[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - March 31, 2019
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Monday, April 1 – Tuesday, April 2
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4th MGIMO-Fletcher Conference on Russia-U.S. Relations
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Monday, April 1
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12pm Civic Life Lunch - Speaking Out for New York: My Journey to City Hall
12pm What’s Next for U.S. Air Quality Management?
12pm Life Cycle Assessment for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
12pm Digital Architecture
12pm Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions
12:30pm Creating an Electric Utility Pathway for Aggressive Carbon Reductions: A Conversation with Xcel Energy
12:30pm Africana Speaker Series: US Counterterrorism Strategies in Africa
2:30pm Next in Data Visualization
3pm The Shattered Lens: A Conversation with Jonathan Alpeyrie and Bonnie Timmermann
4pm BRIDGE Week 2019: STEM For Social Justice Panel Discussion
4:15pm The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave Community Behind
4:15pm Challenges and Pressures Journalist Face in Asia: A Window into the Global Media Landscape
4:15pm Desert Shield of the Republic? Realism and the Middle East
4:30pm Mayor Andrew Gillum and Charlamagne tha God: The Artists
5:30pm Why are there so few women in tech? How the digital gender gap tells a larger story
5:30pm UndocuBlack: Race& Justice in America
5:30pm 2019 Cambridge Innovation Party with Cleantech Open
6pm Design and social justice symposium
6pm critical mapping and tactical interventions
6pm Design Activism: Socially Purposed // Purposefully Social
6pm Memories from the Future of Immersion
6:30pm The Teen Brain: Under Construction
6:30pm Change in the Obama Era: A Conversation About Gender Based Violence and Equity
6:30pm Other Histories of the Digital
7pm Reading Minds & Mastering Gentle Touch: Robotic Futures
7pm Youth Arts for Social Change Summit
7:15pm Things That Go Bump In The Night: Emerging National Security Threats
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Tuesday, April 2
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10am Harvard Hears You: The 2019 Summit for Gender Equity
10:30am Climate One at Harvard: John Holdren and Gina McCarthy
11:30am Solving the Crisis with Opioid and Pain Innovations
12pm Designing San Francisco: Gender, Power, and Urban Renewal
12pm Machines Learning to Find Injustice
12pm Decoding the Mueller Investigation
12pm Tuesday Seminar Series: Climate Policy/Politics in Brazil: Recent Trajectories and Prospectives
12:30pm From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy
1pm Health and the Built Environment: Looking to the Future
1pm Sustainability, Resilience and Transformation for the Urban Century
2:30pm Other Histories of the Digital
3pm Anna Blom: The Future of Fashion
4pm A Particulate Solution: Data Science in the Fight to Stop Air Pollution and Climate Change (IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar)
4:30pm The Rise of the New American Majority: From Presence to Power
5:30pm Askwith Forums – We Are What We Love: What Autism Teaches Us About Identity
6pm Living with White Sharks
6pm Pizza and Politics with Ganesh Sitaraman AB ‘04
6pm Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption
6pm Sunrise Boston Full Hub Meeting
6pm For the Love of BUGS! Where have all the insects gone?
6pm HEET's Annual Fundraiser
6pm Fuckup Nights Boston Vol. IX
6:30pm Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 2 (Food, Diet And Climate)
7pm The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
7pm Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others
7pm Dinner and conversation with Nancy MacLean, author of "Democracy in Chains”
7pm "The Experimental City" film screening
7:30pm Gender, Power, and Culture: A Conversation with Laverne Cox, Nicolette Mason, Christian Siriano, and Jess Weiner
7:30pm Anatomy of a Genocide: Lessons of Studying Mass Murder from Below
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Wednesday, April 3
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9am Water: Visions of the Future
12pm Culture Clash: Failure is not an option vs. fail early and fail often
12pm Solar Geoengineering Research Seminar
12pm Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
12:30pm Landscape of Chinese Clean Energy Innovation: System Strengths and Weaknesses
12:30pm Solving Transportation, Housing, & Climate Impacts in MA
12:30pm The Two-State Solution: The Only Viable Option
12:30pm Storytelling and Activism: What’s Your Truth?
1:15pm Making the Change You Believe In: A Career in Public Interest Advocacy with Gene Kimmelman
1:30pm Why Mexico’s Illegal Drug Business Became So Violent? The Role of Market Overcrowding and State Regulation
3:30pm Election Integrity
3:30pm The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: How We Think About Migration
4pm Anna Clark: “The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
4pm Mapping by Starlight — The Search for Our Cosmic Ancestry
4pm The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad
4:30pm Defending a President Under Investigation: Developing a Media Strategy
4:30pm The Media: Guardians of Democracy?
5pm Sohail Daulatzai: "The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International”
5:30pm DOE Hydrogen at Scale Program - "Hydrogen's Role in the Global Energy Market”
6pm Presidential Investigations: What Lies Ahead?
6pm Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Place, Race, and Class in America
6pm FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience
6:30pm Editing Bioelectric Pattern Memories: Reprogramming the software of life for regenerative medicine – A Presentation by Michael Levin
6:30pm Innovation and Technology Across Scales & Disciplines
7pm More than Just the Buzz: Finding Real Solutions to Native Pollinator Declines
7pm The Way of the Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds
7pm Red-Green Revolution
7pm 23rd Annual June Fox Lecture: Preparing Teachers Who Are Agents of Change: The Role of Generativity in Creating Great Teachers
7pm The Biggest Little Farm: Free Advance Screening
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Thursday, April 4 - Friday, April 5
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2019 MIT Energy Conference: Tough Tech & The 2040 Grid
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Thursday, April 4
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8am Where Do We Go From Here? Insights on the Future of Transportation in MA
9:30am Cultivating Wildness Where You Are
11:45am Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Human Rights at the Frontlines - Negotiating the Protection of Civilians
12pm Slavery at Sea: Bidirectional links between marine degradation and modern slavery
12pm An African American and Latinx History of the United States
1pm Meeting to Discuss Key Climate Change Parameters in the Greater Boston Area
1pm MIT Clean Energy Prize Semi-Finals
2:30pm How Businesses Can Contribute to Cities’ Pledges to Reduce Emissions and Build Resilience
3:30pm The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: How Do We Talk About Migration
4pm 2018-2019 Killian Award Lecture: What is a Gene?
4pm Fake News: Why We Fall for It and What to Do About It
4:30pm The Dream of a United Europe: From the Marshall Plan to Brexit
5pm The Land and the Waters are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change
5:30pm The Intersection of Cleantech and Defense
6pm Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions
6pm American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
6pm Great Decisions | Refugees & Global Migration
6pm Public Good Forum at the Boston Public Library
7pm Out And Out: Now This Is Good News
7pm No PhD Needed: Saving the Planet with Citizen Science
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Friday, April 5 - Saturday, April 6
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12th annual Future of Food and Nutrition Conference!
SomerVision Conference
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Friday, April 5 - Sunday, April 7
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The Music And Health Hackathon
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Friday, April 5
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9am Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora (Day 1)
10am #BUCPUA Keynote Event: Climate Changed: Politics, Place, People and Planning featuring Tommy Vitolo, PhD
12pm Water availability controls on vegetated ecosystems
12:30pm TEDxKenmoreSquare
3pm 2019 Lewis Lecture: Bringing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing into the Digital Age
4pm Migration, Reconfigurations of Secularity, and Reconceptualizations of Security in 21st-Century Europe: Some Insights from the Case of Greece
4pm A Conversation with Andrew Gillum and Aisha Moodie-Mills
4pm Hating and Mating: How Fears over Mate Competition Shape Violent Hate Crime against Refugees
7pm Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
7pm Discussion & Signing Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream
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Saturday, April 6 – Sunday, April 7
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Code for Boston 2019 Hackathon
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Saturday, April 6
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7:30am New England Science Symposium
8am Reducing the Impact of Climate Change on Health: The Role of Health Care Professionals
9am #DoSomething: Disrupt the Cycle
9:30am Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora (Day 2)
10am Emancipatory Politics and Cooperatives featuring author Carl Ratner
10am Day of Learning with Indigenous Authors, Educators & Artists
2pm No PhD Needed: Saving the Planet with Citizen Science
2:15pm Tardigrade Stage #5: Open Mic for Climate
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Sunday, April 7
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3pm Elliott Sharp: IrRational Music
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Monday, April 8
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12:15pm Jen Easterly: Challenges across the Cybersecurity Landscape: Applying Lessons from the West Wing to Wall Street
12:30pm BKC Meet the Author Series: Urs Gasser in conversation with Jason Farman
12:30pm The Role of International Carbon Markets in the Paris Agreement
12:45pm The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution
4pm Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Solidarity for Gender and Racial Equality
5pm ISE 2019 Spring Symposium Series: Robots, drones, and the internet of things: super cool technologies the utility of the future is using right now
5pm Media War: Insurgency and justice claims through new technologies
5pm Ensuring Responsibility in the Age of AI and Big Data
5pm Citizen Laboratories
5:30pm Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century
5:30pm Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - Allston
6pm The American Presidency in the 21st Century: What Would Dick Neustadt Say?
6pm Emerald Necklace Conservancy 2019 Annual Meeting: Parks & Health
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Tuesday, April 9
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12pm Nanomaterials and Light for Sustainability and Societal Impact
12pm A Conversation with Professor Valentine Moghadam on Saudi Arabia
12pm Fintech Opportunity + Regulation: Fireside Chat
12pm Tuesday Seminar Series: Non-Policy Politics: Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies (book presentation)
12pm ChileMass Innovation Day: The Future of Clean Technologies and Advanced Manufacturing
3:30pm Surmounting the Materials Roadblocks to Carbon Nanoelectronics, Water Separation, and Beyond
4pm UEA Lecture - The Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Drive to the Zero-Carbon Economy
4:15pm Film Screening and Q&A: The Prosecutors
4:30pm Strengthening Democracy by Modernizing Congress
4:30pm 2019 Muddy River Symposium: Protecting Boston's Urban Ecosystems
5:15pm Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice in Boston
5:30pm The Commonwealth of Breath: Climate and Consciousness in a More-than-Human World
5:30pm The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at Its Roots
5:30pm The Pursuit: A Better World for All, Starting at the Margins
6pm Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
6pm Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Wild Animals
7pm Finding a Solution to Wasted Food: Parker Hughes, Brüzd Foods
7:30pm A Deep Dive into the Orange Line
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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
City Agriculture - March 27, 2019 - links list of developments in urban agriculture
https://cityag.blogspot.com/2019/03/city-agriculture-march-27-2019.html
Benjamin Franklin Has a Few Words for Aunt Becky and a Desperate Housewife
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/29/1846288/-Benjamin-Franklin-Has-a-Few-Words-for-Aunt-Becky-and-a-Desperate-Housewife
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Monday, April 1 – Tuesday, April 2
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4th MGIMO-Fletcher Conference on Russia-U.S. Relations
Monday, April 1, 8:30 AM – Tuesday, April 2, 8:00 PM EDT
Tufts, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59507617887
The Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University will hold their fourth joint conference on Grand Challenges in Russia-U.S. Relations on April 1-2, 2019 on the Tufts University campus. The conference will focus on empirical, theoretical, normative, and legal questions related to the principle of non-interference in domestic affairs; Russia’s understanding of alliances, partnerships, and coalitions; and Russia-U.S. relations in the evolving world order.
The event is being organized by the two universities in partnership with the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund and Carnegie Corporation of New York. The previous MGIMO-Fletcher conferences on U.S.-Russia relations held in November 2017, May 2018, and March 2019 provided an opportunity to clarify disagreements and potential areas of cooperation between the United States and Russia. The goals of the joint MGIMO-Fletcher conference series are to examine both the depth and scope of disagreements between the United States and Russia, assess the potential for bilateral cooperation in the areas of shared interests, educate future U.S. and Russian decision-makers, and foster mutual understanding between Russian and American scholars and practitioners.
We are thankful for the support of our sponsors, partners, and volunteers. When tweeting about the event, please use #FletcherMGIMO.
Learn more about the conference here:
https://sites.tufts.edu/fletcherrussia/april-2019-conference/
Access the agenda of the conference here:
https://sites.tufts.edu/fletcherrussia/april-2019-conference-agenda/
Read more about the MGIMO-Fletcher conference series here:
https://sites.tufts.edu/mgimo/
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Monday, April 1
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Civic Life Lunch - Speaking Out for New York: My Journey to City Hall
Monday, April 1
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Corey Johnson is Speaker of the New York City Council. Since his election to City Council in 2013, Johnson has fought to pass legislation that protects tenants, provides affordable housing, supports victims of domestic violence, ensures resources to combat HIV/ AIDS, and advocates for transgender New Yorkers. Lunch will be provided.
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Program on Atmostpheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium: What’s Next for U.S. Air Quality Management?
Monday, April 1
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Tracey Holloway (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The U.S. has regulated air pollution since 1970, with major improvements in the air we breathe. These benefits have been achieved while the population has grown, energy use has risen, and vehicle miles traveled have tripled. The success in air pollution control to date is a story of regulatory monitoring coupled with emission control technologies. Ground monitors identify where and when ambient pollution levels exceed health-based air quality standards. End-of-pipe controls reduce many emissions at the source. But, this air quality management system is already changing.
New data and modeling approaches are changing the air quality planning process. Satellite data offer the potential to supplement the existing air monitoring network, an idea explored and advanced by the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST). Dr. Holloway leads HAQAST, which has evaluated opportunities and challenges in applying satellite data to air quality. Air quality management is also confronting the challenge of energy system change. Carbon control necessitates large-scale changes to electricity production, transportation, and the built environment. These policy and technology options are just beginning to be integrated with air quality management and planning. Dr. Holloway will present research results, outreach experiences, and perspectives on trends in air quality research and policy.
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Life Cycle Assessment for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
Monday, April 1
12:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Joule Bergerson, Associate Professor in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Energy Technology Assessment
Lunch will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/energyconsortium/seminars
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at hks.harvard.edu
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Digital Architecture
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Monserrat Bonvehi Rosich
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/montserrat-bonvehi-rosich/
CONTACT INFO Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS The historical narrative of digital architecture that has developed in the past two decades has been narrow in scope. Accounts have often focused on North American and European architects using personal computers and modeling software in schools and offices. Other Histories of the Digital aims to expand the discussion. What stories and methods come to the fore as we look at computation as a phenomenon with global reach, and which implicates many media and diverse forms of labor?
Organized by Ph.D. students in the History and Theory of Architecture program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Matthew Allen, Phillip Denny, Christina Shiveres
LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/montserrat-bonvehi-rosich/
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Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East, Room 2036, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer D. Oliva, Associate professor of law and public health, West Virginia University and visiting scholar, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
Stephen Wood, Fellow in bioethics, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
J. J. Bartlett, President of Fishing Partnership Support Services
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg5bmaaea3d74801&oseq=&c=&ch=
DETAILS The Massachusetts Department of Public Health estimates that in 2018 alone, approximately 2,000 people died in the Commonwealth from opioid-related overdoses. The overwhelming majority of those who died of overdoses that year tested positive for substances banned under the Controlled Substances Act, such as fentanyl (89 percent), cocaine (48 percent), and heroin (34 percent). This panel will discuss community-driven, evidence-based public health strategies aimed at reducing overdose deaths in hard-to-reach populations in Massachusetts, including fishing families, veterans, and individuals who are incarcerated. The panel will also examine federal, state, and local obstacles that undermine the implementation and success of community-driven approaches to the crisis.
LINK https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/public-health-approaches-to-the-opioid-crises
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Creating an Electric Utility Pathway for Aggressive Carbon Reductions: A Conversation with Xcel Energy
Monday, April 1, 2018
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sT6S-XN4QSK-2hq4mNHVBQ
Please join us for the next Blueprint for Clean Energy webinar.
Join our next Blueprint for Clean Energy Webinar, Monday, April 1st, on “Creating an Electric Utility Pathway for aggressive Carbon Reductions: A Conversation with Xcel Energy,” where Lauren Wilson, Environmental Policy Manager at Xcel Energy, will discuss Xcel’s recently announced carbon reduction goals to achieve 80% reductions by 2030 and 100% carbon –free electricity by 2050.
About our speaker:
Lauren is an energy industry professional, working as the Environmental Policy Manager in the Policy and Federal Affairs department at Xcel Energy. In her role, she uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand key State and Federal energy policies, develop corporate positions, and represent the company in key stakeholder groups. Her work covers the gamut of environmental issues including climate policy, air quality, natural gas, water and sustainability more broadly. Among other projects, she works on sustainability strategy, climate leadership strategies, and disclosure to help the company continuously improve and tell its clean energy story.
Lauren has a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor’s in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. She also has four years of experience working for a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. She speaks Spanish and has spent time abroad in Africa and Latin America. In 2009, she lived in Equatorial Guinea, where she was helping the government set up a Social Needs Fund to provide more services to their citizens.
In 2005, Lauren biked across the United States with a non-profit called Bike and Build. They spent 10 weeks of biking and built houses for the local Habitat for Humanity on their days off. She has remained an avid cyclist and supporter of Habitat for Humanity ever since. This bike ride is also where she fell in love with Colorado and what brought her back to Denver nearly 6 years later to start her career in energy policy.
About Xcel Energy:
Xcel Energy Inc. is a utility holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than 3.3 million electric customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico in 2017.
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Africana Speaker Series: US Counterterrorism Strategies in Africa
Monday, April 1
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Tufts, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Mugar Room 200, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/africana-speaker-series-us-counterterrorism-strategies-in-africa-tickets-59524873499
Featured speakers will include:
Pearl T. Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University
Pearl T. Robinson has authored more than 40 articles and book chapters on African and African American politics. She is co-author of Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society (The Century Foundation Press) and co-editor and co-author of Transformation and Resiliency in Africa (Howard University Press). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a past President of the African Studies Association, she has chaired the SSRC/ACLS Joint Committee on African Studies; served on the boards of Oxfam-America and TransAfrica; as a curriculum consultant for the PBS/BBC series The Africans: A Triple Heritage; and as an advisor for Hopes on the Horizon, a 2-hour documentary film about democratic movements in Africa during the 1990s.
Margot Shorey, Countering Violent Extremism Program Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
Margot Shorey is an international security and counterterrorism expert who has been closely involved in the development of the US government strategy to counter Boko Haram. She has spent the past four years at the U.S. Department of State, where she focuses on Countering Violent Extremism in the Africa region. She has also held positions at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies and the UN Regional Center for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, based in Togo. She received her MALD from the Fletcher School in 2013 and her BA from Northwestern University.
Andrea J. Dew, Associate Professor, Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups, U.S. Naval War College
Professor Andrea J. Dew is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy and also holds the Chair of Maritime Irregular Warfare Forces. She lived in Japan for eight years where she studied advanced Japanese at the Kyoto Japanese Language School. Professor Dew has served as a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science in International Affairs at Harvard University, and Senior Counter-Terrorism Fellow at the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies at the Fletcher School. Dr. Dew is the founding Co-Director of the Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups at the US Naval War College. She received both her Ph.D. and her MALD degrees from the Fletcher School.
***Light refreshments will be provided***
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Next in Data Visualization
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 2:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Research study, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Michelle Borkin, Assistant professor, Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University; co-director, Northeastern University Visualization Consortium
Blacki Migliozzi, Graphics editor, New York Times
Arvind Satyanarayan, Assistant professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Danielle Albers Szafir, Assistant professor, assistant professor of information science and affiliate professor of computer and cognitive science, University of Colorado Boulder
Moderated by Alyssa Goodman RI ’17, Faculty co-director of the science program, Radcliffe Institute; Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
COST Free
CONTACT INFO events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose creative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area.
Innovative data visualization reveals patterns and trends otherwise unseen. The four speakers in this program represent a range of visualization expertise, from human cognition to user interaction to tool design to the use of visualizations in journalism. As data sets in science, medicine, and business become larger and more diverse, the need for — and the impact of — good visualization is growing rapidly. The presentations will highlight a wide scope of visualization’s applicability, using examples from personalized medicine, government, education, basic science, climate change, and more. Register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-next-in-data-visualization-program
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The Shattered Lens: A Conversation with Jonathan Alpeyrie and Bonnie Timmermann
Monday, April 1
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Northeastern, Alumni Center, Pavilion Room, 716 Columbus Place, 6th Floor, Boston
Join us for a lecture and moderated conversation with journalist and author, Jonathan Alpeyrie and casting director, Bonnie Timmermann. Jonathan Alpeyrie is a war journalist who documented dozens of conflict zones and was held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013. Bonnie Timmerman is an acclaimed casting director and producer instrumental in launching the careers of stars such as Liam Neeson and Saoirse Ronan.
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BRIDGE Week 2019: STEM For Social Justice Panel Discussion
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Nigel Jacob, Co-founder of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Chiderah Okoye, President Emeritus of NSBE Boston, Executive Director of Venly Institute
Andres Garcia Lopez, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMDOzfopOVL4QpL5qTTVB7-qNk3iU-hlw0e8IU1pMpMBtGGw/viewform?usp=sf_link
CONTACT INFO Alexis Stokes
astokes at seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join Harvard SEAS for the 2nd Annual Building Relationships, Increasing Diversity, and Growing Engineers (BRIDGE) week.
Refreshments will be provided.
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The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave Community Behind
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, both at the Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016)
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar will be given by Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016).
Lunch will be served. RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
LINK https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar#nextevent
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Challenges and Pressures Journalist Face in Asia: A Window into the Global Media Landscape
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, 1st Floor, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Esther Htusan, Nieman Foundation Fellow; correspondent for the Associated Press, Myanmar
Yoshiaki Nohara, Nieman Foundation Fellow; reporter, Bloomberg News, Tokyo, Japan
Chair: Nicco Mele, Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, and lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
LINK https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/challenges-and-pressures-journalist-face-in-asia-a-window-into-the-global-media-landscape-410
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Desert Shield of the Republic? Realism and the Middle East
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Porter, Professor of International Security and Strategy, University of Birmingham
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch at harvard.edu
DETAILS Please join us! Coffee, tea, and refreshments provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
LINK https://www.belfercenter.org/event/desert-shield-republic-realism-and-middle-east
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Mayor Andrew Gillum and Charlamagne tha God: The Artists
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Nye Conference Center, 15 Elliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahassee, FL (2014-2018), 2018 Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Charlamagne tha God, Co-host of The Breakfast Club
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9FljiLeDMyKpBiDZRefVqnlGkhKfG1fkHIYy4_mZOi57HoQ/viewform
DETAILS At every moment of crisis in our nation's politics, artists have turned into activists and used their craft to grab a nation’s attention. How are artists responding to this political moment? While elected leaders give speeches to hundreds or thousands, artists can reach millions with their words and actions. We live in a time of diminished trust in our democracy, and artists who engage in politics can inspire people beyond the reach of traditional political actors. In contrast to previous times of unrest, today’s songs, videos, and performances travel around across the country — and around the world — a matter of hours, creating rare moments of unity in a fragmented society.
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9FljiLeDMyKpBiDZRefVqnlGkhKfG1fkHIYy4_mZOi57HoQ/viewform
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/mayor-andrew-gillum-and-charlamagne-tha-god-artists
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Why are there so few women in tech? How the digital gender gap tells a larger story
Monday, April 1
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Cabot 703, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59060945879
Discussants:
Kathleen Fisher, Chair of the Computer Science Department
Susan Landau, Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy
Moderated by:
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business
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UndocuBlack: Race& Justice in America
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Office of Student Affairs, UndocuAllies, Black Student Union
SPEAKER(S) Cornel West
Denea Joseph, Immigration activist
Moderator: Delrisha White, EPM '19
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/276805086547105/
CONTACT INFO Ariana Aparicio Aguilar
aparicioaguilar at gse.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us for a conversation about the resistance of black, undocumented immigrants with featured speakers: Dr. Cornel West and immigration activist Denea Joseph.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/276805086547105/
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2019 Cambridge Innovation Party with Cleantech Open
Monday, April 1
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
CIC Cambridge, 245 Main Street, 3rd Floor Kitchen, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-cambridge-innovation-party-with-cleantech-open-tickets-56501861589
$0 – $10
Calling all cleantech entrepreneurs, students, and industry champions–Join us for a night of presentations and networking with some of the leading organizations in the Cambridge cleantech and sustainability innovation ecosystem. Co-hosted by CIC Cambridge, Cleantech Open Northeast, and Sustainable Minds, this event is a great opportunity to learn more about what these organizations are currently doing and all they have to offer. Leave with a handful of new friends and ways to get involved. Pizza will be provided.
We are welcoming the following organizations:
MIT $100k
J-WAFS
MIT Clean Energy Prize
MIT Climate CoLab
MIT Energy Club
MIT Food & Agriculture Club
Cleantech Open Northeast
Sustainable Minds
MIT Water Club and MIT Water Innovation Prize
MIT SOLVE
MIT Waste Alliance
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Design and social justice symposium
Monday, April 1
6:00pm
MIT, Building 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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critical mapping and tactical interventions
Monday, April 1
6:00pm
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Beth Stryker is Co-founder of CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) a platform for urban research, architecture, art, and design initiatives based in Downtown Cairo. CLUSTER has received critical recognition for its work, including a Curry Stone Design Prize (2017), and inclusion in the Egyptian National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016, 2018). Stryker has curated exhibitions and programs for the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival in Cairo, Beirut Art Center, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, the AIA/Center for Architecture in New York (where she held the position of Director of Programs), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among other venues. She is the Executive Director of ArteEast in New York. Stryker received her B.A from Columbia University, and her M.Arch from Princeton University.
ACT Spring 2019 Lecture Series: The Digital Hum of the Long, Slow Now
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Design Activism: Socially Purposed // Purposefully Social
Monday, April 1
6:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT DUSP’s 2019 City Design and Development Symposium focuses on contested design traditions. To be an “effective” designer today who strives to bridge the social world with a constructed one requires a pause — stepping away from the drafting table, digital screens, and design tools — to actively and purposefully engage the public.
As design professionals (and aspiring designers), our participation in the social world and the ways in which we allow design disciplines to directly affect social life must be ever present in our work and reflective practice.
Design Activism: Socially Purposed // Purposefully Social convenes practitioners whose work pushes the boundaries of design advocacy, pedagogical practice, and community engagement to challenge design and the designer’s role in today’s world.
We are collecting questions for the Q&A in advance, add your question, here: http://bit.ly/questionsForQandA
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Memories from the Future of Immersion
Monday, April 1
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
MIT Building E14, Room LH-633, 75 Amherst Street, 6th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59167583836
To think about where we are heading next with extended and immersive reality, stepping back in time may be an inspiration to better step forward. Doug Trumbull is an immersive media pioneer, a filmmaker and a visual effects visionary. We owe him the special effects of landmark productions, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to other classics such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner. Doug directed Brainstorm and Silent Running, all of which earned him multiple Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects. He also wrote, produced, and directed Back ToThe Future - The Ride, for Steven Spielberg and Universal Theme Parks. He is the recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers.
He is currently involved in the evolution of visual effects using virtual digital sets and electronic cinematography, and is presently developing an advanced all-digital immersive cinematic medium called MAGI, which is 3D 4K at 120 frames per second, presented in specially constructed "pop-up" theaters called Magi Pods. He also operates Trumbull Studios in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts as a laboratory for exploring the future of immersive experiential media.
The Hacking XR Speaker Series is organized in conjunction with theHackingXR class (CMS.339/839) and the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
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The Teen Brain: Under Construction
Monday, April 1
6:30pm
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Dr. Leah Somerville
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Change in the Obama Era: A Conversation About Gender Based Violence and Equity
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE The Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response (OSAPR)
Harvard College
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard Law School
Harvard Divinity School
Memorial Church
Women’s Center at Harvard College
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School
The Radcliffe Institute
SPEAKER(S) Lynn Rosenthal, White House advisor on Violence Against Women and policy director for the Biden Foundation’s Violence Against Women Initiatives
Deesha Dyer, Former special assistant to the President and White House social secretary; co-founder of beGirl.world
Bea Hanson, Former director of the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice and current executive director of the Domestic Violence Task Force at the NYC Office of the Mayor
Marylouise Kelly, Former director of the Family Violence Prevention Services Act Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO OSAPR
617.496.5636
osapr.harvard.edu
624 Smith Center, Cambridge
DETAILS April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and you are cordially invited to join the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response for Change in the Obama Era, a reunion of high-profile women who worked in gender equity and against gender based violence during President Obama’s administration.
The conversation will center on U.S. policy initiatives during the Obama era, particularly around the work of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, the White House Council on Women and Girls, and the Working Group on HIV/AIDS and Violence Against Women.
The panel will also cover topics ranging from creating diversity in the workplace to eliminating barriers for gender equity, lethality assessment in cases of domestic violence, and LGBTQ protections. We hope the dialogue will set a tone of hope and aspiration for what passionate and visionary leaders can accomplish when they work together to address complex problems.
LINK https://osapr.harvard.edu/saam-2019-kickoff
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Other Histories of the Digital
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Michael Osman
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/other-histories-of-the-digital/
CONTACT INFO anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS Cambridge Talks 2019
The historical narrative of digital architecture that has developed in the past two decades has been narrow in scope. Accounts have often focused on North American and European architects using personal computers and modeling software in schools and offices. Other Histories of the Digital aims to expand the discussion. What stories and methods come to the fore as we look at computation as a phenomenon with global reach, and which implicates many media and diverse forms of labor?
Organized by PhD students in the History and Theory of Architecture program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Matthew Allen, Phillip Denny, Christina Shiveres
April 1
Ph.D. Colloquium (Stubbins 112)
Keynote (Piper Auditorium): Michael Osman (UCLA)
April 2
Symposium Presentations (Stubbins 112)
Panel 1: Global
The digital is global. Digital processes involve global infrastructures: data centers, trans-oceanic cables, programming outsourced to workers in developing countries. Computers have been used in unique ways by architects the world over. (Is not “global history” always about the details of local contexts?) And yet the modern electronic computer was initially a product of the Anglo-American military-industrial-academic complex. Nevertheless, computation has sometimes been portrayed as a thorn in the side of Western architecture’s canon: data is opposed to precedent, formal logic is set against creative intuition, automation versus autonomy. The computer arrived in architecture offices and schools as no more than (and no less than) a disruptive force. How can reframing the digital as a global phenomenon open up other histories of architecture?
Panel 2: Media
Media techniques, media infrastructures, media regimes: the many overlapping valences of “media” has made the term a favorite among historians seeking to reframe their subjects. At the same time, digital architecture involves one of today’s most ubiquitous mediators: the interactive computer. This poses a wicked problem for historians: potential directions of investigation tend to spiral outward, from mines of rare earth metals and factories producing chips, to corporate offices and management techniques, to manufacturing processes and software ecologies — the list goes on. Within such assemblages, buildings and their architects might begin to disappear as insignificant parts. One thing is certain: history is written differently when it is written from the perspective of media. What should be included in media histories of the digital? And what are the methods to use?
Lunch
Panel 3: Labor
Computation has often been understood as a threat to architecture in a very concrete way: optimizing workflows threatens to make architects obsolete. This has not happened, yet, but digital architecture has employed new forms of labor and redistributed power across the professional landscape. Offices now employ so-called “CAD monkeys” and “digital savants,” and “draftsman” is an anachronistic job description. Hierarchies have not disappeared, and yet authority sometimes consolidates in the hands of whomever “owns” the BIM file. Slick renderings of alluring forms might be all the more effective at occluding abhorrent working conditions than were their hand-drafted equivalents. Historians face their own conundrums in sorting out these issues. How can historians give voice to the voiceless? Where do we find the evidence of practices and thoughts so common as to be left unrecorded?
LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/other-histories-of-the-digital/
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Reading Minds & Mastering Gentle Touch: Robotic Futures
Monday, April 1
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-minds-mastering-gentle-touch-robotic-futures-tickets-57932735371
Cost: $15 in advance // $20 at the door. Students w/ID admitted free.
Audience participation is encouraged.
If Eventbrite tickets sell out, seating for walk-ups will unlikely be available due to room size.
Doors open @ 6pm -- Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers -- Presentation starts @ 7pm
A Long Now Boston Community Conversation with
Bruce Blumberg, Principal UX Engineer Universal Robots
Our intelligence enables us to survive in the physical and social world. While we celebrate our vaunted cognitive abilities, they are a thin veneer for far more impressive abilities: interacting gracefully in the physical world and using pre-cognitive skill in predicting and responding to other social beings.
Bruce believes that physical awareness is a far more difficult and fundamental challenge for robotics than Artificial General Intelligence. The physical knowledge of our bodies, so easily acquired by humans, has proven incredibly difficult for roboticists to program and robots to learn. Deep learning algorithms can probe massive databases a billion times faster than a human, yet the most sophisticated robots struggle in dealing with edges and surfaces. Tasks that seem so easy for dogs and babies to master are baffling the robots.
Yet this seemingly modest goal will likely be easy compared to another challenging functionality – communication. Dogs may lack the capacity for abstract reasoning, but they expertly communicate and share reciprocal affection with their human companions – while ignoring the punches and hair-pulling of the toddler and avoiding Grandpa as he shuffles towards a chair. These talents are very difficult to decompose to the level required for robotic programming. And the learning environment for robotic assistants is unforgiving – one inadvertent physical mishap is one too many.
Yet it seems remarkably easy to fool humans into thinking their robot assistants are sentient –perhaps that will be good enough for the robots!
Join other Long Now Boston enthusiasts as Bruce shares his insights about the human/robot interface and the trajectory of the robotic future. We can envision human lives significantly enhanced by an orchestra of robotic devices with exquisite physical and robust communication skills. The challenges say something profound about the nature of the machines that will increasingly inhabit our world.
The questions we'll explore may include:
Why is moving through the physical world so hard?
What are the ethical and technical challenges to robotic compassion?
What are the key milestones to a highly robotic future?
What should we do now to achieve the best result?
Join the conversation and be part of the solution.
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Youth Arts for Social Change Summit
Monday, April 1
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/57035541841
Join the Boch Center's Youth Arts for Social Change Summit! We will be showcasing creative teens strengthening our community, this Youth Summit will feature a collaborative art-making workshop, presentations from various Boston youth organizations, an art for social change gallery/ contest, talent show and more! This is a free event so please register with our link and we cant wait to see you there!
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Things That Go Bump In The Night: Emerging National Security Threats
WHEN Monday, Apr. 1, 2019, 7:15 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer, 200, Starr Auditorum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Heidi Heitkamp, U.S. Senator for North Dakota (2013-2019) and IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), former president & COO of Goldman Sachs, and IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
DETAILS What does National Security mean in the year 2019? With cybersecurity attacks, new weapons of mass destruction, and changing global power dynamics, questions of safety have become broader and more complex. How should the United States and the rest of the world navigate these technological and geopolitical disruptions? Join Sen. Heitkamp and Gary Cohn for a conversation on the real state of national security.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/senator-heidi-heitkamp-and-gary-cohn-things-go-bump-night-emerging-national-security
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Tuesday, April 2
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Harvard Hears You: The 2019 Summit for Gender Equity
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Title IX Office
SPEAKER(S) Full list of speakers at: https://titleix.harvard.edu/harvardhearsyou
COST Free, Evening Keynote is Ticketed
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO titleix at harvard.edu
DETAILS The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Title IX Office are proud to announce Harvard’s inaugural Summit for Gender Equity.
The daytime portion of the Summit will include events at the Smith Campus Center and will bring together experts in our community: students, faculty, and staff, as well as invited guests to present in a variety of formats including on-stage interviews, performances, and panel presentations. Candid discussions about key issues in the current climate, including gender discrimination on university campuses, due process, and intersectional approaches to equity will be encouraged.
Attendance to both portions is free.
For accessibility needs or accommodations, email titleix at harvard.edu.
LINK https://titleix.harvard.edu/harvardhearsyou
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Climate One at Harvard: John Holdren and Gina McCarthy
Tuesday, April 2
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, The Leadership Studio, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59015377583
With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are issues like economic equity, job security and public health outside the frame of climate action — or fundamental to its success?
Progressive Democrats contend a holistic solution would tackle all of the above. Critics such as former Congressman Barney Frank argue that society can only handle so much change at once. How bold does action need to be to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — and at what cost to citizens? Are environmental justice and human health central to the success of the climate action, or just a nice bonus? How can policy and innovation work together to decarbonize the economy?
Join us for a special recording of the Climate One podcast and radio show at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, featuring Harvard’s John Holdren and Gina McCarthy and hosted by Greg Dalton.
Guests:
John Holdren, Theresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Science Advisor to President Obama
Gina McCarthy, Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Former Administrator, U.S. EPA
RSVP required. Limited Space.
***No late entry. Studio doors close promptly at 10:30am.***
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Solving the Crisis with Opioid and Pain Innovations
Tuesday, April 2
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM EDT
First Floor Cafe, Hale Building for Transformative Medicine, 60 Fenwood Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58103946468
The opioid crisis has been dominating US headlines every day. This crisis has no boundaries when it comes to age group, race, ethnicity or socioeconomic groups. It has made its way into households, hospital emergency rooms, courthouses, and schools and universities across the country, not only directly affecting hundreds of thousands of people, but their families, loved ones and communities as well.
More recently, local communities and government officials have been looking to health care professionals to help address this crisis. Experts in the field have been working tirelessly to create more effective tools, processes, and overall initiatives to help aid the current crisis.
Join the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub and MassChallenge HealthTech as we welcome experts from across Brigham Health and the Boston digital health community to discuss current innovative initiatives and opportunities for innovation in the future of care and pain management. Attendees will also have the chance to learn about the opioid and pain innovation initiative at Brigham Health focused on facilitating collaboration between industry, researchers, and clinicians to eliminate the risk of addiction because of pain.
Keynote Speaker:
Jack Kelly, Author of Sharp Needle
Moderator:
Felice J. Freyer, Boston Globe
Panelists:
Hannah Maniates, Special Project Coordinator, Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Office of Recovery Services
Christian Price, MD, Program Administrative Director, Brigham Health Bridge Clinic
Peter Chai, MD, Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Designing San Francisco: Gender, Power, and Urban Renewal
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 121 Gund Hall, 42-48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Conservation, MDes, Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Alison Isenberg, Professor of history, Princeton University; co-director, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in architecture, urbanism, and the humanities
DETAILS When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting conflicts sparked proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, and the alternative press. San Francisco’s rebuilding also galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land. Isenberg’s talk will challenge many truisms of this renewal era — especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design — discussing women’s city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s.
Alison Isenberg is Professor of History at Princeton University, where she co-directs the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. Her most recent book is "Designing San Francisco: Art, Land and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay" (2017), which received the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning and the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize.
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Machines Learning to Find Injustice
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 2nd Floor, Room 2036, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Information Technology, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Berkman Klein Center
SPEAKER(S) Ryan Copus, HLS Climenko Fellow and lecturer on law
COST Free - RSVP Required
TICKET WEB LINK https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-04-02/machines-learning-find-injustice
DETAILS Predictive algorithms can often outperform humans in making legal decisions. But when used to automate or guide decisions, predictions can embed biases, conflict with a "right to explanation," and be manipulated by litigants. We should instead use predictive algorithms to identify unjust decisions and subject them to secondary review.
LINK https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-04-02/machines-learning-find-injustice
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Decoding the Mueller Investigation
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein 414, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Garrett Graff, Journalist and historian
DETAILS Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished magazine journalist and historian, writes about politics, technology, and national security — helping to explain both where we’ve been and where we’re headed. He’s written for publications from WIRED and Esquire to Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the New York Times, and served as the editor of two of Washington’s most prestigious magazines, Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine, which he helped lead to its first National Magazine Award, the industry’s highest honor. Today, he serves as the executive director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology program.
Graff is the author of multiple books, including "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House," which examined the role of technology in the 2008 presidential race, and "The Threat Matrix: The FBI At War," which traces the modern history of the FBI. His e-book, “Angel is Airborne: JFK’s Final Flight From Dallas,” tells the dramatic story of the Air Force One flight back from Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963, following the assassination of President Kennedy, and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for National Reporting, the highest award given to journalists under 35. His most recent book, "Raven Rock," explores the history of the government’s Cold War Doomsday plans; it was called “spry and sobering” and a “frightening eye-opener” by Kirkus Reviews. He’s currently writing an oral history of September 11th, based on his POLITICO Magazine article, “We’re The Only Plane in the Sky.”
LINK https://shorensteincenter.org/event/speaker-series-garrett-graff-2/
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Tuesday Seminar Series: Climate Policy/Politics in Brazil: Recent Trajectories and Prospectives
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Eduardo Viola, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia; Senior Researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS After being the most irrational carbon emitter in the world (1987-2004), Brazil was successful in promoting a dramatic reduction of deforestation in the Amazon in 2005-2012. Because of this the Brazilian government was relatively successful in creating a myth of the country as a climate leader. Emissions from deforestation has been growing again since 2013 and stagnation has been the mark in energy transition. The last years of economic decline, political crisis and widespread corruption have undermined public attention to climate issues. At its beginning the Bolsonaro administration doesn't look climate friendly, it remains to be seen if an eventual success of the Paulo Guedes economic policy and Sergio Moro anti-corruption/crime policy will renew the interest on climate issues among Brazilians with correspondent impact in climate policy.
LINK https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/climate-policypolitics-brazil-recent-trajectories-and-prospectives?delta=0
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From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K252), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Phillip Lipscy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Moderated by Christina Davis, Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Health and the Built Environment: Looking to the Future
Tuesday, April 2
1:00PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard School of Public Health Room 1302, Building 1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Michael Brauer, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, will present as part of the HSPH NIEHS Center Colloquium Speaker Series.
Michael Brauer is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at The University of British Columbia and an Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. His research focuses on the built environment and human health linkages, with a specific interest in transportation-related and biomass air pollution, the global health impacts of air pollution and relationships between multiple exposures mediated by urban form and population health. He has participated in monitoring and epidemiological studies throughout the world and served on numerous advisory committees at the international, national and local levels. His work has been recognized by a number of career achievement and publication awards.
Just over 50% of the global population is urbanized, with cities expected to absorb all future population growth. In general, urban populations are healthier, with improved access to services and healthcare. Densely populated cities also play a key role in efforts to reduce emissions related to global warming. Yet, cities face significant challenges, especially those in the rapidly developing megacities of low and middle-income countries. Urban design and management and the ways that we interact with this “built environment” can profoundly influence health. Air pollution, noise, mobility options, and land-use, among others, play a role and interact in multiple, complex ways. Understanding these interactions and using this knowledge to shape our cities as they grow has the potential improve population health and build resilience to climate change. In this presentation, Dr. Brauer will review a number of analyses using cohorts and linked administrative data combined with geospatial estimates of environmental exposure to examine built environment-health linkages, describe emerging trends, and discuss implications for population health.
Contact Name: Monica Russell
mjrussell at hsph.harvard.edu
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/niehs/event/spearker-michael-brauer-hsph-niehs-center-colloquium-speaker-series/
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Sustainability, Resilience and Transformation for the Urban Century
Tuesday, April 2
1:00PM
Harvard, Graduate School of Design, Room 111, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thomas Elmqvist, Professor, Stockholm University
GSD Lunchtime Lecture
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/resources/important-dates-for-la-faculty/
Contact Name: Alaina Fernandes
afernandes at gsd.harvard.edu
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Other Histories of the Digital
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/other-histories-of-the-digital/
CONTACT INFO anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS Cambridge Talks 2019
The historical narrative of digital architecture that has developed in the past two decades has been narrow in scope. Accounts have often focused on North American and European architects using personal computers and modeling software in schools and offices. Other Histories of the Digital aims to expand the discussion. What stories and methods come to the fore as we look at computation as a phenomenon with global reach, and which implicates many media and diverse forms of labor?
Organized by PhD students in the History and Theory of Architecture program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Matthew Allen, Phillip Denny, Christina Shiveres
April 1
PhD Colloquium (Stubbins 112)
Keynote (Piper Auditorium): Michael Osman (UCLA)
April 2
Symposium Presentations (Stubbins 112)
Panel 1: Global
The digital is global. Digital processes involve global infrastructures: data centers, trans-oceanic cables, programming outsourced to workers in developing countries. Computers have been used in unique ways by architects the world over. (Is not “global history” always about the details of local contexts?) And yet the modern electronic computer was initially a product of the Anglo-American military-industrial-academic complex. Nevertheless, computation has sometimes been portrayed as a thorn in the side of Western architecture’s canon: data is opposed to precedent, formal logic is set against creative intuition, automation versus autonomy. The computer arrived in architecture offices and schools as no more than (and no less than) a disruptive force. How can reframing the digital as a global phenomenon open up other histories of architecture?
Panel 2: Media
Media techniques, media infrastructures, media regimes: the many overlapping valences of “media” has made the term a favorite among historians seeking to reframe their subjects. At the same time, digital architecture involves one of today’s most ubiquitous mediators: the interactive computer. This poses a wicked problem for historians: potential directions of investigation tend to spiral outward, from mines of rare earth metals and factories producing chips, to corporate offices and management techniques, to manufacturing processes and software ecologies — the list goes on. Within such assemblages, buildings and their architects might begin to disappear as insignificant parts. One thing is certain: history is written differently when it is written from the perspective of media. What should be included in media histories of the digital? And what are the methods to use?
Lunch
Panel 3: Labor
Computation has often been understood as a threat to architecture in a very concrete way: optimizing workflows threatens to make architects obsolete. This has not happened, yet, but digital architecture has employed new forms of labor and redistributed power across the professional landscape. Offices now employ so-called “CAD monkeys” and “digital savants,” and “draftsman” is an anachronistic job description. Hierarchies have not disappeared, and yet authority sometimes consolidates in the hands of whomever “owns” the BIM file. Slick renderings of alluring forms might be all the more effective at occluding abhorrent working conditions than were their hand-drafted equivalents. Historians face their own conundrums in sorting out these issues. How can historians give voice to the voiceless? Where do we find the evidence of practices and thoughts so common as to be left unrecorded?
LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/other-histories-of-the-digital/
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Anna Blom: The Future of Fashion
Tuesday, April 2
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building E14-633, Lecture Hall, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Fashion doesn't only leave sensory imprints—it often leaves dirty footprints. Nowadays, preventing waste and reducing toxic by-products are top priorities for fashion companies that want to remain successful. In this talk, Anna Blom will share personal stories of inspiring people who are changing the industry from the inside, one jumper at a time—and who will change how you view fashion forever. Their vision is a world in which everyone in the fashion supply chain thrives in harmony with our planet. So forget everything you've learned about fashion and fashion consumption in the past. It's time for a new way of thinking about clothes. Get started and find inspiration in the individuals and ideas of this talk.
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A Particulate Solution: Data Science in the Fight to Stop Air Pollution and Climate Change (IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar)
Tuesday, April 2
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building E18-304, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge
Abstract: What if I told you I had evidence of a serious threat to American national security – a terrorist attack in which a jumbo jet will be hijacked and crashed every 12 days. Thousands will continue to die unless we act now. This is the question before us today – but the threat doesn’t come from terrorists. The threat comes from climate change and air pollution.
We have developed an artificial neural network model that uses on-the-ground air-monitoring data and satellite-based measurements to estimate daily pollution levels across the continental U.S., breaking the country up into 1-square-kilometer zones. We have paired that information with health data contained in Medicare claims records from the last 12 years, and for 97% of the population ages 65 or older. We have developed statistical methods and computational efficient algorithms for the analysis over 460 million health records. Our research shows that short and long term exposure to air pollution is killing thousands of senior citizens each year. This data science platform is telling us that federal limits on the nation’s most widespread air pollutants are not stringent enough.
This type of data is the sign of a new era for the role of data science in public health, and also for the associated methodological challenges. For example, with enormous amounts of data, the threat of unmeasured confounding bias is amplified, and causality is even harder to assess with observational studies. These and other challenges will be discussed.
About the speaker:
Francesca Dominici is Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health and co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.
Her research focuses on the development of statistical methods for the analysis of large and complex data; she leads several interdisciplinary groups of scientists with the ultimate goal of addressing important questions in environmental health science, climate change, comparative effectiveness research in cancer, and health policy. Currently, Dominici’s team uses satellite data and multiple data sources to estimate exposure to air pollution in rural areas in the US, in India, and in other developing countries. Her studies have directly and routinely impacted air quality policy and led to more stringent ambient air quality standards in the United States.
Dominici was recognized on the Thomson Reuters 2015 Highly Cited Researchers list, ranking in the top 1 percent of scientists cited in her field. In 2017, she was named one of the top 10 Italian women scientists with the largest impact in biomedical sciences across the world. In addition to her research interests and administrative leadership roles, Dominici has demonstrated a career-long commitment to promoting diversity in academia. For her contributions, she has earned the Jane L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences and the Florence Nightingale David Award. Dominici currently chairs the University Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. Prior to Harvard, she was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also co-chaired the University Committee on the Status of Women. Dominici has degrees from University La Sapienza and the University of Padua.
Press coverage links:
NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/28/534594373/u-s-air-pollution-still-kills-thousands-every-year-study-concludes
Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-air-pollution-death-20170628-story.html
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/well/even-safe-pollution-levels-can-be-deadly.html?_r=0
Podcast: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/multimedia-article/harvard-chan-this-week-in-health-archive/
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The Rise of the New American Majority: From Presence to Power
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer 163 (Faculty Dining Room), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Aisha Moodie-Mills, Democratic strategist, Past President & CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Rashad Robinson, President of Color of Change
DETAILS We are living history, people of color, women and LGBTQ people hold more elected positions than ever before! So now what? How do they turn their presence into power and transform policy and culture to change the tides for their communities, and America generally? What is the New American Majority’s agenda? And how do we employ an inside-outside strategy to drive progress?
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/aisha-moodie-mills-and-rashad-robinson-presence-power
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Askwith Forums – We Are What We Love: What Autism Teaches Us About Identity
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Community Programming, Forum, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Askwith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
FEATURED EVENT Askwith Forums
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Special Events
DETAILS Speaker: Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; founder, The Affinity Project; author, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Even from infancy, we know what we like. We know what attracts us, what makes us feel good, what makes us curious about the world. And all those likes and dislikes fit together like puzzle pieces, or patches in a crazy quilt to make up our personalities – literally, who we are.
Many people with Autism Spectrum Disorder find their affinities and home in on them with laser-like intensity. They become experts about the topics and the things that they love; for them, that passion is the primary driver of their days. Being able to meet these individuals where they are – to share their enthusiasms for the things that they love – provides a path toward connection, not just for the differently-abled, but for all of us who can share a love for the world outside us and a respect for what lies within the people around us.
Pulitzer Prize-winning, former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind is the author of six best-selling books. Life, Animated, A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated documentary and recently won the 2018 Emmy for Best Documentary, tells the story of his youngest son, Owen, who, after being diagnosed with autism, found a way to reengage with the world around him through movies. Suskind is founder of The Affinity Project (TAP), which has developed technologies to support neurodiversity and a more humane social media.
This Askwith Forum is being held on World Autism Awareness Day.
PLEASE NOTE: Seating for this forum will be available on a first come, first seated basis.
Note: The Office of Student Affairs will host screenings of Life, Animated, the award-winning documentary based on Ron Suskind's best-selling book and personal experiences. Screenings will take place:
Thursday, March 14 at 4 p.m. in Longfellow Hall 228
Friday, March 29 at 12:30 p.m. in Larsen 203
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Living with White Sharks
Tuesday, April 2
6:00pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Gregory Skomal, Program Manager and Senior Scientist, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
The Cape Cod white shark population has increased in recent years in response to the dramatic increase in the seal population. Shark sightings—some close to popular swimming and surfing beaches—are becoming more frequent and negative interactions between sharks and humans have become a real concern. Gregory Skomal has studied and tracked white sharks in the Atlantic for more than 30 years. In this lecture, he will examine the behavior, ecology, natural history, and population dynamics of this species, and how scientific research can help sharks and humans coexist in the Cape Cod waters.
About the speaker: Gregory Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, and author. He has been a fisheries scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries since 1987 and currently heads the Massachusetts Shark Research Program. He is also adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology and an adjunct scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He holds a M.A. from the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. from Boston University. For more than 30 years, Greg has been actively involved in studying the life history, ecology, and physiology of sharks. He has written dozens of scientific research papers and has appeared in a number of film and television documentaries, including programs for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, BBC, and other television networks.
https://www.mass.gov/orgs/division-of-marine-fisheries
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/shark-research-in-massachusetts
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Pizza and Politics with Ganesh Sitaraman AB '04
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, IOP 1st Floor Conference Room (L166), 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Ganesh Sitaraman, A.B. '04
DETAILS Professor Sitaraman is a longtime advisor to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He will be leading a discussion at the IOP.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/pizza-and-politics-elizabeth-warrens-longtime-advisor-ganesh-sitaraman-04
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Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Stephen J. Harper, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
Moderator: Wendy R. Sherman, Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; senior fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2011-2015); senior counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS Stephen J. Harper discusses politics and leadership with Wendy R. Sherman, Director of CPL and IOP Resident Fellow, F’15.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/politics-and-leadership-age-disruption
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Sunrise Boston Full Hub Meeting
Tuesday, April 2
6pm
Encuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston
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For the Love of BUGS! Where have all the insects gone?
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
CiC Venture Cafe (Kendall Square), One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58030910014
Cost: $8 – $12
Insects. They are all around us, in our homes, on our skin, in our soil, and buzzing around our ears. They fly, they dance, they sing, they swim, they pollinate. Some are huge and some are too tiny to see with the naked eye. Some we love for their beauty, others for their important ecological function, and others simply annoy us. Regardless, their survival is directly linked to ours (and ours to theirs!) and, unfortunately, many are in steep decline.
The evidence is mounting: the west-coast population of monarch butterflies has fallen by 90% over the last 20 years; the rusty-patched bumblebee, which was once found in 28 states, has declined by 87% in the same amount of time; and flying insects in German nature reserves have decreased by 75% in 27 years. We haven’t even identified all the insects on the planet, let alone their ecological function, yet many are dying with unknown consequences. And yet, you will hear anecdotes of booming insect populations or insects spreading well beyond their historical range, impacting the crops we eat and the forests we rely on.
So, what’s going on, why does it matter, and what can we do about it? Join us at BASG's April 2nd event to find out with featured speakers:
Nick Dorian, Tufts University
Nick Dorian is a second-year PhD student at Tufts University in Medford, MA. He studies native cellophane bees and the impact of landscape change on their populations. Nick’s passion for science communication and outreach leads him to share what he knows about insects and native plant gardening to anyone willing to listen. When he’s not in the field chasing bees, Nick photographs birds, tends to his many gardens, and tries to bake the perfect sourdough bread.
Richard Robinson, Northeast Organic Farming Association
Richard Robinson is a member of the Board of Northeast Organic Farming Association, Massachusetts chapter. With his wife, he runs Hopestill Farm in Sherborn, a certified organic farm where they have been growing organic vegetables, small fruits, and cut-your-own Christmas trees for over 40 years. He is also a science writer, specializing in neuroscience and biomedicine.
Dr. Mario Motta, American Medical Association
Dr. Mario Motta is well known as a doctor and an astronomer. He is a Cardiologist practicing in Salem Massachusetts, and has been in various roles in the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association, including authoring the AMA policy on outdoor lighting while on the council of science. He was elected to be a trustee of the AMA this past year. In 2013, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid in his honor. Dr. Motta will share insights on our night sky and what light is the best for bugs.
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HEET's Annual Fundraiser
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Home of Marilyn Ray Smith and Charlie Freifeld, 100 Goddard Avenue, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heets-annual-fundraiser-tickets-57881712761
Help HEET Find the Best Path Forward!
April 2, 2019
Help HEET select its future path.
HEET has always rolled up our sleeves to cut carbon. For our second decade, we need help selecting our direction.
Some possible contenders:
Cut emissions from underground gas pipes in half in three years.
Pass a first-in-the-nation bill forcing gas companies to transition to renewables.
Go to Sundance, invited by Rocky Mountain Institute, to work on a revolutionary idea.
Help Merrimack Valley post-disaster to pilot getting off of gas.
Go national, partnered with Harvard, on our chemistry of gas study.
There is so much we have planned, to make a gas-free future, and we can’t wait to share it with you and get your vote on what we should prioritize. With food, drinks, and some surprises.
Join us! Tuesday, April 2 from 6-8:30 at the home of Marilyn Ray Smith and Charlie Freifeld.
Come and feel better about our shared future.
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Fuckup Nights Boston Vol. IX
Tuesday, April 2
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
GSVlabs, 2 Avenue de Lafayette, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fuckup-nights-boston-vol-ix-tickets-58634752122
Cost: $10 – $20
Fuckup Nights is a regular non-profit event that celebrates the mother of all success: Failure! Overnight successes often take many years of trying and experimentation before hitting upon the magic formula.
"Experience is what you get when things don't go as you expected.”
A Fuckup Nights event contains the following three magic elements: Speakers, Beer, and You! The speakers tell a tale from their own experience about a project or a business that they were involved in where things did not quite go as planned. The beer oils the delivery and your acceptance of it. And the final magic element: You, to appreciate, to be entertained, and to learn.
With your modest contribution for the ticket we can make the beer free and pay for the "Hello My Name Is" name tag that you will receive.
Fuckup Nights Boston wants to thank GSV Labs Boston for their kind sponsorship of this event.
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Stepping Up: Business In The Era Of Climate Change Part 2 (Food, Diet And Climate)
Tuesday, April 2
6:30 pm
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.wbur.org/events/446257/stepping-up-food-diet-and-climate-part-2
Cost: $15.00
Buy Tickets
A five-part WBUR series in collaboration with Harvard Business School and Boston University Questrom School of Business
Business is the main source of the greenhouse gases that are causing the Earth’s climate to change. Business is also the main source of new products, services and business models that may save us from wholesale climate calamity. This 5-part series, featuring leading thinkers from business, environmental advocacy groups and area universities, will explore what businesses are doing, can do and should do to confront climate change.
Part 2: Food, Diet and Climate
The food industry contributes a lot to the climate change problem, but it also offers solutions. From sustainable supply chains to plant-based burgers with the taste and texture of beef and meat-like protein grown in the lab, new foods are exploding onto restaurant menus and family dinner plates. What challenges are companies facing as they introduce these new foods into the marketplace? How fast can we expect these new foods to catch on? And what are companies that are known for serving traditional meat doing to reduce their carbon footprint? Is big agribusiness getting on board with these changes--or standing in the way?
Panelists:
Bruce Friedrich, Founder and CEO, Good Food Institute
Ayr Muir, Founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab
David Perry, Founder and CEO, Indigo Agriculture
Nicole Johnson-Hoffman, President, Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, former VP of Cargill
Moderator, Barbara Moran, WBUR Senior Producing Editor, Enviroment
Click the links below to purchase tickets to other events in this series.
Part 1: Open for Business?, March 5
Part 3: Climate Politics and Business, April 22
Part 4: The Road Map of the Future: Transportation, May 7
Part 5: Energy Transitions, June 4
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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
Tuesday, April 2
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes quantitative futurist and founder of the Future Today Institute AMY WEBB for a discussion of her latest book, The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.
About The Big Nine
We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we—the everyday people whose data powers AI—aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into—one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM, and Apple—are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.
In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI—the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself—is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.
Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.
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Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others
Tuesday, April 2
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-allison-shapira-founder-and-ceo-of-global-public-speaking-llc-tickets-55720003029
* Co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School New England Alumni Council
Every day, you have an opportunity to use your voice to have a positive impact--at work or in your community. You can inspire and persuade your audience--or you can distract and put them to sleep.
Nervous, rambling robotic--these presentation styles can ruin a talk on even the most critical topics. And with each weak performance, career prospects dim.
To get ahead and make an impact, you need to deliver well-crafted messages with confidence and authenticity. You must sound as capable as you are.
Public speaking is a skill, not a talent. With the right guidance, anyone can be a powerful speaker. Learn to conquer fear, capture attention, motivate action, and take charge of your career with Speak with Impact. Written by an opera singer turned CEO, speaker, and executive communication coach, the book unravels the mysteries of commanding attention in any setting, professional or personal.
About the Author
Allison Shapira is founder and CEO of Global Public Speaking LLC. A former opera singer and TEDx speaker, she and her team deliver keynote speeches, workshops, and executive communication coaching for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations around the world. Shapira is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, a member of the National Speakers Association, and was a finalist for 2017 Woman Business Owner of the Year by the National Association of Women Business Owners, San Diego chapter. She is also an internationally-renowned singer and songwriter. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Dinner and conversation with Nancy MacLean, author of "Democracy in Chains"
Tuesday, April 2
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Northeastern, 909 Renaissance Park Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58456079708
Join us for a light dinner and conversation about Nancy MacLean's incredible work, "Democracy in Chains".
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"The Experimental City" film screening
Tuesday, April 2
7:00pm to 9:30pm
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
"The Experimental City" is a documentary about the Minnesota Experimental City project, a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota. At the heart of the story is renowned scientist, inventor and comic-strip author Athelstan Spilhaus, who dreams of a new kind of planned city -- a truly experimental city that continuously changes to find workable urban solutions. This new city would employ the newest technologies in communications, transport, pollution control, energy supply -- even large-scale domed enclosure -- in an attempt to create more livable cities for the 21st Century.
It was a compelling vision, with powerful backers, hundreds of experts, and its own state agency. But not everyone fell in line with this newfangled vision for the future...
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Gender, Power, and Culture: A Conversation with Laverne Cox, Nicolette Mason, Christian Siriano, and Jess Weiner
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Title IX Office
SPEAKER(S) Full list of speakers at: https://titleix.harvard.edu/harvardhearsyou
COST Free, but tickets needed
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO titleix at harvard.edu
DETAILS This evening event, set in Memorial Church and featuring a panel of renowned guests, will involve a ground-breaking discussion on gender equity, breaking through the gender binary, and challenging gender stereotypes in popular culture, industry, and beyond. Join Laverne Cox, Nicolette Mason, Christian Siriano, and Jess Weiner for this exciting panel.
LINK https://titleix.harvard.edu/harvardhearsyou
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Anatomy of a Genocide: Lessons of Studying Mass Murder from Below
Tuesday, April 2
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Northeastern, Raytheon Amphitheater, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, along with several other well-respected scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine. He has written for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
27th Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture
More information at https://www.northeastern.edu/hac/#_ga=2.34023201.1026000035.1551928550-593491830.1457895416
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Wednesday, April 3
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Water: Visions of the Future
Wednesday, April 3
9AM - 1PM
Tufts Alumnae Lounge, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://secure.touchnet.net/C21525_ustores/web/classic/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=957
Cost: $10
Our relationship to water is different than it used to be. Instead of keeping it at bay, planners now strategize safe ways to let the ocean come into coastal cities. Instead of fighting against nature, farmers now adopt regenerative practices that promote the soil and watershed health. Instead of separating it from the world, conservationists now protect water quality for all ecosystems, including human livelihoods. In short, we are learning to live with water. What will our future relationship to water look like, and how will we shape it? Join practitioners from the front lines of industry, government, and advocacy as we consider a positive and dynamic future for water.
This 10th Annual event will include guest presentations from practitioners in industry, government, and advocacy. Current students will also present their research. After the sessions, lunch will be served and attendees will have the opportunity to network and speak with presenters.
Cost: Tickets $10, lunch included
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Culture Clash: Failure is not an option vs. fail early and fail often
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman 135, Darman Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Ellen Ochoa, CPL Hauser Visiting Leader, veteran astronaut and the 11th director of Johnson Space Center
Moderator: Brittany Butler, Executive director of the Social Innovation + Change Initiative
COST Free - RSVP Required
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GRTKVCT
CONTACT INFO hauser_leaders at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS In high-risk environments like air and space travel, anything short of perfection can have dire consequences. Even lower stakes settings — from a government office to a science lab —c an feel like pressure cookers. Yet successful and innovative outcomes are often the product of failures that occur through iterating and inventing new solutions. Is it possible to balance a “Failure is not an option” culture with a “Fail early and fail often” mindset? What can we learn from the two?
Moderator Brittany Butler will join Dr. Ellen Ochoa to discuss what it takes to build a culture where averting and embracing failure allow innovation to flourish while achieving high-quality results.
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served.
LINK https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/event/culture-clash-failure-not-option-vs-fail-early-and-fail-often
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Solar Geoengineering Research Seminar
Wednesday, April 3
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, Room 429, Cambridge
RSVP: acchang at seas.harvard.edu
Forrest Clingerman, Ohio Northern University, will moderate a discussion with Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge, and Mark Lawrence, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam
Lunch provided
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Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
Wednesday, April 3
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University)
How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectively.
The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Small Wars, Big Data presents a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations and how they should be fought. The authors show that a revolution in the study of conflict--enabled by case data, rich qualitative evidence, and modern methods--yields new insights into terrorism, civil wars, and foreign interventions. Modern warfare is not about struggles over territory but over people; civilians--and the information they might choose to provide--can turn the tide at critical junctures.
BIO: Jacob N. Shapiro is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and directs the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, a multi-university consortium that compiles and analyzes micro-level data on politically motivated violence in countries around the world. His research covers conflict, economic and political development, and security policy. He is author of The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations and co-author of Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict.
SSP Wednesday Seminar
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Landscape of Chinese Clean Energy Innovation: System Strengths and Weaknesses
Wednesday, April 3
12:30PM TO 1:45PM
Tufts, Goddard 310 (Crowe), The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Ping Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Fletcher School
Tufts University CIERP Research Seminar
Contact Name: Sara Rosales
sara.rosales at tufts.edu
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Solving Transportation, Housing, & Climate Impacts in MA
Wednesday, April 3
12:30pm to 2:00pm
MIT, Building 9-450, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Please RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/duspclimate-spring3
A DUSP Climate lecture with Jose Gomez-Ibanez and Steve Kadish (DUSP Alum). DUSP Climate - a student led initiative, that includes members from all of DUSP's academic groups - focuses on asking what are we doing *now* to change MIT and our contributions to a global climate change trajectory?
José A. Gómez-Ibáñez is the Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at Harvard University, where he holds a joint appointment at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard Kennedy School. He has taught courses in economics, infrastructure and transportation policy in both schools.
Steve Kadish was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government in fall 2017. He previously served as the Chief of Staff to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Charlie where he helped shape and implement policy and operational improvements in key state agencies, and guided relations in the governor’s cabinet, with the state legislature, and external stakeholders.
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The Two-State Solution: The Only Viable Option
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR CMES Middle East Forum
SPEAKER(S) Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School & Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Israel
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel, is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center and the author of "Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy" (Cornell University Press, November 2012), "Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change" (Oxford University Press, 2018), and "Israel and the Cyber-Threat" (forthcoming late 2018). Chuck's primary areas of expertise are the Middle East, U.S.-Middle East policy, and Israeli national security strategy and decision-making. He has taught political science at Harvard, NYU, and Columbia in the United States, and at Tel Aviv University and IDC Herzliya in Israel. Chuck has appeared as a commentator for NBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera, and various U.S. and Israeli radio and TV stations. He has published numerous academic articles and op-eds, including in the "New York Times", "Haaretz", and other leading newspapers. Chuck was a senior analyst at the Israel Ministry of Defense, focusing on strategic affairs, policy adviser to a cabinet minister, and a delegate at the Israeli Mission to the United Nations. He was the executive director of two nonprofit organizations and served in the Israel Defense Forces for five years. Chuck earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Born in New York, he immigrated to Israel in his teens.
LINK https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/two-state-solution-only-viable-option
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Storytelling and Activism: What’s Your Truth?
Wednesday, April 3
12:30 - 2:30 PM
BU College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 215, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58862098120
With award winning storyteller and activist, Sarah Porkalob
Free & Open to the Public
Storytelling is one of the most rigorous tools we have to fight oppression and social injustice. This workshop provides accessible creative strategies to individuals interested in pairing activism with their specific practice via storytelling. In partner and individual exercises, we will engage in a series of written and performative fast-paced content generative prompts. You’ll learn how to create a dynamic physical world out of nothing and play multiple characters, all the while using YOUR unique strengths and truths to engage your audience towards a shared goal. Participants will need: something to write with, something to take notes with, a water-bottle, and comfortable clothing.
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Making the Change You Believe In: A Career in Public Interest Advocacy with Gene Kimmelman
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Room 324, Fainsod Room, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HKS Communications Program
SPEAKER(S) Gene Kimmelman, Shorenstein Center Fellow; president and CEO, Public Knowledge; former Chief Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division
COST Free
CONTACT INFO alison_kommer at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS What does it take for the least powerful groups to move Congress, Federal Agencies and the Executive Branch?
Tips from the trenches on how to:
navigate public interest advocacy opportunities and have an impact
build a career doing what you believe in
make Washington respond to your demands
LINK www.hkscommprog.org
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Why Mexico’s Illegal Drug Business Became So Violent? The Role of Market Overcrowding and State Regulation
Wednesday, April 3
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
BU, Eilts Room, Room 203, 154 Bay State Road, Boston
The Project on the Political Economy of Security will host a talk with Jose Velasco, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, entitled "Why Mexico’s Illegal Drug Business Became So Violent? The Role of Market Overcrowding and State Regulation."
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Election Integrity
Wednesday, April 3
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
BU School of Law, 15th Floor Faculty Lounge, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Please RSVP to tgabs at bu.edu
In this Cyber Alliance talk, MIT Prof. Ron Rivest will review the problem of election security, focusing on the problem of ensuring that the reported outcome is correct for each contest. His work considers statisticalpost-election audits (both Bayesian and non-Bayesian), as well as methods based on cryptographic methods (such as elections that are "end-to-end verifiable"). He will alsodiscuss novel sampling methods, such as the "k-cut" method.
There will be time for casual conversation and light refreshments before and after the presentation.
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: How We Think About Migration
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 3:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Paine Hall, 3 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mahindra Humanities Center in collaboration with the Office of the President
SPEAKER(S) Masha Gessen
COST Admission is free but ticketed.
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=tanner
CONTACT INFO humctr at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS In the first of two lectures, Tanner Lecturer Masha Gessen asks, How do we talk about migration? Our current ways of thinking, telling stories, and creating policy are inadequate for the task of addressing the current worldwide crisis of human displacement. What assumptions need to be questioned, and what questions need to be reframed to make possible a meaningful and productive conversation about migration?
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/how-we-think-about-migration
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Anna Clark: “The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein 2036 East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Anna Clark, Journalist
COST free
DETAILS In the first full account of this American tragedy, Anna Clark’s "The Poisoned City" recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion of democratic decision making. Places like Flint are set up to fail — and for the people who live and work in them, the consequences can be fatal.
Book will be available for sale by the Harvard Law School Coop.
LINK https://charleshamiltonhouston.org/events/anna-clark-poisoned-city/
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Mapping by Starlight — The Search for Our Cosmic Ancestry
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Research study, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) João Alves, 2018–2019 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; Professor of Stellar Astrophysics, University of Vienna (Austria)
COST Free
CONTACT INFO events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS In this lecture, Alves will discuss his project to construct the most accurate map of the local neighborhood (3,000-light-year radius). Combining both space and ground-based observational data, he plans to build the first map of the space motion of gas and investigate how giant gas clouds, the nurseries of stars, came to be.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-joao-alves-fellow-presentation
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The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Moderator: Jennifer Leaning, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
COST Admission is free. Tickets required. Limit of 2 per person.
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO Sarah Banse
sarahbanse at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS Nadia Murad is the corecipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, and is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Murad’s peaceful life was savagely interrupted in 2014 when Daesh attacked her homeland in Sinjar, with the intention of ethnically cleansing Iraq of all Yazidis. Like many minority groups, the Yazidis have carried the weight of historical persecution. Women in particular have suffered greatly, as they have been — and continue to be — victims of sexual violence. Much of Murad’s advocacy work is focused on meeting with global leaders to raise awareness about Daesh and its genocidal campaign against the Yazidi people.
Admission is free. Tickets required. Limit of 2 per person. Available by phone and online (for a fee) and in person at the Harvard Box Office, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, beginning Thursday, March 28. Please plan on being seated by 3:45 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:00 p.m.
This event is cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
LINK https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/jodidi-2019
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Defending a President Under Investigation: Developing a Media Strategy
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer 163, Faculty Dining Room, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Michael Zeldin, CNN legal Analyst, former U.S. Department of Justice official, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Paul Begala, CNN Political Analyst and Chief Strategist for the 1992 Clinton–Gore Campaign
Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times
DETAILS When a president is under investigation, how does the White House develop a media strategy? Who runs the show? Cooperate or attack? How do you develop effective press relations? How, from a press perspective, is this best achieved? What is the press looking for in developing a level of trust with the media consultants? How do you avoid being spun? How can the press drive the narrative?
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/michael-zeldin-paul-begala-and-peter-baker-defending-president-under-investigation
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The Media: Guardians of Democracy?
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer 166 (IOP Conference Room), 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Carlos Curbelo, U.S. Representative for Florida’s 26th District (2016-2018) and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC
Elena Nachmanoff, Senior vice president at NBC News
DETAILS When discussing the importance of the press in keeping the government in check, Thomas Jefferson stated that if he had to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” What would have Jefferson opined about cable news and it's role in our democracy today? We don't know, but our guests might. We will be joined by Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC and Elena Nachmanoff, senior vice president at NBC News to discuss the important role of modern media in politics and government.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/rep-carlos-curbelo-elena-nachmanoff-and-phil-griffin-media-guardians-democracy
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Sohail Daulatzai: "The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International"
Wednesday, April 3
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time, having influenced leftist and anti-colonial struggles from the Palestine Liberation Organization, to the Black Panther Party and the Irish Republican Army amongst others. But the film is more relevant and urgent than ever in the current “War on Terror” – having been screened by the Pentagon in 2003 and taught in Army war colleges as a blueprint for U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine. This talk will examine the film as a “ghost archive” of competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus. As the “War on Terror” expands and the threat of the Muslim looms, the films’ afterlives reveal it to be more than an artifact of the past but rather a prophetic testament to the present and a cautionary tale of an imperial future, as perpetual war has been declared on permanent unrest.
About Sohail Daulatzai
Sohail Daulatzai’s is the founder of Razor Step, an L.A. based media lab. His work includes scholarship, essay, short film/video/installation and the curatorial. He is the author and co/editor of several books, including of Fifty Years of “The Battle of Algiers”: Past as Prologue; Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America; With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism and Empire; Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop; and Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic. He is the curator of the celebrated exhibit Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop and Histories Absolved: Revolutionary Cuban Poster Art and the Muslim International. His video/installation work includes short film essay pieces with Yasiin Bey, a ciné-geography with Zack de la Rocha, as well as an installation piece entitled cas·bah /ˈkazˌbä/noun, 1. A place of confinement for the natives, yet reclaimed. He wrote liner notes for the Sony Legacy Recordings Release of the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set of Rage Against the Machine’s self titled debut album, the liner notes for the DVD release of Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, the centerpiece in the museum catalog Movement: Hip-Hop in L.A., 1980’s – Now, as well as an essay in iconic photographer Jamel Shabazz’s retrospective Pieces of a Man. His other writings have appeared in Artbound, The Nation, Counterpunch, Al Jazeera, Souls, and Wax Poetics, amongst others. He teaches in Film and Media Studies, African American Studies, and Global Middle East Studies at the University of California, Irvine. More of his work can be found at openedveins.com.
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DOE Hydrogen at Scale Program - "Hydrogen's Role in the Global Energy Market"
Wednesday, April 3
5:30 - 8:30 PM
Chateau Restaurant, 195 School Street, Waltham
Speaker Charles Myers, President of the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition
Hosted by American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
There will be a Fuel Cell Car on site following the presentation
Cost $35 for meeting and Full Dinner - Restaurant is 4 star rated on Trip Advisor
Pre-registration required - General Public is welcome
http://www.aiche-boston.org/events/eventdetail.php?eventId=168
For more info on Hydrogen at Scale https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/h2scale
Contact for more info: Rob Reintjes, Chair, AIChE-Boston Advisory Board
robreintjes at verizon.net
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Presidential Investigations: What Lies Ahead?
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Barbara Comstock, U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 10th District (2015-2018); IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Michael Zeldin, CNN Legal Analyst; former U.S. Department of Justice official; IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Moderator: Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief, Chicago Sun-Times; IOP Resident Fellow, S’04
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS Lynn Sweet will moderate an analysis on the state of Presidential investigations, the Mueller Report and the media’s coverage with Peter Baker, Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA), and Michael Zeldin.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/presidential-investigations-what-lies-ahead
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Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Place, Race, and Class in America
Wednesday, April 3
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, Cascieri Hall, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/undesign-the-redline-public-lecture-conversation-tickets-55914592050
Join us for the Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Place, Race, and Class in America public lecture and conversation with April De Simone of designing the WE and Katie Swenson of Enterprise Community Partners, on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at 6 pm in Cascieri Hall.
Systemic challenges today — like inequalities in housing, education, income, criminal justice and health — are far from separate issues. These challenges are rooted in a deep and entangled history of policies, practices and processes that remain unrevealed and misunderstood.
With policies like the 1930's Home Owners' Loan Corporation Residential Security (redlining) maps, structural racism and classism were designed into cities and towns in ways that have still not been wholly undesigned 80 years later. Despite this, few know they ever existed. As new forces begin to transform cities and towns, decisions about interconnected challenges are therefore often made ‘in the dark’ when it comes to fundamental questions about our communities: how did we get here, and what does that mean for where we are going?
The Undesign the Redline interactive exhibit brings these issues to the forefront to reframe opportunities from a shared value perspective, grounding discussions about race, wealth, opportunity, and power in an honest context which uncovers a buried history. The exhibit is on view in the McCormick Gallery (Boston Architectural College) until April 29, 2019.
We invite you to the accompanying lecture and take part in the conversations to address the systemic forces standing in between the value pouring back into our cities and the often devalued populations who are historically cut out of these rising tides, and to create equitable and inclusive models that support a more just lived experience within the built environment.
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FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience
Wednesday, April 3
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fail-inspiring-resilience-mit-tickets-58981172274
How many times have you suffered from the notion that “failure is not an option”? Yet, a misstep can happen at any time and to everyone, even professionals, experts, CEO’s, or professors. For this reason, we bring them to FAIL!, an event aimed at understanding the deeper meaning of failures, and how to accept, understand, and conquer these.
On April 3rd at 6 pm, we will have brilliant guests from MIT and Harvard like:
Amy Edmondson: Harvard Business School
Amanda Bosh: MIT Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Susan Silbey: MIT Anthropology
Regina Bateson: MIT Political Science
Former FAIL! Speaker, Professor Daniel Jackson, will return to the conference to speak about his FAIL! experience and his book Portraits of Resilience, and every attendee will receive a free copy.
The event will be hosted by Kirsty Bennett from MIT Women's League and moderated by Marcia Bartusiak from MIT Science Writing program, and is organized by the FAIL! Organizing Team. We also thank the MIT MindHandHeart, the Graduate Student Council, the Teaching and Learning Lab, and the Sandbox Initiative Fund for their sponsorship.
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Editing Bioelectric Pattern Memories: Reprogramming the software of life for regenerative medicine – A Presentation by Michael Levin
Wednesday, April 3
6:30pm - 7:30pm
ArtScience Culture Lab & Café, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com/apr-3
A remarkable fact about living bodies is that cells communicate during embryogenesis and regeneration to enable them to work together toward the construction and repair of complex anatomical structures. My lab has uncovered a powerful new component of that communication: endogenous bioelectrical signaling among all cells (not just neurons) that enables the computations required to make decisions about large-scale growth and form. We have developed novel techniques to re-write the pattern memories that control gene expression and morphogenesis, with numerous applications for birth defects, regeneration of injured organs, cancer reprogramming, and synthetic bioengineering of novel living machines. In this talk, I will describe the emerging science at the intersection of developmental biophysics, basal cognition, and regenerative medicine. The development of new tools, together with conceptual advances that link computer science, cognitive science, and molecular genetics, are revealing exciting new vistas for many fields, from bioengineering to artificial intelligence.
Le Laboratoire Cambridge is hosting this special presentation featuring Wyss Associate Faculty member Michael Levin.
The doors open at 6pm, the talk starts at 6:30pm. Space is limited, please register at the link below.
Contact info at lelaboratoirecambridge.com
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Innovation and Technology Across Scales & Disciplines
Wednesday, April 3
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Harvard GSD, 48 Quincy Street, Room 112, Cambridge
Geraldine A. Hamilton is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Emulate. Prior to joining Emulate’s founding team, she served as Lead Senior Staff Scientist with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. At the Wyss Institute, Hamilton lead the Organs-on-Chips program and managed the multidisciplinary team responsible for developing, translating and commercializing the Organs-on-Chips technology. Hamilton’s career spans industry, academia and the start-up world.
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More than Just the Buzz: Finding Real Solutions to Native Pollinator Declines
Wednesday, April 3
7 to 8:30pm
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Robert Gegear, assistant professor of biology at Worcester Polytech, studies pollination networks, the complex interactions between plant species and insects, seeking the most effective strategies for conservation and restoration; his citizen-science Bee-cology Project collects ecological data on native pollinator species and pollinator habitat. Free. Grownativemass.org
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The Way of the Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Gavin Van Horn, Ph.D., director, Cultures of Conservation, Center for Humans and Nature
COST $10, Students are free. Registration requested.
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1860&DayPlannerDate=4/3/2019
CONTACT INFO email: adulted at arnarb.harvard.edu
phone: 617-384-5277
DETAILS A wanderer and writer with a doctorate in religion, Gavin Van Horn inhabits a big city. And that city (Chicago) has offered him something to compliment and complicate the solitude of the woods or a remote mountainside: a window onto the attractiveness of cities to animals. What was once in his mind essentially a nature-free zone turns out to be a bustling environment where millions of wild things roam. He came to realize that our own paths are crisscrossed by the tracks and flyways of black-crowned night herons, Cooper’s hawks, brown bats, coyotes, opossums, white-tailed deer, and others who thread their lives ably through our own. In his book, "The Way of Coyote," Van Horn describes this urban amalgam in prose that weaves myth with science, ecological loss with abundance, and reflects on the role wildlife can play in waking us to a shared sense of place and fate.
LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1860&DayPlannerDate=4/3/2019
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Red-Green Revolution
Wednesday, April 3
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58441532196
Red-Green Revolution is an impassioned and informed confrontation with the planetary emergency brought about by accelerated ecological devastation in the last half-century.
Its author, distinguished political scientist Victor Wallis, argues that sound ecological policy requires a socialist framework, based on democratic participation and drawing on the historical lessons of earlier efforts.
About the Author: Victor Wallis is a professor of Liberal Arts at the Berklee College of Music. He was the managing editor of Socialism and Democracy for twenty years, and has been writing on ecological issues since the early 1990s.
His writings have appeared in journals such as Monthly Review and New Political Science, and have been translated into thirteen languages.
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23rd Annual June Fox Lecture: Preparing Teachers Who Are Agents of Change: The Role of Generativity in Creating Great Teachers
Wednesday, April 3
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Dr. Arnetha Ball, professor of Education at Stanford University, will be this year's June Fox lecturer. She is director of Stanford's Race, Inequality, and Language Program and co-director of its Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language.
Dr. Ball is the author/co-editor of seven books and numerous articles, and has done extensive research in sociocultural theory, conducted in complex learning environments faced with the promise and challenge of improving education for diverse populations in the US and South Africa.
Dr. Ball's most recent research investigates the role of generativity and successful paradigms, principles, and practices in preparing teachers for diversity across national boundaries in countries that serve large numbers of historically marginalized students—including the US, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
The evening will also include presentations of the June Fox Scholarship Award and several book awards that honor former deans William Dandridge and Mario Borunda. A reception will follow.
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The Biggest Little Farm: Free Advance Screening
Wednesday, April 3
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Landmark's Kendall Square Cinema, 355 Binney Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58676198088
Let's Talk About Food and Edible Boston are delighted to present, with Neon Rated and Landmark Cinemas, a free advance screening of The Biggest Little Farm.
A testament to the immense complexity of nature, The Biggest Little Farm follows two dreamers and a dog on an odyssey to bring harmony to both their lives and the land. When the barking of their beloved dog Todd leads to an eviction notice from their tiny LA apartment, John and Molly Chester make a choice that takes them out of the city and onto 200 acres in the foothills of Ventura County, naively endeavoring to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete coexistence with nature. The land they’ve chosen, however, is utterly depleted of nutrients and suffering from a brutal drought. The film chronicles eight years of daunting work and outsize idealism as they attempt to create the utopia they seek, planting 10,000 orchard trees and over 200 different crops, and bringing in animals of every kind– including an unforgettable pig named Emma and her best friend, Greasy the rooster. When the farm’s ecosystem finally begins to reawaken, so does the Chesters’ hope – but as their plan to create perfect harmony takes a series of wild turns, they realize that to survive they will have to reach a far greater understanding of the intricacies and wisdom of nature, and of life itself.
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Thursday, April 4 - Friday, April 5
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2019 MIT Energy Conference: Tough Tech & The 2040 Grid
Thursday, April 4 - Friday, April 5
Boston Marriott Cambridge, Grand Ballroom, 50 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.mitenergyconference.org
Cost: $50 - $400
This year we ask:
What will power grids look like in 2040? What should they look like?
Will fusion revolutionize electricity production?
Hear from the world’s two leading fusion companies and see them present in our Tech Showcase.
Will solar and wind grow from 7% to over 30% of global power? Will energy storage and grid expansion tame intermittency?
Hear from developers of the world’s largest solar projects, engineers of the world’s longest duration batteries, and operators of the world’s “windiest” grids.
How can utilities simultaneously decarbonize and adapt to electric vehicles and distributed generation? How can policymakers and start-ups help them?
Hear from leading experts on utility business models, question a panel of founders from digital energy start-ups, and watch the finals of the world’s largest student-run energy start-up competition.
Will better reactor designs and policy buoy nuclear fission? How will electrification of transport and heating impact the roles of oil and natural gas? How can venture capital foster not only digital start-ups but also tough techs like long duration batteries? How can companies profitably bring power to people whom the grid does not reach? How best to harness the cheapest power source of all, energy efficiency?
These questions and more will be explored at the 2019 MIT Energy Conference: Tough Tech & The 2040 Grid.
We warmly invite you to join the conversation!
One ticket covers both days of the conference.
Featuring:
Greentech Media’s Energy Gang: Stephen Lacey, Katherine Hamilton, & Jigar Shah
Katie Rae, CEO of The Engine
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Ralph Izzo, CEO of PSEG
Antje Danielson, Co-Founder of Zipcar, Education Director of MITei
Peter Fox-Penner, CSO of Energy Impact Partners, Director of BU’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, former Chairman of The Brattle Group
Form Energy
Carl Stjernfeldt, North America Venture Manager at Shell Ventures
Paul Denholm, Senior Energy Analyst at NREL
and many more.
Visit MITEnergyConference.org for more speakers, content topics, and more information!
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Where Do We Go From Here? Insights on the Future of Transportation in MA
Thursday, April 4
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Harvard, Nye ABC, 5th floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58812419530
In December 2018, Governor Baker's Commission on the Future of Transportation released their recommendations to address future challenges in transportation, exploring everything from the impacts of climate change to the rise of autonomous vehicle technology. This conference will give attendees an opportunity to hear directly from Commissioners as they present and discuss their findings. Secretary of Transportation, Stephanie Pollack, will offer a keynote address.
Agenda:
Welcoming Remarks: Rafael Carbonell, Executive Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Keynote: Stephanie Pollack, MA Secretary of Transportation
Presentation on the Future of Transportation: Steve Kadish*, Chair, Commission on the Future of Transportation in Massachusetts and Senior Research Fellow, Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Panel Discussion: Reactions and Thoughts:
Rebecca Davis*, Deputy Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Tony Gomez-Ibanez*, Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at Harvard University
Karen Sawyer Conard*, Executive Director, Merrimack Valley Planning Commission
Moderator- Monica Tibbits-Nutt, Executive Director, 128 Business Council, and member of the MBTA Fiscal Management Advisory Board
Presentation on Autonomous Vehicles Policy: Mark Fagan, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Panel Discussion:
Colleen Quinn*, Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy, ChargePoint
Carol Lee Rawn*, Director of Transportation, CERES
Gretchen Effgen* Vice President of Global Partnerships and Business Team, Nutonomy
Moderator – Kris Carter, Co-Director, Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, City of Boston
Closing Remarks: Joe Aiello, Senior Fellow, Meridiam Infrastructure and Chairman, MBTA Fiscal Management Advisory Board
*Members of the MA Commission on the Future of Transportation
This event is free and open to the public, however, pre-registration is required. Refreshments will be available.
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Cultivating Wildness Where You Are
Thursday, April 4
9:30am–11:00am
Bussey Street Gate, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain
Register at http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277
Cost: $20 member, $28 nonmember
Gavin Van Horn, PhD, Director, Cultures of Conservation, Center for Humans and Nature
Redirect your commute to the Arnold Arboretum for an exploratory journey into what wildness is, what it could be, and how it might be recovered in our daily lives. No matter if you live in the city or farther afield, exposure to natural elements and observation of other-than-human creatures can refresh your mind and fuel your soul. Gavin Van Horn will lead this landscape amble, interjecting readings and thoughts for finding wildness within and beyond self. Dress according to the weather and plan to walk approximately one mile, on and off trail, up and down steep terrain. Visit his website at storyforager.com.
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Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Human Rights at the Frontlines - Negotiating the Protection of Civilians
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 4, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner, Room 102, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Claude Bruderlein, Adjunct lecturer at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation
DETAILS The Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series was formed to underscore that despite the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, vast human rights abuses are still occurring seven decades later.
We hope for this to serve as a platform for individuals to hear from the world's leading practitioners and academics in the human rights field, and to listen, question, and engage.
This presentation will review the latest empirical research on frontline negotiation practices by humanitarian professionals seeking compliance with human rights norms in conflict situations. Drawing from the negotiation experience of field practitioners in South Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen, Syria, and other conflict environments, Claude Bruderlein will discuss the most relevant strategies to enhance the protection of civilians affected by armed conflicts.
LINK https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights-hard-places-speaker-series-human-rights-frontlines-negotiating-protection?admin_panel=1
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Slavery at Sea: Bidirectional links between marine degradation and modern slavery
Thursday, April 4
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Jessica Sparks, Conservation Medicine Program, Tufts University
Human beings transferred between boats like cargo, unable to set foot on land for almost 10 years. Watching shipmates be quartered by boats. Being locked in cages. These are not relics nor historical fiction, but rather first-hand accounts from individuals enslaved on fishing vessels who are catching some of the most environmentally degrading seafood products commonly found on supermarket shelves. While modern slavery persists in the global fishing sector, little is understood about the nexus between marine degradation (e.g., overfishing) and the use of modern slavery. Dr. Sparks will discuss the evidence supporting these bidirectional linkages and implications for eliminating modern slavery (and its environmental impacts) in the fishing sector—including a spectrum of actions from creating interconnected international policies and enforcement strategies to changing seafood consumers’ behaviors.
Dr. Sparks is a core faculty member (and 2014 alumna) of the Master in Conservation Medicine program at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University; a research associate with the Antislavery Ecosystem project at the Rights Lab, a University of Nottingham Beacon of Excellence; and a senior fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program, New England Regional Network. Jess is a trained social scientist, interested in the human dimensions of conservation medicine, particularly in marine ecosystems. Her research employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to describe and quantify the bidirectional links between overfishing-induced marine fish stock declines and modern slavery on fishing vessels. She earned degrees from the University of Denver (PhD), Washington University in St. Louis (MSW), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA), and is a member of the Society for Conservation Biology’s Social Science Working Group and the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) Early Career Researcher Network.
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 4, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR WARREN CENTER OCCASIONAL SPEAKERS SERIES
in collaboration with the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
SPEAKER(S) Paul Ortiz, University of Florida
CONTACT INFO Charles Warren Center, Emerson Hall 4th floor, Harvard Yard
DETAILS
Book talk/lecture
LINK https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-ortiz
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Meeting to Discuss Key Climate Change Parameters in the Greater Boston Area
Thursday, April 4
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT
Concord Planning & Land Management, 141 Keyes Road, Concord
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58398188554
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 six meetings as extensions of the monthly MAPC Sub-Regional meetings. This meeting is specific to the MAGIC area. 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.
Light refreshments will be provided. We hope you are able to attend. Please contact Kim Starbuck at kimberly.starbuck at umb.edu with any questions.
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MIT Clean Energy Prize Semi-Finals
Thursday, April 4
1:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Building W20: Stratton Student Center, 3rd floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeANAM9ePkgAHHlFp-rEybBhRT9mKOyu_VX5T786pZnhV7B_w/viewform
Watch the semi-finalists at the MIT Clean Energy Prize win over $130k in prize money for their innovative start-up ideas that will change the future of the energy landscape! Registration encouraged.
The MIT Clean Energy Prize (CEP) is the oldest and largest student-run business plan competition in the US, with the mission to both INSPIRE and PREPARE the next generation of leaders to take on the world’s most pressing energy challenges.
CEP utilizes its established partnership networks to host widely attended energy innovation events in major clean energy hubs across the US and the World. The programming brings together students, entrepreneurs, academics, and industry experts to begin identifying and addressing energy opportunities.
The official CEP competition launches in the spring with a robust two-month mentorship phase, where each team is coupled with a technology, business and legal mentor. CEP cumulates with the Finals Showcase, where teams compete for prize money upwards of $200,000 in equity-free funding.
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How Businesses Can Contribute to Cities’ Pledges to Reduce Emissions and Build Resilience
Thursday, April 4
2:30-3:30pm
Webinar
RSVP at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mAAC6nPKSPu1-WgH2UnWwQ
with Cutler Cleveland of Carbon Free Boston at the Institute for Sustainability at Boston University, Alisha Pegan, the Climate Ready Boston Coordinator in Boston's Office of Environment, Energy and Open Space, and Jerry Tinianow, Chief Sustainability Officer of the City of Denver.
Presented by Climate Action Business Association
https://cabaus.org
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: How Do We Talk About Migration
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 4, 2019, 3:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Paine Hall, 3 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mahindra Humanities Center in collaboration with the Office of the President
SPEAKER(S) Masha Gessen
COST Admission is free but ticketed.
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=tanner
CONTACT INFO humctr at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Our current ways of thinking, telling stories, and creating policy are inadequate for the task of addressing the current worldwide crisis of human displacement. What assumptions need to be questioned, and what questions need to be reframed to make possible a meaningful and productive conversation about migration? This second of two lectures by Tanner Lecturer Masha Gessen is titled "Some Ideas for Talking About Migration.”
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/some-ideas-talking-about-migration
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2018-2019 Killian Award Lecture: What is a Gene?
Thursday, April 4
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Gerald Fink, an MIT biologist and former director of the Whitehead Institute, has been named the recipient of the 2018-2019 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.
Fink, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor in Biomedical Research and American Cancer Society Professor of Genetics, was honored for his work in the development of baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Fink’s work transformed yeast into the leading model for studying the genetics of eukaryotes, organisms whose cells contain nuclei.
He will deliver the 2018-19 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture on April 4, 2019.
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Fake News: Why We Fall for It and What to Do About It
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 4, 2019, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership, Taubman Building, 1st Floor, Room 135 (Darman Room), 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Research study
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Public Leadership
Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) David Rand, Associate professor Sloan School & Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBTcCCvaGGpgIjmxRd2LsXn1yayxVFuExXXqOOcuk7yLQ75Q/viewform
CONTACT INFO CPL_Events at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Why do people believe and share misinformation, including entirely fabricated news headlines (“fake news”) and biased or misleading coverage of actual events ("hyper-partisan" content)? The dominant narrative in the media and among academics is that we believe misinformation because we want to — that is, we engage in motivated reasoning, using our cognitive capacities to convince ourselves of the truth of statements that align with our political ideology rather than to undercover the truth. In a series of survey experiments using American participants, we challenge this account. We consistently find that subjects who perform better on the Cognitive Reflection Test (a measure of the tendency to engage in analytic thinking) are better able to identify false or biased headlines — even for headlines that align with individuals’ political ideology.
We also find that when examining actual Twitter behavior, more reflective individuals share information from higher quality news. These findings suggest that susceptibility to misinformation is driven more by laziness and lack of reasoning than it is by partisan bias or motivated reasoning. We then build on this observation to examine interventions to fight the spread of misinformation. In one, we show that laypeople are much less biased in their evaluation of the trustworthiness of news outlets than one might imagine, and give fake news and hyperpartisan outlets low trust ratings regardless of their political slant. Thus, using crowdsourced ratings of outlet quality to inform social media ranking algorithms is a promising approach (for details, see here). Second, we demonstrate the power of making the concept of accuracy top-of-mind, thereby increasing the likelihood that people think about the accuracy of headlines before they decide whether to share them. Our results suggest that reasoning is not held hostage by partisan bias, but that instead our participants do have the ability to tell fake or inaccurate from real - if they bother to pay attention. Our findings also suggest simple, cost-effective behavioral interventions to fight the spread of misinformation.
LINK https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/event/corral-colloquium-research-results-advancing-leadership-5?delta=0
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The Dream of a United Europe: From the Marshall Plan to Brexit
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 4, 2019, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Minda de Gunzbubrg Center for European Studies at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Daniel Hamilton, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Christiane Lemke, Professor of Political Science, Leibniz University of Hannover; CES Visiting Scholar (2018-2019)
Paul Tucker, Chair of the The Systemic Risk Council, Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University
Chair: Daniel Ziblatt, Chair, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Acting Director (Spring 2019), CES, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO Vassilis Coutifaris, coutifaris at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) for a panel discussion and the opening of a new exhibit at the CES Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery featuring the 25 original posters which were selected as finalists of the Intra-European Cooperation for a Better Standard of Living Poster Contest held in 1950.
On the 70th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty and a half century after the initial push to make Europe whole, prosperous and at peace, the European integration project is grinding to a halt. With the first country set to leave the European Union (EU), is this the end of the dream of a united Europe?
Daniel Hamilton will define the legacy of the Marshall Plan and its meaning for today while Christiane Lemke will share her thoughts on the European integration process and the evolution of the EU from the Cold War to the post-cold war period. Paul Tucker will elaborate on Europe's system of concentric circles, their importance given the current geopolitical climate, and ways through which the United Kingdom could fit in. The discussion will be chaired by CES Acting Director Daniel Ziblatt.
Following this discussion, visit the Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery at CES for the opening reception for our new exhibit "The Dream of a United Europe.”
LINK https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/04/the-dream-of-united-europe-from-the-marshall-plan-to-brexit
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The Land and the Waters are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change
Thursday, April 4
5–7 pm
Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall, Sperry Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
The ongoing destruction of Earth’s natural systems is the result of decisions, made daily, by billions of people. These decisions are voluntary and involuntary at once, collective and personal. The question must be asked: what is driving our actions? How do we reignite and reimagine a spiritual relationship with this beautiful planet we call home? From traditions around the world, and from within ourselves, how might we create different narratives that honor Nature and acknowledge the sacred? Two indigenous leaders – Nainoa Thompson and Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq (Uncle) – have both been identified by their communities as messengers who are sharing their wisdom with us as we try to heal this broken world together, and they will guide us through these challenging questions as they reflect on their traditions and spiritual practices. Storytelling is a form of bearing witness to change as we contemplate what it means to be responsible citizens in the Anthropocene.
Nainoa Thompson is the president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and a Pwo navigator, who, inspired by his kūpuna (teachers), has dedicated his life to exploring the deep meaning of voyaging, and Uncle is an Eskimo Kalaallit Elder, shaman, healer, storyteller, and carrier of the Qilaut (winddrum), whose family belongs to the traditional healers from Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland.
"The Land and the Waters are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change" is part of The Constellation Project, a larger collaboration between the Planetary Health Alliance, the Harvard Divinity School, and the Center for the Study of World Religions that brings together science, faith, arts, and indigenous communities to explore larger questions about our place in the world and imagine a better future. This event is co-sponsored by the Planetary Health Alliance, the Harvard Divinity School, the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard College Hawaii Club.
Questions? Please e-mail pha at harvard.edu
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The Intersection of Cleantech and Defense
Thursday, April 4
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://members.e2.org/ext/jsp/controller?id=1294290151&sv=NE_Defense_Event&reply=yes
Join us for a panel discussion on the intersection of cleantech and defense. The US Department of Defense relies heavily on electricity and non-renewable fuel sources to carry out energy intensive military operations. The reality of climate change threatens US National Security and it is mission critical that DoD strengthen their climate resilience. Needless to say, the opportunities for cleantech technologies to solve DoD problems are numerous. The challenge is connecting the solutions to the problem and creating mutually beneficial relationships between DoD and cleantech entrepreneurs. Join us for a frank discussion on how we can bridge the gap between cleantech innovation and national security needs.
Agenda:5:45pm: Introductory remarks
5:55pm: Mike Devin (District Representative for Congressman Moulton) opening remarks
6:00pm - 6:45pm: Panel Discussion moderated by Bronte McGarrah (Greentown Labs and E2 New England Chapter Director)
Sarah Baker; COO & Co-founder at Silverside Detectors
Jonathan Gillis; Senior Associate at Converge Strategies, LLC
Kevin Quinlan; Director, Northeast Region at MD5 - The National Security Technology Accelerator
Joanna Marvin; Principal of Federal Consulting Solutions (FCS)
6:45pm: Networking
8:30pm: Event concludes
About Greentown Labs' EnergyBar:
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 the growing regional clean technology community.
Attendees typically span a variety of disciplines within energy, efficiency, and renewables. In general, if you're looking for a job in cleantech or energy, trying to expand your network, or perhaps thinking about starting your own energy-related company, this is the event for you. Expect to have conversations about issues facing advanced and renewable energy technologies and ways to solve our most pressing energy problems.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served starting at 5:30 pm. Suggested dress is shop floor casual. Parking is incredibly limited at Greentown Labs and we encourage attendees to consider taking advantage of public transportation.
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Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions
Thursday April 4
6:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roz-chast-patricia-marx-44-tickets-55596827608
Cost: $20
Roz Chast & Patricia Marx
Get tickets to see Roz Chast (author of New York Times bestseller and 2014 National Book Award Finalist, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, and New Yorker writer Patricia Marx discuss their new book!
The perfect Mother’s Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Marx heard from her mother, accompanied by full-color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.
Roz Chast was born in Brooklyn and now lives in Connecticut. Her cartoons have appeared in countless magazines, and she is the author of many books, including The Party, After You Left.
Patricia Marx has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1989. She is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats,” and the author of several books. Marx was the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon. She has taught screenwriting and humor writing at Princeton, New York University, and Stonybrook University. She was the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Thursday, April 4
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-moonshot-john-f-kennedy-and-the-great-space-race-tickets-58372364313
Award-winning author and Rice University professor of history Douglas Brinkley discusses his new book, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race, with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard professor of history Fredrik Logevall. This program is supported in part by Raytheon Company and Draper.
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Great Decisions | Refugees & Global Migration
Thursday, April 4
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58583620185
Panel discussion on Refugees & Global Migration hosted by WorldBoston, BNID, and UNAGB!
Today, no countries have open borders. Every state in today’s global system has its own laws and policies about who is permitted to cross its borders, and how they will do so. Who determines whether someone is a refugee or a migrant? How have different countries, including the United States, reacted to migration? How effective are the international laws, policies and organizations that have evolved to assist and protect refugees and migrants?
WorldBoston, Boston Network for International Development, and the United Nations Association of Greater Boston join forces to host Great Decisions on Refugees and Global Migration. To address the topic is a fantastic panel comprised of:
Karen Jacobsen: Henry J. Leir Professor in Global Migration at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Friedman School of Nutrition, and director of the Refugees and Forced Migration Program at the Feinstein International Center; and author of the 2019 Great Decisions "Refugee and Global Migration" article
Jeffrey Thielman: President and CEO of the International Institute of New England
Mary Truong: Executive Director of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of Refugees and Immigrants
Following the discussion, there is a reception with tabling by local organizations actively working with refugees and immigrants in Boston!
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Refreshments will be provided!
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Public Good Forum at the Boston Public Library
Thursday, April 4
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Courtyard Restaurant, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59013163962
We will honor MLK Jr.'s memory by reflecting upon the importance of the public sector and the ways we can protect and expand it.
Please join us on April 4, 2019, at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 51 years after his assassination. The night before his assassination in April 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke before a group of striking Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee as they prepared for a march for civil rights, union recognition, and economic justice. We will honor his memory by reflecting upon the importance of the public sector and the ways we can protect and expand it.
Welcome by Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and first African American to serve as AFSCME’s president.
Speakers:
David Leonard, Boston Public Library, President
Jessica Quiason, Action Center for Race and the Economy, Researcher
Jim Durkin, AFSCME Council 93, Director of Legislation, Communication & Political Action
Khalida Smalls, Boston Teachers Union, Organizing Director
Marc Pacheco, Massachusetts State Senator
Amy Traub, Demos, Associate Director, Policy and Research
Moderator: Reverend Mariama White-Hammond
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Out And Out: Now This Is Good News
Thursday, April 4
7:00pm
MIT, Building 2-190, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
How can curiosity lead us out of stereotypes and echo chambers, and into better understanding of one another? Growing up as an Evangelical Christian, Max Tang's view of the world and its people was colored black and white on caricatures. The Secular Society of MIT is proud to have her as the featured speaker for the 7th episode of our Out And Out series, where she will share a story of how curiosity led her out of the closet and into a life of flexible freedom -- and what it can do for us today.
Free entry and refreshments.
The event will be photographed and recorded.
Facebook Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2292096934364989/
Speaker bio: Max Tang is a writer, speaker, and founder of Max Gets Curious, a website celebrating the transformative power of curiosity. Born and raised as a fundamentalist Christian, she won medals for memorizing the most Bible verses on Friday nights and would eat her sandwiches for Jesus if she could ... until she lost her faith in high school, came out halfway through college, and created a new life after it all. Today, Max teaches people to seek life beyond suppression and echo chambers with strategies and stories of courageous curiosity.
Website: http://www.maxgetscurious.com/
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No PhD Needed: Saving the Planet with Citizen Science
Thursday, April 4
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Center for Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue #1B, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/54430330584
Climate science & Biodiversity science need you and the information that you can collect. And the good news is that you can really make a difference! This is a crash course about participative science (a.k.a. citizen science), that is the active public involvement in scientific research. In this class, we introduce you to what citizen science is, why it is needed, where it is needed, how you can help (individually or joining some of our local projects in local parks and reservations), and some of the popular tools used in citizen science projects.
Join us. It's fun & exciting. Let's make a difference together!
For any question, contact Claire at claire.oneill at earthwiseaware.org
Learn about Earthwise Aware » https://www.earthwiseaware.org/
Free with a value: Our events are not meant to be free. The reason why we offer this one for free is to benefit Nature directly by having us all together connecting with 'It' —here through exploring together how we can better that connection. Donations to EwA are welcome though!
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Friday, April 5 - Saturday, April 6
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12th annual Future of Food and Nutrition Conference!
Friday, April 5 - Saturday, April 6
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Hosted annually by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, the Future of Food and Nutrition Conference provides a unique venue to present original research related to food and nutrition. In the past, more than 200 attendees from over 50 different institutions have come together to hear attendees present research from fields as diverse as nutritional epidemiology and food anthropology.
Graduate students, postdocs, and early career researchers are welcome to present at the conference. Everyone is invited to attend! As a presenter, students gain valuable professional experience by sharing and discussing novel, multidisciplinary research. Attendees have the opportunity to network with fellow students and future colleagues. Please join us in spreading the word!
Additional details on abstract guidelines are available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTgBKllAqOCqYBd1KgOGfdaKvbI_j9eVomcNHAvixnqbH6nontTfH2yPcGKdzhav4oVz9Ez56JkgfB4/pub
Please direct questions to foodconference at tufts.edu
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SomerVision Conference
Friday, April 5, 9:00 AM – Saturday, April 6,4:00 PM EDT
Holiday Inn Boston Bunker Hill Area, 30 Washington Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/57428447031
The SomerVision Conference will bring together all of the SomerVision Committee members to tackle some of the big questions Somerville is facing: How do we achieve our SomerVision 2030 goals? Do our values still capture all of the ideas that are important to us? How would more ambitious housing targets affect the City? There are plenty of other big, important questions about our future as a community, and this event will give us an opportunity to start exploring them. We will also review how the rest of the SomerVision 2040 process will work.
Registration is free and required for this event as we will be providing lunch and light refreshments in the morning and afternoon. We will also be providing some childrens activities in the Conference area (although no dedicated supervision).
Registration will be limited to SomerVision Committee members until March 15, at which point it will also be available to the general public. The sessions will be available in video for the public after the conference.
Tentative Agenda (more details to come!):
On both days, coffee and pastries will be available starting at 8:30am. Our program will begin promptly at 9am.
Friday, April 5, 9:00am – 4:00pm
We will talk about the SomerVision process and our community values before transitioning into breakout sessions about specific topics relating to the plan.
Saturday, April 6, 9:00am – 4:00pm
We will dive into the SomerVision Numbers. Where do we want our 125 acres of open space? Where should future development happen?
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The Music And Health Hackathon
Friday, April 5 - Sunday, April 7
Food and Drinks will be provided to all that attend.
The hackathon will take place April 5–7, 2019.
April 5, 5:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m., at the Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, fifth floor, Cambridge, MA 02142
April 6, 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., at the District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210
April 7, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m., at the District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210
This event will bring together clinicians, scientists, researchers, students, developers, engineers, designers, makers, musicians, dreamers, and technology experts to work toward designing novel, effective, and accessible music-based technological solutions that could have a transformative effect on overall health and wellbeing.
Technical and clinical knowledge is not a requirement to participate. Instead, you must show an abundance of passion and shared enthusiasm about the potential of using music to affect health-related outcomes.
Please fill out the application below to be considered for this event.
https://www.berklee.edu/music-health-innovation/forms/application-music-and-health-hackathon
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Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora (Day 1)
WHEN Friday, Apr. 5, 2019, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights & The Romani Studies Program of the Central European University, under the honorary patronage of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. Event is co-sponsored by the Harvard David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Open Society Foundations Human Rights Initiative, and the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
COST Free and Open to the Public
DETAILS On April 5-6, 2019, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Romani Studies Program of the Central European University will host Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora, the seventh Annual Roma Conference at Harvard to mark International Roma Day. The conference will convene scholars and activists to explore the global span of the Romani diaspora and the disparate manifestations of inclusion or exclusion of Roma across the world. The event will also be livestreamed on the Center’s Facebook page: facebook.com/FXBCenter.
LINK http://fxb.harvard.edu
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#BUCPUA Keynote Event: Climate Changed: Politics, Place, People and Planning featuring Tommy Vitolo, PhD
Friday, April 5
10:00 am to 1:00 pm
BU, Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bucpua-keynote-event-climate-changed-politics-place-people-and-planning-featuring-tommy-vitolo-phd-tickets-54954504402
The Boston University City Planning and Urban Affairs Program invites you to attend its upcoming keynote event, "Climate Changed: Politics, Place, People and Planning," featuring a keynote lecture by the Honorable Tommy Vitolo, Ph.D., Massachusetts State Representative.Representative Tommy Vitolo is a Boston University College of Engineering alum, earning his PhD in Systems Engineering. He worked for Synapse Energy Economics for eight years, providing analysis and advice on energy matters for public interest clients. He spent that time fighting for utility customers and cleaner environmental outcomes. Before becoming a State Representative, he was elected to Town Meeting in 2007 and served as Constable from 2010. He was sworn in to represent Brookline on January 2, 2019.The keynote lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with climate experts focusing on how city and state officials are currently dealing with the effects of climate change and their plans for the future.Open to the public.
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Water availability controls on vegetated ecosystems
Friday, April 5
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 48-316, Ralph M Parsons Laboratory, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Daniel Gianotti, MIT CEE
Abstract: Terrestrial vegetation and local microclimates are coupled through exchanges of water, energy, carbon, and nutrients. Water and plants are particularly intertwined, through biomass growth and water content, evaporation and transpiration, stomatal regulation, and water use efficiency. I investigate soil moisture as a control on vegetation at the ecosystem scale, using a mixture of satellite and in situ measurements. I present long-term (successional) and short-term (inter-storm) ecosystem responses to water availability as well as thresholding behaviors in the water, energy, and carbon cycles.
Environmental Science Seminar Series
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TEDxKenmoreSquare
Friday, April 5
12:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
Hotel Commonwealth, 500 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59276223781
Cost: $92.72
Kenmore Square is a vibrant community and lives at the intersection of education, research, and innovation. We are excited to bring together Kenmore’s best at our event this April where we will have a chance to shine a light on this fantastic neighborhood.
Join us in forging the future for Kenmore Square and imagining what the future can hold.
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2019 Lewis Lecture: Bringing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing into the Digital Age
Friday, April 5
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge,
Abstract: Pharmaceutical manufacturing must become flexible and agile to deliver tomorrow’s more personalized medicines. Digitization, Modularization and Intensification are critical components for this goal. Our digital approach utilizes multivariate and mechanistic models, electronic recipes, raw material genealogy, that along with sensors lead to real time release, process control and lean technology transfer. Through modularization and automation, we create plug and play environments of mobile operations, connected without revalidating, with integrated automation and maximal use of single-use equipment, flexibly and efficiently delivering to shifting product demands. A critical enabler is a transformational shift in process intensification using continuous manufacturing, high performance cell culture, high capacity resins, simulated moving bed chromatography, etc. This allow smaller production units and enables scale-out approaches. Along with peer companies, we work to transform quality control from being a procedural approach relying on qualification to advanced process control integrated in an overall quality environment.
Bio: Mauricio Futran is the VP of Advanced Technology in the Global Tech Services group of Janssen Supply Chain at JnJ, focusing on manufacturing process understanding and reliability. This is done by incorporating predictive modeling, in line measurements, data analytics and other technologies into the full range of activities from R&D through scale-up, tech transfer, and life cycle management. The ultimate goal is model predictive control and Real Time Release.
Before joining JnJ Futran was professor and chair of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University, after working for 28 years in various positions in pharmaceutical product and process development at Merck and Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he was Vice President of Process R&D. His areas of expertise include process development, technology transfer, validation, regulatory compliance, new product registration, external manufacturing and partnership development.
Dr. Futran is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, where he has been chair of its Chemical Engineering section, and has served on its peer committee, the Board of Chemical Sciences and Technology, and an NRC panel. As an AIChE member he has served on the awards committee. He has been a member and chair of the Princeton Chemical and Biological Engineering external board, and has been a member of the external boards for the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Georgia Tech, and Rutgers.
Dr. Futran has Chemical Engineering degrees from Rice University and Princeton University.
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Migration, Reconfigurations of Secularity, and Reconceptualizations of Security in 21st-Century Europe: Some Insights from the Case of Greece
WHEN Friday, Apr. 5, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mahindra Humanities Center, Seminar on MGreek Literature and Culture; chair: Professor Panagiotis Roilos
SPEAKER(S) Elizabeth Prodromou, Tufts University
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
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A Conversation with Andrew Gillum and Aisha Moodie-Mills
WHEN Friday, Apr. 5, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Gillum, Institute of Politics Spring 2019 Resident Fellow, mayor (D-FL)
Aisha Moodie-Mills, Past President & CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund & Institute
TICKET WEB LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/lottery/conversation-andrew-gillum-and-aisha-moodie-mills
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS Join the Institute of Politics Spring 2019 Resident Fellows Mayor Andrew Gillum (D-FL) and Aisha Moodie-Mills, past president & CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund & Institute for a conversation on what true democracy and fearless leadership look like, and the diversity and grassroots energy that are transforming American politics. This conversation is the opening keynote for “Affirming Blackness — Protest, Passion and Policy,” this year’s Black Policy Conference, presented by students at Harvard Kennedy School.
This forum will require a ticket for entry. Enter at the link above by Monday 4/1 at midnight.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/lottery/conversation-andrew-gillum-and-aisha-moodie-mills
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Hating and Mating: How Fears over Mate Competition Shape Violent Hate Crime against Refugees
Friday, April 5
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
BU, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor), Boston
A lecture by Rafaela Dancygier
As the number of refugees rises across the world, anti-refugee violence has become a pressing concern. What explains the incidence and support of such hate crime? Rafaela Dancygier, Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, argues that fears among native men that refugees pose a threat in the competition for female partners is a critical but understudied factor driving hate crime. Employing a new dataset on the incidence of hate crime across Germany, Dancygier demonstrates that hate crime rises where men face disadvantages in local marriage markets. Next, she deploys an original four-wave panel survey to confirm that support for hate crime increases when men fear that the inflow of refugees makes it more difficult to find female partners. Moreover, concern about competing for romantic partners emerges as a more robust predictor than do variables capturing job competition or xenophobia. She concludes that a more complete understanding of hate crime must incorporate marriage markets and mate competition.
Moderated by Cathie Jo Martin, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe.
Contact Name Elizabeth Amrien 617-358-0919
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Friday, April 5
7pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Lori Gottlieb in conversation with Amy Cuddy
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives—a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can’t stop hooking up with the wrong guys—she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell: about desire and need, guilt and redemption, meaning and mortality, loneliness and love.
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Discussion & Signing Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream
Friday, April 5
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-digital-sociologist-julie-m-albright-tickets-55724762264
In this eye-opening book, digital sociologist Julie M. Albright looks at our device-obsessed society, and the many ways in which the Post World War II American Dream is waning for the Millennial generation.
About the Author: Julie M. Albright, PhD, is a sociologist specializing in digital culture and communications. She is a lecturer in the Applied Psychology and Engineering Departments at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Albright's research has focused on the growing intersection of technology and social/behavioral systems. She was the co-principal investigator and project lead for the behavioral component of a $121 million smart-grid demonstration project with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the USC Information Sciences Institute, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and UCLA, which was funded by the US Department of Energy. She has also been a research associate with eHarmony. In addition, Dr. Albright has served as a peer reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, and a variety of professional publications. The author of a number of book chapters and multiple peer-reviewed articles, she has also given talks for major data-center and energy conferences , including SAP for Utilities, IBM Global , DatacenterDynamics, and the Department of Defense. She has appeared as an expert in such national media as the Today show, CNN, NBC Nightly News, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, NPR, and many others.
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Saturday, April 6 – Sunday, April 7
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Code for Boston 2019 Hackathon
Saturday, April 6, 9:00 AM – Sunday, April 7, 3:00 PM EDT
Jobcase, 201 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-boston-2019-hackathon-tickets-57408907588
Please join Code for Boston for a day of civic hacking at our 2019 Hacakthon event on April 6th and 7th. Taking place on Saturday at the Jobcase offices in Cambridge, this year’s event will feature a community-focused hackathon to kick off a new set of Code for Boston projects with our government and community partners.
We can't wait to see you all for a couple days of collaboration, problem solving, and civic hacking!
Should I come to the Hackathon?
Yes! This hackathon is for urbanists, civic hackers, government staff, developers, designers, community organizers, technologists, data scientists, engaged citizens, and anyone with the passion to make their city better. We invite you to join us as we work together to make positive change in our community!
What will we be doing at the Hackathon?
Our goal is to bring together government folks, technologists, and regular citizens to start working on local problems in their communities, facilitated by open data. The Code for Boston team will be working with local government, non-profit, and community partners to help generate project ideas.
At the event, attendees will form teams to work on those ideas. After forming groups, teams will spend the rest of the day developing their idea together. We expect that outputs will take many forms: one team may develop a map-based data visualization, another may create a set of wireframes, and a third may come up with a business plan for a new non-profit or civic startup. After the event, we'll invite all attendees to come to our weekly Code for Boston hack nights to continue working on their projects.
We want all the good ideas you can come up with, no matter what the format!
Schedule
Saturday April 6th
9:30 - 10:00 - Doors open!
10:00 - 10:15 - Welcome presentation from Code for Boston team
10:15 - 10:30 - Project Pitches
10:30 - 11:30 - Workshops & Open Hacking
11:30 - 12:30 - Open Hacking
12:30 - Lunch
12:30 - 4:00 - Open hacking
4:00 - 4:30 - Outputs and next steps
Sunday April 7th
9:30 - 10:00 Breakfast Mingling
10:00 - 10:15 Brief Remarks
10:15: - 12:00 Hacking
12:00 Lunch
12:00 - 1:30 Last Bits of Hacking + Put Together Presentation
2:00 - 3:00 Presentations
A logistical note…
All Code for Boston events are on the record by default. Participants should be made aware that they may be quoted, photographed, videotaped and otherwise recorded. Exceptions must be agreed to by all parties present in a conversation in order for the conversation to be off the record.
Additionally, all Code for Boston events are governed by our Code of Conduct.
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New England Science Symposium
Saturday, April 6
7:30am - 4:30pm
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at https://hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a93y45LMQui9Qu9
The New England Science Symposium (NESS), established in 2002, provides a forum for postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students (particularly for African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native individuals) to share their biomedical and health-related research activities through oral or poster presentations, to engage in discussions related to career development in the sciences, to exchange ideas and to expand their professional networks.
Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber will be the keynote speaker.
Contact Rodolfo_Ramos at hms.harvard.edu
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Reducing the Impact of Climate Change on Health: The Role of Health Care Professionals
Saturday, April 6,
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
MGH Institute of Health Professions, Charlestown Navy Yard, 36 First Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://cpdcatalog.mghihp.edu/product?catalog=Climate-change-Apr-2019
Cost: $99 - $199
Fee includes course materials, light breakfast, lunch & beverages
Presented by the MGH Institute Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health, and in partnership with the IHP School of Nursing Upsilon Lambda Chapter, The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, this symposium will provide health care professionals with an opportunity to engage in robust discussion about ideas for corrective action to improve the lives of people in the face of climate change.
Climate change is a growing health concern, with implications for safety and well-being; nutrition and food security; food-, water-, and vector-borne diseases; and mental health. Climate change and the social determinants of health are closely aligned, contributing to disparate environmental exposures and health inequalities, as a disproportionate number of low-income individuals, some communities of color, and those with higher vulnerability to disease and chronic health conditions are at risk.
Health professionals play a critical role in climate change prevention and preparedness. Join national experts and faculty from the MGH IHP School of Nursing Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice and Health to address ways to identify the risks of health climate change, advocate for climate/environmental justice and mitigate the impact of climate change on health and well-being.
Objectives:
Discuss the role of health professionals to advocate for climate/environmental justice for all populations.
Identify health risks of climate change.
Apply health care models as a framework to understand the implications of climate change and implement action plans.
Explore strategies to integrate health issues of climate change into health professions curricula.
Keynote Speakers
Gina McCarthy, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Director, C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Faculty
Patrice Nicholas, DNSc, DHL (Hon), MPH, RN, ANP-C, FAAN, Professor of Nursing, Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice and Health, School of Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Suellen Breakey, PhD, RN, Program Director of the Prelicensure/Generalist Programs, Assistant Professor Nursing, Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health, School of Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions
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#DoSomething: Disrupt the Cycle
Saturday, April 6
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
BU College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/55828351101
We live in an increasingly connected world, where the news cycle is shortened. What will YOU do to disrupt the cycle? According to the Pew Research Center, about 68% of Americans get their news from social media. We know that media and representation impact people’s perspectives of themselves and others. Whether you are advocating from behind your screen or out of it, join us at #DoSomething: Disrupt The Cycle to share your best practices or learn how others are disrupting the cycle.
You can get more information on our event, including a schedule and list of speakers, at our website.
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Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora (Day 2)
WHEN Saturday, Apr. 6, 2019, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, T-520 NYE, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights & The Romani Studies Program of the Central European University, under the honorary patronage of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. Event is co-sponsored by the Harvard David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Open Society Foundations Human Rights Initiative, and the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS On April 5-6, 2019, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Romani Studies Program of the Central European University will host Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora, the seventh Annual Roma Conference at Harvard to mark International Roma Day. The conference will convene scholars and activists to explore the global span of the Romani diaspora and the disparate manifestations of inclusion or exclusion of Roma across the world. The event will also be livestreamed on the Center’s Facebook page: facebook.com/FXBCenter.
LINK http://fxb.harvard.edu
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Emancipatory Politics and Cooperatives featuring author Carl Ratner
Saturday, April 6
10 AM to Noon
Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge,
For more information, contact pledgetofuture at hotmail.com
CARL RATNER is the Director of The Institute for Cultural Research and Education in northern California. He has written widely on cultural psychology and qualitative methodology. He has been a professor of social psychology and has also spent extensive periods abroad, including time in Saudi Arabia, five months at Nehru University in India, and two years in China, where he was among the few instructors to teach social psychology
after a decades-long ban. He was a visiting scholar in the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Stanford University School of Education, and Penn State Center for Language Acquisition. He has also been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships and has given numerous workshops on cultural psychology and qualitative methodology in Spain, Taiwan, Germany, England, and other countries. Ratner was on the founding editorial board of the journal Culture and Psychology. He has been active in the American cooperative movement. He is author of Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era (2013, Springer) and The Politics of Cooperation and Co-ops (Nova, 2016). His most recent book is Neoliberal Psychology (2019,
Springer).
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Day of Learning with Indigenous Authors, Educators & Artists
Saturday, April 6
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/day-of-learning-with-indigenous-authors-educators-artists-tickets-58664039722
We invite you to our Day of Learning with Indigenous Authors, Educators, and Artists that's taking place on Saturday, April 6th from 10AM-6PM. The location of the event is Lesley University: University Hall (1815 Massachusetts Avenue - Cambridge MA, 02140)
Schedule:
ALL DAY: Indigenous Books, Arts, and Crafts
10AM-4PM: Workshops ranging from Amazonian Healing to Native Foods of New England
4PM-6PM: Panel Discussion: Hear the voices of indigenous elders and teachers.
Learn more about the event below:
We will be hosting a day-long event that encourages participants to imagine what it would look like if they had access to indigenous educational materials in their schools and community organizations. The event will showcase indigenous educational materials from the Americas through panel discussions with indigenous authors, classes on different aspects of indigenous philosophy and culture, and a book fair where these materials will be available for purchase. This event is a part of Our Voices, learn more about Our Voices below.
Our Voices is a campaign from the Ayni Institute that was developed out of the need for a larger presence of Indigenous voices in our educational institutions, cultural organizations, libraries and more.
Our first steps towards making a change is creating an online platform where we highlight content developed by indigenous authors and educators and share it in the form of a monthly newsletter. You can learn more about Our Voices and sign up for the newsletter at http://ourvoicescommunity.org
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No PhD Needed: Saving the Planet with Citizen Science
Saturday, April 6
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-phd-needed-saving-the-planet-with-citizen-science-tickets-54287331871
Climate science & Biodiversity science need you and the information that you can collect. And the good news is that you can really make a difference! This is a crash course about participative science (a.k.a. citizen science), that is the active public involvement in scientific research. In this class, we introduce you to what citizen science is, why it is needed, where it is needed, how you can help (individually or joining some of our local projects in local parks and reservations), and some of the popular tools used in citizen science projects.
Join us. It's fun & exciting. Let's make a difference together!
For any question, contact Claire at claire.oneill at earthwiseaware.org
Learn about Earthwise Aware » https://www.earthwiseaware.org/
Free with a value: Our events are not meant to be free. The reason why we offer this one for free is to benefit Nature directly by having us all together connecting with 'It' —here through exploring together how we can better that connection. Donations to EwA are welcome though! » Donate.
Thanks!
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Tardigrade Stage #5: Open Mic for Climate
Saturday, April 6
2:15 PM – 4:15 PM EDT
The Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58905882079
Bring your music, your stories, your dance moves, your juggling skills (anything we missed?) and your friends to perform for a liveable climate. All styles of music and performing arts are welcome. Spotlighting the work of the Climate Disobedience Center and Extinction Rebellion (details below). Featuring the music of Barkers of the Imminent Conundrum and Guests. Keyboard, mic, and amp is on-site. Sign up for open mic starts at 2:15 along with a climate-action interactive art project. Open mic from 3-5.
Reserve your tickets in advance: there is limited seating. While support of any kind is welcome, we encourage you to be as generous as possible in your choice of ticket (donation range is from $0-$200).100% volunteer with 100% of donations going to organizations.
Extinction Rebellion is an international non-violent movement fighting to save the future of humanity and life on Earth in the face of global climate change website, Facebook, Twitter
The Climate Disobedience Center exists to support a growing community of climate dissidents who take the risk of acting commensurate with the scale and urgency of the crisis. website, Facebook, Twitter
Tardigrade Stage joins arts and activists together for stronger communities, through concerts and events that celebrate the work of local artists and climate organizations. website, Facebook
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Elliott Sharp: IrRational Music
Sunday, April 7
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
The MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58809177834
Cost: $0 – $19.96
Please join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer Elliott Sharp to discuss his new memoir, IrRational Music.
Elliott Sharp, a mainstay of the New York Downtown scene beginning in the 1980s, has been a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, experimental music, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance. In this vivid memoir and manifesto, Sharp takes us through some of the most rugged, anarchically fertile cultural terrain of our time. A mix of tales from the road with thoughts on music, art, politics, technology, and the process of thinking itself, IrRational Music is a glimpse inside the mind of one of our most exacting, exciting creative artists.
Elliott Sharp is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was awarded the Berlin Prize in Music in 2015 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014. His composition “Storm of the Eye” for violinist Hilary Hahn appeared on her Grammy-winning album In 27 Pieces. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction.
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Jen Easterly: Challenges across the Cybersecurity Landscape: Applying Lessons from the West Wing to Wall Street
Monday, April 8
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, 1 Brattle Square - Suite 470, Cambridge
The Cyber Security Project will host a lunch seminar with Jen Easterly, Managing Director and Global Head of the Cybersecurity Fusion Center, Morgan Stanley, on "Challenges across the Cybersecurity Landscape: Applying Lessons from the West Wing to Wall Street."
Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. All sessions are off the record.
More information at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/jen-easterly-challenges-across-cybersecurity-landscape-applying-lessons-west-wing-wall-street
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BKC Meet the Author Series: Urs Gasser in conversation with Jason Farman
WHEN Monday, Apr. 8, 2019, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Information Technology, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Berkman Klein Center
SPEAKER(S) Jason Farmer
Urs Gasser, Berkman Klein Center Executive Director
COST Free - RSVP Required
TICKET WEB LINK https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-04-08/bkc-meet-author-series-urs-gasser-conversation-jason-farman
DETAILS Join us for a featured author series hosted by Urs Gasser and Jason Farman for an in-depth conversation about big topics and issues from his book, "Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World.”
LINK https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-04-08/bkc-meet-author-series-urs-gasser-conversation-jason-farman
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The Role of International Carbon Markets in the Paris Agreement
Monday, April 8
12:30PM TO 1:45PM
Tufts University, TBD
Randall Spalding-Fecher, Senior Advisor, Carbon Limits
Tufts University CIERP Research Seminar
Contact Name: Sara Rosales
sara.rosales at tufts.edu
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The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution
Monday, April 8
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-partisan-republic-democracy-exclusion-and-the-fall-of-the-founders-constitution-1780s-1830s-tickets-57127786748
This symposium celebrates the publication of “The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s” coauthored by Gerry Leonard and Saul Cornell (Fordham University).
The Partisan Republic is the first book to unite a top down and bottom up account of constitutional change in the Founding era. The book focuses on the decline of the Founding generation’s elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more ‘democratic’ vision premised on the exclusion of women and non-whites. It incorporates recent scholarship on topics ranging from judicial review to popular constitutionalism to place judicial initiatives like Marbury vs Madison in a broader, socio-legal context. The book recognizes the role of constitutional outsiders as agents in shaping the law, making figures such as the Whiskey Rebels, Judith Sargent Murray, and James Forten part of a cast of characters that has traditionally been limited to white, male elites such as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall. Finally, it shows how the ‘democratic’ political party came to supplant the Supreme Court as the nation’s pre-eminent constitutional institution.
To celebrate the publication of this timely and significant book, we have invited distinguished scholars to comment on it.
Moderator:
Kris Collins, Boston University School of Law
Commentators:
William Forbath, University of Texas School of Law
Bruce Mann, Harvard Law School
Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia School of Law
All – including not only professors, law students, graduate students, and undergraduates, but also alumni and the general public – are welcome to attend the symposium. If you have academic questions about the program, please contact Professor James Fleming, jfleming at bu.edu.
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Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Solidarity for Gender and Racial Equality
WHEN Monday, Apr. 8, 2019, 4 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School, Andover Chapel, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights and Central European University, Romani Studies Program, in partnership with Black Lives Matter – Boston, the Black Student Union, and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Harvard Kennedy School.
COST Free and Open to the Public
DETAILS On April 8, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Romani Studies Program of the Central European University will organize a panel discussion entitled "Decolonizing Feminism." Transnational Solidarity for Gender and Racial Equality, which will center the issue of global solidarities among women of color. Patricia Hill Collins, a celebrated social theorist and the author of “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment” will participate in a conversation with African-American, Dalit, Palestinian, and Romani feminist scholars and activists. Seating is limited. The event will be livestreamed on the Center’s Facebook page: facebook.com/FXBCenter
LINK http://fxb.harvard.edu
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ISE 2019 Spring Symposium Series: Robots, drones, and the internet of things: super cool technologies the utility of the future is using right now
Monday, April 8
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
BU, Rajen Kilachand Center, Conference Room 106C, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Joined by a panel of subject matter experts, this symposium will discuss with attendees the state of electricity markets in the US, what is working, and what is not working. Electricity markets are now an important institutional factor in the production and delivery of electricity. As such, when technologies change and consumer patterns of use change, electricity markets must adapt in at least two ways: (1) how grids operate to ensure system reliability and (2) what types of electricity commodity products are needed to competitively value power supplies and grid-related services.
Ms. Wall is the owner of Franklin Beach Consulting and former Executive Director, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. She has worked as an investment banker, solar facilities developer, and serial entrepreneur in several market spaces.
Dr. Ashmore is the Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Boston University.
Contact Name Peishan Wang pswang at bu.edu
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Media War: Insurgency and justice claims through new technologies
WHEN Monday, Apr. 8, 2019, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Information Technology, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Seminar on Cultural Politics; co-chairs Prof. P. Roilos and Prof. D. Yatromanolakis
SPEAKER(S) Ronald Niezen, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program
Katharine A. Pearson , Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, department of anthropology and faculty of law, McGill University
DETAILS How, in morally complex conditions of warfare, are some states able to control the media and shape the perceptions and judgments of publics in ways that systematically, and at times egregiously, violate international justice standards? To answer this question this talk will draw from media representation of violence and rights claims in the 2012-2013 civil war in Mali and its aftermath, which offers an illustration of the ways that new media technologies can influence justice claims and political relations across national boundaries. The knowledge and resources made available by Bellingcat, an organization dedicated to the use of open source intelligence (OSINT), provide a glimpse into media ecosystems in contexts of violent conflict, where field investigation is impossible. These online tools reveal the ideologies and infrastructures of groups in conflict. They also bring out the public representations of conflicts, including the structures of disinformation and the thematic preferences of major media outlets that have overwhelmed the voices of moderate human rights advocates — those whose quests for international recognition, autonomy, and, more immediately, attention to conditions of forced displacement and mass killing often go unheard.
LINK http://wcfia.harvard.edu
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Ensuring Responsibility in the Age of AI and Big Data: Open Networking Reception + Panel Discussion
Monday, April 8
5:00-6:00 pm Networking Reception
6:00-7:15 pm Panel Discussion
MIT Wiesner Building (MIT Building E15) at 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
You're Invited!
Join MIT Technology Review and BBVA in celebration of the release of the 2019 OpenMind book, Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade.
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review, will lead a lively discussion around where the great scientific and technological advances of the last decade are leading us, exploring their impact on how humankind will live in the future. This conversation will look at how Artificial Intelligence is being leveraged in this hyper-connected world and the potential impacts that it could lend to improve data transparency and accountability- across-industries.
This conversation will address questions such as:
What are the social, political, economic, and personal challenges that confront humanity by our use of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data?
How can we apply knowledge from past transformative artifactual entities and events to help inform how both individuals and nations navigate the challenges posed by the increased accessibility of knowledge?
In what ways do digital records, pattern recognition, and the use of algorithms impact anonymity and privacy?
What kind of innovations are needed in the role of design and architectures in AI, to ensure governance and to address bias?
Speakers include:
Carlos Torres Vila, Group Executive Chairman, BBVA
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics Lab
Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath
Carlos Torres Vila, Group Executive Chairman, BBVA, Panelist
Carlos Torres Vila is the BBVA Group Executive Chairman. He was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1966. He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later also earned a MS at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Carlos also graduated in Law from UNED (Spain). Carlos worked at McKinsey & Company for 12 years and became a firm partner in 1997. He joined Endesa in 2002 as Corporate Director of Strategy and an Executive Committee member, and later became company CFO in 2007. In September 2008 Carlos joined BBVA as Head of Strategy and Corporate Development and was a member of the bank's Management Committee. In March 2014 he was appointed Head of Digital Banking, until May 2015 when he became Chief Executive Officer of the bank. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors in December 2018.
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics Lab, Panelist & OpenMind Contributing Author
Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the globally most-cited computational scientists, with Forbes declaring him one of the “seven most powerful data scientists in the world” and he is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, a serial entrepreneur who has cofounded more than a dozen companies. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and leader within the World Economic Forum. His most recent books are Social Physics and Honest Signals.
Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath, Panelist & OpenMind Contributing Author
Joanna J. Bryson is a trans-disciplinary researcher on the structure and dynamics of human- and animal-like intelligence. Her research, covering topics from artificial intelligence, through autonomy and robot ethics, and on to human cooperation, has appeared in venues ranging from a reddit to Science. She holds degrees in Psychology from Chicago and Edinburgh, and in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh and MIT. She has additional professional research experience from Princeton, Oxford, Harvard, and LEGO, and technical experience in Chicago’s financial industry, and international management consultancy. Bryson is presently a Reader (associate professor) at the University of Bath.
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review, Moderator
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau is the CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media company. MIT Technology Review’s analysis, features, interviews, and events explain the impact of new technologies on business and society. Elizabeth is leading the growth, expansion, and modernization of MIT Technology Review’s media platforms and products, including U.S. and international websites, newsletters, events, and an award-winning print magazine. Elizabeth also serves as chair of the global entrepreneurial network MIT Enterprise Forum.
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Citizen Laboratories
Monday, April 8
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDTr
The Engagement Lab, 160 Boylston Street, 3rd floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/55932626993
Marcos Garcia, Medialab-Prado, will be speaking about Citizen Labs and the potential for knowledge share and collaboration.
Citizen Labs have the potential to become a powerful tool for our cities, as they explore ways to identify different types of knowledge and skills and facilitate meaningful interactions between them. There is opportunity for knowledge share when residents gather in a place to experiment together and share ideas, and at the same time there is value in learning how to make something together.
Medialab Prado is a citizen laboratory from Madrid City Hall that some have described as “the internet in the physical space”: a meeting place for collaborative experimentation where anyone can get involved and contribute to projects that benefit the common good such as open source prosthesis, experimental games for an urban facade, collaborative translation of books, a home scale biodigestor, or a draft of a national law on participation. While all of these projects are being prototyped by people with different backgrounds, new communities of learning and practice are prototyped at the same time.
The Boston and Cambridge area constitute an environment of great experimentation and reflection on how digital networks are transforming our lives, and the institutions we have inherited. Many innovative thinkers in this space have been a great source of inspiration to the work that has been done at Medialab Prado (Madrid) for more than a decade. This presentation is an opportunity to share the experience of Medialab Prado with them and anyone interested.
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Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century
WHEN Monday, Apr. 8, 2019, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 102, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Steven Livingston, Senior fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University
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-steven-livingston-senior-fellow-carr
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Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - Allston
Monday, April 8
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Jackson Mann Community Center, 500 Cambridge Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58872597524 or https://goo.gl/forms/YqzlPuFewK83l5Ur2
The Greenovate Boston Leaders Program aims to increase understanding of the climate impacts in Boston and the actions required to mitigate the impacts. We want to involve Bostonians as part of the collective action needed in advancing the citywide initiatives. Our program gives you the materials and support you need to lead conversations about climate change and climate action.
This program is a great opportunity to network with a wide variety of leaders, learn how to format community discussions around climate change, and to make a positive impact on Boston.
The Training dates are Saturday, April 6th, Monday, April 8th, and Wednesday, April 10th. Choose the date and location that works best for you to attend.
The max occupancy for each training is 30 people. Once we've reached 30 people, we will open up a wait list in the order of submissions. If you are no longer able to attend a training you've signed up for or want to switch trainings, email David.Corbie at boston.gov
Greenovate Boston will be hosting five in-language trainings (Spanish, Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Chinese) in May. If you would prefer attending those trainings, please email David Corbie at David.Corbie at boston.gov.
Learn more about the Greenovate Leaders program - https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/greenovate-boston-leaders-program
Questions? Email David.Corbie at boston.gov for more information.
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The American Presidency in the 21st Century: What Would Dick Neustadt Say?
WHEN Monday, Apr. 8, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School; dean, Harvard Kennedy School (1977-1989)
Harvey Fineberg, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; president of the Institute of Medicine (2002-2014); provost, Harvard University (1997-2001)
Al Gore, 45th vice president of the United States (1993-2001)
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Author, "Leadership In Turbulent Times;" presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Roger Porter, IBM professor of business and government, Harvard Kennedy School; assistant to the president for Economic and Domestic Policy (1989 -1993)
TICKET WEB LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/lottery/american-presidency-21st-century-what-would-dick-neustadt-say
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS Al Gore, author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, president of the Moore Foundation Harvey Fineberg, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Roger Porter and Graham Allison ponder what Richard Neustadt would surmise about the state of the American presidency.This forum will require a ticket for entry. Enter the lottery at the link above before Tuesday, April 2 at midnight.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/lottery/american-presidency-21st-century-what-would-dick-neustadt-say
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Emerald Necklace Conservancy 2019 Annual Meeting: Parks & Health
Monday, April 8
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Simmons University, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center Simmons University, 300 Fenway, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58378546805
Join us at our 2019 Annual Meeting as we explore the intersections of parks and health with several engaging speakers. Also, hear from President Karen Mauney-Brodek as we recap the success of our 20th Anniversary year and share our plans for 2019 and beyond.
Presentations will be followed by a Q&A with our speakers and a reception.
Speakers include:
Sarah Jensen Carr
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape at Northeastern University
Carr’s teaching and research focuses on the connections between landscape, human health, urban ecology and design. She will share her research on Frederick Law Olmsted’s professional background in public health and how it influenced his work.
Angela Cleveland, AICP
Director of Client Services, Kim Lundgren Associates
President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association
Angela will discuss her work on a Health Impact Assessment of the social, environmental and economic benefits of planting street trees.
Wendy Heiger-Bernays, PhD
Clinical Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Peter James, ScD
Assistant Professor, Division of Chronic Disease Research across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Nora Moreno Cargie
Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Tufts Health Plan
President, Tufts Health Plan Foundation
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Tuesday, April 9
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Nanomaterials and Light for Sustainability and Societal Impact
Tuesday, April 9
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 5-234,
2019 Lord Lecture - Naomi J. Halas (Rice University)
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A Conversation with Professor Valentine Moghadam on Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, April 9
12:00pm
MIT, Building 66-168, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Join us for our third program in our series on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Professor Moghadam will lead us in a discussion on social issues in Saudi Arabia. Recently, Professor Moghadam has worked on gender dynamics of right-wing populist movements; on the interaction of social norms, institutions, and policies behind low female labor-force participation in the Middle East and North Africa; and on feminist activism as a factor in the divergent outcomes of the Arab Spring.
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Fintech Opportunity + Regulation: Fireside Chat
Tuesday, April 9
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
MIT, Building E62-223, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://bernergensler.eventbrite.com
Richard Berner of New York University's Stern School of Management and Gary Gensler of MIT's Sloan School of Management discuss fintech regulation in a "fireside chat." Lunch will be provided with RSVP.
Richard Berner is Executive-in-Residence at the Center for Global Economy and Business at the NYU Stern School of Business, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics. He teaches a graduate course in Financial Stability and Risk Management. Berner served as the first Director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR) from 2013 until 2017, and was Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury from April 2011 to 2013. Berner was a Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Economics and Chief U.S. Economist at Morgan Stanley, and Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Mellon Bank, and a member of Mellon's Senior Management Committee. Before joining Salomon Brothers, Morgan Guaranty Trust and Wharton Econometrics, Berner served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve in Washington. He is an Advisor to FinRegLab, a member of the Milken Fintech initiative, an Adviser to MacroPolicy Perspectives, and an Adviser to HData, Inc. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Gary Gensler is Senior Lecturer & Professor of the Practice as of 7/1/19, MIT Sloan School of Management; Senior Advisor to the Director, MIT Media Lab; Co-Director, Fintech at CSAIL; and Chairman of the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission. He formerly was Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, leading the Obama Administration’s reform of the $400 trillion swaps market. During the Clinton Administration, he was Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He was CFO for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Previously, Gensler was a partner at Goldman Sachs, including leading fixed income and currency trading in Asia and serving as co-head of Finance. He earned his MBA and BSE from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the 2014 Tamar Frankel Fiduciary Prize.
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Tuesday Seminar Series: Non-Policy Politics: Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies (book presentation)
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, Room S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) María Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, 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 book focuses on the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. In addition to proposing policies, parties deliver non-policy benefits, such as competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage. This book provides a unified view of how politicians deliver broad portfolios of policy and non-policy benefits to their constituency. Non-policy resources also shape parties' ideological positions. The book shows which type of electoral offers parties target to either poorer or richer voters and their implications in terms of democratic responsiveness. The theory is tested using both qualitative and quantitative research to establish how linkages between parties and voters shape the delivery of non-policy benefits in Argentina and Chile in the 2000s.
LINK https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/non-policy-politics-richer-voters-poorer-voters-and-diversification-electoral?delta=0
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ChileMass Innovation Day: The Future of Clean Technologies and Advanced Manufacturing
Tuesday, April 9
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
MIT Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/56648752945
We are delighted to invite you to our first conference “ChileMass Innovation Day - The Future of Clean Technologies and Advanced Manufacturing.” This event will take place at MIT’s Wong Auditorium, on April 9th, 2019, and it is organized by the Chile Massachusetts Alliance (“ChileMass”), in collaboration with the Embassy of Chile to the United States, CORFO and the MIT Chile Club.
ChileMass is a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization that fosters collaboration between Chile and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. CORFO, is the Chilean agency for economic development, and its current priorities are social, economic and environmental sustainability, together with the circular economy.
The conference aims to promote collaborative opportunities that will address the challenges of climate change, renewable energies, and advanced manufacturing, particularly considering the Chilean advantages in natural resources. Likewise, the event will promote the public call for a new Chilean Clean Technologies Institute, located in the North of Chile, which has a budget of $200 MM USD. We are inviting companies and institutions from the US to consider a future in Chile.
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Surmounting the Materials Roadblocks to Carbon Nanoelectronics, Water Separation, and Beyond
Tuesday, April 9
3:30pm to 4:30pm
MIT, Building 6-104, Chipman Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
The Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series presents Prof. Michael S. Arnold from the University of Wisconsin.
Three advances will be presented:
(A) Prof. Arnold's group has discovered how to manipulate the anisotropy of graphene CVD to synthesize narrow, long, smooth, and oriented graphene nanoribbons that are semiconducting. The nanoribbons have transport properties exceeding other synthesized nanoribbons and are grown directly on group-IV wafers, creating the possibility of hybrid carbon-silicon nanoelectronics.
(B) His group has advanced the self-assembly of electronics-grade, semiconducting carbon nanotubes into densely-packed aligned arrays and exploited the arrays to create FETs with on-state current densities exceeding Si and GaAs.[2]
(C) They have newly begun to study carbon-based separation membranes. Laminates of graphene oxide nanosheets have exhibited high water permeance and salt rejection. We have used experiments and modeling to show water transport pathways through such laminates are not as expected.[3]
[1] Nature Comm. (2015); ACS Nano (2017); Nano Lett. (2018); In Review (2019)
[2] Science Advances (2016); Langmuir (2017); Adv. Elect. Mater. (2018)
[3] ACS Nano (2018)
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UEA Lecture - The Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Drive to the Zero-Carbon Economy
Tuesday, April 9
4:00pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Building 2-190, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Nicholas Stern (The London School of Economics and Political Science).
The world economy will likely double in around two decades. And the world’s infrastructure will likely double a little more rapidly than that. At the same time to deliver on the Paris agreement, emissions will have to be cut sharply by 40% or more in that period. And the world will have to achieve net zero emissions within 50 years (with still stronger ambition if the target is set to 1.5oC). It is clear therefore, that the next two decades are critical for the sustainability of lives and livelihoods on the planet. However, the rapid change that we require can be the engine of inclusive growth and poverty reduction over these coming decades. It can be a growth story full of discovery, innovation, investment and inclusion. And embody much more attractive ways to live and work. This lecture/seminar will describe the urgency and magnitude of the challenge, discuss some of the key policies and actions, and show how the great opportunities offered by this transition can be taken.
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Film Screening and Q&A: The Prosecutors
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2019, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 436, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Leslie Thomas, Emmy Award-winning producer & director
Dara Kay Cohen, Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Jocelyn Kelly, Founding director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Women in War program
DETAILS "The Prosecutors" is the compelling story of Amani and Jasmin, two dedicated lawyers who fight to make sure that survivors of sexual violence in conflict get justice. The film was conceived out of a belief that the law is for everyone, especially those who have lived through unimaginable crimes during war — whether it be yesterday or 20 years ago.
Our story begins in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Amani and her colleagues are working daily to ensure that rape, sexual slavery, and other types of abuse are not simply considered "collateral damage" in a war that has taken the lives of over five million people. The film goes on to Bosnia, where Jasmin and other prosecutors are collaborating with a network of civil society partners to make sure that the tens of thousands of victims who experienced rape and other violations during the country's brutal war twenty years ago have a chance to see justice — no matter how long it takes.
LINK https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/film-screening-and-qa-prosecutors?admin_panel=1
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Strengthening Democracy by Modernizing Congress
Tuesday, April 9
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
Harvard, Wexner 332, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59327263442
Join the Ash Center for a workshop led by Technology and Democracy Fellow Zach Graves, and grow your understanding of recent efforts to modernize and strengthen Congress. This workshop will include interactive, hands-on exercises. Come prepared to engage, not just to listen!
Congress is supposed to be the democratically accountable, and most powerful, of the three branches of the federal government. Yet, its approval rating is about half that of President Donald Trump’s. Clearly, something must be broken.
This workshop will look at some of the causes of congressional dysfunction, focusing on its struggles to adapt to the Information Age. As we’ll show, this problem is more than just embarrassing late night show vignettes about our representatives interacting with Mark Zuckerberg. Workshop participants will learn about issues such as efforts to revive the Office of Technology Assessment, the outlook for the new House Select Committee on Modernizing Congress, the importance of digital services infrastructure, and the history of congressional decline. We’ll also cover how you can meaningfully engage to promote a stronger and healthier democracy. Registration is free, but required. Refreshments will be provided.
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2019 Muddy River Symposium: Protecting Boston's Urban Ecosystems
Tuesday, April 9
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Simmons University, Main College Building, Linda K. Paresky Center, 300 The Fenway, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-muddy-river-symposium-protecting-bostons-urban-ecosystems-tickets-55370042287
Keynote Speaker: Noah Wilson-Rich
Noah Wilson-Rich, Ph.D. is a biologist / MIT Research Affiliate / three-time TEDx speaker / beekeeper / uncle / and author of The Bee: A Natural History published by Princeton University Press. Noah is the co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Best Bees Company, a beekeeping service that installs and maintains honey beehives for residential gardens and commercial rooftops nationwide. Proceeds from The Best Bees Company go toward research to improve bee health at the 501(c)3 nonprofit Urban Beekeeping Laboratory.
Talk Title: Our Future with Bees
If you eat food, then you need bees. The world’s bees can create economic and ecological sustainability, if only we let them. As pollinators, bees bring us over 100 fruit and vegetable crops, and provide feed for our livestock industry. Yet, bees are dying at an alarming rate. Data from urban environments indicate that bees are doing better in cities. Why is this? Learn how to get involved in urban beekeeping, and how to save these vitally important creatures.
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Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice in Boston
Tuesday, April 9
5:15PM
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts "Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice in Boston" with Michael Brennan, University of Maine. Comment by Daniel Faber, Northeastern University.
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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The Commonwealth of Breath: Climate and Consciousness in a More-than-Human World
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT CSWR, 617.495.4476
DETAILS Bridging environmental studies with philosophy and anthropology, entwining natural history with theology and psychology, Dr. Abram will counterpose the theoretical abstraction of much climate discourse by discussing a range of indigenous, place-based understandings of our planet’s atmosphere and climate. By listening close to the diverse ways that air, weather, and climate are spoken of by diverse indigenous oral traditions, we may begin to discern the elemental atmosphere in a far more palpable manner, as a sensuous yet enigmatic dimension of reality intimately bound up with human activity, with spoken language, and even with sentience itself—that is, with the full-bodied sentience not only of humans but of other animals, of plants, and of the animate earth itself.
David Abram--cultural ecologist and geophilosopher--is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. Described as “daring” and “truly original” by Science, and as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Abram’s work has helped catalyze the emergence of several new disciplines, including the burgeoning field of ecopsychology. A close student of the traditional ecological knowledge of diverse indigenous peoples, David was the first contemporary philosopher to advocate for a reappraisal of "animism" as a complexly nuanced and uniquely viable worldview. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, and recently held the international Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and the Environment in Norway. Dr. Abram is creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE), an organization dedicated to cultural metamorphosis through a rejuvenation of place-based oral culture--the culture of face-to-face and face-to-place storytelling. He lives with his family in the foothills of the southern Rockies.
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The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at Its Roots
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2019, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, HGSE Campus, Longfellow Hall, 1st Floor, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Film, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Education Office of Student Affairs and the Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR)
SPEAKER(S) Jackson Katz, Author, educator, and activist
CONTACT INFO Kevin Boehm
boehmke1 at gse.harvard.edu
DETAILS "The Bystander Moment" tells the story of one of the most prominent and proven gender violence prevention model — the innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering activist and writer Jackson Katz and his colleagues. Following the film, there will be a discussion with Katz and time for questions and answers.
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The Pursuit: A Better World for All, Starting at the Margins
Tuesday, April 9
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Harvard Business School, Spangler Auditorium, Batten Way, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pursuit-harvard-university-tickets-58664947437
Join the Harvard Business School Free Enterprise Club for an exclusive prescreening of THE PURSUIT
About this Event
Please join the Harvard Business School Free Enterprise Club for an exclusive advance screening of the upcoming film THE PURSUIT on Tuesday April 9th, 2019 at 5:30pm. This prescreening will include an introduction and remarks by AEI President Arthur Brooks. Light meal and refreshments will be provided.
THE PURSUIT features Arthur Brooks as he crosses three continents in search of the secrets to a happier, more prosperous world, starting with those at the margins of society. You can view THE PURSUIT trailer and find out more about the film at The Pursuit Movie
THE PURSUIT premieres in cities across America the week of April 28th, however we are pleased to provide you with an advance showing on April 9th.
Questions? Reach out to Brian Linville, HBS Free Enterprise Club Co-President at blinville at mba2020.hbs.edu.
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
Tuesday, April 9
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, CambridgeTickets
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/jonathan_gruber_and_simon_johnson/
Cost: $6 - $29.75 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned economists and MIT professors JONATHAN GRUBER and SIMON JOHNSON for a discussion of their new book, Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream.
About Jump-Starting America
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and investors are disproportionately developing technologies that benefit the wealthiest Americans in the most prosperous areas—and destroying middle-class jobs elsewhere. To turn this tide, we must look to a brilliant and all-but-forgotten American success story and embark on a plan that will create the industries of the future—and the jobs that go with them.
Beginning in 1940, massive public investment generated breakthroughs in science and technology that first helped win WWII and then created the most successful economy the world has ever seen. Private enterprise then built on these breakthroughs to create new industries—such as radar, jet engines, digital computers, mobile telecommunications, life-saving medicines, and the internet—that became the catalyst for broader economic growth that generated millions of good jobs. We lifted almost all boats, not just the yachts.
Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson tell the story of this first American growth engine and provide the blueprint for a second. It's a visionary, pragmatic, sure-to-be-controversial plan that will lead to job growth and a new American economy in places now left behind.
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Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Wild Animals
Tuesday, April 9
6:00pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Richard Wrangham, Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Domesticated animals such as dogs, pigs, and horses often sport floppy ears, patches of white hair, and other features that are unknown in their wild ancestors. These traits—collectively referred to by scientists as a “domestication syndrome”—are the result of breeding less aggressive individuals. Drawing from his new book, The Goodness Paradox (2019, Pantheon Books), Richard Wrangham will show that our cousin apes, the bonobos, also exhibit a domestication syndrome, making them the first clear example of a “wild domesticate.” Self-domestication in the wild now seems likely to be a widespread phenomenon, responsible even for the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens.
Free Public Lecture and Book Signing
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Finding a Solution to Wasted Food: Parker Hughes, Brüzd Foods
Tuesday, April 9
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard, CGIS Knafel -K050, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-a-solution-to-wasted-food-parker-hughes-bruzd-foods-tickets-55299359874
Every year, about 60 million tons of produce end up in US landfills. Many fruits and veggies are tossed because they’re cosmetically imperfect: too small, too big, too oddly shaped, or too blemished for supermarkets to sell. Local startup, Brüzd Foods’ solution is to pick up these "ugly,” yet perfectly edible, fruits and vegetables from farms across MA and deliver them to homes throughout Boston every week. Learn more about how this business got off the ground, and how you, as a consumer, can continue to eat more sustainably.
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A Deep Dive into the Orange Line
Tuesday April 9
7:30 - 9:30pm
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-deep-dive-into-the-orange-line-tickets-58997870218
Cost: $15 – $18
Tuesday in the Parlor - A Deep Dive into the Orange Line with Jeremy Fox and Andrew Elder
Back at the Loring Greenough House by popular demand, Jeremy Fox and Andrew Elder, authors of Boston's Orange Line, will be back in the neighborhood where the elevated Orange Line had such an impact.
Join us for a lecture and Q&A about all things MBTA Orange Line.
Jeremy C. Fox is a writer, editor, and online producer for the Boston Globe and a previous staff writer for the Watertown Tab. His writing has appeared in the Bay State Banner, the Boston Phoenix, Film Threat, the Gay and Lesbian Review, the Jamaica Plain Gazette, Time Out, the Weekly Dig, and other publications.
Andrew Elder is Interim University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections in the Healey Library at UMass Boston and is co-chair of the Board of Directors for The History Project, a community-based archives that documents, preserves, and shares the history of Boston’s LGBTQ communities. He has an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and a B.A. in English and Women's Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Wednesday, April 10
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How Change Happens
Wednesday, April 10
12pm
Harvard, WCC Milstein West A/B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Case Sunstein
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Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing From Empires to the Global Era
Wednesday, April 10
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496, Pye Room, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
T.V. Paul (McGill University)
SUMMARY This presentation is based on the book with the same title (Yale University Press, 2018) which examines a crucial element of state behavior -- the use of international institutions, informal alignments and economic instruments such as sanctions -- to constrain the power and threatening behavior of dominant actors. Much of International Relations scholarship fails to capture the use of these non-military instruments for constraining superior power. The soft balancing debate for over a decade has generated much literature and criticisms. However, it has been used exclusively in the context of responses by second-tier states toward U.S. power. This book expands and tests soft balancing arguments to historical eras (such as the Concert of Europe, and the League of Nations during the interwar period) and the emerging/resurging powers, China and Russia while responding to criticisms aired against the concept and strategy. It seeks to explore: under what conditions do states resort to soft balancing as opposed to hard balancing (relying on formal military alliances and intense arms buildups)? When do they combine both? What are the differences and similarities between the 20th and 21st century cases of soft balancing--one under multipolarity, the other under near-unipolarity? When do soft balancing efforts elicit hostile reactions and when do they produce positive results? Finally, what are the implications of soft balancing for the rise of new great powers and the international order, especially conflict and cooperation among them in the 21st century's globalized international system?
BIO T.V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was President of International Studies Association (ISA) during 2016-17. Paul is the author or editor of 18 books and over 70 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, International Security, and South Asia.
SSP Wednesday Seminar
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Carbon Removal - A New American Agricultural Product: How Carbon Farming and Building Soil Health Will Fight Climate Change
Wednesday, April 10
1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern
RSVP at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yJ2UHDYqToywR1h_EQpLlw
Farm lands can absorb significant global carbon emissions if farmers adopt agricultural practices that remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil.
Thanks to the collaboration of E2 and a broad coalition of agriculture and environmental partners, along with the crucial support of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the 2018 Farm Bill enacted last December includes an important new provision to reward farmers for improving soil health while reducing atmospheric carbon.
The Soil Health Demonstration Trial program provides tools and funding to incentivize American farmers to adopt smart soil management practices, as well as establishes metrics that will quantify their carbon reduction impacts. This creates a potential new revenue stream for farmers to sell credits through carbon markets or participate in other climate mitigation programs - all while reducing operating costs and improving soil fertility and crop resilience.
Please join E2 and some of our Farm Bill coalition partners for this month’s national webinar on this new soil health pilot program and the value proposition to fight climate change by rewarding farmers for carbon performance.
Speakers:
Ron Wyden, Senior Senator from Oregon, Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee
David Kolsrud, South Dakota Farmer, President, DAK Renewable Energy
Claire O’Connor, Director, Water & Agriculture, Water Division, Nature Program, NRDC
Paul Zorner, CEO, Locus Agricultural Solutions, Adjunct Professor of Horticulture, North Carolina State University
Moderated by Nicole Lederer, E2 Co-Founder and Chair
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
10:30 - 11:30 AM Pacific // 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Mountain //
12:30 - 1:30 PM Central //
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rescue
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Evie Shockley
2018–2019 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; Professor of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; Poet
COST Free
CONTACT INFO events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS In this lecture, Shockley will talk about her new poem in which a group of people, after confronting a barely averted environmental apocalypse, must grapple with what it means to be human in a dramatically changed world.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-evie-shockley-fellow-presentation
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EAPS Department Lecture Series: Topographic controls on marine-terminating glacier dynamic response in Greenland
Wednesday, April 10
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915/923, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Ginny Catania (University of Texas, Austin)
The terminus region of marine-terminating outlet glaciers represents the regions where the ice sheet, ocean, and atmosphere all act together through a suite of processes to impact glacier behavior. Several mechanisms have been identified that can cause terminus retreat, however the long-term impact of retreat on inland glacier dynamics has not been well understood. In part, this is because not all glaciers behave the same after a terminus perturbation; some glaciers undergo significant retreat and thinning and others do not. We explore the role that fjord and glacier topography plays on the dynamic response of outlet glaciers to terminus perturbations by examining the topography both at the glacier terminus, and inland, where it can impact how thinning spreads into the ice sheet interior. We find that topography plays an important role in controlling the total sea-level rise from marine-terminating glaciers over the next century and we identify smaller glaciers that have a high potential to contribute to sea-level rise because their topography will allow thinning to spread far inland. Additionally, heterogeneous patterns of glacier geometry around the Greenland Ice Sheet are to a large degree responsible for the observed, modern heterogeneity in glacier dynamics.
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Warming and Welfare: Global Micro-Evidence
Wednesday, April 10
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Marshall Burke, Stanford University, and Marshall Burke, Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/44157
Contact Name: Casey Billings
casey_billings at hks.harvard.edu
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Panel: Is Identity Politics a Threat to Democracy?
WHEN Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S020 (Belfer Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy
SPEAKER(S) Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI); Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford University
Ashley Jardina, Assistant professor of political science, Duke University
Michael Tesler, Associate professor of political science, UC Irvine
CONTACT INFO jbarnard at wcfia.harvard.edu
LINK https://populism.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/panel-identity-politics-threat-democracy
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Civic Arts Series: “Thumbs Type and Swipe” featuring DIS’s Lauren Boyle
Wednesday, April 10
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Introduction by Amy Rosenblum Martín, Independent Curator and Educator, Guggenheim
DIS (est. 2010) is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects.
In 2018 the collective transitioned platforms from an online magazine, dismagazine.com, to a video streaming edutainment platform, dis.art, narrowing in on the future of education and entertainment.
DIS Magazine (2010-2017); DISimages (2013), DISown (2014), Curators of the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, The Present in Drag (2016); DIS.art (2018–); Exhibited and organized shows at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Baltimore Museum of Art; and Project Native Informant, London. DIS has also been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum all in New York; and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; ICA Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, among others.
The material presented by DIS today is the result of a change in attitude towards the present and aims to meet the demands of contemporary social, political, and economic complexity at eye level.
Introducer Amy Rosenblum Martín is a bilingual (English/Spanish) curator of contemporary art, committed to equity and community engagement. Formerly a staff curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (when it was MAM) and The Bronx Museum, she has also organized exhibitions, written and/or lectured independently for la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, MoMA, The Metropolitan, MACBA in Barcelona, the Reina Sofía, and Kunsthaus Bregenz as well as the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum. Her 20 years of interdepartmental museum work include 10 years at the Guggenheim. Rosenblum Martín’s expertise is in Latin America, focusing on transhistorical connections among Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Caracas, Havana, Miami, and New York.
She has worked with Janine Antoni, Lothar Baumgarten, Guy Ben-Ner, Janet Cardiff, Eloísa Cartonera, Consuelo Castañeda, Lygia Clark, Willie Cole, Jeannette Ehlers, Teresita Fernández, Naomi Fisher, Marlon Griffith, Lucio Fontana, Dara Friedman, Luis Gispert, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Adler Guerrier, Ann Hamilton, Quisqueya Henríquez, Leslie Hewitt, Nadia Huggins, Deborah Jack, Seydou Keita, Gyula Kosice, Matthieu Laurette, Miguel Luciano, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, Antoni Miralda, Marisa Morán Jahn, Glexis Novoa, Hélio Oiticica, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Manuel Piña, Miguel Angel Ríos, Bert Rodriguez, Marco Roso, Nancy Rubins, George Sánchez-Calderón, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Tomás Saraceno, Karin Schneider, Regina Silveira, Lorna Simpson, Valeska Soares, Javier Tellez, Joaquín Torres García, and Fred Wilson, among many other remarkable artists.
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Angela Stent: Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
Wednesday, April 10
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Tufts, Alumnae Lounge, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/angela-stent-putins-world-russia-against-the-west-and-with-the-rest-tickets-55496953883
The Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School is pleased to award its first annual U.S.-Russia Relations Book Prize to Professor Angela Stent of Georgetown University for her new book Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest (2019). The award recognizes an outstanding book on historical or contemporary foreign policy discourse pertaining to the past or present of U.S.-Russia relations. Please join us for a book talk by Stent on Russia's foreign policy and its role in contemporary world affairs. Refreshments will be provided. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite.
How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West’s distraction with its own domestic problems and U.S. ambivalence about whether it still wants to be a superpower? From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a must-read dissection of present-day Russian motives and actions on the world stage. Putin's World examines the country’s turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians’ understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions—and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the Soviet collapse.
Angela Stent is Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-2006, she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001, she served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. Stent’s academic work focuses on the triangular political and economic relationship between the United States, Russia, and Europe. Her last book is The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian relations in the Twenty-First Century (2014), for which she won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon prize for the best book on the practice of American Diplomacy.
She was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commanderin Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Philip Breedlove. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a contributing editor to Survival and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies, World Policy Journal, Internationale Politik, and Mirovaia Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnie Otnosheniie. She has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Russia and Central Asia. She is a Trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Stent received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her M.Sc. with distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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Chasing Ants (And Their Microbes) in the Rainforest
Wednesday, April 10
6:00PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall (100), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Livestreaming Information: This event will be livestreamed on the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Facebook page. A recording of this program will be available on the HMSC Lecture Videos page approximately three weeks after the lecture.
Corrie Moreau, Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Cornell University
Microbes play critical roles in the biology and health of human beings, but we are not the only species that benefits from intimate relationships with microbes. Ants, for instance, rely on the microbial communities living in their guts to process food and make strong armor. Corrie Moreau will discuss this unique aspect of ant biology and what it tells us about the diversity and dominance of ants in terrestrial ecosystems, the evolutionary history of social insects, and the broad-scale evolutionary patterns of life.
Corrie Moreau's research on the evolution and diversification of ants and their symbiotic bacteria leverages molecular and genomic tools to address the origin of species and how co-evolved systems benefit both partners. She also pursues questions on the role of biogeography and symbiosis in shaping macroevolutionary processes to better understand broad-scale evolutionary patterns of life. Moreau is also engaged with efforts to promote science communication and to increase diversity in the sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and completed her undergraduate and master degrees in Biology at San Francisco State University. She was elected an AAAS Fellow in 2018, a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences USA in 2016, and highlighted as a Woman of Impact by the National Geographic Society in 2018.
Evolution Matters Lecture Series. Series supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit. Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the Microbial Sciences Initiative at Harvard University
Contact Name: hmnh at hmsc.harvard.edu
https://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/chasing-ants-and-their-microbes-rainforest
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A Conversation with Former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Margaret Marshall
Wednesday, April 10
6-7:30 p.m.
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston
An Evening with Former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Margaret Marshall, the first woman to serve in the position, one that she held from 1999 until she retired in 2010. During her tenure, she worked to ensure equal access to justice for all, including our most vulnerable populations.
Born and educated in South Africa, Marshall actively opposed the apartheid regime, and served as the President of the National Union of South African students, a leading anti-apartheid organization. In 1968, she came to the United States on an academic scholarship. Unable to return home because of her political activism, she graduated from Harvard University with a master’s degree in education and Yale Law School, and worked in private practice until the 1990s. From her early days in South Africa, Marshall has been a defender of human rights and equality for all individuals, as reflected in her judicial decisions.
Margery Eagan, co-host of WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio, will serve as the evening’s moderator.
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
Wednesday, April 10
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed writer, editor, and critic NATHANIEL RICH—author of Odds Against Tomorrow—for a discussion of his latest book, Losing Earth: A Recent History, an expansion of his groundbreaking New York Times Magazine long-form story.
About Losing Earth
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change―including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours.
The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon―the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight.
Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.
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Improved Medicare for All Forum
Wednesday, April 10
7-9pm Refreshments 6:45, Speakers 7-9 PM
Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Building C, Cannon Room (114)
A new "battle ready" bill (HR 1384) was introduced in February 2019 with over 100 congressional supporters, an historic moment in the struggle for universal health care. Doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and patients are in a unique position to drive healthcare reform to prioritize patients over profits, and the time is now to build power to win. Speakers include:
Former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Angell is a national leader in health policy and medical ethics. She is a member of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH
Pulmonary specialist at Cambridge Health Alliance/ Harvard Medical School, Dr Gaffney is President of PNHP, a prolific writer and blogger on health policy, and author of the book To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History
Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH
Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Health Policy in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, Adjunct Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr Woolhandler is co-founder of PNHP.
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Thursday, April 11 - Friday, April 12
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Controlling Death? The policies, practices, and ethics of choosing when we die
Thursday, April 11 - Friday, April 12
Harvard Medical School Campus, Boston
RSVP at https://www.events.harvard.edu/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=E6C5C1B3-5AAC-4BCF-B4DF-C030421225E1&&varPage=register
This two-day conference will explore ethical, legal, and clinical aspects of evolving practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted death. How ought we to think about the choices of determining the time and manner of death for our loved ones, our patients, and ourselves? How should the health and legal professions respond to these rapidly evolving practices and choices?
About the Conference: The Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference convenes leaders in the field to explore ethical questions and concerns in healthcare. Held each April, this conference facilitates conversations among experts, and supports members of ethics committees, health care professionals, bioethicists, administrators, attorneys and others who are interested in addressing ethical issues.
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Thursday, April 11
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Should Robots Be Our Friends? Ethical and social scientific implications of the growing emotional engagement of humans with AI agents and robots.
Thursday, April 11
all day
BU Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston
Artificial intelligence is increasingly prevalent in our work, social, and civic lives. From the ubiquitous voice-enabled personal assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri to autonomous vehicles and robotic elder care, AI permeates contemporary life; it is critical that researchers interrogate what it means to be human in a world of AI. To that end, Boston University presents an international symposium, inviting scholars, policy-makers, and analysts to collaboratively investigate artificial intelligence in relationship to society, specifically exploring issues such as labor, ethics, emotions, and identity.
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New Rules for New Tech
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall , Belfer Building, 5th Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Tom Wheeler, M-RCBG senior research fellow and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman (2013-2017)
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar will be given by Tom Wheeler, M-RCBG senior research fellow and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman (2013-2017). Lunch will be served.
RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
LINK https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar#nextevent
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Participatory modeling for environmental planning
Thursday, April 11
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Moira Zellner, Associate Professor, University of Illinois – Chicago.
This talk will discuss how the use of visualization tools in collaborative water planning efforts allow people who are planning for future water sustainability to see the hidden aspects of land- and water-use decisions on water supply and flooding, and how such visualization contributes to collective deliberation and innovation. Moira Zellner’s team developed a collaborative complex systems modeling approach, where stakeholders worked in small groups around different types of models—from highly abstracted models to geographically detailed models of land use, water use, and water dynamics—to recognize and assess the interactive impacts of different planning strategies. This talk focuses on the modeling and facilitation strategies that supported stakeholders' planning with an understanding of complexity.
Dr. Moira Zellner is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at University of Illinois – Chicago. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Moira earned her undergraduate degree in ecology at the Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas and pursued graduate studies in urban and regional planning and in complex systems at the University of Michigan . Before coming to the United States, she worked as a consultant on environmental issues for local and international environmental engineering firms and for the undersecretary of environment in the city of Buenos Aires. Dr. Zellner’s current work includes greenway development and river
restoration projects in Miami Beach and in California, and transportation surveys. In her position at UIC, she has served as primary investigator and co-investigator for multi-disciplinary projects studying how specific policy, technological, and behavioral changes can effectively address a range of complex social and environmental problems, where interaction effects make responsibilities and burdens unclear. Her research also examines the value of complexity-based modeling for participatory policy exploration and social learning with stakeholders. Moira teaches a variety of workshops on complexity-based modeling of socio-ecological systems, for training of both scientists and decision-makers.
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The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
Thursday, April 11
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, The Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2019/03/19/upcoming-seminar-the-job-work-and-its-future-in-a-time-of-radical-change/
Join us for a Pardee Center seminar, "The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change," on Thursday, April 11. The panel will feature Ellen Ruppel Shell (Pardee Center Faculty Associate and Professor and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Science Journalism), Patricia Cortes (Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at the Questrom School of Business), and Michel Anteby (Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Questrom School of Business).
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The Business Case for Sustainable Development
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, Allison Dining Room (5th Floor), 15 Elliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever (2009-2018)
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar will be given by Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever (2009-2018). Lunch will be served. RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
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CSAIL Alliances Lecture: Behavioral Planning and How to Escape the Hype Cycle of Autonomous Vehicles
Thursday, April 11
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building E32 - D463, Ray and Maria Stata Center, Star Conference Room, Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join CSAIL Alliances for a talk featuring May Mobility's Edwin Olson.
The hype cycle for autonomous vehicles has reached the disillusionment phase. Why have robo-taxis not lived up to their promises? While many point to the many subtle/rare edge-cases that a self-driving vehicle might encounter (like policemen directing traffic or the moral brain teasers known as trolley problems), the reality is more mundane: self-driving cars perform poorly even in routine interactions with other road users. The problem is that other road users dynamically react to the actions of the self-driving car; those interactions must not only be understood but also actively manipulated.
In this talk, I'll describe a planning approach called Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) that helps autonomous vehicles understand and exploit the coupled behavior of the agents on a roadway. I'll present results from controlled experiments using small robots as well as comment on lessons learned through the commercial deployment of MPDM in autonomous vehicles on public roads in downtown Detroit and Columbus. We believe this technology can help push self-driving vehicles past the disillusionment phase, starting with shuttles and eventually tackling robo-taxis.
About the Speaker
Edwin Olson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, and co-founder/CEO of May Mobility, Inc., which develops self-driving shuttles. He earned his PhD from MIT in 2008 for work in robot mapping. He has worked on autonomous vehicles for over a decade, including work on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, vehicles for Ford and Toyota Research Institute, and now May Mobility. His academic research includes work on perception, planning, and mapping. He was awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award, named one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10", and was winner of the 2010 MAGIC robotics competition. He is perhaps best known for his work on AprilTags, SLAM using MaxMixtures and SGD, and Multi-Policy Decision Making.
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HILT Education Innovation Showcase
Thursday, April 11
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Harvard Innovation Labs, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hilt-education-innovation-showcase-tickets-57711159632
Please join us for an afternoon of education innovation sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT). This University-wide event will spotlight HILT-funded prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations related to learning, teaching, and advancement in education. Come learn about these amazing projects created by Harvard faculty, staff, and students! We hope you'll adopt some models into your own teaching or learning, provide helpful feedback to our innovators, and be inspired to develop an education innovation of your own!
For more information about this event, please email: hilt_grants at harvard.edu
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Starr Forum: Night Watch: A discussion about nuclear warfare
Thursday, April 11
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E14-674, Media Lab, Multipurpose Room, 75 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starr-forum-night-watch-a-discussion-about-nuclear-warfare-tickets-54382036134
Speakers: Alexander Maggio, is a writer and producer on the CBS drama MADAM SECRETARY. He was part of the team that developed the story of "Night Watch" and figured out how to dramatize the danger of hair-trigger alert status. As an MFA graduate of UCLA, his thesis play, LOST CAUSE, was an Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition runner-up and an O’Neill Semifinalist. His theatrical work has been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Aspen and Santa Cruz. Before becoming a playwright, Alex worked as an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC, and as Teaching Fellow in History for Andover Phillips Academy. In his spare time, he’s a trivia junkie trying to relive his glory days on JEOPARDY!, where he was a three-day champion. B.A. Yale University.
Vipin Narang, MIT nuclear security expert, associate professor of political science and a member of MIT’s Security Studies Program, will discuss the threat of nuclear war today.
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies, Mass Peace Action
Free & open to the public | Refreshments served
Can't attend in person? Watch it on Facebook live or on-demand on YouTube.
For more information or accessibility accommodations please contact starrforum at mit.edu.
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Gutman Library Book Talk: The Alliance Way: The Making of a Bully-Free School
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Gutman Libary
SPEAKER(S) Tina Owen-Moore
TICKET WEB LINK Please RSVP: bit.ly/TheAllianceWay
CONTACT INFO Myanne Krivoshey
DETAILS Filled with real stories from an innovative school with a critical and compelling mission, The Alliance Way is an inspiring and practical resource for educators seeking answers on how to make schools engaging, accepting, and safe for all students.
LINK https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/the-alliance-way#
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The Longevity Revolution is here: Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Thursday, April 11
5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Cambridge Innovation Center, 245 Main Street, 3rd Floor Mosaic Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/the-longevity-revolution/
Cost: $25 Members; $25 Livestream Members; $45 Non-Members: $45 Livestream Non-Members; $10 Students; $10 Livestream Students; $5 Student Members; $5 Livestream Student Members
This event will be live streamed - select the live stream ticket option @ checkout if you would like to watch the event online.
If you registered for the live stream, you'll be emailed a link & password between 5:30PM & 6:00PM on the day of the event
The massive shift in the demographics of aging is generating unprecedented entrepreneurial opportunities. The world needs scalable, tech-enabled innovations that serve the evolving needs of the rapidly increasing older adult population.
This emerging phenomenon – The Longevity Economy- will drive change in every aspect of life from health care and social services to new hardware and software solutions that allow people to live truly connected, healthier fulfilling lives.
Today’s 50+ year-olds control almost 80% of US aggregate net worth and they are increasingly more tech-savvy. They are heavy users of the Internet and social networking, they spend more money online than either Gen X or Gen Y consumers and they are looking for innovations to help them age well, including access to affordable and quality:
lifelong engagement and aging in community
medical care
economic security
service-enriched housing
mobility
assistance with activities of daily living
age-friendly products that are designed without stigma
radical advances in brain health and chronic disease management
Companies that fully grasp the opportunities generated by the Longevity Economy will enjoy a 106 million-plus market (in the U.S.) that is expected to spend $20 billion in 2020 for elder focused products and services alone. Come learn how you can participate in the Longevity Economy from industry thought leaders and entrepreneurs who are blazing the trail.
The MIT Enterprise Forum is partnering with AGENCY - a co-working space for collective impact where innovators focused on aging and longevity can grow their companies.
Moderator
Jody Holtzman, Senior Managing Partner, Longevity Venture Partners
Speakers
Moulay Elalamy, Vice President, IT, Benchmark Senior Living
Codi Gharagouzloo, CEO, Imaginostics
Phil Lambert, Senior Vice President, Discovery and Labs, Life Biosciences
Kendra Seavey, Clinical Administration Director, care.coach
Host
Danielle D. Duplin, Cofounder and Global Launch Director, AGENCY
Event Schedule
Registration & Networking: 5:30 - 6:00 PM
Welcome and Panel Discussion: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Networking hour after the event: 8:00 - 9:00 PM
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RPP Colloquium on Indigenous Guardianship, Nature, and Peace
Thursday, April 11
6 - 8:30pm
Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://rpp/hds.harvard.edu
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Carceral Capitalism: A Book Reading and Discussion with Jackie Wang
Thursday, April 11
6:30pm
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-reading-jackie-wang-tickets-58379156629
Artworks on view in Kapwani Kiwanga: Safe Passage raise issues of racialized surveillance and the power dynamics of being seen and unseen. Join Jackie Wang for a reading and discussion of her latest book, Carceral Capitalism, a collection of essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. Wang will examine contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s continuing the lineage of surveillance in its relation to blackness in America.
Speaker Bio: Jackie Wang is a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, performer, library rat, trauma monster and PhD student at Harvard University. She is the author of a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, as well as a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb.
Copies of Carceral Capitalism will be made for sale at the event by the MIT Press Bookstore.
This program is free and open to the general public but RSVPs are required. RSVP here.
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RPP Colloquium: "Indigenous Guardianship, Nature, and Peace: Holistic Being and Living"
Thursday, April 11
6 – 8:30pm
Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cYk7nGwARPM8xQ9
Margarita Mora, Director of Partnerships, Nia Tero
Indira S. Raimberdy, Executive Director, Peace Building Center
Moderator
Professor Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
About Margarita Mora: Margarita Mora has dedicated the past 16 years to devising and implementing strategies for supporting indigenous peoples and communities efforts to protect nature. She led Conservation International's Conservation Stewards Program, a pioneer in the conservation agreements model, and has been involved in setting fair deals in 19 countries around the globe. She is applying the lessons and experiences from this work to shape Nia Tero's approach to building partnerships with indigenous peoples worldwide. This involves supporting indigenous peoples self-determined vision to strengthen their culture, wisdom and nature. Margarita believes that if ecosystems that are vital for humanity's well-being are to thrive, the people who have sustained these places and are most knowledgeable about them must also thrive. She is a Conservation Fellow a the Mulago Foundation, a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, and Heinrich Böll Stiftung alumna.
Focus of Margarita's talk: Margarita will provide an overview of indigenous guardianship and the need to use holistic approaches that do not split indigenous peoples' identity and culture from the management and protection of their territories. She will share experiences where indigenous peoples' efforts to strengthen guardianship over their territories has also led to them strengthening their culture and practices and to reducing conflict.
About Indira Raimberdieva: Between 1998 and 2008 Indira worked on main stream consensus building, meditation and preventive community empowerment with inter-ethnic cross-border communities located in the Ferghana Valley (area between Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). After many disappointments with main stream approaches to conflict, she started searching for solutions related to the human soul rather than infrastructure, laws and other external regulations. In 2008 Indira established the Peace Building Center, a non-governmental organization focused on in-depth exploration, revival and practical application of nomadic traditional cultures for conceptualization of spiritually-oriented models of development in post-Soviet society and peaceful culture based on conflict transformation.
Focus of Indira's talk: Indira will share a comparative analysis of indigenous culture and religious systems dominating Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia, and will talk about the importance of indigenous culture as a coherent system of values and life practices that can enhance peace potential at both individual and collective levels.
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
Thursday April 11
6:30 pm
Public Library of Brookline, 31 Pleasant Street, Brookline
Meredith May in conversation with Noah Wilson-Rich
This event will take place at the Coolidge Corner location of the Public Library of Brookline. Meredith will be in conversation with Noah Wilson-Rich.
An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. In that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees.
Part memoir, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life.
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Rip Rapson with Maurice Cox and Toni Griffin
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Rip Rapson, Maurice Cox, Toni Griffin
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/rip-rapson-with-maurice-cox-and-toni-griffin/
CONTACT INFO Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS Join us for a keynote conversation between Rip Rapson, president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, urban planner Maurice Cox and Professor Toni L. Griffin as part of the Just City conference.
LINK https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/rip-rapson-with-maurice-cox-and-toni-griffin/
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Thursday, April 11
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/henry_louis_gates_jr2/
Cost: $6 - $32.00 (book included)
Harvard Book Store and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University welcome preeminent scholar, literary critic, and filmmaker HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.—founding Director of the Hutchins Center—for a discussion of his latest book, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. He'll be joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Columbia University professor ERIC FONER.
About Stony the Road
The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the "nadir" of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance.
Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age.
The story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored "home rule" to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation.
An essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, Stony the Road is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds.
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"Bias" Documentary Film Screening & Discussion
WHEN Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 7:15 – 9:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Langdell Hall South, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Boston Law Collaborative
SPEAKER(S) Robin Hauser, Filmmaker & Audrey Lee, Mediator & Executive Director, BLC Institute
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Polly Hamlen, Program on Negotiation
mhamlen at law.harvard.edu
(617) 496-9383
DETAILS The documentary feature "bias" follows filmmaker Robin Hauser on a journey to uncover her hidden biases and explore how unconscious bias defines relationships, workplaces, our justice system, and technology. The film includes interviews withMahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, and explores the results of the Implicit Assumption Test. A Q&A session with filmmaker Robin Hauser will follow the screening.
LINK https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/pon-events-upcoming/
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A Vision Sharing Session for Renewable Energy in Massachusetts
Thursday, April 11
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square
with Andrew McLeod of McLeod Consulting
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way”
- Abraham Lincoln
Let “the thing” be a vision for renewable energy in Massachusetts. What are your dreams for this? What happens when we share our dreams with others? Can we find some common vision that inspires and unites us?
The purpose of this meeting is to hear from you about what could be achieved in the years and decades ahead. Andrew McLeod has conducted vision sharing sessions that lead organizations to greater clarity and a unifying path to move forward. This BASEA Forum is about stepping back for a wide view of a future that we want to see. More details to follow: sign up for Forum announcements at our website:
Boston Area Solar Energy Association at http://www.basea.org
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Noam Chomsky & Amy Goodman, Movie Premiere & Live Presentations
Thursday, April 11
7:30 PM
Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/562342094280788/
Noam Chomsky premieres "Internationalism or Extinction" and surveys the political moment in his first major talk in the Boston area in two years. Noam will be joined by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.
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Friday, April 12 - Sunday, April 21
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Cambridge Science Festival
https://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/schedule-2019/
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Friday, April 12
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Building Sustainable Peace in Iraq: The Role of Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Peace Building
Friday, April 12
8:30 am to 5:00 pm
BU, 121 Bay State Road, Boston
One of the most costly and aggressive interventions in American history, the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 ushered in an era of state collapse, insecurity, ethno-religious violence, and new forms of authoritarianism culminating in the rise of ISIL in 2014. Current narratives of Iraq have eschewed tackling questions of transitional justice and post-conflict peace building. This workshop brings together leading experts on Iraq to explore how Iraqi state and society relations can benefit from peace-building paradigms as mechanisms for addressing stalled democratization.
Speakers include Shamiran Mako, Marsin Alshamary, Zahra Ali, Michael Youash, Ruba Al Hassani, Ibrahim Al Marashi, Toby Dodge, Hannibal Travis, and Alistair Edgar.
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Saturday, April 13
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Turning Points in Architecture, Design, and Research | Symposium
Saturday, April 13
9:00am to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turning-points-in-architecture-design-and-research-tickets-57138905003
Cost: $25
MIT President Rafael Reif described the "ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI" as a "turning point" that prompted the recent establishment of the new College of Computing at MIT. As MIT celebrates 150 years of architecture education and the School of Architecture and Planning plans its move to the MET Warehouse, we pause to reflect on the present and project futures for education, practice, and research at this critical juncture. Turning Points is an opportunity to reflect, individually and collectively, on the status and stakes of architecture, design, and research. As thinking of the future is always part of an architect's task, we come together to discuss crucial and necessary moments of change, past and present.
The symposium is open to the public on April 13, 2019. Please register here.
MIT Department of Architecture | Spring 2019 Lecture Series
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Grow a Meadow, Large or Small
Saturday, April 13
10:00AM
Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown
RSVP at https://connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/e435c942-ec37-4963-a706-b774bfce8d55
Cost: $88.00
Join Grow Native Massachusetts for this intensive seminar with Kathy Connolly, landscape designer and owner of Speaking of Landscapes!
A native meadow is an ecologically vibrant landscape, providing food and habitat to native pollinators and other wildlife. The deep, undisturbed roots of mature meadow plants capture and store carbon. Meadows rarely need visits from lawnmowers or leaf-blowers, thus reducing air pollution and neighborhood noise. But meadows are not simply lawns or perennial beds gone wild. Understanding why meadows are different is critical to success. Designer Kathy Connolly will lead this intensive seminar, covering everything from the definition of a meadow, to site selection and preparation, the relationship of grasses and flowering species, and useful maintenance protocols. Class enrollment includes Kathy’s extensive plant lists and design resources. This is a great course for anyone, from home gardeners to professional landscapers, looking to take a deep dive into the ins and outs of meadow-making.
Kathy Connolly is a landscape designer, writer, and teacher, who brings over 20 years of experience in creating and tending meadows. She works with a range of clients, from homeowners to state parks, to develop meadows and other naturalized plantings, and has taught workshops throughout New England. Kathy has a Master’s degree in landscape design from the Conway School.
Continuing education credits will be available. Learn more about all of our workshop programs at https://www.grownativemass.org/programs/workshops.
Call 781-790-8921
More information
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Civic XR Dev Jam
Saturday, April 13
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM EDT
Brookline Interactive Group, 46 Tappan Street, 3rd Floor, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-xr-dev-jam-tickets-58121495959?fbclid=IwAR1Lv-111TJKmHLM5oMRD8buFFROrqKKSxdJkQDtH34UDWiIwTI3_cqxf0c
Cost: $0 – $8
BIG, the Public VR Lab and Boston VR are hosting a Civic XR Dev Jam and Community XR hackathon. The focus of this event is to create XR projects in the public interest, so come with your ideas for how you can use your powers of coding, producing, imagining, and creating for the public GOOD!
Volunteer mentors, hardware and coder experts, as well as 360 video production specialists, will be on hand to help you work as a team to create XR content for non-commercial civic engagement and public projects. Share your ideas with us, join a team, or just show up and create for humanity on a Saturday! Sign up to volunteer, mentor or participate here, and indicate the role you'd prefer.
If you're new to XR or come from traditional media, this is a great opportunity to learn about the industry, emerging media for storytelling, journalism, and public projects, and join us in building Community XR, a new field that supports community-based VR/AR making, access to equipment, tools, and training for the public. We'll start the day with a class and a hands-on workshop on both beginner and more advanced tracks.
Stay tuned for the class descriptions, and sign up to join us for a day of learning and sharing our VR/AR expertise!
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Tar Sands Songbook: A Documentary Performance about Music, Memory and Oil
Saturday, April 13
7pm
Harvard Epworth Church, 155 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge
A Benefit concert for the Better Future Project and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate by a musician and artist who grew up in Fort MacMurray, Alberta - long the land of oil and now the home of Tar Sands. She became a musician because she never wanted to see oil again. And now she's back . . .
Tanya Kalmanovitch is a Canadian violinist, ethnomusicologist and educator. Though she is based in Brooklyn, her layered artistic research practice has rewarded her with extended residencies in India, Ireland, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Siberia.
Ted Reichman is an accordionist, keyboard player, and composer, focusing on connections between improvisation and various forms of folk, popular music, and jazz.
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Sunday, April 14
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Neuroscience of Exercise
Sunday, April 14, 2019
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
MIT 5th floor Conference room, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Neuroscience-for-Society/events/259461648/
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Monday, April 15 - Friday, April 19
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Extinction Rebellion
http://www.xrcs.earth/
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Monday, April 15
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Energy and the Maritime Environment
Monday, April 15
12pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Jesse Ausubel, Senior Research Associate and Director, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University
Lunch will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/energyconsortium/seminars
Contact Name: Louis Lund
louisa_lund at hks.harvard.edu
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Discriminating Data
Monday, April 15
12:15PM
Harvard, CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication
Please RSVP via the online form by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
sts at hks.harvard.edu
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Congo Stories: A Conversation with John Prendergast and Samantha Power
WHEN Monday, Apr. 15, 2019, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer Building-Malkin Penthouse, Fourth Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Professor Samantha Power
SPEAKER(S) Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. From 2013 to 2017 Power served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
John Prendergast, New York Times best-selling author who has focused on peace in Africa for over thirty-five years. He is the Founding Director of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity, as well as the Co-Founder with George Clooney of The Sentry, an investigative initiative chasing the assets of African war criminals and their international collaborators
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Evelyn Hitt evelyn_hitt at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join human rights and anti-corruption activist John Prendergast and former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power for a conversation about human rights in Congo and John’s new book, "Congo Stories: Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed.”
LINK https://www.belfercenter.org/event/congo-stories-conversation-john-prendergast-and-samantha-power
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Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century
WHEN Monday, Apr. 15, 2019, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 102, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Bruce Schneier, Adjunct lecturer in Public Policy at HKS
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-bruce-schneier-adjunct-lecturer-public
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Botany Blast: Season Shifts in Trees
WHEN Monday, Apr. 15, 2019, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Education, Environmental Sciences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum
SPEAKER(S) Kristel Schoonderwoerd, Ph.D. Candidate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, and Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
COST Free, but registration requested.
CONTACT INFO adulted at arnarb.harvard.edu
617-384-5277
DETAILS There are challenges to being a tree in a temperate climate, mainly the changing of seasons. But trees are equipped to shift with these environmental changes. Kristel Schoonderwoerd will explain how trees slow down for winter and subsequently reverse “gears” for springtime and the onset of the growing season.
Part of the Cambridge Science Festival, April 12-21, 2019.
LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1871&DayPlannerDate=4/15/2019
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Tuesday, April 16
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MIT.nano: Step into the Nano Age
Tuesday, April 16
11:00am to 3:00pm
MIT, Building 12, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://mitnano.mit.edu/csf2019/
Cambridge Science Festival at MIT.nano
Explore MIT’s astonishing brand new nano-research facility through demonstrations and hands-on activities. Learn how the power of nano will help build a better world.
How big is a smell? What size is a color? From what we see to how we smell, from how insect wings shed water to how plants turn sunlight into energy, nature operates with molecules measured in nanometers.
Just how small is that? A nanometer is a billionth of a meter!
Visit MIT’s new nano-research facility to meet people who explore this fantastically small world. Experience demonstrations of groundbreaking research and innovative technologies, take part in hands-on activities for the whole family—and learn how the power of nano will help build a better world.
Presented as part of the 10-day Cambridge Science Festival. Visit http://www.CambridgeScienceFestival.org for festival calendar and more information.
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Predicting Crop Yields from Water Resources
Tuesday, April 16
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard Global Health Institute, 42 Church Street, Cambridge
Dr. Rigden's research focuses on the transfer of water and energy in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Currently, she is investigating water stress in agricultural systems to better constrain estimates of crop yields in future climates. She is keen on using observational data from a variety of platforms including satellites, weather stations, and eddy covariance towers to model the interactions between the land and atmosphere.
In 2017, Dr. Rigden earned a Ph.D. in Earth Science from Boston University (BU). Her dissertation research focused on detecting and attributing multi-decadal trends in evapotranspiration over the continental United States. Much of her time at BU was spent developing a method to estimate evapotranspiration from data collected at common weather stations, which we call the “ETRHEQ method.”
Contact Name: globalhealth at harvard.edu
Climate Change, Health, & Tech Seminar
https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/seminar-predicting-crop-yields-water-resources
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MADMEC Kickoff: Materials Science Solutions for Sustainability
Tuesday, April 16
12:00pm to 2:00pm
MIT, Building 6-104 , Chipman Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
MADMEC is a prototyping contest revolving around materials solutions to sustainability challenges. MADMEC teams have won the MassChallenge, the MIT 100K, the Clean Energy Prize, the Intel Make-it-Wearable Competition, and NSF-SBIR grants. At least six startups have roots in this competition.
Come to this event to meet past teams, see their prototypes, and learn how you can participate this year.
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Maker Break
Tuesday, April 16
2:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building W34, Johnson Ice Rink, 120 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Maker Break is a celebration of making for MIT students where you can have fun and show your smart and creative sides. You can engage in friendly competition with fellow students, cheer on your friends and classmates, and explore making in ways that are new to you. There is something for everyone! It is designed to be fun and low stress.
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xTalk, AT Exploratorium & ATIC Showcase: Assistive Technology for Opening Minds, Hands, and Hearts
Tuesday, April 16
3:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 4-163, 4-153, 4-149, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
xTalk: 3-4pm in 4-163 "Assistive Technology for Opening Minds, Hands, and Hearts"
AT Exploratorium & ATIC Showcase: 4-5pm in 4-153 and 4-149 (refreshments served)
Tues. April 16, join us for a panel discussion with MIT educators and students speaking on three activities that engage students in hands-on, real world problem-solving where students collaborate directly with people who have disabilities on engineering and design projects. This panel discussion will be immediately followed by a reception featuring an AT Exploratorium and ATIC showcase.
xTalk panel
Two instructors from MIT subjects (6.811/2.78/HST.420 and 3.008) will speak as well as a student leader of an annual student-run hackathon (ATHack), and a current MIT student who completed both subjects and participated in the hackathon.
Each of these activities are dedicated to teaching students to work directly with people who have disabilities to identify projects that are born from real world desires and involve rigorous accountability to co-designers with the expertise of lived-experience. ATHack (MIT News article) and 6.811/2.78/HST.420 Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology (MIT News article) take place in Cambridge with local residents and have an emphasis on mechanical and software innovations. 3.008 Humanistic Co-design of Assistive Technology in the Developing World (MIT News article) takes place in various cities throughout India, with help and support from MIT-India, and emphasizes human-material interactions and design. The work of all three activities is done with reverence for the legacy of Prof. Seth Teller.
Panel members
Dr. Julie Greenberg is Senior Lecturer and Director of Education for IMES/HST, where she teaches Biomedical Signal & Image Processing and Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology. She has been at MIT since 1987 in a variety of capacities including graduate student, researcher, academic advisor, instructor, and administrator.
Dr. Kyle Keane is Lecturer and Research Scientist in Materials Science and Engineering. He recently worked with MIT-India to run the inaugural offering of 3.008 Humanistic Co-design of Assistive Technologies in the Developing World. Dr. Keane supervises many UROPs working on various projects in computational materials science and human-material interactions.
Anna Musser designs and evaluates experiments to test the effectiveness of educational technologies and interventions at MIT. A former special education teacher, Anna also co-taught 3.008. Anna also contributes to psychological research at Harvard’s Langer Mindfulness Institute.
Jaya Narain is a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering who co-founded ATHack (MIT's Assistive Hackathon) in 2014 when she was an undergraduate junior, and co-directed the hackathon since. Jaya's doctoral research in the Fluid Interfaces group in the Media Lab focuses on developing assistive technologies for communication.
Pramoda Karnati is a Junior in EECS/Biomedical Engineering, interested in the intersection of computer science and human-related problems. She has taken both PPAT and 3.008 and is passionate about building assistive technology at MIT.
Please note:
Taking place the day after this xTalk is the following related event of interest. We enthusiastically encourage attendees to come to:
Accessible Technology Demo Day @ MIT Museum, April 17, 1-4pm, part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
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Sankofa Lecture: Creating Access as Social Justice
Tuesday, April 16
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Lesley University, Marran Theater, 34 Mellen Street, Cambridge
Join us for the spring Sankofa lecture on Creating Access as Social Justice: Reflections, Conversation, and a Call for Action.
Sandy Ho is a disability community-organizer, activist, disability policy researcher, and Lesley alumna. She is the founder and co-organizer of the Disability & Intersectionality Summit. In 2015, she was recognized as a White House Champion of Change for her work in establishing a statewide mentoring program for transitional-age disabled women, and the Letters to Thrive project. Her areas of work include disability justice, racial justice, intersectionality, and disability studies. She is a disabled, queer, Asian-American woman who is currently a researcher associate at The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy. Her writing has been published by Bitch Media online.
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32nd Annual Stratton Lecture on Aging Successfully: Protecting Elders with Cognitive Impairment from Financial Vulnerability
Tuesday, April 16
4:30pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building E51, Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
A collaborative project of MIT’s Medical Department, Age Lab and Women’s League, the 2019 Catherine N. Stratton Aging Successfully Lecture brings together panelists from
the fields of Ethics and Neuroscience, Geriatric Medicine, Nursing Management, and
Elder Law who attend to the many issues facing older adults, and are especially sensitive to the needs of those with cognitive impairment.
Moderator
Stephanie J. Bird, PhD, Neuroscientist/Ethicist, Science and Ethics Policy Consultant, Founder and Editor of The Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics, and member of the C N Stratton Committee on Aging Successfully, will outline our topic, introduce each panelist, and moderate audience questions as time allows.
Panelists
Shoshana Streiter, MD, Geriatrician, Advanced Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, also member of the Stratton Committee, will begin our discussion by describing the differences between normal aging, mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
Cathleen A. Dwyer RN, BSN, Nurse Case Manager at MIT Medical, will present examples of her work that involves assisting and supporting the elderly who are aging successfully at home to create plans, including legal forms and documents, to continue aging successfully at home and thus avoid the threat of both physical and financial fraud.
John G. Dugan, Esq., a lawyer experienced in representing elders and other victims exposed to financial exploitation via mail, phone, the internet, or personal interaction, will provide advice, suggest means of protecting personal assets, and present ways to identify and prevent this form of abuse.
After the presentations and a short discussion among the panelists, Stephanie Bird will serve as moderator for audience questions to be answered by the panelists as time allows.
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Dangerous Developments in Modern Weaponry: a forum on the military pursuit of global hegemony
Tuesday, April 16
7:00
MIT, Building 56- 114, Enter thru Building 66, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speakers:
Subrata Ghoshroy, Research Affiliate at MIT
Nick Mottern, Knowdrones.com
Elaine Scarry, Harvard professor and author of Thermonuclear Monarchy
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Topics will include:
Continued expansion of the hugely profitable military budget
Cutting-edge Pentagon weapons technology, drones, AI/robotics
The trillion-dollar nuclear weapons modernization program
The US drive to dominate space
Resistance of tech workers to war research
This forum is sponsored by Eastern Massachusetts Anti-Drones Network (a task force of United for Justice with Peace); MIT Students Against War; Mass Peace Action; Coalition to Stop the Genocide in Yemen; Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom, Boston branch; Greater Boston Chapter of Green-Rainbow Party; Boston Democratic Socialists of America; Smedley D. Butler Brigade, Veterans for Peace, Boston and Science for the People - Boston.
For questions or comments, contact ujpcoalition at gmail.com or 617-776-6524
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MIT Energy Conference: Tough Tech & The 2040 Grid, scheduled for April 4th & 5th, re 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
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