Energy (and Other) Events - October 20, 2019

Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater

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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

12pm  Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders-Guidance for Companies

12:10pm  Overview of Green Algal Evolution, with a Focus on the Transitions to Land

12:30pm  Igor Makarov: The Political Economy of Russian Climate Policy

1pm  The Military-Industrial-Aesthetic Complex: Gyorgy Kepes at MIT

1pm  Right to Repair Hearing 

4:30pm  Upgrading Exports: The Sustainable Quality Program in the Colombia Coffee Chain

4:30pm  What on Earth is Going on With Brexit?

5pm  How and Why does Terrorism End? 

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  Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development: Lunch with Professor Dana Born and CPL Hauser Leader Nadja West

12pm  Organized Crime, Migrants and Human Rights in Central and North America

12pm  Conversion Via Twitter:  JUSTICE, EQUITY, & INCLUSION

12pm  A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It's not fake news if we believe the thread.

12pm  Immersive Documentary: Pushing the Boundaries of the Documentary Viewing Experience

12:30pm  Trade & Development 2019: Financing a Global Green New Deal

1pm  STATE HOUSE HEARING:  FACE SURVEILLANCE MORATORIUM

1:30pm  E2 National Webinar:  The Business of Recycling

1:30pm  Food Innovation Summit

4pm  Excitons for Light and Energy

4pm  2019 W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony

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  National Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) Offshore Wind Reception at AWEA's Offshore WINDPOWER 2019

6pm  Dangerous Exposures: Work and Waste in Victorian Photography & the Chemical Trades

6pm  EBC & WilmerHale Present: An Evening with Offshore Wind Industry Leaders

6pm  Heritage in Peril – Alternative Approaches to Preservation

6:30pm  Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)

6:30pm  The Impact of Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems

6:30pm  Innovative Models for Resolving Disputes after Mass Disasters and Catastrophic Harms

6:30pm  Mystic River Watershed Association Annual Meeting

7pm  Extinction Rebellion Online Listening Circle

7pm  American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

7pm  The Cult of Trump

7pm  COVERING 2020: News, Trust, and the Future of the American Presidency

7pm  FLP Open Meeting: Plants as Food & Medicine- From Urban Forage to Indigenous Knowledge

7pm  Technology, Amnesia, & the Future: A Conversation with a Messenger from the Past

7:30pm  Climate Change and the Future of History

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Wednesday, October 23 - Friday, October 25

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AI World Conference and Free Expo! (Separate Registration)

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Wednesday, October 23

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8am  Passive House Symposium 2019

12pm  The War Scare That Wasn’t: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War

12pm  Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property

12pm  Computational Justice: How Artificial Intelligence and Digital Phenotyping Can Advance Social Good

3pm  xTalk: Michael Phillips on "Technology Mediated Feedback: Powerful, Clear and Personalized”

3:30pm  The U.S. Census Bureau Tries to be a Good Data Steward in the 21st Century

4pm  Metabolites of the Marine Carbon and Sulfur Cycles

4:15pm  In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities

4:30pm  America’s Best Idea: National Parks in the 21st Century

4:30pm  Work of the Future Book Series: Ellen Ruppel Shell, Author of "The Job”

5pm  Trust but Verify: The Role of Cognitive Skills & the Media 

5pm  The Seventh Annual Food is Medicine Symposium

5pm  Science & Democracy Lecture: Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculative Technologies

5:15pm  MITEI Colloquium: The age of living machines: A biology-based energy technology revolution

5:30pm  Re-Energize Boston Happy Hour

6pm  Josh Berson in Conversation with Ben Wurgaft, discussing Berson’s new book The Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food

6pm  Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture

6pm  Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

6:30pm  Data and Music

7pm  The Great Connecting:  The Emergence of Global Broadband and How That Changes Everything

7pm  Computers Dream of a Better Future:  Artificial Intelligence in materials science

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Thursday, October 24 - Friday, October 25

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Third Annual Authors and Innovators Business Ideas Festival

Mothers Against Violence 2019 National Conference

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Thursday, October 24

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8:30am  Keeping the Lights On and the Water Out for 100 Years or More

12pm  Sculpture Made in Response to Environmental Concerns

12pm  CCE Seminar: Sometimes all we have left are pictures and fear/Daniel Simpson

3pm  How to Change the World with Casey van der Stricht

3:30pm  Behavior is a Motor and Brake for Evolution

3:30pm  Characteristics and Mixing State of Haze Pollution in China

3:45pm  Rebecca Henderson: Re-Imagining Capitalism

4pm  Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am—Film Screening and Q&A

4:30pm  Champions of Peace? Tools in Whose Hands? The True Story of Norway and the peace process in the Middle East

4:30pm  Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad

5pm  William Uricchio, “Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study”

5pm  Quest Spotlight on Embodied Intelligence Research

5pm  The Atlas of Boston History: Tracing Boston’s Development Through Maps

6pm  TEDxCambridge Salon Series:  Marine Conservation & Aquaculture

6pm  Panel Discussion: Art, Activism, and Public Awareness of the Opioid Crisis

6pm  Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, And Honeybee Health, With Daniel Kleinman

6:30pm  Muddy River Forum: From Source to Charles

6:30pm  DIGITAL TRENDS OF 2020 

7pm  BostonTalks: Inside Jamaica Plain

7:30pm  Catch and Kill:  Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

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Friday, October 25

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9am  Bending the Arc: The Intersection between Law Enforcement and Human Rights

9am  Making the Cut: Promises and Challenges of Gene Editing

9am  Beyond Bad Apples: Exploring the Legal Determinants of Police Violence

10am  Building Energy Retrofit Program Launch

1:30pm  IACS Seminar: "Learning from Watching: Applying Data Science to Entertainment”

3pm  Coffee & Conversation: Ask Me Anything with Congressman Capuano

3pm  The Hive Pollinator Garden Open House

3pm  Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front:  American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance

3:30pm  Film Screening and Discussion: “REASON”

4pm  Categories & Consequences: The politics of organizing information

5pm  The Things That Divide Us: Meditations

6pm  2019 Ikeda Forum: Can Dialogue Save The World?

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Saturday, October 26 and Sunday October 27

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Sunrise Orientation Training

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Saturday, October 26

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9am  Extinction Rebellion NVDA training

9:30am  Anand Patwardhan film “Reason"

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Sunday, October 27

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12:30pm  Public Meditation for the Earth

1:15pm  Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)

1:30pm  Climate Change & Climate Action in Massachusetts

4pm  Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance

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Monday, October 28

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8:30am  THE GEOMICRODISTRICT APPROACH FOR A UTILITY-SCALE TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY

9am  2019 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard

11:45am  Reflections on the Future of Climate Change Policy

12pm  Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Kristen Schild

12pm  Trajectories of Hate: Mapping the Development of Racism and Misogyny On Social Media

12pm  Teresa Galí-Izard, "PRODUCTIVE RESURGENCES : the  garden of the XXI century”

12:10pm  Interactions Above and Below Ground Affect Plants and Their Pollinators

12:15pm  Climate Change from the Streets

12:30pm  The Migration Crisis: Human Rights Violations & the UN's Response

3pm  The Great Hack

5:30pm  Robotics and Energy Efficiency Workshop

6pm  AKPIA@MIT Lecture by D. Fairchild Ruggles: Water and Community in Islamic Granada

6pm  How We Win: How Cutting Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat

6pm  The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

6pm  First: Sandra Day O’Connor

6pm  Conversations on the Edge: Climate Change in Cambridge

6:30pm  Bridging the Academic-Industry Divide in Infectious Disease Research

6:30pm  Sunrise Boston Action Team Meeting

7pm  Women's National Book Association Boston Chapter at Porter Square Books to celebrate National Reading Group Month with Adrienne Brodeur and Tova Mirvis!

7pm  CAN UTILITY-SCALE GEOTHERMAL REPLACE GAS IN THE COMMONWEALTH?

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Tuesday, October 29

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8am  Sustainable AgTech Investment Forum

9am  Ecosystem Climate Adaptation Network Conference

10am  The Social Determinants of Health and Educational Success: And What We Can Do About Them

12pm  On the Trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times correspondent talks about her time in China

12pm  Downwind, Downhill, Downstream: Binational Security on the U.S.-Mexico Border

3:30pm  What's So Special About Ukraine? Why Ukraine Is in the Middle of US Politics

4pm  MIT Climate Symposium: Challenges of Climate Policy

4:30pm  Our Hidden Borders: Guantanamo, Interdiction, and the Rise of Offshore Migration Policing

5pm  Driving Government Innovation: City and Philanthropic Leaders Partnering to Improve Child Well-being: Eat Up Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion

5:30pm  Climate Change Risks and Resiliency for the Energy Industry in New England

6pm  The Changing Face of Poverty: Can Africa Surprise the World?

6pm  The Technical Revolution of Esports, Gaming, Gambling, and Blockchain

6pm  Food Routes: Growing Bananas In Iceland And Other Tales From The Logistics Of Eating, With Robyn Metcalfe

6pm  Boston Green Drinks - October 2019 Happy Hour

6pm  DREAM BIG: Protecting Democracy by Defending the Vote

7pm  The First Cell:  And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

7pm  Atlas Obscura, Second Edition

7pm  Sunrise Boston Karaoke Night

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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:

http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com

Donella Meadows' Guidelines for Living in a World of Systems

http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2019/10/donella-meadows-guidelines-for-living.html

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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.

https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/environmental-and-climate-science-under-attack

Contact Name:  Tiago Genoveze

tiago_genoveze@harvard.edu

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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

julie_gardella@hks.harvard.edu

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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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Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders-Guidance for Companies

WHEN  Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 12 – 1:15 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard Kennedy School, B-L-4 Hauser Conference Room, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Social Sciences, Special Events

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

SPEAKER(S)  Bennett Freema, Principal of Bennett Freeman Associates LLC

Irit Tamir, Director of the Private Sector Department at Oxfam America

DETAILS  Join the Carr Center for a talk on business, civic freedom, and human rights guidelines for corporations. Bennett Freeman, Principal of Bennett Freeman Associates LLC, and Irit Tamir, Director of the Private Sector Department at Oxfam America, will serve as discussants.

Multinational corporations face growing expectations to take stands on social and political issues at a time when civil society space is closing around the world, both in democracies and autocracies alike. A recent report, Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders, proposes an important and urgent new agenda that presents challenging dilemmas for companies and civil society alike as well as implications for governments and international institutions. The report establishes a normative responsibility for companies to act in certain circumstances and addresses the spectrum of actions that they can take, referring to recent examples in different industries and regions.

The Shared Space Under Pressure report was commissioned by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and International Service for Human Rights and will be presented by Bennett Freeman, its lead author. Freeman is Principal of Bennett Freeman Associates LLC, Chair of the Advisory Board of Global Witness, and Board Secretary of the Global Network Initiative. Freeman was Senior Vice President for Sustainability Research and Policy at Calvert Investments from 2006-15 and served as a Clinton presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of State in three positions, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1999-2001.

LINK  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/shared-space-under-pressure-business-support-civic-freedoms-and-human-rights-defenders?admin_panel=1

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Overview of Green Algal Evolution, with a Focus on the Transitions to Land

Monday, October 21

12:10PM

Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Lecture Hall, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Louise Lewis, Professor, University of Connecticut

All talks are free and open to everyone. Watch live on the Arboretum’s YouTube channel if you are unable to attend in person. The streaming video is entitled “AA Research Talks Live” and is visible only when a live stream is scheduled or in progress.

arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu

617-524-1718

https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/

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Igor Makarov: The Political Economy of Russian Climate Policy

Monday, October 21

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

Tufts, Miller Room, Cabot 407, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/igor-makarov-the-political-economy-of-russian-climate-policy-registration-76667226739

Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a talk by Igor Makarov of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.He will discuss the political economy of Russian climate policy. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite. Please only register if you know you will be able to attend, as spaces are limited.

Igor A. Makarov, Ph.D. in Economics, is Head of the School of World Economy at HSE. He also directs the Laboratory for Climate Change Economics and works as a senior research fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at HSE. He is now a visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Makarov's research interests cover climate change economics and policy, international political economy, and globalization. Academic papers, reports, columns and interviews of Makarov have been published in Russia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, France, Singapore, China, South Korea, India, Iran, and South Africa.

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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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Right to Repair Hearing 

Monday, October 21

1PM

Massachusetts State House, Gardner Auditorium, Boston

RSVP at https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/3299

Our repair movement can take a big step forward if we can get the Massachusetts Legislature to pass the Digital Right to Repair Act (S.107/H.218.) The Gardner Auditorium at the State House is huge (600 seats) and we want to make sure those seats are filled with Right to Repair supporters (and not industry lobbyists in opposition.) Testimony is optional; just showing up is important. Please help pack the house. 

Whether you can make it or not: calls from constituents to the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure are particularly powerful. (parenthetical as districts, and some of the towns within.) Please call yourself and spread the word: if you know anyone who lives in these districts ask them to call too.

Senators:

Paul R. Feeney Chair (Bristol and Norfolk – Attleboro, Mansfield, Norton, Rehoboth and Seekonk, Foxborough, Medfield, Sharon, Walpole)

James T. Welch (Hampden – Chicopee, Springfield, West Spring field)

Vice Chair 

Diana DiZoglio (First Essex - Amesbury, Merrimac, Methuen, North Andover, Haverhill, Newburyport, Salisbury)

Barry R. Finegold (Second Essex and Middlesex – Lawrence, Andover, Dracut and Tewksbury)

Joseph A. Boncore (First Suffolk and Middlesex- Boston, Cambridge, Revere , Winthrop)

Ryan C. Fattman (Worcester and Norfolk - Blackstone, Douglas, Dudley, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Millville, Northbridge, Oxford, Southbridge, Sutton, Bellingham, Uxbridge and Webster)

Representatives:

Tackey Chan Chair (Second Norfolk, Consisting of Quincy)

Jay D. Livingstone Vice Chair (Eighth Suffolk: Boston/ Cambridge)

Jonathan D. Zlotnik (Second Worcester, consisting of Ashburnham; Gardner; Winchendon; Westminster)

Adrian C. Madaro (First Suffolk – Boston)

William J. Driscoll, Jr. (Seventh Norfolk – Milton, Randolph)

Mindy Domb (Third Hampshire – Amherts, Granby, Pelham)

Tami L. Gouveia (Fourteenth Middlesex – Acton, Carlisle; Chelmsford, Concord)

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf (Seventeenth Worcester- Leicester; Worcester)

Jack Patrick Lewis (Seventh Middlesex, - Ashland; Framingham)

Steven S. Howitt (Ranking Minority) (Fourth Bristol, - Norton, Rehoboth; Seekonk; Swansea)

Joseph D. McKenna (Eighteenth Worcester - Douglas; Oxford; Sutton; Webster)

Background: Massachusetts passed Right to Repair for vehicles in 2012 and transformed the repair landscape for the entire country. Right to Repair for vehicles works very well: customers have numerous options for repair because manufacturers provide owners and independent repair businesses with fair access to service information, diagnostic tools, security updates and replacement parts. 

Now we are asking for the same rules to apply to electronics -- smartphones, computers, even farm equipment. But Apple, John Deere and other corporations are working hard to defeat these bills. A number of states have bills pending but none have passed yet.

Let’s make Massachusetts the Right to Repair leader yet again. Please join us at the State House on Monday, October 21 at 1PM: a big showing sends a strong signal to our elected officials that Digital Right to Repair is much needed and it is time to pass it.

For additional information, go to https://massachusetts.repair.org

For details on this hearing go to https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/3299            

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Upgrading Exports: The Sustainable Quality Program in the Colombia Coffee Chain

Monday, October 21

4:30pm to 6:00pm

MIT, Building E52-532, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics)

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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.

LINK  https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar

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How and Why does Terrorism End? 

Monday, October 21

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

BC, John J. Burns Library, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill

Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, and the University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Internationalization and Engagement. He is the author of eight books, the co-editor/editor of a further seven books, and has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters, including the award-winning studies Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) and Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006). He is a frequent media commentator on terrorism and political violence, and on Irish politics and history, including work for the BBC, CNN, ITN, SKY NEWS, NPR, RTE, the Irish Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. In 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to the understanding of modern-day terrorism and political history.

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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.

https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/voices-of-the-rainforest

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

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.

LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/2507877635973140/

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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

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jamaica-plain-solar-meetup-tickets-75066506943

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

RSVP at https://parentingjourney.org/social-family-justice-institute/register/

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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Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development: Lunch with Professor Dana Born and CPL Hauser Leader Nadja West

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, Taubman Building, T-135, Darman Seminar Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HKS Center for Public Leadership;

Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development (W3D), a student organization at HKS;

Armed Forces Committee. a student organization at HKS

SPEAKER(S)  Dana Born, Brig. Gen. (USAF Ret.), CPL co-director

Nadja West, LTG (USA Ret.), CPL Hauser Leader

COST  Free

TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PS5H6B7

CONTACT INFO CPL_Events@hks.harvard.edu

DETAILS  Please join CPL, Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development (W3D), and the Armed Forces Committee for a lunch discussion with CPL co-director Professor Dana Born, Brig. Gen. (USAF Ret.) and CPL Hauser Leader Nadja West, LTG (USA Ret.). The two will discuss what led them to pursue public service and they'll share leadership lessons from their remarkable military careers. All students are welcome to attend!

LINK  https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/event/women-defense-diplomacy-and-development-lunch-professor-dana-born-and-nadja-west?admin_panel=1&delta=0

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Organized Crime, Migrants and Human Rights in Central and North America

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein 229, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

SPEAKER(S)  Sergio Aguayo, Professor, El Colegio de Mexico and Fellow, FXB

Moderator: Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

DETAILS  The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy welcomes Sergio Aguayo to deliver a talk titled, "Organized Crime, Migrants and Human Rights in Central and North America."

Jacqueline Bhabha will serve as the moderator.

Sergio Aguayo is a Professor at the Center for International Studies, El Colegio de México and a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard-FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Dr. Aguayo’s academic training and public experiences have led to an outstanding career as a public intellectual concerned with the roots of violence in Mexico and long-term solutions. He received his PhD and conducted Post-Doctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and has published 28 books, 18 monographs, 94 academic articles or books’ chapters, and close to 1,500 journalistic publications. He was a founding member of the newspaper La Jornada and the magazine Este Pais. He has been a visiting professor at various universities in Mexico and abroad; among them, the Universities of Chicago, Berkeley, New School and Johns Hopkins. For the past 10 years, he has also taught courses about Mexico’s transition to democracy. Dr. Aguayo has been an invited lecturer for the National Defense College and the Centre of Higher Naval Studies, which are the top research institutes within the Mexican armed forces. While at Harvard he will teach on the public health and human rights’ dimension of drug and arm trafficking-related violence in Mexico and the United States.

LINK  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/organized-crime-migrants-and-human-rights-central-and-north-america

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Conversion Via Twitter:  JUSTICE, EQUITY, & INCLUSION

Tuesday, October 22

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C (Room 2036, Second Floor), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

RSVP at https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/conversion-twitter

This talk features Megan Phelps-Roper and Brittan Heller in discussion about Phelps-Roper's new book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church.

Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, the Topeka, Kansas church known internationally for its daily public protests against members of the LGBTQ community, Jews, other Christians, the military, and countless others. As a child, teenager and early 20-something, she participated in the picketing almost daily and spearheaded the use of social media in the church. Dialogue with "enemies" online proved instrumental in her deradicalization, and she left the church and her entire way of life in November 2012. 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. She speaks widely, engaging audiences in schools, universities, faith groups, and law enforcement anti-extremism workshops.

In this talk, Heller and Phelps-Roper will address what broad lessons, if any, can be taken from these experiences.

Event will be live webcast at https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/conversion-twitter at 12:00pm on event date.

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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.

LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/title-tbd-3?admin_panel=1&month=2019-10&type=month

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Immersive Documentary: Pushing the Boundaries of the Documentary Viewing Experience

Tuesday, October 22

12:00pm to 1:30pm

MIT, Building E15-318, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge

Open Doc Lab Talk: Jilann Spitzmiller and Lauren Cason

Join us for a talk by Jilann Spitzmiller and Lauren Cason of Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment group that creates unique immersive art experiences. Spitzmiller will discuss the documentary Meow Wolf: Origin Story and one of its most successful screenings: an immersive extravaganza orchestrated by Little Cinema and Brooklyn’s House of Yes that featured a remixed version of the film along with improv and live performance. Cason will discuss Meow Wolf’s projects in the XR space, including a Microsoft pop-up where they took volumetric captures of participants, and “The Navigator”, their award-winning mixed-reality Magic Leap experience that integrated AR and a large scale mech sculpture.

Jilann Spitzmiller is an award-winning documentary storyteller whose latest film, Meow Wolf: Origin Story premiered at SXSW, played in over 600 theatres and can now be seen on major airlines, iTunes, and many other platforms. She is a 3-time ITVS funding recipient, a past Sundance Documentary fellow, and has mentored at events such as NALIP Producer’s Lab, Oregon Doc Camp, and AFIDOCS. 

Lauren Cason is the Creative Director of Interactive at Meow Wolf. She got her start in technology as an intern making squishy virtual objects at the MIT Game Lab. Since then, she’s gone on to work with companies including Apple and Ustwo, and was recently selected as a Forbes 30 under 30. Her work spans XR immersive theatre, prototyping teams, emotion-driven games, and experimental storytelling. 

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Trade & Development 2019: Financing a Global Green New Deal

Tuesday, October 22

12:30 - 2:00 pm

BU, Global Development Policy Center, 53 Bay State Road, Boston

RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2019/10/16/upcoming-event-trade-development-2019-financing-a-global-green-new-deal/

Join the Global Development Policy Center and the Pardee Center for a discussion with Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Kozul-Wright will launch the new 2019 UNCTAD Trade & Development Report, titled "Trade and Development: Financing the Global Green New Deal." The event will take place on . Lunch will be provided. 

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STATE HOUSE HEARING:  FACE SURVEILLANCE MORATORIUM

Tuesday, October 22

1 p.m.

Massachusetts State House, Hearing Room A-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston

RSVP at https://action.aclu.org/webform/ma-face-surveillance-hearing

Join us as we testify in favor of a statewide moratorium on face surveillance technology.

RSVP TODAY

Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly agree: the government should not have the power to monitor our every move. In a recent poll, 79 percent said they support a statewide moratorium and 91 percent think the Commonwealth should regulate this dangerous technology.

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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

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-innovation-summit-tickets-65373268205

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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2019 W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 4 – 6 p.m.

WHERE  Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

COST  Event is free, but tickets are required.

TICKET WEB LINK  http://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu

CONTACT INFO The Harvard Box Office 617-496-2222

DETAILS  Honorees:

Elizabeth Alexander, Poet, Educator, and President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Rita Dove, Poet

Shiela C. Johnson, Philanthropist, Co-Founder of Black Entertainment Television

Kerry James Marshall, Artist

Queen Latifah, Musical Artist, Producer, Actor

Robert F. Smith, Philanthropist and Founder, Chairman & CEO of Vista Equity Partners

Event is free, but tickets are required. Limit 2 per person. Tickets also available over the phone or online, for a fee. Tickets expire at 3:45 p.m.

LINK  https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=hutchins

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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

apopiel@fas.harvard.edu

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.

LINK  https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/10/europes-travails-forging-a-french-german-response-1

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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.

LINK  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/towards-life-30-ethics-and-technology-21st-century-unfollow-deradicalization-twitter?admin_panel=1

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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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National Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) Offshore Wind Reception at AWEA's Offshore WINDPOWER 2019

Tuesday, October 22

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Vineyard Wind, 75 Arlington Street, 7th floor, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-wrise-offshore-wind-reception-at-aweas-offshore-windpower-2019-tickets-77029741029

A Celebration of Women’s Leadership in Offshore Wind

In collaboration with the team at Vineyard Wind, WRISE is hosting a special reception for industry leaders, and regional guests and welcomes you to join us for an evening of networking and celebration.

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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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EBC & WilmerHale Present: An Evening with Offshore Wind Industry Leaders

Tuesday, October 22

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

WilmerHale, 60 State Street, Boston

RSVP at https://ebcne.org/event/ebc-wilmerhale-present-an-evening-with-offshore-wind-industry-leaders

The Environmental Business Council New England and WilmerHale invite you to an evening reception with federal and state offshore wind regulators to discuss the recent developments in wind energy in New England and the opportunities and challenges associated with offshore wind development.

This gathering will take place immediately following Day 2 of the American Wind Energy Association’s Offshore Wind Conference taking place here in Boston.

This networking event will be held on Tuesday, October 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at WilmerHale at 60 State Street, Boston. Check-in and Networking start at 6:00 p.m. Wine and light refreshments will be served.

Starting at 6:30 p.m., brief remarks will be made by senior-level officials, including:

James Bennett, Project Manager, Renewable Energy, Bureau of Offshore Energy Management

Seth Kaplan, Director, Permitting & Development, Mayflower Wind

Robert LaBelle, (Retired) Dept Assoc. Director, Offshore, BOEM

Matthew Morrissey, Head of New England Markets, Ørsted US Offshore Wind

Stephen Pike, CEO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)

Curt Spalding, Professor of Practice, Institute at Brown for Environmental Society

Lars Thaaning Pedersen, Chief Executive Officer, Vineyard Wind

Kathleen Theoharides, Secretary, EOEEA, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Additional officials to be announced shortly.

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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

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heritage-in-peril-alternative-approaches-to-preservation-tickets-74874795529

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

RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-talk-robbins-library/

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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The Impact of Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems

Tuesday, October 22

6:30 PM 

Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont

Adrien Finzi, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Boston University, Finzi Lab

Dr. Finzi describes the complexity of forest ecosystems –plants, creatures, soil, microbes– and the importance of such systems for the preservation of life on Earth. Human activity has changed the delicate balance of these ecosystems. This discussion provides a truly integrated profile of how forest ecosystems work and why we must protect them.

More information at http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/earth/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-forest-ecosystems

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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.

LINK  https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/resolving-disputes/

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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

RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Mystic-River-Watershed-Association/events/265414060/

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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Extinction Rebellion Online Listening Circle

Tuesday, October 22

7 p.m.

Online through Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/856016183

Join us as we explore the effects of the climate crisis on our hearts and minds. Doing this with the support of others offers respite from a culture that often prefers to ignore our current predicament entirely. 

We'll take turns speaking and listening without interrupting, advising, or criticizing. The intention of this space is to explore our emotional relationship to this evolving emergency, rather than to intellectualize it or brainstorm solutions.

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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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COVERING 2020: News, Trust, and the Future of the American Presidency

Tuesday, October 22

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covering-2020-news-trust-and-the-future-of-the-american-presidency-tickets-76116990969

Join Emerson College at this special event, as we explore the trends and issues that will define the 2020 U.S. Presidential election—from public opinion to the Democratic primary and general race, as well as the role of the press in the electoral process.

Moderated by WCVB news anchor and Emerson alumnus Ed Harding ’75,the discussion will feature the insights of these leading political journalists:

David Chalian, vice president of political coverage and political director for CNN

Sue O’Connell ‘84, New England Cable News journalist, radio commentator, and co-publisher of Bay Windows and The South End News

Miriam Valverde ‘10, contributing writer for PolitiFact

Paul Volpe, executive editor of POLITICO

In addition, Spencer Kimball, assistant professor of communication studies and director of Emerson Polling, will reveal the latest insights from this group that won national fame for its analysis of the 2016 Presidential election, and has since been widely regarded as one of the nation’s most trusted polling organizations.

This event is free and open to the public, but please register to assure your seat.

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FLP Open Meeting: Plants as Food & Medicine- From Urban Forage to Indigenous Knowledge

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, CGIS Knafel, Room K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Food Literacy Project

SPEAKER(S)  Dr. John de la Parra

COST  Free

TICKET WEB LINK  https:/bit.ly/FLPEvents

CONTACT INFO foodliteracy@harvard.edu

DETAILS  Learn about plants as food and medicine: John de la Parra is an ethnobotanist and plant chemist with expertise in medicinal plants and food crops. At Harvard, he has created and leads the Harvard Herbariome Project which catalogs the small molecule variations in herbaria specimens with indigenous medicinal uses.

LINK  https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true

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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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Climate Change and the Future of History

Tuesday, October 22

7:30 PM – 10:00 PM EDT

Loring Greenough House, 12 South Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-and-the-future-of-history-tickets-75152518205

Cost:  $5 – $10

October is Massachusetts Archaeology Month! Explore the danger and disasters facing Boston's rich history due to climate change.

Not only does climate change threaten our (immediate) future, but it also puts our past at grave risk. Changing weather patterns and rising sea level present unprecedented challenges to safeguarding our historical resources, especially the Native American and historical archaeological sites and landscapes of the Boston Harbor Islands. Join us at Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain for a talk by Boston City Archaeologist Joseph Bagley about how climate change imperils what we can learn about the past.

The possible demise of these irreplaceable historical resources, which include submerged Native sites and shipwrecks on the ancient harbor floor, is undeniable. Bagley will discuss efforts to document these sites before a climate-change catastrophe destroys them.

The 2016 recipient of the Society for Historical Archaeology’s John L. Cotter Award, Bagley specializes in both Native American and historical archaeological analysis and the archaeology of Boston. With a team of volunteer citizens, he has conducted a number of archaeological digs in Boston neighborhoods, including Roxbury, Dorchester, Chinatown and the North End, as well as at Boston Common. Bagley is the author of the book The History of Boston in 50 Artifacts, which will be available for purchase at the talk. Proceeds from the book go toward the work of the City Archaeology Program.

Tickets: $10 general admission, $5 for LGH members and students (must present ID at door), plus a small processing fee. Light refreshments will be served.

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Wednesday, October 23 - Friday, October 25

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AI World Conference and Free Expo! (Separate Registration)

Wednesday, October 23 - Friday, October 25

8:00 AM

RSVP at https://register.cambridgeinnovationinstitute.com/reg?AIW19&ID=19222&CO=79

More information at https://aiworld.com/

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Wednesday, October 23

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Passive House Symposium 2019

Wednesday, October 23

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, #200, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/passive-house-symposium-2019-tickets-70164988369

Cost:  $50 – $155

PHMA19 is a showcase for the next great leap in sustainable building, from net-zero carbon homes to multi-families, offices, and beyond.

Passive House is reaching new heights in Massachusetts. From multi-family buildings to commercial office spaces and college residence halls, projects of all types are looking to the Passive House standard as the best option for achieving low-carbon healthy spaces and a pathway to net-zero communities. 

Join us and the Passive House community for our annual symposium showcasing this new wave of buildings as well as case studies and lessons learned from past projects, advances in products and strategies, updates to certification standards, and announcements about funding and financing initiatives, code change efforts, and more. 

Lunch and networking reception included.

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The War Scare That Wasn’t: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War

Wednesday, October 23

12:00-1:30pm

MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Simon Miles, Duke University

Abstract

Did the Cold War of the 1980s nearly turn hot? Much has been made of NATO’s November 1983 Able Archer 83 command post exercise, which the literature typically casts as having nearly precipitated a nuclear war. Warsaw Pact policy-makers, according to the conventional wisdom, suspected that the exercise was more than just a rehearsal of nuclear escalation and concluded that a surprise nuclear attack was imminent, nearly launching a preemptive strike of their own. This paper overturns this narrative using new, international evidence from the political, military, and intelligence archives of the Eastern bloc.

Bio

Simon Miles is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Russian and Eurasian Studies at Duke University’s Sanford School. A diplomatic historian, Simon’s work focuses on US-Russian relations in particular and Cold War international history in general. His first book, Engaging the ‘Evil Empire’: US-Soviet Relations, 1980–1985 (forthcoming from Cornell University Press), uses archival materials from both sides of the Iron Curtain to understand the origins of the end of the Cold War. He is beginning his second, On Guard for Peace and Socialism, an international history of the Warsaw Pact.

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Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property

Wednesday, October 23

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Northeastern, 250 Dockser Hall, 65 Forsyth Streeet, Boston

"This is What Democracy Looks Like" CLIC IP/Tech Lecure Series

Featuring Jane Anderson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, New York University 

Jane Anderson, NYU professor and founder of the Local Contexts project, which works to help Indigenous, Métis, Aboriginal, Inuit and First Nations preserve their intellectual property and cultural heritage, will be our guest speaker in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  

Co-hosted by the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration and the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity  

2019 IP/Tech Lecture Series: This is What Democracy Looks Like

What is the relationship between rapid technological innovation and our democratic values?

Now that issues concerning access to justice have entered the arena of digital surveillance and big data, what role does the law play in shaping the civil rights and civil liberties landscape of the future?

How does intellectual property shape our understanding of citizenship and rights?

More importantly, what does all of this mean for those working at the intersection of social justice, technology and innovation?

The Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) invites you to join us for “This is what democracy looks like!” — a yearlong program featuring guest speakers, workshops and tech-focused events exploring what citizenship, community and belonging mean in the digital age. 

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Computational Justice: How Artificial Intelligence and Digital Phenotyping Can Advance Social Good

WHEN  Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

SPEAKER(S)  Rediet Abebe, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows and Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University

Justin T. Baker, Scientific Director, Institute for Technology in Psychiatry; Director of Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program, McLean Hospital; co-director, Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Research Concentration Program; Associate Director, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior, MGH; and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Francis X. Shen, Executive Director, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior, MGH; an Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School; and an Associate Professor of Law, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and faculty member in the Graduate Program on Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota

COST  Free

CONTACT INFO Kaitlyn Dowling kdowling@law.harvard.edu

DETAILS  The future of neuroscience and law will be a computational future, as both fields are increasingly integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning. But what will this future look like? Can AI and digital technologies promote justice, diversity, and inclusion? Or will these technologies replicate, or even exacerbate, existing inequalities and biases? In this lunchtime event, leading experts in artificial intelligence, computational psychiatry, and the law will discuss these questions, as they explore how AI and digital technologies can advance social good through improved social, psychiatric, and legal interventions.

LINK  https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egmx9nlr329fe773&oseq=&c=&ch=

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xTalk: Michael Phillips on "Technology Mediated Feedback: Powerful, Clear and Personalized"

Wednesday, October 23

3:00pm to 4:00pm

MIT, Building 34-302, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Assessment feedback for learning is the lynchpin to students’ effective decision making, and the basis of improved learning outcomes. However, feedback is under-utilised and often misunderstood by both students and educators and there is no single feedback strategy or model that has been shown to work across all contexts.

This talk will introduce a new definition of feedback that places learners at the centre of the feedback loop together with results from multi-year investigation involving more than 4,500 Australian college students that reveals what works and why. Practical strategies to leverage the affordances of multi-modal feedback (audio, video and screencast) opportunities will also be showcased.

Dr. Michael Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. His work focuses on the knowledge expert teachers develop when integrating educational technologies into their practice. Additionally, Mike researches the ways in which expert teachers make active decisions about their classroom technology integration. Michael’s research regularly involves collaboration with colleagues from Australia, the United States, Europe, Asia and the sub-continent.

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The U.S. Census Bureau Tries to be a Good Data Steward in the 21st Century

Wednesday, October 23

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

BU School of Law, 15th Floor Faculty Lounge, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Please RSVP to tgabs@bu.edu

The Fundamental Law of Information Reconstruction, a.k.a. the Database Reconstruction Theorem, not only exposes a vulnerability in the way statistical agencies have traditionally published data, but it also exposes the same vulnerability in the way Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and other Internet giants publish data. Solutions are needed as to how to publish information from these data while still providing meaningful privacy and confidentiality protections to providers.

Fortunately for the public, the U.S. Census Bureau's curation of their data is regulated by a strict law that mandates publication for statistical purposes only, not exposing the data of any respondent that could identify them as the source of specific items. The Census Bureau has interpreted that stricture as governed by the laws of probability. An external user should not be able to assert with reasonable certainty that particular values were supplied by an identified respondent. Traditional methods of disclosure avoidance fail because they are not able to quantify that risk. Moreover, when these methods are assessed using current tools, the relative certainty with which specific values can be associated with identifiable individuals turns out to be much greater than anticipated.

In this Cyber Alliance talk, Census Bureau Assoc. Director for Research and Methodology and Cornell Prof. John Abowd will discuss how his agency has responded to these developments. The Census Bureau has committed to a transparent modernization of its data publishing systems using formal methods like differential privacy. The intention is to demonstrate that statistical data, fit for their intended uses, can be produced when the entire publication system is subject to a formal privacy-loss budget.

There will be time for casual conversation and light refreshments before and after the presentation. 

More information at http://www.bu.edu/law/faculty-and-staff/colloquia-workshops/cyber-alliance-speaker-series/

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Metabolites of the Marine Carbon and Sulfur Cycles

Wednesday, October 23

4:00pm to 5:00pm

MIT, Building 54, 915/923, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

Mary Ann Moran, University of Georgia

Abstract:  Marine microbes interface through the exchange of organic molecules that function variously as substrates, co-factors, and signals, and these interactions affect biogeochemical processes in ways that we are just beginning to understand. The mechanism by which much of the chemical exchange occurs is through release of metabolites from autotrophic microbes into seawater, followed by rapid and efficient uptake by heterotrophic microbes. We focused on this exometabolite exchange using model systems consisting of co-cultured phytoplankton and bacteria that were interrogated using both biological and chemical approaches. Within the complex networks of marine microbial communities, high flux/low concentration compounds are among the most difficult to characterize but play critical roles in carbon turnover in the surface ocean.

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In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities

Wednesday, October 23

4:15PM TO 5:30PM

Harvard, Littauer, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Clare Balboni, MIT

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/62379

Contact Name:  Jason Chapman

Jason_Chapman@hks.harvard.edu

617-496-8054

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America’s Best Idea: National Parks in the 21st Century

Wednesday, October 23

4:30PM TO 5:45PM

Harvard, Taubman Building, Room 135, Darman Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q3SY7GK

The Center for Public Leadership at HKS hosts Will Shafroth, President and CEO of the National Park Foundation, who will share his perspective on the state of our national parks – the challenges that face them and what the future holds. He will also share how his 38-year public service career and time at HKS has prepared him for the work he does today.

Speaker Bio: As president and CEO of the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, Will Shafroth leads the organization’s work to inspire all people to connect with and protect America’s unique national parks.

Shafroth led the National Park Foundation’s partnership with the National Park Service during the agency’s Centennial in 2016, contributing to increased public awareness of parks through the popular Find Your Park/Encuentra Tu Parque program, engaging new, more diverse audiences, and expanding public-private partnerships supporting national parks and park programs. 

He also oversaw the successful conclusion of the Foundation’s Centennial Campaign for America’s National Parks, raising over $550 million over five years, leveraging transformational private philanthropy to support national parks.

Before joining the National Park Foundation, Shafroth served as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), Ken Salazar. He has also served as executive director of the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund and Colorado Conservation Trust, and chairman of the Land Trust Alliance and Resources Legacy Fund.

Registration required. 

Contact Name:  Kevin Moloney

kevin_moloney@hks.harvard.edu

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Work of the Future Book Series: Ellen Ruppel Shell, Author of "The Job"

Wednesday, October 23

4:30pm to 6:00pm

MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell (Boston University College of Communication) will talk about her book The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change.  This will be a conversation with Elisabeth Reynolds (Executive Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center; Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Executive Director, MIT Work of the Future Task Force) 

From the Amazon.com description: "Through exhaustive reporting and keen analysis, The Job reveals the startling truths and unveils the pervasive myths that have colored our thinking on one of the most urgent issues of our day: how to build good work in a globalized and digitalized world where middle class jobs seem to be slipping away...The book's four sections take us from the challenges we face in scoring a good job today to work's infinite possibilities in the future. Work, in all its richness, complexity, rewards and pain, is essential for people to flourish. Ellen Ruppel Shell paints a compelling portrait of where we stand today, and points to a promising and hopeful way forward."

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Trust but Verify: The Role of Cognitive Skills & the Media 

Wednesday, October 23

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm 

BU, George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Presenter: Dr. Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

When citizens trust or mistrust government actors, under what circumstances do they make rational or erroneous judgments? Dr. Pippa Norris will present a recent study (co-led by researchers from the University of Southampton and Canberra University) that focuses on several factors that potentially explain such errors, including a lack of cognitive capacity at an individual level and limits to the information environment, measured by macro-level indices of press freedom and mass communications in societies. This work draws on new cross-national time-series data from over 40 diverse societies contained in the World Values Surveys/European Values Surveys to explore how far—and under what conditions—subjective perceptions of institutional trust are related to the trustworthiness of national governments. Conclusions and implications will be discussed.

Reception will follow presentation. Light refreshments will be served.

Part of the Communication Research Center's Dr. Melvin L. DeFleur Distinguished Lecture Series, in which The College of Communication annually invites two distinguished scholars to share their outstanding scholarship, expertise, and experience with the BU community.

More information at http://sites.bu.edu/crc/crc-lecture-series/defleur-distinguished-lectures/

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The Seventh Annual Food is Medicine Symposium

Wednesday, October 23

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, North Classroom (Room 100), Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-seventh-annual-food-is-medicine-symposium-registration-69232270585

Join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Community Servings as we present data and recommendations from the recently launched, first-in-the-nation Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Planreport; have a facilitated discussion with health care providers, community-based organizations, and researchers about ongoing efforts to implement the State Plan; and hear from keynote speaker, Lauren Taylor, about upcoming opportunities and challenges for Massachusetts Food is Medicine programs in light of reforms to the Massachusetts Medicaid system.

Keynote Speaker:  Lauren Taylor, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School, Health Policy Program; Co-Author, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

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Science & Democracy Lecture: Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculative Technologies

Wednesday, October 23

5:00PM TO 7:00PM

Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk

The Program on Science, Technology & Society at HKS presents "Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculative Technologies" with Jens Beckert, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and Richard Bronk, European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

PANEL

Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics, MIT

Jason Jackson, Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning, MIT

Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History & Director, Center for History and Economics, Ha

MODERATED BY Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, HKS

ABSTRACT

Dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. How then do economic actors form expectations and decide how to act despite this uncertainty? This talk will focus on the role played by imaginaries, narratives, and calculative technologies, and argue that the market impact of shared calculation devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of ‘narrative economics’ and a theory of fictional (rather than rational) expectations. When expectations cannot be anchored in objective probability functions, the future belongs to those with the market, political, or rhetorical power to make their models or stories count. The talk will also explore the dangers of analytical monocultures and discourses of best practice in conditions of uncertainty, as well as the link between uncertainty and some aspects of populism such as the distrust of experts.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jens Beckert is the director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. He is currently Theodor Heuß Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Beckert works in the field of economic sociology with a special interest in the investigation of markets. In recent years his research has focused on the role of expectations and imaginaries in economic decision making. His book Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics was published in 2016 with Harvard University Press.

Richard Bronk is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to joining the LSE in 2000, Bronk worked for seventeen years in the Bank of England and as an equity fund manager. His approach to philosophy of economics is grounded in a history of ideas perspective and in his practical experience in markets and policy. He is the author of The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics, published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact Name:  Laura Hanrahan

laura_hanrahan@harvard.edu

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MITEI Colloquium: The age of living machines: A biology-based energy technology revolution

Wednesday, October 23

5:15pm to 6:15pm

MIT, Samberg Conference Center, 7th Floor, Salons I & T, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mitei-colloquium-the-age-of-living-machines-a-biology-based-energy-technology-revolution-tickets-71537545725

MIT Energy Initiative Colloquium: The age of living machines: A biology-based energy technology revolution with Susan Hockfield, President Emerita and Professor, MIT

Today we’re on the cusp of a new convergence—between biology and engineering—that has the potential to be every bit as revolutionary as the 20th century’s convergence of physics with engineering that produced today’s digital technologies. Susan Hockfield’s new book, The Age of Living Machines, describes some of the breathtaking new technologies that are coming our way in the energy/water/food nexus, including virus-built batteries, protein-based water filters, and computer-engineered crops. The development of these biology-based technologies is the scientific story of the 21st century—one that holds the promise of overcoming some of the greatest environmental and humanitarian challenges of our time.

All Colloquium attendees will receive a free, signed copy of Susan Hockfield’s book, The Age of Living Machines, at the event while supply lasts.

About the speaker:

Susan Hockfield served from 2004 to 2012 as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is now President Emerita, professor of neuroscience, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. As president, Hockfield strengthened the foundations of MIT’s finances and campus planning while advancing Institute-wide programs in sustainable energy and the convergence of the life, physical, and engineering sciences. Hockfield helped shape national policy for energy and next-generation manufacturing, appointed by President Obama in 2011 to co-chair the steering committee of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and by serving as a member of a Congressional Commission evaluating the Department of Energy laboratories in 2015. As a biologist, she pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research. She is the past president and chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and currently serves as a director of Partners HealthCare System, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation, is a life member of the MIT Corporation, and a board member of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School

Please note this is a public event and 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 about a week following the event.

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Re-Energize Boston Happy Hour

Wednesday, October 23

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

REsurety, 53 State Street, #26th floor, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-energize-boston-happy-hour-tickets-74017762119

Join us to sip, socialize and discuss upcoming programming for Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE)

 in the Boston area!

Event begins at 5:30 PM, with brief remarks from the WRISE Boston Co-Chairs at 6 PM. Light refreshments will be served.

All guests must sign-in in the Exchange Place lobby before proceeding to the 26th floor. Please be prepared with identification matching the name with which you registered.

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Josh Berson in Conversation with Ben Wurgaft, discussing Berson’s new book The Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food

Wednesday, October 23 

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchises and the example set by celebrity vegans, demand for meat is projected to grow at twice the rate of demand for plant-based foods over the next thirty years. Between 1960 and 2010, per capita meat consumption in the developing world more than doubled; in China, meat consumption grew ninefold. It has even been claimed that meat made us human—that our disproportionately large human brains evolved because our early human ancestors ate meat.

We may associate meat-eating with wealth, but in fact, meat-eating is a sign of poverty; cheap meat—hunger killing, easy to prepare, eaten on the go—enables a capitalism defined by inequality. To answer the meat question, says Berson, we need to think about meat-eating in a way that goes beyond Paleo diets and PETA protests to address the deeply entwined economic and political lives of humans and animals past, present, and future.

Josh Berson is an independent social scientist. He has held research appointments at the Berggruen Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, among other places. He is the author of Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche.

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Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture

WHEN  Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

SPEAKER(S)  Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

COST  Free and open to the public, but tickets are required.

DETAILS  In A Fool’s Errand (Smithsonian, 2019), Lonnie Bunch shares the vision and leadership he brought to the realization of the National Museum of African American History and Culture — a dream shared by many generations of Americans. In this program, he will engage in a conversation with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates to discuss the significance and impact of the museum at a time when the nation is grappling with so many divisive political and cultural issues.

LINK  https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/creating-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Wednesday, October 23

6pm

Harvard, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sean_carroll1/

Sean Carroll

One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which observational results can only be predicted probabilistically rather than with certainty. Yet, after decades in which the theory has been successfully used on an everyday basis, most physicists would agree that we still don't truly understand what it means. Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, host of the Mindscape podcast, and author of From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe, and The Big Picture, will talk about his new book that examines the source of this puzzlement. He will explain why an increasing number of physicists are led to an apparently astonishing conclusion: that the world we experience is constantly branching into different versions, representing the different possible outcome of quantum measurements. This could have important consequences for quantum gravity and the emergence of spacetime

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Data and Music

Wednesday, October 23

6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT

GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/data-music/boston/86289

Data plays an important role in every aspect of a company, regardless of industry-- the music industry is no exception.

At this panel discussion, learn from music and audio tech industry experts as they discuss how their roles leverage data to drive business growth and attain business objectives. Walk away with an understanding about how data plays into the role of running the business and how it is making an impact in expanding the industry.

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The Great Connecting:  The Emergence of Global Broadband and How That Changes Everything

Wednesday, October 23

7 PM – 8:30 PM

The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-alumn-jim-cashel-tickets-73134281605

Discussion, Q&A and signing - The Great Connecting

What happens when affordable broadband finally reaches the half of the planet that has little or no Internet access? Google, Facebook, SpaceX, and many others have major initiatives underway to connect the rest of the planet over the next few years. For the first time, even the poorest and most remote of global citizens will have access to information, communications, identity authentication, government programs, global philanthropy, online banking, telehealth, distance education, and other powerful services heretofore impossible. In The Great Connecting, Jim Cashel speaks with the major players driving the broadband revolution and travels to the most remote corners of the globe to consider the changes in our world about to take place ― certainly one of the biggest events in human history. As Cashel explains, the expansion of broadband offers many challenges but will also bring a remarkable opportunity for the planet.

About the Author:  Jim Cashel is a researcher and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has an eclectic background: a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford, a master’s from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He also is Chairman of Forum One, a web strategy and development firm. After completing studies in Human Biology at Stanford University, and Public Policy and Medicine at Harvard University, Jim has worked in international development, philanthropy, and technology. When not on the road, Jim lives with his family in Sonoma, California.

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Computers Dream of a Better Future:  Artificial Intelligence in materials science

Wednesday, October 23

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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Thursday, October 24 - Friday, October 25

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Third Annual Authors and Innovators Business Ideas Festival

Thursday, October 24 - Friday, October 25

UMASS, Mt. Ida Campus, 777 Dedham Street, Newton

RSVP at https://www.authorsinnovators.org/register

Two days of Ideas, Insights, and Conversation 

Great ideas drive business. 

The Authors and Innovators Business Ideas Festival is a unique opportunity to take your business knowledge to the next level.

This two-day event is jam-packed with insights, idea exchange, and thoughtful, intelligent conversation. You will learn from business book authors, innovators, and top business minds as we engage in discussions on a variety of topics.

More information at https://www.authorsinnovators.org

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Mothers Against Violence 2019 National Conference

Thursday, October 24: 8am-9am registration/breakfast, 5 pm general session ends

Friday, October 25: 8am-9am registration/breakfast, 2 pm closing remarks

BU, 1 Silber Way, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mothers-against-violence-2019-national-conference-tickets-69192589899

Cost:  $75

MJE is excited to host our National Conference in October of 2019. This will be our 5th year empowering women across the Nation.

Network with, activists, civic leaders, elected officials, and individuals from across the nation who will gather this October for thought-provoking workshops

Join Us For An Opportunity To:

Engage and network with leaders from across the nation

Gain skills in building your mission and purpose

Meet national leaders who support the grassroots efforts happening across the country

REGISTER FOR YOUR TICKETS TODAY $75.00

For more information please contact Mothers for Justice and Equality at info@mothersforjusticeandequality.org or call us at 617-516-8086

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Thursday, October 24

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Keeping the Lights On and the Water Out for 100 Years or More

Thursday, October 24

8:30a.m. – 12:30p.m.

Boston Society of Architects, Fort Point Room, 290 Congress Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-harbor-regional-coastal-resilience-conference-tickets-75257596497

Learn how a Boston Harbor Regional layered defense system could protect the fifteen cities and towns that flood through Boston Harbor from sea level rise and storm surge devastation while eliminating mandatory FEMA flood insurance premiums for the entire region. 

Presented by: National Institute for Coastal and Harbor Infrastructure (NICHI) Boston 

Please join us for the Boston Harbor Regional Coastal Resilience Conference

Hosted By: The Boston Harbor Regional Storm Surge Working Group (BHRSSWG) and Boston Harbor Municipal Regional Coalition (BHMRC)

Attendees: Public and Private Sector Participants from Boston, Braintree, Cambridge, Chelsea, Cohasset, Everett, Hingham, Hull, Malden, Medford, Milton, Quincy, Revere, Scituate, Somerville, Weymouth and Winthrop

Speakers & Panelists:

Honorable Thomas P. Koch, Mayor of Quincy 

Christopher Agostino, Shareholder, Ruberto, Israel and Weiner PC

Magdalena Ayed and Heather O'Brien, Co-Founders The Harborkeepers, East Boston

Kip Bergstrom, Former City of Stamford Economic Development Director

Professor Malcolm Bowman, Distinguished Professor of Physical Oceanography School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences SUNY

Jay Cashman, President and CEO Jay Cashman Inc.

Louis Elisa, Former US FEMA Ambassador to NATO & former Executor Director of the Massachusetts Seaport Economic Council

Paul Flanagan, Winthrop Fire Chief

Mateo Mezic, Economist, SOMAS Stony Brook University

Duncan Mellor, Tighe and Bond Senior Engineer Coastal Engineering Services

Dale Morris, The Water Institute, Former Senior Economist the Royal Dutch Embassy, Washington DC

Robert O'Brien, Revere, Director Department of Strategic Planning and Economic Development

Joe Rossi, President and Co-founder Massachusetts Coastal Coalition

Larry Russo, Mass Marine Trades Association

Richard Taylor, Director, Suffolk University Real Estate Center

Alexander Train, Chelsea, Assistant Director of Planning and Development

Professor Robert Yaro, former Present of The Regional Plan Association

Conference Topics:

Metropolitan Boston's Regional Vulnerability to Coastal Storm Surge Devastation

Layered Defense Options for Protecting Boston Harbor Coastal Communities from Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge

Existing and Planned National and International Regional Storm Surge Seagate Systems

The Cost Benefit Economics of Regional Layered Defense Systems

How to Eliminate Mandatory FEMA Flood Insurance premiums

Coastal Flooding and Municipal Bond Ratings

Public Finance Options for Regional Layered Defense Systems

Social Justice and Private Sector Costs when Coastal Resiliency Risks are shifted from the Public 

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Sculpture Made in Response to Environmental Concerns

Thursday, October 24

12 – 1PM

Tufts, Multi-Purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford

Nancy Selvage, artist

Nancy Selvage engages herself and others in an exploratory process by altering and concentrating the experience of space and substance in her sculptural installations. This artwork is often created in response to environmental concerns. Her illustrated presentation will explore the expressive development and impact of these concerns on her art practice. Included will be a preview of the art project she is designing for the new Green Line Extension station at College Avenue/Tufts.

Nancy Selvage is an artist and educator with an MFA from Tufts University. In her former role as Director of the Ceramics Arts Program at Harvard University, Selvage lectured widely on ceramics and sustainability. As an honorary professor at Tohoku University, Japan, she contributed an art/science perspective to a variety of interdisciplinary, international conferences. Her sculpture has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  Her public sculptures and murals have been commissioned for the City of Lowell, the MBTA College Avenue station at Tufts, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Bristol Community College, the Keene State College Science Building, the City of Cambridge, the National Park Service’s Grand Canyon Visitor Center, and the North Carolina Zoo. Selvage is a member of Boston Sculptors Gallery.

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CCE Seminar: Sometimes all we have left are pictures and fear/Daniel Simpson

Thursday, October 24

12:00pm to 1:00pm

MIT, Building 3-370, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge

Daniel Simpson, Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto

Abstract:  Data is getting weirder. Statistical models and techniques are more complex than they have ever been. No one understand what code does. But at the same time, statistical tools are being used by a wider range of people than at any time in the past. And they are not just using our well-trodden, classical tools. They are working at the bleeding edge of what is possible. With this in mind, this talk will look at how much we can trust our tools. Do we ever really compute the thing we think we do? Can we ever be sure our code worked? Are there ways that it’s not safe to use the output? While “reproducibility” may be the watchword of the new scientific era, if we also want to ensure safety maybe all we have to lean on are pictures and fear.

Research Interests:

Data Science

Statistical Computing

Website:  https://www.statistics.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/daniel-simpson

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How to Change the World with Casey van der Stricht

Thursday, October 24

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 Casey van der Stricht, Principal at MIT Solve's Innovation Future, an innovative mechanism to make investments in the Solver teams. Casey joined MIT Solve from Social Finance, where she was Vice President, Social Investments, responsible for sourcing, structuring, and placing social impact bonds and other impact instruments, as well as advancing firm strategic positioning. Committed to leveraging new tools to make impact, she has experience in management consulting, financial services, and the nonprofit sector. Casey holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in history from Yale University.

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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Behavior is a Motor and Brake for Evolution

Thursday, October 24

3:30PM

Harvard, Biological Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Martha Munoz, Assistant Professor, Yale University

Abstract: Nature can be viewed, as Darwin suggested, as a "tangled bank", full of diverse forms connected by the laws of evolution. One of nature's most ubiquitous phenomena is the unequal distribution of biological diversity. Whereas some genes, traits, and lineages diversify rapidly, others remain inert for millions of years. Why is this true? Which laws cause some features to achieve evolutionary overdrive while others straddle the slow lane? I address this question by focusing on one of evolution's most powerful architects: behavior. I discover how behavior generates phenotypic diversity in natural populations and reveal these signatures at both micro- and macroevolutionary scales.

OEB Seminar Series

https://oeb.harvard.edu/oeb-seminars

Contact Name:  Christian Flynn

cflynn@fas.harvard.edu

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Characteristics and Mixing State of Haze Pollution in China

Thursday, October 24

3:30PM TO 4:45PM

Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Fengkui Duan, Associate Professor at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China.

Fengkui Duan is an associate professor at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China. She earned her PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University. Her research concerns air pollution and its control, focusing on the characteristics and formation mechanisms of PM2.5. She analyzes inorganic and organic trace species in aerosols using various techniques. Author or co-author of over 70 refereed publications in international journals and 3 books, her research has been funded by a number of Chinese sources including the National Science and Technology Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Research Program for Key Issues in Air Pollution Control. Her awards include：the State Natural Science Award of China (2009), the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (2007), the Top-100 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations in China (2007), as well as the Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award of Ministry of Environmental Protection of China (2007).

Contact Name:  Cody Yu

cyiu@seas.harvard.edu

https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/characterizing_haze_pollution_in_china_based_on_multiple_techniques

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Rebecca Henderson: Re-Imagining Capitalism

Thursday, October 24

3:45pm to 5:15pm

Northeastern, John D. O'Bryant African American Insititute, Cabral Center 40 Leon Street, Boston

As part of the Economic Policy Forum Fall 2019, join us as Rebecca Henderson shares her views on capitalism.

Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School, where she co-teaches a hugely popular course by this title.  This course also won the 2018 Aspen Institute Award for “Ideas Worth Teaching.”

The Economic Policy Forum Fall 2019:  Capitalism, Competition, and (In)equality

Discussions with prominent policymakers and thinkers on critical economic questions

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am—Film Screening and Q&A

WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, 4 – 8 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, Paine Hall, 3 Oxford Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School and the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies

SPEAKER(S)  Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at HDS

Johanna Giebelhaus, Fim Editor

COST  Free and Open to the Public

TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp

CONTACT INFO mjenkins@hds.harvard.edu

DETAILS  The recently released documentary "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am", is an artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller. The film examines Morrison's life, works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. It features interviews with Morrison and a number of her peers, critics, and colleagues, including HDS’s Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America.

HDS is hosting a screening of the film. Carrasco will give an introduction, and there there will be a Q&A and panel discussion with Carrasco and film editor Johanna Giebelhaus after the screening.

This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets are available beginning Oct. 10. More information can be found at the Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Divinity School gratefully acknowledges the support of the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies for this event.

LINK  https://hds.harvard.edu/news/public-events-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D134401966

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Champions of Peace? Tools in Whose Hands? The True Story of Norway and the peace process in the Middle East

WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar

SPEAKER(S)  Hilde Henriksen Waage, Professor of History, University of Oslo

CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu

DETAILS  Hilde Henriksen Waage is a Norwegian historian. She is Professor of History at the University of Oslo and was acting Director of Peace Research Institute Oslo from 1992 to 1993. Waage is an expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Norway–Israel relations.

CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES.

LINK  https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/champions-peace-tools-whose-hands-true-story-norway-and-peace-process-middle-east

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Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad

Thursday, October 24

4:30pm to 6:00pm

MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

With speakers Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

A session of the Focus on Russia Lecture Series co-chaired by Carol Saivetz and Elizabeth Wood

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and Russian security services expert

Irina Borogan is a Russian investigative journalist

Together they are co-founders and editors of the Agentura.Ru website.  Their most recent book is The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad.  Their other books include: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB and The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries.

Their recent book The Compatriots will be signed and sold at the event.

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William Uricchio, “Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study”

Thursday, October 24

5:00pm to 6:30pm

MIT, Building E15, Tables opposite room 320, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Co-Creation is picking up steam as a claim, aspiration, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter? Drawing on a just-released field study, Collective Wisdom, this session will address those questions and explore the method’s implications for just and equitable creation. It will consider co-creation in the arts with communities, across disciplines and organizations, and with non-humans (both biological and AI systems), calling out precedents and best practices in a broad array of communities, including historically marginalized groups. What are the trends, opportunities, and challenges bound up in co-creation and its various deployments, and why it is increasingly urgent in our time?

William Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, where he is also founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio. He, together with Katerina Cizek, authored Collective Wisdom — a field study on co-creation. His current research considers co-creation, documentary, and the epistemological crisis that characterizes our time.

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Quest Spotlight on Embodied Intelligence Research

Thursday, October 24

5:00pm to 7:00pm

MIT, Building 32, R&D pub, fourth floor, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Join us for an informal research mixer on the topic of embodied intelligence, featuring spotlight talks and posters. The evening will focus on approaching the old dream of AI and robotics, and understanding the nature of intelligent behavior in the physical world through the study of human intelligence and the design and implementation of intelligent agents. Reception to follow.

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The Atlas of Boston History: Tracing Boston’s Development Through Maps

Thursday, October 24

5:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Boston Public Library, Central Branch, 700 Boylston Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-atlas-of-boston-history-tracing-bostons-development-through-maps-tickets-75890054195

Join us to celebrate the launch of a landmark volume, The Atlas of Boston History, with editor and historian Nancy Seasholes.

Join us to celebrate the launch of a landmark volume, The Atlas of Boston History, with editor and historian Nancy Seasholes. A reception will be held at 5 pm at the Newsfeed Café , followed by a 6:30 presentation from the book’s editor, historian Nancy S. Seasholes, in Rabb Hall. 

The evening will conclude with a book signing by Nancy and other Atlas contributors. Attendance is free. We hope you will be able to join us. 

This event is made possible through the collaboration of The University of Chicago Press, the Boston Map Society, and the Leventhal Map & Education Center. Please contact the Leventhal Map & Education Center with any questions!

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TEDxCambridge Salon Series:  Marine Conservation & Aquaculture

Thursday, October 24

6:00PM – 7:30PM

WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

RSVP at https://www.tedxcambridge.com/salon/marine-conservation-aquaculture/

Cost:  $30

Erik Thulin, BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST

Erik Thulin is the applied behavioral science lead at Rare, a global non-profit focusing on inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive. Based in Rare’s Center for Behavior and the Environment, Erik directs the organization’s behavioral research agenda. He focuses on bridging the academic-practice gap through collaborations with research partners and environmental practitioners within and outside of Rare. Previous to joining the Center, Erik worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Social Norms Group, developing measurement and behavioral intervention strategies in the development sector and teaching behavioral economics.

Scott Lindell, AQUACULTURE PIONEER

Scott Lindell is a Research Specialist in marine farming at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has dedicated the last 17 years to scientific research and development of shellfish and seaweed farming. He has managed multiple projects to bridge the biological, engineering, and political challenges of developing a thriving marine farming community. His projects include the development of methods for combining mussel and seaweed farming, establishing a breeding and genetic improvement program for sugar kelp, and establishing large-scale demonstration farms for kelp in Alaska and New England that may one day provide a significant resource for carbon-neutral biofuels as well as food.

Performance By Boston Dance Theater

Jessie Jeanne Stinnett is a dancer, choreographer, and co-artistic director of Boston Dance Theater. She received a BFA in Dance Performance from The Boston Conservatory and an MFA from Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London (UK). Jessie has performed for the Metropolitan Opera, Tate Britain (UK), Prometheus Dance, Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna), and The Boston Baroque Opera. She is the recipient of the 2020 Boston Dancemakers Residency grant award and will be the 2020 Choreographer in Residence at Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Dance Alliance.

Event Details.

Each salon features an artistic performance, two distinguished speakers, and a Q&A that provides audience members an opportunity to speak directly with some of the region’s brightest innovators and creative minds.

WBUR CitySpace

WBUR CitySpace is the new state-of-the-art multimedia venue for interviews, conversations, and performances located at 890 Commonwealth Avenue. It brings the stories you hear every day from WBUR and NPR to life. CitySpace is the region’s premier destination to be inspired, entertained, and educated.

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Panel Discussion: Art, Activism, and Public Awareness of the Opioid Crisis

Thursday, October 24

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm 

BU, Photonics Center, Colloquium Room - 9th Floor, 8 St. Mary's Street

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-activism-and-public-awareness-of-the-opioid-crisis-panel-discussion-registration-72586569383

To mark the conclusion of the temporary installation of Domenic Esposito’s FDA Spoon sculpture on the Boston University campus, we will hold a panel discussion on art’s role in supporting activism directed toward the opioid crisis. Esposito will be joined by artist-activists Adam DelMarcelle and Nancy Marks for a conversation moderated by art historian Gregory Williams. Among other topics, the panel will explore how artists balance their studio practice with their activism, how such activist work builds audiences, and how artist-activists negotiate with a wide range of institutions. Free with RSVP

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Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, And Honeybee Health, With Daniel Kleinman

Thursday, October 24

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

BU, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Fuller Building, Boston

RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/registration-manager2/catalogs/foodandwine/app/catalog.php?action=section&course_section_id=4042

Vanishing Bees takes readers inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of colony collapse disorder (CCD), including beekeepers, entomologists, growers, agrichemical companies, and government regulators. Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD and exploring the often-contentious interactions among different groups, detailing how they assert authority, gain trust, and build alliances. At this event, Kleinman—author and associate provost for graduate affairs as well as College of Arts & Sciences professor of sociology—will lead a discussion about his book, and Janine Sciarappa, a core chef instructor in pastry for the Certificate Program in Culinary Arts at BU, will provide a honey-based treat to sample.

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Muddy River Forum: From Source to Charles

Thursday, October 24

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Fenway Community Center, 1282 Boylston Street #123, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/muddy-river-forum-from-source-to-charles-tickets-72441856543

The Muddy Water Initiative invites you to a free community conversation!

JOIN small group workshops to develop climate-resilient projects that support a clean Muddy River and healthier communities.

HEAR from our inspiring partners:

Will Brownsberger, MA State Senator

Emily Norton, Executive Director, Charles River Watershed Association

Cassandra Koutalidis, PE Civil Engineer for WATERGOAT™ Pilot Project

SHARE ideas for revitalizing Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision for our urban waterway.

JUMP IN!

Questions?

Info@muddywaterinitiative.org

MuddyWaterInitiative.org

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DIGITAL TRENDS OF 2020 

Thursday, 24 October

6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT

GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/digital-trends-of-2020/boston/86245

Because the digital marketing landscape is so vast it is hard to predict what trend is going to rule the upcoming year. What one aspect of your marketing strategy do you need to make a priority? What one marketing tactic is crucial for your brand to incorporate?

Let our experts help you cut through the noise in order to spot the impactful new strategies. Join us to hear from a panel of Digital Marketers. They will predict trends and give us insight into what they believe will be the most important digital marketing strategies or tactics to plan for in 2020. Will it be integrating conversational commerce, shifting focus to Generation Z, or increasing personalization through AI? There are so many possibilities. 

We’ll dive into: How each marketer determines trends. Trends from 2019 and lessons learned. Predicted trends for 2020 and beyond.

While improving the personal connection your brand has to its customers will always be a priority in marketing; some trends will last and some will not. Come learn from the pros on how to set your brand up for success this year. 

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BostonTalks: Inside Jamaica Plain

Thursday, October 24

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

WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostontalks-inside-jamaica-plain-tickets-71594524149

Cost:  $11.54

Boston is made up of neighborhoods defined by unique personalities. Jamaica Plain is no exception! Explore the diverse and action-driven community of Jamaica Plain through the eyes of the people who help define it. 

Hear from:

Karilyn Crockett, Urban Historian and Author of People Before Highways

Hear the story of how residents of Jamaica Plain banded together to prevent a superhighway from cutting through their community. 

Carol Downs, Founding Co-Owner and Manager of Bella Luna & The Milky Way 

For more than 25 years, Carol has been part of the team behind the artsy, vibrant and delicious local eatery Bella Luna & The Milky Way. Their mission? To be a gathering place that creates community through food, beverages, art and music in an effort to build a better Boston. 

Paloma Valenzuela, Director and Writer for The Pineapple Diaries

Paloma grew up watching sitcoms and living in Jamaica Plain but noticed something—there were few Latina characters. So she created The Pineapple Diaries, a comedic web series featuring three women in their late 20s living in JP. 

One more to come! 

BostonTalks is WGBH’s smarter happy hour. It’s smarter because we feature three short talks, and it’s happy hour because the entire event takes place in a bar-like setting with lots of casual conversation. BostonTalks Happy Hour is a networking-style event with limited seating. 

You must be at least 21 with a valid ID to attend this event. Beer, wine and hard cider are available for purchase. 

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Catch and Kill:  Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Thursday, October 24

7:30 PM (Doors at 6:30)

Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/ronan_farrow1/

Cost:  $38.00 (book included)

Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter RONAN FARROW for a discussion of his highly anticipated new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.

About Catch and Kill

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.

All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance they could not explain—until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington and beyond.

This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.

Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook our culture.

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Friday, October 25

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Bending the Arc: The Intersection between Law Enforcement and Human Rights

Friday, October 25

9:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT

Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon Street, Nurses Hall and Room 428, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bending-the-arc-the-intersection-between-law-enforcement-and-human-rights-tickets-73609633395

Join the Massachusetts Human Rights Coalition (MAHRC) for our 2019 State House Convening

Please join the Massachusetts Human Rights Commission (MAHRC) on Friday October 25th from 9am-2pm for our 2nd Annual State House convening entitled: "Bending the Arc: The Intersection of Law Enforcement and Human Rights". The convening is an opportunity for all of the approximately 40 municipal human rights commissions around Massachusetts, as well as non-profit entities with a similarly broad mission, to organize, learn from each other, and network. 

Come be part of this important opportunity for networking and information- sharing, co-sponsored by State Senator Jason Lewis.

The day's event will feature a keynote address by Middlesex County DA Ryan, followed by a panel discussion with a cross section of representatives from law enforcement, rights advocacy, and other community groups. During lunch participants will hear a presentation and discussion by Communities for Restorative Justice on diversion and restorative justice as alternative forms of resolution. 

Morning welcome refreshments including donuts from Freedom Doughnut will be provided. A working lunch with food provided by the award winning Koshari Mama will also be included with your registration. 

All our welcome and tickets are free.

Spaces are limited so please register early to reserve your spot!

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Making the Cut: Promises and Challenges of Gene Editing

WHEN  Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, 9 a.m. – 4:25 p.m.

WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Research study, Science, Special Events

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

COST  Free

CONTACT INFO  events@radcliffe.harvard.edu

DETAILS  Gene editing, a technology that enables scientists to change an organism’s DNA, holds promise for the prevention and cure of complex human disease, such as cancer, heart disease, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

The techniques used, such as CRISPR, have generated a great deal of excitement for their efficiency and potential impact on human health, but they have also raised legal and ethical issues regarding germline and embryo manipulation, and many countries have banned such techniques because of these concerns.

The 2019 Radcliffe Institute science symposium will bring together leading international scientists, clinicians, and ethicists to explore case studies of particular gene therapies as well as the legal and bioethical implications of this research. Register online.

LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-making-the-cut-symposium

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Beyond Bad Apples: Exploring the Legal Determinants of Police Violence

Friday, October 25

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-bad-apples-exploring-the-legal-determinants-of-police-violence-tickets-72089235845

Legal scholars from around the country will gather to discuss the legal causes of police violence for this year's BU Law Review Conference.

The Annual BU Law Review Conference

October 25, 2019

Police use of excessive force has been a longstanding concern for communities of color. When scholars, politicians, and observers endeavor to identify the causes of racially disproportionate police violence, they often land on police officers’ individual biases or insufficient processes within police departments for responding to excessive uses of force by individual police officers.

Certainly, there is substantial research to support the claim that discriminatory attitudes can shape officers’ decision making. But the focus on “bad apples” and inadequate organizational responses to them often leaves law uninterrogated. Consequently, reform measures often focus on combating personal and departmental biases without fully acknowledging how the law puts police in the position to exert violence in communities of color with impunity.

This conference uses the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Graham v. Connor—which shifted the constitutional discourse on what constitutes police excessive force to an “objectively reasonable” standard and cabined the inquiry to the Fourth Amendment—to extend the conversation on the causes of police violence in a manner that focuses on the law.

For more information on this event, including conference schedules and speakers, visit https://www.bu.edu/law/2019/03/27/annual-bu-law-review-conference/.

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Building Energy Retrofit Program Launch

Friday, October 25

10:00 am-2:00 pm

100/200 Atrium at Alexandria's Technology Square, 100 Technology Square, Cambridge

The new program will be officially launched. A short speaking program will be followed by an open house with staff from the City and Eversource.

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IACS Seminar: "Learning from Watching: Applying Data Science to Entertainment”

WHEN  Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Lecture, Research study, Science

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

SPEAKER(S)  Nathan Sanders, Chief Scientist for WarnerMedia Applied Analytics and Chair of the Leadership Team for ComSciCon

COST  Free and open to the public; no registration required.

CONTACT INFO Email: nrbaker@seas.harvard.edu Phone: 617-496-2623

DETAILS  The modern entertainment industry offers a dynamic environment for applying data science. It involves the study of human behavior at scale and the quantitative modeling of subjective experience and preference, all within a rapidly evolving domain encountering disruption from a myriad of new technologies and business models. Film, TV, and game production, distribution, branding, and marketing are all in the midst of transformative change prompted by these market forces as well as new applications of statistical techniques from fields ranging from natural language processing to computer vision to representation learning. In this talk, Nathan Sanders will provide a perspective on the unique role of data science in the entertainment industry based on his experience at WarnerMedia Applied Analytics. He will discuss how they have sought to maximize the impact of data science by designing models that enable both human and machine learning from data, and through effective communication with stakeholders throughout the business, while examining problems such as how to influence the impact of a blockbuster film’s marketing campaign and how to infer the thematic composition of content like TV shows

LINK  https://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/event/doing-data-science-entertainment-industry-nathan-sanders-warner-media-applied

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Coffee & Conversation: Ask Me Anything with Congressman Capuano

Friday, October 25

3 pm to 4 pm

BU, Howard Thurman Center, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/thurman/programs/coffee-conversation/

Coffee & Conversation, the Howard Thurman Center’s weekly open forum-style discussion on the issues of the day. Their topics range from newsworthy events to popular culture, and our student attendees welcome the chance to ask the Congressman about his experience and opinion on our current national climate.

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The Hive Pollinator Garden Open House

Friday, October 25

3:00pm to 4:00pm

MIT, Saxon Lawn (east of Walker Memorial), 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Visit MIT’s new sustainability garden, built by students and staff. Come explore The Hive, learn about the collaborative design process behind it, and enjoy some delicious local farm treats created with the help of pollinators. Bring a mug for apple cider and help us cut down on waste.

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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front:  American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance

Friday, October 25

3:00 PM

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning Eastern Europe historian and Harvard professor SERHII PLOKHY—author of Chernobyl—for a discussion of his latest book, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance.

About Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front

At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory, in order to "shuttle-bomb" the Germans from the Eastern front. For all that he had been pushing for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort—the Soviets were bearing by far the heaviest burden in terms of casualties—Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked at the suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil. His concern was that they would spy on his regime, and it would be difficult to get rid of them afterword. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 Flying Fortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltava region in Ukraine.

As Plokhy's book shows, what happened on these airbases mirrors the nature of the Grand Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for the same goal, Germany's unconditional surrender, differences arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret policeman watched over the operations, shadowing every move, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American servicemen and local women. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and the operations went south. Indeed, the story of the American bases foreshadowed the eventual collapse of the Grand Alliance and the start of the Cold War. Using previously inaccessible archives, Forgotten Bastards offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance, showing how it first began to fray on the airfields of World War II.

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Film Screening and Discussion: “REASON”

WHEN  Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, 3:30 – 7 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, S010, Tsai Auditorium, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Lecture

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

SPEAKER(S)  Anand Patwardhan, Documentary Filmmaker and Director of “Reason”

Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

DETAILS  Discussion begins at 6:15 p,m.

LINK  https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-reason-656

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Categories & Consequences: The politics of organizing information

Friday, October 25

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Upstatement, 137 Portland Street, #4th Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/categories-consequences-the-politics-of-organizing-information-tickets-75294589143

Curious about how to strategically organize content on the web? Come learn from the woman who wrote the book on it...literally!

Lisa Maria Marquis is an independent consultant based in Boston. She practices content-driven information architecture, helping organizations to understand, organize, and structure their web content for empowering user experiences. She is the author of Everyday Information Architecture, as well as the managing editor of A Book Apart. You can follow her on Twitter (@redsesame), where she yells about politics, poetry, and Star Trek.

Lisa Maria is coming by Upstatement to read a sample from her book and discuss the ins and outs of categorizing content on the web--from decision-making processes to outcomes for users.

Hang around after the talk for Q&A and drinks!

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The Things That Divide Us: Meditations

Friday, October 25

5:00pm to 6:30pm

MIT, Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

There are so many “things” that divide us – that create tyrannical perimeters, borders, boundaries and walls; that order the way we look at each other and “other” others; that perpetuate hierarchies; and that all too often tragically legitimate and elaborate ignorance, misunderstanding, inequalities, violence, oppression, and death. 

This performance-lecture ...through narrative poetics, music, and images ... cogitates on some of those “things," with the aim of both bearing witness and hopefully stimulating thinking about ways to vision ... something else. 

A dialogue will follow

Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, MLK Jr. Visiting Professor, Department of History, MIT, John L. Seigenthaler Chair in American History, Vanderbilt University

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2019 Ikeda Forum: Can Dialogue Save The World?

Friday, October 25

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, 396 Harvard Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-ikeda-forum-can-dialogue-save-the-world-tickets-72725737639

Please SAVE THE DATE for our annual Ikeda Forum on Friday, Oct 25, 6:30-9:00 pm (reception starts at 6 pm)! 

This year's forum "Can Dialogue Save The World? Exploring the Power of Human Connections" will highlight the experiences of eight young professionals who have engaged in sustained dialogues with four Boston-area scholars. Inspired by our founder Daisaku Ikeda's conviction that by forging life-to-life bonds with others, we can "meet the severe challenges of our age as agents of proactive and contagious change," they engaged with each other on pressing issues facing all of us today. Together they also sought to answer the question: "What kind of inner transformation does one experience through sustained dialogue with another?" 

Join us this October to hear their adventures in dialogue and learn concrete ways we can forge powerful human connections in our daily life. 

Launched in 2004, the annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue is named after our founder Daisaku Ikeda in honor of his untiring commitment to dialogue as the surest path to peace.

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Saturday, October 26 and Sunday October 27

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Sunrise Orientation Training

Saturday, October 26  10-8pm and Sunday, October 27 10-4pm

BU, Stone Science Building, room 453, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKNG_IDFnXn-2FoLkjPdL-yvgWt6AD2EDq5RzcifUVpR0qkg/viewform?fbclid=IwAR2gVL3HXqKyy7YFsu0B_zgbOHuKOdpw7n6zwQoIIInM3dkN2oNFWX0l1k8

Cut:  $10 - $30

October 2019 Sunrise Orientation Training Registration Form

Welcome! We are so excited to have you be part of our upcoming Sunrise Boston in-person orientation training! Please carefully read through and fill out the form below. 

Get to know Sunrise!  Get HYPED! The training will be capped at 30 PARTICIPANTS SO REGISTER ASAP!! Registration does not guarantee a spot but we will try our best to take in everyone!

If you can't make it to this training or the training is full, you can do Sunrise 101 online (https://www.sunrisemovement.org/trainings)

>>> WHAT IS THIS? <<<

This is a Youth Climate Organizing Training by Sunrise Boston, a local chapter of the youth-led organization, Sunrise. Our mission is to build a movement of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.  

Sunrise Boston has a powerful strategy to make climate change an urgent political priority, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel money on our politics, and elect true progressive climate champions for our state and country. During the training, we will discuss strategies to ending corruption in politics and learn why we have gotten to this point in society, specifically calling out the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy for disenfranchising many in the name of profit and hate. We will then dive into workshops on mastering the tools necessary to make our plan happen, including bird-dogging, storytelling, and action design.

This training is for any young person (millennials and younger) looking for a meaningful way to protect our climate, our homes, and our values during this critical election year. The training has been designed to be engaging for all levels of background or experience, so whether you're brand new to taking action or a veteran organizer, you'll get a lot out of this experience. 

>>> AT THIS TRAINING YOU WILL: <<<

1.) Gain a deep understanding of Sunrise Movement's DNA (our strategy, structure, story, political analysis, principles and culture) and theory of change.

2.) Develop and practice key organizing skills for growing our movement and winning real change.

3.) Make lasting friendships and build community with other youth leaders who share your progressive values and vision for climate justice.

4.) Leave ready to take bold action, armed with the resources, network and support you need to hit the ground running.

Specific Topics Covered:  

What's the problem (Climate Background & Political Analysis)

How We Go Here (Political Alignments, Anti-Oppressive Organizing & Progressive Populism)

Our Plan to Win (Sunrise's Strategy, Social Movement Theory)

Strategic Messaging (Sunrise's Story, Messaging Our Movement)

Decentralized Movements (Sunrise Structure & Principles)

Creative Action Design 101, Song in Movements,  Storytelling as a practice of leadership, 

Sunrise's 2019 organizing strategy (Green New Deal & #ChangeTheDebate)

Bringing it Home (How you can take action post training).   

Plus: There will be lots of time built in for getting to know each other and having fun -- including a hilarious no-talent talent show!

>>> WHO IS THIS FOR? <<<

It's for you - whether you've come to Sunrise Boston events and meetings before and want to get the big picture of the Sunrise vision, you're involved with other climate organizations and want to hone your skills/build your network or whether you're just starting out and want to learn more about climate justice, we'd love to have you! 

This is a movement of young people – that means we have members of our hub who are high school students, college students, working young people, and more. We love our diversity of ages and experiences and we are committed to supporting people of all identities so they feel welcome and supported in this space. Please reach out to the Sunrise Boston coordinator (email at the bottom) if you have any concerns or questions about this. 

DO I HAVE TO STAY THE WHOLE TIME?: You are highly encouraged to attend the full day training if you're able, as the training curriculum builds on itself and you will have more opportunities to learn, grow and bond with other attendees.  However, if you aren't able to commit to the full day, you are still invited to attend (as long as you commit to coming to as much of the training as you are able).

FOOD: We will provide vegetarian and vegan breakfast, lunch, and snacks on Saturday and Sunday

HOUSING: If you are coming from out of town or need to stay closer to the training venue, we will help match you to Sunrise Boston hosts! You are also welcome to reach out to friends/family of your own and commute from there.

COST:  Sunrise is a new organization run by young people (read: we don't have a lot of money). As such, we ask all participants to pay a suggested registration fee of $10-30 to help us cover the costs of this training (including meals, space, materials, etc.). That said, we do not want cost to be a barrier to anyone -- so ultimately, we just ask people to pay what they can. You can pay the registration fee/donation in person or via venmo (@SunriseBoston) or paypal (paypal.me/SunriseBoston). 

>>> CONTACT INFO <<<

For any questions, reach out to Katie Gilmore, Sunrise Boston Trainings Lead, at Katherinegilmore39@gmail.com

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Saturday, October 26

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Extinction Rebellion NVDA training

Saturday, October 26

9 a.m.

First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue, Somerville

Learn how to take part in XR actions at this NVDA training series! You will learn about engaging in non-violent civil disobedience and have the opportunity to form an affinity group, which is your creative team and support system for Extinction Rebellion actions. Bring people who you would like to form an affinity group with! You can also make one with fellow rebels that you meet while you're here.

Event logistics

Time: Saturday October 26, 9am until 3pm. Please arrive at 8:50pm to give yourself time to settle before the training begins, and please plan to stay the entire time.

Location: First Church Somerville, in Duhamel Hall

Beforehand

We recommend that you attend an 'Heading for Extinction' talk and an XR orientation before you attend our NVDA training. You can find these events on our calendar. We recommend these because understanding the climate science and more about XR will help you figure out how you'd like to be involved. 

If you cannot attend these events, you are still welcome to attend the training. Instead of the in-person events, you may want to watch a version of the Heading for Extinction talk online (e.g. here). 

What to bring

wear comfortable clothes

your own plate, cup, and cutlery to minimize waste. We will provide snacks and drinks during a short break -- no disposable plastic water bottles please!

if you have them, people who you would like to form an affinity group with. Don't worry if you can't, there will be amazing fellow rebels for you to build community with at the training! 

this training is free. If you would like to and can bring a contribution, we will collect cash donations to cover our costs at the end of the session. 

Preparation for Civil Disobedience. Honoring the movements we stand on. Building community for action.

Contact action.care.xrmass@gmail.com with questions.

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Anand Patwardhan film "Reason"

Saturday, October 26

9:30am to 1:30pm

MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Join us for a special screening of the award winning documentary Reason: The War Between Faith and Rationality with director Anand Patwardhan.

9:30am film start

12:30 – 1:30pm lunch

1:30pm panel

A conversation with film director Anand Patwardhan &

Professor Sana Aiyar, History, MIT 

Professor Amartya Sen, Economics & Philosophy, Harvard

Reason sets out to chart what Patwardhan sees as India's slide away from the complex tumult of a secular democracy towards hardening divisions of power, caste, and religious belief — lines that are enforced increasingly by violence.

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Sunday, October 27

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Public Meditation for the Earth

Sunday, October 27

12:30 p.m.

Cambridge Public Library, 449 Main Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-meditation-meetup/

We will gather in front of the Cambridge Public Library at 12:30pm. 

Wear Bright colors. Bring a bell or gong or triangle if you're able. Signs should be in bright colors and celebrate the amazing diversity of life on this planet. 

We will sit for twenty minutes and then walk for ten and repeat, followed by a councilopen to the public. 

RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-meditation-meetup/ to let us know you will be joining us and to receive updates regarding any change of plans.

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Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)

Sunday, October 27

1:15 p.m.

Friends Meeting at Cambridge, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge

RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-talk-friends-meeting-cambridge/

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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Climate Change & Climate Action in Massachusetts

Sunday, October 27

1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Phillips Brooks House, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/GreaterBostonHumanists/events/265238630/

Shaina Rogstag

Climate change affects the entire planet, but what the impacts look like vary geographically. What will it look like here in Massachusetts, what is being done about it, and how can we help?

This month, following September's Climate Strike and ramped up activism around the globe, please join us for a special presentation about projections for climate change in Massachusetts over the next century and how we can respond to it led by Shaina Rogstad. We will discuss current Massachusetts legislative action that aims to combat the climate crisis, and what we can do as individuals to support and expand it.

Shaina is a Ph.D Candidate at UMass Amherst in the Department of Geosciences. Her research focuses on using global climate modeling to determine how the climate system as a whole might respond to changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS). Her social media handle is @ScienceShaina.

The event will be photographed and recorded.

Snacks and socializing will follow the talk.

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Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance

Sunday, October 27

4:00 PM

First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain

RSVP at  https://www.necessitythemovie.com/boston-fundraiser-271019

Cost:  Donation

Grounded in people and places at the heart of the climate crisis, "Necessity" traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil through North America. The story unfolds in a setting where indigenous activists and non-indigenous allies make use of the necessity defense in making a moral case for acts of civil disobedience. Many of these activists were part of the Standing Rock resistance in North Dakota and carry into this site of struggle their knowledge of resistance strategies, as well as their experiences of loss and trauma.

Movement lawyers defending activists in court must prove that the threat of the climate emergency justified acts of civil disobedience and that there were no legal alternatives. Water Protector Debra Topping guides us through areas where pipelines cross tribal lands and where native resistance is mounting. Tribal attorney Tara Houska shows how the destructive path of these pipelines endanger indigenous communities most directly. The film calls into question whether legal strategies are sufficient in responding to the scale of the global climate crisis. Directed by Jan Haaken and Samantha Praus. 

This screening is the first in the 2019-2020 Dismantling White Supremacy Film Series sponsored by the Social Justice Action Committee of First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist.  For more information, and to buy tickets (sliding scale), at https://www.necessitythemovie.com/boston-fundraiser-271019 

Discussion Panelists

Jan Haaken  is the Director of NECESSITY: OIL, WATER, AND CLIMATE RESISTANCE,  Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist, and documentary filmmaker.  From abortion clinics, refugee camps, war zones and mental hospitals to drag bars, dairy farms and hip-hop clubs, Jan Haaken’s films focus on people and places on the social margins and in liminal spaces. As Director of OUR BODIES OUR DOCTORS, her previous film, Haaken received the Lena Sharpe Persistence of Vision audience award at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival. 

Jean-Luc Pierite is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and now resides in Jamaica Plain. Jean-Luc currently serves as the President of the North American Indian Center of Boston and Co-convener on the Advisory Circle for The Institute on Collaborative Language Research, "CoLang." Jean-Luc volunteers with the Tunica-Biloxi Language and Culture Revitalization Program which is a collaboration with Tulane University in New Orleans. Jean-Luc further promotes indigenous self-determination, traditional ecological knowledge, and sustainable development through his work with The Fab Foundation.

Tim DeChristopher is a climate activist and a co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center. In 2008 he disrupted a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction by registering as a bidder and outbidding oil companies for land outside of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah. After serving two years in prison for that action, Tim continued to engage in civil disobedience against the fossil fuel industry and was one of the West Roxbury pipeline defendants acquitted by reason of necessity. 

The Rev. Anne Bancroft serves as minister of Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Rev. Bancroft was one of the first three people arrested in a multi-year effort to stop construction of Spectra Energy’s (now Enbridge) Metering and Regulating Station, where pipelines carry 750 lbs/square inch of fracked gas into the Boston area. She also helped organize and participated in multi-faith actions of resistance. Weekly trainings on civil disobedience were held at Theodore Parker Church during the entirety of the effort to stop construction.    

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THE GEOMICRODISTRICT APPROACH FOR A UTILITY-SCALE TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY

Monday, October 28

8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)

BU, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-geomicrodistrict-approach-for-a-utility-scale-transition-to-clean-energy-tickets-73867125561

The GeoMicroDistrict Approach for a Utility-Scale Transition to Clean Energy

Spend a day diving into the possibilities of HEET’s GeoMicroDistrict as a utility-scale solution to heating and cooling in Massachusetts. Together with some of the world's preeminent experts on shared-loop geothermal systems, including Cary Smith, Garen Ewbank and Garry Sexton. 

Following BuroHappold’s statewide feasibility study on the potential of the GeoMicroDistrict, some possible pilot sites in MA will be evaluated and discussed. There will be opportunities to dive into both the engineering and the economic details as well as plenty of time to ask questions and share experiences. 

Lunch, snacks, and coffee provided

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2019 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard

WHEN  Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES)

COST  Free

CONTACT INFO  Vassilis Coutifaris

coutifaris@fas.harvard.edu

DETAILS  The Summit on the Future of Europe is an initiative of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. Since 2014, this annual conference convenes scholars and public leaders to debate critical challenges facing Europe.

LINK  https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/10/hold-ces-summit

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Reflections on the Future of Climate Change Policy

Monday, October 28

11:45AM TO 1:00PM

Harvard, Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Energy Policy Seminar

 Carol Browner, HKS Hauser Leader and former White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy.

Open to the public; lunch will be served. 

Contact Name:  Amanda Sardonois

amanda_sardonis@hks.harvard.edu

https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-carol-browner-reflections-future-climate-change-policy

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Kristen Schild

Monday, October 28

12:00pm to 1:00pm

MIT, 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

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Trajectories of Hate: Mapping the Development of Racism and Misogyny On Social Media

Monday, October 28

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Northeastern, 909 Renaissance Park 1135 Tremont Street, Boston

Nicholas Beauchamp, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Presented by the CSSH Dean’s Office and the Northeastern Humanities Center

For more information, please contact Gaby Fiorenza at g.fiorenza@northeastern.edu 

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Teresa Galí-Izard, "PRODUCTIVE RESURGENCES : the  garden of the XXI century"

WHEN  Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design

SPEAKER(S)  Teresa Galí-Izard

COST  Free

CONTACT INFO  Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.

DETAILS  Teresa Galí-Izard is a landscape architect that translates the hidden potential of places, exploring new languages that integrate living systems into design. She seeks to find a contemporary answer that includes non-humans and their life forms through exploring climate, geology, natural processes, dynamics and management.

LINK  https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/teresa-gali-izard-productive-resurgences-the-garden-of-the-xxi-century/

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Interactions Above and Below Ground Affect Plants and Their Pollinators

Monday, October 28

12:10PM

Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Lecture Hall, 300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Alison Brody, Professor, University of Vermont

All talks are free and open to everyone. Watch live on the Arboretum’s YouTube channel if you are unable to attend in person. The streaming video is entitled “AA Research Talks Live” and is visible only when a live stream is scheduled or in progress.

Arnold Arboretum Research Talk

https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/

arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu

617-524-1718

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Climate Change from the Streets

Monday, October 28

12:15PM TO 2:00PM

Harvard, CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

STS Circle at Harvard

Michael Mendez, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to via the online form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu0kpmXh6oz11MgFw/viewform by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

sts@hks.harvard.edu

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The Migration Crisis: Human Rights Violations & the UN's Response

Monday, October 28

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Charles River Room, 5th Floor, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-migration-crisis-human-rights-violations-the-uns-response-registration-76442737285

Join us for a discussion on human rights violations committed against migrants and the growing crisis of enforced disappearances.

Join us for a discussion on human rights violations committed against migrants and the growing crisis of enforced disappearances.

Sponsored by BU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, Latin American Law Student Association, International Law Society, Immigration Law and Policy Society, and The Public Interest Project.

Speakers: 

Bernard Duhaime, Chairman of the United Nation’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Jacqueline Bhaba, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Karina Burgess, Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University 

Moderator:

Susan Akram, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law

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The Great Hack

WHEN  Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 3 – 6 p.m.

WHERE  Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Film, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events, Sustainability

SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School gratefully acknowledges the support of the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies for this event.  Partners for the event are the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School; Harvard University Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies; and the Constellation Project.

CONTACT Gretchen Legler, glegler@hds.harvard.edu

DETAILS   Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination," presents The Great Hack, a 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer. Following the film, Geralyn Dreyfous, executive producer, and Carole Cadwalladr, journalist from The Guardian will discuss the film. Dialogue with the audience will be encouraged. This is the first of a special film series that focuses on issues of social and racial justice; ethics of data collection and its impact on free elections; moral leadership; gun violence; and dreams of farming and caring for the land. Discussions will center around what role the moral imagination plays in addressing societal concerns, how each film contributes to our understanding of social change, and how we as community might engage more fully in movement building rooted in creativity and compassion. This event is free and open to the public.  To register for the film series, please contact Gretchen Legler. Priority seating will be given to registered participants. Doors close promptly at 3 pm.

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Robotics and Energy Efficiency Workshop

Monday, October 28

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

MassRobotics, 12 Channel Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robotics-and-energy-efficiency-workshop-tickets-7299295288

In collaboration with MassCEC, MassRobotics is organizing this workshop to discuss related topics around energy-efficient robotics systems.

With the growing markets for mobile robots and drones in different industry verticals, designing and developing these products to be energy efficient is becoming increasingly important.

Presentations and discussion include:

Aaron Birt, CEO of Kinetic Batteries, 3D Printed Lithium-Ion Batteries for Advanced Energy Storage Needs

Omar Eleryan, CEO of Cleo, Energy Efficiency for Drones

Analog Devices, Monitoring Energy consumption

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AKPIA@MIT Lecture by D. Fairchild Ruggles: Water and Community in Islamic Granada

Monday, October 28

6:00pm

MIT, Buidling 3-133 77 Massachusetts Avenue

D. Fairchild Ruggles, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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How We Win: How Cutting Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat

Monday, October 28

6:00pm

Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston

How We Win’s message is urgent: America and its allies can defeat extremism, but not until we significantly shift our approach. We must counter extremism intellectually. Extremists are preying on a rising generation of nearly one billion Muslim millennials and Gen Z who are in the midst of an identity crisis, vulnerable to extremists’ seductive, intolerant, “us” versus “them” ideology, delivered using the latest technologies and real-life peer-suasion. Drones and special forces operations won’t destroy extremism at its root like a grassroots war of ideas will. In How We Win, Farah Pandith reveals emerging data, on-the-ground stories, and proven solutions.

How We Win offers hope. Farah Pandith explains how government, the private sector, and civil society can help Muslim youth solve their identity crisis and in turn build a safer, more stable world. Her perspective and insights are rare, bold, and important. By focusing on human behavior and cultural influence, she convincingly explains how companies must play a role that has—so far—been absent. She demands more from the governments and multinational organizations. Her positive message is a hopeful chapter for Muslim youth, and the world at large. Pandith’s prescription drowns out the voices of extremists by supporting new concepts, causes, and charismatic leaders for young people.

Farah Pandith is an author, foreign policy strategist, and former diplomat. A world-leading expert and pioneer in countering violent extremism, she is a frequent media commentator and public speaker. She served as a political appointee under Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, and most recently she was the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities, serving both Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. She has served on the National Security Council, at the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in various senior roles.

She has also served on the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council, chairing its task force on countering violent extremism. She is a senior fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Pandith divides her time between Washington, D.C.; London; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

Monday, October 28

6:00pm to 7:00pm

MIT Press Bookstore, Building N50, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

AUTHORS@MIT | Daniel M. Russell

Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness at Google Daniel M. Russell, author of The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics. Daniel will be joined in conversation by MIT Press Executive Editor, Marie Lufkin Lee.

We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population” or “Nobel Peace Prize” or “poison ivy” or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online. In The Joy of Search, Daniel Russell shows us how to be great online researchers. We don't have to be computer geeks or a scholar searching out obscure facts; we just need to know some basic methods. Russell demonstrates these methods with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions—from “what is the wrong side of a towel?” to “what is the most likely way you will die?” Along the way, readers will discover essential tools for effective online searches—and learn some fascinating facts and interesting stories.

Russell explains how to frame search queries so they will yield information and describes the best ways to use such resources as Google Earth, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia. He shows when to put search terms in double quotes, how to use the operator (*), why metadata is important, and how to triangulate information from multiple sources. By the end of this engaging journey of discovering, readers will have the definitive answer to why the best online searches involve more than typing a few words into Google.

Daniel M. Russell is Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness at Google. He has taught many classes on search methods, and more than four million students have taken his online power searching course.

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First: Sandra Day O’Connor

Monday, October 28

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-sandra-day-oconnor-tickets-74349981797

Award-winning author Evan Thomas and his wife Oscie Thomas, an attorney and frequent collaborator on his books, discuss his new bookFirst: Sandra Day O’Connor, drawn from exclusive interviews and first-time access to the archives of America’s first female Supreme Court justice. Barbara Perry, professor and director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, moderates.

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Conversations on the Edge: Climate Change in Cambridge

Monday, October 28

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM 

Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge

Join the Cambridge Center for Adult Education for a critical discussion on climate change in Cambridge. An October 2018 report suggested we have only 12 years left to significantly reduce worldwide carbon emissions to have any chance of decelerating global warming. The climate crisis predictions include sea-level rise, increased natural disasters, economic disruption, public health emergencies, an exacerbated refugee crisis, and worsened conditions for all—but especially for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Cambridge gets no pass—how will “our fair city” be transformed by climate change? What is the Greater Boston Area doing to prepare for the crises that are now inevitable and to prevent the worst outcomes for this city? How can we hold individuals, corporations, and governments responsible for ensuring a sustainable and environmentally-just future?

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Bridging the Academic-Industry Divide in Infectious Disease Research

Monday, October 28

6:30pm

Aeronaut, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville

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

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Sunrise Boston Action Team Meeting

Monday, October 28

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Old South Church in Boston, 645 Boylston Street, Boston

The action team is having an in person meeting at the Crawford library in Old South Church!

Questions? Email: SunriseMovementBoston@gmail.com or message our facebook page.

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Women's National Book Association Boston Chapter at Porter Square Books to celebrate National Reading Group Month with Adrienne Brodeur and Tova Mirvis!

Monday, October 28

7:00pm

Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Please join the Women's National Book Association Boston Chapter at Porter Square Books to celebrate National Reading Group Month with Adrienne Brodeur and Tova Mirvis!

Adrienne Brodeur's new memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me is a daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. Wild Game is a brilliant, timeless memoir about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It’s a remarkable story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us.

Adrienne Brodeur began her career in publishing as the co-founder, along with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, of the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story, which won the National Magazine Award for Best Fiction three times and launched the careers of many writers. She was a book editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for many years and, currently, she is the Executive Director of Aspen Words, a program of the Aspen Institute. She has published essays in the New York Times. She splits her time between New York City and Cape Cod with her husband and children.     

In The Book of Separation, a moving memoir about leaving the only life she’s ever known, Tova Mirvis chronicles her courageous journey of walking away from her marriage and her faith. Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life, including marrying a man from within the fold and quickly beginning a family. But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and a month shy of her 40th birthday—after almost 17 years of marriage and three children—she upends the foundations of her life. Even though it would mean the loss of her friends, her community, and possibly even her family, Mirvis decides to leave her husband and her religion. Mirvis takes us through the first year of this new life, as she learns to move forward in a newly mapless world, balancing the rewards and costs of her choices.

Tova Mirvis is the author of three novels: Visible City, The Outside World, and The Ladies Auxiliary, a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in various publications including the New York Times, the Boston Globe Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Poets and Writers, and her fiction has been broadcast on NPR. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

This event is being organized in partnership with the Women's National Book Association, in honor of National Reading Group Month. Founded in 2007, NRGM releases an annual "Great Group Reads" list and hosts author events every October throughout the nation, aiming to foster the values reading groups encourage: camaraderie, enjoyment of shared reading, and appreciation of literature and reading as conduits for transmitting culture and advancing civic engagement.

RSVP with the WBNA here: https://nrgmboston.splashthat.com/ - If you're a WNBA member, your RSVP will enter you to our raffle for free books, plus a limited number of Porter Square Books gift cards for the first few who sign up!

About the Women's National Book Association Boston Chapter: Since its organization in 1954, the Boston Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association has worked to bring together women and men from all different segments of the book world – publishing professionals, writers, librarians, and anyone who loves books – by providing a range of events that aim to educate, entertain, and inspire. WNBA Boston also seeks to promote equality in the world of arts and letters by raising awareness of the professional challenges still extant for women in the publishing industry. To learn more or join today: http://www.wnba-boston.org/

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CAN UTILITY-SCALE GEOTHERMAL REPLACE GAS IN THE COMMONWEALTH?

Monday, October 28

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)

BU, Metcalf Trustee Center, 1 Silber Way # 9, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-utility-scale-geothermal-replace-gas-in-the-commonwealth-tickets-75229223633

Environmentalists, community groups and gas companies are working together to create solutions to the climate crisis. 

We have developed a way for gas companies to go electric while still delivering heat through pipes under the ground. The fuel is renewable and safe. The transformation can happen along whole streets at a time to deliver energy for all at a lower cost. 

HEET has proven the capacity with a state-wide independent feasibility study and found pre-eminent experts to explain the answer. We are now ready to describe our practical path forward and make an exciting announcement. Come learn about the HEET Grid and how Massachusetts can lead the way.

In times of crisis, when many things seem impossible, sometimes we are fortunate enough to find an innovative way forward.

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Tuesday, October 29

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Sustainable AgTech Investment Forum

Tuesday, October 29

8:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT

BU Questrom School of Business, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-agtech-investment-forum-tickets-73514342377

Cost:  $195

This forum will bring together major organizations to discuss leading strategies that are creating more sustainable Food and Ag systems.

About this Event

This forum will bring together 150 senior executives including food industry corporates, institutional investors, PE/VC firms, AgTech startups, academics and policy makers to discuss the most promising AgTech innovations, investment strategies, new business models and industry partnerships that are creating more sustainable food and agriculture systems around the globe. 

Please contacts us at info@cleantechiq.com for more information. 

AGENDA

8:30am Venture Capital Investing in AgTech – Top Themes & Strategies

Leading corporate and PE investors will discuss where they are investing at the intersection of precision Ag and biologicals to solve major sustainability challenges in the food & ag industry. 

Andrew Ziolkowski, Managing Director, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures 

Brett Wong, Principal, Anterra Capital

Jacob E. Grose, Ph.D., Investment Manager, BASF Venture Capital

9:15am Implementing Sustainable Ag Strategies to Increase Yield & Profits

A panel of farmland investors and operators and will discuss how they are leveraging AgTech innovations to create sustainable value across the supply chain and returns for shareholders. 

Hunt Stookey, Director of Research & Investment Strategy, Ceres Partners

David Gould, Head of Capital Markets & Investor Relations, AMERRA Capital

Dave Muth, PhD, Managing Partner, Alternative Equity Advisors & V.P., Peoples Company

Claire Kinlaw, PhD, Director, Innovation Commercialization, The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (moderator)

10:00 Coffee Break

10:20am How Food Corporates Are Creating Sustainable Supply Chains 

Food corporates will address how innovation and new partnerships are creating more sustainable food & ag supply chains and increasing food safety and traceability.

Matthew Carstens, S.V.P., Land O’Lakes 

James Murphy, Vice President, Global Venturing and Emerging Growth Platforms, The Coca-Cola Company

Sara Olson, PhD, Research Director, Lux Research (moderator)

11:00am How AgTech Innovation Creates Healthier Food Systems

Leading Agtech innovators will discuss the role that biotech is playing in addressing the agriculture industry’s more pressing challenges in a series of 1-on-1 fireside chats.

Jim Blome, CEO, Calyxt (an Agbiotech company focused on developing crops with healthier characteristics.)

Andrey Zarur, CEO, GreenLight Biosciences (a biotechnology company focused on sustainable production of chemicals and fuels.

Adam Behrens, CEO, Cambridge Crops (edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends shelf life of perishable foods.)

Scott Uknes, Co-founder & Co-CEO, AgBiome (develops innovative, cutting-edge solutions using new knowledge of the plant-associated microbiome to create novel products.)

Mohammed Ashour, Co-Founder and CEO, Aspire Food Group (raises food-grade crickets on a commercial scale, and are actively working to normalize the consumption of insects in the western world.)

Keith Driver, Executive Vice President, Growth, Enterra Feed (TBC)

Ingrid Fung, Investment Associate, Finistere Ventures (moderator)

12:00pm Institutional Investor Engagement in the Food & Ag Sector

Institutional investors will uncover how they invest in companies taking concrete steps to make food and ag more sustainable and managing long-term industry risks in their portfolios. 

Kristine Pelletier, Partner, Co-Head, Impact Investing Committee, NEPC

12:35pm Networking Lunch

2pm Forum Concludes

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Ecosystem Climate Adaptation Network Conference

Tuesday, October 29

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT

Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst, Shaw Conference Center, 777 Dedham Street, Newton

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-ecan-conference-2019-tickets-66459493133

Cost:  $17.31

Registration for the 3rd annual Mass ECAN (Ecosystem Climate Adaptation Network) conference is now open! Mass ECAN is a Massachusetts-based community of practice that works at the intersection of climate adaptation, ecosystem resilience and natural resources conservation.

Our annual conference is a chance to connect and collaborate with peers working across the state to advance adaptation actions.

Join us on Oct. 29th to:

Learn about current climate adaptation work in Massachusetts 

Connect to new colleagues and mingle with network members and partners

Showcase your adaptation projects by sharing your organization's publications and joining our Poster Session

Additional details, along with the full agenda, will be available on our conference website:  https://www.massecan.org/2019-conference

Space is limited, so please rsvp.

Questions?

Contact Mass ECAN with any questions. We'll be in touch with additional information as the event approaches. 

If you are unable to accomodate for the fee, but would still like to attend, please email massecan@umass.edu.

If you're not already signed up, join the Mass ECAN community here.

We look forward to seeing you in October!

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The Social Determinants of Health and Educational Success: And What We Can Do About Them

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gutman Conference Center, (ground floor of Gutman Library), 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Health Sciences

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Education Redesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

SPEAKER(S)  Keynote: Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, The California Endowment

Panelists:

Josephine Kim, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Natalia Linos, Executive Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Moderator:  Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration; Director, Education Redesign Lab, HGSE

COST  Free & open to the Harvard community

CONTACT INFO  Marina Jokic, Sr. Communications Manager, Education Redesign Lab, HGSE

DETAILS  How and when do zip codes become more important than genetic codes when it comes to people’s health and educational outcomes? Join us for a talk and panel discussion with Dr. Anthony Iton, senior vice president for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment, who will be presenting his work to advance policies and forge partnerships to build healthy communities. He will discuss how to design intensive, place-conscious interventions that draw on existing assets to socially, politically, and economically empower disadvantaged communities. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Josephine Kim, Lecturer on Education, HGSE and Natalia Linos, Executive Director, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, HSPH. Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE; Director of the EdRedesign Lab will serve as moderator. The event is co-sponsored by the Education Redesign Lab, HGSE and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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On the Trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times correspondent talks about her time in China

Tuesday, October 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jane Perlez is the bureau chief for The New York Times in Beijing. She has been a long time foreign correspondent for The Times, serving in East Africa, Central Europe, Southeast Asia, and Pakistan. She was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan. She is married to Raymond Bonner, former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and author. While at the Shorenstein Center, Perlez will write about how the Chinese and American governments treat each other’s reporters as each side strives to describe, in very different ways, the world’s most important strategic relationship.

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Downwind, Downhill, Downstream: Binational Security on the U.S.-Mexico Border

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 29, 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)  Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies

COST  Free and Open to the Public

CONTACT INFO drclas@fas.harvard.edu

DETAILS  In the U.S.-Mexico border region, environmental emergencies — from wildfires to floods to toxic spills — are not circumscribed by jurisdictional boundaries and rescue operations unfold on the binational scale. Therefore, government policies aimed at fortifying and militarizing the border (including the construction of walls) undermine old partnerships between Mexican and American emergency services and thus threaten the safety and wellbeing of residents on both sides of the international divide. Based on ethnographic research in northern Mexico and southern U.S., this talk examines what happens when two security paradigms with very different approaches to space become misaligned.

LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/downwind-downhill-downstream-binational-security-us-mexico-border

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What's So Special About Ukraine? Why Ukraine Is in the Middle of US Politics

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 3:30 – 5:15 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South Building, Room S-030, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

SPEAKER(S)  Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard

Emily Channell-Justice,Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard

George Soroka, Lecturer on Government, Harvard

Margarita Balmaceda, Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

COST  Free

CONTACT INFO kconroy@fas.harvard.edu

DETAILS  In recent weeks, Ukraine has found itself at the center of major events in US politics. Find out from Harvard experts and guest speaker(s) what makes this country geopolitically important, how it got caught up in the impeachment inquiry, and what's going on in its own government.

Geared toward a public audience, experts will offer some insights and be ready to answer questions.

LINK  https://www.huri.harvard.edu/events/calendar/g-3-0vs8ous75gcposdh9nhe2ea9q9_201910151930.html

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MIT Climate Symposium: Challenges of Climate Policy

Tuesday, October 29

4:00pm to 7:00pm

MIT, Building E51: Wong Auditorium 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-action-symposia-series-challenges-of-climate-policy-tickets-72134330725

Chair: Richard Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Sloan School of Management and Department of Economics

Reception to follow

The second of MIT's six Climate Action Symposia, Challenges of Climate Policy, will be held on Tuesday, October 29. Topics will include:

societal impacts and policy challenges of climate change;

adaptations that could limit economic damages and national security risks; and

potential solutions to overcome domestic and international political hurdles for addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Climate Action Symposia series aims to advance our community’s understanding and expand our capacity to generate solutions for the urgent global challenge of climate change. Over the 2019-2020 academic year, the six symposia examine the current state of climate science and policy, as well as pathways for decarbonization of the global economy. We will also look at how universities can and should contribute solutions, including MIT’s efforts under our Plan for Action on Climate Change.

Schedule, speaker bios, livestream, and more: http://climatesymposia.mit.edu

Can't attend in person? Watch the livestream.

Speakers:

Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University

Max Auffhammer, UC Berkeley

Kathleen Hicks, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Henry Jacoby, MIT

Susanne Moser, Social Science for Climate Change

Andrew Steer, World Resources Institute

Leah Stokes, UC Santa Barbara

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Our Hidden Borders: Guantanamo, Interdiction, and the Rise of Offshore Migration Policing

Tuesday, October 29

4:30pm to 6:00pm

MIT, Building E51-095, 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge 

Jeffrey Kahn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on issues of migration, mobility, border policing, and sovereignty. Prior to joining the Anthropology Department at UC Davis, Professor Kahn was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, a Robina Foundation International Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School, and a law clerk to the Hon. Judith W. Rogers of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and his JD from Yale Law School. Professor Kahn’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright program, and the American Society for Legal History. He is the author of Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (University of Chicago Press 2019).Jeffrey Kahn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on issues of migration, mobility, border policing, and sovereignty. Prior to joining the Anthropology Department at UC Davis, Professor Kahn was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, a Robina Foundation International Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School, and a law clerk to the Hon. Judith W. Rogers of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and his JD from Yale Law School. Professor Kahn’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright program, and the American Society for Legal History. He is the author of Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (University of Chicago Press 2019).

Synopsis:  Where exactly are the United States' immigration borders? Are they simply at the edge of US sovereign territory as the fixation on walls, fences, and domestic enforcement programs would suggest? In this talk, I offer a different perspective by tracing the rise of a mobile US border regime and its extension out into ocean spaces hundreds and thousands of miles beyond US soil. Along the way, we'll examine the reimagining of Guantánamo as a model for flexible, extraterritorial migration control and the intensive litigation battles over the treatment of Haitian asylum seekers that both gave birth to the US asylum system and partially drove it into a space of oceanic exceptionalism. As we'll see, the emergence of offshore interdiction and detention reveals not only hidden features of our contemporary borderscape but the roots of a respatialization of the nation-state itself.

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Driving Government Innovation: City and Philanthropic Leaders Partnering to Improve Child Well-being: Eat Up Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion

WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

WHERE  Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education, Film

ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR  Education Redesign Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Education

SPEAKER(S)   Panelists will include community leaders, educators, and philanthropists such as Jill Shah of the Shah Family Foundation.

COST  Free & open to the Harvard community

CONTACT INFO  Marina Jokic, Sr. Communications Manager, EdRedesign Lab, HGSE

marina_jokic@gse.harvard.edu

DETAILS  To address the urgent needs of children in many communities across the U.S., mayors and superintendents are experimenting with new ways to improve student achievement, expand programs and opportunities--including early childhood education, health and mental health services and college access--and improve government operations. This session will begin with the screening of Eat Up which describes the transformation Boston Public Schools' healthy program (to locally prepared meals that students like!) through a partnership with the Shah Family Foundation. Following the 30-minute film, a panel will discuss examples of innovations in their communities and nationally that have resulted in positive outcomes for children and families.

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Climate Change Risks and Resiliency for the Energy Industry in New England

Tuesday, October 29

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

BlueWave Solar, 111 Huntington Avenue, Suite 650, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-risks-and-resiliency-for-the-energy-industry-in-new-england-tickets-75791653877

Join us for the upcoming New England Women in Energy and the Environment [NEWIEE] Boston Chapter upcoming a panel discussion on the risks associated with a changing climate.

The threat of extreme weather and related events pose numerous challenges to energy production and distribution facilities. Increasingly frequent, intense, and costly events arising from hurricanes, wildfires, and sea level rise affect legal liabilities, insurance coverage, risks of adverse community and environmental impacts, industrial design, and financial disclosures. These extreme events may result in dramatic impacts to business operations, chemical releases, environmental harm, and a wide range of legal liabilities. This panel explores a number of these pressing issues that the energy and utilities industries are facing today, such as facility adaptation, litigation related to climate change, and increasing pressure to disclose the potential physical and resulting financial impacts of climate change/extreme weather events. This panel will also discuss risk assessment approaches to facility operations and infrastructure, communities, and the environment.

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The Technical Revolution of Esports, Gaming, Gambling, and Blockchain

Tuesday, October 29

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

MIT Stata Center, Building 32- 123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/the-technical-revolution-of-esports-gaming-gambling-and-blockchain/

Pre-registration is required – livestream or in person

This event will be live streamed. Select the live stream ticket option if you would like to watch the event on-line.

If you registered for the live stream, you'll be emailed a link & password between 5:30 PM & 6:00 PM on the day of the event.

Agenda

6:00 - 6:30 pm Registration with snacks

6:30 - 8:00 pm Panel Discussion

8:00 - 9:00 pm Networks with drinks in the 4th floor R&D Pub

In recent years, esports, gambling, and gaming companies have embraced technological advances in broadcasting, content distribution, and blockchain technologies. The technological expansion opportunities in tournaments, gameplay, merchandise sales, sponsorship, patent protection, and even skin trading have accelerated the esports and gaming industry’s expansion. The fusion of esports, gambling, and gaming with emerging blockchain technologies allows for unprecedented access to the management of electronic assets in a secure environment and long-term monetization.

Take a deep dive with our panel of gaming, gambling, esports, and software experts, legal experts, and entrepreneurs into the technological revolution driven by esports, gaming, and online gambling.

At this panel discussion, attendees will learn about:

Future of technology, business, and marketing in esports, gaming, and online gambling

Successful entrepreneurial trends and launch strategies – pitfalls and key wins

Funding experiences

Protecting innovation

Blockchain’s role in augmenting these industries

Moderator

Khalid Jones, Managing Partner, Source Rock Partners, LLP

Speakers

Jonathan Baha’i, Founder and President, Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association

Soham Chowdhury, Director of Data Science and CS:GO Head Coach, Cloud9 Esports

Jon Fallon, General Counsel & SVP of Legal Affairs, High 5 Games

Giovanna Fessenden, Of Counsel, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds

Marco Mereu, Senior Vice President of Content Marketing/Distribution & GM of Framerate, Super League Gaming

Kevin Mitchell, Director of Business Development at National Amusements Inc., Adjunct Professor for eSports, Emerson College

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Food Routes: Growing Bananas In Iceland And Other Tales From The Logistics Of Eating, With Robyn Metcalfe

Tuesday, October 29

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 

BU, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/registration-manager2/catalogs/foodandwine/app/catalog.php?action=section&course_section_id=4045

Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food—buying organic, subscribing to slow food, reading Eater—we likely don't know much about how our food gets to the table. What happens between the farm and the kitchen? Why are all avocados from Mexico? Why does a restaurant in Maine order lamb from New Zealand? In Food Routes, food historian and food futurist Robyn Metcalfe explores an oftenoverlooked aspect of the global food system: how food moves from producer to consumer. A lecturer and research scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and director of Food+City, who earned her PhD in history at Boston University, Metcalfe finds that the food supply chain is adapting to our increasingly complex demands for both personalization and convenience—but, she says, it won't be an easy ride.

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Boston Green Drinks - October 2019 Happy Hour

Tuesday, October 29

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Warehouse Bar & Grille, 40 Broad Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-october-2019-happy-hour-tickets-75944368651

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

https://bosgreendrinks.wordpress.com/

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DREAM BIG: Protecting Democracy by Defending the Vote

Tuesday, October 29

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT  96PM - Reception | 7PM - Public Program0

Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dream-big-protecting-democracy-by-defending-the-vote-tickets-70287067511

Join Maria McCauley, Director of Libraries, and the Cambridge Public Library Foundation Board of Directors for a special conversation about how voter suppression is impacting democracy and next steps to take with the following luminaries:

Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of One Person, No Vote, White Rage, Bourgeois Radicals and Eyes off the Prize;

Lawrence Lessig, the the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. His current work addresses “institutional corruption”—relationships which, while legal, weaken public trust in an institution—especially as that affects democracy. His books include: They Don’t Represent Us (forthcoming in 2019) and Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (2019);

and Rachael V. Cobb, Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science & Legal Studies at Suffolk University, who will moderate the conversation. She specializes in U.S. elections, election administration and political participation, and serves on the board of MassVOTE and the Boston Election Advisory Committee.

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The First Cell:  And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

Tuesday, October 29

7:00 PM

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/azra_raza/

Harvard Book Store welcomes oncologist and author AZRA RAZA—Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director, MDS Center at Columbia University—for a discussion of her new book, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. She will be joined in conversation by DR. PETER D. KRAMER, psychiatrist, writer, and Brown Medical School professor. 

About The First Cell

We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet—a few innovations notwithstanding—a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost.

In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. Indeed, Raza describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. Like When Breath Becomes Air, The First Cell is no ordinary book of medicine, but a book of wisdom and grace by an author who has devoted her life to making the unbearable easier to bear.

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Atlas Obscura, Second Edition

Tuesday, October 29

7:00 pm

Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline

Joshua Foer in conversation with Jack Lepiarz

This revised and updated second edition includes 120 new entries and a fold-out road trip map (with a dream itinerary) to offer readers even more of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth. Oversized, beautifully packaged, compellingly written, scrupulously researched, and filled with photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, and more, this is the book that inspires equal parts wonder and wanderlust.

Joshua Foer is the co-founder and chairman of Atlas Obscura. He is also the author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, a bestseller published in 33 languages, and a forthcoming book about the world’s last hunter-gatherers.

The son of a circus performer and an anthropology professor, Jack Lepiarz received his broadcasting degree from Emerson College, where he worked as an anchor, producer and news director for WERS 88.9 FM. He joined WBUR in the spring of 2010, and maintains a healthy love for performing and the circus.

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Sunrise Boston Karaoke Night

Tuesday, October 29

7 PM – 10 PM

Democracy Brewing, 35 Temple Place, Boston

Come one come all to the second ever Sunrise Boston karaoke and open mic fundraiser event at Democracy Brewing! Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. The Boston hub is raising money to support our work.

Donate $5 to sing or perform ($10 for 2 or more people), OR donate $10 to sign your friend up to sing!! We all have one of those friends who needs some encouragement. A $3 suggested donation to entry will also enter you into a raffle with additional raffle tickets available. 

Democracy Brewing has generously allowed us to use their back room, and has agreed to donate $1 per beer sold. Open Mic will be from 7-8, and karaoke after. Sunrise swag will be available for sale. Bring all your friends, we’re trying to pack the place! If you plan to be there, please put yourself down as 'going' to this event. See you there!!