches to preserving the cultural heritage related to the Temple.
This important archive now meets fertile ground at MIT, where the Future Heritage Lab (FHL) has been spearheading innovative approaches to preservation of cultural heritage through an artistic lens. FHL’s work, such as the Memory Matrix project, a temporary monument that translates the images of the Palmyra Arch into an empathetic experience, utilizes participatory art to question the ethics of preservation at the time of war. Informed by critical artistic methods, the Lab’s ongoing work with Syrian refugees advocates a performative approach to preservation of cultural heritage, modeling ways of supporting the continuation of the living social practices of threatened communities that underlie the creation of cultural monuments.
A collaboration between Unil and MIT’s Future Heritage Lab now aims to create future heritage. By translating ornamental elements from the Temple of Baalshamin and from Palmyra’s rich textile history into contemporary embroidery designs, this collaboration intends to engage both Syrian refugees and students in different countries in creative interpretations of heritage, presenting Palmyra’s history of transcultural exchange and identifying creative approaches to preserving the heritage of the now destroyed Temple. A first test workshop of this collaboration will take place at NuVu Studio in Cambridge in October.
Program
6:00 pm Doors Open – Calderwood Hall – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
6:30 pm Program Begins
8:00 pm Program Ends
8:00 pm VIP Reception (Invite Only) – Cloisters around the Museum’s Courtyard
9:00 pm Doors Close
About the collaborators
The Collart-Palmyra Project was launched in 2017 by the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Archeology and Sciences of Antiquity with the aim of digitizing the archives of Paul Collart, one of the most extensive collections of pictures, notes, and drawings from the Temple of Baalshamîn in Syria.
MIT Future Heritage Lab is a transdisciplinary research lab at MIT that invents creative responses to conflict and crisis by designing pedagogical frameworks, artistic tools, and co-creation processes to improve the lives of communities in threat and advance transcultural understanding on a global scale.
NuVu Studio is a full-time innovation school for middle and high school students. Its pedagogy is based on the architectural Studio model and geared around multi-disciplinary, collaborative projects, teaching students how to navigate the messiness of the creative process, from inception to completion by prototyping and testing.
Swiss Touch is an event series and social media campaign pushing Swiss innovation and creative ideas forward, through the participation of prominent Swiss and American stakeholders, a selection of compelling topics and unusual locations.
swissnex Boston creates opportunities for researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, and other future-makers to reach beyond their current capacity and make meaningful, collaborative connections with the top innovators in Switzerland and North America.
Speakers
Azra Akšamija
Azra is an artist and architectural historian, whose work explores how social life is affected by cultural bias and by deterioration and destruction of cultural infrastructures within the context of conflict, migration, and forced displacement. She holds graduate degrees in architecture from the Technical University Graz, Princeton University and a PhD in History of Islamic Art and Architecture from MIT. Since 2016, she has been leading a number of artistic, educational and research projects of her Future Heritage Lab in Jordanian refugee camps, in collaboration with local cultural institutions and international humanitarian organizations. Supported by the Graham Foundation Grant, the FHL is currently collaborating with displaced Syrians on the book “1002 Inventions” to document a range of refugee inventions from Al Azraq Refugee Camp. This book will accompany the Design & Scarcity course, MIT’s first art and design MOOC. Apart from FHL, Azra’s artistic work has been exhibited in leading international venues, including the Generali Foundation Vienna, Liverpool Biennial, Sculpture Center New York, Secession Vienna, the Royal Academy of Arts London, Design Week Festivals in Milan, Istanbul Eindhoven and Amman, and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini as a part of the 54th Art Biennale in Venice. In 2013, she received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for her design of the prayer space in the Islamic Cemetery Altach, Austria.
Azra is the founding director of the MIT Future Heritage Lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
Patrick Michel
Patrick studied Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Lausanne before specializing in Assyriology at the University of Geneva, where he also holds a PhD; he was awarded scholarships from the Fondation Ernst Boninchi and the Société Académique vaudoise. Patrick has done research at the Swiss Institute in Rome (of which he currently presides the alumni), the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and has taught at the universities of Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Rome. In 2013 he received the Fellowship of the International University of Venice for the interdisciplinary seminar Between East and West. He dedicated an exhibition to the collection of René Dussaud (1858-1958), Conservator of the Near Eastern Department of the Louvre with the publication of a catalogue. He also participated in several archaeological campaigns in Syria with the American University of Beirut. He is now finishing a Diploma of Advanced studies in Art Law.
Patrick currently leads the Collart-Palmyra Project at the University of Lausanne as Senior Researcher and he manages Fonds d’Archives de Maurice Dunand.
Rania Abouzeid (moderator)
Rania Abouzeid is a Beirut-based journalist and author of “No Turning Back: Life, Loss, And Hope in Wartime Syria.” She has covered wars, natural disasters and political upheaval across the Middle East and South Asia for more than 15 years and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Michael Kelly Award, the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting and the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Book Award. Abouzeid has written for The New Yorker, Time, National Geographic and other publications, and has reported and presented television documentaries and features. She has received fellowships from the European Council on Foreign Relations, New America and Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
She is studying the dynamics of post-civil war societies and how trust and the idea of community are rebuilt. She also plans to investigate and contextualize the legacy of the Arab Spring uprisings.
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Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
Tuesday, October 22
6:30 p.m.
Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington
We are in the midst of an unprecedented climate crisis and ecological breakdown that threatens the continuation of life as we know it: record atmospheric carbon levels, global temperature rise, deforestation, plastic pollution, mass extinction of species... Join us to hear the latest information on the state of our planet, and learn how to become part of a global movement of social transformation for a livable future.
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Innovative Models for Resolving Disputes after Mass Disasters and Catastrophic Harms
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Kenneth R. Feinberg, Attorney, Feinberg Rozen
Eric D. Green, Principal, Resolutions, LLC, Boston
Francis E. McGovern, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Moderator:
Professor Guhan Subramanian, Chair, Program on Negotiation, Professor, Harvard Law School, Professor, Harvard Business School
COST Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
CONTACT INFO dlong@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS About the event:
Mass disasters and catastrophes injuring large numbers of individuals present serious operational, management and fairness problems for traditional compensation systems, including courts. Whether it be terrorism, such as the 9/11 or Boston Marathon attacks, a mass shooting at Virginia Tech or Las Vegas, thousands of automobile airbag ruptures, community-wide natural gas pipeline explosions, widespread institutional sexual abuse, or pharmaceutical failures such as opioids, contraceptives, dialyses fluid or miracle pills, the breadth of these events often overwhelms the capacity of our standard compensation systems. In recent years public and private institutions have striven to develop new models in these mega cases to attempt to deliver fairer, faster, more efficient, and more equitable solutions to the numerous disaster victims. These innovative models vary in important ways but raise similar issues about how well they function and comport with important social, political, and conflict resolution norms. Ken Feinberg, Eric Green and Francis McGovern have been deeply involved in the design and operation of these mechanisms in many high profile applications. They will lead a discussion focusing on critical aspects of these systems. The entire community is invited to participate.
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Mystic River Watershed Association Annual Meeting
Tuesday, October 22
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Tufts University, Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street, Medford
Come meet the people and learn about the programs that are improving your Mystic.
During an interactive showcase, you will hear directly from staff and volunteers about water quality science, path improvements, river herring restoration and local environmental advocacy. During the brief keynote, Patrick Herron, MyRWA's Executive Director, will share the impact of this programming on our Mystic communities highlighting the major successes of the year. Volunteers will be honored and the 2019-2020 Board of Directors will be elected.
6:30 p.m. Appetizers and mingling
7:30 p.m. Brief Program
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Tuesday, October 22
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Local author Holly Jackson presents her dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists—free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes—and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era.
“In the tradition of Howard Zinn’s people’s histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten yet inspiring past.”—Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country’s fiftieth birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds. They would leave behind a groundbreaking political system and a growing economy—as well as the glaring inequalities that had undermined the American experiment from its beginning. The young nation had outlived the men who made it, but could it survive intensifying divisions over the very meaning of the land of the free?
A new network of dissent—connecting firebrands and agitators on pastoral communes, in urban mobs, and in genteel parlors across the nation—vowed to finish the revolution they claimed the Founding Fathers had only begun. They were men and women, black and white, fiercely devoted to causes that pitted them against mainstream America even while they fought to preserve the nation’s founding ideals: the brilliant heiress Frances Wright, whose shocking critiques of religion and the institution of marriage led to calls for her arrest; the radical Bostonian William Lloyd Garrison, whose commitment to nonviolence would be tested as the conflict over slavery pushed the nation to its breaking point; the Philadelphia businessman James Forten, who presided over the first mass political protest of free African Americans; Marx Lazarus, a vegan from Alabama whose calls for sexual liberation masked a dark secret; black nationalist Martin Delany, the would-be founding father of a West African colony who secretly supported John Brown’s treasonous raid on Harpers Ferry—only to ally himself with Southern Confederates after the Civil War.
Though largely forgotten today, these figures were enormously influential in the pivotal period flanking the war, their lives and work entwined with reformers like Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as iconic leaders like Abraham Lincoln. Jackson writes them back into the story of the nation’s most formative and perilous era in all their heroism, outlandishness, and tragic shortcomings. The result is a surprising, panoramic work of narrative history, one that offers important lessons for today.
Holly Jackson is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, as well as a number of scholarly venues. She is the author of one previous book, a scholarly study of “family values” politics in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The Cult of Trump
Tuesday October 22
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Steven Hassan
One of America’s leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trump and the indoctrination tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters. The Cult of Trump is an accessible and in-depth analysis of the president, showing that under the right circumstances, even sane, rational, well-adjusted people can be persuaded to believe the most outrageous ideas.
Steven Hassan is a mental health professional who specializes in helping people to recover from mind control as well as helping loved ones to exit without coercion. He has been helping people leave destructive relationships and organizations since 1976 after he was rescued from the infamous cult, the Moonies. Hassan directs the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, a counseling and publishing organization outside of Boston, teaches at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Technology, Amnesia, & the Future: A Conversation with a Messenger from the Past
Tuesday, October 22
7:00pm to 9:00pm
MIT, Building 32-155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Dr. Jim Walsh, MIT Security Studies Program, is a globally renowned commentator and thinker known for his humor and insight. Playing the theatrical role of a "Messenger from the Past," Dr. Walsh tells the story of how humankind has built the capacity to destroy the planet while also demonstrating the will to push back and alter the course of history. This conversation explores both the dangers and opportunities confronting the generation of young technologists today.
Sponsored by radius at MIT and the MIT Security Studies Program
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