[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - March 3, 2018

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Monday, March 4
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9am  2019 Heat Pump & VRF Training
11:45am  Best Practices for Using Social Media: Q&A with Jenny Li Fowler
12pm  Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium: Aditi Sheshadri
12pm  xTalk with Eva Kaplan:  The Mahali Innovation Lab
12pm  Smoke and Mirrors: Did China's Environmental Crackdowns Lead to Persistent Changes in Polluting Firm Behavior?
12pm  Aga Khan Program Lecture: Rania Ghosn
12pm  Twitter Wars & Culture Wars: Teens, Tolerance and the Anti-Bullying Era
12pm  Trauma at the Border
3:30pm  A Conversation with Jack Lew, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2013-2017)
3:30pm  Drought Tolerance in Diverse Temperate Trees and Shrubs: Solutions to Long-Standing Problems
4pm  The Power of Protest: MIT March 4th @ 50 Years
5pm  Human-Machine Collaboration in Art Making
5:30pm  Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century
5:30pm  Local Politics and Global Issues: Lessons from Political Campaigns in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the United States
6pm  SPI March Discussion: Privacy in the Age of Big Data
6pm  Mutual Pictures #6: November Actions
7pm  Innovation, Research to Commercialization
7pm  USA Slavery in a Global Context:  From the Bible to Today
7pm  Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter
7pm  Talk & Signing Authentic Inclusion™ Drives Disruptive Innovation
7pm  Decoding, Leveraging and Protecting Our DNA in The Age of Personal Genomics
7”15pm  The Real State of the Union: Entitlements? Earned Benefits? Either way, they're breaking the bank!

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Tuesday, March 5
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12pm  How to Talk Conservatism
12pm  Jack Markell, Former Governor of Delaware: “Leading by Preparing for a Changing World”
12pm  Privacy’s Blueprint:  The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
12pm  Law & Culture: Rhett Larson and Dilip Da Cunha in Conversation about Water
1pm  HESEC Webinar: "Sustainability in Apparel Industry”
3:30pm  Trust & Innovation with Tarun Khanna
4pm  Quantum Dots: Photophysics to Photochemistry
4:30pm  Emile Bustani Seminar: "No country for young men (and women): Education, employment, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa”
5pm  The Past, Present & Future of Truth 
5pm  Hospitality Now!
5pm  The Battle for the Future of Food Book Launch: Eating Tomorrow
6:30pm  Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 1 (Open for Business)
6:30pm  Native Bees in the Hood
7pm  Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
7pm  Cambridge Forum:  How to Be Happy
7pm  525,600 Minutes: Time, Eternity, and Finding Value in Our (Very Short) Lives

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Wednesday, March 6
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7:30am  The Future of Offshore Wind
8:30am  The Future of Transportation 
10am  Severe Nuclear Accidents and Ethical Responsibility
12pm  The New Fueling Model for Electric Cars 
12pm  Sack Lunch Seminar (SLS) Series: Simulating midlatitude circulation changes: what might we gain from high resolution modelling of air-sea interactions? 
12pm  Predictability Limits, Data Assimilation, and Simultaneous State and Parameter Estimation
12pm  Beyond the Headlines: Women in Domestic and Global Governing
1pm  Fireside Chat on Certainty Versus Uncertainty with Naomi Oreskes and Gina McCarthy
3pm  MetroCommon 2050 Listening Sessions
4:15pm  Transparency in Climate Policy: Using Forecasting Tools to Evaluate Emission Mitigation Efforts
4:15pm  Lobbyism and Communication: Finding The Right Combination to Win
4:30pm  How climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy
4:30pm  Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture: John L. Hennessy:  The End of Road for General Purpose Processors & the Future of Computing
4:30pm  Climate Change and Energy: Are we out of Solutions?
4:30pm  David J. Rose Lecture
4:30pm  Climate Justice is Social Justice: How to Build Equitable Climate Movements
5pm  Building, Exploring, and Using the Tree of Life
5pm  Civic Arts Series: Opeyemi Olukemi
6pm  PKG Community Conversations: Climate
6pm  Wasted! The Story of Food Waste Screening (w/ bites & drinks)
7pm  Outer Order, Inner Calm:  Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
7pm  Sugar, Sex, and Poison: Understanding the Vital Powers of Plants
7:30pm  The Physics and Materials Science of Superheroes
7:30pm  What Makes Humans Special? A Discussion on Faith, Science, & Humanity

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Thursday, March 7 – Saturday, March 9
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Migration in a Turbulent World -- The 34th Annual EPIIC Symposium

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Thursday, March 7
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8am  Bringing Residential PH Development to Scale in Massachusetts
11:45am  Transparency First: Evolving Governance Systems on Tackling Climate Change Under the Paris Agreement
12pm  The transportation rEVolution: Electric vehicles and the changing nature of transportation
12pm  Maximum Information Entropy: A Foundation for Ecological Theory
12:15pm  China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist
12:30pm  Energy and Environmental Impact of the Food System
1pm  Meeting to Discuss Key Climate Change Parameters in the Greater Boston Area
3pm  The Next Generation of Building Energy: On-Site Renewables and Storage
3pm  Japan Innovation Night: New Paradigms in Education
3:30pm  The New Oasis: Climate Change and Human Populations in East Asia
4pm  Leadership Research Talk: Impression Management In the Digital Age
4pm  UEA Lecture - Why is the Economics of Climate Change so Difficult and Controversial?
4pm  The Future of Homo Sapiens
5pm  Mindfulness as Medicine
5:30pm  Beef, soy, water: Commodities or the source of an environmentalist's nightmare
5:30pm  Book Release Party: Community-Scale Composting Systems by James McSweeney
5:30pm  Cambridge Autonomous Vehicles Educational Forum
5:30pm  Greentown Labs: Cleantech Intern Fair 
6pm  Era of Ignition
6pm  Great Decisions | State of the State Department and Diplomacy
6pm  Gutman Library Book Talk: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
6pm  Opioid Epidemic Town Hall
6pm  A PechaKucha Discussion on Investor and Business Perspectives of Water
6pm  Amazon Robotics - Company Presentation
6pm  Sustainable Peace Café: Movement and Vocalizing for Peace
6:30pm  Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan Public Meeting 
6:30pm  Roll Red Roll 
7pm  Discussion & Signing - The Art of Dying Well
7pm  International Development, Health & Environmental Justice

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Friday, March 8
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8:30am  Buddhism and Race Conference: Centering Intersectionalities
12pm  Life Cycle of a Non-Profit: Formation, Governance, and Dissolution
12pm  Women in Power: An International Women's Day panel discussion
12pm  Crises of Citizenship in the Arab World Today
12pm  Environmental Science Seminar Series:  The competitive exclusion principle in stochastic environments
2pm  2019 MacVicar Day Symposium - "The Educated Student: Thinking and Doing for the 21st Century”
6pm  Uncertain Futures: Trade, Power, and the Changing Nature of Political Risk
6pm  Breaking Ground: Pop-Up Art at MIT's Central Utilities Plant
7pm  Celebrity: A History of Fame (Critical Cultural Communication) 
7pm  Film: Mountains That Take Wing

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Saturday, March 9
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9am  2019 MIT Robo-AI Exchange
6pm  Breaking Ground: Pop-Up Art at MIT's Central Utilities Plant

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Sunday, March 10
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12pm  TEDxTufts
1:30pm  Interfaith Summit on Vulnerability and Climate Change

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Monday, March 11
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12pm  Legal Controversies about State Clean Energy Policies in Courts and at FERC
12pm  Book Launch: Global Health Justice and Governance
12:10pm  Understanding principle mechanisms of tropical forest degradation with application to their restoration
12:15pm  Humanitarian Planners in the "Century of the Unsettled Man”
12:30pm  Highlights from Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism 
12:30pm  Andras Petho: The Risks to Freedom in Hungary: Corruption, Propaganda, and Russian Influence
2:30pm  AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
4pm  The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy with Peter Katzenstein
4:15pm  Digital Hormones: Emotional Humanoids and Spiritual Humans
5pm  On Climate Change, We’re Toast. And if we don’t get serious now, probably burnt toast
5pm  Art for Social Change: Talk by Nandita Das and Screening of Manto
6pm  Harvard i3 Innovation Challenge PITCH NIGHT
6:30pm  Why We Cycle: Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  An Evening on the Health, Sustainability, and Equity Benefits from Cycling

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Tuesday, March 12
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12pm  Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics:  How the Internet Is Transforming Kenya
12pm  Tuesday Seminar Series: Voting for Victors: Why Violent Actors Win Postwar Elections
2pm  Ethics and Design Thinking: A 21st Century Craftsman
4pm  The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
4:15pm  Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration
5:15pm  Biological Exchange in the Pacific World in the Age of Industrial Sugarcane Plantations
5:30pm  Tide Tuesday: Sustainable Seafood
6pm  Jeff Flake

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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


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Monday, March 4
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2019 Heat Pump & VRF Training
Monday, March 4
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
100 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-heat-pump-vrf-training-tickets-54863674728

Join us for a repeat of our popular in-depth introduction to energy-efficient heat pump and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) technology. This training will explain how these systems work, how they compare to other heating and cooling equipment, how you can identify appropriate applications, and how to access incentives toward installation costs from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and others. Case studies as well as next steps for including VRF in your projects will be included.

Who Should Attend
Architects (2 AIA LU/HSW continuing education credits available!)
Building owners and managers
Energy professionals
HVAC contractors

Trainers
JS Rancourt, DXS New England (Daikin distributor)
Greg Hosselbarth, Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating

Schedule 
9:00 am - 9:30 am: Check-in, coffee and light refreshments
9:30 am - 12:30 pm: Training
Introduction to Heat Pumps and VRF
VRF Heat Pump System Equipment Options
Ventilation Solutions and Peripheral Technologies
Q&A
15-minute break
VRF Grant and Incentive Programs
How to Include VRF in Your Projects
Case Studies 
Q&A

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Best Practices for Using Social Media: Q&A with Jenny Li Fowler
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Building, Hauser Conference Room, Room 4, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	HKS Communications Program
SPEAKER(S)  Jenny Li Fowler, Manager of Social Media Strategies, MIT Office of Communications
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	alison_kommer at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Are you using social media in the most effective way? Are you interpreting the analytics correctly? How often should you Tweet?  Bring all your social media questions for an informal discussion with Jenny Li Fowler.
LINK	www.hkscommprog.org

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium: Aditi Sheshadri (Stanford)
Monday, March 4
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

About this Series
The PAOC Colloquium [PAOCC] is a weekly interdisciplinary seminar series that brings together the whole PAOC community. Seminar topics include all research concerning the physics, chemistry, and biology of the atmospheres, oceans and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars take place on Monday from 12-1pm in 54-923. Lunch is provided after the seminars to encourage students and post-docs to meet with the speaker. Besides the seminar and lunch, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. Contact the 2018/2019 Coordinators: paoc-colloquium-comm at mit.edu.

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xTalk with Eva Kaplan:  The Mahali Innovation Lab
Monday, March 4
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building NE49, second floor, Jupiter conference room, 600 Technology Square, Cambridge

The Syrian conflict has resulted in a massive displacement crisis: in Jordan, there are over 650,000 registered refugees. As the displacement becomes increasingly protracted, refugee savings and assets are all but exhausted, the Government of Jordan is struggling to address refugee needs, and aid agencies find themselves ever more stretched to provide both emergency and long-term support. And yet, though it’s clear that available resources are not enough, there remains an enormous untapped asset: the creativity and agency of refugees themselves.

The Mahali Innovation Lab is a co-working space in East Amman dedicated to putting refugees in the lead of developing cutting edge solutions to challenges that impact their lives. Through three design sprints over 18 months, the Mahali Innovation Lab seeks to surface breakthrough solutions in humanitarian practice. Underlying the Mahali approach is the belief that, if properly supported, those experiencing a problem are best placed to solve the problem.

Join Eva Kaplan to discuss lessons-learned from a year into the community innovation lab work, and deep dive into specific solutions coming from the design sprint on informal learning.

Bio
Eva Kaplan is the Regional Director of Innovation, Middle East, for the International Rescue Committee. Prior to the IRC, Eva worked in various roles at the UN, including setting up a network of Social Innovation Labs for children across Jordan, setting up UNICEF’s first foresight function, and developing and implementing 9 research projects in the UN’s first big data initiative, the UN Global Pulse. She also has worked extensively in Kenya, working with Kenya National Library Services to establish libraries as spaces for community-led development, and with Poverty Action Lab implementing several randomized controlled trials at the intersection of economics and health.

As this event occurs at noon, attendees are welcome to bring a bag lunch. Water, coffee, and cookies will be supplied.

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Smoke and Mirrors: Did China's Environmental Crackdowns Lead to Persistent Changes in Polluting Firm Behavior?
Monday, March 4
12:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Valerie Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Lunch will be served. This event is free and open to the public. 

HKS Energy Policy Seminar
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/energyconsortium/seminars

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Aga Khan Program Lecture: Rania Ghosn
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 4, 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 University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Rania Ghosn
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/rania-ghosn/
CONTACT INFO	Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS  Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and founding partner of DESIGN EARTH with El Hadi Jazairy. Her research engages the geographies of technological systems to address the aesthetics and politics of the environment. The work of DESIGN EARTH has been exhibited internationally, including Venice Biennale (2018, 2016), Oslo Triennale (2017), Seoul Biennale (2017), Sharjah Biennale (2016), and MAAT (Lisbon, 2018), Sursock Museum (Beirut, 2016), Times Museum (Guangzhou, 2018) and collected by MoMA. Her honors include Architectural League Prize for Young Architects, Boghossian Foundation, and ACSA Faculty Design. Rania is co-author of Geographies of Trash (2015) and Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2018), which has received support from the Graham Foundation. She is founding editor of the New Geographies journal and editor-in-chief of NG 2: Landscapes of Energy (Harvard GSD, 2010). Rania holds a Bachelor of Architecture from American University of Beirut, a Master in Geography from University College London, and Doctor of Design from Harvard GSD.
This event is supported by the Aga Khan Program at the GSD and is organized as part of the activities celebrating International Women's Day 2019.
LINK  https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/rania-ghosn/

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Twitter Wars & Culture Wars: Teens, Tolerance and the Anti-Bullying Era
Monday, March 4
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, 100 Cummington Mall, Room 241, 100 Cummington Mall, Boston

Sarah Miller, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Boston University, will present her research on “Twitter Wars & Culture Wars: Teens, Tolerance and the Anti-Bullying Era.” This talk draws from two school years of live and digital ethnography at a rural high school in the Northeast to examine how youth and adults put anti-bullying into practice. Dr. Sarah Miller finds that while bullying is routinely about the regulation of gender, sexual, racial and class-based inequalities present in U.S. culture, adults’ anti-bullying strategies largely ignore the role of inequality in youth conflict, and instead individualize bullying and emphasize tolerance. She argues that this approach is an ill-equipped response– without addressing inequality, anti-bullying policies can be just as easily used to protect as they can to police harassment. Instead, she finds that youth are more effective at responding to bullying through their own strategies, using social media as a site to engage in resistance, recognition, and diversity education.

Contact Deborah Carr
(732) 309-1807

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Trauma at the Border
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B (2036), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	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)  Charles Nelson, III, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Director of Research, Developmental Medicine Center, Boston Children's Hospital
Cindy Zapata, JD, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Harvard Law School; Leader of 2018 HLS student trip to provide legal services to immigrant families separated in the Karnes Detention Center in Texas
Moderator: Francis X. Shen, Ph.D., JD, Executive Director, Harvard Center for Law, Brain & Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital and Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience, Petrie-Flom Center in Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School; Associate Professor of Law and McKnight Land-Grant Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg0pegsjaa8a25bc&oseq=&c=&ch=
DETAILS  At the center of contemporary political debate are the record numbers of migrant families and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. As these parents and children flee the trauma of violence in their native countries, they are now experiencing the trauma of navigating an increasingly hostile immigration system. What can neuroscience tell us about the effects of these traumatic experiences on the brains of the children and adults? And how might the neuroscience of trauma and brain development affect legal cases? Can advances in mobile neuroimaging provide practitioners with real-time brain evidence of trauma? Does neuroscience have a larger role to play in shaping our nation’s immigration policies? Join us for this special lunchtime event as we begin a dialogue between scientists and lawyers on neuroscience, trauma, and justice.
LINK  https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/trauma-at-the-border

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A Conversation with Jack Lew, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2013-2017)
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Institute of Politics, and the Business and Government PIC, all at HKS
SPEAKER(S)  Jack Lew, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2013-2017)
Moderator: Karen Dynan, HKS
CONTACT INFO	mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Jack Lew, former Secretary of the Treasury, also served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Obama and Clinton administrations. Previously, he was principal domestic policy advisor to House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr, and has held a variety of private sector and nonprofit roles. Jack is currently a partner at Lindsay Goldberg and on the faculty at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Refreshments will be provided by the Dean's Office.
LINK  https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/conversation-jack-lew-former-us-treasury-secretary-2013-2017

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Drought Tolerance in Diverse Temperate Trees and Shrubs: Solutions to Long-Standing Problems
Monday, March 4
3:30pm
Harvard, William James Lecture Hall, B1, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

Robert Skelton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley
There will be a reception following the talk. 
 
OEB Special Seminar
https://oeb.harvard.edu/event/oeb-special-seminar-robert-skelton

Contact Name:  Christian Flynn
cflynn at fas.harvard.edu

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The Power of Protest: MIT March 4th @ 50 Years
Monday, March 4,
4:00pm
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Join us for an exploration of the power of protest at MIT, particularly during the Vietnam era. What can we learn from previous protests and use that knowledge and energy to spur the Institute to create ethical policies? 

We will screen excerpts of November Actions: Defiance at MIT,1969--a powerful documentary following the protests of MIT students, faculty and staff against the war in Vietnam and MIT's complicity in that war.

This will be followed by a moderated conversation with a panel to provide focused discussion on three pressing issues/crises facing the MIT community:

The Ethics of AI: Abby Everett Jaques, a philosopher at MIT, is the Ethics lead for MIT’s Quest for Intelligence, and a Research Fellow in Digital Ethics at the Jain Family Institute

MIT's on-going relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Ryan Costello, a local anti-war activist organizing against the war in Yemen

Local Impact of MIT: Housing: Rose Lenehan
Moderator: David Wright, PhD, Senior Scientist and Co-Director, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

Introductory Remarks: Deborah G. Douglas, Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology at MIT Museum, and Research Associate in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society

This event will be a starting point for additional programs, lunches, panels later on in spring 2019, focusing more specifically on these issues. Participants at the MIT March 4 @ 50 Years event would be able to sign up for follow-up programming. 

This program will provide not only historical information but can provide inspiration and a strong sense of "what's next". We will discuss direct actions we can take now to help create a more equitable society for all. 

Please check back for updated information regarding speakers.

Refreshments will be served.

Co-Sponsored with the February School. 

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Human-Machine Collaboration in Art Making
Monday, March 4
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/human-machine-collaboration-in-art-making-tickets-56286860515

Join artist Alexander Reben (MAS '10) for a public lecture on "Human-Machine Collaboration in Art Making" to coincide with his solo show at the Emerson Media Art Gallery featuring art produced in collaboration with artificial intelligence. 

As technology becomes ever more intelligent, our connection to it becomes more complex with the future of what makes us "human" at stake. Alexander Reben has spent over a decade creating art which probes the inherently human nature of the artificial. Using tools such as artificial philosophy, synthetic psychology, perceptual manipulation and technological magic, he brings to light our inseparable evolutionary entanglement to invention which has unarguably shaped our way of being. This is done to not only help understand who we are, but to consider who we will become in our continued co-development with our artificial creations. In this lecture, he will present examples of his work including the motivations behind them.

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Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wexner 102, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S)  Nicco Mele, Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy
TICKET INFO  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/towards-life-30-ethics-and-technology-21st-century-human-rights-digital-age
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.
Held on select Monday evenings at 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. in Wexner 102, and occasionally on other weekdays, the series will also be shared on Facebook Live and on the Carr Center website. A light dinner will be served.
LINK	https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/towards-life-30-ethics-and-technology-21st-century-human-rights-digital-age

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Local Politics and Global Issues: Lessons from Political Campaigns in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the United States
Monday, March 4
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Tufts, Cheryl A. Chase Center, 200 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vitali-shkliarov-local-politics-and-global-issues-lessons-from-political-campaigns-in-russia-tickets-55704271977

Please join the Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, the Fletcher Eurasia Club, the Fletcher Democrats, and the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs for a conversation with Dr. Vitali Shkliarov on "Local Politics and Global Issues: Lessons from Political Campaigns in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the United States" as part of Tufts Global Week. He will discuss grassroots activism in different political and cultural contexts, the state of democracy around the world, and what the United States can learn from elections in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine. Refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Vitali Shkliarov is an expert in U.S.-Russian relations, an award-winning political strategist and campaign manager. He was senior adviser to many opposition and presidential candidates in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine. He lives in Washington, D.C. and has worked on both Barack Obama's and Bernie Sanders's presidential campaigns.

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SPI March Discussion: Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Monday, March 4
6:00pm to 7:30pm
MIT,  Building 66-160 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

In the modern economy, data is perhaps the most important commodity. Numerous free services, especially social media, generate revenue by selling targeted ads based on user data. Recent scandals over privacy practices have called this practice into question, and the European Union has passed policies designed to protect user privacy. However, information about web-browsing habits is not the only data subject to privacy concerns: everything from phone GPS data to genomic data from popular DNA-sequencing services could be considered fair game without policy reform. What kind of ownership should people have over their personal data? How can companies use this data in ethical ways? Join the Science Policy Initiative for our monthly meeting at 6 pm on Monday, 3/4 in Room 66-160 as we discuss these and other questions over dinner. Sponsored by the GSC.

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Mutual Pictures #6: November Actions
Monday, March 4
6pm
MIT, E15-070Building E15-070, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Film screening of excerpts of “November Actions”, a powerful documentary by Ricky Leacock following the protests of MIT students, faculty and staff against the war in Vietnam and MIT’s complicity in that war. Followed by a moderated conversation with a panel to provide focused discussion on three pressing issues/crises facing the MIT community: Ethics of AI and the #techlash movement of tech workers; MIT and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and Local Impact of MIT: Housing and physical operations (sustainability/environmental issues?). We will invite one local expert on each of these issues to serve as panelist.

This event provides not only historical information but also inspiration and a strong sense of “what’s next” amongst the community for actions we can take now (letter signing re: KSA and MIT, lunches to talk about how to work in the tech industry within an ethical framework, how to learn more about MIT’s real estate dynasty and how that is impacting our area of Cambridge).

Hosted in collaboration with MIT Radius and MIT KSA

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Innovation, Research to Commercialization
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 7 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Room 124, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Master in Design Engineering at Harvard (MDE)
SPEAKER(S)  Jill Becker, COO, Kebotix
COST  Free
DETAILS  Jill Becker completed her Ph.D. at Harvard, and grew her thesis into a successful startup, Cambridge NanoTech, Inc. She is a "scientist and an entrepreneurial leader specializing in product commercialization and new market initiatives.” Her latest work is with the startup Kebotix, which “aims to reinvent the materials industry and enable a new age of discovery of new materials using AI, machine learning, and robotics.” She will discuss innovation and moving from research to commercialization.
Please use the Quincy Street entrance to access the building.
LINK  https://mde.harvard.edu/jill-becker-innovation-research-commercialization

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USA Slavery in a Global Context:  From the Bible to Today
Monday, March 4
7 p.m. 
Parlor of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Arlington, 630 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington Center

Lori Kenschaft
I would like to invite you to a talk I'm giving that will put U.S. slavery in a global context, from the Bible to today.  I realize that this is a rather grim topic, but the historian in me thinks that it is both interesting and important to understand the past -- and slavery and its effects are not only in the past.  Slavery is one of the (many) topics where Americans tend to think just about the history of the U.S., which means we're missing most of the picture and the images we have are distorted in important ways. 

I'd be delighted if you can join us.  And please feel free to share this invitation with anyone else you think might be interested.

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Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter
Monday, March 4
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

The notion of “happily ever after” has been ingrained in many of us since childhood--meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need?  

Author Laurie Essig invites us to flip this concept of romance on its head and see it for what it really is--an ideology that we desperately cling to as a way to cope with the fact that we believe we cannot control or affect the societal, economic, and political structures around us. From climate change to nuclear war, white nationalism to the worship of wealth and conspicuous consumption--as the future becomes seemingly less secure, Americans turn away from the public sphere and find shelter in the private. Essig argues that when we do this, we allow romance to blind us to the real work that needs to be done--building global movements that inspire a change in government policies to address economic and social inequality. 

Laurie Essig is Professor and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College. She is the author of American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection. Essig has written for a variety of publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and she blogs regularly for Ms. Magazine.

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Talk & Signing Authentic Inclusion™ Drives Disruptive Innovation
Monday, March 4
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-frances-west-author-of-authentic-inclusion-tickets-55079819222

In a world where technology is deeply embedded in all of our lives, providing the most personalized experience for every member of society is of the utmost importance. Today’s most successful and innovative businesses are operating with everyone in mind—not just the majority. In Authentic Inclusion™ Drives Disruptive Innovation, thought leader, speaker, strategy advisor, and women-in-technology trailblazer Frances Westaddresses key diversity issues and proposes new ways that business leaders can affect sustainable and scalable change—and tap into tremendous opportunities. 
In this essential blueprint, Frances reveals how putting humans first—and building inclusion into business strategies, technological infrastructure, and organizational processes—can enable companies to bring principle, purpose, and profit into a state of harmonious alignment for sustainable talent acquisition, market expansion, and business differentiation.
Throughout the book, Frances draws on her unique personal background and business experience in technology innovation—from her personal journey as a first-generation, non-English speaking immigrant to her professional path as a woman in tech and IBM’s first Chief Accessibility Officer—along with cutting-edge research on diversity, accessibility, technology, and business. The result is a candid and inspiring guide that offers leaders the necessary tools to achieve disruptive innovation and lasting success.

About the Author
Frances West is an internationally recognized thought leader, speaker, strategy advisor, and women-in-technology trailblazer known for her work in innovation, technology, and business transformation. She is the founder of FrancesWestCo, a global strategy advisory company focused on operationalizing inclusion as a business and technology imperative through her unique Authentic Inclusion™ blueprint. Her insightful and impactful approach comes from her experience as a global executive in sales, marketing, business development, and research, as well as her groundbreaking work in accessibility as IBM’s first Chief Accessibility Officer. Frances brings a valuable business perspective to this human rights-based initiative. Because of her expertise, she was invited as the sole IT industry representative to testify before the US Senate on the need to pass the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts in Boston in recognition of her work in accessibility, research, and digital inclusion. Frances was born in Taiwan and educated in Hong Kong and the US. She is married with two adult sons and currently resides in Newton, Massachusetts. 
www.franceswest.co
linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/frances-west-0b81924/
@fwest34

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Decoding, Leveraging and Protecting Our DNA in The Age of Personal Genomics
Monday, March 4
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decoding-leveraging-and-protecting-our-dna-in-the-age-of-personal-genomics-tickets-55840285798
Cost:  $0 – $25

Doors open @ 6pm -- Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers -- Presentation starts @ 7pm
A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with Preston Estep CSO and co-founder, Veritas Genetics and Dennis Grishin CSO and co-founder, Nebula Genomics

In the 21st century, propelled by groundbreaking technologies that enable quick and easy reading and editing of DNA molecules, the fields of genetics, genomics and synthetic biology have exploded.

Two biotech scientists and entrepreneurs, Preston Estep, co-founder and CSO of Veritas Genetics and Dennis Grishin, co-founder and CSO of Nebula Genomics, will share their stories and their views on the future role of DNA to human health and human thriving.
Veritas Genetics is dedicated to the goal of making whole-genome sequencing available to anyone. Whole-genome sequencing is far more extensive than the more common, and less expensive “genotyping” process now commonly available. Veritas was the first company to offer whole genome sequencing and interpretation for under $1,000.

Nebula Genomics tackles a different problem. How can consumers retain control over the data from their own genomes, protecting both the privacy of the data and the potential economic benefits of making it available for research? Using advanced blockchain technology and other cryptographic techniques, Nebula promises to do both: make anyone’s DNA sequences available for medical and research purposes while protecting their privacy and making sure the economic value of the data accrues to the individual.

The questions we'll explore may include:
What benefits and new ideas might the sciences of genetics and genomics spawn in the coming century?
What are the current barriers to achieving these benefits in terms of basic science, technology development, culture or policies?
What are the long term implications of using blockchain and other cryptographic techniques to increase personal privacy and control of information?
How do you think societal views on reproduction, genetic screening and selection, or cloning might change over time?
What are you most excited by? What are you most afraid of?
What might it be like to live in the distant future with fully mature bio-sciences in place?
Join the conversation and be part of the solution.

$15 in advance // $20 at the door. Students w/ID admitted free.
Audience participation is encouraged.

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The Real State of the Union: Entitlements? Earned Benefits? Either way, they're breaking the bank!
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 7:15 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer, Room 280, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S)  Heidi Heitkamp, U.S. Senator for North Dakota (2013-2019) and IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), former president & COO of Goldman Sachs, and IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
DETAILS  What can the federal government do about Medicare and Social Security? Insecurity surrounding retirement is only getting worse for America’s aging population with Social Security expected to deplete in 2034 and Medicare also losing its funding. Should we call them entitlements or earned benefits? Should we raise the age of retirement? Join Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Gary Cohn to discuss the current issue with social security and medicare, potential policy solutions, and how politics will play out in the coming election.
LINK  https://iop.harvard.edu/get-involved/study-groups-0

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How to Talk Conservatism
WHEN  Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wexner Building, Room 434, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)  Jane Coaston, Senior Politics Reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism and the American Right
DETAILS  Jane Coaston is Senior Politics Reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism and the American Right. In addition, she has written for publications like the New York Times, the Washington Post, ESPN, and The Ringer. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended the University of Michigan before moving to St. Louis to work for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2016 she joined the team at MTV News, where she covered the 2016 election by examining the Republican Party and the American right wing in depth.
LINK	https://shorensteincenter.org/event/speaker-series-jane-coaston/

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Jack Markell, Former Governor of Delaware: “Leading by Preparing for a Changing World”
WHEN  Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge Building, Leadership Studio, 10th Floor, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
(Or online)
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Voices in Leadership webcast program at Harvard T.H. School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S)  Jack Markell, Former Governor of Delaware
Moderator: Gina McCarthy, Director of Harvard C-CHANGE
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/jack-markell-former-governor-of-delaware/
CONTACT INFO	Alison Barron
abarron at hpsh.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Join us for the next “Voices in Leadership” event featuring Jack Markell, former Governor of Delaware. During his tenure, according to Gallup, Delaware progressed “from one of the lowest-ranking states (in terms of job creation) in 2008 and 2009 to one of the top-ranking in 2013 and 2014. Delaware holds the distinction of being the only state anywhere along the Eastern seaboard to be in the top 10.” Employment in Delaware increased by more than 60,000 during the same time period, best in the region and one of the best in the country. In 2010, Delaware won first place in Pres. Obama’s “Race to the Top” competition.
For lottery and live webcast details, visit hsph.me/markell. 
LINK  https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/jack-markell-former-governor-of-delaware/

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Privacy’s Blueprint:  The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
Tuesday, March 5
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B (Room 2019, Second Floor), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevC2NdgcAMc7Re4UjVr8QC00bRHsIuhao9RxYgMQ1BjwbXHg/viewform

Woodrow Hartzog
Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. And the law says this is okay because it is mainly up to users to protect themselves—even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them. In this talk, Professor Hartzog will argue that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products. Current legal doctrine treats technology as though it is value-neutral: only the user decides whether it functions for good or ill. But this is not so. Popular digital tools are designed to expose people and manipulate users into disclosing personal information. Against the often self-serving optimism of Silicon Valley and the inertia of tech evangelism, privacy gains will come from better rules for products, not users. The current model of regulating use fosters exploitation. We must develop the theoretical underpinnings of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. The law can demand encryption. It can prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable. It can require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance. It can, in short, make the technology itself worthy of our trust.

This event will be live webcast at https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-03-05/privacys-blueprint at noon on event date.

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Law & Culture: Rhett Larson and Dilip Da Cunha in Conversation about Water
WHEN  Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Gund Hall, Room 521, 42-58 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Critical Conservation, MDes, Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Rhett Larson, Morrison Fellow in Water Law; associate professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Arizona State University
Dilip Da Cunha, Co-Director, Risk and Resilience Master in Design Studies at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; adjunct professor at the GSAPP, Columbia University
DETAILS  Rhett Larson, lawyer and professor of domestic and international water law and policy will address the complicated technical and social question of where a river begins and ends by asking “The Big Dam Question: How Law Defines a River.” Law often defines the boundaries of a river, for purposes of property ownership, habitat protection, and resource development. These definitional laws drive how rivers are engineered to begin and to end. Dilip Da Cunha, author of "The Invention of Rivers" sees rivers not as a definition of law but rather as a consequence of design efforts to control the place of wetness by asking “The Bigger Dam Question: Why People Designed the River.” Wetness is everywhere but acts of design have created rivers, a subject of science, a spine of civilization, an anchor for "riparian" ecologies, a being with rights, and an infrastructure that can be made to serve land.
LINK	http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/list

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HESEC Webinar: "Sustainability in Apparel Industry"
Tuesday, March 5
1:00PM TO 2:00PM
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hesec-webinar-sustainability-in-apparel-industry-tickets-56596410387

"ONE GARBAGE TRUCK OF CLOTHES IS BURNED OR SENT TO LANDFILL EVERY SECOND", fashion industry's impacts hidden in the glamor, the impact of our clothes on our planet health and human health.

Join HESEC for a webinar with Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), and learn about the environmental and social issues associated with apparel industry, and how SAC's tool - Higg Index, is used to address those issues along with bringing transparency and traceability of apparel products.

Ms. Amina Razvi is the interim Executive Director at Sustainable Apparel Coalition, she has been in the apparel industry for more than a decade. Join our webinar with her and learn about the unseen impacts of fashion industry.

Webinar Link - https://harvard-dce.zoom.us/j/6511268568

Contact Name:  Yashi Dadhich
yashidadhich at g.harvard.edu

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Trust & Innovation with Tarun Khanna
WHEN  Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2019, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard i-lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business, Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Baker Library
Harvard i-lab
SPEAKER(S)  Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor
Author of "Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries”
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	schurch at hbs.edu
DETAILS  Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal system, and credible regulatory bodies.
This is not the case in the developing world. In "Trust," Professor Tarun Khanna shows that rather than become casualties of mistrust, smart entrepreneurs can adopt the mindset that, like it or not, it's up to them to weave their own independent web of trust. Using vivid examples from Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and elsewhere, Khanna's stories show how entrepreneurs can build on existing customs and practices instead of trying to push against them. He highlights the role new technologies can play (but cautions that these are not panaceas) and explains how entrepreneurs can find dependable partners in national and local governments to create impact at scale.
LINK  https://www.library.hbs.edu/Articles/Books-Baker

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Quantum Dots: Photophysics to Photochemistry
Tuesday, March 5
4:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Physical Chemistry Seminar: Professor Emily Weiss, Northwestern University 

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Emile Bustani Seminar: "No country for young men (and women): Education, employment, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa"
Tuesday, March 5
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E51-325, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Professor of Economics, Virginia Tech, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Research Affiliate, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum (ERF), Cairo
Worldwide, education offers better employment prospects and upward social mobility. These benefits have been the two pillars of the social contract in the post-independent Middle East between authoritarian governments, who promised education and government jobs, and the people they ruled. In the last two decades this “authoritarian bargain” has come largely undone as ever larger cohorts of university educated youth compete for a shrinking number of governments jobs.  The failure of education in the Middle East in securing employment is well known: everywhere in the region, educated youth suffer from the highest rates of unemployment. Less well known is its failure as the main path to upward social mobility. In this talk, Salehi-Isfahani draws on a growing body of evidence on equality of opportunity in education in the Middle East to document and explain the twin failures of education to modernize Middle Eastern societies.

Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1977.  He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania till 1984, before moving to Virginia Tech, where he is currently Professor of Economics. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development, the Brookings Institution, Research Affiliate of the Iran Project at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, and Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Brookings Institution, Harvard University, and Princeton University. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum in Cairo, the Middle East Economic Association, the International Iranian Economic Association, and as Associate Editor of the Middle East Development Journal. His current research is on economic inequality and economics of the family in the Middle East.  His opinion pieces have appeared in Al Monitor, Brookings, Foreign Affairs, LA Times, Lobelog.com, the New York Times, and the Project Syndicate.

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The Past, Present & Future of Truth 
Tuesday, March 5
5:00 - 6:30 pm (reception to follow) 
BU, Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg11hw59485c3ef8&oseq=&c=&ch=

Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences
What is truth? A scientist might tell you that something is true if it is verifiable by the scientific method. Courts have their own standards of truth. And until recently we believed that if an event was captured on video, we were assured of its veracity. But now the very foundations of what is truth are crumbling. Scientific studies are irreproducible. There is no scientific basis underpinning forensic science. Even videos are easily manipulated. Some say we are living in a "post-truth" era. There are several futures we can imagine given the current situation, but the one that we should most staunchly support is one in which we empower people and institutions to rebuild a stronger basis for distinguishing truth from falsehood. 

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Hospitality Now!
Tuesday, March 5
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 14e-304, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Benjamin Boudou examines anti-migration discourse and policies in France and the US. and makes a case for why we should make hospitality a principle of our democracies.

Benjamin Boudou is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Germany. He is author of Le dilemme des frontières : Ethique et politique de l’immigration [The Boundary Dilemma] and Politique de l’hospitalité [Politics of Hospitality].

Global France Seminar

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The Battle for the Future of Food Book Launch: Eating Tomorrow
Tuesday, March 5
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Cabot 701-702, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-battle-for-the-future-of-food-book-launch-eating-tomorrow-tickets-57102298512

Timothy A. Wise launches his new book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food, with a public talk and reading as part of "Tufts Global Week," linking the global with the local. Wise's new book, published by The New Press in February 2019, travels the world to answer the question: Why are leaders ignoring the low-cost solutions to hunger and climate change all around them in favor of more expensive and less-effective agricultural technologies?

Wise will be joined by Frances Moore Lappé, renowned author of Diet for a Small Planet and other books, for a conversation about the battle for the future of food. Eating Tomorrow will be available at the event and the author will be signing books. Read more about the book.

Co-sponsored by GDAE, UEP, Global Tufts Week, Small Planet Institute

Author Bio:  Timothy A. Wise directs the Land and Food Rights Program at the Small Planet Institute and is a senior research fellow at the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University. Eating Tomorrow is part of Wise's Land and Food Rights Program at Small Planet Institute, building on his GDAE work on A Rights-Based Approach to the Global Food Crisis. Wise earned his Masters in Public Policy in 2005 from Tufts' Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.

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Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 1 (Open for Business)
Tuesday, March 5
6:30 pm
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.wbur.org/events/445123/stepping-up-business-in-the-era-of-climate-change
Cost:  $15.00

A five-part WBUR series in collaboration with Harvard Business School and Boston University Questrom School of Business

Business is the main source of the greenhouse gases that are causing the Earth’s climate to change. Business is also the main source of new products, services and business models that may save us from wholesale climate calamity. This 5-part series, featuring leading thinkers from business, environmental advocacy groups and area universities, will explore what businesses are doing, can do and should do to confront climate change.

Part 1: Open for Business?
In deciding where to locate, managers take into account proximity to workers, customers, and infrastructure. But climate change—and associated sea level rise, extreme weather, drought, wildfires, and political and security risk—is changing the calculus of where businesses set up shop and how they manage their supply chains. What new costs is climate change posing for large manufacturers that buy inputs and sell products in a global marketplace? Will businesses of the future retreat from the coast to areas less prone to climate disruption? What will those shifts mean for coastal cities like Boston?

Panelists:
David Cash, Dean, School of Public Policy, UMass Boston
Bryan Koop, Executive VP, Boston Properties
Rachel Cleetus, Policy Director Climate and Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists
Moderator, Barbara Moran, WBUR Senior Producing Editor, Enviroment
Click the links below to purchase tickets to other events in this series.

Part 2: Food, Diet, and Climate, April 2
Part 3: Climate Politics and Business, April 22
Part 4: The Road Map of the Future: Transportation, May 7
Part 5: Energy Transitions, June 4

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Native Bees in the Hood
Tuesday, March 5
6:30–8:30pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Boston
Cost:  $15
Register at http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277

Nick Dorian, PhD student, Tufts University
Perhaps surprisingly, urban environments support a high diversity of native bee species. But where are they living and what are they eating? In this workshop, you will first learn about the biology and diversity of native bees and why they are important pollinators. We’ll dive into the city lifestyles of bees and the strategies they employ to be successful in these anthropogenic landscapes. In the second part of the workshop, we’ll focus on native bee decline and conservation, and learn answers to common questions such as: Why are bees dying? Do all bees need saving? What can I do to help bees at home? You’ll also learn the fundamentals of gardening for bees, and at the end of the workshop, have the opportunity to build and leave with a mason and leafcutter bee hotel. This workshop will extend your interest in native pollinators and equip you with the knowledge essential to supporting populations of native bees.

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Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
Tuesday March 5
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline 

An eye-opening, inspiring, and timely account of the complex relationship between notable suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in Alice’s fight for women’s equality. From solitary confinement, hunger strikes, and mental institutions to sitting right across from President Wilson, Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? reveals the inspiring, near-death journey it took, spearheaded in no small part by Paul’s leadership, to grant women the right to vote in America.

Tina Cassidy is the executive vice president and chief content officer at the public relations and social content firm InkHouse and also a board member at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. She has written two previous nonfiction books, Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born and Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered her Dreams. Previously, Tina was a journalist at The Boston Globe, where she covered politics, sports, fashion, and business.

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Cambridge Forum:  How to Be Happy
Tuesday, March 5
7pm
3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge

Happiness is a choice you make.

So says author John Leland who reflects on the timeless subject in his new book Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons From a Year Among the Oldest Old. It’s based on his interviews with some of New York City’s oldest residents in order to understand the experience of aging during the twilight years . Read an excerpt at 
https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Choice-You-Make-Lessons-ebook/dp/B073P1HP8P

Can we really just choose to be happy? 

John Leland is a reporter for The New York Times. Since joining The Times in 2000, he has covered topics ranging from the poetry of rock lyrics to the housing crisis.

Leland is the author of two books: Hip: The History (HarperCollins, 2004), a cultural history of hipness, and Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of ‘On the Road’ (They’re Not What You Think) (Viking, 2007).

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525,600 Minutes: Time, Eternity, and Finding Value in Our (Very Short) Lives
Tuesday, March 5
7:00pm to 8:30pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

In The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf shares with Frodo a timeless suggestion: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” In a distracted modern age of ever-advancing economic opportunity, technological progression, and perceived urgency, the decision of how we should best use our time is becoming an increasingly complex one. Many in today’s busy Western cultures feel as though the decision itself is constantly being made for us by the technologies and schedules which rule our lives. While “wise” use of time may seem an apparently universal human virtue, questions concerning what valuable time usage actually looks like are rooted in a broad set of cultural, moral, and economic factors which heavily bias our decision making in numerous ways. And while many members of modern societies answer these questions increasingly outside the context of a religious framework, temporal decisions have historically been heavily influenced not only by the moral commandments of a higher power, but also by whether or not members of society have embraced the notion of existence beyond a single Earthly life (i.e. an afterlife).

In the context of these timely considerations, the Veritas Forum at MIT presents its 2019 forum:“525,600 Minutes: Time, Eternity, and Finding Value in Our (Very Short) Lives”. The forum will further address the various factors which all converge at the nexus of time usage decision making, such as technology, faith, environment, and creativity. The two speakers at this forum include MIT Professor of the Practice of Humanities Alan Lightman (author of Einstein’s Dreams and In Praise of Wasting Time)and Notre Dame Professor of Philosophy Meghan Sullivan (author of Time Biases). The forum, which will conclude with an audience Q&A, will be moderated by Biological Engineering Professor (and department head) Doug Lauffenburger. Refreshments will be served immediately following the event.

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The Future of Offshore Wind
Wednesday, March 6
7:30-10:30 a.m.
MCLE New England, 10 Winter Place, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-offshore-wind-tickets-55874320597
Cost:  $15

with Keynote from Governor Charlie Baker
It has been a decade since Cape Wind. The calculus for offshore wind has changed dramatically. Prices per kilowatt-hour are a fraction. Turbines are four times as powerful. Competition is vigorous. Stakeholders have progressed negotiating the ocean’s many shared uses.

In 2016, MA led the nation with a 1,600 MW procurement goal. Since then, states along the eastern seaboard have been raising the bar, including NY’s recent goal of 9,000 MW. For MA, stakes are high. Once a first mover, our leadership may be eroding. Supply chain, construction, and maintenance companies are scanning the horizon for the best states to call home. How do we keep ourselves on the forefront and reap the many dividends from economic development and emissions reductions? What is the role for policy?

Join ELM for a State House News Forum around the questions and opportunities at the heart of our offshore wind future.

Event Program
WELCOME
Elizabeth Henry, President Environmental League of Massachusetts
KEYNOTE
Governor Charlie Baker
PANEL 1: THE OPPORTUNITY
In six ocean lease areas off the MA coast, there is enough wind to power half our state or a quarter of New England. Four companies have secured these leases: Vineyard Wind, Ørsted, Mayflower Wind and Equinor. Hear why they fought for the right to lease these parcels, how they hope to build out their areas, and their views on challenges and opportunities ahead.
LEGISLATIVE LIGHTNING ROUND!
A number of bills have been filed in the state legislature to drive offshore wind forward. ELM’s Director of Energy Policy Eric Wilkinson shares the top-lines in plain English.
PANEL 2: WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO LEAD THE NATION?
Public officials and offshore wind thought leaders react to these potential future policy scenarios. They also add perspectives and color to key issues, including: transmission, grid interconnection, fishing, whales, marine life, birds, and what is driving success in Europe.

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The Future of Transportation 
Wednesday, March 6
8:30 am - 10:00 pm
A Better City, Large Conference Room, 33 broad street, 3rd floor, Boston

The A Better City Transportation Advisory Committee invites you to join them for an intimate conversation with Steve Kadish, Chair of Governor Baker’s Commission on the Future of Transportation. On the morning of March 6th, we will convene to discuss the report and how A Better City’s transportation efforts can advance and implement report goals into action.

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Severe Nuclear Accidents and Ethical Responsibility
WHEN  Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer Building, Fainsod Room, 324, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Denia Djokić, Postdoctoral research fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom
DETAILS  A nuclear accident anywhere is a nuclear accident everywhere. The accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima Dai-ichi have resulted in radiological and sociopolitical consequences that transcend borders and generations. The repercussions of evacuation, environmental cleanup, economic impact, and physical and psychological health effects raise questions of ethical responsibility and social, environmental, and intergenerational justice. While the “lessons learned” from these accidents have informed new regulatory standards and improved safety culture in the global nuclear industry, the question of fair legal compensation to affected parties if an accident does happen remains a contentious issue. The current international legal liability framework, which consists of several disparate conventions and protocols, falls well short — by about two orders of magnitude — of covering damages to affected parties given the expected total damage due to the accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima. In light of several nations currently developing or expressing serious interest in nuclear energy development, it is imperative to adequately address the question of ethical responsibility and legal preparation for a potentially disastrous event with international and intergenerational consequences.
Denia Djokić is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom. She holds a PhD and MS in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she held an Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management graduate student fellowship. She also holds a BS in physics from Carnegie Mellon University. In the past, Djokić has conducted research on radioactive waste classification, geologic disposal of radioactive waste, and advanced nuclear fuel cycle systems analysis. Her current research explores issues in ethical responsibility in the context of severe nuclear accidents in emerging nuclear energy countries. She has also previously served as science advisor in the Ecuadorian government.
LINK  https://www.belfercenter.org/event/severe-nuclear-accidents-and-ethical-responsibility

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The New Fueling Model for Electric Cars 
Wednesday, March 6, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vDSZJSJfQ7KTltEUdWRHWA

Please join us for the next Blueprint for Clean Energy webinar.
Join our next Blueprint Webinar on Wednesday, March 6th. In this webinar, Marissa Galizia (MBA/MEM '15), Senior Manager for Open Network Solutions at ChargePoint, the world’s largest EV charging network, will explain how the shift to electric mobility presents a fundamentally new fueling model and what that means for individuals and businesses who are thinking about going EV. She will give an overview of the EV charging landscape today, where electric mobility is heading over the coming years and where to learn more. 

About our speaker:
Marissa Galizia currently leads the Open Network Solutions team for Europe at ChargePoint, the world’s largest and most open electric vehicle (EV) charging network with over 60,000 charging spots. Based in Amsterdam, this role focuses on developing strategic partnerships to grow ChargePoint’s roaming network, facilitate interoperability with diverse charging station manufacturers, and integrate the ChargePoint network into the rapidly growing e-mobility ecosystem. Marissa joined ChargePoint immediately after graduating from Yale’s MBA and Master of Environmental Management joint-degree program in 2015 and held roles in marketing and strategic partnerships at the company’s headquarters in California before joining the newly-established Europe team in late-2017.

Marissa began her career at IBM Global Business Services where she consulted to federal, state and local governments and utilities to improve customer relationship management and has also worked with solar micro-grid companies in India and Kenya to connect communities without consistent grid access to clean electricity. She’s originally a New Yorker, which will always be home despite her love of travel and exploring new places. 

About ChargePoint:
ChargePoint is a leading designer and builder of Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure across the United States, Europe, and around the world. Headquartered in Campbell, California, ChargePoint managed over 60,000 EV chargers globally. They partner with automakers and serve customers from those in the private sector like Google, Microsoft, and GM to cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston. The firm was founded in 2007.

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Sack Lunch Seminar (SLS) Series: Simulating midlatitude circulation changes: what might we gain from high resolution modelling of air-sea interactions? 
Wednesday, March 6
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT,  Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

Arnaud Czaja (Imperial College London)
An important strategic question for climate modelling centres worldwide is to decide whether or not to invest in costly high resolution coupled (ocean+atmosphere) modelling. It is indeed not clear at present that this would systematically improve the representation of climate phenomena (see for example the persistent issues with blocking over Northern Europe) and it is also in conflict with the need to increase statistical confidence via an increase in the size of the ensemble used for predictions. Nevertheless, missing physics owing to poor resolution of air-sea interactions over the midlatitude oceans is emerging as a possible candidate to explain recent exciting discoveries: that variations in the Jet Stream path are more predictable in nature than in models (Dunstone et. al., 2016); and that models systematically underestimate the multi-decadal variability of weather patterns in the Atlantic sector (Simpson et al., 2018). In this talk I will critically review the progresses made on the impact of midlatitude SST anomalies on the Jet Stream – storm track system since the review published in 2002 by Kushnir et al., with an emphasis on the North Atlantic sector. I will highlight the development of parameterizations of midlatitudes air-sea interactions on scales of ~10km as a most needed and exciting new area of research for climate modelling.

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Predictability Limits, Data Assimilation, and Simultaneous State and Parameter Estimation
Wednesday, March 6
12:00PM
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Fuqing Zhang, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques (ADAPT); Professor, Department of Meteorology and Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University.

Harvard Climate Seminar
https://eps.harvard.edu/event/harvard-climate-seminar-10

Contact Name:  Sabinna Cappo
scappo at fas.harvard.edu

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Beyond the Headlines: Women in Domestic and Global Governing
Wednesday, March 6
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
BU, 121 Bay State Road, Boston

The Beyond the Headlines series continues with a conversation on "The Increasingly Visible Role of Women in Domestic and Global Governing.</p><p>The discussion, led by the Pardee Women's Group, will feature Rep. Liz Miranda, MA State Representative (D) of the 5th district; Manar Swaby, Director of the Language and Communications Access Program for the City of Boston; and Verginie Touloumian, Executive Director of the Armenian Relief Society.</p> <p>A light lunch will be provided. RSVP to eventsps at bu.edu.</p> 

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Fireside Chat on Certainty Versus Uncertainty with Naomi Oreskes and Gina McCarthy
Wednesday, March 6
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fireside-chat-on-certainty-versus-uncertainty-with-naomi-oreskes-and-gina-mccarthy-tickets-57051107398

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MetroCommon 2050 Listening Sessions
Wednesday, March 6
3 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Boston
RSVP at https://metrocommon.mapc.org/events/12
	
Transportation, housing, climate, jobs, equity, and more: your community is working with the region to plan a better future - together. We need you to tell us what you want the region to be like, long term. 

The first step is for us to learn what you think. What you want the region to be like, long term. Please join us for this drop-in, interactive, expo-style listening session. No lectures, no presentations. Displays and activities about the region and interesting ways for you to tell us what you care about. Free of charge, refreshments served, and families welcome! The Boston Listening Session will also feature MAPC Winter Council Meeting business from 4:00-4:30. To learn more go to 
http://metrocommon.mapc.org

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Transparency in Climate Policy: Using Forecasting Tools to Evaluate Emission Mitigation Efforts
Wednesday, March 6
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

with Joseph Aldy, Harvard University

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/30064

Contact Name:  Casey Billings
casey_billings at hks.harvard.edu

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Lobbyism and Communication: Finding The Right Combination to Win
WHEN  Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Taubman Building, Darman Seminar Room, Room 135, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	HKS Communications Program
SPEAKER(S)  Jakob Ullegaard, HKS MC/MPA 2019, former executive of Danish Shipping
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	alison_kommer at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  To be successful with any political cause – for profit or non-profit, you need to be able to work with politicians and public opinion. In this workshop you will learn how to build your case and navigate between the interest of your constituencies and that of the political movers and shakers. Learn tools and insights from a former lobbyist with years of experience.
LINK	www.hkscommprog.org

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How climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy
Wednesday, March 6
4:30pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Michael Mann, award-winning climate scientist
Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). He is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and four books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,  and The Tantrum that Saved the World.

The Madhouse Effect will be signed and sold at the event.

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Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture: John L. Hennessy:  The End of Road for General Purpose Processors & the Future of Computing
Wednesday, March 6
4:30pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Building 32-123, Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge 

CSAIL is pleased to present John L. Hennessy as the Dertouzos Distinguished Lecturer on March 6, 2019, hosted by Daniela Rus.
Abstract:  After 40 years of remarkable progress in VLSI microprocessors, a variety of factors are combining to lead to a much slower rate of performance growth in the future. These limitations arise from three different areas: IC technology, architectural limitations, and changing applications and usage. The end of Dennard scaling and the slowdown in Moore's Law will require more efficient architectural approaches than we have relied on. Although progress on general-purpose processors may hit an asymptote, domain specific architectures may be one attractive path for important classes of problems. Such an approach will pose new challenges for software and chip designers, as well as increase the need for more advanced design tools.

Bio: John L. Hennessy, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, served as President of Stanford University from September 2000 until August 2016.  In 2017, he initiated the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, the largest fully endowed graduate-level scholarship program in the world, and he currently serves as Director of the program.  

Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977. In 1981, he drew together researchers to focus on a technology known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), which revolutionized computing by increasing performance while reducing costs. Hennessy helped transfer this technology to industry cofounding MIPS Computer Systems in 1984. He served as chair of Computer Science, dean of the School of Engineering, and university provost before being appointed as Stanford’s 10th president. As president he focused on increasing financial aid and on developing new initiatives in multidisciplinary research and teaching. He was the founding board chair of Atheros Communications, one of the early developers of WiFi technology, and has served on the board of Cisco and Alphabet (Google’s parent company). He is the coauthor of two internationally used textbooks in computer architecture.

His honors include the 2012 Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the ACM Turing Award (jointly with David Patterson). He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Royal Academy of Engineering, and the American Philosophical Society. Hennessy earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from the Stony Brook University.

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Climate Change and Energy: Are we out of Solutions?
WHEN  Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer, Room 166, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S)  Geisha Williams, CEO and president, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (2017-2019)
Carlos Curbelo, U.S. Representative for Florida’s 26th District (2016-2018) and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
DETAILS  How did environmental policy become so polarized and divisive? After all it was Richard Nixon who signed the EPA into existence and President Bush (41) who signed the Clean Air Act. What happened last time Democrats tried to go it alone and pass cap and trade legislation? Are the divisions on this issue more partisan or generational? How are things changing and why is industry increasingly supportive of policies that will reduce carbon pollution? We will also discuss recent developments in Florida and how the state may play a critical role in jolting national political dynamics surrounding climate policy. 
LINK	https://iop.harvard.edu/get-involved/study-groups-0

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David J. Rose Lecture
Wednesday, March 6
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building 34-101 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

A conversation with Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) hosted by Dennis Whyte (Head, Nuclear Science and Engineering & Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center) on innovation and entrepreneurship in energy development.

Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology fan. He is the founder of Khosla Ventures, focused on impactful technology investments in software, AI, robotics, 3D printing, healthcare and more. Mr. Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. One of Mr. Khosla’s greatest passions is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, assisting entrepreneurs and helping them build technology based businesses. Mr. Khosla is driven by the desire to make positive impact through using to technology to reinvent societal infrastructure and multiply resources. He is also passionate about Social Entrepreneurship. Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi, a Master’s in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

The David J.Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology honors the memory of David J. Rose (1922-1985), a renowned professor of nuclear engineering at MIT whose research and interests focused on fusion technology, energy, nuclear waste disposal, and ethical problems arising from advances in science and technology. 

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Climate Justice is Social Justice: How to Build Equitable Climate Movements
Wednesday, March 6 
4:30PM TO 6:30PM
Harvard, Littauer 230 (Gundle Family Classroom), Littauer Building, 2nd floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Are you a social justice warrior also concerned about climate change? A climate advocate who wants to broaden your mission to climate justice? All are welcome for a lively presentation and discussion with Colette Pichon Battle, Executive Director, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, on why the climate movement needs more social justice and vice versa.

Colette Pichon Battle is an attorney, advocate, and alliance builder who creates multi-racial regional alliances and served as a lead coordinator for Gulf South Rising, a regional initiative around climate justice in the South. In addition to leading advocacy initiatives that intersect with race, systems of power, and ecology, Colette manages GCCLP's legal services and maintains her legal specialization in disaster and immigration law.

Colette will take questions from the audience and impart her hard-won leadership lessons. 

This event is co-sponsored by the HKS Sustainability, Energy and Environment PIC, Black Student Union, Asian American Pacific Islander Caucus, Asian American Policy Review, and Latinx Caucus.

cpl_events at hks.harvard.edu

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Building, Exploring, and Using the Tree of Life
Wednesday, March 6
5:00PM
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Auditorium, 200 Beacon Street, Somerville
Registration required. Dinner to follow, $55/person fee.
https://members.amacad.org/content/events/eventOverview.aspx?v=1&e=10503

Hosted by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, scientists Douglas E. and Pamela S. Soltis, both of the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, will share challenges and breakthroughs of this undertaking and how the Tree of Life can be used to illustrate, instruct, and inspire the public about biodiversity. Introduction by Scott Vernon Edwards, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Orinthology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

All microbes, fungi, plants, and animals are connected through an immense network of relationships that Darwin referred to as the Tree of Life. Until recently, the genealogical interconnections of Earth's 2.3 million named species defied visualization.

For decades scientists Douglas E. and Pamela S. Soltis have been collaborating with scientists worldwide to build the Tree of Life. This project has harnessed algorithm development, computer power, and DNA sequencing to create a comprehensive visual Tree of Life.

Contact Name:  Kristin Josti
mevents at amacad.org

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Civic Arts Series: Opeyemi Olukemi
Wednesday, March 6
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Introduction by Sarah Wolozin, Director, MIT Open Doc Lab
Opeyemi Olukemi is Executive Producer of POV Spark—the innovation arm of the iconic independent nonfiction film program POV—and Vice President of American Documentary’s Interactive unit. Throughout her career as an interactive producer, funder and public programmer, Opeyemi has created spaces and pipelines for interdisciplinary artists, communities, and creative teams to experiment with and create meaningful innovative content.  She is a fierce advocate of technological equity, eliminating bias from social innovation and is deeply invested in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Before joining POV, Opeyemi was the Senior Director of Interactive Programs for Tribeca Film Institute, produced for ScrollMotion and has served as an assistant professor of Integrated Media at Brooklyn College’s Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. Opeyemi has served on numerous festival juries and has mentored through the IDFA’s Doc Academy, New Museum’s NEW INC and Oculus’ VR for Good. She is a proud Rockwood (Ford Foundation) JustFilms Fellow.

Respondent: Marisa Morán Jahn, Visiting Artist and Lecturer, ACT

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PKG Community Conversations: Climate
Wednesday, March 6
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pkg-community-conversations-climate-tickets-52832949775

Join the conversation! Meet fellow MIT students, local green organizations, and like-minded MIT faculty and staff who are interested in tackling climate change.
Community organizations and social entrepreneurs can sign-up for 90-second "pitches" to share their goals and opportunities. Though this is not a requirement, pitching is a great way to quickly share your message or needs with everyone in the room. Presenters may send one slide in advance to serve as a visual aid.
Join us and enjoy good food in good company!

Agenda:
6:00 pm Mingle with other climate-conscious attendees
6:45 pm Climate change organizations share 90-second overviews of their foci and needs
End-of-pitches to 8:00pm Additional time to network
Sponsored by the MIT PKG Center

“Contributing to climate solutions is one of our most important priorities at MIT. Through research, education, and convening, our goal is to help advance strategies for rapidly and dramatically decarbonizing the global energy system and reducing greenhouse gas concentrations.” - Maria Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research.

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Wasted! The Story of Food Waste Screening (w/ bites & drinks)
Wednesday, March 6
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
WeWork, 625 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wasted-the-story-of-food-waste-screening-w-bites-drinks-tickets-56515568587
Cost:  $11.26

Join us in another sustainable screening spectacular!!!! 

Food for All will be hosting a screening of the documentary Wasted! A Story of Food Waste that aims to change the way people buy, cook, recycle, and eat food. 

*FOOD & 21+ DRINKS INCLUDED*

We will be serving food and drinks and showcasing amazing local companies that have developed innovative and delicious solutions to reducing food waste! (Sneak peak of collaborators below)

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Outer Order, Inner Calm:  Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
Wednesday, March 6
7:00 PM  (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost:  $18.25 (book included)

Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated writer and podcaster GRETCHEN RUBIN—bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before—for a discussion of her latest book, Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness.

About Outer Order, Inner Calm
For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work. 

The fact is, when we tailor our approach to suit our own particular challenges and habits, we're then able to create the order that will make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. 

Gretchen Rubin has found that getting control of our stuff makes us feel more in control of our lives. By getting rid of things we don't use, don't need, or don't love, we free our minds (and our shelves) for what we truly value. 

With a sense of fun and a clear idea of what's realistic for most people, Gretchen Rubin suggests dozens of manageable steps for creating a more serene, orderly environment—one that helps us to create the lives we want.

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Sugar, Sex, and Poison: Understanding the Vital Powers of Plants
Wednesday, March 6
7 to 8:30
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge

William Cullina, Executive Director of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, explains the critical, and interacting, functions of plant life in ecosystems. Plants produce sugars through photosynthesis, ward off predators through many techniques, and attract animal partnerships vital to many services like pollination and seed dispersal.  How can we nurture these dynamics? FREE. Second in the monthly series sponsored by Grow Native. More at Grownativemass.org

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The Physics and Materials Science of Superheroes
Wednesday, March 6
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Room 253C, 415 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-public-lecture-the-physics-and-materials-science-of-superheroes-tickets-56587468642

While physicists, engineers, and material scientists don’t typically consult comic books when selecting research topics; innovations first introduced in superhero adventures as fiction sometimes find their way off the comic book page and into reality. 

This talk is presented by Jim Kakalios, a professor from the University of Minnesota and superhero enthusiast. You do not need to register for the APS March Meeting to attend this free public lecture. All are welcome!

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What Makes Humans Special? A Discussion on Faith, Science, & Humanity
WHEN  Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE  Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Faith and Action and The Veritas Forum
SPEAKER(S)  Andrew Berry
David Lahti
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  http://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Event is free. Tickets Required. Limit of four tickets per person. Tickets valid until 7:15 p.m. Available by phone and internet for a fee. Call 617-496-2222 or reserve on line at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu
LINK  http://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu

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Thursday, March 7 – Saturday, March 9
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Migration in a Turbulent World -- The 34th Annual EPIIC Symposium
Thursday, March 7 – Saturday, March 9
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://secure.touchnet.net/C21525_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1246&SINGLESTORE=true

Join the Institute for Global Leadership as it presents the 34th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium on "Migration in a Turbulent World" from March 7-9, 2019. The symposium features international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists who come to Tufts each year for three days of discussion and debate in panels and small-group discussions determined by students in the EPIIC course.

More information at http://tuftsgloballeadership.org/norris-and-margery-bendetson-epiic-international-symposium-2

Contact  Susan Ojukwu
Susan.Ojukwu at tufts.edu
6176271333

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Bringing Residential PH Development to Scale in Massachusetts
Thursday, March 7
8:00-10:45 am
100 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room A, Boston

An in-depth introduction to Multi-family Passive House hosted by Katrin Klingenberg, Executive Director, Passive House Institute US. To rsvp, email Sabrina Cotton at sabrina.cotton at mass.gov

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Transparency First: Evolving Governance Systems on Tackling Climate Change Under the Paris Agreement
WHEN  Thursday, Mar. 7, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer Building, Fainsod Room, 3rd floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S)  Artur Runge-Metzger, Director, European Commission
CONTACT INFO	RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  This seminar will be given by Artur Runge-Metzger, Director, European Commission. It is part of the Regulatory Policy Program seminar series. Lunch will be served.
LINK  https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/transparency-first-evolving-governance-systems-tackling-climate-change-under-paris-agreement

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The transportation rEVolution: Electric vehicles and the changing nature of transportation
Thursday, March 7
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Room 745B, Dowling Hall, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford

Ryan Katofsky, Vice President of Industry Analysis, Advanced Energy Economy
The future of transportation is electric; for many industry analysts it is not a question of "if" but "when". As battery technology improves, electric vehicles (EVs) are getting within reach of cost parity with internal combustion engine vehicles. Combined with superior performance, low operating and maintenance costs, the potential for deep emissions reductions, and other megatrends in transportation, EVs are poised to transform transportation. This presentation will review the state of the EV market, the underlying trends that are driving transportation electrification, and address opportunities and challenges with EV-grid integration.

Ryan Katofsky is Vice President of Industry Analysis at Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a national business association working to make our energy system more secure, clean and affordable. He has spent his entire career focused on the advanced energy industry, including 20 years in consulting at Arthur D. Little, Navigant, and as an independent contractor. His work has included market and technology assessment, economic analysis, business strategy development, due diligence, lifecycle energy and environmental assessment, long-range energy planning, and analysis of public sector renewable energy programs. Ryan joined AEE in 2013, and currently oversees AEE’s state regulatory work, which is focused on accelerating regulatory and business model change in the electric power sector. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for
Clean Energy New York. Ryan received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University in 1990, where he received the British Association Medal for Great Distinction. He received his Master of Science in Engineering degree from Princeton University in 1993, where he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

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Maximum Information Entropy: A Foundation for Ecological Theory
Thursday, March 7
12:00PM
HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

John Harte, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley. Lunch is provided. 

John Harte is a physicist turned ecologist. His research interests span ecological field research, the theory of complex systems, and policy analysis. Current interests include applying insights from information theory to the analysis of complex ecosystems and empirical investigation of climate-ecosystem feedback dynamics. His research investigates the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biogeochemical processes, ecosystem structure and function, biodiversity, and climate. He also conducts policy studies that attempt to connect the science to its societal implications. Two themes, feed-back and scaling, weave through much of his research. He received a BA in physics from Harvard University in 1961 and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1965. He was an NSF Post-doctoral Fellow at CERN, Geneva, during 1965–66 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, during 1966–68. He has served on six National Academy of Sciences Committees and has authored over 200 scientific publications, including eight books, on topics including biodiversity, climate change, biogeochemistry, and energy and water resources.

Contact Name:  Erin Harleman
eharleman at fas.harvard.edu

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China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist
Thursday, March 7
12:15PM TO 1:45PM
Harvard, CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

A panel discussion featuring John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, HKS and Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS; former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Peter Huybers, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and SEAS; Elsie Sunderland, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry, SEAS and HSPH; Steve Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and SEAS.

Chair: Mike McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Chair, Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment

Hosted by Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment (Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Contact Name:  Tiffany Chan
tiffanychan at seas.harvard.edu

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Energy and Environmental Impact of the Food System
Thursday, March 7
12:30PM
Harvard, Room 429, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge 

Carlo Amadei 
Harvard Energy Journal Club 
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/

HEJC is open to all members of the Harvard and MIT communities. A technical background is not needed. Lunch will be provided. 

Contact Name:  Dan Pollack
daniel_pollack at g.harvard.edu

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Meeting to Discuss Key Climate Change Parameters in the Greater Boston Area
Thursday, March 7
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Concord Planning and Land Management Office, 141 Keyes Road, Concord
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-to-discuss-key-climate-change-parameters-in-the-greater-boston-area-tickets-57623804350

Please join us for a meeting to discuss key climate change parameters and related concerns to be used for planning in the Greater Boston Area.

A team led by UMass Boston supported by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) with Barr Foundation funding is updating the 2016 Boston Research Advisory Group (BRAG) report, which presented the first scientific consensus on climate changes specifically for the City of Boston. This new project will expand the analysis to investigate climate changes and threats to the 101 cities and towns of the MAPC region and produce one to two Special Reports on topics of interest to the region. The study team is known as the Greater Boston Research Advisory Group (GBRAG).

We are hosting meetings as extensions of the monthly MAPC Sub-Regional meetings. The purpose of the meetings is to solicit feedback from planners, researchers, community organizers/representatives, private companies, volunteers, government officials, and others on what climate change parameters are needed for their work and related concerns for the Greater Boston Area. For example, what climate data and projections do you wish you had? What synthesis reports would be useful?

You do not need to be a regular attendee of the sub-regional meetings to participate; in fact, we want to broaden the regular participation. This feedback is very important as it will help guide the GBRAG process. We are also developing a survey to collect information from participants and other sources. 

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The Next Generation of Building Energy: On-Site Renewables and Storage
Thursday, March 7
3 – 4PM
Tufts, Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, Anderson 112, 200 College Avenue, Medford

Speaker: Claire McKenna, WSP USA

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Japan Innovation Night: New Paradigms in Education
Thursday, March 7
3:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Venture Cafe Kendall, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/japan-innovation-night-new-paradigms-in-education-tickets-56049722228

We are expecting over 600 people at this event - pre-register here to avoid the lines on March 7th, especially if this will be your first time at Venture Café!
3:00 – 5:15 PM OFFICE HOURS
Free half-hour advisory sessions with industry professionals
3:15 – 4:15 PM ROUND ROBIN
Growing Up Bilingual – How to Turn Struggles Into Success
4:15 – 5:15 PM WORKSHOP & DEMO
Think Like An Artist!
5:00 – 6:15 PM EDTECH SHARKTANK
A selection of investors and angels will hear pitches from high-potential early stage EdTech companies.
**Are you an EdTech entrepreneur? Click here to apply to pitch!
5:30 – 7:00 PM CHILDREN'S ART WORKSHOP
This session is an engaging music education program for children. Learning how to play an instrument at a young age helps increase self-confidence, hand-eye coordination, concentration, and mathematical ability. We will explore music as a language using rhythmic tools, songs, colors, and dances. Kids between the ages of 0-12 are welcome.
5:45 – 6:30 PM FLASH TALK
Language as Data: Using Communication to Strategically Improve Team Performance and Leadership in a Second Language
6:30 – 8:00 PM PANEL
Innovating Public Education: Education’s Role in Supporting Aspiring Entrepreneurs
5:30 – 7:30 PM INFO & DEMO TABLES
Startups and nonprofit organizations showcase their services and technologies
More information available at http://vencaf.org/japaninno

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The New Oasis: Climate Change and Human Populations in East Asia
Thursday, March 7
3:30 p.m.
Harvard, Tozzer 203, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

a talk by Lisa Janz 
Abstract:  How do humans respond to climatic amelioration? It really depends on the ecosystem already in place. This talk introduces new research in eastern Mongolia to show how not all warm/wet phases are equal, what exactly made Holocene landscapes so different, and what effects these changes had on hunter-gatherer communities living in northern climates. The emerging results challenge traditional narratives about diet breadth expansion, sedentism, and even megafaunal extinction.

Archaeology Seminar Series

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Leadership Research Talk: Impression Management In the Digital Age
WHEN  Thursday, Mar. 7, 2019, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Taubman Building, Center for Public Leadership Suite, Darman Seminar Room, Room 135, 1st Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education, Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)  Leslie John, Associate professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda9GD6Mk1vTFOJZZB-0mXp3QiJWB0HBOfJC0-OwcBzlhh6sw/viewform?usp=send_form
CONTACT INFO	Kevin Moloney
kevin_moloney at hks.harvard.edu
617-496-3232
DETAILS  CORRAL: Colloquium on Research Results Advancing Leadership
The CORRAL speaker series provides an opportunity for scholars to share and learn about cutting edge research related to the topic of leadership, broadly defined.
Why do people post salacious photos or incendiary comments on social media, when the damage to their relationships, reputation and careers could be permanent? Why do we prefer to hire people who reveal unsavory information about themselves relative to those who simply choose not to disclose? And what do these findings imply for organizations? This talk will focus on recent research investigating answers to these questions, all of which pertain to impression management in the digital age.
LINK	https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda9GD6Mk1vTFOJZZB-0mXp3QiJWB0HBOfJC0-OwcBzlhh6sw/viewform?usp=send_form

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UEA Lecture - Why is the Economics of Climate Change so Difficult and Controversial?
Thursday, March 7
4:00pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Building 3-370, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge

Martin Weitzman (Harvard University).
The economic analysis of climate change presents an incredibly difficult intellectual challenge.  It compels the economist to confront issues that push economic analysis to the breaking point – and sometimes well beyond.  Economists are forced to grapple with many issues that are novel or that have previously been swept aside.  The questions being raised are of supreme importance, but do not often lend themselves to simple or easy answers.  This talk will provide a fast-paced crash course on why the economics of climate change is so especially difficult and so especially controversial.

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The Future of Homo Sapiens
Thursday, March 7
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
MIT, Building 26-100, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-homo-sapiens-tickets-57037201806

The future of our species will be majorly influenced by the technical advancements and ethical paradigm shifts over the next several decades. Artificial intelligence, neural enhancement, gene editing, solutions for aging and interplanetary travel, and other emerging technologies are bringing sci-fi’s greatest ideas to reality. 

We invite you to join us at MIT on March 7th, 2019 where Xapiens, MIT's first initiative for human augmentation brings together titans of science, innovation and engineering, intellectuals and industry leaders to imagine, envision and discuss the future of Homo sapiens.

Sponsored by Media Lab.

Event Schedule
16:00 - 16:15 Registration
16:15 - 16:20 Welcome + What is Xapiens, Our Vision and Mission
16:20 - 16:30 Welcoming Remarks by Joe Paradiso
16:30 - 17:00 Pattie Maes talk
17:00 - 17:30 Max Tegmark talk
17:30 - 18:00 David Sinclair talk
18:00 - 18:15 Intermission
18:15 - 18:45 George Church talk
18:45 - 19:15 Ed Boyden talk
19:15 - 19:50 Panel (5 speakers + moderated by Joe Paradiso)
19:50 - 19:55 Closing remarks

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Mindfulness as Medicine
Thursday, March 7
5:00pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, Room 674, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-and-meditation-session-with-sister-dang-nghiem-tickets-53348736507

Lecture and Meditation Session with Sister Dang Nghiem.
 
Global Studies and Languages at MIT is inviting you to the second lecture in the annual T.T. and W.F. Chao Distinguished Buddhist Lecture Series. 
 
This distinguished lecture series engages the rich history of Buddhist thought and ethical action to advance critical dialogues on ethics, humanity, and MIT’s mission “to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.”
 
Sister Dang Nghiem is a monastic disciple and translator of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, celebrated by Martin Luther King Jr. as “an apostle of peace and nonviolence.”Born in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive and coming to the US as a refugee, Sister Dang Nghiem attended medical school and became a physician before deciding to enter monastic life. She will present her public lecture on March 7, and together with Sister Truc Nghiem will lead a meditation session the following day.        
 
WALKING MEDITATION (free and open to the public)
Led by Sister Dang Nghiem and Sister Truc Nghiem
March 8, 2019
9:30-10:30 AM
Zesiger Sports & Fitness Center 
Meet at the Customer Service Desk in the Lobby
120 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
 
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Sister Dang Nghiem is a monastic disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the author of two books Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun and Mindfulness As Medicine.

Born during the Tet Offensive and part of the group of Amerasian children given amnesty after the Vietnam War, she arrived in the United States penniless with a younger brother and lived in foster homes. She went on to graduate from high school with honors, earn two undergraduate degrees, and receive medical training at UCSF School of Medicine. In 2000, Sister Dang Nghiem left medicine and became a Buddhist nun in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

In 2011, Sister Dang Nghiem contracted neuro-Lyme disease, a rare and severe form of the disease that affected both her physical and cognitive abilities. Strongly determined, she applied her mindfulness practice and medical knowledge to heal her illness and, subsequently, wrote the book Mindfulness As Medicine.

Sister Dang Nghiem is a motivational speaker and an inspiration for anyone who has ever suffered from childhood abuse, trauma, life-changing loss, severe illness, or chronic disease. She currently resides at Deer Park Monastery. 

Sister Truc Nghiem is a monastic disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh since 2002. She had been trained as a nurse in Vietnam before she came to the United States. She currently resides at Deer Park Monastery.

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Beef, soy, water: Commodities or the source of an environmentalist's nightmare
Thursday, March 7
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EST
Tufts, Mugar 200, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beef-soy-water-commodities-or-the-source-of-an-environmentalists-nightmares-tickets-57407290752

Join us on Thursday, March 7th at 5:30 PM in Mugar 200 to hear Christie Merino and Emma Conover from Ceres' Water and Food Team explain how their "Engage the Chain" initiative helps institutional investors stabilize supply chains while generating creative solutions to the largest social and environmental problems of our time.

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Book Release Party: Community-Scale Composting Systems by James McSweeney
Thursday, March 7
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Recover Green Roofs, 9 Olive Square, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-release-party-community-scale-composting-systems-by-james-mcsweeney-tickets-56434059792

Join us for a night of composting and community with Recover Green Roofs' very own James McSweeney, recent author of Community-Scale Composting Systems, a technical resource for farmers, designers, service providers, entrepreneurs and advocates of all types who are interested enabling their community to close the food-soil loop in their local food system. James McSweeney will give a short presentation starting at 6:00 PM, followed by a book signing and networking with other local environmental professionals. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. Books will be on sale at the event!
If you cannot make the event but are interested in purchasing a signed copy of Community-Scale Composting Systems, you can buy one here: http://www.composttechnicalservices.com/book
About the Book:
In-depth yet accessible, Community-Scale Composting Systems is a technical resource for farmers, designers, service providers, and organics recycling entrepreneurs and advocates of all types, with a focus on developing the next generation of organics recycling infrastructure that can enable communities to close the food-soil loop in their local food systems. Author James McSweeney, a leading provider of community-scale composting solutions, covers topics including:
Food scrap composting and recycling system selection and planning
Community-scale food scrap collection
Aerated static pile, bin, turned windrow, and in-vessel design
Integrating animals with composting
Feedstocks, recipe development, and compost best management practices
End uses, marketing, and sales

Community-Scale Composting Systems is the definitive manual on composting written at a crucial time when communities are just starting to see what the composting movement will ultimately offer our food systems, local and regional economies, and planet.

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Cambridge Autonomous Vehicles Educational Forum
Thursday, March 7
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-autonomous-vehicles-educational-forum-tickets-56336549135

Join the City of Cambridge, its partners, and other members of the public for a forum on autonomous vehicles (AVs).
About this Event
The City of Cambridge has begun the process of creating a Future of Mobility Implementation Blueprint to help prepare for and shape new mobility options in a way that meets our community goals, meets the mobility needs of all people who live in, work in, and visit Cambridge, and is well integrated with our sustainable transportation system. This forum is an opportunity for you to:
learn about the role of the Local, State, and Federal government in managing AVs,
hear from researchers who are thinking about the interactions between AVs and people, and
engage with the people behind the technology to gain a better understanding of the state of the technology, plans for the future, and challenges.

Confirmed speakers:
Joseph E. Barr | Director | Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department
Susanne Rasmussen | Director of Environmental and Transportation Planning | Cambridge Community Development Department 
Alison Felix | Senior Transportation Planner and Emerging Technologies Specialist | Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
Bryan Reimer | Research Scientist | MIT AgeLab
Ryan Jacobs | Director, Boston Operations | nuTonomy
This event is hosted by the City of Cambridge in partnership with the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission.

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Greentown Labs: Cleantech Intern Fair 
Thursday, March 7
5:30PM
Global Center for Cleanteach Innovation, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.greentownlabs.com/event/energybar-march-2019-cleantech-intern-fair/
EnergyBar is Greentown Labs' networking event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community. This special edition focuses on helping rockstar interns and innovative cleantech startups find each other! 

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Contact Name:  Jackie Johnson
jjohnson at greentownlabs.com

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Era of Ignition
Thursday, March 7
6pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline

Amber Tamblyn will appear at Coolidge Corner Theatre from 6:00-7:00pm (ticket required) to discuss her new memoir, Era of Ignition. A book signing across the street at Brookline Booksmith will follow her talk.

Through her fierce op-eds and tireless work as one of the founders of the Time’s Up organization, Amber has emerged as a bold, outspoken, and respected advocate for women’s rights. In Era of Ignition, she addresses gender inequality and the judgment paradigm, misogyny and discrimination, trauma and the veiled complexities of consent, white feminism and pay parity, reproductive rights and sexual assault–all told through the very personal lens of her own experiences, as well as those of her Sisters in Solidarity. At once an intimate meditation and public reckoning, Era of Ignition is a galvanizing feminist manifesto that is required reading for everyone attempting to understand the world we live in and help change it for the better.

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Great Decisions | State of the State Department and Diplomacy
Thursday, March 7
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/great-decisions-state-of-the-state-department-and-diplomacy-tickets-56052669042

What is the state of the Department of State and what does the future of diplomacy look like? Great Decisions addresses these questions!

During the Trump administration, the usual ways of conducting diplomacy have been upended. Many positions in the State Department have never been filled, and meetings with foreign leaders such as Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin have been undertaken with little advance planning. What effect are these changes having now, and how will they affect ongoing relationships between the United States and its allies and adversaries? Ambassador Nick Burns and Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield team up to address these questions!

Ambassador Nicholas Burns is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the founder and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship. As a career Foreign Service Officer, he was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008. He was U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005), Ambassador to Greece (1997-2001) and State Department Spokesman (1995-1997). He worked for five years (1990–1995) on the National Security Council at the White House where he was Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and Special Assistant to President Clinton and Director for Soviet Affairs in the Administration of President George H.W. Bush.

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield is a Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, where she draws on her long and distinguished career as a U.S. diplomat to help the clients of ASG’s Africa practice. She joined ASG after serving as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (2013 – 2017). In this capacity, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield led U.S. policy toward sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on peace and security, democracy and governance, economic empowerment and investment opportunities. Prior to this appointment, she served as Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources where she oversaw all personnel functions for the U.S. Department of State’s 70,000-strong workforce. Previously, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia (2008-2012) and held postings in Switzerland (at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations), Pakistan, Kenya, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Jamaica.

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Gutman Library Book Talk: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
WHEN  Thursday, Mar. 7, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Eliot Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Gutman Library
SPEAKER(S)  Anthony Abraham Jack, Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
TICKET WEB LINK  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_79iVLRVhJddc7Bz
DETAILS  The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors — and their coffers — to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In "The Privileged Poor," Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.
Please RSVP:  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_79iVLRVhJddc7Bz
LINK  http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976894

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Opioid Epidemic Town Hall
Thursday, March 7
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
McKinley Elementary School, 90 Warren Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-epidemic-town-hall-registration-56935045253

Listening, educating, and partnering with our communities, stakeholders, and elected officials to identify solutions to the opioid epidemic.

Agenda
Opening remarks delivered by State Representative Jon Santiago 
Health and Human Services Chief Marty Martinez discusses the City’s response to the opioid issue and current efforts to address the epidemic
Discussion about how providers can collaborate with residents and officials to combat the opioid epidemic
Public testimony session

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A PechaKucha Discussion on Investor and Business Perspectives of Water
Thursday, March 7
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Breckinridge Capital Advisors, 125 High Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-pechakucha-discussion-on-investor-and-business-perspectives-of-water-tickets-56331059716

Join speakers from Breckinridge Capital Advisors, KBI Global Investors, SeaAhead and Ceres, as they share PechaKucha-style presentations and facilitate an interactive discussion of how investors, entrepreneurs and NGOs are working to mitigate water risk and invest in solutions for a resilient water future. Space is limited for this event, so register soon!
Speakers include:
Rob Fernandez & Andrew Teras (Breckinridge Capital Advisors)
Matt Sheldon (KBI Global Investors)
Mark Tracy (SeaAhead)
Robin Miller (Ceres)

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Amazon Robotics - Company Presentation
Thursday, March 7
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

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Sustainable Peace Café: Movement and Vocalizing for Peace
WHEN  Thursday, Mar. 7, 2019, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Chapel, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
SPONSOR	Religions and the Practice of Peace and the Joy Club
CONTACT	RPP
DETAILS   Space is limited. RSVP is required at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eUK6OTUqz2eFcPz
How do dance, songs, and spoken poetry allow us to transform ourselves and the people around us? Bring a song to sing, a dance to share, an instrument to play, or a poem to recite.
Sustainable Peace Cafés welcome Harvard students and alumni from across the University and friends and colleagues from the local area to come connect with new companions aspiring to advance sustainable peace.  Together, we will nurture our commitment to the practice of peace; contemplate our visions of peace and how to make peace in our communities substantive, shared, and sustainable; and share insights and practices from our spiritual and cultural traditions and life experiences.
Each session features a new theme and activities, touching upon six dimensions of holistic peace practice to which we attend in the emerging “One Harvard” Sustainable Peace Initiative (SPI):
sharing inspiration and wisdom 
self-cultivation and virtue-cultivation 
friendship-building and bridge-building 
leveraging resources of culture 
leveraging resources of institutions and communities 
practical projects for shared flourishing 
Attendees are encouraged to explore ways to advance the SPI global trend in their own contexts. A light dinner is served, and informal networking time follows.
The Sustainable Peace Cafés are hosted in 2018-19 with generous support from the Whitehead Foundation.
Join the RPP mailing list and visit the RPP website.

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Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan Public Meeting 
Thursday, March 7
6:30-8:30 pm
Morse School Auditorium, 40 Granite Street, Cambridge

The City's Urban Forest Master Plan team led by the Public Works Department will hold the second of three planned public meetings to update the community.

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Roll Red Roll 
Thursday, March 7
6:30pm to 9:00pm
MIT,  Building E15, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge,
6:30pm pizza, 7pm film start time

Film to be followed by discussion with director Nancy Schwartzman

This documentary is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled "boys will be boys" culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America. Roll Red Roll tells the story of the beloved Steubenville, Ohio football team and how a blogger uncovered teh disturbing social media evidence of the assault of a teenage girl by members of the team.

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Discussion & Signing - The Art of Dying Well
Thursday, March 7
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-award-winning-journalist-katy-butler-tickets-55240634224

The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own "good death" more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations--practical, communal, physical, and sometimes spiritual--will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months.
About the Author:Katy Butler is an American journalist, essayist and author of Knocking on Heaven's Door, the Path to a Better Way of Death, and The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/preparing-for-a-good-end-of-life-11549643346

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International Development, Health & Environmental Justice
Thursday, March 7
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Northeastern, Room RI 236, Richards Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-development-health-environmental-justice-tickets-56127134771

International Development, Health a nd Environmental Justice: Where do we stand? Where are we heading?

Event will be Livestreamed via https://www.facebook.com/NortheasternAlumni/
Is global development at odds with environmental justice and health equity? The industries that have historically fueled economic growth have also accelerated climate change and exacerbated issues of global health. How might those interested in both economics and justice reconcile such a tension?
In pursuit of an answer, one thing is clear: the actions of individual people are insufficient to address this collective, global challenge. Only strong, coordinated efforts will ensure lasting change.
The College of Professional Studies M.S. in Global Studies and International Relations program at Northeastern University, alongside the Boston Network for International Development (BNID), will host a symposium at 7:00 PM on Thursday, March 7, 2019 to address these very questions: “International Development, Health and Environmental Justice: Where do we stand? Where are we heading?”
Via a panel discussion, symposium participants will glean knowledge of ongoing initiatives that strive to halt existing environmental and global health dangers. Speakers will describe tangible ways in which students and professionals in the Greater Boston Area can begin to tackle local challenges collectively, which will ultimately contribute to the realization of international economic and justice goals.
Event will be Livestreamed via https://www.facebook.com/NortheasternAlumni/

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Buddhism and Race Conference: Centering Intersectionalities
Friday, March 8
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM EST
Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/buddhism-and-race-conference-centering-intersectionalities-tickets-55766783952
Cost:  $0 – $20

The Harvard Divinity School Buddhist Community (HBC) is pleased to offer the Fifth Annual Buddhism and Race Conference: Centering Intersectionalities on March 8, 2019 at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA.

During this conference, scholars, sangha leaders, activists, and students from diverse backgrounds will join together to engage in conversations about issues at the intersection of Buddhism, race, and beyond. Participants will have the opportunity to teach as well as to learn from one another. The speakers will be sharing their experience working in a variety of scholastic and religious practice contexts.

We welcome all who wish to connect with other leaders and communities committed to addressing racism from Buddhist, intersectional perspectives.

Speakers:
Ven. Dr. Pannavati
Sister Peace
Dr. Melanie Harris
Katie Loncke
and more!

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Life Cycle of a Non-Profit: Formation, Governance, and Dissolution
Friday, March 8
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Martin Trust Center, 1 Amherst Street, The Garage, E40-163, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-cycle-of-a-non-profit-formation-governance-and-dissolution-tickets-55776823982

Looking to learn more about starting, operating, and dissolving a Massachuestts Non-Profit?
Please join the BU/MIT Startup Law Clinic at the Martin Trust Center for a Friday Lunch Talk as we discuss the legal considerations that surround founding, running, and dissolving a Massachusetts Non-Profit corporation.
Topics Include:
How do I turn my idea into a legal entity?
How does my organization become tax-exempt?
How do we add to our board of directors?
How do we raise tax-exempt funds?
Employee Compensation and Volunteers
How do we dissolve our organization?

The BU/MIT Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and Cyberlaw Program's Friday Lunch Talks bring BU Law faculty and students to the Martin Trust Center for presentations on a variety of legal issues often faced by student entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers, ventures, and startups.
For more information on the Startup Law Clinic and its services, visit sites.bu.edu/startuplaw

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Women in Power: An International Women's Day panel discussion
WHEN  Friday, Mar. 8, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Taubman, Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Center for Public Leadership and Women and Public Policy Program
SPEAKER(S)  Wendy Chow, Head of Legal CityBlock Health, and 92Y Women inPower Class of 2018
Asha Curran, Chief innovation officer and director, Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, 92nd Street Y
Shijuade Kadree, Chief advocacy officer of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center and 92Y Women inPower Class of 2017
COST  Free - RSVP Required
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9TMBCNQ
CONTACT INFO	hauser_leaders at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In concert with the Women and Public Policy Program, the Hauser Leaders Program at the Center for Public Leadership is proud to host "Women in Power," a panel discussion exploring the unique challenges women encounter in pursuit of powerful professional positions. Alumnae of the 92nd Street Y Women in Power program, along with program lead Asha Curran, will share their stories and offer advice to students who hope to pursue leadership positions after graduation.
LINK  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9TMBCNQ

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Crises of Citizenship in the Arab World Today
WHEN  Friday, Mar. 8, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer Building, Fainsod Room, 324, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Conferences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)  Lillian Frost, Research fellow, Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. candidate, George Washington University
CONTACT INFO	Christopher Mawhorter
Email: chris_mawhorter at hks.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-4190
DETAILS  Major global trends — including the rise of noncitizen resident populations, commercialization of nationality, and efforts to improve women’s rights — have raised new challenges to citizenship and what it means to be a citizen. These trends have been magnified in the Middle East, where the number of migrants over the past 25 years has increased exponentially — by about 150 percent, compared to a 60 percent increase in the world — including numerous protracted refugee situations, which have helped contribute to the region hosting roughly 45 percent of all refugees globally. The political changes evoked by the 2011 Arab Uprisings and their aftermath also have contributed to these citizenship challenges. This talk will provide an overview of some of the Arab world's major crises in citizenship today, including the persistence of discrimination toward women in nationality laws, the rights of noncitizen residents, the expansion of investment citizenship, and increases in cases of citizenship revocation.
LINK  https://www.belfercenter.org/event/crises-citizenship-arab-world-today

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Environmental Science Seminar Series:  The competitive exclusion principle in stochastic environments
Friday, March 8
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 48-316, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Prof. Alex Hening, Tufts University, Department of Mathematics
Abstract:  The competitive exclusion principle states that a number of species competing for a smaller number of resources cannot coexist. Even though this is a fundamental principle in ecology, it has been observed empirically that in some settings it will fail. One example is Hutchinson's `paradox of the plankton'. This is an instance where a large number of phytoplankton species coexist while competing for a very limited number of resources. Both experimental and theoretical studies have shown that in some instances (deterministic) temporal fluctuations of the environment can facilitate coexistence for competing species. Hutchinson conjectured that one can get coexistence because nonequilibrium conditions would make it possible for different species to be favored by the environment at different times. In this talk I will look at how environmental noise interacts with competitive exclusion. I will show that, contrary to Hutchinson's explanation, one can switch between two environments in which the same species is favored and still get coexistence.

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2019 MacVicar Day Symposium - "The Educated Student: Thinking and Doing for the 21st Century"
Friday, March 8
2:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Through a series of lightning talks, MIT faculty and students will explore what is important to a modern undergraduate education and what skills, ideas, and experiences students should expect to leave college with. Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz will host and introduce the 2019 MacVicar Faculty Fellows

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Uncertain Futures: Trade, Power, and the Changing Nature of Political Risk
Friday, March 8
6 – 8PM
Tufts, Fletcher School, ASEAN Auditorium, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://secure.touchnet.net/C21525_ustores/web/classic/store_main.jsp?STOREID=60

The conference concentrates on the macro and micro elements of the shifting geopolitical balance of power, the changes to economic policies of regional and world powers, and how these dynamics are increasing sources of political risk in their own right.

More information at https://www.fletcherpoliticalrisk.com/2019-conference/

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Breaking Ground: Pop-Up Art at MIT's Central Utilities Plant
Friday, March 8 (More dates through March 9, 2019)
6:00pm to 8:30pm
MIT, Central Utilities Plant, Chiller Hall 59 Vassar Street (Building 42), Cambridge

Breaking Ground:  An Immersive Meditation on the Oilfields of North Dakota
Documentary artist Valery Lyman spent 4 years photographing and recording audio in the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota (2013-2016), documenting the rise of the oil industry there and the large worker migration that went along with it. Hers is the most comprehensive visual-aural archive of this particular time and place in American history.  

In Breaking Ground, this documentary material will be projected directly onto the machinery in multiple points throughout MITs Central Utilities Plant in Cambridge, creating a multi-channel photo-phonic installation at the operational plant that provides electricity, steam heat, and chilled water to more than 100 campus buildings.  

This immersive configuration invites Cambridge residents, MIT students and the general public alike to consider the human side of energy extraction and re-imagine the nature of an energy source and industrial monument that lives within their very own community.  While the Central Utilities Plant sometimes offers private tours, this will be the first time this exquisite site is open to the general public and the first time that the plant has hosted an art exhibit.

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Celebrity: A History of Fame (Critical Cultural Communication) 
Friday, March 8
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century.

Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation of fame. Celebrity explores this revolution and its often under-estimated impact on American culture. Using numerous precedent-setting examples spanning more than one hundred years of media history, Douglas and McDonnell trace the dynamic relationship between celebrity and the technologies of mass communication that shapes the nature of fame in the United States.

Revealing how televised music fanned a worldwide phenomenon called "Beatlemania" and how Kim Kardashian broke the internet, Douglas and McDonnell also show how the media has shaped both the lives of the famous and the nature of the spotlight itself. Celebrity examines the production, circulation, and effects of celebrity culture to consider the impact of stars from Shirley Temple to Muhammad Ali to the homegrown star made possible by your Instagram feed. It maps ever-evolving media technologies as they adeptly interweave the lives of the rich and famous into ours: from newspapers and photography in the nineteenth century, to the twentieth century's radio, cinema, and television, up to the revolutionary impact of the internet and social media. Today, mass media relies upon an ever-changing cast of celebrities to grab our attention and money, and new stars are conquering new platforms to build their adoring audiences and enhance their images. In the era of YouTube, Snapchat, and reality television, fame may be fleeting, but its impact on society is profound and lasting.

Andrea McDonnell is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Emmanuel College. She is the author of Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines (2014) and has published numerous articles examining the relationship between media and popular culture.

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Film: Mountains That Take Wing
Friday, March 8
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
First Church JP, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain

As part of our second year of the Dismantling White Supremacy Film series is this historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women, Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama who share a profound passion for justice. This incredible discussion between these two prolific activist tell the untold story of the deep connection and support between both the black and asian movements to eradicate oppression.

“Thirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice. Through conversations that are intimate and profound, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar, writer and activist, and 88-year-old Kochiyama, a revered grassroots community activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Their shared experience as political prisoners and their dedication to Civil Rights embody personal and political experiences as well as the diverse lives of women doing liberatory cultural work. Illustrated with rarely-seen photographs and footage of extraordinary speeches and events from the early 1900s to the ’60s and through the present, the topics of this rich conversation range from critical, but often forgotten role of women in 20th century social movements to the importance of cross-cultural/cross-racial alliances; from America’s WWII internment camps to Japan’s “Comfort Women”; from Malcolm X to the prison industrial complex; and from war to cultural arts. Davis and Kochiyama’s comments offer critical lessons for understanding our nation’s most important social movements while providing tremendous hope for its youth and the future.”

For more information: Jom45 at aol.com
Free & Open to All.

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Saturday, March 9
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2019 MIT Robo-AI Exchange
Saturday, March 9
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-mit-robo-ai-exchange-tickets-54354985224
Cost:  $40 – $199

The 2019 MIT Robo-AI Exchange is the first student-run conference to promote the exchange of ideas and experiences around successful business implementation of Robotics and AI technologies. The conference will bring together business leaders from across a number of industries to share specific cases, strategies, and outcomes related to their adoption of Robotics and AI. In doing so, the event attracts business executives, corporate strategists, product and project managers, university students, entrepreneurs, technologists and academics to learn from our world-class keynote speakers and panelists, and of course, one another.
Full details on the conference can be found at www.robo-ai.org

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Breaking Ground: Pop-Up Art at MIT's Central Utilities Plant
Saturday, March 9
6:00pm to 8:30pm
MIT, Central Utilities Plant, Chiller Hall 59 Vassar Street (Building 42), Cambridge

Breaking Ground:  An Immersive Meditation on the Oilfields of North Dakota
Documentary artist Valery Lyman spent 4 years photographing and recording audio in the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota (2013-2016), documenting the rise of the oil industry there and the large worker migration that went along with it. Hers is the most comprehensive visual-aural archive of this particular time and place in American history.  

In Breaking Ground, this documentary material will be projected directly onto the machinery in multiple points throughout MITs Central Utilities Plant in Cambridge, creating a multi-channel photo-phonic installation at the operational plant that provides electricity, steam heat, and chilled water to more than 100 campus buildings.  

This immersive configuration invites Cambridge residents, MIT students and the general public alike to consider the human side of energy extraction and re-imagine the nature of an energy source and industrial monument that lives within their very own community.  While the Central Utilities Plant sometimes offers private tours, this will be the first time this exquisite site is open to the general public and the first time that the plant has hosted an art exhibit.

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Sunday, March 10
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TEDxTufts
Sunday, March 10
12 – 3PM
Tufts, Cohen Auditorium, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.tedxtufts.com
Cost:  $10

TEDxTufts is proud to present our 5th annual event, powered by the spread of ideas within and throughout the larger Tufts community. This year’s theme is Mosaic in Motion.

For more information, go to www.tedxtufts.com or see the TEDxTufts Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/tedxtufts

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Interfaith Summit on Vulnerability and Climate Change
Sunday, March 10
1:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-extreme-weather-vulnerability-an-interfaith-summit-tickets-54365423445

In the wake of the latest National Climate Assessment and UN report on the projected serious consequences of unchecked climate change, interfaith leaders from the greater Boston area are working with Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) to host an Interfaith Summit on Vulnerability and Climate Change on the afternoon of March 10th, 2019.
The summit will focus on the role of faith communities in helping their community members prepare for future climate impacts such as floods, extreme heat, and severe storms. We will share knowledge on the types of changes we are already seeing and can expect to see in the Northeast, discuss practical ways congregations can prepare themselves and their surrounding community, and discern together how our spiritual practices can help sustain not only our efforts, but also our souls, hearts, and minds, as we engage in this most critical mission.
Tentative Agenda (subject to change)
1:30-2:00 Registration
2:00-2:10 Welcome, Opening Prayer
2:15-2:30 Presentation on Current and Projected Climate Impacts
2:30-3:10 Panel Discussion on Existing Societal Vulnerabilities & Intersection with Climate Change
3:15-3:45 Breakout Groups on Spiritual Sustenance in Times of Climate Chaos
3:50-4:05 Presentations on Actions for Congregations:
4:10-4:55 Panel Discussion on Best Practices of Congregational Responses to Climate Disasters
5:00-5:30 Break-out session by geographic area
5:35-5:45 Closing Prayer
5:45-6:00 Mingling, snacks

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Monday, March 11
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Legal Controversies about State Clean Energy Policies in Courts and at FERC
Monday, March 11
12:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge 

Ari Peskoe, Director of the Electricity Law Initiative, Harvard Law School

HKS Energy Policy Seminar
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/energyconsortium/seminars

Lunch will be served. This event is free and open to the public. 

Contact Name:  Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at hks.harvard.edu

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Book Launch: Global Health Justice and Governance
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 11, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C (2036), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Health Sciences, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Part of the Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP), a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) at Harvard University.
SPEAKER(S)  Jennifer Prah Ruger, Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy, School of Social Policy & Practice; Associate Dean for Global Studies; Faculty Chair, Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP); and founder and director, Health Equity and Policy Lab (HEPL), University of Pennsylvania
Michael Stein, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Co-founder and Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Alicia Ely Yamin, Senior Fellow, Global Health and Rights Project, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School; Senior Scholar in Residence, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI), Harvard University; Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and Affiliate, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Moderator: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg0phc9eeaa5b936&oseq=&c=&ch=
DETAILS  In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure central health capabilities for all. Dr. Jennifer Prah Ruger's recent book, "Global Health Justice and Governance" (Oxford University Press, 2018), lays out the critical problems facing the world today and offers a new theory of justice and governance as a way to resolve these seemingly intractable issues.
A fundamental responsibility of society is to ensure human flourishing. The central role that health plays in flourishing places a unique claim on our public institutions and resources, to ensure central health capabilities to reduce premature death and avoid preventable morbidities. Faced with staggering inequalities, imperiling epidemics, and inadequate systems, the world desperately needs a new global health architecture.
Join us for a discussion of these issues with the author!
LINK  https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/book-launch-global-health-justice-and-governance

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Understanding principle mechanisms of tropical forest degradation with application to their restoration
Monday, March 11
12:10p
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre Street, Roslindale

Mark Ashton, Professor and Director of School Forests, Yale University

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Humanitarian Planners in the "Century of the Unsettled Man"
Monday, March 11
12:15PM
Harvard, CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Marianne F. Potvin, Harvard, GSD

STS Circle at Harvard 
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Please RSVP via the online form by Wednesday at 5PM the week before. 

sts at hks.harvard.edu

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Highlights from Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism 
Monday, March 11
12:30 – 1:45 pm
Tufts, Mugar 200, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the world’s leading carsharing network; as well as co-founder of Veniam, a network company that moves terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud. She has recently co-founded her first nonprofit, NUMO, a global alliance to channel the opportunities presented by new urban mobility technologies to build cities that are sustainable and just.

She sits on the Boards of the World Resources Institute and Tucows, and serves on the Dutch multinational DSM’s Sustainability Advisory Board. Robin lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment, including the prestigious Urban Land Institute’s Nicols Prize as Urban Visionary, Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.

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Andras Petho: The Risks to Freedom in Hungary: Corruption, Propaganda, and Russian Influence
Monday, March 11
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Tufts, Murrow Room, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andras-petho-the-risks-to-freedom-in-hungary-corruption-propaganda-and-russian-influence-registration-57058834510

Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program and the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at The Fletcher School for a lunch conversation with Hungarian journalist Andras Petho on the risks to freedom in Hungary. Although Hungary appeared to transform into a stable democracy after the fall of communism, it seems to have backtracked on democracy and the rule of law under the leadership of Viktor Orban since 2010. Freedom of the press and other democratic institutions now appear to be under attack. What role have geopolitics, Russian-style propaganda, and corruption played in all of this? Lunch will be provided. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite.

Andras Petho is a co-founder and editor of Direkt36, an investigative reporting center based in Hungary. Previously, he was a senior editor at news site Origo, which he left in protest against political pressure in 2014. During his 17 years as a journalist, he also worked for the BBC World Service and spent 8 months at the investigative unit of The Washington Post, where he contributed to several major reporting projects. In 2008, he spent three months in the United States as a World Press Institute fellow, visiting newsrooms and covering the historic presidential election campaign. In 2012 and 2013 he was a Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland where he took courses in data journalism and investigative reporting. 

He has received the Soma Prize, the annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary, twice. He has been reporting extensively about political corruption and in recent years he has focused on how people with close ties to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban are benefiting from public funds. He has been a member of a number of international investigative collaborations, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers project that exposed the hidden world of offshore businesses. He has taught journalism courses at Hungarian colleges and given talks at various conferences.

Direkt36 is an independent non-profit investigative reporting center based in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 2014 with the mission to hold the powerful accountable. Direkt36 covers some of the most pressing issues Hungarian society faces, including widespread political corruption, the misuse of power and the growing influence of Russia over Hungary’s politics and economy. The center has also been an active contributor to international reporting projects, such as the Panama Papers. Direkt36’s exposés have triggered numerous official inquiries by Hungarian and EU authorities.

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AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
Monday, March 11
2:30pm to 3:45pm
MIT, Building 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Oriol Vinyals, PhD; Google DeepMind
Abstract: Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. As capabilities have increased, the research community has sought games with increasing complexity that capture different elements of intelligence required to solve scientific and real-world problems. In recent years, StarCraft, considered to be one of the most challenging Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games and one of the longest-played esports of all time, has emerged by consensus as a “grand challenge” for AI research.

In this talk, Oriol will introduce our StarCraft II program AlphaStar, the first Artificial Intelligence to defeat a top professional player. In a series of test matches held on 19 December, AlphaStar decisively beat Team Liquid’s Grzegorz "MaNa" Komincz, one of the world’s strongest professional StarCraft players, 5-1, following a successful benchmark match against his team-mate Dario “TLO” Wünsch. The matches took place under professional match conditions on a competitive ladder map and without any game restrictions.

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The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy with Peter Katzenstein
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 11, 2019, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University.
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO	Sarah Banse
sarahbanse at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS  “Trumpism in American Foreign Policy”
The public tends to associate certain traditions in US foreign policy with Donald Trump himself: ethnonationalism, populism, and an ‘America First’ rhetoric. But how do we differentiate the man from the political repertoire that Trump articulates — and to some extent stands for? Put simply, Trumpism is not the same as Trump.
This event will also be streamed live on the WCFIA Facebook page: www.facebook.com…
LINK  https://wcfia.harvard.edu/events/manshel19-katzenstein

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Digital Hormones: Emotional Humanoids and Spiritual Humans
WHEN  Monday, Mar. 11, 2019, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S250, Porté Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art, University of Michigan
Chair: Victor Seow, Assistant professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
DETAILS  Many Japanese roboticists building humanoids today have sought to imbue their robots with “heart” (kokoro), which they translate into English as both “consciousness” and “emotion.” Recently, the popular media have been full of references to “emotional” (kokoro-bearing) and even “spiritual” robots, with specific reference to Pepper, SoftBank’s humanoid that debuted in 2015. This talk will discuss (and demystify) efforts to develop Pepper’s “emotional recognition engine” based on biology-inspired “digital hormones.” In this connection, we revisit the declaration by pioneering roboticist Mori Masahiro that robots have the “Buddha-nature” within them and consider how robotic technologies are deployed by humans to give shape and expression to their spiritual ideas and needs.
LINK  https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/digital-hormones-emotional-humanoids-and-spiritual-humans-400

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On Climate Change, We’re Toast. And if we don’t get serious now, probably burnt toast
Monday, March 11
Reception at 5:00 followed by talk at 5:30pm
Tufts, Cabot 702, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford

M. Granger Morgan is the Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds appointments in three academic units: the Department of Engineering and Public Policy; the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and the H. John Heinz III College. His research addresses problems in science, technology and public policy with a particular focus on energy, electric power, environmental systems, climate change, the adoption of new technologies, and risk analysis. Much of his work has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and treat uncertainty in quantitative policy analysis. At Carnegie Mellon, Morgan co-directs (with Inês Azevedo) the NSF Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making and (with Jay Apt) the university’s Electricity Industry Center.

Morgan is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the National Academies, he serves as the NAS co-chair of the Report Review Committee and has chaired a variety of consensus studies. Morgan is a member of the board for the International Risk Governance Council Foundation and of the Advisory Board for the E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen. He is a member of the DOE’s Electricity Advisory Committee and of the Energy Advisory Committee of PNNL. In the past, he served as Chair of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Electric Power Research Institute. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, the IEEE, and the Society for Risk Analysis. He holds a BA from Harvard College (1963) where he concentrated in Physics, an MS in Astronomy and Space Science from Cornell (1965) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Physics and Information Sciences at the University of California at San Diego (1969).

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Art for Social Change: Talk by Nandita Das and Screening of Manto
Monday, March 11
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
MIT, Building 32-123, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-for-social-change-talk-by-nandita-das-and-screening-of-manto-registration-55987053785

Join MIT-India, the MIT School of Engineering and the Office of the Associate Provost for this exciting event:
5:00 Talk by Nandita Das: Art for Social Change
5:30: Screening of Manto, followed by a Q&A
Manto follows the life of maverick writer Saadat Hasan Manto and the two countries he inhabited - India and Pakistan. Set during the Independence of India that led to the Partition, Manto is compelled to make a difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay for the newly born Pakistan. 
Nandita Das is an actor, filmmaker and social advocate. Manto premiered at Cannes and is her second directorial feature, after Firaqq. She will share why she chose to tell the story of Manto and the difficulties of making an independent film in the mainstream film landscape. 
Open to the public.

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Harvard i3 Innovation Challenge PITCH NIGHT
Monday, March 11
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Harvard, Cabot Science Library, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvard-i3-innovation-challenge-pitch-night-tickets-55682828840

Harvard student-innovators will pitch their startups to a panel of notable judges, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. Food and drinks provided!

You are invited to the Challenge's Capstone "Pitch Night" Event where the semi-finalist student-innovators pitch to a notable panel of judges in Cabot Library! 18 startup teams will be gunning for their spot in the Finals. They will be judged by a stellar cast of innovative executives and successful entrepreneurs.

Abundant dinner, drinks, snacks and baked goods will be provided!

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Why We Cycle: Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  An Evening on the Health, Sustainability, and Equity Benefits from Cycling
Monday, March 11
6:30–9 pm
Harvard, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

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Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics:  How the Internet Is Transforming Kenya
Tuesday, March 12
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C (Room 2036, Second Floor), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeN0AXpp3JvLIRMtS9Haw9OVqpVeqWoBNylw8f73teCr_xwJw/viewform

Join us for a conversation with author Nanjala Nyabola and 2017 Berkman Klein Fellow Grace Mutung'u about Nanjala's book, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya.
Kenya is the most digitally advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other online platforms are part of everyday life. And, as in Western nations, the digital age has had dramatic effects on society and politics. Yet, while we hear about the #MeToo movement and the Russian bot scandal, there is little appreciation for the feminist movement #MyDressMyChoice and the subversion of state-run political propaganda by social media.

Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics aims to change this by presenting a unique contribution to the debate on digital democracy. For traditionally marginalized groups, particularly women and the disabled, digital spaces have provided vital platforms that allow Kenyans to build new communities that transcend old ethnic and gender divisions. Covering attempts by political elites to prevent social movements from translating online visibility into meaningful offline gains, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts to contain online activism and new methods of feminist mobilization, as well as how “fake news,” Cambridge Analytica, and allegations of hacking contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy for the first time from the African perspective, Nanjala Nyabola’s groundbreaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era.

This event will be live webcast at https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-03-12/digital-democracy-analogue-politics at noon on event date.

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Tuesday Seminar Series: Voting for Victors: Why Violent Actors Win Postwar Elections
WHEN  Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2019, 12 – 2 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)  Sarah Daly, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  This project seeks to understand political life after episodes of mass violence. After suffering wartime atrocities and winning peace, millions of people around the world elect to live under the rule of political actors with deep roots in the violent organizations of the past. This book analyzes why citizens vote for actors with violent pasts and what the implications of these elections are for efforts at successful peacebuilding and democratization.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/voting-victors-why-violent-actors-win-postwar-elections?delta=0

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Ethics and Design Thinking: A 21st Century Craftsman
Tuesday, March 12
2:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Building E14, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Conversations with Miklu Silvanto

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The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
WHEN  Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Science Center, Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Hosted by the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Co-sponsored by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health, and Planetary Health Alliance.
SPEAKER(S)  Paul Greenberg, New York Times bestselling author of "Four Fish," "American Catch," and "The Omega Principle"
Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Christopher Golden, Assistant professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health
Susan Korrick, Assistant professor of Medicine
Moderator: Elsie Sunderland, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO	Erin Harleman, HUCE Events Coordinator
eharleman at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  HUCE presents a special lecture with Paul Greenberg, James Beard award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller "Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food." Greenberg will discuss his new book, "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and Healthier Planet," an eye-opening look at how the multi-billion dollar omega-3 industry is affecting our ocean sustainability and, ultimately, our health. A panel discussion will follow featuring Harvard faculty speaking on the relationship between the food we eat and the oceans that sustain us.
LINK  http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2019-03-12-200000/omega-principle-seafood-and-quest-long-life-and-healthier-planet

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Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration
WHEN  Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Research study, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Alondra Nelson, President, Social Science Research Council; Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In this lecture, Nelson will discuss the Obama administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and, in particular, the evolution of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in the United States. Register online.
LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-alondra-nelson-lecture

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Biological Exchange in the Pacific World in the Age of Industrial Sugarcane Plantations
Tuesday, March 12
5:15PM
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston

The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts "Biological Exchange in the Pacific World in the Age of Industrial Sugarcane Plantations" with Lawrence Kessler, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Comment by Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut.

Attendance is free, but you can subscribe online ($25) for the convenience of advance online access to the papers in FOUR series: this, our new Boston African American History Seminar, the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, and the Boston Seminar on Modern American Society and Culture.

Boston Seminar on Environmental History
https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history
Contact Name:  Alex Buckley
abuckley at masshist.org

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Tide Tuesday: Sustainable Seafood
Tuesday, March 12
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
EVOO, 350 Third Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tide-tuesday-sustainable-seafood-tickets-56059458349
Cost:  $10

Join us for the New England Aquarium’s inaugural Tide Tuesday! This exciting event, which will take place at EVOO Restaurant in Cambridge, MA, is a distinctive opportunity to learn more about the significance of sustainable seafood. EVOO chef and owner Peter McCarthy will provide delectable seafood bites while sustainable seafood experts from the New England Aquarium discuss the best choices surrounding seafood and answer any questions from those in attendance. A cash bar will be available; members of the Tide will receive one drink ticket. Tickets for the event are $10. 

All proceeds support the Aquarium's Sustainable Seafood program - learn more about our program and current projects here.

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Jeff Flake
Tuesday, March 12
6 PM
Tufts, ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Avenue Medford
RSVP at https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/content/jeff-flake

Join Tisch College for a conversation about the Senate, presidential politics, and the Republican Party with former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ). A former member of the House of Representatives, Flake was elected in 2012 to the Senate, where he served on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees. One of the Republican Party’s staunchest critics of President Trump, Flake announced he would not seek reelection during a 2017 Senate speech that famously denounced the President, party leaders, and the current “disrepair and destructiveness of our politics.” Prior to this political career, Flake served as a missionary in South Africa before graduating from Brigham Young University and as Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Namibia. Follow the conversation live at #JeffFlakeAtTufts

This event is sponsored by the Political Science Department and the Tufts Republicans.

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Wednesday, March 13
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Buildings and Energy Roundtable
Monday, March 11
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM EDT
Edison, Floor 16, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/buildings-and-energy-roundtable-tickets-57022969236
Cost:  $50

USGBC MA’s mission is to drive sustainable and regenerative design, construction, and operation of the built environment. The only way to accomplish our mission is to collaborate with community members. To that end, join us for our Buildings and Energy Roundtable.

The Buildings and Energy Roundtable will enable like-minded professionals to gather and explore specific issues, define actions, develop strategies and explore solutions related to energy in the green building industry. Join us in moving the needle towards a net positive environment, society, and economy.

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Accelerating Cancer Research by Partnering with Patients
WHEN  Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2019, 12 – 12:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Medical School Webinar, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Health Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Medical School Executive Education
SPEAKER(S)  Corrie Painter, Ph.D. Associate Director of Operations and Scientific Outreach for the Broad Cancer Program
Associate Director of Count Me In
TICKET WEB LINK  https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/accelerating-cancer-research-partnering-patients?utm_source=Harvard_Gazette&utm_medium=event_calendar&utm_campaign=March_Webinar
DETAILS  While survival rates from many cancers have been increasing over the past decade, we still lack effective therapies and cures for most cancers. Dr. Corrie Painter is leading the way in leveraging the power of the internet and our electronic interconnectedness to accelerate the pace of cancer treatment discoveries. The non-profit organization for which the is the Associate Director, Count Me In, partners directly with cancer patients to de-identify and publicly share data from their clinical and biological samples online. As a result, researchers from across the biomedical community can access this large, clinically-annotated genomics database with information from across a variety of different cancers to help accelerate treatment discoveries.
This webinar will explore how this is being done through the use of technology as well as the engagement of patients and other important players in the biomedical community, including physicians, scientists, researchers and anyone who is able to contribute to using this data to make discoveries in cancer treatment and cures.
LINK  https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/accelerating-cancer-research-partnering-patients?utm_source=Harvard_Gazette&utm_medium=event_calendar&utm_campaign=March_Webinar

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Sack Lunch Seminar (SLS) Series: Rachel Lupien (Brown University)
Wednesday, March 13
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

About the Lecturer
I am a paleoclimatologist who uses organic biomarker isotopes to look at African Plio-Pleistocene climate and how climate change affects human evolution.

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Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know and Why
Wednesday, March 13
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
RSVP at https://alumniandfriends.tufts.edu/attend-events-reunions/cybersecurity-what-you-need-know-and-why

Cybersecurity is now an international crisis impacting every individual, business, and institution. It behooves us all to be more educated and proactive when it comes to our security in the digital realm. Learn more about this pressing issue including misconceptions and fallacies, perceived cybersecurity skills shortage, the sobering reality of most attacks and how to defend yourself and your business, and how Tufts is working to improve cybersecurity.

Presented by:  Ming Chow, Senior Lecturer, Director of Alumni and Industrial Relations, Computer Science Department

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Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority
Wednesday, March 13
12pm
Harvard, WCC Milstein West A/B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Claire Finkelstein and Adrian Vermuele

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Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Wednesday, March 13
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

SSP Wednesday Seminar
James Lebovic (The George Washington Universtiy)

SUMMARY
Despite its planning, the United States has failed to meet its early objectives in almost every one of its major, post-World War II conflicts. Of these troubled efforts, the US wars in Vietnam (1965-73), Iraq (2003-11), and Afghanistan (2001-present) stand out for their endurance, resource investment, human cost, and common decisional failings. US Policymakers focus on short-term policy goals, instruments, constraints, and guidelines -- proximate objectives, presumed tasks and tactics, "available" resources, and time schedules -- at the expense of overarching goals. A profound myopia, at four stages of intervention, helps explain why the United States fought; chose to increase, decrease, or end its involvement in a conflict; encountered a progressively reduced set of options; and ultimately settled for suboptimal results.

BIO
James H. Lebovic is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He has published widely on defense policy, deterrence strategy, arms control, military budgets and procurement, foreign aid, democracy and human rights, international conflict, cooperation in international organizations, and military intervention. He is the author of six books including Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming), Flawed Logics: Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to Obama (Johns Hopkins University, 2013), The Limits of US Military Capability: Lessons from Vietnam and Iraq (Johns Hopkins University, 2010), and Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States: US National Security Policy after 9/11 (Routledge, 2007). Until February 2017, he served as chair of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

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Michael McFaul: From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
Wednesday, March 13
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Tufts, Cabot 703, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-mcfaul-from-cold-war-to-hot-peace-an-american-ambassador-in-putins-russia-tickets-55706791513

Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a lunch conversation with former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul about his new book From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018). Lunch will be provided. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite. Please only register if you know you can attend, as spaces are limited.

Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science, Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He was also the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University from June to August of 2015. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995. He is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to The Washington Post.

McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). His current research interests include American foreign policy, great power relations between China, Russia, and the United States, and the relationship between democracy and development. McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed his D. Phil. in International Relations at Oxford University in 1991.

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Where is Energy Storage Going?
Wednesday, March 13 
4:00pm
BC, Higgins Hall, Room 310, Chestnut Hill

George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Energy storage is central to many emerging technologies, including electric vehicles for transportation, renewable electricity integration, decarbonization and smart distributed energy resources on the electric grid, and electric flight. Achieving the full value of these game-changing opportunities requires a diversity of designer batteries for a diversity of applications, where each battery meets multiple targeted performance metrics required by its host application. JCESR will develop a new approach to these transformative materials, designing and building them “from the bottom up,” atom-by-atom and molecule-by-molecule, where each atom or molecule plays a prescribed role in producing the targeted overall materials behavior. A summary of JCESR’s first five years and an outlook for its renewal will be presented. 

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Stuart Cunningham and David Craig: “Social Media Entertainment”
Wednesday, March 13
5:00pm
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

In a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, and their Chinese counterparts, have formed the base for the emergence of a new creative industry: social media entertainment. Social media entertainment creators have harnessed these platforms to generate significantly different content, separate from the century-long model of intellectual property control in the entertainment industries. This new screen ecology is driven by intrinsically interactive viewer- and audience-centricity. Combined, these factors inform a qualitatively different globalization dynamic that has scaled with great velocity, posing new challenges for established screen industries, screen regulatory regimes, as well as media scholars. Social Media Entertainment: The New Industry at the Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley maps the platforms and affordances, content innovation and creative labor, monetization and management, new forms of media globalization, and critical cultural concerns raised by this nascent media industry. Media scholars Stuart Cunningham and David Craig propose challenging, revisionist accounts of the political economy of digital media, the precarious status of creative labor and of media management, and the possibilities of progressive cultural politics in commercializing environments, while offering a new take on media globalization debates.

About Stuart Cunningham and David Craig
Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology. He has authored over a dozen academic titles including Media Economics (Terry Flew, Adam Swift), Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World (Jon Silver), Hidden innovation: Policy, industry and the creative sector.

David Craig is a Clinical Associate Professor at USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism and a Fellow at the Peabody Media Center. Craig is also a veteran media producer and executive nominated for multiple Emmy Awards and responsible for over 30 critically-acclaimed films, TV programs, and stage productions.

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A conversation about Art, Music, and Social Justice with Deborah Borda, New York Philharmonic Orchestra and renowned Cellist, Yo-Yo Ma
WHEN  Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2019, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Business School, Klarman Hall, Kresge Way, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Business School
SPEAKER(S)  Deborah Borda, President of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma, Renowned cellist
Moderators: Rohit Deshpandé and Henry McGee, Harvard Business School professors
COST  Free and Open to the Public
TICKET WEB LINK  http://artmusicsocialjustice.eventbrite.com
CONTACT INFO	connects at hbs.edu
DETAILS  Deborah Borda, president of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and renowned cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, will engage in a wide-ranging conversation about art, music, and social justice.
This event is free and open to the Harvard community. Partners and friends of Harvard/Allston are welcome. Registration is required.
LINK	http://artmusicsocialjustice.eventbrite.com

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The Power and Limits of Deep Learning
WHEN  Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2019, 5:15 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Langdell Hall 272, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Health Sciences, Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative
SPEAKER(S)  Yann LeCun
COST  Free
DETAILS  Deep Learning (DL) has enabled significant progress in computer perception, natural language understanding, and control. Supervised learning paradigms in particular have provided many extremely successful applications, including medical image analysis, autonomous driving, virtual assistants, and language translation. DL systems underlie search engines and social networks, and increasingly much physical and social science research. But while supervised DL excels at perceptual tasks, further significant progress requires (1) getting DL systems to learn tasks without large amounts of human-labeled data; and (2) getting them to learn to reason and to act. These challenges motivate some of the most interesting AI research today.
LINK  https://mbb.harvard.edu/event/mbb-distinguished-lecture

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CRISPR: What is it and where is it going?
Wednesday, March 13
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
BosLab, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/BosLab/events/258299339/

Genome editing techniques such as CRISPR make it possible to change the DNA of organisms, including humans. With the recent claims of the birth of the first genome-edited babies, scientific and ethical questions abound. How might new advances in our ability to change genomes impact individuals and society? Join us for an interactive discussion on this important topic.

Presented by Robin Bowman, M.Ed., Professional Development Associate, and Johnny Kung, Ph.D., Director of New Initiatives for the Personal Genetics Education Project at Harvard Medical School.

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This View of Life:  Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Wednesday, March 13
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes eminent evolutionary biologist DAVID SLOAN WILSON—author of Evolution for Everyone—for a discussion of his latest book, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution.
About This View of Life

Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was so broad that he wrote, "There is grandeur in this view of life" in the concluding paragraph of On the Origin of Species. By the 1970s, the Darwinian revolution was sufficiently complete that the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won't be truly complete until it makes sense of everything associated with the words "human," "culture," and "policy."

In a series of engaging stories—from the breeding of hens, to the timing of cataract surgeries, to the organization of an automobile plant—Wilson shows how an evolutionary worldview provides a practical toolkit for understanding not only genetic evolution, but also the fast-paced changes impacting our world and ourselves. What emerges is an incredibly empowering argument: if we can become wise managers of evolutionary processes, we can solve the problems of our age at all scales—from the efficacy of our groups, to our wellbeing as individuals, to our stewardship of the planet earth.

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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Wednesday, March 13
7pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline 

Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff - but it’s all true.

Spies of No Country is about the slippery identities of four young spies, but it’s also about Israel’s own complicated and fascinating identity. Israel sees itself and presents itself as a Western nation, when in fact more than half the country has Middle Eastern roots and traditions, like the spies of this story. And, according to Friedman, that goes a long way toward explaining the life and politics of the country, and why it often baffles the West.

Matti Friedman’s 2016 book Pumpkinflowers was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. It was selected as one of the year’s best by Booklist, Mother Jones, Foreign Affairs, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail. His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize, the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal, and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for history. 

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BuildingEnergy Boston 2019
Thursday, March 14 & Friday, March 15
Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston
http://nesea.org/conference/buildingenergy-boston

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Carbon Drawdown Now: Turning Buildings into Carbon Sinks
Thursday, March 14
8:30am to 10am.
Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston
RSVP at https://nesea.org/civicrm/event/register?id=241
		
Chris Magwood, Executive Director, The Endeavour Centre
Jacob Racusin, Managing Partner, New Frameworks
Ace McArleton, Founder, New Frameworks

With our BuildingEnergy Boston 2019 theme of “Know-How” in mind, we are pleased to announce this year's keynote session, Carbon Drawdown Now: Turning Buildings into Carbon Sinks.

Presented by Chris Magwood of the Endeavour Centre, and Jacob Racusin and Ace McArleton of New Frameworks, the keynote will take place on Thursday, March 14 from 8:30am to 10am.

“Carbon Drawdown Now” will help you know how buildings have the potential to become the world’s fifth largest carbon sink, rather than a leading emitter, and more clearly know why your work is essential for climate justice and social equity. Read more here.

You will leave this keynote feeling reinvigorated in your work, eager to connect our community of practitioners with the wider network of change-makers, and fired up to transform our built environment and our world.

Jacob, Ace, and Chris's work on this topic was the cover article of the Fall 2018 issue of BuildingEnergy magazine.

Read their article, Beyond Energy Efficiency: Why Embodied Carbon In Materials Matters, to learn more at http://www.buildingenergymagazine-digital.com/eneb/0218_fall_2018/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1422002#articleId1422002

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Heather Clish, Director of Conservation & Recreation Policy, Appalachian Mountain Club
Thursday, March 14
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford

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Industrial Augmented Reality: What's Next?
Thursday, March 14
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
PTC, 121 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/industrial-augmented-reality-whats-next-tickets-56899723605

Join us on March 14th as industry and technology experts examine the importance of industrial AR today and showcase the next phase of AR at the forefront of digital transformation.
This will be the first in a series of industry-focused events held at PTC’s new state-of-the-art headquarters, where technology is interlaced with the physical space and the digital infrastructure of 121 Seaport.
Agenda is as follows:
5:00-6:00pm | Check In
5:00-5:30pm | Networking
5:30-5:50pm | Opening Remarks from Jim Heppelmann
5:55-7:50pm | Lightening Talks on Industrial AR
8:00-9:00pm | Networking Reception
Real-time product demos, food, and drinks will be available throughout the evening.
For additional questions, please reach out to cfendrock at ptc.com

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Art and Science Converge in the Deep Sea
Thursday, March 14
6:00pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Lily Simonson, Painter
Peter R. Girguis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Lily Simonson and Peter Girguis exemplify the long tradition of artists and scientists working in tandem to explore new worlds—in their case, the magnificent deep sea. Simonson will discuss how the immersive, glowing canvases in her current exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Lily Simonson: Painting the Deep, have been shaped by collaborations with scientists—whether exploring the depths of the ocean in a submersible or scuba diving beneath Antarctic sea ice. Girguis will reveal how working at sea with an artist has shaped his research and enabled him to see familiar organisms and environments in new ways.

About the speakers:
Lily Simonson works in tandem with researchers at remote field sites to create paintings of extraordinary organisms and extreme environments—from the deep sea to Antarctica. Enveloping viewers in dramatic, atmospheric scenes, her work evokes the immersive experience of exploration. Simonson has embedded as an artist-at-sea on six oceanographic expeditions aboard the E/V Nautilus and R/Vs Melville and Atlantis. Simonson's paintings have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe and her work has appeared in a range of media outlets, includingInterview Magazine, MTV, Atlas Obscura, Pacific Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and LA Weekly. Simonson holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught painting and drawing at Cal Poly Pomona and the University of California, Berkeley.

Her current solo exhibition Lily Simonson: Painting the Deep is on view at the Harvard Museum of Natural History through June 30, 2019.

Peter Girguis works at the crossroads of microbial ecology, physiology, and biogeochemistry. He uses molecular biology, as well as physiological and geochemical techniques to examine the relationship between microbial diversity/physiology and biogeochemical cycles. Due to the limitations of existing in situ measurement and incubation technologies, he and his lab have developed novel instruments and samplers that enable them to better study microbial-geochemical relationships. This includes high-pressure systems to mimic natural environments, geochemical sensors, microbial fuel cells as experimental apparatus and power sources, and preservation technologies. He holds a B.Sc from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Livestreaming Information:
This event will be livestreamed on the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/harvardmuseumsofscienceandculture

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Screening of “Paris to Pittsburgh” followed by expert panel discussion
Thursday, March 14
6–8 pm
Harvard, Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-of-paris-to-pittsburgh-followed-by-expert-panel-discussion-tickets-56133426590

Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. But faced with a federal government that is hostile to climate science, leaders across the U.S. are taking action themselves to safeguard our health and our environment.
Join Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator and Director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in a screening and panel discussion of "Paris to Pittsburgh," a new documentary from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Radical Media. Panelists were featured in the documentary and conversations will explore the role of media in increasing public awareness and how local, private sector and community leaders can continue to work towards the Paris Agreement despite federal inaction on climate change.

Panel Discussion: Taking Action on Climate without the Federal Government
Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres
Ken Kimmell, President of Union of Concerned Scientists
Chris Wheat, Strategic Director at NRDC American Cities Climate Challenge
Bruce Gellerman, Senior Environmental Correspondent at WBUR
Gina McCarthy, Director of Harvard C-CHANGE & Former EPA Administrator (Moderator)

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The Woman's Hour:  The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Thursday, March 14
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome award-winning journalist and writer ELAINE WEISS for a discussion of her latest book, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.

About The Woman's Hour
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"—women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. 

Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.

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Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure
Thursday, March 14
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it. Some are true believers that men and women are essentially different and should be so. Others are innovators, defying stereotypes and rejecting sexist ideologies and organizational practices. Perhaps new to this generation are gender rebels who reject sex categories, often refusing to present their bodies within them and sometimes claiming gender queer identities. And finally, many youths today are simply confused by all the changes swirling around them.

As a new generation contends with unsettled gender norms and expectations, Risman reminds us that gender is much more than an identity; it also shapes expectations in everyday life, and structures the organization of workplaces, politics, and, ideology. To pursue change only in individual lives, Risman argues, risks the opportunity to eradicate both gender inequality and gender as a primary category that organizes social life.

Barbara J. Risman is Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition, editor of Families as They Really Are, and a forthcoming Handbook on Gender (co-edited with Carissa Froyum and William Scarborough).

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EBC Climate Change Program: A Massachusetts Response to Municipal Adaptation & Resiliency
The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program
Friday, March 15
Registration: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Nixon Peabody LLP, Exchange Place, 53 State Street, Boston
RSVP at http://ebcne.org/event/ebc-climate-change-program-a-massachusetts-response-to-municipal-adaptation-resiliency-the-municipal-vulnerability-preparedness-program/
Cost:  $50 - $185

The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness grant program (MVP) provides support for cities and towns in Massachusetts to plan and prioritize local climate change resiliency projects. For this EBC Climate Change program, the Commonwealth’s Director of Climate Adaptation & Resiliency will provide an overview of the structure and goals of the Commonwealth’s Climate Change Program and summarize the MVP program as well as other statewide efforts and future opportunities; regional planning professionals will provide an overview of how the MVP program is moving forward; and representatives from selected participating municipalities will report on successes, findings, and lessons from the MVP process. 

This program will provide businesses and communities with an opportunity to network and learn about local efforts to remain resilient during climate change realities and reflect on how to practically apply these lessons on their own turf.  A panel discussion including audience participation will follow the individual presentations.

General Continuing Education Certificates are awarded by the EBC for this program (3.5 training contact hours). Please select this option during registration if you wish to receive a certificate.

Program Co-Chairs:
David Billo, Office Manager, Sovereign Consulting
Joseph Famely, Project Manager / Environmental Scientist, Woods Hole Group
Tiffany Skogstrom, MPH, Outreach & Policy Analyst, Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance (OTA)

Speakers:
Anne Herbst, Senior Regional Environmental Planner, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)
Mia Mansfield, Director of Climate Adaptation & Resiliency, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Michelle Paul, LSP, Director of Resilience and Environmental Stewardship, City of New Bedford

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Challenges and opportunities in modeling cross-scale, cross-sector feedbacks to inform critical decision-making in food-energy-water systems
Friday, March 15
12:00 PM
Tufts, Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, Anderson 112, 200 College Avenue, Medford

Speaker: Jordan Kern, North Carolina State University

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Making China Modern
Friday, March 15
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-klaus-muhlhahn-co-sponsored-by-harvard-fairbank-center-for-chinese-studies-tickets-55243677326

A panoramic survey of China’s rise and resilience through war and rebellion, disease and famine, that rewrites China’s history for a new generation. It is tempting to attribute China’s recent ascendance to changes in political leadership and economic policy. Making China Modern teaches otherwise. Moving beyond the standard framework of Cold War competition and national resurgence, Klaus Mühlhahn situates twenty-first-century China in the nation’s long history of creative adaptation.

Klaus Mühlhahn is Professor of Chinese History and Culture and Vice President at the Free University of Berlin. His Criminal Justice in China: A History won the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History from the American Historical Association. Mühlhahn has published widely on modern Chinese history in English, German, and Chinese and is a frequent commentator on China for the German media.

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Saturday, March 16
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The Community Maple Sap Boil Down
Saturday, March 16
10 AM - 1PM
South Street Farm, 138 South Street, Somerville

Bring your family and friends to the main event! Watch the sap boil down into local maple syrup. We will have pancakes, cider, "sap tea" tasting, live music and all things sweet! Get involved with your community by celebrating a local, and sweet tradition!

Find out about all of our maple-themed events here: http://bit.ly/maple2019

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Monday, March 18
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Boston New Technology FinTech & Blockchain Startup Showcase #BNT99 (21+)
Monday, March 18
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/258983609/
Price: $15.00 /per person

See 7 innovative and exciting local FinTech & Blockchain technology demos, presented by startup founders
Network with attendees from the Boston-area startup/tech community
Enjoy dinner with beer, wine and more

Each company presents an overview and demonstration of their product within 5 minutes and discusses questions with the audience.

21+. Save 50% up to 48 hrs prior, when price increases to $30.

Please follow @BostonNewTech and support our startups by posting on social media using our #BNT99 hashtag. We'll retweet you!

To save on tickets and enjoy exclusive benefits, purchase a BNT VIP Membership. Learn more: http://bit.ly/BnTvip

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Tuesday, March 19
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7th Annual Massachusetts WATER FORUM 
Tuesday, March 19
11:30 am -1:45 pm
Massachusetts State House, Boston

Sponsored by Senator Anne Gobi 
Organized by Foundation for a Green Future

SPEAKERS & PROGRAM DETAILS to be announced Partners: MWRA, MIT Water Club, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Boston Water

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The Global Menace of Plastic Waste
Tuesday, March 19
11:45am to 1:15pm 
Northeastern, Curry Student Center, 440, 346 Huntington Avenue, Boston

NU Trash2Treasure's Sustainablility Week and the Office of Sustainability Presents a panel on plastics in our ecosystems led by Professor Kwamina Panford. Food will be provided by Taco Party!

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Film Screening: Left on Pearl
Tuesday, March 19
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Northeastern, Snell Library 90, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Left on Pearl documents a highly significant but little-known event in the history of the women's liberation movement, the 1971 takeover and occupation of a Harvard University–owned building by hundreds of Boston-area women. The ten-day occupation of 888 Memorial Drive in Cambridge by women demanding a Women’s Center, and low income housing for the community in which the building stood, embodied within it many of the hopes, triumphs, conflicts, and tensions of second wave feminism. One of the few such takeovers by women for women, this action was transformative for the participants and led directly to the establishment of the longest continuously operating women's center in the U.S.

Part of the Neighborhood Matters event series. Lunch will be served. Event is free and open to the public.
(Film runtime: 55 minutes)

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New Tools for Sensing Microplastic Pollution, an Emerging Food Security Issue
Tuesday, March 19
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston

Microplastics are small plastic fragments less than 5mm in width and they are polluting the world’s water systems at alarming levels. This talk will explore the impacts of microplastics on critical water resources, our marine and freshwater food supplies, and also highlight efforts here at Northeastern to develop sensors to more efficiently quantify microplastics in real time.

This lecture is part of the Spring 2019 Contemporary Issues in Security and Resilience Series.

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Planting Native Species: How You can Contribute to Enhancing the Edibility of Northeast Landscapes! 
Tuesday,  March 19
6:30 to 9pm
Boston Nature Center Food Forest, 500 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan
RSVP at https://bostonfoodforest.org/events/planting-native-species-how-you-can-contribute-to-enhancing-the-edibility-of-northeast-landscapes/

Forager Russ Cohen, the “Johnny Appleseed” of native edibles, will review two dozen species, tell us how to propagate them in our own yards or nearby landscapes, and share some home-cooked delicacies that feature foraged plants.  Space is limited, so pre-register! 

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Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: The Second Founding
Tuesday, March 19
7:00 pm to 8:15 pm
BU, CAS, 6Tsai Performance Center, 85 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://bostonu.imodules.com/s/1759/2-bu/2col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=6333&content_id=6874

Historian Eric Foner will present "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Forged a Constitutional Revolution."

Contact Name	Sarah Speltz
Phone	617-353-9511
Contact Email	alumnied at bu.edu

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MIT Energy Conference: Tough Tech & The 2040 Grid, scheduled for April 4th & 5th, are once again offering a generous discount for subscribers to our NE Roundtable listserv. Just enter the discount code NEERR when you purchase your ticket for 15% off the price of admission.

If you purchase your ticket before February 1st, this discount will stack on top of the Early Bird discount, for a total of 35% off! 

RSVP at https://mit.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=950&p=1&utm_source=MIT+Energy+Conference+Discount&utm_campaign=MIT+Energy+Conference+Discount&utm_medium=email

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Announcing Destination 2040: The next long-range transportation plan for the Boston region

How would you improve the Boston region’s transportation system? That’s the question at the heart of the MPO’s preparations for Destination 2040, which the MPO expects to adopt in the spring of 2019.

Every four years, the MPO identifies the system’s strengths and weaknesses; forecasts changes in population, employment, and land use; and creates a plan to address existing and future mobility needs. The resulting long-range transportation plan (LRTP) allocates funding for major projects in the Boston region and guides the MPO’s funding of capital investment programs and studies.

Use the new Destination 2040 website at http://ctps.org/lrtp-dev to explore the state of the system; learn how the MPO will identify needs, revisit its vision and goals, and prioritize its investments; and share your own interests, concerns, and ideas.

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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch.  No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.

For more information checkout.
https://somervilleyogurtmakingcoop.wordpress.com

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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ

Solar map of Cambridge, MA
http://www.mapdwell.com/en/cambridge

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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha at sbnboston.org

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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas.   Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities.  Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers.  Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs

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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development - http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info at bnid.org if you have any questions!

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Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting:  https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy:  https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston:  http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/

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Links to events at over 50 colleges and universities at Hubevents:  http://hubevents.blogspot.com

Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area:  http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events:  http://calendar.mit.edu
Harvard Events:  http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment:  http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard:  http://green.harvard.edu/events
Meetup:  http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite:  http://www.eventbrite.com/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events:  http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal:  http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings:   http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar:  https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar

If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.