[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - April 14, 2019
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Monday, April 15 - Friday, April 19
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Extinction Rebellion
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Monday, April 15
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12pm HESEC Webinar: Quantifying Carbon Emissions in Supply Chain
12pm A New Look at Old Air in the Stratosphere: Radiocarbon Production and Transport to the Troposphere
12pm Energy and the Maritime Environment
12pm Celebrities, Attorneys, Deals: The Impact of Public Opinion
12:15pm Discriminating Data
3pm Congo Stories: A Conversation with John Prendergast and Samantha Power
4pm Harnessing the Potential of Rehabilitative Technology to Enhance Mobility and Prevent Falls
4:15pm Ending the Epidemics of AIDS, TB and Malaria: Pipedream or Achievable Goal?
4:30pm This Is What Democracy Looks Like: The Disruptors
5:30pm Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century
6pm Solving Big Problems
6pm Opportunity Knocks: Opportunity Zones and Their Impact
6:30pm Botany Blast: Season Shifts in Trees
7pm Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
7pm The Urban South
7:15pm The Wall: Under? Over? Through? We Are A Stronger Country With You
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Tuesday, April 16
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9am Young, Gifted and Well: Mental and Emotional Wellness for Students of Color
11am MIT.nano: Step into the Nano Age
12pm Achieving Food Security in a Changing Climate: The Role of Water Availability
12pm Guilty by Association - The risk of crisis contagion
12pm Battling Natural Disasters: A Governors Roundtable
12pm The White Woman Voter
12pm BERKMAN KLEIN LUNCHEON SERIES: Dirty Data, Bad Predictions
12pm Narrative Fiction in Virtual and Augmented Reality
12pm MADMEC Kickoff: Materials Science Solutions for Sustainability
12:30pm The Future of Fukushima
2pm Agroecology and Climate Change Resilience in Haiti: Farmer-led Solutions
2pm Maker Break
2pm Constructing Clean Portfolios for Climate Solutions: A Renewable Energy Roundtable
2:30pm China and the Middle East in the 21st Century
3pm xTalk, AT Exploratorium & ATIC Showcase: Assistive Technology for Opening Minds, Hands, and Hearts
3pm Youth on Climate Justice: Why should we care?* An interactive, workshop developed and led by the Green Team
4pm Equiano’s World – Beyond Slavery and Abolition
4pm Sankofa Lecture: Creating Access as Social Justice
4pm Letter from Birmingham Jail: 55th Anniversary, A Public Reading in Boston
4:30pm Shifting Ideas of Crime, and Where Resilience May Point to Solutions
4:30pm 32nd Annual Stratton Lecture on Aging Successfully: Protecting Elders with Cognitive Impairment from Financial Vulnerability
4:30pm Tech & Democracy Workshop: Digital Organizing for Social Justice
5pm Imitation, Invasion, Innovation: What Really Matters in Global History of Technology
6pm Matthew Wisnioski: Does America Need More Innovators?
6pm GBRSPC Presents a FREE screening of "Suicide: The Ripple Effect”
7pm Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
7pm Dangerous Developments in Modern Weaponry: a forum on the military pursuit of global hegemony
7:30pm Film Screening: "Life Will Smile" by Steve Priovolos and Drey Kleanthous
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Wednesday, April 17
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7:30am Boston Sustainability Breakfast (Longwood)
9am Should We Allow "Three-Parent IVF"? Considering the Future of U.S. Policy
11:30am Black trolls matter: The power of sockpuppet identity in social media propaganda
11:30am Edible Insects: How to Move Toward Food Sustainability: Edible Insects Festival @ Tufts: Workshop 1
12pm Panel Discussion: The Current and Future Role of Computation in the Physical Sciences
12pm What Will It Take to End Homelessness in Boston and Beyond? Insights from Policy, Research, and Advocacy
12pm Tell the Truth! Ring the Alarm on Climate Emergency
1pm Can Japan revitalize its nuclear industry after Fukushima?
2pm Brown Bag Lunch: Investing in Fisheries & Aquaculture
3:30pm Edible Insect Workshop: Cooking With Insects
4pm LARGER THAN LIFE SCIENCE | The Big Pitch
4pm Fireside Chat on AI with Doug Levin
4pm Climate Cafe
4:15pm Managing Transboundary Public Goods
4:30pm Representing the President
4:30pm Rising Generations and Hope for a Political Renaissance
4:30pm Presinar - Comparing the Environmental Performance of Building Products
5pm Equiano’s World – Beyond Slavery and Abolition
5pm 2019 STEAM Reception
5pm Resilience, Resistance, and the Law: Innovative Strategies for Stopping Distriminatory Land Grabs
5:30pm Speaker Series: Resilience Through Climate Adaptation & Water Management
6pm Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
6pm A Conversation with Senator Gary Hart and Lawrence Summers
6pm The Deadly Side of Cancer: How Cancer Spreads
6pm The Great Climate Race: Climate impacts are accelerating. Are solutions keeping pace?
6pm NOVA Wonders Exhibition
6pm Beyond Reconstruction: Environmental, social, and infrastructural challenges for long-term recovery in Mexico & Chile
6:30pm SeeBoat: visualizing the water quality of our river--Cambridge Science Fest
6:30pm The Future of Machine Learning & AI
7pm Making Civility Great Again
7pm Cambridge Forum: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American
7pm The Rise of Fascism and How to Fight it
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Thursday, April 18
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9am ROBOTICA Autonomous Vehicle Summit
11am BUMC 2019 Earth Day Festival
11:45am Sustainability Lunch Series: Building a Bright Energy Future, EnergySage
11:45am Baptizing Uncle Sam: Tracing the Origins of Christian Nationalism
12pm Working with industry to achieve results – Is it possible?
12pm The Un Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities: A Commentary
12pm "Jump Starting America," by Simon Johnson and Jonathan Gruber
12pm New Findings in the Field of Negotiation: Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
12pm Climate Change and Cities
12:15pm Too Much of a Good Thing? Civil-Military Relations in the Wake of Technological Disruption
4pm Harnessing Biology to Make New Materials and Devices for Energy, Environmental Remediation, and Cancer Diagnostics and Imaging
4pm Book Launch and Discussion - Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
4pm Equiano’s World – Beyond Slavery and Abolition
4pm A Conversation About Race with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
5pm Tensions and Trade-Offs in Law, Organization, and the Design of “Ethically-Aligned” Artificial Intelligence
5:30pm The Experimental Forest, Photo Exhibit & Panel Discussion
6pm JPat Brown, B.C.D. Lipton, and Michael Morisy: Scientists Under Surveillance
6pm Work and Learning in the Future!
6pm Witness or Participant? The Ethical, Practical and Linguistic Challenges of Reporting on the 2015 Migration Crisis
6pm Brave New World: The Era of Consumer Controlled Data
6pm MIT Water Innovation Final Pitch Night
6:30pm Boston: Launching the Green New Deal Tour
6:30pm Papers to Policies: How Scientific Evidence Influences Government Action
6:30pm Our Ocean Planet in Three Acts: Staggering Diversity, Scary News, and Reasons for Hope
6:30pm Edible Insect Festival @ Tufts: BugFeast!
7pm Boston’s Twentieth Century Bicycling Renaissance: Cultural Change on Two Wheels w/ Lorenz Finison
7pm Cutting Edge of Neurotechnology in Government and Industry
7pm BostonTalks: Forecasting Food
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Friday, April 19
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9am Inaugural Energy Conference (BU Energy Club): Grid Transformation
9am 2019 MIT Tech Conference
9:30am Artificial intelligence meets neuroscience at MIT
11am April 19th Climate Strike
11am EarthFest
12pm Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar: Title & abstract TBA
12:15pm New Findings in the Field of Negotiation: Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
3pm Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
3pm 2019 Michaels Lecture: Engineering the Genome: How CRISPR Systems Work
4pm The Coming Challenges of PFASs in Water and Soil: Implications for Human Exposure
5pm Central America and the Caribbean Film Series presents: Puerto Rico: Trouble in Paradise
6:30pm Boston Innovation In Consumer Products: The Grommet's Jules Pieri
7pm Heading for Extinction and What to Do About It
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Saturday April 20
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8:30am Eliminating Health Disparities: A Public Health Imperative
9:30am Earth Day Clean-up
9:30am MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
10am Herb Gardening for Everyone
11am Earth Day on the Greenway
3pm Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley & Rev. Mariama White-Hammond: Green New Deal
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Monday, April 22 - Friday, April 26
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Harvard Heat Week
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Monday, April 22
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9am We Can’t Wait - Social Network for Climate Action
10am MassForward: A vision for 2030 Agenda
11am Fixit Clinic CDVII (407) Cabot Science Library, Harvard University
11am Earth Day Pop-Up
12pm Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium: Zoe Finkel (Dalhousie University)
12pm An Earth Day & Green New Deal Lecture featuring Senator Edward J. Markey
12pm The Purpose Of Business Conference
12pm Harvard Celebrates Earth Day
12:15pm Materializing Time: The Techno-Scientific Transformation of Olive Agriculture in Israel/Palestine
2pm Garbology
5:30pm Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Chess, Go and AI: When Computers Outwit Humans
6pm A Conversation With James and Deborah Fallows About Their Book "Our Towns”
6pm Innovate at BU Idea Cup Celebration - Spring 2019!
6pm 1deation 2019
6:30pm Stepping Up: Business in the Era of Climate Change: Climate Politics and Business
7pm Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
7pm JP Solar Happy Hour - April 2019
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Tuesday, April 23
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10am MIT Climate Summit Simulation
12pm Basic Science, Discovery, and Innovation
12pm High Stakes on the High Seas and Beyond
12pm The political origins of Mexico’s corruption
2pm Breaking Through Gridlock
3pm xTalk: Jeff Ubois - "Lever for Change: Open Grantmaking at Scale
3pm We Don't Have Time Climate Conference and launch of our social network for climate action!
4pm Transitioning the Energy System
5pm Flood Protection Infrastructure, Transportation, and Government Networks: Resilient Infrastructures as Seas Rise (RISeR)
5pm ARTFUL DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME
5pm Improving Forest Satellite Monitoring: Experiences with Capacity Building in African, Asian & Latin American Countries
5pm Global Impact Challenge Pitch Finale
5:30pm U.S. Healthcare and Drug Pricing Debate
5:30pm A Future with More Ferries: Business Plan Release + Panel Discussion
6pm New Venture Competition Finale Show 2019
6pm Special film screening and Q&A: Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds
7pm State Climate Change Legislation
7pm Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
7pm Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
7pm Transcending the Group Selection Controversy in Evolution
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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
Book of Five Rings
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2019/04/book-of-five-rings.html
Geometry Links _ April 12, 2019
https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2019/04/geometry-links-april-12-2019.html
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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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HESEC Webinar: Quantifying Carbon Emissions in Supply Chain
Monday, April 15
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM EDT
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hesec-webinar-quantifying-carbon-emissions-in-supply-chain-tickets-59178849532
Please join us for a webinar with Ms. Pilar Bennett, she is the Supply Chain Project Officer at CDP. Learn how CDP helps companies in reducing their overall carbon emissions. A insight into carbon data and its importance in product supply chain. Please register with us for the webinar and join us few minutes before the webinar begins.
Webinar Link - https://zoom.us/j/6511268568
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A New Look at Old Air in the Stratosphere: Radiocarbon Production and Transport to the Troposphere
Monday, April 15
12:00PM
Harvrd, Haller Hall (102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
EPS Colloquium
Kristie Boering, Professor, University of California Berkeley.
Abstract: The redistribution of 14CO2 from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing has long been used to quantify the inventories, residence times, and gross fluxes of carbon in and between the stratosphere, troposphere, oceans, soils, plants and other reservoirs. Now, five decades after the Limited Test Ban Treaty restricted above-ground nuclear weapons detonations, the natural cosmogenic 14C production rate and the rates and details of radiocarbon transport to the troposphere are predicted to play an increasingly important role relative to the bomb radiocarbon input in studies of surface radiocarbon and its redistribution there, and the use of atmospheric observations to infer regional 14C-depleted fossil fuel emissions. In this talk, I will focus on measurements of 14CO2 in stratospheric air samples collected between 1997 and 2018 and show how we use these new observations to empirically estimate the global annual mean production rate of 14C by cosmic rays and the net 14CO2 flux from the stratosphere to the troposphere useful for carbon cycle studies, as well as to monitor stratospheric residence times to see if they are changing in response to a predicted acceleration of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation as the climate warms.
The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
https://eps.harvard.edu/event/department-colloquium-series-74
Contact Name: Summer Smith
summer_smith at fas.harvard.edu
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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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Celebrities, Attorneys, Deals: The Impact of Public Opinion
WHEN Monday, Apr. 15, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall North, Room 100, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation, Recording Artists Project, and Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) John Branca, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham LLP
Moderator: Brian Price, Clinical professor of law, Harvard Law School
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO dlong at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please join us for a conversation with John Branca, a world-renowned entertainment lawyer with more than 30 members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as clients, including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, and Michael Jackson.
Moderated by Harvard Law School professor Brian Price, Branca will discuss what is specific to being an entertainment lawyer; what are the challenges of representing celebrities; how do you negotiate deals when there is massive media coverage; and what are the extra challenges when you represent the estate of a deceased celebrity?
LINK https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/celebrities_attorneys_deals/
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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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Harnessing the Potential of Rehabilitative Technology to Enhance Mobility and Prevent Falls
WHEN Monday, Apr. 15, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, G115 , Robert and Naida Lessin Forum, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Wyss Institute at Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Jason Franz, Assistant professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University; director, UNC Applied Biomechanics Laboratory
DETAILS Please join the Wyss Institute and Dr. Jason Franz as he discusses his work to address critical and immediate need for innovation in our study of the biomechanics and neural control of movement, toward more effective translational efforts to preserve walking ability and mitigate falls risk due to aging and neurodegenerative disease.
Dr. Franz will discuss recent discoveries from two major lines of research in his Applied Biomechanics Laboratory to meet this need.
LINK https://wyss.harvard.edu/event/harnessing-the-potential-of-rehabilitative-technology-to-enhance-mobility-and-prevent-falls/
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Ending the Epidemics of AIDS, TB and Malaria: Pipedream or Achievable Goal?
WHEN Monday, April 15, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman G-50, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Health Sciences, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Peter Sands, M-RCBG Research Fellow and executive director of the Global Fund
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS A former chief executive officer of Standard Chartered PLC, one of the world’s leading international banks, Sands has been a research fellow at Harvard University since 2015, dividing his time between the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Global Health Institute, working on a range of research projects in financial markets and regulation, fintech and global health.
Refreshments 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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This Is What Democracy Looks Like: The Disruptors
WHEN Monday, April 15, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer, 150, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahassee, FL (2014-2018), 2018 Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Phillip Agnew, Co-founder & former co-director, Dream Defenders; co-founder, Miami Smoke Signals Studio
DETAILS When the game is rigged against you, is it fair to break the rules? How can you move from breaking rules to writing new ones? This week, we will meet the disruptors, the rare members of society who are fighting injustice and raising awareness outside the traditional norms of political behavior. When the political stakes feel high, the barriers to toppling old institutions and breaching norms are low. Old and sacred traditions, such as the State of the Union, are suddenly up for grabs. But when the change you create is built on a foundation of disruption, what makes it lasting?
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/mayor-andrew-gillum-and-phillip-agnew-disruptors
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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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Solving Big Problems
WHEN Monday, April 15, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE 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) Heidi Heitkamp, U.S. Senator for North Dakota (2013-2019); IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018); former president & COO of Goldman Sachs; IOP Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS A conversation with IOP Visting Fellows, S’19 Gary Cohn, former NEC Director and Goldman Sachs president & chief operating officer and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), former U.S. Senator of North Dakota on taking on the country’s major issues with innovation and creativity. This Forum will serve as the culminating event for the "Road to 2092: Save Social Security," a hackathon-style pitch competition encouraging students to identify creative policy solutions to save Social Security for future generations.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/solving-big-problems
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Opportunity Knocks: Opportunity Zones and Their Impact
Monday, April 15
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Thelma D. Burns Building, 575 Warren Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opportunity-knocks-opportunity-zones-and-their-impact-tickets-58809454662
Many conversations have been held about the potential impact of the new Opportunity Zone program on the city of Boston, but none have been held in the neighborhoods designated as Opportunity Zones. BECMA, in partnership with the Boston Ujima Project and LISC Boston, is changing this by convening a conversation meant to bring all stakeholders -- residents, business owners, developers, investors, civic and nonprofit organizations -- to the table between two Boston Opportunity Zones located in Roxbury and Dorchester.
The goals of the discussion are to:
Share critical resources and information on what Opportunity Zones are
Develop community guidelines for desirable Opportunity Zone investment projects
Connect investors and developers with business owners and residents in Opportunity Zones
Attendees can expect to follow this schedule:
5:30PM - Registration, networking
6:00PM - Welcoming from partners
6:15PM - "What the Heck is an Opportunity Zone?"
6:30PM - PechaKucha presentations
6:30PM - Facilitated table workshops
7:45PM - Closing, networking
Ticket types are broken up in a way that will allow us to match the proper groups with one another
Have a question? Ask us at info at becma.org. Space is limited. RSVP is required. Refreshments will be provided.
Featured Guests
We are excited to welcome these guests to our event to make brief presentations on what Opportunity Zones mean for our community. Confirmed guests include:
Oscar Abello -- Senior Economics Correspondent, Next City
Rep. Chynah Tyler -- State Representative for the 7th Suffolk
Steve Grossman -- Chief Executive Officer, ICIC
Darnell Johnson -- Boston Regional Coordinator, Right to the City Alliance
Why is this important for me?
It is estimated that there are $2+ trillion in untapped investment dollars in the United States. The new Opportunity Zone program, created under President Trump's tax cuts of 2017, seeks to divert those dollars to economically distressed areas, which tend to mostly be communities of color. Two major areas have been designated in Boston: one surrounding Dudley Square and the other Franklin Park. Greater investment in these areas has the potential to stem the tide of gentrification and reduce the wealth gap or to exacerbate the problem and displace residents and businesses.
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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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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Monday, April 15
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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The Urban South
WHEN Monday, April 15, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer 230, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahassee, FL (2014-2018), 2018 Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate, and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mayor of Atlanta (2018-present)
DETAILS Today’s American South is younger, more diverse, and more innovative — so why is it still largely a one-party region? Meanwhile, the South remains a hotly contested political battleground and key to both parties’ hopes of winning the White House. What are the legacies of the South’s history — cultural, racial, political — that persist to this day? While many southern cities have become centers of diversity and economic growth, southerners living outside of metropolitan areas are feeling left behind. As a son of Miami who grew up in Gainesville and Tallahassee, Andrew Gillum will bring his lived experience to this session. If you are from the South, bring your insight to this session. If you are not, what are the historical and cultural legacies where you grew up?
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/mayor-andrew-gillum-and-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-urban-south
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The Wall: Under? Over? Through? We Are A Stronger Country With You
WHEN Monday, April 15, 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 Is there currently a "Border Crisis" with Mexico? Is Congress and the President in a deadlock on immigration? Do we need a new policy to stimulate economic growth, innovation, and address fiscal impact? Gain a behind-the-scenes look at discussions in the White House regarding President Trump's promise to "build the wall" and the rhetoric used in the administration to discuss immigration policy. Join Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Gary Cohn for a discussion on what the future might hold.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/sen-heidi-heitkamp-and-gary-cohn-wall-under-over-through-we-are-stronger-country-you
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Tuesday, April 16
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Young, Gifted and Well: Mental and Emotional Wellness for Students of Color
Tuesday, April 16
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM EDT
Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard Street, 3rd floor/Penthouse, Cambridge
An event to address mental health and emotional wellness for college students of color. Full and half-day options available.
Harvard University and The Steve Fund present a day-long convening with leading researchers, practitioners, administrators, faculty and students who seek to better understand mental and emotional health experiences of young people of color within Harvard University and how we can better support wellness through policy and practice. PLEASE BRING your mobile device for interactive modules.
The conference runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is FREE but seats are limited and pre-registration is required. Registration will close when all seats are filled. Full and half-day options available.
Registration and continental breakfast start at 8:30 a.m. Lunch available for full-day registrants.
**ALSO AVAILABLE ALL DAY**
#consciousharvard traveling board, sponsored by #consciousharvard project team: an interactive board for public spaces to create action-focused dialogue about diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging at Harvard. The #consciousharvard project team is composed of staff members from Global Support Services, Common Spaces, the Center for Workplace Development, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and is funded by the President's Administrative Innovation Fund 2018 (PAIF).
Self-Care Room, sponsored by Harvard University Health Services: featuring coloring sheets, drop-in meditation, mats and pillows for quiet respite, recommended Mindset apps and podcasts, stress balls, etc. Facilitated by Harvard's Center for Wellness, Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response, and University Disability Resources.
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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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Achieving Food Security in a Changing Climate: The Role of Water Availability
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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Guilty by Association - The risk of crisis contagion
Tuesday, April 16
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Northeastern, 177 Huntington Avenue, 310, Boston
RSVP at http://attend.com/danlauferlecture
Dr. Dan Laufer from the School of Marketing and International Business, Victoria Business School, in New Zealand
Crisis contagion, or how a crisis spreads from one company to another, has received very little attention from researchers. This is surprising as the negative consequences of crisis contagion can be significant when customers make assumptions of guilt by association. My presentation focuses on this important issue and describes four risk factors—country of origin, industry, organizational type, and positioning strategy—that increase the likelihood of crisis contagion. Valuable guidance is also provided on whether a company should issue a denial or remain silent if it faces the risk of crisis contagion.
A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend!
http://attend.com/danlauferlecture
For those who are unable to attend in person, we will be offering a live-stream of the presentation, accessible through the following link: https://bluejeans.com/558146859
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Battling Natural Disasters: A Governors Roundtable
WHEN Tuesday, April 16, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Leadership Studio, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S) Steve Beshear, 61st Governor of Kentucky
Christine Gregoire, 22nd Governor of Washington
Pat McCrory, 74th Governor of North Carolina
Jay Nixon, 55th Governor of Missouri
Moderator: Tim McLaughlin, Reuters Correspondent
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4UFKXCUBdd1MSWN
CONTACT INFO theforum at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Tornadoes, floods, ice storms, hurricanes, droughts, wildfires. Every year, natural disasters kill hundreds of people and cause billions of dollars in damage in the United States alone — and many worry that these hazards are only getting worse. What can states do to better prepare for and respond to natural disasters? Featuring a cadre of remarkable former governors, this Forum will examine how states can work hand-in-hand with local officials, the public, emergency responders, the federal government, non-profits and other key players when disaster strikes. The panelists will explore how leaders can anticipate and train for natural disasters, communicate with citizens in harm’s way, and make both immediate and long-lasting recoveries.
LINK https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/battling-natural-disasters/
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The White Woman Voter
WHEN Tuesday, April 16, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 434, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Koa Beck
Adam Serwer
Spring 2019 Joan Shorenstein Fellows
DETAILS Koa Beck is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and the co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s The Takeaway. She was previously the executive editor of Vogue.com and senior features editor at MarieClaire.com. Her literary criticism and reporting on gender, LGBTQ rights, culture, and race have appeared in a wide variety of print and online outlets. Her fiction writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she serves on the board of directors of Nat.Brut, an art and literary magazine. While at the Shorenstein Center, Beck will write a paper on “How Women’s Media Operates as a Vehicle for White Feminism.”
Adam Serwer is a Staff Writer at The Atlantic, covering politics. He has previously worked for BuzzFeed News, MSNBC, Mother Jones and The American Prospect. While at the Shorenstein Center, Serwer will conduct research into the historical role that black voters have played in defending and advancing the foundational American notion that all people are created equal — most especially when others have abandoned it.
LINK https://shorensteincenter.org/event/white-woman-voter/
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BERKMAN KLEIN LUNCHEON SERIES: Dirty Data, Bad Predictions
WHEN Tuesday, April 16, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, Room 2036, Second Floor, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Information Technology, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Berkman Klein Center
SPEAKER(S) Rashida Richardson
COST Free - RSVP Required
TICKET WEB LINK https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-04-16/dirty-data-bad-predictions
DETAILS This talk will explore Rashida Richardson's recent research on the data provenance of police data commonly used in predictive policing system. The research reviews Department of Justice consent decrees and other federal court monitored settlements related to police practices to examine the link between unlawful and biased police practices and the data used to train and/or implement these systems. Rashida will discuss the findings of this research as well as the ways this "dirty data" perpetuates discriminatory police practices and creates self-reinforcing feedback loops throughout the criminal justice system and society writ large.
LINK https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-04-16/dirty-data-bad-predictions
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Narrative Fiction in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Tuesday, April 16
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E15-318, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Open Doc Lab Talk: Graham Sack
Through a series of case studies based on recent projects, this talk will examine the unique opportunities and challenges for narrative fictional storytelling in virtual and augmented reality. Projects to be discussed include: Lincoln in the Bardo (NYT VR), The Interpretation of Dreams (Samsung VR Pilot Season), objects in mirror AR closer than they appear (Tribeca Storyscapes 2018), and Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit (Google). Each project explores narrative fiction in a different immersive format: virtual reality short film, episodic series, multisensory AR installation, and feature film. Approaches to adapting narrative fiction from traditional media to immersive new media storytelling will be a central focus, including adaptation of classic dramatic literature, contemporary fiction, and immersive theater.
Graham Sack is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and academic whose work crosses boundaries between new media, film, and theater. Graham wrote and directed LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, a VR experience for New York Times VR based on the acclaimed best-selling novel by “MacArthur Genius” George Saunders, which was short-listed for an Interactive Emmy Award and praised as “one of the top 5 must see virtual reality experiences” by Time Magazine. He was the lead creator of objects in mirror AR closer than they appear, an augmented reality and immersive theater installation based on The Object Lesson that premiered at Tribeca Storyscapes 2018 and transferred to New York Theater Workshop. Graham is a member of New Inc, the New Museum’s artist incubation program, and also holds a BA in from Harvard, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and is completing a PhD in Digital Humanities at Columbia University, where his research is focused on computational approaches to storytelling.
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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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The Future of Fukushima
Tuesday, April 16
12:30PM
Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Naomi Hirose, Executive Vice Chairman (Fukushima Affairs), and President, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings, Inc. (2012-17), will give a talk as part of the Program on US-Japan Relations' special series on The Future of East Asia. Co-sponsored by HUCE; The Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS.
Moderated by Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; and Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Co-sponsored by HUCE and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS.
https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/naomi-hirose-fukushima-affairs-title-tba
Contact Name: Kendal Kelly
kkelly at wcfia.harvard.edu
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Agroecology and Climate Change Resilience in Haiti: Farmer-led Solutions
Tuesday, April 16
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, 3rd Floor, South Boston Room, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58876863283
Join us to learn how we are supporting rural communities in Haiti to address climate change by scaling ecological farming.
Cantave Jean-Baptiste of Partenariat pour le Développement Local (PDL) in Haiti and Steve Brescia of Groundswell International will share strategies and lessons from rural Haiti.
Haiti is one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change. What is working to strengthen farmer organizations to build resilience and wellbeing through agroecology? How can we spread these successes?
Speakers:
Cantave Jean-Baptiste, Executive Director, PDL
Steve Brescia, Executive Director, Groundswell International
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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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Constructing Clean Portfolios for Climate Solutions: A Renewable Energy Roundtable
Tuesday, April 16
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59726246812
Join the Clean Portfolio Project and Croatan Institute for a roundtable discussion exploring models to finance renewable energy across asset classes. The event is being hosted by Sunwealth, a Boston-area clean energy investment firm, at the country's largest cleantech startup incubator, Greentown Labs. The conversation is also open to a virtual audience via Zoom (please select your type of attendance – in-person or virtual – when booking your ticket).
The Clean Portfolio Project is developing total portfolio approaches to fossil-free investing in integrated climate solutions. Intentional investments in renewable energy and energy infrastructure, storage, and efficiency can help mitigate the impacts of climate change and build resilience in communities that most need it.
At this Clean Portfolio Project investor event, learn how investors working in various asset classes, such as fixed income, private debt, venture capital, and public equities, are making investments in solar, wind, energy efficiency, and related technologies and infrastructure, and how they can generate positive impacts on communities and the climate.
Speakers include:
Liz Levy, Trillium Asset Management
Jonathan Abe, Sunwealth
Joshua Humphreys, Croatan Institute
More speakers to be announced shortly.
Following the discussion, Ryan Dings, the Chief Operating Officer of Sunwealth, and Julia Travaglini, the Senior Director of Marketing at Greentown Labs, will offer a tour of the Greentown Labs incubator to in-person participants. This will be followed by a reception with refreshments (and depending on the Boston spring weather, this may take place on the roof deck).
This is the second investor event webinar in an on-going series of investor events produced by the Clean Portfolio Project and its partners. For more information, visit http://www.cleanportfolio.org
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China and the Middle East in the 21st Century
WHEN Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2019, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES Rm 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University
Robert S. Ross, Boston College
Bruce Rutherford, Colgate University
Degang Sun, Shanghai International Studies University
Chair: Lenore G. Martin, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Emmanuel College; associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS "China’s Foreign Policy in the New Era"
Ezra F. Vogel (傅高义), Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Fairbank Center, Harvard University
Discussant: Thomas Cavanna, Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategic Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University
"China and Great Power Relations in the Middle East"
Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Discussant: Mona El-Kouedi, Associate Professor, Cairo University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
"The Transition to a Larger Role for China in the Middle East"
Bruce Rutherford, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Colgate University
Discussant: Andrew Leber, PhD candidate, GSAS, Department of Government, Harvard University
"China’s Seaport Diplomacy in the Greater Middle East: Implications to the US"
Degang Sun, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Professor and Deputy Director, Middle East Studies Institute, Shanghai International Studies University
Discussant: Isaac B. Kardon, Assistant Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College, Newport, RI
Chair: Lenore G. Martin, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Emmanuel College; Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/china-and-middle-east-21st-century
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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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Youth on Climate Justice: Why should we care?* An interactive, workshop developed and led by the Green Team
Tuesday, April 16
3-5 pm
Cross Street Senior Center (downstairs from Teen Empowerment), 165, Broadway, Somerville
This workshop is part of the Somerville Youth Workers Network's April Vacation Workshop Week and is youth-centered, but open to all.*
*What is climate justice? How does it connect to racism? Why should Somerville residents care about climate change? How are young people experiencing, dealing with, and fighting climate change? How does and will it affect us, from the food we eat to the health inequities we face? What can we do about it?*
*If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, this workshop is for
YOU!*
FREE and snacks will be provided.*
More information at: bit.ly/gtclimate19.
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Equiano’s World – Beyond Slavery and Abolition
WHEN Tuesday, April 16, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished research professor and Canada research chair in African Diaspora History at York University
COST Free and Open to the Public
DETAILS The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Equiano’s World — Beyond Slavery and Abolition
April 16, 4 p.m.: Vassa and Slavery: Participant/Observer of His Age
Barker Center, Thompson Room
April 17, 5 p.m.: Vassa’s Associates: A Son of Africa in the Enlightenment
Hutchins Center, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute
April 18, 4 p.m.: Vassa as “Atlantic Creole”: Self-Made Man Overcoming the Odds
LINK https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-e-lovejoy-w-e-b-du-bois-lecture-series-1-3
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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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Letter from Birmingham Jail: 55th Anniversary, A Public Reading in Boston
Tuesday, April 16
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
City Hall Plaza, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59366146743
The Letter from the Birmingham Jail: The 55th Anniversary, A Public Reading in Boston.
In the spring of 1964 our nation was embroiled in a struggle to save the soul of America. We were seeking the Beloved Community, the achievement of the vision that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had enunciated on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial a year earlier. In the middle of the anti-racism campaign in Birmingham, Alabama in 1964, Rev. King was arrested. He was also assailed by local clergy who rejected his presence in Birmingham, calling King an outside agitator whose activism in their city was unwise and untimely.
King’s response was the Letter from the Birmingham Jail, which instantly became one of our nation’s most important civic and theological statements on race and citizens.
We will be reading this document in the public square on its 55th anniversary of publication, April 16th, 2019 on the Boston City Hall Plaza at 4 PM. We would like for you to join us as a reader or as an observer. You are welcomed!
As more than 30 Boston-area non-profit organizations, businesses, activists, educators, youth, elderly, gay, straight, disabled and clergy convene, we wish to use this public reading as a way to become “maladjusted” to discrimination and racial inequality in Boston. We wish to create a more inclusive Boston that calls upon its full diversity and commitment to justice, truth and racial reconciliation.
THE MISSION OF THE MOUNTAINTOP PROJECT
The mission is to reflect the creative vision articulated by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the day before his assassination. The Mountaintop speech reflects a vision — which is decidedly different from his “I Have A Dream” speech. King’s vision creates a rich opportunity to advance the city of Boston, the nation and the world.
The Boston to the Mountain Top Project take the last words of Rev. Martin Luther King seriously. They provide a framework for investing in a more hospitable culture, more vibrant social engagement, more defining strategies about improving our common wealth. They achieve these efforts through:
Convening learning forums
Increasing Civic Literacy
Fostering Public Policy
Supporting Grassroots Organizing and Leadership Training
Engaging Youth
Join Us. Bring someone with you. You will be glad that you did. RSVP https://www.facebook.com/events/365733144015985/
BE A READER. FOR MORE INFO., GO TO WWW.BOSTONMOUNTAINTOP.ORG
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Shifting Ideas of Crime, and Where Resilience May Point to Solutions
Tuesday, April 16
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
From the protests over officer-involved shootings in Ferguson, Missouri, to the explosion of gang violence that has pushed people to migrate from Central America, it is clear that issues of crime–and how society thinks about the causes and remedies of crime–will continue to be important and contentious issues for the foreseeable future. Drawing upon several bodies of research both old and new, this talk will discuss different popular ideas of why particular places suffer from crime, how those ideas imply certain policy actions, and what we know about how responses both crime and responses to crime can affect communities.
This lecture is part of the Spring 2019 "Contemporary Issues in Security and Resilience Studies" Speaker Series.
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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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Tech & Democracy Workshop: Digital Organizing for Social Justice
Tuesday, April 16
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
Harvard, Wexner 332, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/60085812282
Join the Ash Center for a workshop led by Technology and Democracy Fellow Jess Morales Rocketto, Political Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Chair of Families Belong Together, the campaign to end family separation. She formerly served as Digital Organizing Director of Hillary for America. In this workshop you will learn how to use algorithms to push your message across digital platforms and move online energy to offline action. This workshop will include interactive, hands-on exercises. Come prepared to engage, not just to listen! Refreshments will be provided.
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Imitation, Invasion, Innovation: What Really Matters in Global History of Technology
Tuesday, April 16
5:00PM TO 7:00PM
Harvard, Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
The Program on Science, Technology & Society at HKS presents the latest installment of the Science & Democracy Lecture Series: "Imitation, Invasion, Innovation: What Really Matters in Global History of Technology"
DAVID EDGERTON
Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology, King’s College London
PANEL
Warwick Anderson, Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
MODERATED BY Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
ABSTRACT
In the last twenty or thirty years innovation has been central to the discourse on the economy. This ‘innovation’ is disruptive, pervasive and fast, demanding new economic, political and social forms. On the other hand, the world has seen unprecedented rates of imitation, not least of old forms. In our imaginations innovation and imitation occupy different geographical, economic and moral spaces. Innovation is seen positively and futuristically, as a feature of a few selected, creative, entrepreneurial places; it marches with time. Imitation is seen in more hard-headed, economic ways; as a feature of developing countries, as a sign of imaginative inadequacy, and lack of authenticity; it moves with incomes not time. Breaking down these oppositions and taking imitation seriously is the key to understanding global technical change in the twentieth century.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Edgerton is the Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London. A historian of science and technology and of twentieth-century Britain, he taught at the University of Manchester before becoming founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London (1993-2003). He was a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow (2006-2009), and gave the 2009 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture at the Royal Society of London. In 2013, he moved to King’s, where he chairs King’s Contemporary British History and is a co-director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War. He has appeared in many radio and TV programs and regularly gives talks to official and public bodies on a wide range of topics. He was educated at St. John’s College Oxford and Imperial College London. His many books include: Science, Technology and the British Industrial ‘Decline’, 1870-1970 (1996); Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970 (2005); The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (2006); Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War (2011); and The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History (2018).
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/lectures/david-edgerton/
sts at hks.harvard.edu
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Matthew Wisnioski: Does America Need More Innovators?
Tuesday, April 16
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Please join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming historian Matthew Wisnioski to discuss his book, Does America Need More Innovators?
Does America Need More Innovators?–co-edited with Eric S. Hintz and Marie Stettler Kleine–is a critical exploration of today’s global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation’s burdens and rewards. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today’s global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation’s champions, critics, and reformers in conversation.
Matthew Wisnioski is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (MIT Press). Dr. Wisnioski studies the interplay between expertise and imagination in science, technology, and innovation.
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GBRSPC Presents a FREE screening of "Suicide: The Ripple Effect”
Tuesday, April 16
6-8:30p
The NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59093235458
GBRSPC presents a FREE screening of "Suicide The Ripple Effect" followed by a panel discussion on
The GBRSPC welcomes you to join us for a FREE screening of "Suicide The Ripple Effect" as part of Massachusetts Department of Public Health Suicide Prevention Program's initiatives.
The Greater Boston Regional Suicide Prevention Coalition (GBRSPC) is one of 10 coalitions across the state whose mission is to prevent suicide through state-wide advocacy and collaboration.
“Suicide The Ripple Effect” is a movie and a mission to eradicate suicide. This film is part of a global mission to help reduce the number of suicides and suicide attempts around the world. Through sharing stories of survival and recovery we are creating significant awareness of this health crisis, while helping people find the support they need to stay alive, heal and #BeHereTomorrow! www.suicidetherippleeffect.com For the trailer visit: https://youtu.be/JtYHVW94aio
After the screening of "Suicide: The Ripple Effect" GBRSPC will facilitate a conversation between the audience and a panel of experts/persons with lived experience.
This event is free but registration is required as we have a limited capacity. There is a ticket limit of eight general admission tickets per order. If your group needs more tickets than that, please contact us at info at greaterbostonpreventssuicide.org.
There will be childcare available on-site and light food and beverages from Haley House.
Tuesday, April 16th | 6:30pm | Tickets: FREE | Nonprofit Center 89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111
The Nonprofit Center is a few minutes away from both the South Station, Downtown Crossing/Park Street T Stops.
For more information contact:
Email: info at greaterbostonpreventssuicide.org
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/GreaterBostonPreventsSuicide
Website: www.greaterbostonpreventssuicide.org
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Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, April 16
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome award-winning author and editor JEFFREY S. CRAMER—curator of collections at the Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute Library—for a discussion of his latest book, Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
About Solid Seasons
Any biography that concentrates on either Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson tends to diminish the other figure, but in Solid Seasons both men remain central and equal. Through several decades of writing, friendship remained a primary theme for them both.
Collecting extracts from the letters and journals of both men, as well as words written about them by their contemporaries, Jeffrey S. Cramer beautifully illustrates the full nature of their twenty-five-year dialogue. Biographers like to point at the crisis in their friendship, focusing particularly on Thoreau's disappointment in Emerson―rarely on Emerson's own disappointment in Thoreau―and leaving it there, a friendship ruptured. But the solid seasons remained, as is evident when, in 1878, Anne Burrows Gilchrist, the English writer and friend of Whitman, visited Emerson. She wrote that his memory was failing "as to recent names and topics but as is usual in such cases all the mental impressions that were made when he was in full vigour remain clear and strong." As they chatted, Emerson called to his wife, Lidian, in the next room, "What was the name of my best friend?"
"Henry Thoreau," she answered.
"Oh, yes," Emerson repeated. "Henry Thoreau."
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Dangerous Developments in Modern Weaponry: a forum on the military pursuit of global hegemony
Tuesday, April 16
7:00 - 9:00pm
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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Film Screening: "Life Will Smile" by Steve Priovolos and Drey Kleanthous
Tuesday, April 16
7:30 – 9 p.m.
Harvard, , Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The unique story of the 275 Jews of Zakynthos
Co-organized by the Harvard Greek Film Society and the Consulate General of Greece in Boston
The screening will be followed by a reception in Boylston Hall's Ticknor Lounge 9:00-10:00 p.m and Q&A with the producer Steve Priovolos who will be present! We feel honored that Mr. Priovolos has agreed to travel to Boston for our event!
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Wednesday, April 17
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Boston Sustainability Breakfast (Longwood)
Wednesday, April 17
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM EDT
Clover Food Lab, 360 Longwood Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-sustainability-breakfast-longwood-tickets-59777642538
Net Impact Boston's sustainability breakfast has a new location this month!
Every month Net Impact Boston hosts an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals for networking, discussion, and moral support. It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
This month we'll be at a new location in Longwood. Feel free to drop by Clover Food Lab (Longwood) between 7:30 and 8:30 AM. We'll be chatting about sustainability in the health care industry!
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Should We Allow "Three-Parent IVF"? Considering the Future of U.S. Policy
Wednesday, April 17
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West (2019), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at
A 2015 Congressional amendment precludes Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT), a life-saving IVF-based procedure that could prevent a plethora of mitochondrial DNA diseases in the U.S. Individuals do not, at present, have access to this technology to prevent the devastating consequences of mitochondrial DNA disease. At the same time, MRT continues to move forward in other countries, such as the UK.
Has the time come to revisit the federal prohibition of this preventive therapy and research?
Join us for a panel discussion about the future of MRT policy in the U.S., during which speakers will review the latest technological developments, the regulatory barriers, and the ethical challenges affecting the clinical application of MRT.
Speakers
Introduction
Eli Y. Adashi, Professor of Medical Science, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Panel Discussion
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Director, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Harvard Kennedy School
Dietrich M. Egli, Assistant Professor of Developmental Cell Biology (in Pediatrics), Columbia Stem Cell Initiative
Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy, Senior Scientist in the Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences of ONPRC, and Professor in Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Pediatrics, and Molecular & Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Cesar Palacios-Gonzalez, Career Development Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and registration is required. Register now!
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Black trolls matter: The power of sockpuppet identity in social media propaganda
Wednesday, April 17
11:30 AM- 1:00 PM
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Deen Freelon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.
The recent rise of black propaganda and information warfare on social media has attracted strong interest from political communication scholars. Of particular concern is the practice of disinformational sockpuppetry, in which agents of foreign governments (including Russia and Iran) disguise themselves as American citizens on social media and attempt to participate in everyday political conversations. Their goal appears to be to inject turmoil into these conversations and increase polarization between politically attentive citizens. This research contributes to the growing literature on contemporary digital disinformation in two ways. First, we document the efficacy of disinformational sockpuppetry by analyzing 5.2 million tweets produced by a Kremlin-funded disinformation outlet called the Internet Research Agency (IRA). We measure the prevalence and activity of various types of IRA sockpuppet identities and show that some receive disproportionately more attention than others. Second, we demonstrate that these activity levels were largely the result of interactions with authentic social media users rather than communications between IRA agents.
Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book. He has served as principal investigator on grants from the Knight Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability for content analysis (ReCal), analyze large-scale network data from social media (TSM), and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public). He formerly taught at American University in Washington, D.C.
https://shorensteincenter.org/event/speaker-series-misinformation-deen-freelon/
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Edible Insects: How to Move Toward Food Sustainability: Edible Insects Festival @ Tufts: Workshop 1
Wednesday, April 17
11:30AM – 1:30PM
Tufts, Tisch Library, Room 304, 35 Professors Row, Medford
As part of the Edible Insects Festival @ Tufts, Workshop #1 will include a number of speakers discussing a sustainable future of food systems with edible insects.
Event Contact scarlet.bliss at tufts.edu
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Panel Discussion: The Current and Future Role of Computation in the Physical Sciences
Wednesday, April 17
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 6-104, The Chipman Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
All scientific disciplines utilize a variety of computation. While computing applications vary considerably among disciplines, there are known and probably unknown similarities. This panel will discuss known similarities and discover whether new complementary efforts can be uncovered. This topic is especially important as MIT considers how to enable computation across all disciplines.
The panel will offer perspectives on computation and its evolution in research and in education.
The Panel:
Prof. Nicola Marzari, Institute of Materials, EPFL
Prof. Heather Kulik, ChemE, MIT
Prof. Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou, MechE, MIT
Prof. Ju Li, NSE and DMSE, MIT
Moderated by DMSE’s Professor W. Craig Carter.
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What Will It Take to End Homelessness in Boston and Beyond? Insights from Policy, Research, and Advocacy
Wednesday, April 17
12pm-1:30pm
BU, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eg1x18e9a4be45bc&llr=sgxoeyrab
Lunch provided
Homelessness is one of the most pressing problems facing Boston and other cities throughout the United States. There is an emerging consensus that ending homelessness is possible, but progress towards this goal is complicated by larger problems of housing affordability and the broader policy context. This seminar will integrate the perspectives of researchers, policymakers and advocates to examine solutions to the problem and discuss challenges to ending homelessness as we know it.
Panelists include Tom Byrne, BU Assistant Professor of Social Work; Laila Bernstein, Deputy Director for the Supportive Housing Division & Advisor to the Mayor for the Initiatives to End Chronic Homelessness City of Boston; and Joe Finn, President & Executive Director, Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance
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Tell the Truth! Ring the Alarm on Climate Emergency
Wednesday, April 17
12:00 PM
Old State House, 206 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenkmWvgftAoTLDRXkhkATmH6l1afl5LR3RI0FKJxkjem6YZA/viewform
We are here to tell the truth, and act with the urgency that the truth demands.
On April 17th, Extinction Rebellion Boston begins its non-violent uprising against the long-standing criminal inaction on our planet's ecological breakdown. Our governments and the media have failed to tell the truth about the climate crisis and local environmental emergencies, and failed to communicate the need for drastic action in order to save life on our planet.
Because of these crimes against humanity, we will gather at the site of the Boston Massacre at noon and demand truth from media sites in downtown Boston. We will then take publicly disruptive, non-violent action to declare what we know to be true, and upend the repressive silence around the climate emergency.
Some of us will commit civil disobedience. The rest of us must bear witness to their courage, and stand with over 200 groups around the world participating in XR's week of action. If you cannot make it to the action in person, we will outline disruptive actions you can take from afar -- but we hope we will see you there!
We are the ones we've been waiting for. With love & rage,
XR Boston
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Can Japan revitalize its nuclear industry after Fukushima?
Wednesday, April 17
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
MIT, Building 24-121, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-japan-revitalize-its-nuclear-industry-after-fukushima-registration-58599880821
A look at the current and future energy landscape in Japan since the Fukushima nuclear accident.
More than seven and a half years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Steady progress has been made towards the reconstruction of Fukushima, repopulation of surrounding areas, and the decommissioning of the plant. Meanwhile, with Japan having fully liberalized its electricity and gas retail market, the business environment surrounding the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is undergoing a major change. In this talk, Naomi Hirose, who spearheaded reform at TEPCO during his time as its president (2012-2017), shares his insights on the current situation at Fukushima and the future prospects for nuclear energy in Japan.
About the speaker:
Naomi Hirose is executive vice chairman (Fukushima Affairs) at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), overseeing the utility’s efforts to reconstruct and revitalize Fukushima Prefecture. He joined the company in 1976, having gained an appreciation for the energy industry following the 1973 oil shock. He has since worked in a number of executive and managerial positions, including corporate planning, sales, marketing, and customer relations.
Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, Hirose led TEPCO in addressing a number of highly complex issues such as water management and decommissioning plans for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, compensation for the accident, Fukushima revitalization, and keeping TEPCO competitive while facing the deregulation of Japan’s electricity market.
Hirose holds a BA in sociology from Hitotsubashi University and an MBA from Yale School of Management.
Please note that we will open our doors to unregistered participants 15 minutes before the event start time. To guarantee your seat, we recommend you register and arrive at least 15 minutes early.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Investing in Fisheries & Aquaculture
2:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
CIC Boston50 Milk Street, 5th floor — Windrose, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brown-bag-lunch-investing-in-fisheries-aquaculture-tickets-60147765586
With a growing global population, the need for new sustainable sources of protein from the ocean will become increasingly acute — and potentially quite profitable. Our next brown bag lunch will feature insights from Branch Venture Group, an angel group that invests in food and agriculture technology and products, and Blue Harvest Fisheries.
SeaAhead and BVG recently held a seafood angel investment night and Lauren Abda of BVG will share her insights from that event and from the prior investment BVG made into a kelp company, Ocean Approved. Mark Zieff, of Blue Harvest Fisheries will also share his insights into how legacy companies are viewing innovation in the space.
Lauren Abda is the Founder and CEO of Branchfood, the largest community of food entrepreneurs and startups in New England, and Co-founder at Branch Venture Group, an angel network for investment in early-stage food startups. Prior to Branchfood, Lauren consulted for foodtech businesses in Boston and San Francisco, worked as an analyst for Salt Venture Partners LLC, a venture capital firm, focused on food startups, targeting content, commerce, and technology, and wrote reports on international food safety development initiatives on behalf of the Agriculture and Commodities division at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. She has a Masters in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Vermont.
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Mark Zieff is Director of Marketing at Blue Harvest Fisheries, a vertically-integrated supplier of sustainably harvested scallops and groundfish, with brand and product development responsibility for their grocery retail and food service businesses. Prior to Blue Harvest Fisheries, Mark held brand management and product innovation leadership positions at a number of leading CPG and consumer durables companies including High Liner Foods, one of the largest manufacturers of prepared seafood in North America, where he led the launch of their Sea Cuisine brand and several successful new product platforms. Mark has a degree in Industrial Design from Syracuse University and holds numerous U.S. and international patents. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Marketing Association, Boston chapter.
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Edible Insect Workshop: Cooking With Insects
Wednesday, April 17
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Tufts, SEC Atrium, 200 College Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59592031370
Nearly one-third of Earth's land surface and much of our fresh water already goes into raising livestock for human consumption. Insects have been suggested as an alternative, environmentally sustainable source of animal protein because these ‘minilivestock’ use far fewer resources and emit less greenhouse gas. Despite some 2 billion people worldwide already enjoying insects as part of their daily diet, Americans have been slow to add this sustainable insect protein into our diets due to learned cultural and psychological barriers, collectively known as the “ick factor.”
Join Chef Joseph Yoon of Brooklyn Bugs in a culinary workshop to learn the art of cooking with insects and the sustainable, nutritional benefits to doing so.
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LARGER THAN LIFE SCIENCE | The Big Pitch
Wednesday, April 17
4:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
LabCentral, 700 Main Street, North Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58763389881
Come for the people and programs. Stay for a beer. Leave with your next big breakthrough.
LaunchBio and LabCentral are partnering to bring Larger Than Life Science to Cambridge for the second time in April! Larger Than Life Science is a free event series open to everyone interested in building a strong support network for life science and healthcare innovators. Join us for an evening of unconventional conversation.
Join LaunchBio for an evening of Big League Fun!
The Big Pitch challenges companies from LabCentral, Harvard Life Lab, Tufts Launchpad | Biolabs and Activate to go head to head in our quick pitch competition. Audience participation is requested so expect some curve balls and b be prepared to score the pitches. Our fan favorite will win tickets to a RED SOX game.
The event will be emceed by coach Tamsen Webster with expert judges Jeff Arnold and Katina Dorton.
AGENDA
PITCH | 4:30-5:00pm
First Round
Catch 5-minute pitches from promising early-stage biotechnology startups. Score each pitch and listen to judge’s feedback at the end.
Kernal Biologics
UrSure
PhagePro, Inc
HUDDLE | 5:00-5:30pm
Pitches People Say ‘Yes’ To
Learn how to build an irresistible case for your company with expert pitch coach Tamsen Webster. Get the green light from investors.
PITCH | 5:45-6:15pm
Second Round
Catch 5-minute pitches from promising early-stage biotechnology startups. Score each pitch and listen to judge’s feedback at the end.
Dyno Therapeutics
UCHU Biosensors Inc
The Microbial Community Company
NETWORKING | 4:00-6:30pm
Enjoy refreshments and make connections throughout the event.
PITCH COMPANIES
Kernal Biologics uses deep learning and synthetic biology to develop cancer cell-specific immunotherapy.
UrSure makes urine tests that measure adherence to medications with an initial focus is on drugs that prevent and treat HIV.
PhagePro develops bacteriophage-based products to help prevent bacterial infections in the world’s most vulnerable communities.
Dyno Therapeutics develops technologies for safe, efficient and targeted in vivo delivery of new gene therapies and genome editing therapies.
UCHU Biosensors designs wireless intra-oral sensors that enable users to track key metrics and take control of their health.
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Fireside Chat on AI with Doug Levin
WHEN Wednesday, April 17, 4 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Business School, Aldrich 112, Soldiers Field Road, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Laboratory of Innovation Science at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Andy Singleton, Founder, HumanDB
Jon Garrity, Founder & CEO, Tagup
John Platt, Lead Data Scientist, Carbon Relay
Tomislav Pericin, Co-founder & CTO, Reversing Labs
Adrian Mendoza, Founder and General Partner, Mendoza Ventures
Deepak Verma, Partner, Innospark Ventures
Mira Wilczek, Managing Director, Link Equity Partners
Olivia Lew, Investor, General Catalyst
Vivjan Myrto, Managing Partner, Hyperplane Venture Capital
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Alexandra Kesick, akesick at hbs.edu
DETAILS Harvard Business School and Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) will conduct two back-to-back Fireside Chats in one evening. The first session will include founders and CEOs of start-ups, and the second will feature leading early-stage VCs. These Fireside Chats are informal, yet structured, conversations moderated by Doug Levin, LISH Executive-in-Residence. They are valuable opportunities to hear directly from business, technology and investing luminaries who will share their personal stories, industry insights and experiences with the development of cutting-edge technologies.
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Climate Cafe
Wednesday, April 17
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
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Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, University Hall, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-cafe-tickets-53791009357
Teachers, students and families, are invited to participate in a hands-on exploration of climate change. We will uncover the science behind climate change by examining where our food comes from. This is an opportunity to ask questions, share ideas and concerns, and learn more about what you can do in your daily life that can help impact the effects of global climate change. Teachers will receive training, resources, and a lesson plan they can use with their students (can count for PDP’s). Participants will learn about current research, and engage in scientific dialogue and argumentation. FREE
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Managing Transboundary Public Goods
Wednesday, April 17
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer-382, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Torben Mideksa, Uppsala University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/30064
Contact Name: Casey Billings
casey_billings at hks.harvard.edu
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Representing the President
WHEN Wednesday, April 17, 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
Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin, Private Legal Counsel to President Trump for the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation
DETAILS Join IOP Resident Fellow Michael Zeldin for a study group with Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin, Private Legal Counsel to President Trump for the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation, for a discussion of the role of private counsel in a presidential investigation.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/michael-zeldin-jane-serene-raskin-and-marty-raskin-representing-president
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Rising Generations and Hope for a Political Renaissance
WHEN Wednesday, April 17, 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) The Honorable Carlos Curbelo, U.S. Representative for Florida’s 26th District (2016-2018) and IOP Spring 2019 Resident Fellow
JP Chavez
DETAILS How are new generations of Americans engaging in politics? Is the new economy conducive to political engagement? Do young Americans realize how much is at stake for them with the growing national debt, the environmental “debt,” the student debt crisis, and the looming insolvency of entitlement programs? We’ll be joined by JP Chavez, a millennial dentist who took a detour to get involved in politics. Just a few years ago JP was seeing patients every day. Today he works on issues like immigration reform, gun reform, cannabis reform, and climate policy, while continuing to practice dentistry part time. We’ll discuss millennials, politics, and the opportunities and challenges of the new economy to close out our study group for the semester.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/rep-carlos-curbelo-and-john-paul-chavez-rising-generations-and-hope-political
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Presinar - Comparing the Environmental Performance of Building Products
Wednesday, April 17
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
CIC, Room Edison, Floor 16, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/54875716746
Cost: $15
GBCI: 0920013505
Over the past few years, demand for tools like Environmental Product Declarations has been growing among the green building industry. Primarily intended for a specialized audience, life cycle assessments and their results displayed in standardized documents named EPDs are out in the open for everyone to see. However, EPDs are not mere documentation and are very technical. Green Building Programs, such as LEED, requiring EPDs for credit achievement have forced unspecialized professionals to understand it. This course is intended to give you the tools you need to get your head around EPDs and be able to compare them if needed.
Course Objectives:
Understand what is an EPD for the purpose of LEED® v4 MR Credit Building Product Disclosure and Optimization – Environmental Product Declarations
Interpret and analyze EPD data to be able to decipher EPD requirements for Option 1 and Option 2 of the LEED v4 Building Product Disclosure and Optimization – Environmental Product Declarations Credit
Compare EPDs to be able to achieve Option 2 of the LEED v4 Building Product Disclosure and Optimization – Environmental Product Declarations Credit
Evaluate pros and cons of EPDs, one of the new key feature of the LEED v4 Material and Resources Credit
Credits: 1 AIA 1 GBCI (LEED Specific BD+C, ID+C, GA)
https://www.usgbc.org/education/sessions/comparing-environmental-performance-building-products-shining-light-epds-10988130
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Equiano’s World – Beyond Slavery and Abolition
WHEN Wednesday, April 17, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, 104 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University
COST Free and Open to the Public
DETAILS
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Equiano’s World — Beyond Slavery and Abolition
April 16, 4 p.m.: Vassa and Slavery: Participant/Observer of His Age
Barker Center, Thompson Room
April 17, 5 p.m.: Vassa’s Associates: A Son of Africa in the Enlightenment
Hutchins Center, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute
April 18, 4 p.m.: Vassa as “Atlantic Creole”: Self-Made Man Overcoming the Odds
LINK https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-e-lovejoy-w-e-b-du-bois-lecture-series-2-3
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2019 STEAM Reception
Wednesday, April 17
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Suffolk, 120 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/57812315191
Join Suffolk STEAM students, faculty, and alumni to mingle among STEAM presentations and their authors to see their fascinating research!
Our keynote for the evening will be noted alumna Nicole McLaughlin, Ph.D. (PhD '06), a neuroscientist researching neuropsychiatric disorders. Nicole will describe her experience at Suffolk and her unique career path, inspiring us with her passion for and dedication to science.
Reception will include hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.
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Resilience, Resistance, and the Law: Innovative Strategies for Stopping Distriminatory Land Grabs
Wednesday, April 17
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Northeastern, Alumni Center at Columbus Place, 716 Columbus Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/valerie-gordon-human-rights-lecture-featuring-alfred-brownell-tickets-59159452515
Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture Featuring Alfred Brownell
The annual Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture celebrates the memory of the late Valerie Gordon ’93, a fierce advocate for human rights in the US and internationally. The lecture brings outstanding lawyers, judges, scholars and advocates who work to advance human rights to deliver a keynote address at the law school. In conjunction with the lecture, the law school’s chapter of the Black Law Students Association sponsors a human rights essay contest for first year law students. The author of the winning essay is given “The Spirit of Valerie Gordon” award, presented at the lecture each spring.
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Northeastern University School of Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE)
Alfred Lahai Brownell
Distinguished Scholar, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy,
Northeastern University School of Law Beau Biden Chair, Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund
Alfred Brownell has dedicated his life to protecting human rights and the environment. As the founder and lead campaigner at Green Advocates, Liberia, he worked for 20 years as a researcher, legal counsel and advocate for impoverished communities.
Reception to follow program
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Speaker Series: Resilience Through Climate Adaptation & Water Management
Wednesday, April 17
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Incubator at Sasaki, 64 Pleasant Street, Watertown
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-resilience-through-climate-adaptation-water-management-tickets-57731075200
This lively panel discussion and networking event, which is part of the Cambridge Science Festival, will address how proactive approaches to climate adaptation and water management in the natural & built environment both play a role in creating resilient communities.
How does the science behind rivers, lakes and large bodies of water play a role in preservation and advocacy?
What steps can communities who are negatively impacted by extreme weather and changes to water systems take to raise awareness and take action?
What are the latest landscape solutions and new technologies for designing river systems?
When a river bend needs to channel water, can a multi-benefit system be created?
How can more equitable solutions be surfaced in the discussion of proactive approaches to climate adaptation?
What regulatory issues are challenges for changing our design approach to resilient solutions?
Panelists include:
Jill Allen Dixon, Sasaki
Laura Jasinski, Charles River Conservancy
Pallavi Mande, Charles River Watershed Association
Julie Wormser, Mystic River Watershed Association
Diana Fernandez, Sasaki (moderator)
5:15-5:30pm: Registration
5:30-6:00pm: Panel presentations
6:00-6:30pm: Panel discussion
6:30-6:40pm: Audience Q&A
6:40-7:00pm: Networking
Light refreshments will be served.
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/bill_mckibben2/
Cost: $6.00 - $29.75 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated environmentalist and author BILL McKIBBEN—founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement—for a discussion of his latest book, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
About Falter
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature—issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic—was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience.
Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history—and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebearers built slip away.
Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.
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A Conversation with Senator Gary Hart and Lawrence Summers
WHEN Wednesday, April 17, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE 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) Gary Hart, U.S. Senator of Colorado (1975-1987)
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor; director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO IOP Forum Office, 617-495-1380
DETAILS A discussion on leadership and the politics of progressive economics with Gary Hart, (D-CO) former U.S. Senator of Colorado and Professor Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/conversation-senator-gary-hart-and-lawrence-summers
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The Deadly Side of Cancer: How Cancer Spreads
Wednesday, April 17
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Whitehead Institute, 455 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://wi.mit.edu/news/archive/2019/whitehead-institute-spring-science-evening-lecture-series-cambridge-community
Whitehead Institute will be hosting Spring into Science, an evening lecture series for the Cambridge community featuring the latest in biomedical research. Please register in advance.
Robert Weinberg, Founding Member, Whitehead Institute
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, MIT, Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
In a talk geared toward a general audience, Robert Weinberg, a Founding Member of Whitehead Institute and the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will explore challenges and advances in cancer research, as well as insights from his own lab and others into the final step of cancer development: metastasis. An internationally recognized authority on the molecular and genetic basis of human cancer, Dr. Weinberg’s accomplishments include the discovery the first human oncogene and the first tumor suppressor gene. His lab is currently focused on understanding cancer metastasis, a process that accounts for 90% of all cancer-associated deaths.
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The Great Climate Race: Climate impacts are accelerating. Are solutions keeping pace?
Wednesday, April 17
6pm - 8pm
Hampshire House, 84 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP by April 9 to Monika von Hillebrandt at rsvp at edf.org or 202-572-3373
Dr Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, EDF
Dr Nat Keohane, Senior Vice President of Climate, EDF
In the past year, several scientific reports have been released sounding the alarm about our rapidly and dangerously warming planet. Scientists say we must act far more aggressively to mitigate climate change.
Please join EDF and your fellow supporters to learn and to ask questions on how the latest climate science is guiding EDF and others to develop larger, bolder, and moe aggressive solutions to the environmental challenge of our time.
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NOVA Wonders Exhibition
Wednesday, April 17
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
WGBH Educational Foundation, 1 Guest Street, Boston
RSVP at http://novawonders.eventbrite.com
From the mysteries of astrophysics to the secrets of the human biome, explore exhibits, presentations, and activities from local STEM organizations based on the NOVA Wonders miniseries.
NOVA Wonders, a 6-part miniseries produced by the popular science documentary series on PBS, takes viewers on a journey to the frontiers of science, where researchers are tackling some of the biggest questions about life and the cosmos.
The NOVA Wonders Exhibition will feature exhibits, presentations, and activities from scientists and STEM organizations in the Greater Boston area that will highlight the themes of each of the six episodes in the miniseries.
Exhibits include:
The science of Fecal Microbiota Transplants with OpenBiome
Exploring dark matter & dark energy with What the Physics!? 's Dr. Greg Kestin
The secrets of chimp communication with Dr. Zairn Machanda
Greenland Melting immersive VR experience
NOVA Labs, apps, and interactives
And more!
Appetizers and drinks will be provided.
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Beyond Reconstruction: Environmental, social, and infrastructural challenges for long-term recovery in Mexico & Chile
Wednesday, April 17
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Harvard University Graduate School Of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Room 112, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59776800018
Worldwide, natural disasters are increasing in frequency and in severity. Because of population growth, more human communities are being directly affected by natural disasters causing death, disability and destruction of homes and livelihoods. When these disasters occur, citizens expect a prompt and robust emergency response and early reconstruction for the victims, although this is not always the case. Complicating matters, over the years after the initial response, there is a long period of recovery that requires the attention of policy makers and actors from all parts of society to work together. The recovery period provides a unique opportunity for a region to re-evaluate existing conditions and plan for a positive future for residents and resiliency infrastructure.
On Wednesday, April 17th and Thursday, April 18th, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Recupera Chile, and Adams House invite you to explore how the concept of recovery after major earthquakes has guided the work of programs in Oaxaca, Mexico and southern Chile.
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SeeBoat: visualizing the water quality of our river--Cambridge Science Fest
Wednesday, April 17
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Wiesner Gallery, MIT student center, 2nd floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seeboat-visualizing-the-water-quality-of-our-river-cambridge-science-fest-tickets-59584241069
SeeBoat is a remote controlled boat that sensing water quality and visualized the data on site and in real time using LED lights. In this activity, we'll test some of the water quality sensors used in SeeBoat, discuss possible pollution sources on the river that could be an interesting site for a community installation, and go outside to test the remote controlled sensing boats on the water (as long as the weather is nice!). Suitable for age 14+ (or 10+ with parent). If you have experience with long exposure photography and want to try making some water quality data images, please bring your camera and a tripod.
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The Future of Machine Learning & AI
Wednesday, 17 April
6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT
GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/the-future-of-machine-learning-ai/boston/72718
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are constantly evolving every day. New data is being processed and patterns identified, making machine learning and artificial intelligence more advanced than ever before.
For this event, we’re bringing together experts in machine learning and AI to talk about how new and exciting technologies will continue to impact our lives. Come learn about what advancements are being made in machine learning, the trajectory that artificial intelligence is taking, and how all of this will impact the future of technology.
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Making Civility Great Again
Wednesday, April 17
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Making Civility Great Again directly addresses the problems and issues that are the sources of divisiveness and chaos in America today. Equally important, it describes numerous ways to communicate with greater civility with others, especially those whose views are much different from yours.
In doing so, Making Civility Great Again shows you how to be more diplomatic, assertive, and empathetic with people you know well and people with whom you interact casually. This book gives you numerous examples and suggestions for dealing successfully with challenging communication situations whether you and your communication partners are exchanging views on personal matters, workplace issues, or political views. It also provides valuable tips for becoming a better listener; avoiding communication roadblocks; and managing your anger appropriately for more civil and productive discussions with people you encounter on a daily basis.
Making Civility Great Again will improve your civility as you communicate with others and, in the process, your example will inspire people to become more civil in their everyday activities. And, most of all, this book will ensure you contribute to making civility great again in the United States!
Kim Kerrigan has spent most of his adult life as an educator and corporate trainer throughout the United States and Mexico. He is also the editor of a personal memoir, Mom in Her Own Words, and is a popular workshop presenter and guest speaker. Mr. Kerrigan cofounded Corporate Classrooms and resides in the Boston area.
Steven Wells has had a diversified career: engineering executive, information technology entrepreneur, and marketing professional. He currently serves as marketing and content development director for Corporate Classrooms of which he is a cofounder. Mr. Wells lives in the Boston area.
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Cambridge Forum: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Wednesday, April 17
7:00 PM
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Cambridge Forum welcomes historian STEPHANIE E. JONES-ROGERS for a discussion of her new book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.The book explores how slave-owning white women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market.
About They Were Her Property
Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In They Were Her Property, historian Stephanie E. Jones-Roger shows that women typically inherited more slaves than land, and that enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
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The Rise of Fascism and How to Fight it
Wednesday, April 17
7:00pm to 9:00pm
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The meeting is part of an international speaking tour by Christoph Vandreier. The meeting will address the role of the German Trotskyist movement in exposing the network of pro-fascist academics and state intelligence operatives who are paving the way for the far-right. It will take up the historical lessons that must be learned to prevent the disaster of fascism from taking place on an even greater scale today.
It is the only meeting of its kind and will be a major intellectual
event on the campus. We urge the broadest promotion and attendance of this important meeting among students, faculty, workers, and thecommunity at large.
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Thursday, April 18
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ROBOTICA Autonomous Vehicle Summit
Thursday, April 18
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM EDT
Draper, Draper Auditorium, One Hampshire Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robotica-autonomous-vehicle-summit-tickets-55430041747
Cost: $45 – $145
The future of personal, public and commercial transportation is being built right here in New England.
On April 18th, join us for ROBOTICA Autonomous Vehicle Summit, brought to you by AUVSI New England. Along with our partners from Boston Consulting Group, Draper, WPI and the Consulate General of Canada, we will once again bring together industry experts for a comprehensive review of the current market status and next-gen initiatives. Our panelists and moderators will engage you with a vision for future use planning models and next steps for thoughtful and well rounded autonomous vehicle policy.
Attendees will hear from self-driving vehicle & component manufacturers, technology researchers, policymakers and regulators from city & state offices, and international thought leaders on public, commercial and personal transportation.
Join us at Draper on April 18th for a full day summit on autonomous vehicles and intelligent transportation.
Additional details will be announced soon. Watch our event page at http://auvsinewengland.org/events-3/robotica-series-events/av-summit-2018.html for more details.
General admission and group tickets are on sale now.
Presented with the support of our annual corporate sponsors.
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BUMC 2019 Earth Day Festival
Thursday, April 18
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
BU Medical School, Talbot Green, 715 Albany Street, Boston
Join us in celebrating Earth Day 2019 this Spring! The 9th Annual Earth Day Festival is a dynamic event that brings together local businesses, nonprofits, BU departments, student organizations, and more to share interactive and fun activities outdoors to celebrate sustainability together.
Contact Email sustainability at BU.edu
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Sustainability Lunch Series: Building a Bright Energy Future, EnergySage
Thursday, April 18
11:45am to 12:45pm
MIT, Building E62-276, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Vikram Aggarwal is the founder and chief executive of EnergySage, the industry’s leading online comparison-shopping marketplace for rooftop solar, energy storage, community solar, and financing. He started EnergySage after more than 15 years of experience with Fidelity Investments, where he specialized in private equity investing, growth strategy, marketing, and new business development.
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Baptizing Uncle Sam: Tracing the Origins of Christian Nationalism
WHEN Thursday, April 18, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT CSWR, 617.495.4476
DETAILS White Nationalism, Christian Nationalism, and White Supremacy in the US And Beyond: A Lunchtime Discussion Series
Session 2: Baptizing Uncle Sam: Tracing the Origins of Christian Nationalism
Facilitator: Daniel McKanan, HDS
White nationalism, Christian nationalism, and White supremacy are often represented as “extremist” views perpetrated by radical fringes of US society. In this series, we seek to challenge that view by exploring “mainstream” manifestations of these perspectives and what those representations suggest about how we might understand our current social and political polarization.
All members of the HDS community are invited to participate in this luncheon series. All participants are asked to complete short readings and to come prepared to discuss them with others in attendance. Readings can be accessed at https://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/programs/exploring-white-nationalism
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Working with industry to achieve results – Is it possible?
Thursday, April 18
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Eva Birk, U.S. DOT's Federal Highway Administration, Environmental Program Manager
Are most polluters trying to “beat” regulations, or is the bigger issue that one needs a PhD to understand even our most basic environmental laws? This presentation will describe how agencies can form unique partnerships with a stakeholder group that often has the most intimate knowledge of what works and doesn’t work on the ground – regulated parties. Eva Birk will share experience working on improved Clean Water Act permitting with national stakeholders in Washington, D.C., as well as simplified Endangered Species Act consultation for Atlantic Salmon in Maine. She will offer tips and tricks for how to stay sane, have fun and advance your career while navigating historically fraught relationships between polluters, nonprofits and regulators.
Eva Birk manages U.S. DOT's Federal Highway Aid environmental program in Maine. She provides support on a wide range of regulatory issues for large infrastructure projects, working with stakeholders such as State DOTs, Tribal Governments, NOAA, USFWS, Army Corps and EPA. Prior to her work in Maine, Eva served as an ORISE Science and Education Fellow in US EPA’s Office of Water, and later represented the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) in Washington, D.C. on several environmental streamlining initiatives related to private development. Eva has a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies from Tufts University, and a Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University.
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The Un Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities: A Commentary
Thursday, April 18
12pm
Harvard, WCC Milstein West A/B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Ilias Bantekas
Michael Ashley Stein
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"Jump Starting America," by Simon Johnson and Jonathan Gruber
Thursday, April 18
12:00pm
MIT, E51-345 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Can the United States grow faster, create more good jobs, and genuinely spread opportunity?
Yes: by investing more in science and technology, by placing those investments strategically around the country, and by creating an Innovation Dividend – paying cash to all Americans every year, based on the success of public investments in the tech sector.
What technologies should receive public support? Which cities have the potential to become the next generation tech hubs? How do we ensure that benefits from the next tech boom are shared more broadly?
Please join Jon Gruber and Simon Johnson in discussing these questions and their new book.
For the MIT community, the authors will present the book at 12 noon in E51-345 on Thursday, April 18. There will be an overflow room in E51-325 if needed. Seating will be on a first come basis.
For more information please contact, Michelle Fiorenza, fiorenza at mit.edu
All are welcome! Please bring your own lunch.
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New Findings in the Field of Negotiation: Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
WHEN Thursday, April 18, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall, Room 101, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiations
SPEAKER(S) Benjamin Spatz, Ph.D. Candidate, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomcy at Tufts University
Talia Gillis, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard Business School and the Economics Department, Harvard University; S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public; refreshments will be provided.
CONTACT INFO dlong at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Every year, the Program on Negotiation welcomes a group of doctoral students as Graduate Research Fellows. Our Fellows spend a year at PON researching and writing about current topics in the fields of negotiation and mediation, with the goal of publishing their work after their time at PON.
This lunch provides an opportunity for two of this year’s Graduate Research Fellows to share their research findings with the negotiation community. Join us for fascinating, informal talks, followed by a rich discussion!
Spatz will present his research on “Sanctions and Elite Bargaining in the Political Marketplace.” Gillis will present on her research on “Personalizing Credit Prices.”
LINK https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/new-findings-field-negotiation-spatz-gillis-2/
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Climate Change and Cities
Thursday, April 18,
12:00pm to 2:00pm
MIT, Building 9-451, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
A presentation by Professor Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Co-Chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), and Co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). Professor Rosenzweig will present the UCCRN’s Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities, examining the implications of changing climatic conditions on critical urban physical and social infrastructure sectors and intersectional concerns — in the context of other recent climate change reports. The prevention will be followed by a response from Prof. John Fernandez (Director of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative & The MIT Urban Metabolism Lab) — and a moderated discussion by Prof. Janelle Knox-Hayes (Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, and Head of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group) & Juan Camilo Osorio, (Co-Investigator at MIT-ESI and PhD Candidate at DUSP).
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Too Much of a Good Thing? Civil-Military Relations in the Wake of Technological Disruption
Thursday, April 18
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, One Brattle Square - Room 350, Cambridge
Speakers: Mathias Ormestad Frendem, Henry Chauncey Jr. '57 Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies and the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, Yale University; A. Bradley Potter, Research Fellow, International Security Program
What effect do emerging communications technologies have on U.S. civil-military relations? How might the history of such technological disruption help us prepare for future disruptions? Most scholarship suggests that such developments should empower civilian leaders to better monitor and oversee military leaders, bringing in line military efforts with civilian preferences. However, the speakers argue that these technologies also bring with them challenging consequences for civil-military relations. Namely, they may encourage tendencies in both parties that undermine decision-making and long-term healthy interaction. The speakers illustrate this with a case study of relations between President George W. Bush and George W. Casey prior to launching the "surge" in Iraq.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
International Security Brown Bag Seminar
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Harnessing Biology to Make New Materials and Devices for Energy, Environmental Remediation, and Cancer Diagnostics and Imaging
Thursday, April 18
4:00pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Angela Belcher
For more information about this event, please contact:
617-253-1712 or be-acad at mit.edu
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Book Launch and Discussion - Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
WHEN Thursday, April 18, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Harvard Colombian Student Society
SPEAKER(S) Alex Fattal, Assistant Professor, Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Penn State University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A new book, "Guerrilla Marketing," details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of information warfare, "Guerrilla Marketing" combines archival research and extensive fieldwork not just with the Colombian Ministry of Defense and former rebel communities, but also with political exiles in Sweden and peace negotiators in Havana. Throughout, Fattal deftly intertwines insights into the modern surveillance state, peace and conflict studies, and humanitarian interventions, on one hand, with critical engagements with marketing, consumer culture, and late capitalism on the other. The result is a powerful analysis of the intersection of conflict and consumerism in a world where governance is increasingly structured by brand ideology and wars sold as humanitarian interventions.
LINK https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/book-launch-and-discussion-guerrilla-marketing-counterinsurgency-and-capitalism?delta=0
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Equiano’s World – Beyond Slavery and Abolition
WHEN Thursday, April 18, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, 104 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University
COST Free and Open to the Public
DETAILS The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Equiano’s World — Beyond Slavery and Abolition
April 16, 4 p.m.: Vassa and Slavery: Participant/Observer of His Age
Barker Center, Thompson Room
April 17, 5 p.m.: Vassa’s Associates: A Son of Africa in the Enlightenment
Hutchins Center, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute
April 18, 4 p.m.: Vassa as “Atlantic Creole”: Self-Made Man Overcoming the Odds
LINK https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-e-lovejoy-w-e-b-du-bois-lecture-series-3-3
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A Conversation About Race with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
Thursday, April 18
4:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E51-115, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Where are we as a nation in having honest conversations about race and racism? 22 years ago, the seminal work of Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? was published. In a conversation anchored in the 20th anniversary of her book released in 2017, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum will discuss the current state of race relations in the nation. Is it better or worse than it was 20 years ago? What can we, as an institution and a nation, do to create a more equitable Institute and society?
In addition to the above author event, we invite you to participate in MIT Reads. MIT Reads, sponsored by the MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore, is reading and hosting community discussions on Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? this spring 2019 semester. Visit the MIT Reads site for more information on how to get the book and other details.
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Tensions and Trade-Offs in Law, Organization, and the Design of “Ethically-Aligned” Artificial Intelligence
Thursday, April 18
5pm
Harvard, Littauer 140, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Justice of the Supreme Court of CA
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The Experimental Forest, Photo Exhibit & Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 18
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
WeWork, 625 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59123307404
A conversation between Photographer John Hirsch, Harvard Forest Outreach and Development Manager Clarisse Hart, and Senior Ecologists Jonathan Thompson exploring the history of long term ecological research, citizen science, land-use and art at The Harvest Forest.
Click here for more information about the Photographsand The Forest.
Cost: Free.
WeWork is a global network of workspaces where companies grow together. Teams of any size can find refreshingly designed collaborative space, private offices, and meeting rooms that energize their employees and their guests. But WeWork is so much more than four walls—providing community, amenities, events, and technology to evolve space into experience.
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JPat Brown, B.C.D. Lipton, and Michael Morisy: Scientists Under Surveillance
Thursday, April 18
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT Press Bookstore and Cambridge Science Festival welcome editors JPat Brown, B.C.D. Lipton, and Michael Morisy for a discussion of their book, Scientists Under Surveillance: The FBI Files.
When the Cold War was at its hottest, the FBI cast a suspicious eye on scientists working in a wide range of disciplines. Scientists Under Surveillance gathers FBI files on some of the most famous scientists in America–including Neil Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Vera Rubin, and Richard Feynman–and reproduces them in their original typewritten, teletyped, hand-annotated form.
JPat Brown is Executive Editor of MuckRock.
B. C. D. Lipton is Senior Reporter at MuckRock.
Michael Morisy is cofounder of MuckRock.
For more information about the Cambridge Science Festival, visit cambridgesciencefestival.org.
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Work and Learning in the Future!
Thursday, April 18
6:00pm
MIT, Building NW86, MP Room, Sidney Pacific, 70 Pacific Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://tiny.cc/CoSIDistinguishedLecture
The MIT SP Committe on Scholarly Interactions invites you for the Presidential Fellows Distinguished Lecture "Work and Learning in the Future!" by Professor Sanjay Sarma.
Abstract
It is clear that we are at a time of unprecedented change in technology, in work and in the political economy. What are these changes, and how can we deal with them? I will talk about what we are learning about the future of work, and argue that lifelong learning is a must in the future. I will then talk about the science of learning and about what MIT is doing in this space.
Speaker Bio
Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is the Vide President Open Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was also the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. He serves on the boards of GS1, EPCglobal and several startup companies including Top Flight Technologies, Hochschild Mining (HOC:LSE) and edX. Dr. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Sarma also worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the OATSystems. He has authored over 150 academic papers in computational geometry, sensing, RFID, automation and CAD, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research including the MacVicar Fellowship, the Business Week eBiz Award and Informationweek's Innovators and Influencers Award. He advises several national governments and global companies.
RSVP requested http://tiny.cc/CoSIDistinguishedLecture
Sponsors: Office of the Graduate Education
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Witness or Participant? The Ethical, Practical and Linguistic Challenges of Reporting on the 2015 Migration Crisis
WHEN Thursday, April 18, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson Hall (210), 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Kingsley, International Correspondent, The New York Times
Tobias Garnett, Human Rights Lawyer
Parul Sehgal, Book Critic, The New York Times
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO humctr at fas.harvard.edu
(617) 495-0738
DETAILS Patrick Kingsley, international correspondent for The New York Times,and author of "The New Odyssey," a portrait of the European refugee crisis reflects on the challenges of reporting the 2015 migration crisis and is joined in conversation with human rights lawyer Tobias Garnett, New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal and Homi Bhabha, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/witness-or-participant-ethical-practical-and-linguistic-challenges-reporting-2015-migration
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Brave New World: The Era of Consumer Controlled Data
Thursday, April 18
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Hult International Business School, 1 Education Street, Classroom G, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58279566753
Cost: $10 – $15
Actions and Detail Panel
GDPR, Europe’s data privacy legislation that went into effect last May, was the just tip of the iceberg. Consumer trust is down and U.S. privacy regulation is coming in hot. While states are upping their consumer protection laws, consumers want the federal government to step in and ensure data privacy on a national level. The impact will change the entire data landscape for ad tech and brands alike. How can marketers prepare their organizations now for what's coming next? Join us in April for a critical conversation on eprivacy, with an expert panel that will address proposed legislation and its implications for consumer data.
Attendees will learn:
Implications of GDPR and ePrivacy Regulation
Lessons learned from large U.S. brands
Tangible next steps marketers can take to build a new consumer consented data strategy
Complimentary Wine, Beer, Soda Water and Food!
Speakers:
Jonathan Lacoste, President, Jebbit
Jonathan Lacoste is the President and Co-founder of Jebbit, an enterprise software company that focuses on mobile marketing and consumer data. Along with his co-founder, Tom Coburn, Jonathan built the world’s first declared data platform to help fuel digital marketing by using first-party, declared data.
Emily Avant, Vice President of Corporate Business Affairs and Governance, WarnerMedia
Emily Avant is the Vice President of Corporate Business Affairs and Governance at WarnerMedia, where she is a member of the Data Strategy team. In this role, she manages the company’s relationships with its strategic data partners and leads negotiations of the key enterprise-wide data transactions. She also develops and oversees corporate governance policies that are designed to ensure that data is used responsibly and ethically. Emily is currently focused on the company’s Consumer Data Experience (or CDX) initiative, which will provide WarnerMedia consumers with new choices as to how their data may be used.
Rob Schipul. Senior Director, Seeker Integrated Marketing, Monster Worldwide
Rob Schipul is Senior Director, Seeker Integrated Marketing at Monster Worldwide. He has a strong digital/CRM background, with 15+ years’ experience across a range of clients within insurance, retail, health, finance, travel and pharmaceutical industries.
He started his career in marketing at Digitas, working on segment-driven plans for AT&T local/long distance service and their VoIP product launch. Rob also managed GM/OnStar’s customer lifecycle stream for four years as well as the redesign of OnStar.com in 2010, which transformed the site from transactional to experiential. Rob joined Arnold Worldwide in late 2011 to help bring digital expertise to the agency. At Arnold, he led integrated efforts for CVS Health (during its brand launch and cigarette cessation) as well as the ExtraCare and Beauty brands. He also spearheaded the Engagement Planning discipline which combined tech, content and social strategy as part of Arnold’s Integrated Strategy capability.
Moderator:
Parna Sarkar-Basu, CEO and Founder, Brand and Buzz Marketing, LLC / V.P. Brand Marketing, American Marketing Association, Boston
Parna Sarkar-Basu, an innovation marketing strategist, helps companies navigate the digital era.
Leveraging her two passions – technology and brand building – Parna humanizes corporate brands, builds thought leaders, simplifies complex concepts and creates industry buzz to elevate companies to new heights. She has been instrumental in propelling tech companies into innovation leaders in highly competitive markets, including artificial intelligence, enterprise software, storage systems, robots, databases and managed services.
Recipient of multiple awards, Parna has led marketing and communications functions for various global companies, including Kaminario, iRobot, iCorps Technologies, Invention Machine (acquired by IHS), and PTC. She now serves as a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and CEOs in the U.S. and Europe and works with their teams on a variety of initiatives, including corporate and product positioning, new market entry, innovation marketing and digital transformation.
Agenda:
6 pm - Registration and Networking
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Program
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MIT Water Innovation Final Pitch Night
Thursday, April 18
6pm - 9pm
MIT, Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-water-innovation-prize-pitch-competition-tickets-57932255937
Join us for the Final Pitch Event of the MIT Water Innovation Prize on Thursday April 18th from 6:00pm at the MIT Media Lab 6th Floor (E14, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge). Come hear our finalist startup teams who are solving global water issues pitch for $35K in grant funding!
Keynote Speakers for the event will be:
Tom Ferguson - Vice President of Programming at Imagine H2O
Dr. You Wu - Co-founder & CTO at WatchTower Robotics
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Boston: Launching the Green New Deal Tour
Thursday, April 18
6:30 PM
Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.universe.com/events/road-to-a-green-new-deal-boston-tour-launch-tickets-boston-Y6L20K
Cost: $5 - $50
Join us at the Tour Launch of the Road to a Green New Deal! At this Tour Stop, we'll explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like for Boston and the nation, and what the promise of the Green New Deal will look like, too.
We'll hear from political champions, including Senator Markey and Representative Pressley, and community and movement leaders, including Reverend Mariama White Hammond and the students who led the Boston Youth Climate Strike.
We'll set the roadmap to 2021 and beyond, discovering what the GND means for each of us-- and what action we'll take to make it happen.
If you have questions about the event, or require financial assistance, email gndtour.boston at gmail.com
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Papers to Policies: How Scientific Evidence Influences Government Action
Thursday, April 18
6:30-8:00 pm
Aeronaut, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
A panel discussion event in partnership with the Cambridge Science Festival
How can science be better applied to institutional decision making? How do scientists advocate for the inclusion of their work in governmental decision making? What types of research and investigation are needed to collate scientific evidence for use by institutional bodies? Joining us to discuss these questions (and more!) will be four experts in science policy with different perspectives on these issues:
Dr. Lisbeth Gronlund (far left) is the Co-Director for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, where she specializes in technical and policy issues relating to nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defenses, and space weapons.
Dr. Erica Palmer Kimmerling (middle left) is the Hellman Fellow for Science and Technology Policy at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and her primary focus is on the Public Face of Science Project, which explores the relationship between scientists and the public.
Dr. Daniel Pomeroy (middle right) is the Managing Director and Senior Policy Advisor of the MIT Policy Lab, which helps MIT faculty develop connections with policymakers and effectively communicate their research to the broader community.
Ronit Prawer (far right) is the East Coast Director of the UK Science & Innovation Network, where she works to foster collaborations between the US and UK in science and innovation that inform effective policymaking.
Please join us and our panel members for what promises to be a fantastic discussion, brought to you as part of the 2019 Cambridge Science Festival!
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Our Ocean Planet in Three Acts: Staggering Diversity, Scary News, and Reasons for Hope
Thursday, April 18
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
BU, Photonics Building, 8 Saint Marys Street, Room 206, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nancy-knowlton-lecture-in-marine-science-tickets-58579416612
Join the BU Marine Program for a special lecture in Marine Science. Dr. Nancy Knowlton spent much of her career at the Smithsonian, first in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and later at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, where she was the Sant Chair of Marine Science. She has also been a professor at Yale and at the University of California in San Diego, where she founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is the author of Citizens of the Sea, former Editor-in-Chief of the Smithsonian’s Ocean Portal, and contributes regularly to the global ocean conversation via @seacitizens. She is a winner of the Peter Benchley Prize, the Heinz Award, and the Women’s Aquatic Network 2018 Woman of the Year. In 2013 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2014 she helped launch #OceanOptimism on Twitter, and in 2017 she was the co-host of the Smithsonian’s Earth Optimism Summit.
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Edible Insect Festival @ Tufts: BugFeast!
Thursday, April 18
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Tufts, SEC Atrium, 200 College Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59594011292
Cost: $4 – $12
Right now, the insect food movement is rapidly gaining momentum in the United States. This festival places Tufts at its leading edge by spreading the word about the environmental impacts of our dietary choices and by highlighting a more sustainable food system for the future. Dr. Sara Gomez, Assistant Director of Tufts Environmental Studies Program, is excited to share this message with the wider Tufts community. She notes that “One of our main goals is to educate students about sustainable food systems. What better way to do so than by exploring how insect consumption can help reduce our diet’s carbon footprint? This festival provides a unique opportunity to merge theory and practice.” And, as Lewis says, “At the end of the day, we hope people will embrace insects in whole new way – for breakfast, for lunch, and even for dinner.”
Chef Joseph Yoon will be preparing a catered meal for the Tufts Community on Thursday, April 18th. Join us to taste the delicious, sustainable, and nutritious Brooklyn Bugs recipes.
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Boston’s Twentieth Century Bicycling Renaissance: Cultural Change on Two Wheels w/ Lorenz Finison
Thursday, April 18
7:00pm
Trident Books Cafe, 338 Newbury Street, Boston
Boston’s Twentieth Century Bicycling Renaissance: Cultural Change on Two Wheels includes the history of racing, touring, commuting, bikeways, rails-to trails, bike messengers, bike-a-thons, BMX, bike building, bike shops, an amusing section on the ill-fated Tour de Trump, and many more. Author Lorenz Finison considers these topics through the lenses of race, class, gender, and LGBT issues in cycling and beyond. This book intertwines the history of cycling with a cultural history of Boston.
This is the second book in a trilogy. The first book: Boston’s Cycling Craze: 1880-1900, A Story of Race, Sport, and Society, achieved the Boston Globe’s best of New England nonfiction list in 2014.
About the author:
Lorenz Finison is a social psychologist, public health practitioner, and historian. He arrived in Boston as a teenager in 1954 and feels privileged to write about a city he’s loved despite its warts and troubles, and its very real racial conflicts. He researches issues of race, class, and gender and how these factors influence such things as Who can ride with whom? Who is included and who is excluded? Where? How dressed? At what speed? How safely for cyclists and other road users? Finison is a founding member of Cycling Through History, and of the Bicycling History Collections at UMass-Boston.
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Cutting Edge of Neurotechnology in Government and Industry
Thursday, April 18
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59295387099
Jesse Wheeler will be giving a talk on his work in neurotechnology at MIT. Jesse has worked as the Neurotechnology Business Lead at Draper Laboratory for Five and a half years. He has lead efforts in advanced closed-loop medical implants include a 320-channel brain implant to treat neuropsychiatric disorders, a 128-channel peripheral nerve implant to restore sensorimotor function to amputees, and a 128-ch wirelessly networked system consisting of multiple 1cc implants for distributed therapies.
He is also a leader on the famous DragonFleye project, using a combination of MEMS and optogentics to manipulate nervous system of a live dragonfly. These cybernetic implants allow an outside observer to steer the dragonfly, in hopes that it may one day be used for observation and reconnaissance.
Draper Laboratory is hiring! Come to learn more about their exciting projects and technical capabilities!
Food will be provided!
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BostonTalks: Forecasting Food
Thursday, April 18
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostontalks-forecasting-food-tickets-59045048329
Cost: $11.54
Look ahead to the future of food through the eyes of local chefs and experts at this month’s BostonTalks: Forecasting Food.
BostonTalks is WGBH’s smarter happy hour. It’s smarter because we feature three short talks, and it’s happy hour because the entire event takes place in a bar-like setting with lots of casual conversation.
Featured speakers:
Greg Donoghue, COO of Clover Food Lab
Clover Food Lab seeks to help meat lovers become vegetable lovers. They has built a passionate base of customers, 90% of whom are not vegetarian. Clover Food Lab was the first Boston-area restaurant to feature the Impossible Burger, and it even created the now-popular Impossible Meatballs.
Claire Cheney, Owner of the Curio Spice Shop
Claire is a self-taught chef from the Boston area. After spending more than five years traveling the world looking for rare and delicious spices, she opened the Curio Spice Shop. Her goal is to bring sustainably sourced, rare and unknown spices to the people of Boston.
David Yusefzadeh, CEO and Founder of Cloud Creamery
Formerly a fine-dining chef, David is the founder and CEO of Cloud Creamery. The goal of David and his artisanal edible company is to bring delicious alternatives to those on the East Coast who rely on opioids and steroids for medical conditions. Having been diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2011, David knows firsthand the impact that medical marijuana can have on a person’s life.
Hosted by Edgar B. Herwick III, WGBH’s Curiosity Desk
Edgar digs a little deeper into topics in the news, explores the off-beat and searches for answers to questions in the world around us. His radio features can be heard on 89.7 WGBH’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and his television features can be seen on WGBH’s Greater Boston.
You must be at least 21 with a valid ID to attend. Beer, wine and hard cider are available for purchase.
This is a networking-style event. Limited seating will be available.
Tickets are $15 at the door.
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Friday, April 19
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Inaugural Energy Conference (BU Energy Club): Grid Transformation
Friday, April 19
9:00am – 4:00pm
BU, Questrom School of Business, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/56369428478
Cost: $10
Are you interested in future technologies and transformations of the electricity grid? BU Energy Club is hosting an Energy Conference on April 19 at the Questrom School of Business to exchange perspectives and explore the innovations required for a sustainable energy future.Join professionals and academics to learn about trends affecting grid development such as energy storage, demand response, electrification, and policy changes.
Sponsors & Partners: MassCEC, Concentric Energy Advisors, BU Institute for Sustainable Energy
Schedule:
9:00 AM Registration & Light Breakfast
9:30 AM Opening Remarks: David Jermaine, BU Institute for Sustainable Energy
10:00 AM Keynote: Carlos Nouel, National Grid - Transforming the Utility Business
11:00 AM Concurrent Session #1: Brett Feldman, Navigant Research - Distributed Energy Resources
11:00 AM Concurrent Session #2: Jonathan Schrag, RI Public Utilities - Electrification
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Concurrent Session #1: Betsy Glynn, BlueWave Solar - Community Solar
1:00 PM Concurrent Session #2: Ben Davis, Concentric Energy Advisors - Market Competition
2:00 PM Panel Discussion on Financing & Partnerships: Moderator: Colin Smith, Wood Mackenzie; Panelists Gideon Katsh, National Grid, Ariel Horowitz, MassCEC, and Dr. Michael Caramanis, Boston University
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Networking & Reception
Dress Code: Business Casual
*No Refunds*
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2019 MIT Tech Conference
Friday, April 19
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
MIT Samberg Conference Center (E52), 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/54216424786
Cost: $50 – $250
In keeping with MIT's recent profile as the "Future Factory", the goal of the conference will be to provide a veritable glimpse into the future by bringing together some of the brightest minds helping transform our world for the better. The historically sold-out event attracts 400+ students, founders, investors, academics and industry professionals. Proposed topics include Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles, Space Travel and more...
For further information, please visit: https://www.mittechconference2019.com/
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Artificial intelligence meets neuroscience at MIT
Friday, April19
9:30 – 12:00 EDT
MIT, Building 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/60286670053
Join us for an amazing series of talks of state-of-the-art research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience at MIT for the general public, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2019.
Talks:
An overview of artificial intelligence and neuroscience research across the world
Speaker: Dr. Omar Costilla Reyes – Miller Lab, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Steady As She Knows: Invariant Representations of Facial Emotion and Identity
Speaker: Kathryn C O'Nell - Saxe Lab, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
How does the brain make a prediction about the world?
Speaker: Dr. Andre Bastos - Miller Lab, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
The role of symbols on the mind, two perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Andres Campero - Tenenbaum Lab, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Where are memories born in the brain?
Speaker: Dr. Diego Mendoza Halliday, Desimone Lab, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Using artificial intelligence to understand how brain regions “talk” to each other
Speaker: Mengting Fang, Anzellotti Lab, Psychology department, Boston College
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April 19th Climate Strike
Friday, April 19
11 AM – 2 PM
Boston State House, 27 Beacon Street, Boston
Meet at 11am across the State House in Boston Commons to fight for our future! Entirely youth-led protest for students from Massachusetts and the greater New England area!
More at https://www.facebook.com/events/1042235505987607/
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EarthFest
Friday, April 19
11AM – 2PM
Tufts, Academic Quad, Medford
Students for Environmental Awareness and EcoReps invite you to the 3rd annual Earth Fest, a FREE event on the Academic Quad to celebrate sustainability in the community in honor of Earth Day.
The event will include live music, a vegetarian cookout provided by the GreEco Reps, a clothing exchange hosted by the Eco Reps, and tables hosted by student groups and local organizations.
Link https://www.facebook.com/events/555210001632400/
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Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar: Title & abstract TBA
Friday, April 19
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Melissa Lunden, Aclima Inc.
Contact: Kelvin Bates
Email: kelvin_bates at fas.harvard.edu
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New Findings in the Field of Negotiation: Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
WHEN Friday, April 19, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School Campus, Hauser Hall, Room 101, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation
SPEAKER(S) Yasmin Zaerpoor, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gail Racabi, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public; lunch will be provided.
CONTACT INFO dlong at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Every year, the Program on Negotiation welcomes a group of doctoral students as Graduate Research Fellows. Our Fellows spend a year at PON researching and writing about current topics in the fields of negotiation and mediation, with the goal of publishing their work after their time at PON.
This lunch provides an opportunity for two of this year’s Graduate Research Fellows to share and discuss their research findings with the negotiation community.
Zaerpoor will present her research, “In Pursuit of the Common Good: Overcoming Barriers to Collective Action through Transboundary Water Negotiation along the Blue Nile.” Racabi will present his research on “Ambiguity as Sword and Shield — How Uber Drivers Benefit From Their Ambiguous Legal Status.”
LINK https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/new-findings-field-negotiation-zaerpoor-racabi/
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Friday, April 19
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store welcomes ANNE HARRINGTON, the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, for a discussion of her latest book, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness.
About Mind Fixers
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.
But when the Freudians overreached, they drove psychiatry into a state of crisis that a new “biological revolution” was meant to alleviate. Harrington shows how little that biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science, and why the field has fallen into a state of crisis in our own time.
Mind Fixers makes clear that psychiatry’s waxing and waning biological enthusiasms have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors, including immigration, warfare, grassroots activism, and assumptions about race and gender. Government programs designed to empty the state mental hospitals, acrid rivalries between different factions in the field, industry profit mongering, consumerism, and an uncritical media have all contributed to the story as well.
In focusing particularly on the search for the biological roots of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder, Harrington underscores the high human stakes for the millions of people who have sought medical answers for their mental suffering. This is not just a story about doctors and scientists, but about countless ordinary people and their loved ones.
A clear-eyed, evenhanded, and yet passionate tour de force, Mind Fixers recounts the past and present struggle to make mental illness a biological problem in order to lay the groundwork for creating a better future, both for those who suffer and for those whose job it is to care for them.
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2019 Michaels Lecture: Engineering the Genome: How CRISPR Systems Work
Friday, April 19
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D
As an internationally renowned professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at U.C. Berkeley, Doudna and her colleagues rocked the research world in 2012 by describing a simple way of editing the DNA of any organism using an RNA-guided protein found in bacteria. This technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, has opened the floodgates of possibility for human and non-human applications of gene editing, including assisting researchers in the fight against HIV, sickle cell disease and muscular dystrophy. Doudna is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and has received many other honors including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Heineken Prize, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award and the Japan Prize. She is the co-author with Sam Sternberg of “A Crack in Creation”, a personal account of her research and the societal and ethical implications of gene editing.
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The Coming Challenges of PFASs in Water and Soil: Implications for Human Exposure
Friday, April 19
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 32-124, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Christopher Higgins, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract: The challenges posed by the widespread contamination of soils and groundwater by poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are immense. Despite growing concerns about human exposure to perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), other PFASs, particularly those derived from aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) have garnered little attention. Recent work using high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) has revealed that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of additional PFASs that may be associated with AFFF-impacted sites. While these other PFASs are likely present in AFFF-impacted drinking water, their presence and role in soils remains poorly understood. Importantly, many of these newly discovered PFASs have diverse chemical structures, including anionic, cationic, and zwitterionic moieties. In this seminar, the complexity of the challenges posed by the composition as well as the unique behaviors of PFASs will be presented and discussed. In addition, the implications of potential biological exposures to these chemicals will be presented. Collectively, these data point to a need for a more comprehensive characterization of PFASs present in AFFF-impacted soils and waters and an understanding of their potential impacts to human and ecological health.
Christopher P. Higgins is an environmental chemist at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines). Dr. Higgins’ received his A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard University, and graduate degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. He joined faculty at Mines in 2009, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. His research focuses on the movement of contaminants in the environment. In particular, he studies chemical fate and transport in natural and engineered systems as well as bioaccumulation in plants and animals, with a focus on poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). Dr. Higgins has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications to date, and he has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP).
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Central America and the Caribbean Film Series presents: Puerto Rico: Trouble in Paradise
WHEN Friday, April 19, 5 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA), Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico School of Law, Consulado General de México en Boston, Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) and The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Julio Fontanet, Dean, School of Law, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico
Pedro Reina, Director of Harvard-Puerto Rico Winter Institute
Doris Sommer, Founder and Faculty Director, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University
Carmen Oquendo-Villar, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar DRCLAS
Francisco Colom, Graduate Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design & Participant of the 2019 Harvard-Puerto Rico Winter Institute
Laura Pérez Sánchez, Nieman Fellow
José Falconi, President, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO drclas at fas.harvard.edu
LINK https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/central-america-and-caribbean-film-series-presents-puerto-rico-trouble-paradise
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Boston Innovation In Consumer Products: The Grommet's Jules Pieri
Friday, April 19
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.wbur.org/events/457614/boston-innovation-in-consumer-products-the-grommets-jules-pieri
Cost: $10.00
Since 2008, The Grommet, a product discovery platform based in Somerville, has launched 3,000 innovative products from Makers, inventors and entrepreneurs, including companies that have become household names like FitBit, IdeaPaint, Lovepop, OtterBox, SimpliSafe, SodaStream, S’well and many others from around the world. As technology makes it easier than ever for entrepreneurs to develop and launch consumer products, Greater Boston has dozens of product companies rising up from our academia, science and tech communities—and new ideas are always bubbling up.
Reporter Callum Borchers will speak with Jules Pieri, The Grommet’s Co-founder & CEO and author of the new book, “How We Make Stuff Now,” along with several Boston-area companies (KettlePizza, Smart Girls Jewelry and Quell) to share their stories and insights about launching consumer products. Where did the idea come from? How did they develop them into a product? How did they turn them into a business? Why is Boston a great place to develop consumer products?
Copies of “How We Make Stuff Now” will be available to purchase. A book signing with Pieri will follow the event.
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Heading for Extinction and What to Do About It
Friday, April 19
7 PM – 9 PM
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/409882493163258/
The planet is in ecological crisis: we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event this planet has experienced. Scientists believe we may have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown. This is an emergency.
In this public talk, speakers from the Extinction Rebellion Boston will share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading, discuss some of the current psychology around climate change, and offer solutions through the study of social movements.
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Saturday April 20
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Eliminating Health Disparities: A Public Health Imperative
WHEN Saturday, April 20, 2019, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC), 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Conferences, Education, Health Sciences, Humanities, Religion, Special Events, Wellness/Work Life
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The full-day conference is co-hosted by Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
SPEAKER(S) The Conference, will feature clinicians, researchers, healthcare entrepreneurs, and public health pioneers who will speak about pertinent health topics that impact our communities.
COST Professional: $75 | Professional w/ Dinner: $95 Student: $45 | Student w/ Dinner: $60 Dinner Only: $45 (+$15 After Wednesday, April 3, 2019)
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amhp-national-conference-eliminating-health-disparities-a-public-health-imperative-tickets-55006176956
CONTACT INFO Terésa J. Carter, MCM
617-432-4697
Teresa_Carter at hms.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP) at its National Public Health Conference, for an inspiring day of dialogue and collaboration among health professionals and industry experts. The conference is open to all health professionals and anyone interested in improving the health of all Americans.
LINK http://www.amhp.us/conference/
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Earth Day Clean-up
Saturday, April 20
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
63 Church Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59974682891
Join the Boston branches of Fjällräven North America for a community clean-up on Earth Day!
Volunteers will meet up at our Harvard Square location, and regroup there after our clean-up. Light breakfast and coffee will be provided to volunteers.
Plogging: the mash up of jogging and the Swedish "plocka upp" or pick up. Meaning to pick up trash while spending time in the outdoors. Since Fjällräven was founded in 1960, we have been inspiring people to get outside. Building on our love of the outdoors, Fjällräven is hosting plogging events across North America. Cleaning up the environment is one way we can all honor Earth Day. Join Fjallraven in Cambridge on Saturday, April 20th to plog with your local community.
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MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis
Saturday, April 20
9:30am to 1:30pm
MIT, Building 32, Kirsch Auditorium, Room 123 (Stata Center), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-harvard-conference-on-the-uyghur-human-rights-crisis-tickets-58671875158
Please REGISTER if you are planning on attending. Tickets will be required at the door. Each person attending must register individually.
Unable to attend in person? Watch the event LIVE at: http://web.mit.edu/webcast/uyghur/
This conference aims to present the police state in China, where over one million innocent Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into concentration camps since 2016; explore China’s use of technology to escalate the crisis by conducting digital, biological, and cyber surveillance on the Uyghur; introduce the biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” in countering Uyghur people as an ethnicity; and open a dialogue on our role as leaders, educators, and technologists in engaging with China while being aware of its massive human rights violations.
AGENDA:
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Welcome & Speaker Introductions
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Keynote speakers
Sean R. Roberts, PhD: Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director, International Development Studies Program, George Washington University
Darren Byler, PhD: Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington; Writer for CNN, ChinaFile, Dissent, and SupChina
Rian Thum, PhD: Associate Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans; Author of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard University Press, 2014)
11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Q&A with speakers
11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Break
11:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Keynote Speakers
Jessica Batke: Senior Editor at ChinaFile in New York City; former foreign affairs research analyst in the US State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research of Uyghurs
Gene A. Bunin: Independent scholar, freelance journalist, and curator of the Xinjiang Victims Database at shahit.biz. Prior to being forced to leave the region in 2018, he had lived a total of 5 years in Xinjiang, where he researched the Uyghur language and was working on a book on the subject. He is now based in Central Asia.
Joi Ito: Director of the MIT Media Lab, Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences
12:40 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Q&A and discussion with speakers
1:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Closing Remarks
1:10 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Editorial Comment: What the Chinese are doing to the Uygurs is a preview of what any authoritarian government can do with the technology now available. In order to reject this picture of the future, we must confront these injustices in the present.
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Herb Gardening for Everyone
Saturday April 20
10am to 12pm
Pemberton Market, 2225 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Growing requirements, successful plant combinations, harvesting techniques, post-harvest storage, etc. FREE. Pemby’s offers sessions every Saturday through June, on growing everything from veg to native plants (May 4) to cannabis. pembertonmarketplace.com/events/
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Earth Day on the Greenway
Saturday, April 20
11:00am – 1:00pm
Dewey Square, Summer Street & Pearl Street, Boston
Family activities on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway include face painting, music, games, and food trucks. WalkBoston's Bob Sloane will guide walkers through some of Boston's best-kept secret lanes and recount some of the city's classic stories at 11 a.m.
http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley & Rev. Mariama White-Hammond: Green New Deal
Saturday, April 20
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
First Church In Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59790711628
Join us for a historic discussion between Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and activist and organizer, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond about the Green New Deal.
The ecological and economic justice challenges of our time require all of us to work for an equitable, healthy and livable planet for all. Responding to our environmental crisis must be done in a way that bridges Boston's racial divide. A just and sustainable transition must follow the leadership of women of color who have helped move forward many critical issues in our current political environment. Women of color leading the way!
We will discuss the challenges of working for a just transition that includes how we build an equitable economy that lifts people out of poverty and also lives within the ecological boundaries of the earth.
Sponsors:
350 Mass, 350 Mass Boston, Boston Clean Energy Coalition, Boston Extinction Rebellion, Boston Food Forrest, BostonCAN, Clean Water Action, Climate Disobedience Center, Climate Justice Alliance, Corporate Accountibility, Elders Climate Action, Elders Climate Action Massachusetts, Environmental League, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, Friends of Jamaica Pond, Olmsted 2022, A.R.T. Institute, Mass Care, Mass Power Forward, Mother’s Out Front, JP Mothers Out Front Brookline, Our Climate, Resist the Pipeline, Social Justice Action Committee of the First Church, Toxics Action Center
Free with registration.
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Monday, April 22 - Friday, April 26
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Harvard Heat Week
https://www.huej.org/schedule.html
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Monday, April 22
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We Can’t Wait - Social Network for Climate Action
Monday, April 22
9am - 1pm
RSVP at https://togetherwearethesolution.confetti.events
On Earth Day, 22 April, we welcome you to our ´No-Fly´ Climate Conference 2019 and the exciting launch of our Social Network for Climate Action. This event marks the launch of a movement for a safe future, and we are actively involving everyone working to remedy the climate crisis.
During our Earth Day event, climate advocates will pitch their social media campaigns for the climate and the environment. We will discuss the art of effectively communicating the climate crisis, the leading role of the climate youth movement, and the connection between individual lifestyle choices and major systemic change.
Our aim is to show how important it is that everyone – young people, old people, parents, businesses, institutions, elected officials – is needed. Together we are the solution and without collaboration, we will fail. You are therefore invited to our conference in Norrsken House, Stockholm on
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MassForward: A vision for 2030 Agenda
Monday, April 22
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
Museum Of Science, Museum Of Science Driveway, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/massforward-a-vision-for-2030-agenda-tickets-57204644632
This event will be a day of conversations on how the Commonwealth of Massachusetts can continue to lead on emerging technology and its implementation in the workplace. There will be six breakout sessions with industry specific leaders followed by a conversation on public and private sector cooperation featuring Governor Charlie Baker and Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell.
More details on speakers and attendees to come!
Registration opening
10:00 am: Start Time
10:30 - 10:50 am: Opening by Host Executive and Dell Executive
First Round of Sessions
11:00 – 12:00 pm: Session 1A -Healthcare
11:00 – 12:00 pm: Session 1B - Workforce Readiness
Luncheon
12:10 - 1:15 pm: Discussion on STEM Science, technology, engineering and math
Second Round of Sessions
1:30 – 2:45 pm: Session 2A - Education
1:15 – 2:45 pm: Session 2B – Sustainability
Break/Reception/Networking
2:45 - 3:15 pm: Networking Break- with Water, Coffee and Snacks
Third Round of Sessions
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Session 3A - Manufacturing
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Session 3B – Transportation
Future of Work
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Future of Work conversation with Michael Dell and Governor Baker
Reception
6:05 pm: Post Summit Reception
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Fixit Clinic CDVII (407) Cabot Science Library, Harvard University
Monday, April 22
11AM-2PM
Harvard, Cabot Science Library, Harvard University Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Register at http://bit.ly/fixitcheckin then:
Bring your broken item with all parts necessary to recreate the symptoms (carry-in only: no oversize items)
Bring any parts and tools you already own that might be helpful (e.g. hand tools, sewing supplies)
Come ready to describe what’s wrong and what you’ve tried
Come ready to learn and to share your knowledge with others
An all-ages family-friendly event: accompanied children are heartily invited!
Free!
To make friends, learn and teach how to fix things, and have fun!
Sponsored by Cabot Science Library and Harvard Recycling
More into on Fixit Clinic at www.fixitclinic.org, https://www.facebook.com/FixitClinic/
Building resilient communities through conveying basic troubleshooting skills and celebrating repair, Fixit Clinics are do-it-together hands-on fix-n-learn community-based exploration and discovery workshops staffed by volunteer Fixit Coaches who generously share their time, tools and expertise to consult with you on the disassembly, troubleshooting, and repair of items.
So bring your broken, non-functioning things -- electronic gadgets, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, bicycles, fabric items, etc.-- for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. Fixit Coaches (and helpful neighbors) will be available for consultation on broken items: we'll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. Whether you fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked, ready to share your new-found confidence and insight with your friends, neighbors, and the community at large. (Hopefully you’ll be inspired to become a Fixit Coach yourself.)
First-time Fixit Coaches and fixing families are always welcome; sign up at http://bit.ly/fixitcoachsignup
Even if you can’t make it: report your broken item at http://bit.ly/brokenitemreport
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Earth Day Pop-Up
Monday, April 22
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
BU, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Join us as we celebrate Earth Day at our 9th annual Earth Day Festival! Join the challenge and find us all over campus on Monday April 22nd to learn how you can get involved with sustainability and the climate action efforts on and off campus! Make sure to stop by the GSU plaza for our annual Chowderfest and vote for your favorite dining hall! Buy fresh produce and local goods at the Farmers & Sustainability Market.
Contact Name Gabriela Boscio Santos
Phone 857-225-2972
Contact Email gboscio at bu.edu
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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium: Zoe Finkel (Dalhousie University)
Monday, April 22
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
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An Earth Day & Green New Deal Lecture featuring Senator Edward J. Markey
Monday, April 22
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
UMass Boston, Campus Center Ballroom B and C, 100 William T Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59824691262
The John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
presents
An EARTH DAY address by U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey on the
GREEN NEW DEAL
Event Co-Sponsored by
University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environmentand Sustainable Solutions Lab
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The Purpose Of Business Conference
Monday, April 22
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Hult International Business School, Fenway Bleachers, 1 Educations Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/60153246981
The Business Purpose Conference is our first student-run event linking sustainability and profitability in a single place and time. The event invites influential business leaders to share their experiences in aligning the business’ purpose to the values of the people in a global
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Harvard Celebrates Earth Day
Monday, April 22
12–2 pm
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
(rain location: Smith Campus Center)
Celebrate Earth Day at Harvard’s Sustainability Fair on the Science Center Plaza. Explore how the University and our community partners can help green your scene while enjoying activities such as a Freecycle, electronics recycling collection, bike tune-ups, compost tea demonstration, games, live music, samplings, and giveaways. You can also learn more about food and food systems, health and wellness, sustainable transportation options, organic landscaping and gardening, green cleaning, recycling, and more.
We’ll also have secure and safe electronics recycling on site for your personal and Harvard devices.
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Materializing Time: The Techno-Scientific Transformation of Olive Agriculture in Israel/Palestine
Monday, April 22
12:15PM
Harvard, CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Natalia Gutkowski, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, will discuss
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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Garbology
Monday, April 22
2:00 – 3:00pm
Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 500 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan
You know the saying: Recyle, Reduce, Reuse. Now learn the skills to do it. In conjunction with the Mass Audubon at the Boston Nature Center, kids can dig up compost and discover just which critters are helping to break it down. There will also be a scavenger hunt and craft session along with lessons about reducing water and electricity.
2 p.m. - 3 p.m., $7 for nonmembers, $5 for members, Boston Nature Center, 500 Walk Hill St.,
Mattapan, 617-983-8500,
www.massaudubon.org
Organizer: sustainabilitybucalendar at gmail.com
sustainabilitybucalendar at gmail.com
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Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Chess, Go and AI: When Computers Outwit Humans
Monday, April 8
5:30pm to 6:45pm
Harvard, Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge
Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21stCentury 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 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.
Steven Livingston, Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, will be giving a talk titled, "Chess, Go and AI: When Computers Outwit Humans."
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A Conversation With James and Deborah Fallows About Their Book "Our Towns"
Monday, April 22
6:00pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center (Building E51) 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/journey-into-the-heart-of-america-tickets-59066331989
James and Deborah Fallows traveled to dozens of towns and small cities across America – places like Duluth, MN and Demopolis, AL – and from their interviews and experiences crafted their best-selling book “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America.” In a conversation with Barbara Dyer, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan and Executive Director of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan, the Fallowses will discuss what they’ve learned about the surprising reinvention going on in many American communities. The discussion will be followed by questions from the audience. Before the event, light food and beverages will be provided in the Ting Foyer outside the auditorium between 5:30 and 6 p.m. After the event, there will be a book signing in the Ting Foyer. Register for free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/journey-into-the-heart-of-america-tickets-59066331989.
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Innovate at BU Idea Cup Celebration - Spring 2019!
Monday, April 22
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
BU, BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center, 730 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/58435531247
Celebrate the Most Innovative Ideas of the Semester!
$1,000 is up for grabs - help us select BU's most innovative student idea of spring 2019!
Be inspired by creative apps, cutting-edge research, one-of-a-kind programs, unique events, entrepreneurial business ideas and more! Finalists will showcase their idea and have one minute to pitch and impress the crowd. Dozens of teams will apply, only one will win and the audience decides the champion in this best-of-the-best campus competition!
Light food and beverages will be served.
Interested in presenting your idea at the event? Applications open March 18.
Agenda:
6:00-6:30 - Showcase Tables and Networking
6:30-7:15 - Welcome and 1min Team Pitches
7:15 - 7:50 - Showcases Tables and Voting
7:50 - Announce winners!
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1deation 2019
Tuesday, April 22
6-9PM
MIT, Building 32-123, Ray and Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideation-2019-tickets-57404982849
Ideation is an annual event that connects teams with early stage startup ideas to other skilled entrepreneurial students and professionals.
About this Event
Ideation brings together MIT and Harvard, along with the broader Boston science community. Last year’s event gave teams the opportunity to pitch in front of and network with an audience of ~300 people to form new collaborations and find new teammates.
At this event, pitching teams and general audience members hear from established biotech entrepreneurs, successful early stage teams out of Harvard and MIT, and startup funding organizations. Our partners and sponsors in the past have included The Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, The Engine, MIT 100k, and Harvard Innovation Lab.
Some entrepreneurs, like yourself will also have the opportunity to present an idea in a 2 minute pitch following the featured speakers. Teams will receive feedback from a variety of judges involved in various stages of startup development, as well as the chance to recruit new team members in a networking session following the main event.
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Stepping Up: Business in the Era of Climate Change: Climate Politics and Business
WHEN Monday, April 22, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR WBUR, Harvard Business School, BU Questrom School of Business
SPEAKER(S) William Eacho, Partnership for Responsible Growth
Mindy Lubber, CEO, Ceres
Auden Schendler, Vice president of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company
COST $15
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.wbur.org/events/446262/stepping-up-climate-politics-and-business-part-3
CONTACT INFO mjokic at hbs.edu
DETAILS In the United States, business has controlled the policy agenda for addressing climate change at the federal level, and the result has been obfuscation and delay. Today more and more business leaders are voicing support of some form of carbon tax or other mechanism to put a price on carbon. What is driving industry action and where will it lead? What is the role for business leaders in climate policy?
LINK https://www.wbur.org/events/446262/stepping-up-climate-politics-and-business-part-3
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Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
Monday, April 22
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store welcomes Deputy General Counsel at the New York Times DAVID E. McCRAW for a discussion of his new book, Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts. He'll be joined in conversation by Boston Globe Magazine staff writer NEIL SWIDEY—author of Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness.
About Truth in Our Times
In October 2016, when Donald Trump's lawyer demanded that the New York Times retract an article focused on two women that accused Trump of touching them inappropriately, David McCraw's scathing letter of refusal went viral and he became a hero of press freedom everywhere. But as you'll see in Truth in Our Times, for the top newsroom lawyer at the paper of record, it was just another day at the office.
McCraw has worked at the Times since 2002, leading the paper's fight for freedom of information, defending it against libel suits, and providing legal counsel to the reporters breaking the biggest stories of the year. In short: if you've read a controversial story in the paper since the Bush administration, it went across his desk first. From Chelsea Manning's leaks to Trump's tax returns, McCraw is at the center of the paper's decisions about what news is fit to print.
In Truth in Our Times, McCraw recounts the hard legal decisions behind the most impactful stories of the last decade with candor and style. The book is simultaneously a rare peek behind the curtain of the celebrated organization, a love letter to freedom of the press, and a decisive rebuttal of Trump's fake news slur through a series of hard cases. It is an absolute must-have for any dedicated reader of the New York Times.
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JP Solar Happy Hour - April 2019
Monday, April 22
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Flann O’Brien’s, 1619 Tremont Street, Roxbury Crossing
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jp-solar-happy-hour-april-2019-tickets-60107953507
Monthly meetup of solar and related sustainability professionals in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and nearby.
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Tuesday, April 23
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MIT Climate Summit Simulation
Tuesday, April 23
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
MIT, Building 3-442, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
A role-playing workshop where participants must form a plan to limit global warming to 2 degrees C, backed by real climate data.
What if the UN locked global stakeholders in a room until they agreed on a climate plan that would actually work? What would the CEO of Exxon, Xi Jinping, Angela Merkel, the Chair of Ford, the head of Greenpeace, Donald Trump, and the Alliance of Rainforest Nations come up with? Would their plan limit warming to less than two degrees C in the newest MIT simulation, En-ROADS, used by top decision-makers in the US government, HSBC, and the United Nations, which runs 38,000 equations in a tenth of a second? Participants play roles and embrace the drama.
Andrew Jones (TPP '97) of Climate Interactive leads this live workshop for the MIT community, part of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative's Earth Weekprogramming on campus. It is a pilot run of the newest simulation game from Climate Interactive and the Sloan Sustainability Initiative. Seats are limited.
Note: This game is additional to the “World Climate” international negotiations game led by Prof. John Sterman and others on campus. Since 2015 more than 53,000 people have participated in the original World Climate roleplay, in 85 nations around the world. If you participated in World Climate, you will love this!
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Basic Science, Discovery, and Innovation
WHEN Tuesday, April 23, 12 – 12:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Medical School Webinar
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Medical School Executive Education
SPEAKER(S) Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D.
Affiliate Faculty of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Institute Member and Epigenomics Program Co-Director at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
TICKET WEB LINK https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/basic-science-discovery-innovation?utm_source=HarvardGazette&utm_medium=Event_Calendar&utm_campaign=April_Webinar
DETAILS This is an exciting time in biomedical research. Exome- and genome-wide sequencing studies have provided unprecedented new insights into the molecular — and, specifically, genetic — underpinnings of human disease. For the first time, we are identifying the genes that drive cancer, neurologic disease and many other conditions. Dr. Cigall Kadoch’s research seeks to translate these human genetic discoveries into biochemical mechanisms and new opportunities for therapeutic development.
This webinar will focus on the efforts of Dr. Kadoch and her team on the regulation of our genome’s architecture and how disturbances in this system can cause disease. It also will provide perspectives into how industry and academia can partner in pursuit of innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities.
LINK https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/thought-leadership/webinar-series/basic-science-discovery-innovation?utm_source=HarvardGazette&utm_medium=Event_Calendar&utm_campaign=April_Webinar
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High Stakes on the High Seas and Beyond
Tuesday, April 23
12:00PM TO 1:15PM
Harvard, Room 369, Littauer Building, Belfer Center Library, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Join the Environment and Natural Resources Program at HKS for a seminar with NYU environmental studies Professor Jennifer Jacquet on overfishing and unsustainable aquaculture. Professor Jacquet will discuss some of the recent science to understanding fisheries on the high seas, and how it relates to the current negotiations at the United Nation on conservation and sustainable use of the high seas.
Lunch will be provided.
One of the many signs that global fisheries are unsustainable is the continued expansion of fisheries further offshore and into deeper waters. This talk examines some of the recent science to understanding fisheries on the high seas, and how it relates to the current negotiations at the United Nation regarding a legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of the high seas. Aquaculture (the farming of aquatic species), which is often touted as a substitute for wild fish is, instead, putting additional pressure on the oceans due to the need to catch fish to feed carnivorous farmed species. Many of the current trends in aquaculture, including plans to mass produce octopus, are a mistake for both ecological and ethical reasons.
Jennifer Jacquet works on global cooperation dilemmas, including climate change, the internet wildlife trade, and overfishing. She worked with Daniel Pauly’s Sea Around Us Project at the University of British Columbia for her PhD. Her dissertation was titled “Fish As Food in an Age of Globalization”. She joined NYU in 2012 and has since received a Sloan Research Fellowship in Ocean Sciences and a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. She has an ongoing project related to high seas fisheries and recently co-curated a special collection on high seas science for the journal Science Advances, where she is an associate editor. Recent publications include, "High seas fisheries play a negligible role in addressing global food security”, “Watch over Antarctic Waters”, and “The case against octopus farming”.
https://www.belfercenter.org/event/high-stakes-high-seas-and-beyond
Contact Name: Julia Gardella
julie_gardella at hks.harvard.edu
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The political origins of Mexico’s corruption
WHEN Tuesday, April 23, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Viridiana Rios, Ph.D. in Government, Harvard 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 In contexts where corruption is widespread, why do some incumbents choose to not be corrupt? My research argues that party loyalty is a major influence to reduce corruption and test this argument using fine-grained data of $12 billion audited to 3,601 local incumbents over a period of 16 years. Contributing to an unsettled and vibrant debate about the influence of partisan politics in corruption, our data allow us to test three possible mechanisms that could be driving political actors to limit the misappropriation of public resources during their tenure: insurance mechanisms, according to which incumbents reduce corruption to avoid prosecution; party loyalty, where corruption diminishes to protect political cliques from public discredit, and ideological incentives, where corruption diminishes because it is part of the programmatic agenda of incumbent’s party. We find the greatest evidence in favor of party loyalty. Our results suggest the existence of a corruption political cycle in which party loyalty modulates corruption according to a tradeoff between accessing illegal resources and protecting the image of the party. Only when partisan loyalty is combined with low resource requirements does corruption diminishes.
LINK https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/tuesday-seminar-series-corruption-latin-america
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Breaking Through Gridlock
Tuesday, April 23
2:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 3-442, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-through-gridlock-tickets-58872329723
Having conversations with people on the opposite side of important social, political, and environmental issues can be difficult and uncomfortable. Jason Jay, coauthor of Breaking Through Gridlock: The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World, shares his expert advice on navigating these conversations productively and without animus, with a particular focus on climate change and the environment.
Presented by the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, this event is open to the MIT community as part of MIT's Earth Week programming. Seats are limited, so please register!
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xTalk: Jeff Ubois - "Lever for Change: Open Grantmaking at Scale
Tuesday, April 23
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 4-237 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Jeff Ubois, of Lever for Change, will discuss the use of open and transparent processes for grantmaking; tradeoffs between innovation, risk, and scale; re-use of grant proposal data; and new forms of funder collaboration.
Jeff Ubois is vice president, knowledge management at Lever for Change, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Affiliate that manages the Foundation’s 100&Change program, as well as other large open calls for proposals requiring $10 million or more. Previously, Jeff worked in the MacArthur Foundation’s Discovery, American Democracy, and Philanthropy programs, for the Bassetti Foundation’s program on responsible innovation, for Intelligent Television, and for the Internet Archive.
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We Don't Have Time Climate Conference and launch of our social network for climate action!
Tuesday, April 22
3:00 PM - 06:00 PM
RSVP at https://togetherwearethesolution.confetti.events
Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D. Per E Stoknes, Ph.D. Katharine Hayhoe, Artist Klaus Thymann, Youth activist Jamie Margolin, Author Kate Raworth and Dr. Sweta Chakraborty More speakers to be announced shortly.
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Transitioning the Energy System
Tuesday, April 23
4:00PM
Tufts, Cabot 702, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP requied at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pWHQiq8atN1QtFGcEyYur4cBBJLy6Yn_uno4OM7aYNI/viewform?edit_requested=true
Please join the working group on Climate and Energy of Tufts University’s Research and Scholarship Strategic Plan (RSSP) in collaboration with the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy for a lecture by Gary Dirks on the transitioning energy system. There will be a talk at 4:00pm followed by a reception at 5:30pm. RSVP required at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pWHQiq8atN1QtFGcEyYur4cBBJLy6Yn_uno4OM7aYNI/viewform?edit_requested=true
Contact Name: Jillian DeMair
jillian.demair at tufts.edu
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Flood Protection Infrastructure, Transportation, and Government Networks: Resilient Infrastructures as Seas Rise (RISeR)
Tuesday, April 22
5:00pm
Pre-lecture Reception: 4:30pm
MIT, Building 1-190, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Prof. Samer M. Madanat, Xenel Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley Dean of Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi
The RISeR research project explores how coastal flooding, shoreline infrastructure, the transportation system, and decision-makers interact in coastal communities, including the feedback between them. It comprises three components: hydrodynamics, governance, and transportation. The geographical focus is the San Francisco Bay Area and the challenges associated with sea level rise and bayside flooding. Its objective is to the development of tools, information and insights to help government institutions and networks be better prepared to make e ective decisions about infrastructure planning and operations.
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ARTFUL DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME
Tuesday, April 23
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
MIT, Building 35-225, 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/56193450122
What is the nature of design, and the meaning it holds in human life? What does it mean to design well — to design ethically? How can the shaping of technology reflect our values as human beings? Drawing from Ge's new book ARTFUL DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME (a 488-page photo comic), this talk dissects the designs of everyday tools, musical instruments, toys, and social experiences, examining the ways in which we shape technology and how technology shapes us and our society, in turn. This is a meditation for the “engineer with a soul” as well as for anyone curious (or concerned) about technology — not only what it does for us, but also what it does *to* us.
About Ge Wang
Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He researches artful design of tools, toys, games and social experiences. Ge is the architect of the ChucK music programming language, director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, co-founder of Smule and designer of the Ocarina and Magic Piano apps for mobile phones. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of ARTFUL DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME, a photo comic book about the ethics and aesthetics of shaping technology. Based on the book, Ge is currently teaching a new critical thinking course at Stanford, "THINK66: Design that Understands Us."
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Improving Forest Satellite Monitoring: Experiences with Capacity Building in African, Asian & Latin American Countries
Tuesday, April 23
5:00 - 6:30 pm
BU Hillel House, 4th Floor, 213 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59971201478
Alessandra Rodrigues Gomes, Head of the Amazon Regional Center, National Institute for Space Research
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center invite you to attend an upcoming series of keynote lectures titled "The Environmental Science & Policy Impacts of Remote Sensing on Governance & Land Use in Tropical Forests." The keynotes are part of a seminar and workshop series with leaders working at the front lines of international, national & local climate change policy and conservation in tropical forests. The series is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Remote Sensing, the African Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Earth and Environment.
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Global Impact Challenge Pitch Finale
Tuesday, April 23
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
BU, BUild Lab, 730 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/60165763418
CELEBRATE THE GLOBAL IMPACT CHALLENGE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY!
Get an inside view of student ideas that are developing the most compelling solution for the 2019 Global Impact Challenge addressing innovation in the field of health and human rights. One team will earn a spot in the Innovate at BU Summer Accelerator Program and a stipend of $10,000 to take their social impact venture to the next level.
2019 Theme: Health & Human Rights Social Impact Hackathon
Date/Time/Location
April 23, 2019, 5-6:30 pm at 730 Commonwealth Ave (The Build Lab)
Agenda:
5:00-5:15 pm Event Begins, Introductions
5:15-6:00 pm - Presentations by 4 teams (early/idea stage)
Teams have 6 minutes to present
Judges have 4 minutes for Q&A (Rubric attached)
6:00 -6:45 pm - Break, Acknowledgements, while Judges deliberate
6:45 - 7:00 pm - Judges Feedback, Winner Announcement.
Refreshments will be served.
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U.S. Healthcare and Drug Pricing Debate
WHEN Tuesday, April 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard University Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard GSAS Biotechnology Club in partnership with Harvard Business School Healthcare Club
SPEAKER(S) Peter Kolchinsky, Co-founder, Portfolio Manager, & Managing Director, RA Capital Management
John Maraganore, CEO and Director, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Shawn Bishop, Vice President, Controlling Health Care Costs and Advancing Medicare, The Commonwealth Fund
Moderator: Vivek Ramaswamy, Founder & CEO, Roivant Sciences
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://harvardbiotechclub.typeform.com/to/LJGRDi
CONTACT INFO harvardbiotechclub at gmail.com
asedatena at g.harvard.edu
DETAILS Trump and Bernie can agree on one thing: they’re both worked up about the cost of prescription drugs, and they’re not alone. 80 percent of Americans believe that drug prices are unreasonable. Are they right? Why do medicines cost so much in the U.S.? Why can’t the government negotiate drug prices? What can be done about it?
Come hear the thoughts of health care experts. Ask questions on current policies.
LINK https://harvardbiotechclub.typeform.com/to/LJGRDi
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A Future with More Ferries: Business Plan Release + Panel Discussion
Tuesday, April 23
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Exchange at 100 Federal, 100 Federal Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-future-with-more-ferries-business-plan-release-panel-discussion-tickets-59460136870
Join Boston Harbor Now and our partners for a the release of two water transportation business plans and a panel discussion on the implementation of new ferry routes. Learn more about the proposals for an Inner Harbor Connector ferry and a new route connecting Squantum Point in Quincy and Columbia Point in Dorchester with Long Wharf by boat. Hear from national experts on expanding water transportation in New York, San Francisco, and Boston.
The evening will include:
Opening remarks by MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack
Overview of the two proposed ferry routes by Kathy Abbott, President and CEO of Boston Harbor Now
Panel discussion on national best practices for implementing water transportation service
James Wong, Executive Director of NYC Ferries
Jim Folk, Executive Director of Transportation at Encore Boston Harbor
Michael Gougherty, Senior Transportation Planner at the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA)
Moderated by Monica Tibbits-Nutt, Executive Director of the 128 Business Council
A special thank you to our study sponsors: Barr Foundation, Cabot Family Charitable Trust, Clippership Wharf, Envoy Hotel, Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, MassDOT, Massport, National Park Service, and the Seaport Council of the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Affairs.
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New Venture Competition Finale Show 2019
Tuesday, April 23
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Harvard Business School, Klarman Hall, Soldiers Field Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/60214333693
The Flagship Event for Entrepreneurship at HBS
Open to HBS students, faculty, staff and the broader entrepreneurship community.
LIVE Pitches by the NVC Finalists of three separate tracks (student business, student social enterprise, and alumni)
Award Ceremony - A total of $315,000 in cash prizes are awarded across 3 tracks: $75K for the grand, $25k for runner up, and $5k for crowd favorite... that's right, YOU get to vote!
Limited seating available. Reserve your tickets now! Doors will open at 5:30 pm.
To share and follow updates, use #HBSNVC
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Special film screening and Q&A: Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds
Tuesday, April 23
6–8:30 pm
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Film Screening (unrated, 74 min.)
Free and Open to the Public
Lobster War is an award-winning documentary film about a conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the Revolutionary War. The disputed 277 square miles of sea known as the Gray Zone were traditionally fished by U.S. lobstermen. But as the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than nearly any other body of water on the planet, the area’s previously modest lobster population has surged. As a result, Canadians have begun to assert their sovereignty, warring with the Americans to claim the bounty. Directed by David Abel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The Boston Globe, and Andy Laub, an award-winning documentarian. Abel and Laub are also producers of the acclaimed Discovery Channel documentary Sacred Cod. See more about the film at www.lobsterwar.com.
David Abel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covers fisheries and environmental issues for The Boston Globe. Abel’s work has also won an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. He co-directed and produced Sacred Cod, a film about the collapse of the iconic cod fishery in New England, which was broadcast by the Discovery Channel in spring 2017. He also directed and produced two films about the Boston Marathon bombings, which were broadcast to national and international audiences on BBC World News, Discovery Life, and Pivot. His last film, Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys, is now being screened at film festivals around the country. Abel is the film’s director, producer, and co-director of photography. See more about Abel at http://www.davidsabel.com
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State Climate Change Legislation
Tuesday, April 23
7:00 pm
First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
Senator Marc Pacheco, chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change, will talk about current legislative proposals and strategies to implement the Global Warming Solutions Act in light of the Green New Deal and most recent IPCC report.
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Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
Tuesday April 23
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Fights over the Green River’s water–and future–are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her.
Heather Hansman is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Outside, California Sunday, Smithsonian, and many others. After a decade of raft guiding across the United States, she lives in Seattle.
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Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Tuesday, April 23
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-faculty-author-sonja-dumpelmann-tickets-58384721273
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship with nature and the city
Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann explains, the planting of street trees in cities to serve specific functions is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dümpelmann shows how New York City and Berlin began systematically planting trees to improve the urban climate during the nineteenth century, presenting the history of the practice within its larger social, cultural, and political contexts.
About the Author:
Sonja Dümpelmann is associate professor of landscape architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and author or editor/co-editor of several books, including the 2015 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize–winner Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design.
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Transcending the Group Selection Controversy in Evolution
Tuesday, April 23,
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
MIT, Building 26-100, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transcending-the-group-selection-controversy-in-evolution-tickets-57732578697
Cost: $5 – $20
Group selection, or more generally Multilevel selection, is one of the most long standing controversies in evolutionary thought. For some it is an essential extension of Darwin's theory, required to explain how adaptations can evolve--or fail to evolve--at any level of a multi-tier hierarchy of units, such as from genes to ecosystems in biological systems or small groups to global governance in human social systems. For others, it is a theory that was rejected over half a century ago and need not be revived. Reaching closure on the group selection controversy would be a milestone for experts and the general public alike.
That is the goal of this forum featuring Bret Weinstein and David Sloan Wilson, organized by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and hosted by MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC).
$20 for general public, $5 for MIT Students with valid Student ID
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Wednesday, April 24
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Bias on the Web
Wednesday, April 24
10:30 am
Northeastern, 177 Huntington Avenue, 11th floor, Boston
RICARDO BAEZA-YATES, Professor of Practice and Director of Data Science Programs, Northeastern University, Silicon Valley
The Web is the most powerful communication medium and the largest public data repository that humankind has created. Its content ranges from great reference sources such as Wikipedia to ugly fake news. Indeed, social (digital) media is just an amplifying mirror of ourselves. Hence, the main challenge of search engines and other websites that rely on web data is to assess the quality of such data. However, as all people has their own biases, web content as well as our web interactions are tainted with many biases. Data bias includes redundancy and spam, while interaction bias includes activity and presentation bias. In addition, sometimes algorithms add bias, particularly in the context of search and recommendation systems. As bias generates bias, we stress the importance of debiasing data as well as using the context and other techniques such as explore & exploit, to break the filter bubble. The main goal of this talk is to make people aware of the different biases that affect all of us on the Web. Awareness is the first step to be able to fight and reduce the vicious cycle of web bias. For more details see the article of same title in Communications of ACM, June 2018.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Professor of Practice and Director of Data Science Programs at Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus, since August 2017. He received a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989. He is also CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company. Before, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in Barcelona, Spain, and later in Sunnyvale, California, from January 2006 to February 2016. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retrieval textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 1999 and 2011 (2nd ed), that won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. In 2009 he was named ACM Fellow and in 2011 IEEE Fellow, among other awards and distinctions. His areas of expertise are web search and data mining, information retrieval, data science, and algorithms in general.
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Solar Geoengineering Research Seminar
Wednesday, April 24
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 429, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/event/seminar-ray-pierrehumbert-apr-2019
Presentation by Ray Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford
Lunch provided.
Contact Name: eburns at g.harvard.edu
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What are the barriers to the adoption of environmental techniques in Africa? Evidence from Niger
Wednesday, April 24
12:30PM TO 1:45PM
Tufts, 310 Goddard (Crowe), The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Jenny Aker, Professor of Development Economics, The Fletcher School.
Tufts University CIERP Research Seminar
Contact Name: Sara Rosales
sara.rosales at tufts.edu
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Linking International Efforts on Tropical Forest Monitoring to International Reporting and SDGs: State of the Art and Ways Forward
Wednesday, April 24
4:00 - 5:30 pm
BU Hillel House, 4th Floor, 213 Bay State Road, Boston
Inge Jonckheere, Team Leader, Remote Sensing Team in National Forest Monitoring, Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organization
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center invite you to attend an upcoming series of keynote lectures titled "The Environmental Science & Policy Impacts of Remote Sensing on Governance & Land Use in Tropical Forests." The keynotes are part of a seminar and workshop series with leaders working at the front lines of international, national & local climate change policy and conservation in tropical forests. The series is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Remote Sensing, the African Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Earth and Environment.
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The Demand for Off-Grid Solar Power: Evidence from Rural India’s Surprisingly Competitive Retail Power Market
Wednesday, April 24
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer-382, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics; Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago; Nicholas Ryan, Yale University; and Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago.
Contact Name: Casey Billings
casey_billings at hks.harvard.edu
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IGNITE Engagement
Wednesday, April 24
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
Scholars American Bistro and Cocktail Club, 25 School Street, Boston
The event is FREE with your RSVP: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eg8by3gy58f0e526&oseq=&c=&ch=
We are thrilled to invite you to IGNITE Engagement - a civic engagement professionals mixer at Scholars American Bristro and Cocktail club. We would love to see you there!
Also make sure to confirm on our Facebook event and share with your friends and colleagues!
https://www.facebook.com/events/314896882556289/?notif_t=plan_user_associated¬if_id=1554303556405854
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Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.: Hacking Life
Wednesday, April 24
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Please join MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming Prof. Joseph M. Reagle, Jr., for a discussion of his upcoming book, Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents.
Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they’re feeling on any given day. They see everything as a system composed of parts that can be decomposed and recomposed, with algorithmic rules that can be understood, optimized, and subverted. In Hacking Life, Joseph Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods. Life hacking, he writes, is self-help for the digital age’s creative class.
Joseph M. Reagle, Jr., is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is the author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia and Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web, both published by the MIT Press.
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Genetic Revolution and the Future of Humanity
Wednesday, April 24
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-technology-futurist-jamie-metzl-tickets-58385918855
George Church, Juan Enriquez, and Jamie Metzl
World renowned geneticist George Church and visionary investor Juan Enriquez join futurist Jamie Metzl to explore how the genetic revolution will transform healthcare, baby-making, and our evolution as a species. The event commemorates the release on April 23 of Metzl's new book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. According to CNN's Sanjay Gupta,"If you can only read one book on the future of our species, this is it.”
About the speakers:
Jamie Metzl
Is a technology futurist and geopolitical expert, novelist, entrepreneur, media commentator, and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. In February 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on developing global standards for the governance and oversight of human genome editing. Jamie previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations in Cambodia. He is a former Partner of a New York-based global investment firm, serves on the Advisory Council to Walmart’s Future of Retail Policy Lab, is a faculty member for Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine conference, was Chief Strategy Officer for a biotechnology company, and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District in Kansas City in 2004. Jamie has served as an election monitor in Afghanistan and the Philippines, advised the government of North Korea on the establishment of Special Economic Zones, and is the Honorary Ambassador to North America of the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy.
George Church
Leads Synthetic Biology at the Wyss Institute, where he oversees the directed evolution of molecules, polymers, and whole genomes to create new tools with applications in regenerative medicine and bio-production of chemicals. Among his recent work at the Wyss is development of a technology for synthesizing whole genes, and engineering whole genomes, far faster, more accurate, and less costly than current methods. George is widely recognized for his innovative contributions to genomic science and his many pioneering contributions to chemistry and biomedicine. In 1984, he developed the first direct genomic sequencing method, which resulted in the first genome sequence (the human pathogen, H. pylori). He helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 and the Personal Genome Project in 2005. George invented the broadly applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and array DNA synthesizers. His many innovations have been the basis for a number of companies including Editas (Gene therapy); Gen9bio (Synthetic DNA); and Veritas Genetics (full human genome sequencing). George is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Technology Center and Director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science. He has received numerous awards including the 2011 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute and election to the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering.
Juan Enriquez
Managing Director, Excel Venture Management, bestselling author, speaker. An investor in early stage private companies in the life sciences, brain, and big data sectors, Juan is one of the world’s leading authorities on the uses and benefits of genomic code. He is the co-author of Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity – One Gene at a Time which describes a world where humans increasingly shape their environment, themselves, and other species. He is also the author of the global bestseller As The Future Catches You and of The Untied States of America, and co-author of Homo Evolutis. Juan writes, speaks, and teaches about the profound changes that genomics, brain technologies, and other life sciences will cause in business, technology, politics and society. He is one of the TED all-stars. He and Bill Gates were the first outside guest curators for TED. He was the founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project, is on the Harvard Medical School Advisory Council, and is a Research Affiliate in MIT’s Synthetic Neurobiology Group. He serves on numerous Boards/Committees. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the President’s Council of the National Academy. He has published papers and articles in a wide variety of forums including The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Science, Nature, and the New York Times.He earned a BA and MBA from Harvard, with Honors.
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Thursday, April 25 - Friday, April 26
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Vision and Justice: A Convening
Thursday, April 25 - Friday, April 26
Radcliffe, Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-vision-and-justice-convening
"Vision and Justice" is a two-day creative convening (April 25–26, 2019) that will consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.
This public event, conceived by Sarah Lewis, assistant professor of history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University, grows out of the award-winning Vision & Justice issue of the photography journal Aperture (May 2016), which she guest edited. The convening is organized around three guiding questions. How is the foundational right of representation in a democracy—the right to be recognized justly—tied to the work of images in the public realm? What is the role of the arts for justice? How have narratives created by culture—the arts, performances, and images—both limited and liberated our definition of national belonging in this digital age?
Cover of the Vision & Justice issue of the photography journal Aperture (May 2016) courtesy of Aperture. Photo: Richard Avedon. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963 (C) The Richard Avedon Foundation
Cover of the Vision & Justice issue of the photography journal Aperture (May 2016) courtesy of Aperture. Photo: Richard Avedon. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963 (C) The Richard Avedon Foundation
The convening takes its conceptual inspiration from Frederick Douglass’s landmark Civil War speech “Pictures and Progress,” about the transformative power of pictures to create a new vision for the nation. In this long understudied speech, Douglass described a vision of race, citizenship, and image making that he stated might take a century or more to be understood. This “Vision and Justice” convening will focus on both the historic roots and contemporary realities of visual literacy for justice in American—and particularly African American—civic life.
The program will emphasize short, stimulating presentations with a goal of outlining and catalyzing ideas for future work in art and justice around the country and the world. The sessions will focus on a wide range of related topics, from “Race, Justice, and the Environment” to “Cultural Narratives and Media.” The program incorporates a range of dynamic speakers and events, including a performance by Carrie Mae Weems, a film screening of work by Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young, a performance by Wynton Marsalis, and exhibitions of works by Gordon Parks, Willie Cole, and Kara Walker, all culminating with a keynote by Bryan Stevenson on Friday evening and the conferral of the inaugural Gordon Parks Foundation Essay Prize at Harvard.
This public-facing event will convene a large group of prominent activists, academics, artists, and public servants. The event will also be live streamed and videotaped for later online posting as part of the Radcliffe Institute’s commitment to bringing its programming to audiences around the world.
The event is hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, with additional major funding from the Ford Foundation, and is cosponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the Harvard Art Museums, and the American Repertory Theater.
Open to the public.
Registration opens on April 10 for the Harvard community and April 11 for the public.
#visionandjustice
Schedule
Participants
Schedule
Information is accurate as of April 4, 2019. There may be adjustments to this schedule, so please consult this page for the most current information.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25
OPENING PROGRAM: Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute
1:00 – Welcome Remarks: Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Introduction: Sarah Lewis
Amanda Gorman, video
Gordon Parks Foundation Essay Prize Presentations: Dean Robin Kelsey
Remarks about the Parks Foundation: Peter Kunhardt Jr.
Kasseem Dean (Swizz Beatz)
1:45 – Citizenship and Racial Narratives
Alexandra Bell, Jelani Cobb, Nicole Fleetwood, and Makeda Best [moderator]
Khalil Gibran Muhammad tribute to Jamel Shabazz
Leigh Raiford tribute to Dawoud Bey
Student readings
Video about the Vision & Justice Project Student Ambassadors
3:00 Break
3:15 – Elsa Hardy reading/Intro David Adjaye
David Adjaye
3:30 – Originality and Invention
Carrie Mae Weems, David Adjaye, and Sarah Lewis [moderator]
Audience Q&A
4:30 – Sarah Lewis introduces Carrie Mae Weems
Performance: Carrie Mae Weems, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now.
Commissioned to commemorate the Emanuel 9
Concluding Remarks: Dean Larry Bobo
5:30 – End of program
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
MORNING SESSION: Sanders Theatre
9:00 – Welcome Remarks: Alan M. Garber
Darren Walker
Musical Opening: Wynton Marsalis
Introduction: Sarah Lewis
Cultural Citizenship
Wynton Marsalis, Anna Deavere Smith, and Drew Gilpin Faust [moderator]
Race, Culture, and Civic Space
Introduction: Dean Mohsen Mostafavi
David Adjaye, Theaster Gates, and Sarah Lewis [moderator]
Audience Q&A
10:45 – Break
11:00 – Teju Cole tribute to LaToya Ruby Frazier
Race, Justice, and the Environment
Focus: Discovering the Flint crisis
LaToya Ruby Frazier video
Chelsea Clinton and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
Race, Childhood, and Inequality in the Political Realm
Introduction: Dean Claudine Gay
Robin Bernstein and social justice activist Naomi Wadler
Concluding comments: Claudia Rankine
12:30-1:45 – Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION: Sanders Theatre
2:00 – Hank Willis Thomas interviewed by Cheryl Finley
Turnaround Arts [White House Program]
Introduction and moderator: Kimberly Drew
Damian Woetzel and Melody Barnes
3:15 Break
3:30 – Race, Technology and Algorithmic Bias
Joy Buolamwini, Latanya Sweeney, and Darren Walker [moderator]
Mass Incarceration and Visual Narratives
Introduction: Tommie Shelby
Bryan Stevenson, Anna Deavere Smith, Elizabeth Hinton, and Danielle Allen [moderator]
5:00 – Concluding Remarks: Vincent Brown
6:00 – Public Reception in the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, Hutchins Center
“Gordon Parks: Selections from the Dean Collection”
EVENING SESSION: Sanders Theatre
7:30 – Introductions
Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin
President Larry Bacow
Sarah Lewis
Vision & Justice Ambassadors (video)
Vision & Justice Award tributes:
Sadie Rain Hope-Gund and Catherine Gund tribute to Agnes Gund
Martha Tedeschi tribute to Carrie Mae Weems
Hank Willis Thomas tribute to Deborah Willis
Franklin Leonard tribute to Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young
Discussion of When They See Us, a series on the Central Park 5
Ava DuVernay, Bradford Young, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. [moderator]
9:00 – Keynote Introductions: Elizabeth Alexander and Evelyn Higginbotham
Closing Keynote: Bryan Stevenson
Conference Close: Sarah Lewis
Participants
David Adjaye, architect and principal, Adjaye Associates
Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and arts activist; chancellor, Academy of American Poets; president, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Lawrence Bacow, president, Harvard University
Melody C. Barnes, distinguished fellow at the School of Law, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics and senior fellow at the Miller Center, and codirector for policy and public affairs for the Democracy Initiative, University of Virginia
Alexandra Bell, multidisciplinary artist
Maurice Berger, research professor and chief curator, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and of studies of women, gender, & sexuality, Harvard University
Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, and lecturer on history of art and architecture, Harvard University
Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social sciences, Harvard College Professor, and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and professor of African and African American studies, Harvard University
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Joy Buolamwini, founder, Algorithmic Justice League
Chelsea Clinton, vice chair, Clinton Foundation
Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University; staff writer, New Yorker
Teju Cole, photography critic, New York Times Magazine; Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing, Harvard University
Kasseem Dean (Swizz Beatz), record producer, rapper, and DJ
Kimberly Drew, writer, curator, and activist
Ava DuVernay, writer, director, producer, and film distributor
Michael Famighetti, editor, Aperture magazine
Drew Gilpin Faust, president emeritus, Harvard University
Cheryl Finley, associate professor of art history, Cornell University
Nicole R. Fleetwood, associate professor of American studies and graduate faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
LaToya Ruby Frazier, photographer; video artist; and associate professor of photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Alan M. Garber, provost, Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; professor of economics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
Theaster Gates, founder and executive director, Rebuild Foundation; inaugural distinguished artist in residence and director of artist initiatives, Lunder Institute for American Art; professor, Department of Visual Arts, the University of Chicago
Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate
Agnes Gund, philanthropist and art collector; founder, Art for Justice Fund; president emerita, Museum of Modern Art
Catherine Gund, producer, director, writer, and activist; founder and director, Aubin Pictures
Mona Hanna-Attisha, assistant professor of pediatrics and human development and founder and director of the Michigan State University–Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, Michigan State University
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Sadie Rain Hope-Gund, photographer and writer
Robin Kelsey, dean of arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, Harvard University
Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., executive director, The Gordon Parks Foundation
Franklin Leonard, film executive; founder, the Black List
Sarah Lewis, assistant professor of history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies, Harvard University
Wynton Marsalis, musician, composer, and bandleader; managing and artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, Harvard University
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Leigh Raiford, associate professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Claudia Rankine, poet; chancellor, Academy of American Poets; Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry, Yale University
Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Anna Deavere Smith, actress, playwright, and author; university professor, New York University
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director, Equal Justice Initiative; professor of clinical law, New York University
Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, Department of Government, Harvard University
Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums
Hank Willis Thomas, conceptual artist
Naomi Wadler, activist
Darren Walker, president, Ford Foundation
Carrie Mae Weems, artist
Deborah Willis, university professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts and director of the Institute of African American Affairs, New York University
Damian Woetzel, president, the Juilliard School
Bradford Young, cinematographer
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Thursday, April 25
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The power of story
Thursday, April 25
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Ari Daniel, Senior Digital Producer, NOVA
People are inundated with news and ideas — screens are constantly funneling content into our brains. So how do you get someone to care about something you care about, like an environmental issue? Ari Daniels argues that storytelling packs one of the most powerful punches, and he will explain how he uses stories — on the radio, in video, and at live shows — to get people to stop and listen.
Ari Daniel has always been drawn to science and the natural world. As a kid, he packed his green Wildlife Treasury box full of species cards. As a graduate student, Ari trained gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) for his Master’s degree at the University of St. Andrews, and helped tag wild Norwegian killer whales (Orcinus orca) for his Ph.D. at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. These days, as Senior Digital Producer for NOVA and an independent science reporter for outlets including public radio, Ari works with a species he’s better equipped to understand – Homo sapiens. He has reported on science topics across five continents. He is a co-recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for his radio stories on glaciers and climate change in Greenland and Iceland. He also co-produces the Boston branch of Story Collider, a live storytelling show about science.
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Population Palaeogenomics as a Window into the Legacy of the Black Death
Thursday, April 25
3:30PM
Harvard, Room 1080, Biological Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Tom Gilbert, Professor, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, will present "."
Abstract: Human populations have been shaped by past catastrophes, some of which may have left long-lasting signatures in our genomes. Although numerous tools have been developed that enable such signatures to be developed using genomic datasets generated from contemporary materials, an alternative approach that is becoming increasingly feasible is to harness the power of population palaeogenomics - i.e. sequencing of ‘population’ scale datasets using ancient samples, chosen to span relevant locations and periods of interest. We have been exploring the potential of such methods in several systems, including domestic animals and plants, as well as humans in the context of one of the most notable catastrophes in recorded history - the second plague pandemic. In this talk I showcase the power of the population palaeogenomic approach through introducing several of the systems that we have applied such methods to, with a principal focus on the consequences of the second plague pandemic (the Black Death).
OEB Seminar
https://oeb.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/event-type/oeb-seminars
Contact Name: Christian Flynn
cflynn at fas.harvard.edu
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Learn About Solar For Your Home and Go 100% Renewable!
Thursday, April 25
6:30 PM – 8 PM
Cambridge Public Library - Central Square Branch, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-about-solar-for-your-home-and-go-100-renewable-tickets-59852235648
Now is a great time to consider solar for your roof! Come find out why! You can also learn how you can easily go 100% renewable no matter if you rent or own through a City program.
Please join us for an informative presentation on the benefits of installing solar and participation in 100% renewable electricity.
Sponsored by Green Cambridge, Mothers Out Front, 350.org and Neighborhood Solar. We working to leverage group buying to make solar power more affordable and have more people getting their energy from 100% renewable sources.
Together with SunBug Solar, you can learn how Cambridge residents, businesses, and nonprofits can save 20% on installation, receive a 30% federal tax credit and apply for a zero interest loan to get the work done!
Lewis Room: This room is located on the second floor of the Central Square Branch of the library, located at 45 Pearl Street.
If you'd like childcare, please email Kristine Jelstrup at kejelstrup at gmail.com.
more information at https://www.facebook.com/events/297243241211419/
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Aerial Futures: The Third Dimension
Thursday, April 25
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aerial-futures-the-third-dimension-tickets-59793893144
swissnex Boston and AERIAL FUTURES are partnering to look forward towards the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). Thanks to the support of Swiss Touch, we will bring to Boston the next event in our Aerial Futures: The Drone Frontier series – AERIAL FUTURES: The Third Dimension
A public event at Harvard GSD examines the lower sky as a site of mobility
Increasing congestion and advances in autonomous technology are set to transform how we move around our cities. Many are now looking to the sky — the third dimension — as an expansive space for new kinds of mobility. Autonomous flying vehicles, such as cargo drones and flying taxis, have the capacity to disrupt how we move goods and passengers around urban space. Responding to these real-world changes, AERIAL FUTURES: The Third Dimension examines Urban Air Mobility (UAM), asking how scalable and on- demand UAM models could reduce road traffic, pollution, accidents and the strain on existing public transport networks. Within these opportunities are also challenges to overcome: noise, community acceptance, safety, cyber security and seamless integration with existing aircraft operations.
Boston and Switzerland have long understood the importance of connectivity and mobility. As world centers for tech research and design excellence, both locations are at the vanguard of urban mobility design. The presentations and panel will discuss Design Interfaces, the UAM Marketplace and Regulatory Frameworks.
About the Organizers
swissnex Boston, with offices in Cambridge, MA and New York City, creates meaningful cross-disciplinary connections in education, research, innovation, and in the arts between Switzerland and North America. Our mission is to support the outreach and active engagement of our partners in the global exchange of knowledge, ideas and talent.
AERIAL FUTURES is a non-profit organization exploring innovation in the architecture of flight, technology, and the broader urban mobility ecosystem. They curate and provokes timely considerations of our aerial age, and imagine its emerging futures in a connected, multimodal world.
Swiss Touch is an event series and social media campaign pushing Swiss innovation and creative ideas forward, through the participation of prominent Swiss and American stakeholders, a selection of compelling topics and unusual locations. Follow their journey throughout the US at www.swisstouchusa.org.
Program
6:20 pm Doors open
6:30 pm Program starts
8:00 pm Doors close
Speakers
Olivier de Weck, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT
In his research, Olivier de Weck focuses on the evolution and design properties of a wide range of complex man-made systems, such as air- and spacecraft, automobiles, and critical infrastructures. De Weck is a former Swiss Air Force officer and holds degrees from both ETH Zurich (1993) and MIT (2001). From 1993 to 1997, he was liaison engineer and later engineer program manager at McDonnell Douglas’ F/A-18 aircraft program. The last two years, he held the role of Senior Vice President for Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus.
Jaron Lubin, Design Principal, Safdie Architects
Jaron Lubin’s extensive body of work includes a portfolio of architectural design proposals, competition entries and projects in a broad variety of geographical contexts, scales and programs. Among many other well-renowned projects, Lubin functioned as the Project Architect in the iconic Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore. He joined Safdie Architects in 2004 and was named a Principal in 2012. Lubin studied Architecture at the University of Michigan and obtained his Master’s Degree at UCLA.
Vassilis Agouridas, Senior Manager, Strategic Innovation, Airbus (Helicopters)
As a member of the Strategy, Company Development and Business Ambition Directorate at Airbus, Vassilis Agouridas is working on growth strategy and new business ecosystems assignments. In the context of ever-growing urbanization and widespread diffusion of digital business enablers, he has been developing expertise in nurturing systemic mobility solutions featuring the 3rd dimension. Vassilis is the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Initiative Leader, on behalf of Airbus, within the Sustainable Urban Mobility Action Cluster, launched in October 2017 by the European Commission.
Lorenzo Murzilli, Manager, Innovation and Advanced Technologies, Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA)
Lorenzo Murzilli is an aerospace engineer, innovation manager and specialist in aviation, system safety and drones. As the leader of the Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems WG-6 and Deputy Chair of the Swiss FOCA RPAS Working Group, he oversees the policies and risk management processes for all critical drones’ operations in Switzerland and works to improve the perception of unmanned aerial vehicles worldwide. As a guest lecturer at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Lorenzo has developed a striking ability to boost innovation in safety-critical environments and enjoys exploring the intersection of safety and disruptive technologies that can advance the human race forward.
Moderator
Sonja Dümpelmann, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD)
Sonja Dümpelmann is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) where she teaches history and theory courses. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland (2007-2012), and Auburn University (2005-2007) where she taught design studios and history and theory classes. She holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of the Arts, Berlin, and an MLA from Leibniz Universität Hannover. Dümpelmann has curated exhibitions on landscape history in Germany and has worked as a landscape designer in Studio Paolo Bürgi, Switzerland. She has held research fellowships at the German Historical Institute, and at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.
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Augmented and Virtual Reality Expo
Thursday, April 25
6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT
GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/augmented-virtual-reality-expo/boston/72719
Join us at GA to see innovative and exciting local AR & VR technology demos, presented by startup founders and industry experts. Network with 100+ attendees from the Boston-area startup/tech community.
If you would like to showcase your products or company at this event, please contact bospartnerships at generalassemb.ly
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Thursday, April 25
7 to 8:15pm
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Building, 1300 Centre Street, Roslindale
RSVP at http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu
Cost: $0 - $5
Jonathan Drori wrote a book with that title about human interactions with trees. Just two of many: streets in 19th-c London were paved with Australian jarrah wood; monks used the sap of the Japanese Lacquer tree to mummify themselves while still alive.
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
Thursday, April 25
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-author-yale-professor-mark-peterson-tickets-58386701195
A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston’s overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston’s development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States.
About the Author: Mark Peterson is the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England.
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Friday, April 26
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MIT Sustainability Summit: Sustainable Mobility - What Can'(t) Tech Fix?
Friday, April 26
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
MIT, Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sustainability-summit-sustainable-mobility-what-cant-tech-fix-tickets-48545540017
Cost: $45 - $170
MIT is hosting the eleventh annual Sustainability Summit. This year's theme is Sustainable Mobility: What Can’(t) Tech Fix? Speakers and panelists will explore the limitations to technology in an increasingly technology-centric field, and pinpoint key sustainability priorities in the policy and investment realms that are under-considered--and ripe for innovation. Participants will have the opportunity to think about technology and its strengths in a different way, and leave with an understanding what criteria they should apply when evaluating mobility innovations and solutions for environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Join the discussion!
The MIT Sustainability Summit is an annual student-led event. Now in its 11th year, the Summit features discussions with academia, industry leaders, and expert practitioners. The day's unique focus and depth of content has led to the Summit's growing prominence, and it routinely sells out its 350-seat capacity.
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The Smart, Connected Commonwealth: Data-Driven Research and Policy Across the Region
Friday, April 26
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-smart-connected-commonwealth-data-driven-research-and-policy-across-the-region-tickets-56928735380
Much has been made of how digital data and technology will transform major metropolises such as Boston. But the challenges and opportunities facing society in the 21st century are not isolated to urban cores. They instead operate at a regional scale—inequality and segregation, transportation, the opioid epidemic, housing, climate change, and gentrification, to name a few.
The Smart, Connected Commonwealth: Data-Driven Research and Policy across the Region will explore how researchers and practitioners can move beyond the individual municipality, supporting governments across the region working to solve problems collaboratively. BARI’s 2019 Spring Conference will bring together academics, policy makers, and practitioners to highlight work being conducted throughout Greater Boston as a way to share insights and methods, catalyzing inter-disciplinary, intercity collaboration in the use of data and technology.
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Flood Harvard
Friday, April 26
2 PM – 5 PM
Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Join student activists from Divest Harvard on Friday, April 26th at 2pm to call on Harvard University to divest its nearly $40 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry!
Flood Harvard will be the final, largest political action of this year's Harvard Heat Week. For this event, we are calling on our peers and adult allies from around the nation to stand with us in our fight for climate justice and a more sustainable and equitable future for all. We are demanding that, through immediate divestment, Harvard show the leadership that our campus, the greater Boston community, and our world expect.
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/347126895944173/
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Saturday, April 27 - Saturday, May 4
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Sustainaville Week
See http://somervillema.gov/sustainavilleweek for the full event lineup
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Saturday, April 27
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Local Environmental Action Conference
Saturday, April 27
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Local Time)
Worcester State University, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester
RSVP at http://www.localenvironmentalaction.org
For the past 32 years, MCAN and Toxics Action Center have brought together hundreds of community leaders and activists for a day to learn, share skills, and build our movement. This is the biggest gathering of environmental and public health activists in our region, and you don’t want to miss it.
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Hull Wind 1 tour
Saturday April 27
10a-3p
100 Main Street, Hull (https://goo.gl/maps/r4xAevU3mQM)
Tour is free and lasts about 1 hr with time allotted for Q&A.
one hour slot
https://hullwind.net
contact Andrew Stern
astern at hotmail.com
10a MIT
11a BU
12p Northeastern University
1p Harvard HESEC
2p Tufts
3p Union of Concerned Scientists
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High-yield gardening
Saturday, April 27
11 to 12:30
110 Williams Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/metro-boston/event-46160.html
How to get the most out of your space, through intensive spacing, succession planting, interplanting, vertical growing, trellising, season extension. You might even get your hands dirty. FREE. Reservation appreciated, not essential.
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Sunday, April 28
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Lee McIntyre on 'The Scientific Attitude'
Sunday, April 28
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Harvard, Phillips Brooks House, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
RSVP at https://meet.meetup.com/wf/click?upn=pEEcc35imY7Cq0tG1vyTt3CGmeVj6-2F6vjxOlzBhesC81AqMVsOPSLMetxSm9dVTtZRO5UZTzmxZpWgJsoBIUuwlGstMz5LGAKnlR2-2FIR-2B2CDWA3O4PAzpQBijV2hZ-2Fu5QWNsJ64TBuhuDzG1t8nTQBgEmTXhM3fC1Wg3mtaIu9RTI8RF-2BspmXfCj7wzqjXQSBT3Ddo6M-2Fp5NVTUu6o0Pyw-3D-3D_Q-2FAIwDkBcdJzm3UDl4bHX6xhh5a2rrODr-2F2JjmVG-2FeHcGZTxSGjPWzEOMsInPYPGW1gZBoS8yqwoOphADLp-2FwX5lOFdPJU4fEkDTR0J-2FFFzfhIt7y4loso0YLfvayBK3WZlonO1RNuflFbelP4ItppYUHgwj-2BPfJfn7JjyZWp-2BR-2FNRFXujK3bTq-2BPuQCK3tQ-2Btgv4sRT9QmXhVOkogWzxw-3D-3D
We are pleased to welcome Lee McIntyre back on the eve of his latest book on the challenges of the post-modern age. "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience” is the title of this upcoming MIT Press book.
"As part of -- or perhaps the culmination of -- an on-going campaign of fact and truth denial that has been going on in Western democracies for the last several decades, science is currently under attack. On topics such as evolution, vaccines, and climate change, the forces of ideology, cognitive bias, media confusion, and outright ignorance have conspired to spread disinformation and legitimize doubt about even the most well-settled empirical questions. This contrasts sharply with the attitude that scientists take toward empirical beliefs, which is based on respect for evidence and the flexibility of mind to change one's beliefs based on new evidence.
"Why then -- when they set out to defend science -- are scientists and philosophers of science so often at a loss to explain what is so special about science?
"The elusive search for some logical criteria that may demarcate science from non-science, or ill-advised scientific pronouncements about proof and certainty, only give aid and comfort to some of the myths that are exploited by science deniers. Instead, I believe that what is most distinctive about science is not its method or logic, but instead its values. In this talk I will explore how the scientific attitude can be used to fight back against the sorts of criticisms made by science deniers (and pseudoscientists), who do not understand that the heart of scientific thought is based on its critical values, and community spirit of criticism, such that skepticism and doubt are a strength rather than a weakness of scientific theory."
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. His previous publications include, Post-Truth (2018) and Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age (2015).
Snacks will follow the talk.
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Bike Month Kick-Off
Sunday, April 28
1PM-5PM
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.somervillebikes.org/bike-month-2019.html
Join MAPC staff, Somerville Bicycle Committee, and the Climate Coalition of Somerville’s at the 2019 Bike Month Kick-off event at Aeronaut Brewery in Somerville! Staff will be tabling and talking with attendees about our work in improving bicycle infrastructure in the region through MetroCommon 2050!
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Monday, April 29
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How Norms Change: New Evidence from Data and Experiments
Monday, April 29
11:00 am
Northeastern, 177 Huntington Avenue, 11th floor, Boston
ANDREA BARONCHELLI, City University of London
Researchers and policy makersagree that new social norms could help solve large-scale problems, from climatechange to antibiotic resistance. However, our understanding of how norms changehas been limited so far by the lack of suitable data. In this talk, I willdiscuss two recent studies that shed light on this process. In the first [PNAS115, 8260 (2018)], we examined linguistic norm shifts in English and Spanish.We identified three main drivers of norm change that leave markedly differentsignatures in the data, namely (i) authority, (ii) informal institutions and(iii) a bottom-up process triggered by a small number of committed users (akinto a 'critical mass' phenomenon). We proposed a simple model that reproducesthe empirical observations. In the second study [Science 360, 1116 (2018)], wefocused on critical mass theory and tested it experimentally in artificialsocial networks. We let a group of individuals evolve their own socialconvention. Then, once the agreement was reached, we introduced fewconfederates pushing for a different norm. As their number crossed a tippingpoint - roughly 25% of the group size – the whole population would follow themand adopt the new norm. This is the first empirical evidence for the widelyadopted theory of critical mass. These results will help better understand bothhow norms change spontaneously in our societies and how to design effectivepolicies to foster collective behavioral change.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrea Baronchelli is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at City University of London, a fellow at the ISI Foundation in Turin, and a research fellow at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Prior to joining City University of London in 2013, he was at MOBS Lab (Northeastern University) and at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona. He received his BS and MS in Theoretical Physics from the Sapienza University of Rome and his PhD in Physics from the same university. Andrea is an Associate Editor at EPJ Data Science, PLoS ONE and Frontiers in Blockchain. His research is on the dynamics of social and cognitive systems using mathematical modelling, network and data science, and experiments with human subjects. Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/andreabaronchelli/.
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Agency and Automation: Digital Disobedience and Its Infrastructure
Monday, April 29
12:15PM
Harvard, CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Robin Celikates, University of Amsterdam, Philosophy
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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Tuesday, April 30
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BU URBAN Spring Symposium
Tuesday, April 30
12:30 – 3:00pm
BU, Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
The BU URBAN Spring Symposium acts as a forum where program partners, students, and faculty of the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health come together to share successes in tackling urban environmental challenges. These presentations are meant to highlight the current work that has been done as part of this program and inspire additional partnerships, projects, and ideas that focus on urban environmental challenges.
More at http://sites.bu.edu/urban/news-and-events/calendar/?eid=222724
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Are Today's Frontiers In Cities? A Lecture by Saskia Sassen
Tuesday, April 30
4pm-5pm
BU, Myles Standish Hall, English Room, 610 Beacon Street, Boston
A reception will follow at the IOC
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her new book, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, has been released in 15 languages.
She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, including multiple doctor honoris causa, named lectures, and being selected as one of the top global thinkers on diverse lists. Most recently she was awarded the Principe de Asturias 2013 Prize in the Social Sciences and made a member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of Netherland.
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Youth on Climate Justice: Why should we care?* An interactive, workshop developed and led by the Green Team.
Tuesday, April 30
5:30-7:30 pm
Mystic Activity Center, 530 Mystic Avenue, Somerville
This workshop is part of the City of Somerville's SustainaVille Week
*What is climate justice? How does it connect to racism? Why should Somerville residents care about climate change? How are young people experiencing, dealing with, and fighting climate change? How does and will it affect us, from the food we eat to the health inequities we face? What can we do about it?*
*If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, this workshop is for
YOU!*
FREE and snacks will be provided.*
More information at: bit.ly/gtclimate19.
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Cleantech Startups: Navigating the Mass Cleantech Landscape
Tuesday, April 30
5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
Pre-registration is required at https://mitefcamb.z2systems.com/np/clients/mitefcamb/eventRegistration.jsp?event=3383&%20&_ga=2.61727532.1084245857.1554942113-1895775866.1458499108
Cost: $10 Members; $30 Non-Members; $5 Student Members, $10 Non Member Students, $10 Startup Founders - Member or Non-Member
Meet the Organizations Creating an Enduring Ecosystem for Cleantech Innovation
Over 200 institutions in New England provide support for Cleantech research, innovation and entrepreneurship. Many of these organizations offer help to startups at all stages of development and provide critical resources like business and marketing support, mentorship, and more.
We are lucky to have so many support organizations in the area, but we know it can be hard for an entrepreneur in Cleantech to navigate all of them.
That's why we're bringing together concept/early stage startup founders and startup support organizations specializing in Cleantech for this special event where we'll help founders:
CONNECT with experts who can guide you in your journey from idea to commercialization
DISCUSS ideas and challenges with other entrepreneurs and learn from their experiences
ACCESS a guide showcasing resources at the inflection points along the path to entrepreneurial success
Hear from people who have participated in these startup support organizations, prepare your questions regarding where you are in your journey. They will be there to help you succeed.
Agenda
5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration
6:00 - 6:15 pm: MITEF intro, event overview, and purpose
6:15 - 7:50 pm: Startup and supporting organizations presentations
7:50 - 8:50 pm: Networking and tabletop discussions between entrepreneurs and Supporting organizations
8:50 - 9:00 pm: Wrap Up
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VR in energy and aerospace by Packet 39
Monday, April 29
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Venture Cafe Cambridge, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Virtual-Reality/events/259762636/
In this presentation, Packet 39 CEO, Vice will go over a few VR projects and applications they developed for nuclear power, aerospace and medical industries in the past 3 years.
Highlights:
Creating stress in VR to reduce stress in real life
The importance of muscle memory and designing effective VR training
A show of hands - camera based Mixed Reality to bring user's hands into VR
VR-less VR - the power of VR 3D tracking without the bulky headset
Avoiding spacetime collisions with 4D visualizations and work scheduling
A power plant in your cubicle - Cost effective 3D scanning of industrial spaces for walkdowns and work planning
SCHEDULE:
6:00pm - Doors open, demos begin, snacks are served.
7:00pm -Announcements and Community information
7:15pm - CEO of Packet 39 "Vice" talk begins
8:15pm - 9:45 Demofest!!
9:45 - After party at TBD
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Be the Change: Emily Bazelon & Juliette Kayyem
Tuesday, April 30
7:00pm
Peabody School Auditorium, 70 Rindge Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/product/be-change-emily-bazelon-juliette-kayyem-ticket
Cost: $28
Tickets are required for this event. Each ticket includes a copy of CHARGED: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.
This event will be held at the Peabody School Auditorium in Cambridge, MA.
Renowned journalist and legal commentator Emily Bazelon exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out. She is joined in conversation by national security and crisis management expert Juliette Kayyem.
The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. That image of the law does not match the reality in the courtroom, however. Much of the time, it is prosecutors more than judges who control the outcome of a case, from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain. They often decide who goes free and who goes to prison, even who lives and who dies. In Charged, Emily Bazelon reveals how this kind of unchecked power is the underreported cause of enormous injustice—and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle.
Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a twenty-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend’s gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases—from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing—and, with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism, illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don’t have to.
Bazelon also details the second chances they prosecutors can extend, if they choose, to Kevin and Noura and so many others. She follows a wave of reform-minded D.A.s who have been elected in some of our biggest cities, as well as in rural areas in every region of the country, put in office to do nothing less than reinvent how their job is done. If they succeed, they can point the country toward a different and profoundly better future.
“Bazelon, cogent and clear-eyed as ever, lays out a welcome double-barreled argument: A prosecutorial shift toward mercy and fairness is crucial to healing our busted criminal justice system, and it’s already happening.”—Sarah Koenig, host of Serial
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law, and a lecturer at Yale Law School. Her previous book is the national bestseller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. She’s also a co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast. Before joining the Times Magazine, Bazelon was a writer and editor at Slate, where she co-founded the women’s section “DoubleX.” She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Juliette Kayyem is one of the nation’s leading experts in homeland security. A former member of the National Commission on Terrorism, and the state of Massachusetts’ first homeland security advisor, Kayyem served as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security where she handled crises from the H1N1 pandemic to the BP Oil Spill. Presently a faculty member at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, she also is the founder of Kayyem Solutions, LLC, one of the nation’s only female-owned security advising companies, and CEO and co-founder of Grip Mobility. Kayyem is a security analyst for CNN, a weekly show contributor on WGBH, Boston’s NPR station, and the host of the podcast Security Mom, also produced by WGBH. In 2013, she was the Pulitzer Prize finalist for her columns in The Boston Globe. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Kayyem lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and three children.
Be the Change is PSB's civic engagement program to provide the resources to those who want to make change at all levels of government and in society in general. Click here for more information about Be the Change.
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Mensch-Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi
Tuesday, April 30
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Joshua Hammerman
The Talmud states, “In a world that lacks humanity, be human.” In a world as untethered as ours has become, simply being human, a good person, is a measure of heroism. At a time when norms of civility are being routinely overwhelmed, it may be the only measure that matters. Mensch-Marks represents Rabbi Joshua Hammerman’s personal Torah scroll–the sacred text of his experiences, the life lessons he has learned along his winding, circuitous journey.
Mirroring 42 steps Israel wandered in the Wilderness, Hammerman offers 42 brief essays, several of which first appeared in The New York Times Magazine, organized into categories of character, or “mensch-marks,” each one a stepping stone toward spiritual maturation. These essays span most of Rabbi Hammerman’s life, revealing how he has striven to be a “mensch,” a human of character, through every challenge.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://somervilleyogurtmakingcoop.wordpress.com
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
Solar map of Cambridge, MA
http://www.mapdwell.com/en/cambridge
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha at sbnboston.org
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development - http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info at bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Boston Maker Spaces - 41 (up from 27 in 2016) and counting: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zGHnt9r2pQx8.kfw9evrHsKjA&hl=en
Solidarity Network Economy: https://ussolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston: http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at over 50 colleges and universities at Hubevents: http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://calendar.mit.edu
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.
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