[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - September 8, 2019

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Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater
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Monday, September 9
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9am  Broad Institute Next Generation in Biomedicine Symposium
10am  The Next Evolution Of LEED: V4.1
12pm  Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Speaker: Clara Deser
12:30pm  Rising Power Alliances/Coalitions and U.S. Global Leadership 
12:30pm  Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellows Talks
4pm  The Confessional Community: Narratives of Violence and Survival in Mexico City’s Anexos
4pm  HubWeek Open Doors: Dudley Square
4:30pm  Rally at Cambridge City Hall for Municipal Broadband
4:30pm  Herbert C. Kelman Seminar: How to Bridge the Military-Civilian Divide
5:30pm  Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Technological Revolution, Democratic Recession & Climate Change | Limits of Law in a Changing World
6:30pm  Mindfulness and Meditation Research Update 
7pm  Extinction Rebellion Sharing Circle
7pm  The Education of an Idealist:  A Memoir
7pm  Nationalism: a Short History
7pm  Long-term Loonshots: The Science of Phase Transitions and World History
7pm  Science and Cooking Public Lecture: 10 Year Anniversary Lecture

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Tuesday, September 10
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9:45am  Soundwalk
12pm  Building a Better City: A Conversation with Mayor Steve Benjamin
12pm  BERKMAN KLEIN LUNCHEON SERIES: Tech be Governed?
12pm  Technology, the First Amendment and Resisting Government Regulation
12pm  The Sounds of Boston & Beyond: Hearing the Sonic Dimension of Cities
12pm  Tuesday Seminar Series: Strategies of Redistribution. The Left and the Popular Sectors in Latin America
12:30pm  Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellows Talks
4pm  Book Talk: Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law
5pm  Northern Ireland and Globalism: What does Brexit mean for the future of Northern Ireland
5pm  Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: The Dismantling of Democracy - Brazil, India, and Turkey
5:30pm  Into a Daybreak: Eve Ewing and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on thinking and writing through black feminism
5:30pm  Stone Social Impact Forum with Geoffrey Canada
6pm  Authors at MIT | Leah Plunkett: Sharenthood Book Launch
6pm  Brexit: What's Next?
6pm  Beyond ROI: Ways to Measure Impact on Society
6pm  Commercializing your Idea: Tales from the Front Lines
6pm  Be Heard! Great Ways to Take Effective Action
6:30pm  Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Meeting
6:30pm  Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
6:30pm  Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Samuel Bravo, "“PROJECTLESS: on the emergence of a dwell”
6:30pm  BostonCHI Hosts Amy Bucher - The Psychology of Engagement: How to Design for Behavior Change
7pm  Inconspicuous Consumption:  The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
7pm  Tim Desmond - "How to Stay Human in a F*cked-Up World”
7pm  Diversity is not Just the Differences You Like, A Talk by Eboo Patel
7pm  Food Literacy Project OPEN MEETING: Intro to HUDS with Crista Martin & David Davidson

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Wednesday, September 11
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9:30am  Meeting: Solar + Storage; DC-Coupled Standalone Facilities
10am  The Neurobiology of Trauma with Dr. Jim Hopper, PhD
10am  Individual freedom versus the hidden persuaders
11am  Sustainability/Bike/Light Fair
12pm  It's Coming from Inside the House: The Greatest Challenges to America's National Security is Happening at Home, Not Over There
12pm  Climate Change and Cities
12:15pm  Greenland in a Changing Arctic
1:30pm  Meeting: Solar + Storage; AC-Coupled Facilities
2pm  How increasing equity in the science classroom drives social change
3pm  xTalk: Taylor Freeman on "Platform Shifts: From the Internet, to Mobile, to Immersive”
4pm  Panel Discussion: The Future of Computational Materials Science and Engineering
4pm  Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series - Prof. Otto Nielsen on Future Transport
4:30pm  Work of the Future Book Series: Mary Gray, Author of "Ghost Work”
5:15pm  More or less than zero: Can electricity markets survive deep decarbonization? 
6pm  Inaugural Meeting to UnKoch MIT 
6pm  Climate in International Relations Theory and Practice 
6pm  The Puritans: Who They Were, Who They Are
6pm  A Better Cambridge Candidate Forum
6:30pm  Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation Meeting
7pm  CHINESE DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: the new Long March
7pm  Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked

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Thursday, September 12 – Friday, September 13
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2019 HARVARD LEGAL TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM 

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Thursday, September 12 – Saturday, September 14
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Urban Activism 2019 Graduate Conference

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Thursday, September 12
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12pm  Offshore Wind and the Transition to Renewables
12  THE MEASLES OUTBREAK: Why Vaccines Matter
12pm  Law, Technology, and China's AI Dream
12pm  Focus: Environmental, Social Corporate Governance (ESG)
1pm  Transform climate talk into climate roadmaps
3pm  Solopreneur Kick-Start Clinic
3:30pm  OEB Seminar Series: Robotics as a comparative method to understand the functional and evolutionary diversity of fishes
4:30pm  Starr Forum: The Global Rise of Populism
5pm  "Modernizing Saudi Arabia: The politics of gender" Dr. Hala Aldosari
5pm  Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
5:30pm  Arts as Refuge: The Power of Art to Unify and Heal
5:30pm  Discussion of The Uninhabitable Earth
5:30pm  September EnergyBar: Cyclotron Road @ Greentown Labs
6pm  White Privilege: Can You Explain that to Me?
6pm  Ashley Fure | Where the Worldviews Are
6pm  Boston Climate Action Network - Action Team Meeting
6pm  ICA Watershed East Boston Climate Conversation
6pm  Candidate Forum on Energy & the Environment: Boston District 9
6pm  BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AT-LARGE CANDIDATES FORUM:  ON PATHWAYS TO PROSPERITY FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
6pm  Culture & Sustainable Growth In Upham's Corner
6pm  The 29th First Annual Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony 
7pm  How the Brain Lost Its Mind
7pm  Rebooting AI
7pm  Carrots Don't Grow on Trees
7pm  The Center Cannot Hold: Addressing Mental Health Stigma through Opera
7:30pm  Talking to Strangers:  What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know 

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Friday, September 13
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9am  Localization Unconference Boston 2019
12pm  Air Quality, Heterogeneous Chemistry and Odd Oxygen: New Insights into Urban Winter from Recent Aircraft Campaigns
12pm  Playing Games in the Prescription Drug Market: Cost Implications and Legal Solutions: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
12pm  Denver, Houston and New Orleans
12pm  The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today
2pm  Eco-climatic legacies of a century of Eastern US reforestation
3pm  Our Non-Christian Nation:  How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life
3pm  Sunrise Beach Day
7pm  Fentanyl, Inc.
7pm  Meat Planet:  Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food

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Saturday, September 14 - Sunday, September 15
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Oxford Global Hackathon

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Saturday, September 14
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8:30am  Boston Area Gleaners Service Workday
9am  Extinction Rebellion NVDA training
9:30am  Tufts Women in Tech Conference
1pm  The MIT Press Bookstore Presents: the Ig Nobel Informal Lectures at MIT
1pm  Nature Inspired Design (Bio-mimicry) Workshop
2pm  Plastic Sea, Changing Earth RECEPTION
4pm  Climapalooza at Herter Park
4pm  SUMMER SOL:  a global-local journey to benefit the launch of the UFI Community Land Trust

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Sunday, September 15
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8am  BOSTON'S 15TH ANNUAL HUB ON WHEELS CITYWIDE RIDE
11am  10th Annual Boston Local Food Festival
2pm  Local Martial Arts Masters Perform
6pm  Detox your yard

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Monday, September 16
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8:15am  Bangladesh Rising Conference
12pm  Book Launch: Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
12pm  Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Speaker: Marianna Linz
12pm  The Time for Talk is Over: Climate Justice for Future Generations
3pm  Ocean Futures: Conversations with Jim McCarthy
3pm  A Conversation with Don Eigler: Moving Atoms One by One
5pm  Boston Cannabis Week Presents: Conscious Community
6pm  Preparing for & Competing with the ‘Tech Titans of China’
6pm  Fight Like a Mother: Shannon Watts Book Talk & Signing
6pm  Boston New Technology FinTech & Blockchain Startup Showcase #BNT105 (21+)
7pm  Death to Fascism: Louis Adamic's Fight for Democracy Reclaiming the life of a progressive visionary
7pm  Mental Health and Africa

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Tuesday, September 17
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7:30am & 4:30pm  BlackRock Demonstration
12pm  Speaker Series: Adam Moss
12pm  Humor & Geoengineering
12pm  Women’s Political Empowerment A Century After the 19th Amendment: Reflections by Women Mayors
12pm  Greentown Learn Manufacturing Initiative Supplier & Innovation Showcase 
3:30pm  "Sensing Human Behavior with Smart Garments", Prof. Trisha Andrew, University of Massachusetts
5:15pm  Reducing the cost of decarbonization through cutting-edge carbon capture innovation
5:30pm  American Democracy: Creators, Gatekeepers & Disruptors
5:30pm  Gutman Library Book Talk: Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty
5:30pm  Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice
5:30pm  Environmental Voter Project BUILDING THE ELECTORATE FUNDRAISER
6pm  Sway: How to Persuade and Influence Others
6pm  Growing Up Puritan: The Family in 17th-century New England
6pm  Ben Franklin Circles: Tranquility
7pm  Poisoner in Chief
7pm  Protest Health and Safety Training
7pm  You're It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most
7pm  Producers in Crisis! Presenting a Study on Costs of Production in Latin America
7pm  JP Solar Professionals Happy Hour

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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com

City Agriculture - September 6, 2019
https://cityag.blogspot.com/2019/09/city-agriculture-september-6-2019.html

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Monday, September 9
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Broad Institute Next Generation in Biomedicine Symposium
Monday, September 9
9:00am - 5:00pm
Broad Institute Auditorium, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broad-institute-next-generation-in-biomedicine-symposium-tickets-65115604526

The Broad Institute Next Generation in Biomedicine is a unique effort to bring together emerging talent at the intersection of biomedical disciplines. Eighteen early-career investigators from around the world will share their research and discuss exciting new directions.

Program:
8:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:10- 9:20 AM Opening Remarks
9:20 – 11:20 AM First Session
11:20-12:30 PM Lunch Break
12:30-2:30 PM Second Session
2:30-3:00 PM Afternoon Break
3:00-5:00 PM Third Session
5:00-5:10 PM Closing Remarks | Aviv Regev

2019 Symposium Presenters:
Steven M. Banik, PhD; Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolyn Bertozzi lab, Stanford University
Hijacking the lysosome for targeted degradation of extracellular and membrane proteins
John F. Brooks II, PhD; HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lora Hooper lab, University of Texas Southwestern
The microbiota programs diurnal oscillations in intestinal antimicrobial protein expression
Pau Castel, PhD; Jane Coffin Childs Fund Postdoctoral Fellow, Frank McCormick lab, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco
Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer
Yvette Fisher, PhD; HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, Rachel Wilson lab, Harvard Medical School
How visual landmarks update a heading direction circuit in Drosophila
Viktória Lázár, PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Roy Kishony lab, Israel Institute of Technology
Antibiotic persistence in multi-drug treatment 
Ben Lengerich; PhD candidate, Eric Xing lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Personalized Machine Learning for Precision Medicine 
Cécile Mathieu, PhD; Research Associate, J. Paul Taylor lab, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
A conformational switch regulates G3BP-RNA phase separation and biological condensate formation in cells
Alexander Meeske, PhD; Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Luciano Marraffini lab, Rockefeller University
CRISPR-Cas13 cleaves host and phage RNA to suppress evolution of escape mutants
Eugene Oh, PhD; Postdoctoral Fellow, Michael Rape lab, University of California Berkeley
Anaphase-promoting complex-dependent control of cell identity
John Salogiannis, PhD; Postdoctoral Fellow, Samara Reck-Peterson lab, University of California San Diego
A structural and mechanistic model for LRRK2’s association with microtubules
Francisco J. Sánchez-Rivera, PhD; HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, Scott Lowe lab, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dissecting the biological impact of mutational heterogeneity using mouse models and genome engineering
Olga T. Schubert, PhD; Postdoctoral Scholar, Leonid Kruglyak lab, University of California Los Angeles
High-resolution CRISPR screening for the genetic regulation of protein abundance
Manoshi Sen Datta, PhD; Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellow, Roy Kishony lab, Israel Institute of Technology 
Towards “ecology guided” treatments for infectious disease 
Matthew Shurtleff, PhD; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Jonathan Weissman lab, University of California San Francisco
Unraveling host-microbiome interactions using phenotype-rich screening approaches
Ekaterina (Katya) Vinogradova, PhD; Research Associate, Benjamin Cravatt lab, The Scripps Research Institute
A function-guided map of electrophile-cysteine interactions in primary human immune cells
Haohan Wang; PhD candidate, Research Assistant, Eric Xing lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Dealing with confounding factors in deep neural networks
Autumn York, PhD; HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, Richard Flavell lab, Yale University 
Decoding the Immunological Lipidome
Xiaoyu Zhang, PhD; Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Benjamin Cravatt lab, The Scripps Research Institute
Discovery of small molecule-mediated protein degradation pathways

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The Next Evolution Of LEED: V4.1
Monday, September 9
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, 2ND Floor Fort Point Room, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-next-evolution-of-leed-v41-boston-tickets-63436368887
Cost:  $69 – $99

This workshop will provide participants with a look into LEED v4.1 BD+C, ID+C, O+M and the information needed to pursue certification. The focus will be on understanding the goals and outcomes of the LEED v4.1 beta. The newest update to the LEED rating systems, LEED v4.1, addresses lessons learned from LEED v4 project teams, updates performance thresholds and reference standards to ensure LEED remains a global leadership standard, and expands the marketplace for LEED.

In a world that is constantly evolving, one of the hallmarks of LEED is “continuous improvement.” With each new version, LEED raises the bar on the green building industry. The latest version of LEED, LEED v4.1 is the next generation standard for green building design, construction, operations and performance.

During this half-day workshop, USGBC’s technical staff will walk participants through LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C credits including a restructured Materials and Resources section, the addition of a greenhouse gas emissions metric and updated thresholds. The workshop will also touch on the full life cycle of the building, by reviewing LEED Operations and Maintenance and recertification options available to projects and how BD+C and ID+C credits are structured to support ongoing performance.
Course Objectives:
Articulate the main goals of LEED v4.1 technical development
List the requirements of key LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C prerequisites and credits for success
Identify how LEED v4.1 for BD+C and ID+C increases accessibility throughout the rating system and positions LEED to continue to drive market transformation
Identify opportunities for continued building performance through LEED for Operations + Maintenance
Learn about LEED Recertification

Presenter:  Kat Wagenschutz, Director Technical Solutions, U.S. Green Building Council

Credential Maintenance:  This workshop qualifies for 3 LEED Specific BD+C, ID+C, and O+M GBCI Continuing Education Credits.
Registration:  USGBC Individual Members: $69
Non-Members: $99
Note: Non-individual members or non-current individual members who select the member ticket will be invoiced.

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Speaker: Clara Deser
Monday, September 9
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54, Room 915 (Ida Green Lounge) 21 Ames Street, (the tallest building on campus), Cambridge

Editorial Comment:  The PAOC Colloquium runs throughout the academic year and has some of the best people in the world sharing their work on atmospheres, oceans, and climates.

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Rising Power Alliances/Coalitions and U.S. Global Leadership 
Monday, September 9,
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Tuft, Crowe Room (Goddard 310), 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18g99BWhUTCTb_bNKQ9Z-7GFuTO7aLrHp-wMN2dZyXo4/viewform?edit_requested=true

Dr. Mihaela Papa and Dr. Zhen Han
Co-Investigator, Rising Power Alliances project and Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School & Postdoctoral Scholar, Rising Power Alliances project
Are rising powers engaging in alliances/coalitions that challenge the U.S. role in global governance and if so, how? While some argue that China and Russia’s policies are converging and that a new Cold War is on the horizon, others assert that rising power coalitions such as the BRICS group are a temporary fad. During this talk, we will discuss rising powers’ own understanding of alliances/coalitions and introduce empirical approaches to assessing their collaboration on foreign, environmental, defense, and economic policies across multiple international arrangements. This research is a part of the 3-year Minerva Research Initiative-funded project on Rising Power Alliances. We are now hiring four research assistants so please come if you are interested in working with us. 

Light refreshments will be served.  Please contact Sara Rosales (sara.rosales at tufts.edu) if you have any questions. 

Mihaela Papa is a Co-Investigator on the Rising Power Alliances project and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Sustainable Development and Global Governance at Fletcher. She specializes in actor strategies, coalitional behavior and complex negotiations, especially in the context of environmental regulation and rising power diplomacy. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School, she examined India, China and Brazil in international dispute settlement, spent six months in China as a visiting researcher at Fudan’s Center for BRICS Studies and embarked on a BRICS-focused research agenda. Mihaela has published on rising powers and sustainable development diplomacy in Global Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, Chinese Journal of International Politics and many other journals. She is an active practitioner with a lot of experience advising institutions on global strategies and managing international collaborations. In this capacity she has worked at MIT and at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as consulted for the U.S. government, the European Commission, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Originally a trade economist, she completed her MALD and PhD at The Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Zhen (Arc) Han is a Postdoctoral Scholar at CIERP at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. His research interests focus on international economic cooperation, state behaviours of rising powers and the links between international economy and security. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Political Science Department of McGill University. His dissertation “Interdependence, State Decentralization and International Relations: The China Case” uses subnational unit of analysis from the contemporary China case and argues the pacifying effects of economic interdependence are conditioned on the domestic structure of state decentralization. He received his M.A. degree from the University of British Columbia, where he wrote a thesis on “Capitalist Peace Revisited: Can Financial Openness Lead to Peace in the Post-Cold War Era”. He published this article in China’s World Economy and Politics Journal. He also coauthored a book chapter on China-India relations. He also holds a B.A. degree in Political Science and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering. 

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Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellows Talks
Monday, September 9
12:30 - 2pm
Harvard, Gund Hall-112, Stubbins Room, 42-48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Editorial Comment:  The Loeb Fellows are always a great collection of practitioners doing interesting things around the world.  These talks are short introductions each gives about their work and what they intend to do with their fellowships.

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The Confessional Community: Narratives of Violence and Survival in Mexico City’s Anexos
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 9, 2019, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Tozzer Library, Room 203, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Angela Garcia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Moderator: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In the past decade, drug treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico. Run and utilized by the informal working poor, anexos’ therapeutic practices blend violence and religiosity, and are widely condemned as aberrant, ineffective and unethical. Based on several years of ethnographic research in Mexico City, this talk situates anexos within a sociohistorical frame, and explores how they conjure up and rework contemporary forms of affliction. It focuses especially on the role of narrative production (e.g. confession, testimony, bodily discipline), which simultaneously reproduce pervasive images of violence and unnatural death, and disclose projects of communitarian survival that are ethically affirmative. In doing so, this talk suggests that anexos constitute an aesthetics and politics of recovery that calls for a rethinking of the therapeutic.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/confessional-community-narratives-violence-and-survival-mexico-city’s-anexos

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HubWeek Open Doors: Dudley Square
Monday, September 9
4:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Dudley Square, Roxbury
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hubweek-open-doors-dudley-square-tickets-68278445669

Home to shops, restaurants, and the newly revamped Hibernian Hall, Dudley Square is at the heart of the city and the commercial hub of Roxbury. Join us as we celebrate this economic and cultural hotspot and learn about how its community members are working to revitalize the neighborhood while staying true to its roots.

Open Doors, presented by BNY Mellon, is a monthly event series that allows you to experience the innovation happening in different corners of Boston. It’s an opportunity for you to learn and find inspiration in neighborhoods across this vibrant, buzzing city that can sometimes be tricky to navigate.

Connect with other curious, passionate, and creative people – learn about what they’re pursuing and share what you’re working on, too — and leave with solid takeaways to help you pursue your passion. And maybe most importantly, help us strengthen and nurture this unique community so we can build a better future – together.

Building a Culturally Conscious Innovation Economy
4:00 - 5:30 PM | Panel | Black Market, Dudley Square, 2136 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA
What does it mean to innovate consciously? How can we foster economic development while preserving what’s unique and special about a community? What are some ways to create a competitive future for businesses and entrepreneurs while keeping an eye on the past and present? Join panelists and a moderator in a tough discussion that’s relevant to many of Boston’s neighborhoods and communities. There will also be some newly-created recipes from the soon-to-be reopened Haley House for you to try out.
Panelists:
Dan Vidaña, Acting Director, Roxbury Innovation Center
Joelle Jean-Fontaine, Co-Owner & Designer, I am Kreyol, Asst. Director, Fairmount Innovation Lab
Kim Napoli, Director of Diversity, New England Treatment Access, LLC
Nia Evans, Director, Boston Ujima Project
Cierra Peters, Arts & Cultural Organizing Fellow, Boston Ujima Project
Moderated by:  Natalia Urturbey, Director of Small Business, Executive Director, Imagine Boston 2030, City of Boston

Time to Read
4:00 - 6:00 PM | Frugal Bookstore | 57 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA
Head on over to the Frugal Bookstore on your way to our reception and pickup a free copy of Boston Book Festival's One City, One Story for you to pick up while you shop and explore locally owned bookshop. 

Speed Mentoring
6:15 - 7:15 PM | Mentoring | Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, 3rd Floor, Roxbury, MA
Got questions? Speed Mentoring is back and our mentors have the answers! During one-on-one lightning chats, let top entrepreneurs answer you burning questions about innovative and creative business ideas. Space is limited. Registrants will sign up for individual slots upon arrival.
Mentors:
Brigette Wallace, Founder, G|CODE House
Kaidi Grant, Co-Founder, Black Market
Chris Grant, Co-Founder, Black Market
Leonard Egerton, Co-Owner, Frugal Bookstore
Clarrissa Cropper, Co-Owner, Frugal Bookstore
More mentors to be announced soon!

Eat, Drink, & Get Connected
6:00 - 7:30 PM | Gathering | Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, 3rd Floor, Roxbury, MA
Get a special chance to enjoy the newly revamped historic dance hall. Once an Irish-American cultural center, now a gorgeous event space revitalized by the Madison Park Development Corporation, Hibernian Hall is a hip spot for our evening’s entertainment. 
Enjoy complimentary snacks (including empanadas from Fresh Food Generation!), refreshments, and performances curated by Olawumi Akinwumi including Dashawn Borden and theatrical star Lovely Hoffman.

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Rally at Cambridge City Hall for Municipal Broadband
Monday, September 9
4:30pm
Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

For years, the Cambridge City Manager has been exercising a one-man veto over moving forward on Municipal Broadband -- claiming that it is not a priority for the residents of Cambridge. We're not going to take it anymore.

On September 9th, at 4:30PM we will gather on the lawn of City Hall and deliver our message to the City Manager and the City Council: Cambridge is tired of the Comcast monopoly; tired of unreliable access; tired of high costs; and tired of living in a city where 50% of low-income families don't have access to the internet.
We must do better.

We're going to bring a show of force to City Hall and show the City that Cambridge residents do consider broadband a priority. We want every person who has ever had a Comcast complaint; every person who thinks that we deserve better; every person who knows the digital divide is real and Cambridge has the chance to improve it for everyone who lives here.

At the rally, we will be delivering our petition -- signed by more than 1000 Cambridge residents -- demanding the City Manager move forward with Municipal Broadband in Cambridge.  You can sign the petition at https://upgradecambridge.org/petition

Together, we can Upgrade Cambridge to a Better Internet for All.

More information at https://upgradecambridge.org

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Herbert C. Kelman Seminar: How to Bridge the Military-Civilian Divide
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 9, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education, Film, Humanities, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
SPEAKER(S)  Susan Hackley, Co-producer, "Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War;" Managing Director, Program on Negotiation
Martha Jackson, Co-producer, "Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War"
Bonnie Ohye, Director, Family Programs at Home Base; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO	dlong at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Producers Susan Hackley and Martha Jackson will show their new half hour documentary film, "Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War," and discuss with the audience why they made the film, what they have learned about bridging the military-civilian divide, and how America’s military families and children are significantly affected by war. The film uniquely highlights the voices of children who describe their loneliness, fears, and struggles as well as how they cope and demonstrate remarkable strengths. While recognizing that the impact of war is profound and often devastating on the children of war-torn Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, the filmmakers chose to focus on Americans to promote understanding of the impacts of war on Americans who serve and their families, and to help connect our military and civilian communities.
LINK	https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/kelman-seminar-military-civilian-divide/

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Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Technological Revolution, Democratic Recession & Climate Change | Limits of Law in a Changing World
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 9, 2019, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Rubenstein 414AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S)  Luís Roberto Barroso, Carr Center Senior Fellow & Current Justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil
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.
A light dinner will be served.
LINK  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/towards-life-30-ethics-and-technology-21st-century-technological-revolution-democratic

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Mindfulness and Meditation Research Update 
Monday, September 9
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
CHA Central Street Care Center, 26 Central Street, 2nd floor Community Room, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mindfulness-and-meditation-research-update-with-sara-lazar-phd-tickets-71116227551
Cost:  $0 - $30

with Sara Lazar, PhD
Mindfulness is often defined as an open acceptance of current moment experience. We hypothesized that mindful attention creates an optimal condition for exposure to fearful or anxiety provoking stimuli. To test this hypothesis, we randomized people to MBSR or and exercise based stress reduction program and tested how these programs altered people's brain activity during a fear conditioning and extinction protocol. In this talk I will describe how mindfulness training changed the way participants processed the fear stimuli, and how these changes were related to changes in self reported stress and emotion regulation. I will also discuss these finding in relation to anxiety and psychotherapy.

At the end of this event, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the neural mechanisms underlying successful fear extinction and recall.
2. Describe how mindfulness training alters these neural processes.
3. Describe how mindfulness training alters pain processing.

Sara W. Lazar, PhD is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. She is a contributing author to Meditation and Psychotherapy (Guilford Press). She has been practicing yoga and mindfulness meditation since 1994. Her research has been covered by numerous news outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and WebMD, and her work has been featured in a display at the Boston Museum of Science.

More information can be found at https://scholar.harvard.edu/sara_lazar

Continuing Education:
Continuing Education (CE) credits available for psychologists, licensed mental health counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and nurses. Please see details at http://meditationandpsychotherapy.org/lecture-series. 
Fees:
Suggested donation for general attendance is $15. CE credits are available for a fee of $30. We don't want cost to be a barrier to anyone, so please choose "Pay what you can" for reduced-price tickets. Please click the Green 'Tickets' button to register. 
Directions:
The Community Room is located at 26 Central Street, Somerville, MA 02143 on the second floor of the CHA Central Street Care Center.

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Extinction Rebellion Sharing Circle
Monday, September 9
7 p.m.
Online through Zoom
RSVP at https://zoom.us/j/562529056

All are welcome as we sit with each other's feelings on the ecological crisis and this huge adventure we're on together. On Zoom from 7:00-8:00pm.

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The Education of an Idealist:  A Memoir
Monday, September 9
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost:  $8.00  - $32.00 (book included) 

Harvard Book Store welcomes SAMANTHA POWER—Harvard professor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations—for a discussion of her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist.

About The Education of an Idealist
What can one person do? At a time of upheaval and division, Samantha Power offers an urgent response to this question—and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives.

The Education of an Idealist brings a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits, and shrewd political insight. It traces Power’s distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign.

After Obama was elected president, Power went from being an activist outsider to a government insider, navigating the halls of power while trying to put her ideals into practice. She served for four years as Obama’s human rights adviser, and in 2013, he named her US Ambassador to the United Nations, the youngest American to assume the role.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. Humorous and deeply honest, The Education of an Idealist lays bare the searing battles and defining moments of her life and shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with the challenge of raising two young children. Along the way, she illuminates the intricacies of politics and geopolitics, reminding us how the United States can lead in the world, and why we each have the opportunity to advance the cause of human dignity.

Power’s memoir is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism—and of one person’s fierce determination to make a difference.

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Nationalism: a Short History
Monday, September 9
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/liah-greenfeld-nationalism-a-short-history-tickets-67493660355

“We need a nation,” declared a certain Grouvelle in the revolutionary year of 1789, “and the Nation will be born.”-from Nationalism

Nationalism, often the scourge, always the basis of modern world politics, is spreading. In a way, all nations are willed into being. But a simple declaration, such as Grouvelle’s, is not enough. As historian Liah Greenfeld shows in her new book, a sense of nation—nationalism—is the product of the complex distillation of ideas and beliefs, and the struggles over them. Greenfeld takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the origins of the concept “nation” and how national consciousness has changed over the centuries. From its emergence in sixteenth century England, nationalism has been behind nearly every significant development in world affairs over succeeding centuries, including the American and French revolutions of the late eighteenth centuries and the authoritarian communism and fascism of the twentieth century. Now it has arrived as a mass phenomenon in China as well as gaining new life in the United States and much of Europe in the guise of populism.

About the Author:  Called "one of the most original thinkers of the current period" and "the great historian of Nationalism," Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology at Boston University, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is the author of "Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience" (Harvard University Press, 2013) and other books about modern society and culture, including the ground-breaking "Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity" (Harvard University Press, 1992) and "The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth" (Harvard University Press, 2001; Donald Kagan Best Book in European History Prize). Greenfeld has been a recipient of the UAB Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award, fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, and grants from Mellon, Olin, Earhart, The National Council for Soviet & East European Research, and The German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2004, she delivered the Gellner Lecture at the London School of Economics on the subject of "Nationalism and the Mind," launching the research connecting her previous work on modern culture to a new perspective on mental illness.

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Long-term Loonshots: The Science of Phase Transitions and World History
Monday, September 9
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Venture Cafe at the Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Kendall Square, Cambridge
RSVP at https://loonshots.eventbrite.com
Cost: $15.00

Doors open @ 6pm -- Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers
Presentations start @ 7pm

A Long Now Boston Conversation with Safi Bahcall, Author of Loonshots (2019).

Cool a fluid the right amount and very interesting things begin happening in the phase transition between liquid and solid. Structures begin to proliferate yet energy and information continues to flow, sometimes with far greater efficiency. The same concept applies to human institutions. In the best, creative inspiration flows quickly and innovations proliferate, unimpeded by rigid hierarchies and processes. Yet when a winning innovation appears, the institution draws on those strengths and quickly drives innovations to scale.

Safi refers to these two phases as Loonshot and Franchise, and he argues that both are essential, yet the tension between them is remarkably difficult to sustain. The most momentous transformations in history were loonshots that almost failed.

The most advanced global empires coming into the second millennium - China, Islam, and India - were well positioned for, but completely missed, the scientific revolution that swept through post-feudal Europe. Why? Because Europe was in a liquid phase and served as home to a succession of loonshot nurseries that would never have survived under imperial hegemony.

So what do our institutions, including governments, businesses, non-profits --- even our nascent Long Now organizations --- need to do to sustain this loonshot capacity? Are the hugely successful capitalist franchises and dominant global superpowers still fluid enough to continue promoting loonshot nurseries?

Come join the conversation with Safi Bahcall, author of Loonshots, and other Long Now Boston enthusiasts. Be a part of the solution.

NOTE: Loonshots will be available for sale before and after the presentation and Safi will be happy to sign them. https://www.bahcall.com/book/

Among the questions the speaker will address:
Why did modern science ignite in 17th-century Western Europe when China, Islam, and India had been so much more advanced for 1,000 years?
How does understanding the behavior we see in a glass of water help us understand the fate of companies and empires?
How can we use these insights to help our institutions shape the next 1,000 or 10,000 years?

Join the conversation and be part of the solution.
$15 in advance // $20 at the door. Students w/ID admitted free.

Audience participation is encouraged.

If Eventbrite tickets sell out, seating for walk-ups will unlikely be available due to room size.

About the speaker:
Safi Bahcall is a second-generation physicist (the son of two astrophysicists) and a biotech entrepreneur. He received his BA summa cum laude from Harvard and his PhD in physics from Stanford. After working for three years as a consultant for McKinsey, Safi co-founded a biotechnology company developing new drugs for cancer. He led its IPO and served as its CEO for 13 years. In 2008, he was named E&Y New England Biotechnology Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011, he worked with President Obama’s council of science advisors (PCAST) on the future of national research. He lives with his wife and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We’re proud and excited to welcome Safi to the Long Now Boston community.

Cambridge Innovation Center is an in-kind sponsor of this Long
Now Boston conversation. We are very grateful for their support.

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Science and Cooking Public Lecture: 10 Year Anniversary Lecture
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 9, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S)  Dave Arnold, Author of "Liquid Intelligence," host of "Cooking Issues," and founder of the Museum of Food and Drink
Harold McGee, Author of "On Food and Cooking" and "Curious Cook”
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	science_cooking at harvard.edu
DETAILS  This presentation is part of the 2019 Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series, which pairs Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques.
LINK  https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/08/2019-science-and-cooking-lecture-series-offers-global-sampling-of-culinary-creativity

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Soundwalk
Tuesday, September 10
9:45 am-11:45 am
BU, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at  http:/bit.ly/soundwalk-boston

A bonus event! Daniel Steele will host a soundwalk on the morning of the seminar, September 10. It will depart from Symphony Hall and end at the Initiative on Cities in time for the seminar. The soundwalk is primarily an active listening activity. During our sound walk, we will use the NoiseScore Research App*, which will allow you to measure sound levels, rate your perception of them, and visualize your results in real-time.

No expertise in sound is required to participate in this event. The walk will be approximately 2 miles outdoors. Please wear appropriate attire. Please make sure to inform us of any special accommodations you may require

Lunch provided

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Building a Better City: A Conversation with Mayor Steve Benjamin
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  The Leadership Studio, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Voices in Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S)  Steve Benjamin, Mayor, Columbia, South Carolina
Jeffrey Sanchez, Former Massachusetts state representative; former Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  RSVP to ATTEND:  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9NB78NxAAw31g1L
CONTACT INFO	voices at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Live webcast will be streamed on this page on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 at 12 p.m. ET.
No registration is required to watch the live stream online. An on-demand video will be posted here after the event.
Members of the Harvard community may attend in person. If you wish to attend, RSVP to the lottery. Harvard ID or Harvard-affiliate ID required to attend.
LINK  https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/steve-benjamin-mayor-columbia-south-carolina/

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BERKMAN KLEIN LUNCHEON SERIES: Tech be Governed?
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, Room 2036, Second Floor, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Information Technology, Law, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
SPEAKER(S)  Johnathan Zittrain
COST  Free - RSVP Required
TICKET WEB LINK  https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/can-tech-be-governed
DETAILS  The 20-odd year mainstream digital revolution has transformed in the public eye from one of promise to threat. This pessimism is reflected in assessments of the latest pervasive technology: AI generally, and machine learning specifically. How different is this technology from what preceded it, and do we need new ways to govern it? If so, how would they come about?
LINK	https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/can-tech-be-governed (also URL for the livestream of the event)

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Technology, the First Amendment and Resisting Government Regulation
Tuesday, September 10
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Northeastern, 120 Knowles Conference Room, 416 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Featuring Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Professor Alan Rozenshtein joined University of Minnesota Law School in 2017 as a visiting professor and in summer 2019 continued as an Associate Professor of Law. He is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network and from 2018-2019 was an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. From October 2014 to April 2017, he served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the US Department of Justice, where his work focused on operational, legal and policy issues relating to cybersecurity and foreign intelligence. From October 2016 to April 2017, he served as a special assistant United States attorney for the District of Maryland. During this time he taught cybersecurity at Georgetown Law.

Light refreshments will be served

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The Sounds of Boston & Beyond: Hearing the Sonic Dimension of Cities
Tuesday, September 10 
12 pm-1:30 pm
BU, 75 Bay State Road, Boston 
RSVP at http://bit.ly/sounds-of-boston

How does the urban sound environment influence how we use and understand cities? Noise can negatively impact our mental and physical health, but can sound also promote our sense of well-being? And what efforts have been done to shape and manage the future of urban sound?

Speakers:
Erica Walker, Boston University
Edda Bild, University of Amsterdam
Daniel Steele, McGill University

Lunch provided

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Tuesday Seminar Series: Strategies of Redistribution. The Left and the Popular Sectors in Latin America
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, Room S216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Andrés Schipani, Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, Ph.D. student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The study analyzes the different redistributive strategies adopted by presidents during Latin America’s Left turn in the 2000s. Through a comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, it looks at the amount of control leftist presidents had over the left movement to explain different strategies of redistribution of both income and power to the popular sectors. Counter-intuitively, the less control presidents have over the Left movement, the greater the redistribution.
The Tuesday Seminar Series is a bring your own brown bag lunch series. Please feel free to enjoy your lunch at the lecture, drinks will be provided.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/strategies-redistribution-left-and-popular-sectors-latin-america

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Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellows Talks
Tuesday, September 10
12:30 - 2pm
Harvard, Gund Hall-112, Stubbins Room, 42-48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Editorial Comment:  The Loeb Fellows are always a great collection of practitioners doing interesting things around the world.  These talks are short introductions each gives about their work and what they intend to do with their fellowships.

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Book Talk: Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Health Sciences, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S)  Dov Fox, Herzog Endowed Scholar; Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law; Director of the Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics, University of San Diego School of Law
I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
Louise P. King, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School
Katherine L. Kraschel, Lecturer in Law, Clinical Lecturer in Law, Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School; executive director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egaw096ha8e15308&oseq=&c=&ch=
CONTACT INFO	Kaitlyn Dowling
kdowling at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Join author Dov Fox and an expert panel as they discuss his new book "Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law" (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Panelists will explore the ways in which the book seeks to lift the curtain on reproductive negligence, give voice to the lives it upends, and vindicate the interests that advances in medicine and technology bring to full expression. They will also examine the book's effort to force citizens and courts to rethink the reproductive controversies of our time, and to equip us to meet the new challenges — from womb transplants to gene editing — that lie just over the horizon.
LINK  https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/book-talk-birth-rights-and-wrongs

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Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: The Dismantling of Democracy - Brazil, India, and Turkey
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wexner 434AB79, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S)  Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, Carr Center Senior Fellow & Justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil
Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Carr Center Fellow & Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University
Salil Shetty, Carr Center Senior Fellow & Former Secretary General of Amnesty International
DETAILS  The Carr Center’s Human Rights in Hard Places talk series offers unparalleled insights and analysis from the frontlines by human rights practitioners, policy makers, and innovators. Moderated by Sushma Raman, the series highlights current day human rights and humanitarian concerns such as human rights in North Korea, migration on the US-Mexico border, and the dismantling of democracy.
Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, and Salil Shetty will serve on a panel titled, "The Dismantling of Democracy: Brazil, India, and Turkey"
Please note this event is off-the-record.
LINK  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights-hard-places-speaker-seriesthe-dismantling-democracy-brazil-india-and-turkey

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Northern Ireland and Globalism: What does Brexit mean for the future of Northern Ireland
Tuesday, September 10
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
2125 Commonwealth Avenue, Creagh Library, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-ireland-and-globalism-what-does-brexit-mean-for-the-future-of-northern-ireland-tickets-67498731523

Join us as we host a fireside chat with Dr. Andrew McCormick, Director General, International Relations, Northern Ireland Civil Service, and a small delegation from the Northern Ireland Bureau. 

Dr. McCormick has worked in the Northern Ireland Civil Service since 1980. Having served in the Departments of Education, Finance, Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Dr. McCormick was appointed in February 2018 to led the Northern Ireland Civil Service contributions to the Brexit negotiations.

Reception begins at 5:00pm with light refreshments prior to the fireside chat from 5:30-6:30.

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Into a Daybreak: Eve Ewing and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on thinking and writing through black feminism
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT	Forum
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT  Askwith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM  Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME  Donor and Alumni Relations
CONTACT EMAIL  askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT	Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
ADMISSION FEE	This event is free and open to the public.
FEATURED EVENT  Askwith Forums
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
DETAILS	Speaker: Eve Ewing, Ed.M. '13, Ed.D. '16, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. 
Discussant: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Ed.D.’72, Emily Hargroves Fisher Research Professor of Education, HGSE 
Writer and sociologist Eve L. Ewing creates work in multiple genres and forms: academic writing and scholarship, teaching, cultural organizing, poetry, comic books, and fiction. But one thing that unites all of her works is the underlying thread of black feminism. In this forum, Ewing and her former doctoral advisor, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, discuss the influence of black feminist ideas on Ewing’s work in multiple arenas and consider the ways all of us might learn, grow, care for ourselves and each other, and challenge systems of power through the radical potential of these ideas.
We invite you to attend the Ed School’s signature public lecture series which highlights leaders in the field, shares new knowledge, generates spirited conversation, and offers insight into the highest priority challenges facing education.
**Seating is first come, first seated.
To receive the Askwith Forums e-newsletter for up-to-date information,
please sign up at gse.harvard.edu/askwith

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Stone Social Impact Forum with Geoffrey Canada
Tuesday, September 10
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Columbia Point, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stone-social-impact-forum-tickets-68522559821

Innovative education leader Geoffrey Canada, president and founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, is the inaugural speaker for the Stone Social Impact Forum, a new signature series highlighting civic change agents who advance social change and innovatively address areas of inequality in our society.
Geoffrey Canada will share the journey of Harlem Children’s Zone and discuss how equal access to a quality education is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Canada will also participate in a conversation around his theory of change, the importance of youth engagement, and his vision for how each person can positively contribute to their communities and civic life.

Geoffrey Canada is the President and Founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc. Under his visionary leadership and 20+ years with the organization, Harlem Children’s Zone has become a national model that The New York Times called “one of the most ambitious social-policy experiments of our time.” Canada was driven to help children who, like himself, were disadvantaged by their neighborhoods and felt that helping them find inspiration in education would make all the difference in their lives. His work has received significant media attention and he is the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. He is also the author of two books, including Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in Americaand Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America.

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Authors at MIT | Leah Plunkett: Sharenthood Book Launch
Tuesday, September 10
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Please join the MIT Press Bookstore in celebrating author Leah Plunkett's book launch for Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online.

Our children's first digital footprints are made before they can walk—even before they are born—as parents use fertility apps to aid conception, post ultrasound images, and share their baby's hospital mug shot. Then, in rapid succession come terabytes of baby pictures stored in the cloud, digital baby monitors with built-in artificial intelligence, and real-time updates from daycare. When school starts, there are cafeteria cards that catalog food purchases, bus passes that track when kids are on and off the bus, electronic health records in the nurse's office, and a school surveillance system that has eyes everywhere. Unwittingly, parents, teachers, and other trusted adults are compiling digital dossiers for children that could be available to everyone—friends, employers, law enforcement—forever. In this incisive book, Leah Plunkett examines the implications of “sharenthood”—adults' excessive digital sharing of children's data. She outlines the mistakes adults make with kids' private information, the risks that result, and the legal system that enables “sharenting.”

Plunkett describes various modes of sharenting—including “commercial sharenting,” efforts by parents to use their families' private experiences to make money—and unpacks the faulty assumptions made by our legal system about children, parents, and privacy. She proposes a “thought compass” to guide adults in their decision making about children's digital data: play, forget, connect, and respect. Enshrining every false step and bad choice, Plunkett argues, can rob children of their chance to explore and learn lessons. The Internet needs to forget. We need to remember.

Leah Plunkett is Associate Dean for Administration, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, and Director of Academic Success at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She is Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

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Brexit: What's Next?
Tuesday, September 10
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brexit-whats-next-tickets-70150815979

Panelists including Gerard Baker, editor at large at The Wall Street Journal, Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns, Harvard professor of diplomacy and international relations, and Karen Donfried, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, discuss current developments in the Brexit process. 

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Beyond ROI: Ways to Measure Impact on Society
Tuesday, September 10
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
CIC Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-roi-ways-to-measure-impact-on-society-registration-69930168015

What exactly is your business investing in?

Beyond just measuring impact, this panel will explore different ways to measure the consequences of business initiatives - both the intentional and the unintentional, the intended, good contributions to society and the negative, adverse consequences that one should be aware of. We'll focus on narratives from panelists with actual tangible ideas for how to look beyond just ROI and value more diverse metrics and ethics.
Located in Meridian, on Floor Five of CIC Boston

Sponsored by Impact Hub Boston
Learn more about us at zephyr.business

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Commercializing your Idea: Tales from the Front Lines
Tuesday, September 10
6:00 pm –  8:30 pm
Pepper Hamilton, 125 High Street, 19th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/commercializing-your-idea-tales-from-the-front-lines/

Start; pivot; stop; re-start… exit? Sound familiar? The path from idea to commercialization and beyond is rarely a straight one.

You will come away from this event with a greater understanding of the following:
Strategies for making your business idea a reality
Expecting the unexpected obstacles
Factors that drive decisions for technology licensing, raising capital and exit events
Timing considerations for partnering and patenting
Please join us for a panel discussion featuring three remarkable entrepreneurs who will share some of the lessons that they learned as they took their ideas from concept to market.

Moderator
Dan Sieck, Associate, Pepper Hamilton LLP
Panelists
Dr. Jill S. Becker, CEO, Kebotix
Manish Bhardwaj, CEO, Innovators In Health
Andrew Gordon, CEO, DealerScience (acquired by TrueCar)

Agenda
6:00-6:30pm Registration
6:30-7:30pm Panel Discussion
7:30-8:30pm Networking with refreshments

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Be Heard! Great Ways to Take Effective Action
Tuesday, September 10
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Venture Cafe - Cambridge Innovation Center, 5th Floor, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
Cost:  $8 – $12

At our May BASG event, we came together as a community to group brainstorm shovel-ready ideas for Massachusetts to implement the Green New Deal. Now it's time to tap into your inner activist and find your way toward taking action. In September, we bring together several organizations that are very effective at getting things done to share different ways to get heard - to champion forward your ideas or the great work of others.

EXTINCTION REBELLION Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. In his book Falter, Bill McKibben calls non-violent resistent one of the two key technologies critical in addressing the climate crisis. We welcome the Boston chapter to tell us how we can engage in civil disobedience. 

MOTHERS OUT FRONT has made great headway on many fronts. For this event they'll focus on "Reaching Beyond the Choir - Engaging Neighbors and Friends in Climate Advocacy". One of the things they take pride in -- and the reason for their existence -- is to build an ever-widening constituency of "regular moms" who are willing to take action and hold our decision makers accountable. They do this by knocking on doors, holding house parties, discussion circles, one-to-one meetings over coffee, movie screenings, Green Living Tours and more. 

BETTER FUTURE PROJECT and 350 MASSACHUSETTS are active on many fronts. Joining us will be Larry Rosenberg, active in 350 MA and Elders Climate Action. He helps coordinate a letters-to-the-editor team. Larry will tell us how to write effective letters to the editor and why they matter. 

Claire Mueller of TOXICS ACTION CENTER will talk about how to be active in our local communities to drive policy change. Claire is the Lead Community Organizer and Climate Justice Director at Toxics Action Center. In that role, Claire provides organizing support, facilitation and training to more than thirty grassroots groups teaching community leaders to plan winning campaigns, hone their message and materials, build their group, fundraise, garner media attention and more. Claire is a founder and co-coordinator of the statewide coalition of more than 150 groups working to further climate justice policy and foster local clean energy campaigns.

We've invited others to talk to us about how to run for office, how to get the attention of policy-makers, and what highly-effective protesting tactics look like.

Join us for another great BASG line-up! Carol, Holly, Tilly, Eric & Amy

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Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Meeting
Tuesday, September 10
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moms-demand-action-for-gun-sense-in-america-meeting-tickets-70505749595

Join us to take action to prevent gun violence! Learn about what you can do to make a difference and help end gun violence.

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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
Tuesday, September 10
6:30 p.m.
Encuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/2019-09-10-new-member-orientation/

If you are new to XR or would just like to learn more about how it works, please come to our next new member orientation session. We will cover the following:
Where did XR come from? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What is the extinction rebellion about? What do we want?
What are our principles and values? What brings us together?
How are we organized? What are working groups & affinity groups?
Come out and meet some of our local XRebels and learn how you can get involved!

The session will run for around 90 minutes.

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Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Samuel Bravo, "“PROJECTLESS: on the emergence of a dwell”
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Samuel Bravo
CONTACT INFO	Harvard University Graduate School of Design
DETAILS  This journey focuses on a portion of the human environment that has been shaped in the absence of project.
We will revisit the track record of a journey that consisted of excursions, visits and short residencies. The construction of the communal house of the matsés people poses the question of dwelling and being and the emergence of the human environment in relation with language.
The symbiotic and contradictory relation observed in several informal areas, from the flooded slum of Belén Bajo in Iquitos, to Korail in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a larger formal urban setup raises questions about the nature of informality, while revealing the belonging to larger cultural and territorial systems. Bravo traced back this relation from Lima to Andamarca in the Andes where the ancient agricultural terraces and irrigation system are still sustained by the traditional andean cooperative organization. Bravo followed this territorial engagement up to the floating communities of the Mekong delta and the tidal flooded city of Afuá in the mouth of the Amazon river.
Informality, otherwise understood as the people’s shared ability of creating the city, is harnessed by ‘community architects’ as a tool for creating and improving the built environment. Bravo observed these working methods and toolsets in both the Cerros of Lima and the city of Jhennaidah in Bangladesh.
Based on these experiences, Bravo will propose an interpretation on how the emergence of a dwell comes to life out of nature and in front of us. Through different cases we will observe the persistence of this primeval emanation of the human environment as a contemporary everyday experience.
LINK  https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/samuel-bravo-projectless-on-the-emergence-of-a-dwell/

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BostonCHI Hosts Amy Bucher - The Psychology of Engagement: How to Design for Behavior Change
Tuesday, September 10
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Audible, 101 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostonchi-hosts-amy-bucher-the-psychology-of-engagement-how-to-design-for-behavior-change-tickets-68439455253

Digital health has so much promise for scalable, affordable, and personalized interventions that improve people’s lives. But so far, digital health designers have struggled with getting people to use-and keep using-the interventions they build. What’s missing? The marriage of behavior change science and the design process. In this presentation, we’ll talk about how to make a digital health experience “sticky” by infusing it with support for people’s basic psychological needs. Research on motivation can guide the design of effective and engaging interventions that finally live up to the promise of digital health.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Amy Bucher, Ph.D., is the Behavior Change Design Director at Mad*Pow in Boston. Amy focuses on crafting engaging and motivating solutions that help people change behavior, especially related to health, wellness, learning, and financial well-being. Previously she worked with CVS Health as a Senior Strategist for their Digital Specialty Pharmacy, and with Johnson & Johnson Health and Wellness Solutions Group as Associate Director of Behavior Science. Amy spent many years designing and product managing digital health coaching programs such as health risk assessments, chronic health management programs, behavioral health interventions, medication/therapy adherence, and wellness programs. Amy received her A.B. magna cum laude in psychology from Harvard University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Amy is the author of the upcoming Rosenfeld Media book Engaged: Psychology for Digital Product Design.

SCHEDULE
6:30 – 7:00 Networking over food and beverages 
7:00 – 8:30 Meeting 
8:30 – 9:00 CHI Dessert and more networking!

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Inconspicuous Consumption:  The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
Tuesday, September 10
7pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes journalist and former New York Times Science Writer TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG for a discussion of her debut book, Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have.

About Inconspicuous Consumption
With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time, lurking everywhere in our convenience-driven society, all without our realizing it.

By examining the unseen and unconscious environmental impacts in four areas—the Internet and technology, food, fashion, and fuel—Schlossberg helps readers better understand why climate change is such a complicated issue, and how it connects all of us: how streaming a movie on Netflix in New York burns coal in Virginia; how eating a hamburger in California might contribute to pollution in the Gulf of Mexico; how buying an inexpensive cashmere sweater in Chicago expands the Mongolian desert; how destroying forests from North Carolina is necessary to generate electricity in England.

Cataloging the complexities and frustrations of our carbon-intensive society with a dry sense of humor, Schlossberg makes the climate crisis and its solutions interesting and relevant to everyone who cares, even a little, about the planet. She empowers readers to think about their stuff and the environment in a new way, helping them make more informed choices when it comes to the future of our world.

Most importantly, this is a book about the power we have as voters and consumers to make sure that the fight against climate change includes all of us and all of our stuff, not just industry groups and politicians. If we have any hope of solving the problem, we all have to do it together.

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Tim Desmond - "How to Stay Human in a F*cked-Up World"
Tuesday, September 10
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tim-desmond-how-to-stay-human-in-a-fcked-up-world-tickets-67496859925

HOW CAN WE BE MORE MINDFUL WHEN THE WORLD IS THIS F*CKED UP

Tim Desmond--an esteemed Buddhist philosopher who has lectured on psychology at Yale and leads a mental health project at Google--offers a path to self-growth, connection, and joy like we've never seen before.

Despite an absent father, childhood homelessness, and losing a wife to cancer, Desmond has emerged with not only inner strength and joyful resilience, but also a deep understanding of human suffering necessary to advocate for those hurting all over the world. Through his work, Desmond realized the truth: we don't need a mindfulness practice for productivity or sleep, and it shouldn't come from religion, philosophy, or hypothetical situations. Instead, mindfulness should be rooted in the pain, sadness, loneliness, and trauma of the here and now, because it is the only true antidote for this sometimes-miserable world we call home. 

About the Author:  TIMOTHY AMBROSE DESMOND is a Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Antioch University, teaching professional psychology rooted in self-compassion. He currently co-leads a team at Google working to offer affordable, accessible emotional support to individuals around the world. After a troubled youth, Desmond was exposed to the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and eventually studied at Plum Village. Desmond was also a co-organizer of Occupy Wall Street.

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Diversity is not Just the Differences You Like, A Talk by Eboo Patel
Tuesday, September 10
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
40 Leon Street, Cabral Center, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diversity-is-not-just-the-differences-you-like-a-talk-by-eboo-patel-tickets-69987351051

All are welcome for this Keynote Address and Book Signing, followed by Refreshments.
Diversity is not Just the Differences You Like: Multicultural Leadership in a Global Age

We live in an era where people choose sides and prepare for battle. What would it look like to be a leader who sought the well-being of the whole – both people you identify with, and people you don’t; people you agree with, and people you don’t; people on this side of the line, and people on the other side. What would it mean to engage in multicultural and interfaith work with the recognition that diversity is not just the differences you like? In this talk, Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core, will draw on inspiring examples from American history and religious traditions to show how we can build a country where all people thrive. The best symbol for this is not a melting pot, but a potluck dinner. After all, a diverse democracy does not benefit from endless sameness, but upon the various gifts that its diverse people bring. If people don’t contribute, the nation doesn’t feast. The task of the leader is to inspire participation.

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Food Literacy Project OPEN MEETING: Intro to HUDS with Crista Martin & David Davidson
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Smith Campus Center, Isaacson Room, Collaborative Commons, 2nd Floor, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Food Literacy Project
SPEAKER(S)  David Davidson, Managing Director
Crista Martin, Director for Strategic Initiatives & Communications
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true
CONTACT INFO	foodliteracy at harvard.edu
DETAILS  Looking to learn more about food systems? Want to hear from local food business owners, farmers, activists, chefs, writers, professors, historians? The Food Literacy Project is a great way to engage in food education on Harvard's campus, whether it's through a guest speaker presentation, a field trip or a cooking class. FLP is HUDS' food education initiative, and we're thrilled to kick off the new school year with an introduction to HUDS with Managing Director, David Davidson, and Director for Strategic Initiatives & Communications, Crista Martin. Find out what it takes to provide students with 22,000 meals day!
LINK  https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true

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Wednesday, September 11
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Meeting: Solar + Storage; DC-Coupled Standalone Facilities
Wednesday, September 11
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, One South Station, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-solar-storage-dc-coupled-standalone-facilities-tickets-69430182545

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The Neurobiology of Trauma with Dr. Jim Hopper, PhD
Wednesday, September 11
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Cambridge Police Department, Academy Classroom, 125 6th Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-neurobiology-of-trauma-with-dr-jim-hopper-phd-tickets-68802950477

Join us for a lecture on The Neurobiology of Trauma with nationally-recognized lecturer Dr. Jim Hopper

Why don't many people fight or yell when they're being raped?
Why are memories of sexual assault so often fragmentary and confusing?
Is the brain’s response to attack essentially the same – controlled by the defense/fear circuitry, running on reflexes and habits – during sexual assault, physical assault, and military combat?

The answers have big implications for people who've been sexually assaulted, for those who investigate and prosecute such crimes, and for everyone else who knows or works with someone who's been sexually assaulted.

Please join the Cambridge Police Department, in partnership with the Cambridge Sexual Assault Response team, for a lecture on the neurobiology of trauma with Dr. Jim Hopper, PhD. Dr. Hopper will discuss how brain responses to sexual assault shape victims’ experiences, behaviors and memories, and the implications for eliciting accurate memories and testimony. More about Dr. Hopper: https://www.jimhopper.com/

Registration is required for all attendees. Please bring photo ID.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Arlen Weiner (aweiner at cambridgema.gov)

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Individual freedom versus the hidden persuaders
Wednesday, September 11
10AM – 6PM
BU, Hillel Center, 213 Bay State Road, Boston

Many policy experts support socially engineered nudging, that is, have governments use a set subtle behavior reward algorithms to control people’s behavior for socially desirable outcomes. Yet the utilitarian attractiveness of such an undertaking obscures the implications for individual freedom and human choice. Cultivated among others by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, the idea of nudging is often seen as a way to produce positive social outcomes without the reliance on formal regulations and policing. Yet the fact that the process is often below the level of clear observability by the people being nudged raises important questions about the role of manipulation and, even more, potentially morally compromised governmental authority. Beyond the immediate philosophical and free will implications are the questions concerning what would happen when these techniques are taken to an extreme. There are many questions about the cost of dissent in today’s society as measured in ruined lives of those who fell out with social media activists. We must ask what it means to allow oneself to be “nudged” “for one’s own good”, i.e., how one is allowing oneself to be shaped by “soft” governmental and other programs. The implications for democratic practices, not to mention individual choices, are obvious.

We don’t necessarily need to speculate about this question as the government of the People’s Republic of China is already going about implementing such a program, with few limits. If practically all dimensions of one’s life becomes a universal Skinner Box, which seems to be the ambition of elements within China’s government and their “visionary” counterparts the US and elsewhere, what can we say about free choice and individualism (and even personal character and a sense of community) under these circumstances?

The intersection of these practices, increasingly on a global scale, is an algorithmically guided experiment in human behavior and social control without precedent in human history. It places us squarely at a crossroad. The direction that we as a civilization take has grave implications for intellectual inquiry across the humanities and beyond, reaching into the realms of computer science, political equality, privacy, ecology, and individual rights and autonomy.

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Sustainability/Bike/Light Fair
Wednesday, September 11 
11:00am to 2:00pm
Northeastern, Snell Library Quad, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston

10th annual Sustainability/Bike/Light Fair event! Please join us! Did you know Northeastern has a Sustainability Office and full program underway? Stop by for sustainability/bike safety/energy efficient lamp giveaways. Bring up to 10 old incandescent or halogen lamps and get a FREE LED! Minor bike repairs and registration, bike safety giveaways, multiple campus offices and student groups will provide sustainability-related information. Bring your own bottle! Grab some delicious snacks. 

RAIN DATE: SEPT. 26, 2019. 

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It's Coming from Inside the House: The Greatest Challenges to America's National Security is Happening at Home, Not Over There
Wednesday, September 11
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Michael Cohen (Boston Globe)
Today, the world is safer, freer, wealthier, better educated, and healthier than any point in human history. Meanwhile, the greatest threat to Americans, to our our quality of life, and to the nation's long-term economic competitiveness is coming from issues that rarely figure into national security debates: access to health care, crumbling infrastructure, gun violence, the opioid epidemic, and political paralysis. On September 11th, Michael Cohen will discuss his new book Clear and Present Safety, which highlights America's misplaced attention on improbable foreign threats and calls for a re-orientiaton of U.S. grand strategy to focus on the actual and preventable domestic challenges that are not only harming Americans at home but eroding U.S power from the inside.

Security Studies Program Wednesday Seminar

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Climate Change and Cities
Wednesday, September 11
12:00pm to 2:00pm
MIT,  Building 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEiANGrVur22uLHa9IjHraNvNc85bIQanWo8_gUHTNMrK9MQ/viewform

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 presentation 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).

Please RSVP

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Greenland in a Changing Arctic
WHEN  Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2019, 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR  Arctic Initiative
SPEAKER(S)  Ane Lone Bagger, Minister of Education, Culture, Church, and Foreign Affairs, Greenland
CONTACT INFO  brittany_janis at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS	Lunch provided.
RSVP to brittany_janis at hks.harvard.edu by 4 p.m. Sept. 6. 
Open to Harvard faculty, fellows, staff, and students
LINK  https://www.belfercenter.org/event/greenland-changing-arctic

Greenland, the world's biggest island, has long held a strategic geographic and political position in global affairs. It has made headlines recently, after President Donald Trump stated he wanted to buy the island, because of its strategic location in the Arctic and its wealth of natural resources. Greenland's foreign minister, Ane Lone Bagger, had told Reuters: "We are open for business, but we’re not for sale."

Join the Arctic Initiative for an insightful lunch with Greenland's Minister of Education, Culture, Church and Foreign Affairs, Ane Lone Bagger, about how Greenland is responding to the shifting dynamics in the Arctic as climate change is transforming the island and the waters surrounding it, opening up the region to the outside world.

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Meeting: Solar + Storage; AC-Coupled Facilities
Wednesday, September 11
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, One South Station, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-solar-storage-ac-coupled-facilities-tickets-69433017023

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How increasing equity in the science classroom drives social change
Wednesday, September 11
2:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Building 6-104 The Chipman Room, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Dr. Cissy Ballen will describe large-scale experimental and observational efforts across institution types and geographic regions that show how certain features of the introductory science classroom create barriers for historically underserved students. This explanation for observed performance disparities, the “course deficit model”, considers the negative impact of environmental conditions on student learning and participation. Dr. Ballen will demonstrate how some of these barriers can be mitigated by instructional and institutional choices that promote the academic excellence for all students across science disciplines. 

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xTalk: Taylor Freeman on "Platform Shifts: From the Internet, to Mobile, to Immersive"
Wednesday, September 11
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 3-133 33 Massachusetts Avenue (rear), Cambridge

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation about the coming wave of immersive learning. Like the internet, personal computing and mobile, immersive devices like virtual and augmented reality are poised to yet again transform the way our world learns. Imagine being able to teleport to the colosseum in Rome to learn history, to the scale of an atom to learn chemistry, or simply to a virtual theater to watch a presentation from the best professors at MIT... all from anywhere in the world. With virtual reality, this becomes possible.

In this xTalk we will cover a brief history of the technology platform shifts that have driven the evolution of distance learning, review the current state of immersive technology, explore some ideas around where things might head in the future and ponder some of the philosophical and practical questions we will need to ask on the journey to get there.

Taylor Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Axon Park, a virtual campus where students from around the world can learn together in VR. He has been working at the intersection of VR and education over the last five years during which time he established two incubation spaces in LA and San Francisco housing over 150 AR and AI startups, hosted over 500 events focused around VR and AR, oversaw the training of nearly 1,000 students in-person on VR development, consulted with companies like NASA, Stanford Medical, Google, and IDEO and built a news media platform focused on VR that reaches millions of people per month. Taylor was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 for his work building the industry and he taught the first remote in-VR class with the MIT media lab in October 2018. He is deeply passionate about using VR to unlock new levels of human cognition and overcome the challenges many students face in the classroom around geographical limitations, student and teacher bias, and overall accessibility.

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Panel Discussion: The Future of Computational Materials Science and Engineering
Wednesday, September 11
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 1-190, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

This discussion is part of a 3-day mini-summit through DMSE. Please join us on Sept. 10 and 12 for more events! 

Computational research has been an established component of science and engineering fields for decades now, and with computing technology in a constant state of evolution it’s important to take a step back to gain perspective. Where is computation taking our research, our innovation, our technology, and our materials? What might the future of computational materials research look like?

This panel discussion will create an open dialogue between leading computational materials scientists to identify current and future trends and provide a broad view of the vast possibilities computation presents materials researchers. 

The Panel: Professor David Srolovitz from University of Pennsylvania, Professor Alain Karma from Northeastern Universit, Professor Adrian Sutton from Imperial College London

Moderated by DMSE’s Professor W. Craig Carter.

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Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series - Prof. Otto Nielsen on Future Transport
Wednesday, September 11
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 1-131, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Abstract: The talk will be based upon my work in two recent government commissions investigating the challenges of future transport.
The first commission advised the government on the potential impact of emerging self-driving vehicles in combination with new shared mobility concepts and new business models. This may – or may not – revolutionize the transport sector with new transport concepts in-between traditional individual car transport and public transportation, with alternative use of time when travelling, and with automated empty vehicles driving for parking or repositioning for collecting new customers. These trends may lead to hyper congestion in urban areas, if no new means of regulation are enforced. When the transport sector will be automated, we thus need to modify forecasts based upon existing revealed preferences of behavior, since they do not incorporate the emerging transport concepts. And we need to prepare policies considering different scenarios of the technology development.

The talk will also discuss the ongoing work in the Green Transport Commission on how to meet the ambitious Danish Targets on replacing the car fleet to electric cars. To achieve this will require massive changes of the taxation of cars, with derived socio-economic and equity impacts. The underlying premise is to achieve these targets, and still maintaining the same government income from the transport sector. Forecasts of the impacts require insight into market adaptation, prediction of car sale and transport forecasts beyond traditional transport models.

Bio:  Otto Anker Nielsen is a professor in transport modelling at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Dept. of Technology, Management and Economics. He is head of the Transport Division. He has 27 years of research experience and applied work experience within the field of transport modelling and transport behaviour research. He has been leading several large-scale transports modelling projects in Denmark and at EU level over the period from 1994 until now, including the the IPTOP project on Integrated Public Transport Planning and Optimisation, and has been a member of several Government Commissions in the transport domain. He has been/is supervisor for 27 PhD-students, 10 visiting PhD-students and more than 100 MSc thesis projects and about 70 BSc-theses.

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Work of the Future Book Series: Mary Gray, Author of "Ghost Work"
Wednesday, September 11
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/33wmcb7 

In the first event in the Work of the Future Book Series, Mary Gray (Microsoft Research, Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society) will talk with David Autor (Ford Professor of Economics Associate Head, Department of Economics Co-chair, MIT Work of the Future Task Force) about her book Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass.

In Ghost Work, Gray and co-author Siddharth Suri examine how services delivered by major companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, "invisible" human labor force—comprising people doing "ghost work." An estimated 8% of Americans have worked at least once in this “ghost economy,” and that number is growing. Gray and Suri look at how ghost workers, employers, and society at large can ensure that this new kind of work creates opportunity for those who do it.

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More or less than zero: Can electricity markets survive deep decarbonization? 
Wednesday, September 11
5:15pm to 6:15pm
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/more-or-less-than-zero-can-electricity-markets-survive-deep-decarbonization-tickets-70523221855

James Bushnell, Professor, UC Davis; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
As parts of the U.S. pursue increasingly aggressive policies for decarbonizing their electricity sectors, fault lines have continued to grow over the proper design and organization of electricity markets. While renewable generation continues to expand rapidly, operators of legacy power plants—particularly those fueled by coal and nuclear energy—are experiencing increasing financial distress. Across the U.S., a range of policy proposals and ad-hoc arrangements have been floated to maintain the economic viability of conventional generation. This talk draws upon research at the wholesale and retail level to contrast differing regional approaches to the economic challenges to integrating renewable electricity into electric systems.

About the speaker:
James Bushnell is a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining UC Davis, he was the research director at the UC Energy Institute and Cargill Chair in Energy Economics at Iowa State University. He holds a PhD in operations research from UC Berkeley.

Since 2002, Bushnell has served as a member of the Market Surveillance Committee (MSC) of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). He has also advised the California Air Resources Board in several capacities, and has consulted on the design and performance of electricity markets around the U.S. and Internationally.

Please note that we will open our doors to unregistered participants 15 minutes before the event start time. To guarantee your seat, we recommend you register and arrive at least 15 minutes early.

If you are not able to attend, note there will be a high-quality recording of this seminar made available on our YouTube channel ( about a week following the event.

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Inaugural Meeting to UnKoch MIT 
Wednesday September 11
6 p.m.
MIT, Building 2-131, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

We will work towards holding MIT accountable  for its relationship with the Koch brothers and push for more oversight over donor influence.

David  Koch may have passed away recently, but his insidious legacy lives on  (as does older brother Charles Koch). However, MIT has proved unwilling to  be honest about his legacy, much less their own role in legitimizing  him by emblazoning his name on campus buildings and giving him a  lifetime seat on the MIT Corporation. A recent obituary in the MIT News  referred to Koch as "brilliant" and "visionary"; "a prominent supporter  of cancer research" and "a model philanthropist". No mention is given to his and his brother's record on climate change, labor rights,  undermining academic freedom, attacks on social programs, etc.

MIT's  close relationship with morally dubious actors has become something of a  pattern by now, from fossil fuel companies to the Saudi monarchy to the  military. It's about time that MIT views its relationship with these  groups and with the Koch brothers the same way it views its relationship  with Jeffrey Epstein. The first step is for MIT to acknowledge the Koch  brothers' harmful legacy and issue an apology similar to the one given  with regards to Jeffrey Epstein's ties to the Media Lab. The next step  would be to cut ties with Charles Koch and his foundations, which gave  half a million dollars to MIT in 2017. From there, we can push to  increase community oversight over gift-giving to MIT to ensure that the  Institute is not lending its prestige to legitimize bad actors and to  further the agenda of entities that are destroying lives and our planet.

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Climate in International Relations Theory and Practice 
Wednesday, September 11
6:00pm - 7:30pm 
Tufts, Mugar 200, 160R Packard Avenue, Medford

No matter whether you join the world of diplomacy, the public sector, business or academia after you graduate from Fletcher, you will be facing growing demands and requests to face and deal with difficult questions and emergencies stemming from the climate and environmental challenges. 

You will represent and/or serve communities that will face climate emergencies or contentious and divisive dilemmas on how to approach climate change and the consequences of it.

 Join us for this series of conversations where we will address some of the contentious topics, points of view and different stances that students from all around the world will bring in to this conversation about how to mainstream climate in anything we do.

 The sessions have an informal conversational format, each one starts with insights from a panel of your PhDs in residence across the various fields at Fletcher, occasionally accompanied by a faculty or a staff member. The key part is your voice, opinion, insight.

 No prior knowledge of any of the topics needed. All community is welcome!

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The Puritans: Who They Were, Who They Are
Wed, September 11
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Rabb Auditorium, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-puritans-who-they-were-who-they-are-tickets-69953393483

Join Lori Rogers-Stokes for a discussion of the Puritans, their humble beginnings, and their lasting influence in American history.
The Puritans who founded New England were, in their own day, a small group with no political power, easily driven from their own land into an America dominated by other powers, both native and European. Yet they are our most famous Founders, whose out sized standing in U.S. history has made them a lightning rod for later generations, representing all that is good and bad in the American story. How did this happen? What did the Puritans want New England to be? What ideas did they bring with them, and what ideas did they develop as a result of their experiences here? 

Biography
Lori Rogers-Stokes received her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University. She studies the founding decades of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, focusing on the period from 1630-80 when the forms of church and state were put in place that would shape Massachusetts and American history for centuries to come. Dr. Stokes is an editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston led by respected Puritan scholar Dr. James F. Cooper and dedicated to transcribing and studying newly discovered 17th-19th-century New England church records.

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A Better Cambridge Candidate Forum
Wednesday, September 11
6 PM – 8 PM
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge

Our housing crisis is the most important issue facing Cambridge this election. City Council candidates differ on how to tackle the high cost of housing, displacement, and the challenges associated with development. 

Please join us at ABC's 2019 Candidate Forum. Former five-term Cambridge city councilor David Sullivan will moderate a discussion about what candidates would do to tackle this crisis if elected.

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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation Meeting
Tuesday, September 11
6:30 p.m.
First Church Cambridge, Harter Room, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/new-member-orientation-meeting-9-11/

If you are new to XR or would just like to learn more about how it works, please come to our next new member orientation session. We will cover the following:
Where did XR come from? What is civil disobedience & direct action?
What is the extinction rebellion about? What do we want?
What are our principles and values? What brings us together?
How are we organized? What are working groups & affinity groups?
Come out and meet some of our local XRebels and learn how you can get involved!

The session will run for around 90 minutes.

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CHINESE DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: the new Long March
Wednesday, September 11
7 pm
Meeting House First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

In light of the escalating developments in Hong Kong with Pro-Democracy demonstrators becoming increasingly galvanized in response to the Chinese government's crackdown, we examine the current situation both inside and outside mainland China with regard to human rights.

Teng Biao, is a human rights lawyer currently attached to the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, at NYU and he will be joined by Uyghur-American Salih Hudayar and activist Kyle Olbert, who will discuss the challenges facing both the Chinese Communist party and the ethnic minorities who resist the Chinese policy of oppression which they say is being carried out under the guise of "counter-terrorism".

Come join us for the exchange.
Free and welcoming to all who want to participate in civil and respectful discussion.

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Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked
Wednesday, September 11
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-marcia-biederman-tickets-68046680453

The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. “The most famous reading teacher in the world,” as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included cooperation with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked by Sputnik and panicked by paperwork eagerly embraced her promises of a speed-reading revolution. Journalists, lawmakers, and two US presidents lent credibility to Wood’s claims of turbocharging reading speeds. A royal-born Wood grad said she’d polished off Moby Dick in three hours; a senator swore he finished one book per lunchtime. Fudging test results and squelching critics, Wood maintained her popularity even as science proved that her system taught only skimming, with disastrous effects on comprehension. As apps and online courses attempt to spark a speed-reading revival, this engaging look at Wood’s rise from missionary to marketer exposes the pitfalls of wishful thinking.

About the author:  Marcia Biederman has contributed more than 150 articles to the New York Times. She was a staff reporter for Crain’s New York Business and her work has appeared in New York magazine, the New York Observer, and Newsday. She is also the author of Popovers and Candlelight: Patricia Murphy and the Rise and Fall of a Restaurant Empire. She lives in New York.

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Thursday, September 12 – Friday, September 13
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2019 HARVARD LEGAL TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM 
Thursday, September 12, 8:00 AM – Friday, September 13, 5:00 PM EDT
Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-harvard-legal-technology-symposium-tickets-67090520553
Cost:  $0 – $350

The Harvard Law & Technology Society is hosting the 2019 Harvard Legal Technology Symposium from September 12-13, 2019. We are bringing together a large interdisciplinary and international community to think deeply about how technology can improve and shape the law at the largest student organized legal technology event in the world.
For more information visit: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/techsoc/2019-legal-technology-symposium/

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Thursday, September 12 – Saturday, September 14
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Urban Activism 2019 Graduate Conference
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 12 – Saturday, Sep. 14, 2019
WHERE  Harvard, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Conferences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History; Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard; Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Harvard University Center for African Studies; Harvard History Department; Harvard Department of Anthropology
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	joanechaker at g.harvard.edu, stefanoportelli1976 at gmail.com, aylinyt at gmail.com
DETAILS  This conference emerges from the shared need to create a collective discourse on how critical urban research and urban political activism are increasingly converging and creating a common field of inquiry and action. It connects scholars in various fields such as planners, geographers, historians, and critical urbanists with activists working on housing rights and the right to urban identity and the city more generally.
Together, we will discuss a number of theoretical, methodological, and practical questions, including: How shall communities and activists be involved in the production of knowledge? What constitutes the archive and evidence? What possibilities are there to disseminate the knowledge produced? Can scholarship suggest political solutions? Who are the agents of this story? What is the relationship between the state and the market in displacement processes? Can we think beyond the framework of structure and agency? How does ideology make its way into research and action? What is the appropriate scale of analysis?
A consideration of cities as different as Beirut, Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Johannesburg, São Paulo, and Boston sheds light on commonalities that point to a single dynamic operating on a global scale, which is at play in the various distinctive manifestations apprehended at the local level in very different contexts. While a consideration of global, structural transformation can contribute to an understanding of the specificities of every case, the global phenomenon itself cannot be fully captured without a serious engagement on the local scale with the social, cultural, economic and political processes in which each specific case is embedded. A global understanding can only contribute to local struggles if it remains attentive to the subjectivity of local communities within their particular context as they experience and think it.
LINK	http://urbanactivism2019.org

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Offshore Wind and the Transition to Renewables
Thursday, September 12
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Multi-Purpose, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford

Eric Hines
Over the next 30 years, the US must expand and modernize its power grid while retiring half of its existing power plants and transitioning to a low-carbon energy system. Along the nation’s coastlines, offshore wind will play a major role in this transition. The U.S. offshore wind energy resource offers capacity that exceeds our nation’s demand several times over. Currently, things are moving so fast that drastic shifts can be observed on the timescale of just one or two years. This introduction to and update on U.S. offshore wind energy will help attendees navigate and interpret what they are hearing in the popular press related to energy in New England, the U.S. and abroad.

Eric M. Hines, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI has over 20 years of experience as a structural engineer designing innovative infrastructure and large-scale testing programs. Dr. Hines designed the Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown, MA and advised the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center on the development of the New Bedford Marine
Commerce Terminal. As a Professor of Practice at Tufts University, he has led the POWER-US convening initiative and directs the Tufts University Offshore Wind Engineering Graduate Program. Formerly a partner of LeMessurier Consultants in Boston, Dr. Hines has over 70 publications and numerous awards related to systems design, industry-driven research and higher education. Dr. Hines completed
his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego after studying the relationship between engineering and public policy as an undergraduate at Princeton University and as a Fulbright Fellow in Germany.

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THE MEASLES OUTBREAK: Why Vaccines Matter
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 12, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  The Leadership Studio, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S)  Barry Bloom, Research professor of public health and former dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jesse Hackell, Practicing pediatrician and founding member, Pomona Pediatrics
Howard Koh, Professor of the practice of public health leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and 14th assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Gillian Steel Fisher, Senior research scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and deputy director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program
Moderator: Elana Gordon
Health care journalist and Producer at PRI’s The World
COST  Free webcast
TICKET WEB LINK  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_080vV441KcAmTsx
CONTACT INFO	theforum at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The U.S. officially eliminated measles nearly 20 years ago. Yet, this year, more than 1,100 cases have been reported, despite being preventable by vaccine. The CDC says the majority of cases are among those who were not vaccinated.
This Forum looks at the drivers of the 2019 outbreaks and, more generally, the challenges of vaccine acceptance. Why do some parents delay or decline vaccinating their children? How might their concerns be addressed? What about exemptions? Why does the global picture matter? And what can be done once an outbreak begins? New polling data will frame this discussion, providing a uniquely current picture of vaccine acceptance in the U.S.
LINK  https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-measles-outbreak/

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Law, Technology, and China's AI Dream
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 12, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Pound Hall 100, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	East Asian Legal Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Jeffrey Ding, D. Phil. Researcher, Center for Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford and Creator of AI Newsletter
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	Mike Zaisser
mzaisser at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS	
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk
LINK  http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

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Focus: Environmental, Social Corporate Governance (ESG)
Thursday, September 12
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Northeastern, 120 Knowles Conference Room, 416 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP to Gianina Chua at g.chua at northeastern.edu

Andrew Droste ’15, Board Advisory Specialist, Russell Reynolds Associates (Seattle, Washington)
Andrew Droste ’15 is a board advisory specialist at Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) within the firm's Board and CEO Advisory Partners practice. Prior to RRA, Andrew led Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) engagement, research and risk analyses for BNY Mellon’s Proxy Voting and Governance Committee. Andrew began his career as an ESG analyst at Nuveen on their Responsible Investing Team. He is also treasurer and member of the board at Speak For The Trees, a nonprofit whose mission is to improve the size and health of the urban tree canopy in the greater Boston area.

Lunch provided 

Lunch & Learn Speaker Series featuring Andrew Droste ’15

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Transform climate talk into climate roadmaps
Thursday, September 12
1pm
Online
RSVP at https://roadmaps.confetti.events/?invite=95620173af36b599f4b116651a3128046b5a

You are invited to Climate Action News September 12!

Solving the climate crisis means a radical transformation on all levels of society. Which requires a clear overview of how to reduce emissions.  Meet the people who transform climate talk into roadmaps for the climate. Special guests Paul Dickinson (CDP), Kate Garvey (Project everyone), Tomer Shalit (Climate View) and Nuria Albet (Renovable in La Palma island, Canary Islands) show how to enable all stakeholders to collaborate towards ambitious emission targets.

Also in the show: The Amazonas on fire, the upcoming climate summit in New York and the massive climate manifestations planned by the youth climate movement. Meet Nick Nuttall (Director Strategic Communications Earth Day Network), Jill Kubit (Co-Founder of Our kids' Climate), Alexandria Villaseñor co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and founder of Earth Uprising and Ingmar Rentzhog (CEO We Don't Have Time).

We invite you to tune in, watch, listen and participate actively by commenting live during and after the broadcast. Register and we will send you instructions how to participate and a reminder before the event begins.

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Solopreneur Kick-Start Clinic
Thursday, September 12
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
CIC Cambridge, 1 Broadway, 5th Floor, Santa Clara room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solopreneur-kick-start-clinic-registration-67592203099
Cost:  $0 – $10

Come learn the most important things to focus on when you're building your business
Whether you’re building a new business or rebooting an existing one, it’s important to know the most important areas to focus on so you don’t wind up trying to do #allthethings, spinning your wheels and burning out.
Many solopreneurs struggle with overwhelm, anxiety and isolation, and having clear, manageable priorities creates focus so you can grow your business, and generate meaningful revenue as quickly as possible.
If you’re a service-based entrepreneur looking to get clear on your strategy and master your To-Do list, this one-hour workshop is for you. You’ll learn the top three vital areas to focus on in the first year, and come away with actionable insights and tactics to help you see results in your business – fast!
In this one-hour workshop you will:
Learn how to calm the overwhelm of trying to do #allthethings 
Discover the most critical activities to focus on that will accelerate your growth.
Gain clarity on what and how your offering can truly connect with your target market and generate revenue quickly.
Get support from a solopreneur business coaching expert.
Connect with other solopreneurs who are in the same boat!

You should attend this event if you are:
Feeling stuck, frustrated and a overwhelmed in building and growing your business. 
Know you need to start generating revenue soon, and aren't quite sure how to do that.
Needing a little head space to actually work ON your business and not just IN it.
Looking for inspiration to re-focus, revitalize, re-invigorate your business

About the Presenter
Victoria Dew, SCMP -- Dewpoint Communications
Victoria knows first-hand how challenging being a solopreneur can be, and is an expert at helping others to navigate their way through the highs and lows of building a business. She is a certified business coach with 20+ years of business experience, and helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs build profitable companies that are aligned with their values and life goals.

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OEB Seminar Series: Robotics as a comparative method to understand the functional and evolutionary diversity of fishes
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 12, 2019, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Biological Labs Lecture Hall (1080), 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
SPEAKER(S)  Dr. George Lauder, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
COST  Free and open to the public
LINK  https://oeb.harvard.edu/event/oeb-seminar-series-george-lauder

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Starr Forum: The Global Rise of Populism
Thursday, September 12
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MI,  Building E15-070 Bartos, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speakers: Suzanne Berger is MIT’s inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor. Her current research focuses on politics and globalization. She recently co-chaired the MIT Production in the Innovation Economy project and is author most recently of Making in America: From Innovation to Market.

Jan-Werner Mueller is professor of politics at Princeton University, where he also directs the Project in the History of Political Thought. He is author of several books including What is populism? He contributes regularly to London Review of Books, the Guardian, and the New York Review of Books.

Moderator:  Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Center for International Studies. He is author of multiple books, including: Special Duty: A History of Japan’s Intelligence Community, which is forthcoming this fall from Cornell University Press.

Jan-Werner Mueller’s book What is populism? will be signed and sold at the event. 

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"Modernizing Saudi Arabia: The politics of gender" Dr. Hala Aldosari
Thursday, September 12
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Fall 2019 Biannual McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World:

Dr. Hala Aldosari Robert E. Wilhelm fellow at MIT Center for International Studies, former Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi Fellow
Dr. Hala Aldosari is a scholar-activist from Saudi Arabia, now based in the United States. Her PhD research, writings and research explore social determinants of women’s health, violence against women, legal restrictions and reforms of women’s rights and human rights across the Arab Gulf States. She is currently a fellow at MIT Center for International Studies. She serves as an advisory board member for Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa, the Gulf Center for Human Rights and “Every Woman” global initiative to prevent violence against women and girls. She has previously worked as a scientist, consultant for health administration in Saudi Arabia and a visiting scholar in different think tanks and universities. She is the recipient of several awards for her activism, the 2018 Alison Des Forge award from human rights watch and the 2016 Freedom award from Freedom House. She is also an op-ed writer and her writings were featured in prominent media outlets. In 2019, she became the inaugural fellow for the Washington Post Khashoggi fellowship.

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Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
Thursday, September 12
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

While the appeal of games may be universal and satisfy our innate desire to play, the powerful dynamics that govern our behavior within games is even more interesting than the play itself. Can we broaden our understanding of play mechanisms by applying the subliminal mechanics of play beyond games? Join Christopher Weaver, Founder of Bethesda Softworks, who teaches engineering and computational media respectively at MIT and Wesleyan, as he explores these important issues in a lecture entitled “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”. Prof. Weaver will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.

Christopher Weaver is Research Scientist and Lecturer, MIT Comparative Media Studies, Visiting Scientist and Lecturer, MIT Microphotonics Center and Distinguished Professor of Computational Media at Wesleyan University.

Weaver received his SM from MIT and was the initial Daltry Scholar at Wesleyan University, where he earned dual Masters Degrees in Japanese and Computer Science and a CAS Doctoral Degree in Japanese and Physics. The former Director of Technology Forecasting for ABC and Chief Engineer to the Subcommittee on Communications for the US Congress, Weaver founded Bethesda Softworks, and developed a physics-based, realtime sports engine used to create the original John Madden Football for Electronic Arts. Bethesda is well known for The Elder Scrolls role-playing series of which Skyrim was the latest major installment. An adviser to both government and industry, Weaver holds patents in interactive media, security, and telecommunications engineering.

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Arts as Refuge: The Power of Art to Unify and Heal
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 12, 2019, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Taubman 5th floor, Nye A, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Kennedy School
Center for Public Leadership
SPEAKER(S)  Emily Kernan Rafferty, President Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2005-2015)
COST  FREE, RSVP required
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z3HVJWR
CONTACT INFO	hauser_leaders at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Join Emily Kernan Rafferty, President Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for this special event exploring art's power to provide refuge. With more than four decades of experience in the art world, Rafferty will delve into historical and current cases of art’s ability to heal those who’ve experienced trauma, and unify those whose divisions are otherwise intractable.
This event is free and open to the public. Light dinner will be served. Questions? Email hauser_leaders at hks.harvard.edu.
LINK	https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/event/arts-refuge-power-art-unify-and-heal

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Discussion of The Uninhabitable Earth
Thursday, September 12
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
245 Main Street, Cambridge
Take the elevator to CIC located on the 2nd floor of 245 Main Street. Please bring a government issued photo ID to present to concierge upon your arrival. If you arrive early you will be able to relax in the lounge adjacent to the concierge.
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Science-Book-Club-for-the-Curious/events/263342952/

A discussion of "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells. The room opens at 5:30pm and discussion starts at 5:45pm.

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September EnergyBar: Cyclotron Road @ Greentown Labs
Thursday, September 12
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/september-energybar-cyclotron-road-greentown-labs-tickets-62173851664

Cyclotron Road is our co-host for this early-fall edition of the monthly EnergyBar networking event, free and open to the public!
Cyclotron Road, co-managed by the non-profit Activate and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, supports entrepreneurial scientists as they launch startups in the energy sector. Join us on Thursday, September 12 to meet science-entrepreneurs from both the Greentown Labs and Cyclotron Road communities.

Panelists Christina Chang, Shreya Dave, and Kevin Kung are all at different stages of their startup journeys. They’ll discuss their experiences and why support organizations like Cyclotron Road and Greentown Labs play key roles in supporting cleantech startups. Plus, Activate CEO Ilan Gur will announce how his organization is scaling up the Cyclotron Road model to support more early-stage founders—it will begin accepting applications for its next cohort on October 1.
Panelists:

Harvard Ph.D. candidate Christina Chang has devoted her research career to sustainable technologies, including thin-film photovoltaics and energy-efficient windows, and she is just starting to pursue a sustainable metallurgy startup.

Shreya Dave’s startup Via Separations, a Greentown Labs member company, creates filtration systems aimed at slashing energy requirements for industrial separation processes. Via is at the production scale-up stage, running on-site pilot demonstrations.

Through Takachar, Kevin Kung has launched a system for transforming crops and forest residue into marketable products while reducing pollution and carbon emissions made by burning the material. It’s his second startup.

Moderator: Andrew Takacs, Greentown Labs Director of Corporate Partnerships

5:30-6:15pm — Arrival, networking
6:30-7:30pm — Panel discussion
7:30-8:30pm — Networking

About Cyclotron Road:
Cyclotron Road is a fellowship program, co-managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Activate, an independent nonprofit. As Cyclotron Road Fellows, leading technology innovators spend two years advancing a project with the potential for global impact. Since 2015, Cyclotron Road has awarded nearly $18 million directly to 55 fellows who have gone on to generate more than $100 million in early-stage funding to support their projects. Learn more here.

About EnergyBar:
EnergyBar is Greentown Labs' networking event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.

Our attendees typically span a variety of disciplines within energy, efficiency, and renewables. In general, if you're looking for a job in cleantech or energy, trying to expand your network, or perhaps thinking about starting your own energy-related company this is the event for you. Expect to have conversations about issues facing advanced and renewable energy technologies and ways to solve our most pressing energy problems.

Suggested dress is shop floor casual. Parking is incredibly limited at Greentown Labs and we encourage attendees to consider taking advantage of public transportation.
Hope to see you there!

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White Privilege: Can You Explain that to Me?
Thursday, September 12
6:00 PM – 7:45 PM EDT
30 South Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/white-privilege-can-you-explain-that-to-me-tickets-65661654777

Are you uncertain what people mean when they refer to “white privilege?” Have you ever wondered where the idea that white people have certain privileges, just because of the color of their skin, came from? Are you interested in digging in a little deeper and broadening your understanding about what actions you could take once you do understand more? 

This is the second of two 2-hour conversations exploring the topic of ‘white privilege,’ its origins, and what it means today. Previously, the group read the articles “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” by Peggy Macintosh, “What is White Privilege, Really?” by Cory Collin. The Septmenber meeting we will discuss the first three episodes of the podcast “Seeing White” from Scene on the Radio. We will contiue to investigate these ideas, their meanings in relation to our own experiences, and next steps individuals can take to further their understanding.

It is recommended that participants read the two articles prior to joining in, and listen to first three episodes “Seeing White” podcast series before the second meeting.

Faciliators
Justine Egan has both participated in and co-facilitated workshops on racial equity in community and professional settings. She is especially interested in the role white people can play in promoting racial and social justice at institutional levels. Justine is the parent of a child in Boston Public Schools and is involved in BPS parent-led initiatives. She has an MPH in public health and a BA in political science and philosophy. 
Jen Parks holds an MSW and a BA in English Literature. Her interest in social justice grew out of a love for reading poetry, fiction and biography. More recently she has been studying racial justice and black history through audiobooks and podcasts. Jen works at the MA Department of Public Health and participates in various Racial Equity workplace efforts. She has two children in BPS, is a member of the RISE Criminal Justice Reform Group with Sharon, and she and Justine co-facilitated a discussion group on the Seeing White podcast last summer.
Sharon Sabin, MFA, MSW. Sharon began observing human behavior through the lens of her camera over 30 years ago. She started facilitating discussions about race and class when her daughter was attending a Boston Public School. Since earning her MSW, Sharon has facilitated and supported community groups, political candidates, and individuals as they explore and deepen their connections to equity and justice. Sharon is on a journey to become anti-racist.

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Ashley Fure | Where the Worldviews Are
Thursday, September 12
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Ashley Fure’s sound art practice stems from a fundamental belief that the sonic is social and the aesthetic is political. Blurring false binaries between formalism and conceptualism, abstraction and identity, onto-aesthetics and social mediation, her work pursues a micropolitical materialism that manifests on multiple scales: from the casting of bodies, to the movement of audiences, to the internal structure of anarchic noise. This talk will track her interest in ritual acoustics, post-human kink, and the politics of abstraction through a range of projects and media. Linking practice and pedagogy, broader questions will be posed about disciplinary inheritance, educational ethics, and the problematic canons of the West. In times such as these, on an earth such as this, with these very resources in our hands, what do we do with our forebears – their babies and their bathwater?

Ashley Fure (b.1982) is an American composer and sound artist. Called “raw, elemental,” and “richly satisfying” by The New York Times, her concert music and performance installations explore ritual acoustics, posthuman kink, and the micropolitics of noise. A finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Fure also won a Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University. Her work has been commissioned by major ensembles throughout Europe and the United States including The New York Philharmonic, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Diotima Quartet, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Notable recent projects include Filament: for Trio, Orchestra, and Moving Voices (2018), called “captivating” and “ravishing” by The New York Times, The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects (2017), an immersive installation opera called “staggeringly original” and “the most purely visceral music-theatre outing of the year” in The New Yorker; and Bound to the Bow: for Orchestra and Electronics, called “boldly individual” by the New York Times and “the most arresting of the world premieres” at the 2016 New York Phil Biennial in The New Yorker. Fure is an Associate Professor of Music (Sonic Arts) at Dartmouth College.

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Boston Climate Action Network - Action Team Meeting
Thursday, September 12
6:00 PM  - 8:00 PM
First Baptist Church, 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-climate-action-network-action-team-meeting-tickets-54297161271

We're working towards fighting climate change through improved energy policy and education at the local level in Boston. The BCAN Action Team meeting is a great way to get directly involved in the effort to combat climate change in the era of Trump. We gather twice per month on the 2nd and 4th Thursday from 6:00-8pm at First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain.
Come meet the Communications Team, the Arts Team, and other dedicated climate campaigners to learn how you can help us plan outreach for the Community Choice Energy campaign.

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ICA Watershed East Boston Climate Conversation
Thursday, September 12
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
ICA Watershed, 256 Marginal Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ica-watershed-east-boston-climate-conversation-tickets-71660216637

Dear East Boston residents, 
Please join us to celebrate another great season at the ICA watershed! In keeping with the theme of this year's exhibition by John Akomfrah focused on climate change, we are taking this occasion to talk with officials and community leaders about how East Boston is preparing to address the impacts of climate change on our community. 

The panel will include: 
Magdalena Ayed, Executive Director, Harborkeepers
Joe Christo, Senior Resilience and Waterfront Planner, Climate Change and Environmental Planning, Boston Planning and Development Agency
Chris Cook, Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the City of Boston,
Steve Holt, East Boston Flood Plain resident
Other speakers to be announced 

Come with your questions about Climate Ready Boston, Flood Resiliency Overlay Zoning, PLAN: East Boston, the Local Wetlands Ordinance, or other relevant topics. 
Light refreshments will be served. 
RSVP not required - but please let us know if you plan to be there!

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Candidate Forum on Energy & the Environment: Boston District 9
Thursday, September 12
6:00 PM  - 8:00 PM  (Local Time)
Brighton Allston Congregational Church UCC, 404 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7010Z000001vykRQAQ

Event Organizers:  Jacob Stern  jacob.stern at sierraclub.org  (617) 423-5775

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BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AT-LARGE CANDIDATES FORUM:  ON PATHWAYS TO PROSPERITY FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
Thursday, September 12
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
ABCD'S THELMA D. BURNS BUILDING, 565 Warren Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-city-council-at-large-candidates-forum-tickets-67943588101

Join us for a discussion with the candidates running for Boston City Council At-Large on their vision for prosperity and economic mobility for communities of color. Childcare and interpretation are available upon request in the registration form. 

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Culture & Sustainable Growth In Upham's Corner
Thursday, September 12
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Fairmount Innovation Lab, 594 Columbia Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-sustainable-growth-in-uphams-corner-tickets-69082398313

Upham’s Corner in Dorchester is slated for new investments in housing, small businesses, and transportation, according to Imagine Boston 2030, the first citywide plan in more than 50 years. The plan also calls to develop the neighborhood into the City’s first Arts Innovation District. Expecting an influx of activity into this diverse community, the City of Boston has assembled an interdisciplinary task force across all sectors dedicated to the mission of “developing without displacing” Upham’s Corner.

Join SPARK Boston to hear firsthand how the City of Boston and its local partners intend to develop Upham’s Corner while maintaining the culture of the existing community.

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The 29th First Annual Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony 
Thursday, September 12
6:00pm 
Harvard, Sanders Theater,
RSVP at https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=ignobel
Ticket Prices: Ig Glorious: $150*; Full Price: $75, $65, $55, $35; Discounts: $5 off for students.
*Ig Glorious tickets include TBD.

The 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will introduce ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners. Each has done something that makes people laugh then think. Winners travel to the ceremony, at their own expense, from around the world to receive their prize from a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, in Harvard's historic and largest theater. Additional info will appear in the Improbable Research blog.

Pre-ceremony concert and ceremony webcast begin at 5:35pm (US Eastern Time). The ceremony proper begins at 6:00pm.

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How the Brain Lost Its Mind
Thursday September 12
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline 

A noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness. How the Brain Lost Its Mind tells the rich and compelling story of two confounding ailments, syphilis and hysteria, and the extraordinary efforts to confront their effects on mental life. How does the mind work? Where does madness lie, in the brain or in the mind? How should it be treated?

Allan H. Ropper, M.D., is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician of the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Ropper is an author of the most widely consulted textbook of neurology, Principles of Neurology, currently in its eleventh edition, and co-author with Brian David Burrell of Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole.

Brian Burrell is a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A teacher and writer, he is the author is several books, including Postcards from the Brain Museum, The Words We Live By, and, jointly with Dr. Allan H. Ropper, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole. He is an authority on brain collections worldwide, and has discussed his work on NBC’s Today Show, C-SPAN’s Booknotes, and NPR’s Morning Edition.

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Rebooting AI
Thursday, September 12
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Join Gary Marcus, a leader in the field, to hear is compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a truly robust artificial intelligence.

Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we have been led to believe. Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have spent their careers at the forefront of AI research and have witnessed some of the greatest milestones in the field, but they argue that a computer beating a human in Jeopardy! does not signal that we are on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars or superintelligent machines. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules, and these approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. 

The real world, in contrast, is wildly complex and open-ended. How can we bridge this gap? What will the consequences be when we do? Taking inspiration from the human mind, Marcus and Davis explain what we need to advance AI to the next level, and suggest that if we are wise along the way, we won't need to worry about a future of machine overlords. If we focus on endowing machines with common sense and deep understanding, rather than simply focusing on statistical analysis and gatherine ever larger collections of data, we will be able to create an AI we can trust—in our homes, our cars, and our doctors' offices. Rebooting AI provides a lucid, clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of how a new generation of AI can make our lives better.

Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Robust.AI and was founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine-learning company acquired by Uber in 2016. He is the author of five books, including Kluge, The Birth of the Minday, and the New York Times best seller Guitar Zero.

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Carrots Don't Grow on Trees
Thursday, September 12
7 PM – 8:30 PM
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge

Twelve years after Michael Pollan first opened our eyes to the modern problems of the industrial food complex, organic farmer and successful businessman Robert Turner explores what has changed in our food culture and how the current ‘grow local' and ‘farm to table' movement is now determining where and how we live. In Carrots Don't Grow on Trees an organic farm takes center stage in a new kind of agriculturally-based community where residents gain closer connections healthy food and the farmers who grow it. Turner wasn't trying to build Utopia; the community he envisions is the next logical step for the ‘eat your view' movement that has already changed restaurant menus around the world. Turner takes a no-nonsense business approach to saving small farms and protecting our local farming capacity while preserving the important knowledge of growing food for future generations.

About the Author
Robert Turner is a writer for regional food and lifestyle magazines, an entrepreneur, and the founder of multiple businesses in such diverse industries as manufacturing, licensing, publishing and real estate development. Now owner of an organic farm and the Executive Director of the Creekside Farm Education Center, Turner is a dedicated advocate for small, local farmers and sustainable food production. Mr. Turner is a graduate from Illinois State University with a bachelor's degree in English Literature.

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The Center Cannot Hold: Addressing Mental Health Stigma through Opera
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 12, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Hilles P-02 Performance Hall, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Concerts, Health Sciences, Law, Music, Opera, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	GlobalMentalHealth at Harvard and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability
SPEAKER(S)  Kenneth Wells, Psychiatrist/Composer, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at David Geffen School of Medicine and Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at University of Southern California Gould Scool of Law
CONTACT INFO  Juliana_restivo at hms.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Celebrating the use of opera and art to address mental health stigma, this event will include a talk by opera composer Kenneth Wells (psychiatrist/composer) and live concert excerpts from the opera "The Center Cannot Hold," based on the memoir by Elyn Saks.The singers accompanying Wells will include Maggie Finnegan, Ryne Cherry, and Wes Hunter.

Saks is the Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at University of Southern California Gould Scool of Law; Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy and Ethics.

She began having schizophrenic episodes in high school and spiraled into the depths of the illness when she was a student at Yale Law School. Based on her 2007 memoir of the same name, the "Center Cannot Hold" opera follows Saks during a pivotal time at Yale as she ultimately faces her demons and resolves to live her life as fully as she can, whatever it takes.

Saks, who serves as a co-librettist to the opera, will also be present at the event and will speak about the opera and her experience. 
LINK  https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/mentalhealthopera

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Talking to Strangers:  What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know 
Thursday, September 12
7:30 PM (Doors at 6:30)
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston
Cost:  $32.00 (book bundled) - On Sale Now

Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer MALCOLM GLADWELL for a discussion of his latest book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know. He will be joined in conversation by acclaimed writer and Harvard Law professor NOAH FELDMAN.
Please Note:  This event does not include a public book signing.

About Talking to Strangers
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?

Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

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Friday, September 13
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Localization Unconference Boston 2019
Friday, September 13
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
PTC, 121 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/localization-unconference-boston-2019-tickets-68202673031

Join us for the Free 1st Annual Boston Localization Unconference! No agendas, no sales, no pressure. Your topics in RoundTable discussions

Please join us for this year's unconference in Boston, hosted at PTC new Global Headquarters. Other Localization Unconferences have been held all over the world from San Francisco to Berlin, Toronto to San Diego. The recent Silicon Valley Unconference sold out. 

Unconference - the format
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting day, decidedly without the conventional format of a conference. 
There are no power-point presentations and no sales pitches! There are only topics the group votes on. There is no agenda... until the participants create one on the spot, at the beginning of the meeting. 

The localization unconference continues to be a FREE event but please register so we have an accurate number of participants for room size, breakfast and lunch (free of charge).

For more information, please check out our Localization unconference website at https://sites.google.com/site/localizationunconference/

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Air Quality, Heterogeneous Chemistry and Odd Oxygen: New Insights into Urban Winter from Recent Aircraft Campaigns
Friday, September 13
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Steven S. Brown, NOAA/University of Colorado.
Abstract: Air quality across much of the U.S. has improved dramatically in recent decades in response to emissions reductions.  Summer photochemical ozone, for example, has shown strong decreasing trends in most regions.  Winter particulate matter, by contrast, has responded less robustly despite reductions in many of the precursors responsible for both summer and winter air pollution.  In the eastern U.S., winter air quality generally no longer exceeds regulatory standards but has not responded linearly to emissions reductions.  In the western U.S., winter particulate matter exceeds standards in a number of mountain basins subject to stagnant winter meteorology, such as California’s San Joaquin Valley and Salt Lake City, Utah.  Winter particulate matter arises from a complex interaction between emissions, boundary layer meteorology and atmospheric chemistry.  Aircraft measurements provide detailed understanding of these interactions by probing the vertical structure and composition of shallow, stratified boundary layers that are common in winter.  Coupled to this winter meteorology are chemical cycles involving heterogeneous and multiphase reactions that are prevalent during cold and dark conditions and that regulate the source of oxidants responsible for chemical transformation and production of secondary pollutants.  The 2015 WINTER campaign (Wintertime INvestigation of Transport, Emissions and Reactivity) surveyed the eastern U.S. with the NSF C-130 aircraft.  The 2017 UWFPS campaign (Utah Winter Fine Particulate Matter Study) focused on the mountain basins of Northern Utah using the NOAA Twin Otter aircraft.  Results from these studies serve to define the rates and variability of key heterogenous chemical processes and may point to new control strategies for wintertime air pollution based on insights into wintertime oxidants.  These results have broad significance to areas impacted by winter air pollution in Asia, Europe and North America.

Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/126471

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Playing Games in the Prescription Drug Market: Cost Implications and Legal Solutions: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
WHEN  Friday, Sep. 13, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Minot Room, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Support provided by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.
SPEAKER(S)  Scott Hemphill, Professor of Law, New York University of Law School
Stacie Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michael Sinha, Affiliated Researcher, Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law, Brigham & Women's Hospital
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egi7mh1j7c92f991&oseq=&c=09ac8b90-5c9a-11e5-b1d8-d4ae529cddd3&ch=0a216d70-5c9a-11e5-b280-d4ae529cddd3
CONTACT INFO	Kaitlyn Dowling
kdowling at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS  There is substantial debate over whether and how we should screen the general population to detect cancers such as breast, prostate, and colon cancer.
The principle of early detection is attractive and for some patients can be life-saving. Some effective screening programs, like that for cervical cancer, remain under-utilized, particularly in lower-income countries. By contrast, other screening tests (like PSA or thyroid exams) are used despite questionable evidence of benefit, leading to unnecessary procedures and patient stress and morbidity.
We will review the cancer screening quandary, including the roles of regulatory authorities and guideline committees like the USPSTF, and consider policies that could help resolve these debates and enhance implementation of effective cancer screening programs in the U.S. and around the world.
A light lunch will be provided.
Please note that attendees will need to show ID in order to enter the venue. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required. 
LINK  https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/playing-games-in-the-prescription-drug-market-cost-implications-and-legal-s

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Denver, Houston and New Orleans
WHEN  Friday, Sep. 13, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Ash Center Foyer, Floor 2, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S)  Hannah Cheever, MPP 2020
Michaela Gaziano, MPP 2020
Chris Geary, MPP 2020
Moderator: Michael Holland
Project Manager, Mayoral Leadership in Education Network
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	info at ash.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Join Harvard Kennedy School students Hannah Cheever, Michaela Gaziano, and Chris Geary for the first Ash Community Speaker Series event of the Fall 2019 semester. Cheever, Gaziano, and Geary will discuss their experiences working to advance innovative mayoral initiatives in education policy in Denver, Houston and New Orleans. All three students were recipients of Ash Center Fellowships which enabled them to work on strategic projects together with mayors and their senior staff over the course of the summer. Michael Holland, Project Manager, Mayoral Leadership in Education Network, will moderate.
LINK  https://ash.harvard.edu/event/ash-community-speaker-series-—-mayor’s-role-urban-education-lessons-denver-houston-and-new

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The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today
WHEN  Friday, Sep. 13, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Pedro Pérez Sarduy, Independent Cuban poet, writer, and journalist
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente
Chair, Cuba Studies Program
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Multimedia presentation that will use documentary films that examine the Afro-Cuban experience and explore Afro-Cuban culture based on the contemporary realities of black Cubans. The presentation will also analyze current Cuba-USA relations and the effects of the bloqueo/embargo on Cuban entrepreneurs, activists, artists and writers.
Pedro Pérez-Sarduy (Santa Clara, Cuba 1943) is a distinguished award winner poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster and cultural critic residing in London and Havana. He is co-editor of two seminal books AFROCUBA: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture (bilingual 1993, 1998) and Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba, 2000.
Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University. He is also Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/symbolism-race-cuba-today

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Eco-climatic legacies of a century of Eastern US reforestation
Friday, September 13
2:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Kimberly A. Novick, Associate Professor, Director, Ph.D. Program in Environmental Science

Environmental Science Seminar Series

Editorial Comment:  By the Civil War, MA was about 70% farmland (and towns) and 30% forests.  By the 1970s, MA was about 30% farmland (and towns) and 70% forests.

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Our Non-Christian Nation:  How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life
Friday, September 13
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes JAY WEXLER—author, humorist, and professor at the Boston University School of Law—for a discussion of his latest book, Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life.

About Our Non-Christian Nation
Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding their full participation in public life, bringing their arguments all the way to the Supreme Court. The law is on their side, but that doesn't mean that their attempts are not met with suspicion or outright hostility.
In Our Non-Christian Nation, Jay Wexler travels the country to engage the non-Christians who have called on us to maintain our ideals of inclusivity and diversity. With his characteristic sympathy and humor, he introduces us to the Summum and their Seven Aphorisms, a Wiccan priestess who would deck her City Hall with a pagan holiday wreath, and other determined champions of free religious expression. As Wexler reminds us, anyone who cares about pluralism, equality, and fairness should support a public square filled with a variety of religious and nonreligious voices. The stakes are nothing short of long-term social peace.

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Sunrise Beach Day
Friday, September 13
3 PM – 8 PM
Revere Beach, Revere
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/523363181803291/

Come have fun in the sun with your fellow Sunrisers! We will be hanging out from 3 to 8 pm - feel free to stay for a little or a while, and bring snacks to share and drinks to stay hydrated. Bringing frisbees/beach games would also be great!

When we arrive at the beach, we'll make a post with our exact location, which should be fairly close to the Revere Beach T station.

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Fentanyl, Inc.
Friday September 13
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline

Ben Westhoff in conversation with John Happel
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and confounding government agencies. Poignantly, Westhoff chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the U.S. and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand.

Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative reporter who has covered stories ranging from Los Angeles gangsta rap to Native American tribal disputes to government corruption. He is the author of two previous books: Original Gangstas about the birth of West Coast rap, and Dirty South about the southern rappers who re-invented hip-hop. He has written at length about culture, drugs, and corruption in the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, Village Voice, Vice, Oxford American, and elsewhere.

John Happel is a documentary photographer and photographic essayist. He received his B.A. degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University in 2005 and an M.A. degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri in 2017. His work has been honored by College Photographer of the Year, Photographer’s Forum, The Missouri Press Association, and The Society for Professional Journalists.

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Meat Planet:  Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
Friday, September 13
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes writer and historian BENJAMIN ALDES WURGAFT for a discussion of his latest book, Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food.

About Meat Planet
In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world’s first laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues, has spread like wildfire through the media. Meanwhile, cultured meat researchers race against population growth and climate change in an effort to make sustainable protein. Meat Planet explores the quest to generate meat in the lab—a substance sometimes called “cultured meat”—and asks what it means to imagine that this is the future of food.

Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon. In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems in our food system, the meat problem is not merely a problem of production. It is intrinsically social and political, and it demands that we examine questions of justice and desirable modes of living in a shared and finite world.

Wurgaft tells a story that could utterly transform the way we think of animals, the way we relate to farmland, the way we use water, and the way we think about population and our fragile ecosystem’s capacity to sustain life. He argues that even if cultured meat does not “succeed,” it functions—much like science fiction—as a crucial mirror that we can hold up to our contemporary fleshy dysfunctions.

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Oxford Global Hackathon
Saturday, September 14
8:00 AM to Sunday, September 15, 2019, 5:00 PM
The Foundation, 225 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.hackworks.com/en/OxfordHackathonBoston

Oxford Properties Group presents the first ever Oxford Global Hackathon.

An international initiative that seeks to innovate the building construction, structural engineering and architecture industries, this event will bring together a total of 500 people across 5 global cities.

Participants will collaborate over a single weekend and compete for a $5,000 USD prize package. Various experts will share insights through keynote talks, and attendees will present their final solution to a judging panel of industry leaders.

Join us in Boston for an unforgettable innovation experience!

Agenda
Day 1
8:00AM Registration & Breakfast
9:00AM Kickoff & Opening Remarks
10:00AM Hacking Begins
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM Hacking Continues
6:00PM Dinner
7:00PM Hacking Continues
12:00AM Venue Closes

Day 2
7:00AM Venue Opens & Breakfast
8:00AM Hacking
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM Expo
3:00PM Top 5 Pitches
4:30PM Awards & Celebrations
5:00PM Event End

http://www.oxfordhackathon.com
#OxfordInnovates

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Boston Area Gleaners Service Workday
Saturday, September 14
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Harvard Square, 18 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-area-gleaners-service-workday-registration-64573909301
Cost:  $10

Join Net Impact for a service workday with Boston Area Gleaners. We will collect surplus crops from a local farm so they can be donated.

Come join Net Impact Boston for a service workday with Boston Area Gleaners at a local farm in the Greater Boston area. 
Never gleaned before? Now's your chance! Gleaning is the act of collecting surplus crops from farmers' fields. In ancient times, landowners invited peasants onto their fields after the main harvest to take what was left over. Gleaning was a method of improving food security for the poor.

Boston Area Gleaners harvests high-quality fruits and vegetable that would otherwise go to waste, and distributes the nutritious produce to agencies serving families facing food insecurity. Together, we can build a sustainable supply chain of healthy produce from local farms to people in need.

Find out more at http://bostonareagleaners.org

**PLEASE NOTE** The exact location is dependent on crop availability, and will be determined closer to the event date. Carpool will be used to get to the farm- please let us know if you have a vehicle to use or require a ride.

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Extinction Rebellion NVDA training
Saturday, September 14
9 a.m.
First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/2019-09-14-nvda-training/

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

We recommend that you attend an XR orientation meeting before you attend our NVDA training. You can find the next orientation on our calendar.

Event logistics
Time: Saturday September 14, 9am until 2pm. Please arrive at 8:50pm to give yourself time to settle before the training begins, and please plan to stay the entire time.

Location: First Church Somerville

What to bring
wear comfortable clothes
your own plate, cup, and cutlery to minimize waste. We will provide snacks and drinks during a short break -- no disposable plastic water bottles please!
this training is free. If you would like to and can bring a contribution, we will collect cash donations for our trainer at the end of the session.

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

This training session will provide engagement on non-violence and the dynamics of civil disobedience, offer scenarios and practical information for taking collective action, and look at movement messages that convey powerful impact. Time to connect, get energized, and deepen readiness for being and acting together.

Contact mcusi at pm.me with questions.

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Tufts Women in Tech Conference
Saturday, September 14
9:30 AM – 5:30 PM EDT
Tufts, 574 Boston Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tufts-women-in-tech-conference-tickets-63621326099

Join us at WiT 2019 for workshops, talks, networking opportunities and more with amazing women in the field of Computer Science!

Women in Tech 2019 is Tufts University's third annual conference celebrating women and non-binary individuals in technology. The conference strives to foster a community that empowers women and non-binary people, expose attendees to new and exciting Computer Science concepts, and prepare them to launch careers in the tech field. There will be plenty of amazing speakers, demonstrations, and opportunities to network. The conference is open to all college and high school students, and there will be registration online closer to the date of the conference. It is free to attend and will be located at 574 Boston Ave at Tufts University

More information at https://tuftswit2019.weebly.com

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The MIT Press Bookstore Presents: the Ig Nobel Informal Lectures at MIT
Saturday, September 14
1:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Please join us for some improbably funny, informative, and high-spirited public lectures, in which the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it.

On Thursday, September 12, The Ig Nobel Prize Committee will award ten prizes to people who have done remarkable things, some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. On the following Saturday, September 14, we invite the winners to MIT and give them five minutes to describe and/or defend their work, then respond to insightful and amusing questions from the audience. Here's your chance to chat with an Ig Nobel Laureate!

All Ig Nobel Prize activities are organized by the Annals of Improbable Research.

The Ig Improbable Lectures are hosted by The MIT Press Bookstore.

For more information about the Lectures, call the MIT Press Bookstore at (617) 253-5249, email books at mit.edu, or visit the Annals of Improbable Research website here.

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Nature Inspired Design (Bio-mimicry) Workshop
Saturday, September 14
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
DCR's Revere Beach Reservation, Coastal District Office, One Eliot circle, Revere
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nature-inspired-design-bio-mimicry-workshop-tickets-67060631153

Suitable for adults and teenagers accompanied by an adult. Free. Join us as we look to nature for lessons and inspiration for designing a visitor center or other park structure that is resilient to climate change. Our method for investigating nature for this workshop will be reading summaries of biological literature. Our next workshop in this series on Sept 21 will rely heavily on direct observation of nature outside.

Meet at: DCR’s North Region Coastal District Office at One Eliot Circle Revere, MA (The tan DCR building at the corner of Dolphin Avenue). Limited Free Parking available along Revere Beach Boulevard. MBTA	Blue line, Revere Beach or Beachmont Station. Mass.gov/dcr/calendar 

For more information contact Matthew Nash at Matthew.Nash at mass.govor 781-656-1485
For the program calendar of the DCR state parks visit mass.gov/dcr/calendar
All Programs are FREE and open to the public. 
Children must be accompanied by an adult. 
For program cancellations phone 978-937-2094 ext. 121, one hour before start time.
Bring Water. Strongly recommend sunscreen, a hat, and sunglasses as we may have time for some outside work.

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Plastic Sea, Changing Earth RECEPTION
Saturday, September 14
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Belmont Public Library, 336 Concord Avenue, Belmont
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plastic-sea-changing-earth-reception-tickets-71284085619

The BGA at the Belmont Library
PLASTIC SEA/Changing Earth
The Quilts of Agusta Augustsson
(Sept. 7-Oct. 23)
Open during library hours: https://belmontpubliclibrary.net/
Reception, Sat., Sept. 14, 2-4PM Assembly Room

Melrose artist Agusta Agustsson presents a series of quilts about Climate Change.

"My fiber work is influenced by my work as a landscape artist. Almost every day when I take the time to look there is something poignantly beautiful to see. It might be the sun striking a cloud formation or the texture of leafless trees climbing a mountain. I don’t want to express a vista in my work, but rather those clear, almost painful moments of sight. I want to evoke the natural world, not render it."

This show is held in conjuction with the show at the Belmont Gallery of Art
IMPACT: Climate Change
(Sept. 8-Oct. 13)
Opening Reception, Sunday, Sept. 15, 1-3PM
This timely and powerful juried exhibit features contemporary tapestries by over two dozen tapestry artists from Tapestry Weavers in New England (TWINE) and Tapestry Weavers West (TWW) who use their work to address Climate Change and the destruction happening to our planet. The exhibit moves on to San Francisco after being showcased in Belmont.

IMPACT: Climate Change - Special Events at the Gallery (Free)
Sun., Oct. 6: Film Screenings of two Climate Change Documentaries: the Academy Award nominated Chasing Coral together with Chasing Ice
Sun., Sept. 29: Environmental Panel Discussion. More details to follow.

Questions?Please contact Rebecca Richards at: admin at belmontgallery.org

BGA Regular Staffed Hours: Thurs., 10-4; Fri., 10-12; and Sat./Sun. 1-4.
*Visitors also welcome to stop by during Homer Bldg. business hours: Mon.-Weds. 10-4

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Climapalooza at Herter Park
Saturday, September 14
4 p.m.
Herter Park, 1175 Soldiers Field Road, Brighton
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/climapalooza-herter-park/

Climate themed music and performance, part of the Herter Park series that’s going all summer. Coral Reef affinity group will flyer and chat with people about XR and climate anxiety. We are also looking into how we can participate in the performance. Happy for any and all XR folks to join us. Performance starts at 6 but we’ll be there at 4 to chat with people while they wait. Sign up to get meeting info.

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SUMMER SOL:  a global-local journey to benefit the launch of the UFI Community Land Trust
Saturday, September 14
4-7pm 
Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, 487 Norfolk Street, Mattapan
RSVP at http://summersol.splashthat.com
Cost:  $60 

You are invited to the launch party of the new Urban Farming Community Land Trust, an organization founded to develop and protect growing spaces which regenerate urban lands and livelihoods. 
 
The party -- SUMMER SOL -- is an abundant evening of catered delicacies and stirring cocktails, inspired by our local partner farms & vendors. It's one of Boston'smost beautiful parties of the year, at the city’s oldest and newest urban farm, originally built in 1786 and now immaculately restored into an incredible center for community innovation. All guests will be asked to make a heartfelt contribution -- $60 at a minimum, though we’ll ask that you contribute to the extent you are able.  

Enjoy an evening of catered delicacies and stirring cocktails, inspired by diverse international cuisines, and prepared with the freshest produce from our local partner farms + vendors, hosted at the incredible Fowler Clark Epstein Farm

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Sunday, September 15
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BOSTON'S 15TH ANNUAL HUB ON WHEELS CITYWIDE RIDE
Sunday, September 15
8am
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
RSVP at https://hubonwheels.com

Enjoy a ride down CAR-FREE Storrow Drive and across the Emerald Necklace, exploring Boston’s vibrant neighborhoods by bike!  This year’s ride, presented by Mayor Walsh and EF Education First, will take place on  2019 and will be capped at 5,000 entries.  Register today to guarantee your spot!

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10th Annual Boston Local Food Festival
Sunday, September 15
11:00am to 5:00pm
The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Boston

For one spectacular day each year, SBN transforms the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the City of Boston into the nation's largest local & sustain

Boston Local Food Festival is a FREE outdoor festival that showcases farmers, local
restaurants, food trucks, specialty food producers, fisher folks, and organizations focusing on healthy food and fitness from New England. The festival also features lively chef & DIY demos, a seafood throwdown competition, diverse music and performances, family fun zone and more.

RSVP is not required but allows us to send you important updates about the Boston Local Food Festival! For a list of vendors, sponsors and activities, please visit bostonlocalfoodfestival.com or contact us at 1-617-395-0250.

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Local Martial Arts Masters Perform
WHEN  Sunday, Sep. 15, 2019, 2 – 4 p.m.
WHERE  Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Athletic
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Tai Chi Club
Harvard Wushu Club
Harvard Taekwondo Club & Bu Kung Fu Club
SPEAKER(S)  Yon Lee, Harvard's Tai Chi Master
Winchel P.C. Woo, Grandmaster
COST  From $10
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp
CONTACT INFO	yonlee at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS	
As a fourth generation disciple of the Tiger Crane style, Yon Lee, has for decades devoted to lectures, exhibitions, conferences on Tai Chi, Tiger Crane, and Chi Kung. This year, local Martial Arts Masters are kindly invited to give splendid performances for audiences who are interested in health and martial arts.
This event is a fundraiser for BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.
LINK  http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~htctc/instructor.php

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Detox your yard
Sunday, September 15
6 to 9
1 Fayette Park, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Biodiversity-for-a-Livable-Climate/events/264030374/

Laura Stabell is a master gardener, arborist, horticulturist and naturalist whose work has been featured in magazines and on the Garden Conservancy open garden tour.

Laura will discuss general toxicology issues, what toxic substances may be found in your back yard, how they came to be there, and the role plants can play in cleaning the soil. She will talk about how to remove toxins from the garden and the food supply using bio-remediation, and what you can do to prevent toxic yard syndrome.

Questions can be texted beforehand to Laura at 203-313-2828

What to bring
An item of food or drink to share, tending to the healthy and organic.
Important to know
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate is a small non-profit so a $10 donation is requested.

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Monday, September 16
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Bangladesh Rising Conference
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 16, 2019, 8:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Gutman Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Conferences, Education, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University; Former Chief Economist, World Bank
Abdur Rouf Talukder, Secretary of Finance, Government of Bangladesh
Reshmaan Hussam, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Iqbal Quadir, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Kazi Aminul Islam, Executive Chairman, Bangladesh Investment Development Authority
Gary Bass, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Shamsul Alam, Senior Secretary, General Economics Division, Bangladesh Planning Commission
Hossain Taufiq Imam, Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Abul Kalam Azad, Principal SDG Coordinator, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; Former Principal Secretary, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	Selmon Rafey
srafey at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with the third fastest GDP growth rate. Despite its small geographical size, Bangladesh is on its way to becoming an economic and cultural giant. In our upcoming Bangladesh Rising Conference, experts from Harvard and peer institutions, as well as governing bodies and organizations across Bangladesh, will discuss the nation’s economy, history, art and heritage, entrepreneurship, public health, and its actions to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Keynote speakers include Kaushik Basu, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, who will lead a panel on the Bangladesh economy and the nation’s economic resurgence through foreign investment. Abul Kalam Azad, Principal SDG Coordinator with the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, will discuss the current efforts toward meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
LINK  https://mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/bangladesh-rising/

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Book Launch: Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 16, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Ethics, Health Sciences, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
SPEAKER(S)  I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center
Holly Fernandez Lynch, John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Assistant Faculty Director of Online Education, and Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Jennifer Miller, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine: General Internal Medicine and Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine
Moderator: Elena Fagotto, Co-investigator, Project on Transparency and Technology for Better Health and former Director of Research, Transparency Policy Project, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	Kaitlyn Dowling
kdowling at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In June 2019, Cambridge University Press published "Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States." This volume, edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and Barbara J. Evans, stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2017 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to reach better understandings of this health policy buzzword, recognizing its true limitations, so that transparency can be utilized as a solution to pressing health policy issues.
LINK  https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/book-launch-transparency-in-health-and-health-care-in-the-united-states

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Speaker: Marianna Linz
Monday, September 16
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54, Room 915 (Ida Green Lounge), 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

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The Time for Talk is Over: Climate Justice for Future Generations
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 16, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Morgan Courtroom, Austin 308, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	East Asian Legal Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Antonio Oposa, Environmental activist in the Philippines and Founder, The Law of Nature Foundation
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	Mike Zaisser
DETAILS  Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12 p.m. You are invited to bring your own lunch.
LINK	http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

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Ocean Futures: Conversations with Jim McCarthy
Monday, September 16
3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Throughout his career, Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography Jim McCarthy has blended his scientific curiosity about life in the oceans with his commitment to a broader public understanding of human impacts on the Earth system. In honor of his 75th year, and in recognition of his many contributions to science, to education, and to the assessment of climate change as a global challenge, HUCE invites you to join Jim along with five visionary leaders in science and policy for a discussion of the future of the oceans and the Earth. 

OCEAN FUTURES: Conversations with JIM McCARTHY
With panelists:
SALLIE (Penny) CHISHOLM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JEREMY JACKSON, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Smithsonian Institution
JANE LUBCHENCO, Oregon State University; former Administrator, NOAA
WILLIAM MOOMAW, Tufts University
BUD RIS, Boston Green Ribbon Commission; former President, New England Aquarium

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

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A Conversation with Don Eigler: Moving Atoms One by One
Monday, September 16
3:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 34-401 (Grier), 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

For the final event in the Perspectives in Nanotechnology seminar series, MIT.nano is delighted to host Don Eigler. Rather than present from behind a podium, Mr. Eigler will sit with a former student and colleague for a wide ranging conversation about his accomplishments and career.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration details to come.

Biography
Don Eigler is a physicist, Kavli Laureate and former IBM Fellow. Don was the founding leader of the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Project at IBM’s Almaden Research Center.  While he is most often noted for his 1989 demonstration of the ability to manipulate individual atoms, it was his seminal efforts to take tunneling microscopes to low temperatures that have had the greatest impact.  While at IBM, his research was aimed at understanding the physics of nanometer-scale structures and exploring their applications to computation. In 2011 Don left IBM to found The Wetnose Institute for Advanced Pelagic Studies, a private institute devoted to creating opportunities for scientists to conduct studies free from the administrative responsibilities, financial demands and diversionary cacophony that accompany more traditional positions. 

Don received both his bachelors and doctorate degrees from the University of California San Diego and was named its Outstanding Alumnus of the year in 1999. He has been recognized for his accomplishments with the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, the Davisson-Germer Prize, the Dannie Heineman Prize, the Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, the Grand Award for Science and Technology, the Nanoscience Prize, and numerous honorary lectureships. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Max Planck Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of honorary doctoral degrees from the Technical University of Delft and the University of Warwick. 

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Boston Cannabis Week Presents: Conscious Community
Monday, September 16
5:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
District Hall Boston, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bcw-presents-conscious-community-tickets-67779814249

Panel discussions featuring industry leaders, legal experts, executives , regulatory labs, and entrepreneurs.

The Educated Consumer: (Starting at 6:15PM)
Consumer Rights & Laws
CBD
Mapping of resources
Next steps in Prohibition
Recreational vs. Medicinal Markets
Sales
State & Federal
Jurisdictions
The Massachusetts Hemp Market
Social Equity & Economic Empowerment for Entrepreneurs: (Starting at 7:30PM)
Navigating a Start-Up in the Cannabis Industry
Qualifications
The Application Process
Funding
Marketing Challenges
Labs & Testing (Starting at 8:45PM)
Laws
Procedures
Operations
Quality Control
EVENT IS 21+

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Preparing for & Competing with the ‘Tech Titans of China’
Monday, September 16
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT Stata Center, 32-123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mitefcamb.z2systems.com/np/clients/mitefcamb/eventRegistration.jsp?event=3414&_ga=2.70154960.1330636012.1565914068-1895775866.1458499108
Cost:  $10 - $58

Last August, the Economist argued that there is a new geography of innovation in a cover story titled, “Peak Valley.” Looming large in this new geography is China. They’ve transformed their economy from that of a low-cost manufacturer to a cutting-edge innovator. With their “9-9-6” de facto weekly work schedule, China’s tech companies are relentless in their pursuit of success, and it shows.

China has now achieved near parity with the US in venture capital investments, something inconceivable even 5 years ago. It’s been reported that the race to lead the future of technology comes down to just $6 billion dollars with China’s venture investments rising to $105 billion in 2018, nearly matching the U.S. at $111 billion.

Google China’s former President, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee now heads China’s largest VC Fund and is aggressively leading their efforts to be the world leader in AI. Further signaling their global ambitions, Chinese technology companies such as Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, and other titans have very active Corporate VC offices in both the US and Israel. They are no longer content to compete in their domestic market.

Spearheaded by Huawei, China’s increasingly dominant presence in the tech sector, especially in the highly strategic 5G wireless market, has spurred endless headlines as the most visible flashpoint in the escalating U.S.-China trade war. Rising tariffs – and tensions- have spooked the capital markets from Wall Street to the City of London to Hong Kong. Investors are prepared for a long period of tension.

It’s clear that the rise of China's tech companies and intense competition from the sector is just beginning and it’s presenting challenges for US companies now and will present increasing challenges well into the future.

In this fireside chat, Rebecca Fannin, an expert on China, journalist, speaker and author of the new book  “Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global,“ will sit down with serial entrepreneur, professor, innovation consultant, angel investor, board member and startup mentor Mike Grandinetti for a fireside chat to discuss:

The US-China tech race
Which Chinese tech companies are making waves
The Tech sectors that matter most in China's grab for superpower status
What US startup founders can learn from Chinese founders
Join us on September 16th and come ready with your questions for Rebecca, who has the inside scoop on the ammunition venture capitalists, startup founders, and others impacted by -- or interested in -- cashing in on the Chinese tech industry need to prepare and compete.

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Fight Like a Mother: Shannon Watts Book Talk & Signing
Monday, September 16 
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
More Than Words Warehouse Bookstore, 242 East Berkley Street, Boston

Meet Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and author of Fight Like a Mother.

ABOUT FIGHT LIKE A MOTHER
Hear the inspiring story of how Shannon Watts went from stay-at-home mom to “the NRA’s worst nightmare.” What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, grew into Moms Demand Action, a national movement with millions of supporters and a powerful grassroots network of local chapters in all fifty states.

This incredible account of how one mother’s cry for change became the driving force behind gun safety progress will inspire everyone—mothers and fathers, students and teachers, lawmakers, and anyone motivated to enact change—to get to work transforming hearts and minds and passing laws that save lives.

Ticketing Ticket proceeds support More Than Words, empowering system involved youth through job training and mentorship. Set your own ticket price and receive a copy of the book when you give over $26.

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Boston New Technology FinTech & Blockchain Startup Showcase #BNT105 (21+)
Monday, September 16
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Foley Hoag, LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-new-technology-fintech-blockchain-startup-showcase-bnt105-21-tickets-67544081165
Cost:  $0 – $99

See 6 innovative and exciting local FinTech & Blockchain tech demos, presented by startup founders

Network with attendees from the Boston-area startup/tech community
Get your free headshot photo (non-intrusively watermarked) from The Boston Headshot!
Enjoy dinner with beer, wine and more

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

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Death to Fascism: Louis Adamic's Fight for Democracy Reclaiming the life of a progressive visionary
Monday, September 16
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-john-enyeart-tickets-67300502615

Born to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journalist. Behind the scenes, he played a leading role in a coalition of black intellectuals and writers, working-class militants, ethnic activists, and others that worked for a multi ethnic America and against fascism.
About the Author: John P. Enyeart is professor and chair of the Department of History at Bucknell University. He is the author of The Quest for “Just and Pure Law”: Rocky Mountain Workers and American Social Democracy, 1870–1924.

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Mental Health and Africa
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 16, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, WCC-1015, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Law School Project on Disability
SPEAKER(S)  Elizabeth Kamundia, Kenya Human Rights Commission
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies
Vikram Harshad Pate, The Pershing Square, Professor of Global Health
Moderator: Michael Stein, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
CONTACT INFO	hpod at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Join HPOD, GMHI, and the Department of Africa and African American Studies for a discussion on mental health and Africa
Light refreshments will be served.
LINK  http://hpod.law.harvard.edu/events/event/mental-health-and-africa

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Tuesday, September 17
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BlackRock Demonstration
Tuesday, September 17
Meet at Carmen Park, corner of Congress and North Street, at 7:30 am and again at 4:30 pm. We will then proceed as a group to our location in front of BlackRock’s offices at 60 State Street where “school will be in session” and we’ll be “giving lessons” from 8 to 9 am and again from 5 to 6 pm. 
RSVP for 7:30 session: https://xrmass.org/action/black-rock-report-card-rebellion/
for 4:30 session:  https://xrmass.org/action/blackrock-report-card-rebellion-part-2/

BlackRock’s report card is out and it’s time to school BlackRock on responsible corporate behavior.

On August 30th, BlackRock and other top asset managers filed with the SEC, as required by law, their 2018–2019 shareholder votes, revealing that both asset managers wielded their considerable shareholder power to block the boards of directors of ExxonMobil, Duke Energy, General Motors, Ford, and Dominion Energy from facing accountability on climate change, prioritizing short-termism over the creation of long-term shareholder value. BlackRock, one of the two largest asset managers in the world, was also a top shareholder at each of those companies at the time of their shareholder meetings.  Instead of using their power to promote leadership on climate change, BlackRock is using it to shield industries driving the climate crisis from accountability (https://medium.com/majority-action/blackrock-and-vanguard-protect-fossil-fuel-energy-and-auto-execs-from-facing-accountability-on-71086bac46ba)

Why September 17th? This is the date when the Majority Actions/Climate Majority Project releases its 2019 Asset Manager Climate Scorecard (based on what asset managers filed with the SEC) This scorecard is the impetus and inspiration for this action.

TIME FOR TEACHING SOME LESSONS!
We’ll meet at Carmen Park, corner of Congress and North St, at 7:30 am and again at 4:30 pm. We will then proceed as a group to our location in front of BlackRock’s offices at 60 State St. where “school will be in session” and we’ll be “giving lessons” from 8 to 9 am and again from 5 to 6 pm. 

We'll be handing out report cards on the terrible voting record BlackRock has among other big problems and "schooling" BlackRock employees on their way in and out as well as the public passing by. Please note the two different times we will be gathering. You are welcome to join either or both.
Please sign up so we can send you any updates or changes!
7:30 session: https://xrmass.org/action/black-rock-report-card-rebellion/
4:30 session:
https://xrmass.org/action/blackrock-report-card-rebellion-part-2/

This action is being led by our friends, Mothers Out Front, with support from Extinction Rebellion. Using the Climate Scorecard as a jumping off point, Mothers Out Front are designing a “report card/school” theme that promises to be impactful, engaging, and educational!

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Speaker Series: Adam Moss
Tuesday, September 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Adam Moss was the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine from 2004–2019. During his 15-year tenure he oversaw an ambitious digital expansion of parent company New York Media, which included five digital publications in addition to New York: Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Grub Street, each of which were created from scratch and collectively reach an audience of 50 million visitors each month. Under Moss’s leadership New York and nymag.com won 41 National Magazine Awards. Before joining New York Magazine, Moss was the editor of the New York Times Magazine, as well as assistant managing editor of the paper, overseeing the magazine, Book Review, culture and style. Moss was founding editor of 7 Days, a New York weekly magazine, and before that, he worked at Esquire magazine in a variety of positions.  He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oberlin College, his alma mater, and is a member of the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. While at the Shorenstein Center, Moss will lead a group project that focuses on building a better political media landscape.

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Humor & Geoengineering
Tuesday, September 17
12-1pm
Harvard, HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th floor, Cambridge
RSVP at acchang at seas.harvard.edu

We are joined by Pablo Suarez and Bob Mankoff
Humor, like geoengineering, is about the clash between what is and what could be. In this unconventional, interactive session, researcher-turned-humanitarian Pablo Suarez and illustrious cartoonist Bob Mankoff will engage participants in exploring how the power of intelligent humor can be harnessed to support learning and dialogue about difficult issues. Focusing on climate risks and the prospects of geoengineering, we will share an experience of how humor works, how it can be used and misused, and what it can do to enable fruitful discussions about tough issues.
 
It will be a departure from the format of our regular talks with some interactive tasks for the audience. Lunch will be provided with an RSVP here.
 
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Women’s Political Empowerment A Century After the 19th Amendment: Reflections by Women Mayors
Tuesday, September 17
12:00pm to 1:30pm
BU, Rajen Kilachand Center Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (101), 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://bit.ly/womens-political-empowerment

One hundred years ago, Congress launched the process that was completed in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, stating the right to vote could not be denied or abridged on the basis of sex. One hundred years have passed, and we still have not achieved gender equality in politics. For example, only 21% of the mayors of cities with a population over 30,000 people are women. How much has really changed since then? What experiences are women in political leadership having today?Join the Initiative on Cities to welcome three Massachusetts women mayors who will reflect on these questions in light of their experiences as candidates and political leaders. Our panelists are Mayors Ruthanne Fuller of Newton, Donna Holaday of Newburyport (BU alumna ’79), and Yvonne Spicer of Framingham. Moderated by Virginia Sapiro, Professor of Political Science and Dean Emerita of Arts & Sciences.Lunch served.Co-sponsored by the Howard Thurman Center, Political Science Department, and BU College Democrats.

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Greentown Learn Manufacturing Initiative Supplier & Innovation Showcase 
Tuesday, September 17
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentown-learn-manufacturing-initiative-supplier-innovation-showcase-tickets-62653708930

Please join us for The Manufacturing Initiative’s largest event of the year, bringing together our communities of suppliers, startups, and supporters to showcase, pitch, and connect!

The Manufacturing Initiative connects startups with physical product to regional manufacturers, engineering firms, and other companies essential to their supply chain, as well as product development education and resources. To date we have worked with over 170 startups, 270 suppliers, and made connections resulting in 120+ contracts and purchase orders, millions of dollars in economic value.
At this event, suppliers will showcase and hardware startups will pitch to a panel of manufacturers and engineers for an award of $10,000 to solve specific engineering or prototyping challenges. We will also be joined by our ecosystem partners and legislative supporters, share exciting news about the future of the Manufacturing Initiative. Lunch will be provided!

Agenda: 
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch and supplier showcase 
1:00pm - 1:10pm: Opening Remarks from Greentown Learn and House Leader, Representative Joseph Wagner
1:10pm - 1:45pm: Startups pitch engineering challenges 
1:45pm - 2:20pm: Supplier panel deliberates and selects grant winner 
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Closing remarks


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"Sensing Human Behavior with Smart Garments", Prof. Trisha Andrew, University of Massachusetts
Tuesday, September 17
3:30pm to 4:30pm
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

The Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series presents Prof. Trisha Andrew from the University of Massachusetts, who will present her talk "Sensing Human Behavior with Smart Garments". Refreshments will be served. Please join us!

Sensing Human Behavior with Smart Garments
Apparel with embedded self-powered sensors can revolutionize human behavior monitoring by leveraging everyday clothing as the sensing substrate. The key is to inconspicuously integrate sensing elements and portable power sources into garments while maintaining the weight, feel, comfort, function and ruggedness of familiar clothes and fabrics. Prof. Andrew's lab uses reactive vapor coating to transform commonly-available, mass-produced fabrics, threads or premade garments into comfortably-wearable electronic devices by directly coating them with uniform and conformal films of electronically-active conjugated polymers. By carefully choosing the repeat unit structure of the polymer coating, Prof. Andrew's group accesses a number of fiber- or fabric-based circuit components, including resistors, depletion-mode transistors, diodes, thermistors, and pseudocapacitors. Further, vapor-deposited electronic polymer films are notably wash- and wear-stable and withstand mechanically-demanding textile manufacturing routines, enabling us to use sewing, weaving, knitting or embroidery procedures to create self-powered garment sensors. She will describe her efforts in monitoring heartrate, breathing, joint motion/flexibility, gait and sleep posture using loose-fitting garments.

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Reducing the cost of decarbonization through cutting-edge carbon capture innovation
Tuesday, September 17
5:15pm to 6:20pm
MIT,  Building E51, Wong Auditorium, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reducing-the-cost-of-decarbonization-through-cutting-edge-carbon-capture-innovation-tickets-70515368365

Brian Anderson, Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
This talk will highlight state-of-the-art carbon capture R&D and discuss crosscutting scientific and technological initiatives underway at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory to meet some of the nation’s most important energy challenges—delivering reliable, clean, low-cost, and low-carbon energy.

About the speaker:
Brian J. Anderson SM ’04 PhD ’05, is director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In 2011, he was awarded an Honor Achievement Award from the DOE for his role on a team that responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He is a recipient of the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Anderson earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at West Virginia University and his master's and doctorate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Please note that we will open our doors to unregistered participants 15 minutes before the event start time. To guarantee your seat, we recommend you register and arrive at least 15 minutes early.

If you are not able to attend, note there will be a high-quality recording of this seminar made available on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/MITEnergyInitiative) about a week following the event.

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American Democracy: Creators, Gatekeepers & Disruptors
Tuesday, September 17
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Harvard, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-democracy-creators-gatekeepers-disruptors-tickets-71419255917

HGSE's Office of Student Affairs and the HKS Center for Public Leadership is hosting an event called "American Democracy: Creators, Gatekeepers, & Disruptors" which is taking place on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2019 from 5:30pm-7:00pm in Askwith Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This event is intended to be a conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Edna Chavez, and Beth Fukumoto to discuss what American Democracy means in 2019 as we gear up for the upcoming presidential election. We hope to educate and mobilize the Harvard and extended Boston communities on numerous social justice issues.

Join us for what is set to be a powerful conversation with three powerful women!

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Gutman Library Book Talk: Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Gutman Conference Center, E4 & E5, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Gutman Library
SPEAKER(S)  Paul Reville, Former Massachusetts secretary of education and Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at HGSE
CONTACT INFO  myanne_krivoshey at gse.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In "Broader, Bolder, Better," authors Elaine Weiss, of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education campaign, and Paul Reville, former Massachusetts secretary of education, make a compelling case for a fundamental change in the way we view education. The authors argue for a large-scale expansion of community-school partnerships in order to provide holistic, integrated student supports (ISS) from cradle to career, including traditional wraparound services like health, mental health, nutrition, and family supports, as well as expanded access to opportunities such as early childhood education, after school activities, and summer enrichment programs.
LINK  https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/broader,-bolder,-better

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Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Religion
SPONSOR	Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT	CSWR, 617.495.4476
DETAILS  Soul Fire Farm, cofounded by author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman, is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. Penniman’s new, James Beard award-winning book, Farming While Black, offers the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim their rightful place of dignified agency in our food system. Join us to learn how you too can be part of the movement for food sovereignty and help build a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community.
Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol educator, farmer/peyizan, author, and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. She has been farming since 1996, and co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2011 with the mission to end racism in our food system. She holds an MA in Science Education and a BA in Environmental Science and International Development from Clark University, and is a Manye (Queen Mother) in Vodun.

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Environmental Voter Project BUILDING THE ELECTORATE FUNDRAISER
Tuesday, September 17
5:30 - 7:30pm 
The Bostonian Hotel, 26 North Street, Boston (near Faneuil Hall)
RSVP at https://www.environmentalvoter.org/events/building-electorate-fundraiser
Cost:  $50 - ?

RSVP for the Environmental Voter Project's 'Building the Electorate' Fundraiser on September 17th! 

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Sway: How to Persuade and Influence Others
Tuesday, September 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Rabb Hall , Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sway-how-to-persuade-and-influence-others-tickets-68313765311

In order to achieve our goals, we need the ability to sell our ideas to others. Without the skills of persuasion and influence, we put our relationships and our credibility in jeopardy. In this program, you’ll learn immediately-applicable techniques to positively influence others. You’ll leave energized and ready to go out and put your newly-enhanced skills to good use.
Presented by Barabara Roche

Barbara is an organizational development and communication specialist with over 20 years helping organizations thrive. She is also a lecturer in the Management Communications program at the Wharton School of Business. She is best known for blending her theatrical experience, Irish Catholic humor, and hard-won leadership skills to help professionals become more effective leaders and communicators. She is the author of Commit to Confidence: 30 Strategies to Help Women Step Up and Stand Out. A native Bostonian and proud member of Red Sox Nation, Barbara holds a master's degree in psychology from Northeastern University. In 2005 and 2008 respectively, she founded two consulting companies: Barbara Roche & Associates (leadership development and team-building) and SpeakWell Partners (public speaking and leadership communication).
This program is sponsored by Bank of America.

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Growing Up Puritan: The Family in 17th-century New England
Tuesday, September 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/growing-up-puritan-the-family-in-17th-century-new-england-tickets-69958703365

Judith Graham will examine the challenges of rearing children in the New World.
An examination of childhood in seventeenth and early eighteenth century Massachusetts, with an emphasis on the family life of the diarist, councilor, and judge Samuel Sewall (1652–1729) and his wife Hannah (Hull) Sewall, and of their contemporaries. How did they approach birth, the illness and death of children, discipline, religious and secular education, preparation for a religious calling, courtship and marriage, and intergenerational relationships? What evidence have historians gathered to illuminate Puritan family life?

Judith Graham earned a BA in history from Brandeis University and a PhD in history at Boston College. She is the author of Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall (2000) and the editor of Out Here at the Front: The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall (2004). 
She was an editor at the Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, working on the papers of John Adams and the family correspondence, and she served as series editor of the two-volume Diaries and Autobiographical Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams(2013). She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Image: A Little Pretty Pocket-book: Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly… Being a New Attempt to Teach Children the Use of the English Alphabet, by way of Diversion. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1787

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Ben Franklin Circles: Tranquility
Tuesday, September 17
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 15th Floor, "Socrates” Room, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ben-franklin-circles-tranquility-tickets-64621141574

Ben Franklin Circles meet monthly to discuss one of Franklin's classic virtues and how they relate to our own experiences, goals and perspectives on life, and how they apply to the world today. We end the evenings with setting individual commitments: what we each want to work on around the discussed virtue until the following meeting for self-improvement. See the list of 13 virtues below. So far we have discussed Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, and Cleanliness.
Ben Franklin’s 13 Core Virtues: 
Temperance
Silence
Order
Resolution
Frugality
Industry
Sincerity
Justice 
Moderation 
Cleanliness
Tranquility - 9/17
Chastity
Humility
Join us at our upcoming discussion on September 17th focused on Tranquility.

When, Where & Other Logistics:
Please note that when you get to the 15th floor, the glass door is locked. Please call 617-548-8061 to get buzzed in (# is also listed on the glass door on the left hand side.)

We are in the Socrates room on the 15th floor inside Impact Hub Boston (once past the glass doors, take a right and another right, and just before walking into a huge open space, the room is on your left.) If you get turned around, you can ask the nice the Impact Hub Boston hosts at the desk or reach them at 617-548-8061 and they'll help guide you to the right place. 

We know our meeting time may overlap with dinner time for some, and warmly invite you to bring your meal or snacks. We will have water available. 

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Poisoner in Chief
Tuesday, September 17
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.

The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace—including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world.

Stephen Kinzer, author of groundbreaking books about U.S. clandestine operations, draws on new documentary research and original interviews to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown Americans of the twentieth century. Gottlieb’s reckless experiments on “expendable” human subjects destroyed many lives, yet he considered himself deeply spiritual. He lived in a remote cabin without running water, meditated, and rose before dawn to milk his goats.

During his twenty-two years at the CIA, Gottlieb worked in the deepest secrecy. Only since his death has it become possible to piece together his astonishing career at the intersection of extreme science and covert action. Poisoner in Chief reveals him as a clandestine conjurer on an epic scale.

Stephen Kinzer is the author of over ten books, including The True Flag, The Brothers, Overthrow, and All the Shah’s Men. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and writes a world affairs column for the Boston Globe. He lives in Boston.

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Protest Health and Safety Training
Tuesday, September 17
7 p.m.
First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/climate-strike-protest-health/

Local street medics are offering a two hour training on how to keep yourself and your friends safer at protests, ahead of the Global Climate Strikes on September 20 and September 27. We'll be teaching about:
getting ready for a protest: self care, dressing for success, and the importance of buddies
being safe during a protest: a taxonomy of protest attendees, practicing situational awareness, staying & spreading calm, preventing & recognizing heat illnesses
just in case: being safer in the event of police or fascist violence, specifically chemical weapons and handcuffs (this training does NOT include how to do an eye flush)
after the action: coping/unwinding/transforming tough events
This event is co-hosted by Extinction Rebellion. It is a general protest health and safety training for anyone participating in the Global Climate Strikes. The training is from 7-9pm.

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You're It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most
Tuesday, September 17
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eric-j-mcnulty-in-conversation-with-lenny-marcus-and-barry-dorn-tickets-67512725379

Today, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. An active shooter. A media controversy. A data breach. In You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most, directors and researchers at Harvard’s innovative National Preparedness Leadership Initiative take you to the front lines of some of the toughest decisions facing our nation’s leaders-from how to mobilize during a hurricane or in the aftermath of a bombing to halting a raging pandemic. They also take readers through the tough decision-making inside the world’s largest companies, hottest startups, and leading nonprofits.

About the Authors:  Eric J. McNulty holds an appointment as Associate Director of Research and for the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work centers on leadership in high-stakes, high-stress situations. He is currently working on a book based on meta-leadership, the core leadership framework of the group’s curriculum. He teaches in graduate-level courses on public health leadership, conflict resolution, and negotiation as well as serving as Program Co-director for the Leading in Health Systems executive education program. He holds a similar appointment at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard Chan School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Leonard J. Marcus, Ph.D. is the founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard and an internationally recognized authority on leadership during times of crisis and change.

Dr. Barry Dorn, M.D., M.H.C.M. is Senior Advisor of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard T.H. Chan of Public Health and faculty member of The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. He is a retired orthopedic surgeon

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Producers in Crisis! Presenting a Study on Costs of Production in Latin America
Tuesday, September 17
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
George Howell Coffee, 505 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farmgate-producers-in-crisis-presenting-a-study-on-costs-of-production-in-tickets-71089571823

Coffee is currently being traded at the lowest prices in more than 15 years. Specialty coffee demands fairer prices for better-quality coffee. But without knowing how much farmers need to spend to produce a pound of coffee, and how this varies across countries and production methods, it’s hard to know what “sustainable prices” really are.

This presentation will uncover how much it costs to produce coffee in 7 Latin American countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The majority of coffee producers are not aware of exactly how much it costs to produce a pound of coffee, leaving them unable to effectively budget and allocate resources throughout the year, keeping them in a continually vulnerable situation. By breaking down the cost structure for the average coffee farmer in each origin, we can begin to uncover what it takes for producers to operate sustainably.

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JP Solar Professionals Happy Hour
Tuesday, September 17
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Brassica Kitchen + Cafe, 3710 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jp-solar-professionals-happy-hour-tickets-66983813389

Join neighbors friends and solar indistry professionals for drinks, friendly arguments, and the occasional war-story. This month we meet at Brassica Kitchen in Forest Hills. Note that we are meetin on a Tuesday this month.

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MassTLC’s Tech & Innovation Conference
Wednesday, September 18
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Design Center, Drydock Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.masstlc.org/techandinnovation/
Cost:  $49 – $89

With new and more sophisticated technologies being developed at such a fast pace, developers, architects, product managers, security professionals, and others in the tech industry must parse out the most effective tools, methods, processes, and team building strategies to be successful.

This one-day, hands-on event, will provide a both a glimpse into the future as well as tools and techniques for the here and now to utilize next gen networks, advanced methods in machine learning and AI, optimizing hybrid/cloud, and gleaning ROI as companies make investments and adopt programs.

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International Order and the Persistence of War
Wednesday, September 18
12:00-1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Bear Braumoeller, Ohio State University

Abstract
The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. In his new book, Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Era (Oxford), Bear Braumoeller argues that it shouldn't have: the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker.  While optimists are prone to put too much faith in human nature, however, pessimists have been too quick to discount the successes of our attempts to reduce international conflict. Reality lies somewhere in between. The key to understanding trends in warfare lies, not in the spread of humanitarian values, but rather in patterns of international order—sets of expectations about behavior that allow countries to work in concert, as they did in the Concert of Europe and have done in the postwar Western liberal order. In this talk, Braumoeller will discuss the evidence against the decline-of-war thesis as well as some preliminary research on the complex relationship between international order and international conflict.

Bio
Bear F. Braumoeller (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is or has been on the Editorial Boards of five major journals or series, and he is a past Councilor of the Peace Science Society. In the summer of 2016 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. Professor Braumoeller’s research is in the areas of international security and computational social science. His current research focus is on the relationship between international order and international conflict. His substantive research includes an original, book-length systemic theory of international relations, The Great Powers and the International System (Cambridge University Press; winner of the 2014 International Studies Association Best Book Award and the 2014 J. David Singer Book Award) as well as various works on international conflict, the history of American isolationism, and the problem of so-called “politically irrelevant dyads.” His new book, Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age (Oxford University Press, 2019), challenges the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker.

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U.S. Strategy and Doctrine for Cyber Conflict and Deterrence
Wednesday, September 18
12:30 – 1:30AM
Tufts, 205 Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford

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Yoshua Bengio: Learning High-Level Representations for Agents
Wednesday, September 18
2:00pm to 3:00pm
MIT, Grier 34-401 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

CSAIL is pleased to welcome Prof. Yoshua Bengio as Dertouzos Distinguished Lecturer.

Abstract: A dream of the deep learning project was that a learner could discover a hierarchy of representations with the highest level capturing abstract concepts of the kind we can communicate with language, reason with and generally use to understand how the world works. It is still a challenge but recent progress in machine learning could help us approach that objective. We will discuss how the ability to discover causal structure, and in particular causal variables (from low-level perception), would be a progress in that direction, and how recent advances in meta-learning and taking the perspective of an agent (rather than a passive learner) could also play in important role. Because we are talking about high-level variables, this discussion touches on the old divide between system 1 cognition (intuitive and anchored in perception) and system 2 cognition (conscious and more sequential): these high-level variables sit at the interface between the two types of cognitive computations. Unlike what some advocate when they talk about disentangling factors of variation, I do not believe that these high-level variables should be considered to be independent of each other in a statistical sense. They might be independent in a different sense, in the sense that we can independently modify some rather than others, and in fact they are connected to each other through a rich web of dependencies of the kind we communicate with language. The agent and meta-learning perspective also force us to leave the safe ground of iid data of current learning theory and start thinking about non-stationarity, which a learning agent is necessarily confronted with. Instead of viewing such non-stationarity as a hurdle, we propose to view it as a source of information because these changes are often due to interventions by agents (the learner or other agents), and can thus help a learner figure out causal structure. In return, we might be able to build learning systems which are much more robust to changes in the environment, because they capture what is stationary and stable in the long run throughout these nonstationarities, and they build models of the world which can quickly adapt to such changes and sometimes may even be able to correctly infer what caused those changes (thus requiring no additional examples to make sense of the change in distribution).

Bio: Recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence (AI), Yoshua Bengio is a pioneer in deep learning. He began his education in Montreal, where he earned his Ph.D. in computer science from McGill University, then completed his postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 1993, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. In 2000, he became the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms. At the same time, he founded and became scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence, which is the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning. Lastly, he is also the Scientific Director of IVADO. His research contributions have been undeniable. In 2018, Yoshua Bengio collected the largest number of new citations in the world for a computer scientist thanks to his three reference works and some 500 publications. Professor Bengio aspires to discover the principles that lead to intelligence through learning, and his research has earned him multiple awards. In 2019, he earned the prestigious Killam Prize in computer science from the Canada Council for the Arts and was co-winner of the A.M. Turing Prize, considered the “Nobel of computer science,” which he received jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a recipient of the Excellence Awards of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies 2019 and the Marie-Victorin prize and was named Scientist of the Year by Radio-Canada in 2017. These honours reflect the profound influence of his work on the evolution of our society. Concerned about the social impact of AI, he has actively contributed to the development of the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.

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Telling Stories: Allegories on “Race,” Racism, and Anti-Racism
Wednesday, September 18
4:00 pm
Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Lecture by Camara Phyllis Jones RI '20
Free and open to the public.

Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call “race”), which unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources. While at Radcliffe, Camara Phyllis Jones is developing tools to inspire, equip, and engage all Americans in a national campaign against racism. For example, her allegories on “race” and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. Her toolbox will equip both children and adults to name racism, ask “How is racism operating here?” and organize and strategize to act.

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy
Wednesday, September 18
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Hunt Alcott, New York University

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/62379

Contact Name: Jason Chapman
Jason_Chapman at hks.harvard.edu
617-496-8054

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Gutman Library Book Talk: Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty
WHEN  Wednesday, Sep. 18, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Gutman Conference Center, E4 & E5, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Gutman Library
SPEAKER(S)  Paul Reville, Former Massachusetts secretary of education and Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at HGSE
CONTACT INFO  myanne_krivoshey at gse.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In "Broader, Bolder, Better," authors Elaine Weiss, of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education campaign, and Paul Reville, former Massachusetts secretary of education, make a compelling case for a fundamental change in the way we view education. The authors argue for a large-scale expansion of community-school partnerships in order to provide holistic, integrated student supports (ISS) from cradle to career, including traditional wraparound services like health, mental health, nutrition, and family supports, as well as expanded access to opportunities such as early childhood education, after school activities, and summer enrichment programs.
LINK  https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/broader,-bolder,-better

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Food and fascism
Wednesday, September 18
6pm
BU, College of Arts and Sciences, Room B25, 685-725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

They seem to have little to connect them, but author Karima Moyer-Nocchi found otherwise when she interviewed a cross-section of women who lived through Italy’s years under Mussolini. 

She’ll share her discoveries at the Culinary Historians of Boston meeting.

It will be a fascinating meeting. Mark your calendars now, so you don’t miss it. 

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Authors at MIT | George Yip: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Changemakers, and Underdogs
Wednesday, September 18
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, Building N50, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Chinese innovators are making their mark globally.  Not only do such giants as Alibaba and Huawei continue to thrive and grow through innovation, thousands of younger Chinese entrepreneurs are poised to enter the global marketplace. In this book, Greeven, Yip, and Wei offer an essential guide to what makes China a heavyweight competitor in the global marketplace.

The authors, all experts on Chinese innovation, distinguish four types of innovators in China:  pioneers, large companies that are globally known;  hidden champions, midsize enterprises that are market leaders in their niches; underdogs,technology-driven ventures with significant intellectual property; and changemakers, newer firms
characterized by digital disruption,exponential growth, and cross-industry innovations.

George Yip is the Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Imperial College Business School in London and coauthor of China’s Next Strategic Advantage (MIT Press).

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Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
Wednesday, September 18
6:30 p.m.
Encuentro5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-talk-encuentro5-sep-2019/

We are in the midst of an unprecedented climate crisis and ecological breakdown that threatens the continuation of life as we know it: record atmospheric carbon levels, global temperature rise, deforestation, plastic pollution, mass extinction of species... Join us to hear the latest information on the state of our planet, and learn how to become part of a global movement of social transformation for a livable future.

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We are The Weather
Wednesday, September 18
7:00pm
Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School Fitzgerald Theater, 459 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/jonathan-safran-foer-frances-moore-lappé-we-are-weather
Cost:  $25.00

Join Porter Square Books at CRLS's Fitzgerald Theater to hear bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer in conversation with renowned author and environmental advocate Frances Moore Lappé, discussing Safran Foer's newest book, We are The Weather. A signing will follow the talk.

Please note that this event is ticketed, and tickets include a copy of the book! The event will take place off-site at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School's Fitzgerald Theater, and you can pick up your copy of the book at the event.

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves—with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat—and don’t eat—for breakfast.

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, and of the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Frances Moore Lappé is the co-founder of Food First, the Institute for Food and Development Policy, and the Small Planet Institute. She is the author of nineteen books, including the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet and, most recently, World Hunger: 10 Myths, co-authored with Joseph Collins. Lappé has received eighteen honorary doctorates, as well as the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel,” and the James Beard Foundation’s “Humanitarian of the Year” award. Gourmet Magazine chose her among twenty-five people whose work has changed the way America eats. Lappé has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.

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The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Wednesday, September 18
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline 

Joseph LeDoux
Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human.

Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, where he is a member of the Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology. He directs the Emotional Brain Institute at New York University and at the Nathan Kline Institute, and is the author of the books Anxious, Synaptic Self, and The Emotional Brain

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Crossfire Hurricane:  Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI
Wednesday,September 18
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Cos:  $6 - $31.00 (book included)

Harvard Book Store welcomes CNN law enforcement analyst JOSH CAMPBELL—former special assistant to FBI Director James Comey—for a discussion of his new book, Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI. He will be joined in conversation by homeland security expert and analyst JULIETTE KAYYEM.
Please Note
This event takes place at First Church Cambridge on Garden St, not to be confused with First Parish Church on Mass Ave.

About Crossfire Hurricane
It is January 6, 2017, two weeks before the inauguration. Only a handful of people know about the Steele dossier, and the nation is bitterly divided by the election results. As rumors begin to circulate that something might be brewing with the newly elected president and Russia, FBI special agent Josh Campbell joins the heads of the US intelligence community on a briefing visit to Trump Tower in New York City. He does not yet know that this meeting will eventually lead to the firing of his boss, James Comey, or that within weeks his former boss Robert Mueller will be appointed to investigate collusion and obstruction of justice at the highest level. He does not yet know that the FBI will come under years of sustained attacks from the commander in chief of the very nation its agents have sworn to protect. But, from his unique position within the FBI, he will watch it occur.

In this gripping fly-on-the-wall narrative, Campbell takes readers behind the scenes of the earliest days of the Russia investigation—codename: Crossfire Hurricane—up to the present. Using both firsthand experience and reporting, he reveals fresh details about this tumultuous period; explains how the FBI goes about its work and its historic independence from partisan forces; and describes the increasing dismay inside the bureau as the president and his allies escalate their attacks on the agency. Appalled by Trump’s assault on the bureau’s credibility, Campbell left the FBI in 2018 to sound the alarm about unfair political attacks on the institutions that keep America safe.

Smart, clear, passionate, Crossfire Hurricane will captivate readers struggling to make sense of a news cycle careening out of control.

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Environmental and Health Impacts of Natural Gas and Fracking
Wednesday, September 18
7pm - 9pm
BU, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 132, Boston

Dr Sandra Steingraber, PhD
Concerned about fracking and its consequences on our health and environment? Come hear the dynamic Dr. Steingraber during her upcoming visit to Boston and engage with us about solutions. 

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Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture: "Writing from a Place of Survival" Rabbi Joseph Pollack
Wednesday, September 18
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
BU, Tsai Performance Center 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://bostonu.imodules.com/s/1759/2-bu/alumniWeekend/interior.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=7322&content_id=8554

As few adult survivors of the Holocaust remain alive today, our attention shifts to child survivors who, in their life and work, attest to a traumatic past they experienced as children or infants. Their tales provide a window into the difficult aftermath of the trauma of persecution and genocide. 

Rabbi Joseph Polak is the author of a harrowing account of his family’s deportation from the Netherlands to the Nazi concentration camp at Westerbork and speaks to the difficulties of living with traumatic early childhood memories. Rabbi Polak will also speak of what he learned over many years of friendship with Professor Wiesel.

About the Speaker: Rabbi Joseph Polak is the author of After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring (2015). He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health and rabbi emeritus of the Hillel House at Boston University. R. Polak also serves as Chief Justice of the Rabbinical Court of Massachusetts.

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Thursday, September 19
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BU Annual Sustainability Festival
Thursday, September 19
11:00am – 2:00pm
BU, Marsh Plaza, Boston

Stop by Marsh Plaza on Thursday Sept. 19th for the Annual Sustainability Fair. Learn about Bike Safety complete with cool giveaways, or enjoy the Farmer's Market with tons of local vendors. But the pièce de résistance is our first ever Apple Festival featuring local apples, baked apple goods, live chef demos, games and the Locally Baked Cobbler Tasting with entries from 5 different campus locations..hmmmm. See you on the 19th!

sustainabilitybucalendar at gmail.com

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Integrating Tropical Conservation and Civic Engagement to Create Change: a Case Study from Ecuador
Thursday, September 19
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Multi-Purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford

Jordan Karubian, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University
This talk will provide a case study of developing and conducting community-engaged research. The work in Ecuador, now in its 18thyear, has had its share of successes- including establishing a reserve and providing significant training, employment, and educational opportunities for locals - but also many failures and learning experiences. Attempting to achieve real world conservation gains while balancing the demands of a tenure-track faculty position also presents a series of challenges and opportunities. The speaker will speak candidly about these and related topics, with the goal of encouraging and informing students and others interested in pursuing a similar path.

Jordan Karubian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University and a founding member of FCAT, an Ecuadorian NGO. After completing his doctoral work at University of Chicago, Jordan lived in Ecuador for five years developing a distinctive model for community-engaged participatory research. His efforts have been recognized and supported by the Fulbright Fellowship Program; ‘Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty’; and the ‘Excellence in Tropical Biology and Conservation Award’ from the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

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Colonized by Data: The Costs of Connection with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias
Thursday, September 19
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East A (Room 2036, Second Floor), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScACWAH_UnxXYfS8b-9IFizV17MSuM9Dx-R24XQydtKR_lvlA/viewform

Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías
This talk will introduce the speakers’ new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019). Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new "data colonialism" is based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data, paving the way for a further stage of capitalism. Today’s transformations of social life through data must therefore be grasped within the long historical arc of dispossession as both a new colonialism and an extension of capitalism. Resistance requires challenging once again the forms of coloniality that decolonial thinking has foregrounded for centuries. The struggle will be both broader and longer than many analyses of algorithmic power suppose, but for that reason critical responses are all the more urgent.

Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and from 2017 has been a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. In fall 2018 he was also a Visiting Professor at MIT. He jointly led, with Clemencia Rodriguez, the chapter on media and communications in the 22 chapter 2018 report of the International Panel on social Progress: www.ipsp.org. He is the author or editor of fourteen books including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage 2010). His latest books are The Costs of Connection and Media: Why It Matters (Polity: October 2019). 

Ulises Ali Mejías is associate professor of Communication Studies and director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego. He is a media scholar whose work encompasses critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy and sociology of technology, and political economy of digital media. He is the author of Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and various articles including ‘Disinformation and the Media: The case of Russia and Ukraine’ in Media, Culture and Society (2017, with N. Vokuev), and ‘Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond’ in Fibreculture (2012). He is the principal investigator in the Algorithm Observatory project. 
 
Event will be live webcast at https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/colonized-data-costs-connection-nick-couldry-and-ulises-mejias at  12:00PM on event date.

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Fear and Loathing (and Enthusiasm!): A National Study of Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence
Thursday, September 19
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm 
BU, College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 209, Boston

Dr. James E. Katz: Feld Professor of Emerging Media
Director, Division of Emerging Media Studies

Major advances in the technology of artificial intelligence (AI) have commanded great attention at both the national and international levels. Various commissions, panels, and studies have been launched to understand AI’s transformational potential for both positive and negative outcomes. Some see AI as solving major problems ranging from healthcare to transportation, while others see it as a profound threat to job security, personal privacy, individual autonomy, and even humanity itself.

In this talk, Dr. Katz will report on a research project (in which he is assisted by Division of Emerging Media Studies students Kate Mays, Janey Zitomer, and Yiming “Skylar” Lei) exploring public attitudes towards AI. The project's aim is to help build better policy by analyzing how the public perceives AI. Dr. Katz will present findings from this collaborative work, including the results of a national U.S. attitude survey conducted in 2019.

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Mechanisms of Regeneration and their Evolution
Thursday, September 19
3:30PM
Harvard, Biological Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 

Mansi Srivastava, Assistant Professor, Department of OEB
Abstract: Wound repair and regeneration are fundamental features of animal biology, and the capacity to replace all missing tissues (“whole-body regeneration”) is widely distributed across animal phyla. The genetic pathways that mediate whole-body regeneration are poorly understood, and little is known about how these pathways compare across animal lineages. Functional studies of species in phylogenetically informative positions are needed both to elucidate further the mechanisms of regeneration and to evaluate how these mechanisms have evolved. The goals of my research program are: 1) to identify cellular and genetic mechanisms for whole-body regeneration, and 2) to create aframework for rigorous cross-species comparisons to understand the evolution of regeneration. We focus our work on a new model system, the acoel worm Hofstenia miamia, which regenerates robustly and represents the likely sister-lineage to all other animals with bilateral symmetry, to address these questions. In this talk, I will discuss how we utilize a diversity of approaches including functional genomics, single-cell RNA-sequencing, and transgenesis to uncover the mechanisms of regeneration in Hofstenia. In particular, I will highlight how our studies of wound-induced gene regulatory networks and of stem cells are enabling comparisons of regenerative mechanisms across species.

OEB Seminar Series
https://oeb.harvard.edu/oeb-seminars

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

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Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Dr. Ben Hayden:  The Neuroscience of Naturalistic Decisions
Thursday, September 19
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Dr. Ben Hayden
I am interested in understanding the neural mechanisms by which our brains make and control our choices. I have a particular interest in understanding self-control, learning, and decision-making. My research is closely inspired by foraging theory and by behavioral ecology more generally. As such a major focus of the lab’s methods development comes in making our task environments ever more naturalistic. We are especially interested in the cingulate cortex (dorsal anterior and posterior, dACC and PCC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and the striatum. I recently moved my lab from the University of Rochester to the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at the University of Minnesota. There, my lab and I have begun working to understand expand our understanding of these regions and processes by incorporating measures of hemodynamic response.

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All That Glitters Is Gold: Gravitational Waves, Light and the Origin of the Heavy Elements
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 19, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Research study, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Edo Berger.2019–2020 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In this talk, Berger will discuss his efforts to explore the long-standing question of how gold and other heavy elements are created in the universe. In particular, his work aims to demonstrate the creation of these elements in neutron star collisions detected through their gravitational wave emission and the implications of the answer. Register online.
LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-edo-berger-fellow-presentation?utm_source=rias_gazette&utm_medium=enews&utm_campaign=fellowstalks_outreach&utm_term=Gazette_Calendar_19

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Extinction Rebellion Open Mic at Herter Park, Charles River
Thursday, September 19
5 p.m.
Herter Park, 1175 Soldiers Field Road, Brighton
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/open-mic-herter-park-charles-river/

Free open mic, part of the Herter Park series that’s been going all summer. Coral Reef affinity group will flyer and chat with people about XR and climate anxiety. We also want to do a song or two in the open mic, song(s) to be determined. Please let me know by email (noteaparty at gmail.com) if you would like to participate in singing and I will be in touch. Happy for any and all XR folks to join us to sing or flyer and talk to folks. Performance starts at 7 but we’ll be there at 5 to chat with people while they wait. Sign up to get meeting info.

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Jeanne S. Chall Lecture and Reception - Language is Access
WHEN  Thursday, Sep. 19, 2019, 5:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Gutman Conference Center, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT	Lecture, Reception
TOPIC  Literacy
BUILDING/ROOM  Gutman Conference Center E1
CONTACT NAME  Jodie Smith-Bennett
CONTACT EMAIL  events at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE  617-495-8059
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT  Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED	No
ADMISSION FEE  This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED	No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education, Lecture
DETAILS	 Please RSVP at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0PPmzr0HEcp6qFv to assist us in planning for attendance numbers.
Language is Access
Speaker: Julie Washington, chair and professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Georgia State University

Introduction: Alex Hodges, librarian and director, Monroe C. Gutman Library, HGSE; chair, Jeanne S. Chall Endowment Advisory Board
For young African American children growing up in poverty, access to social and educational opportunities can be impeded by the interaction between educational assessments, poverty, and dialectal variation. Dr. Washington's research has demonstrated that the growth of literacy skills, both reading and writing, are impacted in major ways. Washington will discuss how current educational policy combined with the impact of these sociocultural variables has influenced both research and practice.

Following the lecture will be an award presentation of the Jeanne S. Chall Doctoral Student Award to Pierre de Galbert, Ed.M.'07, Ed.M.’17, Ed.D.’19.

A reception from 7–8 p.m. will conclude the event.

Funded through HGSE’s Jeanne S. Chall Endowment, the annual lecture and doctoral student award honor the late Jeanne Chall, who served as a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her seminal work on reading research and instruction influenced scholarship on the teaching of reading in schools and universities throughout the country.

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The Promises, Responsibilities, and Challenges of Citizenship
Thursday, September 19
6:00 pm 
BU, LAW Auditorium, 767 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://bostonu.imodules.com/s/1759/2-bu/2col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=7532&content_id=8783

The 2019 Gitner Family CAS Lecture will be a panel discussion featuring faculty perspectives from classical studies, international relations, political science, and law with a focus on citizenship as an evolving and contested set of ideals, practices, and institutions. The panel will examine citizenship in relation to political inequalities, identities, and movements. Moderator: Neta Crawford, Professor and Chair of Political Science

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Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
Thursday, September 19
6 p.m.
Brighton Public Library, 40 Academy Hill Road, Brighton
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-talk-brighton-library/

We are in the midst of an unprecedented climate crisis and ecological breakdown that threatens the continuation of life as we know it: record atmospheric carbon levels, global temperature rise, deforestation, plastic pollution, mass extinction of species... Join us to hear the latest information on the state of our planet, and learn how to become part of a global movement of social transformation for a livable future.

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Climate Stories Project 
Thursday, September 19
6:00-8:30 pm
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge

Presentation by Jason Davis, Director of the Climate Stories Project

More information at http://www.climatestoriesproject.org

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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Thursday, September 19
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
$8 - $28.75 (book included)

Harvard Book Store welcomes ERIC FONER—the preeminent, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War era—for a discussion of his latest book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. He will be joined in conversation by renowned scholar, literary critic, and filmmaker HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.

About The Second Founding
The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States.

Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again, today, there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights.

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Gender and our Brains:  How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
Thursday, September 19
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes GINA RIPPON—Honorary Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at Aston University in Birmingham, England—for a discussion of her new book, Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds.

About Gender and our Brains
We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains?

Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individualized, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential.

Rigorous, timely and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has huge implications for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.

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Friday, September 20 - Friday, September 27
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Global Climate Strike

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Friday, September 20
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Changing Climate, Changing Health: Strategies for Addressing Public Health in the Age of Climate Change
Friday, September 20
Registration | 7:15 AM Program | 8 AM - 11:30 AM
UMass Club, One Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/changing-climate-changing-health-strategies-for-addressing-public-health-in-the-age-of-climate-change/
Cost:  $15 - $45

The public health field is rapidly shifting to incorporate the new realities of climate impacts. From extreme heat waves to the growing prevalence of diseases, issues with water quality, trauma from storms and allergy and asthma triggers, there are many challenges to address. While we are all vulnerable to this changes, low income communities and communities of color face disproportionate risks. Speakers will explore some of the issues and then will dive into what is happening on the ground to address heat and mental health and how the built environment can support resilient wellness.

Join this Climate Adaptation Forum to learn about how climate change is impacting public health and new approaches to address these challenges.

Forum Co-Chairs
Gabriella Boscio, Boston University
Deanna Moran, Conservation Law Foundation
Alex Papali, Clean Water Action

Keynote Speaker
Gina McCarthy, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Harvard Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment

Confirmed Speakers
Thomas Chase, Project Manager, New Ecology, Inc.
Dr. Adrienne L. Hollis, Lead Climate Justice Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists
Dr. Jean Rhodes, Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Nancy Smith, Program Manager for Community Engagement, Office of Public Health Preparedness at Boston Public Health Commission
Additional speakers to be announced shortly.

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Global Climate Strike
Friday, September 20
8 a.m.
Everywhere
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/global-strike-9-20/

Join us in supporting the student strikers here in Boston, September 20.

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Community Events at City Hall Plaza—art activities, partner organization tabling, sign making, community mural/art wall
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Main Rally at City Hall Plaza—speakers, dances/songs/bands, slam poetry!
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM March to Massachusetts Statehouse
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Action at Massachusetts Statehouse

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Boston Climate Strike
Friday, September 20
9 AM – 3 PM
Boston City Hall Plaza, 1 City Hall Square, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/349500849297711/

On September 20th, 2019, millions of people will strike around the world to demand action on the climate crisis. Join thousands in Boston at City Hall Plaza as we kick off a week of climate actions! This event is youth led and community supported. 

#StrikeWithUs #StrikeWithUsBoston #ClimateStrike #ClimateStrikeMA

Our most up to date information and public resources can be found on our website: https://strikewithus.org/boston/

DONATE: bit.ly/strike-donate 

**PUBLIC RESOURCES**
Misc Materials:
Flyers/Graphics | bit.ly/flyers_920
Strike One Pager | bit.ly/bos-strike
No Major Assignment Pledge | bit.ly/teacher_pledge 
Sports Exemption Pledge | bit.ly/coach_pledge

Toolkits: 
Student Ambassador | bit.ly/ambassador-toolkit
Teacher Support | bit.ly/bos-teacher-toolkit
Social Media Guidelines | bit.ly/strike-social

Google Forms:
Student Ambassador | bit.ly/school_outreach 
Teacher Support | bit.ly/strike-teacher
Strike Leadership Team | bit.ly/bos-climate-form

Op Ed Guide: 
Climate Strike Op Ed Guide (created in collaboration with Sunrise Movement Boston) | bit.ly/strike-op-ed

Please contact @ClimateStrikeMA or mass at youthclimatestrikeus.org with questions. 

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PARKing Day
Friday, September 20
8am - 6pm

More information at https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Projects/Transportation/parkingday

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Light-Absorbing Impurities in Snow: Origins, Radiative Processes, and Climate Impacts
Friday, September 20
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

with Mark Flanner, University of Michigan.
Types of light absorbing impurities found in snow include black carbon, brown carbon, mineral dust, volcanic ash, and snow algae.  Small concentrations of these impurities can have a large impact on the reflectance and melt timing of snow.  This talk will explore the radiative processes that govern snow albedo, the origins and types of key impurities, processes that determine the concentrations of impurities within snow, and the climate impacts of snow darkening as simulated with Earth system models.

Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/126476

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Mayors Stepping Up. Can Mayors Save the World?
Friday, September 20
2 pm-3:30 pm
BU, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at http://bit.ly/ioc-mayors

In October 2014, the Initiative on Cities released a ground-breaking survey of American mayors, which has since been dedicated as the Menino Survey of Mayors. Now an annual project based on interviews with over 100 mayors from around the country, the survey takes the pulse of mayors and addresses key urban issues such as affordable housing, poverty, climate change, and racism and discrimination.

Join us as co-principal investigators Assistant Professors Katherine Levine Einstein and Max Palmer and Associate Professor David Glick share findings from the Menino Survey results between 2014-2018.

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Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World
Friday, September 20
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline 

Kate Black
Written with humor and honesty by writer, comedian, actress, and activist June Diane Raphael; and Kate Black, former chief of staff at EMILY’s list, Represent is structured around a 21-point document called “I’m Running for Office: The Checklist.” Doubling as a workbook, Represent covers it all, from the nuts and bolts of where to run, fundraising, and filing deadlines, to issues like balancing family and campaigning, managing social media and how running for office can work in your real life.

Kate Black is currently a policy advisor in the federal government and formerly the Chief of Staff and Vice President of Research at EMILY’s List, the largest resource for women in politics. She served as Executive Director of American Women, a nonpartisan research organization working to uplift the voices of women and the issues they care about. She has helped elect candidates up and down the ballot and across the country. Committed to bringing change in her community, she co-founded a free salary negotiation program for 15,000 women with the City of DC, AAUW, and the Younger Women’s Task Force.

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Saturday, September 21
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Somerville Garden Club Annual Plant Sale
Saturday, September 21
9am - 1pm
Davis Square, Somerville

Great stuff, at good prices, and lots of advice.  Plus books, pots, etc.  Always fun, bigger and better every year.  (Good leftovers from our swap go to this sale.)    Check it out!

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Ladies Comics Con [Gentlemen Invited]
Saturday, September 21
11am - 5pm
Center for the Arts at the Armory,  191 Highland Avenue, Somerville

More information at http://ladiescon.com

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Standing up to Climate Change
Saturday, September 21 
7:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Arlington Center for the Arts, 3rd-floor gallery (above the Senior Center), 20 Academy Street, Arlington
Tickets: $20 general, $30 supporter, $5+ pay-what-you-can
Save $5 on general admission if you get your ticket in advance:
https://truestorytheater.bpt.me
Tickets also available at the door

“Standing up to climate change: Stories of environmental activists”
In partnership with Sustainable Arlington

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Addiction as Compulsion and Choice: A Naturalistic Perspective
Sunday, September 22
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
India Pavilion, 17 Central Square, Cambridge
RSVP at http://meet.meetup.com/wf/click?upn=ZDzXt-2B-2BZmzYir6Bq5X7vEQ2iNYdgjN9-2FU9nWKp99AU-2BZdZKF0eIXqzZRJHfp-2BUQj35E3WSVZSsY7M9-2FqXS8qIn8iqXNT0LNymd4-2B9QQYr8Y0-2FkBobpJWBCeSO3Ln0O623Z5EMPcZVD4XC-2B2cMfhD-2B4ywOEu-2F0oO-2F5C1mtAV8F5Yi7wcaUQJmYWBdwyoPXrj3MoM-2FYhAIhPw39FN7KSGFXQ-3D-3D_Q-2FAIwDkBcdJzm3UDl4bHX6xhh5a2rrODr-2F2JjmVG-2FeGqBVylWcqlgglXMpjbUN5YguNAz7ny21nc0pFkhLOqSTsdpb9hMHKRe4atS-2F0jkRpvgNbARTtF2nXAhAfIp2iXYAUfIANClzaFY3DSeh3Pdp7P-2Fsz-2BMCCBCz89vruziyKP54KFNkC7ANxLx80KI54R2yJAmcUZ0ttDaMoPqozzryl-2Bldx67jAPea7BRL6oeGnmhIYX5AaRcHOD-2F5-2BBao06

We'll gather to celebrate the Fall Equinox (which takes place the following day!) with a Luncheon on Sunday September 22 featuring an Indian buffet meal at the India Pavilion in Central Square Cambridge, followed by special guest speaker Tom Clark.

The topic is "Addiction as Compulsion and Choice: A Naturalistic Perspective"

Addiction is an increasingly visible case study in the philosophy and science of human agency. Those seeking to prevent and treat addiction often portray it as a brain disease involving drug-induced compulsion, but the disease model is criticized for ignoring the role of voluntary choice in addictive behavior.

A naturalistic understanding of addiction can incorporate both compulsion and choice as fully caused phenomena, traceable to past and current biopsychosocial factors, not an uncaused or self-caused personal will. Such an understanding can help mitigate the stigma surrounding addiction and assist in the development of effective modes of treatment and prevention.

Philosopher Tom Clark hosts Naturalism.Org, one of the Web’s most comprehensive resources on worldview naturalism, its implications and applications. He is also a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Health at Brandeis University, working on solutions to drug addiction and other behavioral disorders.

Related web page:
https://www.naturalism.org/applied-naturalism/mental-and-behavioral-health

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Indigenous Knowledge in Coastal Resilience
Monday, September 23, 9 AM – Tuesday, September 24,  6 PM
MIT, DUSP, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/485834712204358/

With this workshop, our research team seeks to promote scholarly and practice-oriented contributions rooted in knowledge sharing around experiences with climate adaptation and relocation. Participants will include members of the Isle de Jean Charles, LA band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, members of the Yupik people from Newtok, AK, and scholars working on resettlement issues from DUSP, the Lowlander Center, Louisiana, and elsewhere. More broadly, this workshop will provide an opportunity for dialogue and knowledge sharing to better scope out the challenges to equitable relocation planning and the opportunities for uncovering latent and unaddressed values in the planning process. 

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Monday, September 23
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Wind Technology Testing Center Tour
Monday, September 23
11:00am to 1:00pm
Wind Technology Testing Center 100 Terminal Street (Building 80) Charlestown
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/cleantech-tour-of-the-wind-technology-testing-center-mit-enterprise-forum-cambridge-9-23-10-boston-cambridge-events/
Cost:  $10 Members;$30 Non-Members: $10 Students; $5 Student Members

Offshore wind in Massachusetts is taking off as an economical source of clean energy.  Vineyard Wind, the first offshore wind project in Massachusetts waters, is slated to begin construction soon.  There could be anywhere from 5,000 MW to 10,000 MW built off the coast of Massachusetts south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in the future.  The MassCEC Wind Technology Testing Center will be a part of the offshore wind story.

Wind turbine blade testing is a critical factor in maintaining high levels of reliability and evaluating the latest technological developments in airfoils and materials. Blade testing is required as part of turbine certification to meet international design standards including IEC, GL and DNV. Meeting international standards allows developers to mitigate the technical and financial risk of deploying mass-produced wind turbines.

The WTTC offers a full suite of certification tests for turbine blades up to 90 meters in length and is the largest commercial-scale blade testing center in the nation. WTTC is innovating and constantly improving testing methods to better represent field operations in the lab and to improve testing efficiency for wind industry partners.

See how the science happens!

Please join us for a tour, lunch and networking at the Wind Technology Testing Center on September 23, at 11:00 AM.  100 Terminal Street (Building 80), Boston (Charlestown), MA - space is limited to 25 so register early!

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Speaker: Dorian Abbot
Monday, September 23
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (Ida Green Lounge), 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

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Gutman Library Book Talk: "We Dare Say Love": Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 23, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Gutman Conference Center, E1 & E2, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Gutman Library
SPEAKER(S)  Jarvis R. Givens, Assistant professor of education at HGSE
CONTACT INFO	myanne_krivoshey at gse.harvard.edu
DETAILS "We Dare Say Love" takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students in a large urban district. It chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District, following a small group of Black male educators who changed district policy and practice to create a learning experience for Black boys rooted in love.
Lunch will be served!
LINK  https://www.gse.harvard.edu/calendar

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Social Resilience: Understanding how Environmental Stressors Impact the Behavior and Health of Bees.
Monday, September 23
12:10PM
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Lecture Hall, 300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

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

Arnold Arboretum Research Talk
https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/
arbweb at arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718

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The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy
Monday, September 23
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E52-532, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Joe Shapiro (University of California, Berkeley) 

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Gurus, Women, and Yoga: The Spiritual World of Hindu Universalism
WHEN  Monday, Sep. 23, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvar,d Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Religion
SPONSOR	Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT	CSWR, 617.495.4476
DETAILS  Annual Hindu View of Life Lecture
After the World Parliament of Religions in 1893, Vivekananda became a global celebrity and an emissary of neo-Vedanta or Hindu Universalism in Europe and America. He brought the practice of Raja Yoga and new forms of Hindu teaching to Europe and America, shaping Western disciples searching for post-Christian spirituality. This lecture will examine how Vivekananda conveyed the meaning of ‘guru-bakhti’ to his new female disciples, and the spiritual lens through which he sought to mold them. He had grown up in an entirely male spiritual milieu, where the guru’s power was transmitted to worthy male aspirants. In the West, Vivekananda had to adapt much of his teaching (i.e. guru-disciple relationship and the practice of meditation) to encompass an entirely new world of feminine devotees, many of whom had engaged in spiritualism, hypnotherapy and, above all, Christian Science. Professor Harris argues that he had to adapt to their concerns while constantly differentiating neo-Vedanta from a host of competing, and his view, spiritually deficient, Western ideas and practices. He also had to protect neo-Vedanta and his own mission from the suspicion of luring women away from their native faith into a world of seductive ‘orientalism.’ Last and not least, pleased though he was by the loyalty and seriousness of his female devotees, he was keen to locate men who would lead the movement outside of India, yet he was much less successful recruiting men than women.
Ruth Harris is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls’ College. She has published widely in the history of religion, science, women’s history, French history, and more recently, global history.

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ACT Fall 2019 Lecture Series: The Inexplicable Wonder of Precipitous Events -- Sarah Oppenheimer
Monday, September 23
6:00pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Building E15, The Cube, E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

As an artistic research program, ACT is perennially concerned with emerging modes of expression that explore evolving forms of knowledge production. In this context, the program’s Fall 2019 Lecture Series asks, “What is art if not an event?”

Philosopher Alain Badiou describes an event as a multiplication of conditions which may not always make sense according to the perceived rules of the ‘situation,’ and which, in coming into being, must provoke, out of a dynamic intervention, something new as that which cannot easily be assigned. The works of the four artists in the Fall 2019 ACT Lecture Series raise some of these same issues in terms of how one might consider the conditions of events in relation to the questions their individual projects explore. Each artist, in different ways, addresses how it is that art functions as an event.

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Lifespan: Why we Age and Why We Don't Have To
Monday, September 23
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-sinclair-harvard-faculty-tickets-66756437301

From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.

LIFESPAN provides a road map for taking charge of our own health destiny and a bold new vision for the future when humankind is able to live to be 100 years young.

David A. Sinclair, PhD, AO is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard. One of the leading innovators of his generation, he is listed by Time magazine as “one of the 100 most influential people in the world” (2014) and top 50 most important influential people in healthcare (2018). He is a board member of the American Federation for Aging Research, a Founding Editor of the journal Aging, and has received more than 35 awards for his research on resveratrol, NAD, and reprogramming to reverse aging, which have been widely hailed as a major scientific breakthroughs. In 2018, he became an Officer of the Order of Australia, the equivalent of a knighthood, for his work on national security matters and human longevity. Dr. Sinclair and his work have been featured on 60 Minutes, Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, and Newsweek, among others.


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Indebted:  How Families Make College Work at Any Cost and The Privileged Poor:  How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Monday, September 23
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes authors and professors CAITLIN ZALOOM and ANTHONY ABRAHAM JACK for a discussion of their latest books, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost and The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students.

About Indebted
The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes readers into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life.

Caitlin Zaloom gained the confidence of numerous parents and their college-age children, who talked candidly with her about stressful and intensely personal financial matters that are usually kept private. In this remarkable book, Zaloom describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty―providing their children with opportunity―and shows how parents and students alike are forced to take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off. What emerges is a troubling portrait of an American middle class fettered by the "student finance complex"―the bewildering labyrinth of government-sponsored institutions, profit-seeking firms, and university offices that collect information on household earnings and assets, assess family needs, and decide who is eligible for aid and who is not.

Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, revealing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.

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Tuesday, September 24 - Monday, September 30
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Climate Preparedness Week - September 24-30

Events will be held in Cambridge and other communities throughout Massachusetts. City sponsored events are to be announced, but anyone can organize an event and have it be part of Climate Preparedness Week. The initiative is led by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW). 

More information at https://www.climatecrew.org/prep_week

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MIT Quest Workshop on Collective Intelligence
Tuesday, September 24
9:00am to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 46, Singleton Auditorium and Atrium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Almost everything humans have achieved has been done by groups of people working together. Financial markets operate on this principle of collective intelligence to set prices for stocks, as do Internet search engines to answer questions asked by thousands before. Computers can make groups even smarter, but how should humans and machines interact? This workshop will explore the ways that people and machines, working separately and together, can leverage their relative strengths, resolve conflict and create value for society.

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Speaker Series: Suraj Yengde
Tuesday, September 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Suraj Yengde is an award-winning scholar and activist from India. Suraj is the author of Caste Matters, and a postdoctoral fellow for the Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability Initiative at the Shorenstein Center. Suraj is India’s first Dalit Ph.D. holder from an African university (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) in the nation’s history, and a published author in the field of Caste, Race, Ethnicity studies, and inter-regional labor migration in the global south. Suraj also holds a research associate position with the department of African and African American Studies, and a Non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Currently, he is involved in developing a critical theory of Dalit and Black Studies.

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A New Jim Code? ON RACE, CARCERAL TECHNOSCIENCE, AND LIBERATORY IMAGINATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
JUSTICE, EQUITY, & INCLUSION
Tuesday, September 24
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C (Room 2036, Second Floor), 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTapqp1BK0-tJi7d8Aqh_7CnD2RvE_EBX_SZa0DcHwRWXLkg/viewform

Ruha Benjamin and Jasmine McNealy
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin presents the concept of the “New Jim Code" to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Ruha will also consider how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. This presentation delves into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges the audience to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves.
 
Event will be live webcast here at https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/new-jim-code at 12:00PM on event date.

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IDG Development Seminars: Ciro Biderman
Tuesday, September 24
12:30pm to 2:00pm
MIT, Building 9-450, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

The International Development Group welcomes Ciro Biderman, professor of graduation and post-graduation courses in public administration and economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), for an IDG Development Seminar.

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Biology Colloquium Series (Dr. David Baker)
Tuesday, September 24
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Dr. David Baker, University of Washington, Title: "the coming of age of de novo protein design." Hosted by the Biology Postdoctoral Association. The Biology Colloquium is a weekly seminar held throughout the academic year, featuring distinguished speakers in many areas of the biological sciences, from universities and institutions worldwide. More information on speakers, their affiliations, and titles of their talks will be added as available. The Colloquium takes place at the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium, 32-123, at 4:00PM on most Tuesdays during the school year. Contact: Linda Earle lkn at mit.edu

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Thinking Like a Magician
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Comedy, Humanities, Lecture, Special Events, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Joshua Jay, Magician and author
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO  events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS	In this performance-based lecture, the globe-trotting magician Joshua Jay will pull back the curtain on the way magicians think. He will explore how magicians achieve the seemingly impossible and how people can apply the same strategies to their own lives and work. Register online.
LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-joshua-jay-lecture?utm_source=rias_gazette&utm_medium=calendar&utm_campaign=jay_outreach&utm_term=Gazette_Calendar_19

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What Psychedelics Teach Us About Spirituality
Tuesday, September 24
6:00pm
Northeastern, East Village, 17th floor, 291 St Botolph Street, Boston

Author Michael Pollan - Lecture and Booking Signing
In this 2019 Morton E. Ruderman Memorial Lecture, New York Times bestselling author, Michael Pollan talks about his latest book, "How to Change your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence."   His first-person account of what pyschedelics taught him about his mind, the mind and the nature of spiritual experience.

Book signing follows the lecture at 7:30.

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The Fears Have Gone Away: Exploring the Roots of Insurgent Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S153, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Alf Nilsen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO  Selmon Rafey
srafey at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In India, subaltern groups must resort to the universalizing vocabulary of citizenship in order to stake claims for redistribution and recognition. But on what basis do they do this — especially under severe coercion? Alf Nilsen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, will explore this question by investigating movement patterns in the Bhil heartland of western India, where Adivasi communities have organized and mobilized against the tyranny of the local state.
LINK  The Fears Have Gone Away: Exploring the Roots of Insurgent Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland
The Fears Have Gone Away: Exploring the Roots of Insurgent Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Alf Nilsen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	Selmon Rafey  srafey at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In India, subaltern groups must resort to the universalizing vocabulary of citizenship in order to stake claims for redistribution and recognition. But on what basis do they do this — especially under severe coercion? Alf Nilsen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, will explore this question by investigating movement patterns in the Bhil heartland of western India, where Adivasi communities have organized and mobilized against the tyranny of the local state.
LINK  https://mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/exploring-roots-insurgent-citizenship-bhil-heartland/

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A Golden Civilization and The Map of Mindfulness
Tuesday, September 24
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/george-kinder-harvard-alum-tickets-67538434275

George Kinder invites readers to imagine a thousand generations have passed and humanity has at last accomplished a Golden Civilization. What does it look like? Who are we there? Of all our systems and structures currently in place which of them got us there? And which of them were irretrievably heading in the wrong direction? He challenges readers to immediately abandon habits, structures, and systems that won’t take us to a Golden Civilization and adopt those that will.

George Kinder, international thought leader, has authored three books on money: The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, Lighting the Torch, and Life Planning for You. He is known as the father of the Life Planning movement. Winner of numerous awards, as founder and CEO of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning he has revolutionized client-centered financial advice with in-depth trainings of thousands of advisers from thirty countries across six continents. A mindfulness teacher, Kinder also leads weekly meditation classes and retreats around the world and wrote Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness and The Art of Inner Listening. Kinder is also a published poet and photographer. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and daughters, and spends several months each year in London and Maui. 

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DeepMind - Company Presentation
Tuesday, September 24
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

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A Global Ecology Journey: Prioritizing Earth-Centered Ethics
WHEN  Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  The Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Arnold Arboretum,
& CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather)
SPEAKER(S)  Douglas Zook, Global Ecologist, Science Educator, and Director of the Global Ecology Education Initiative based at UMass/Boston School for the Environment, and current Fulbright Scholar
COST  FREE, registration requested
CONTACT INFO	Pam Thompson
adulted at arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The discipline of Global Ecology leads us to realize that a sustainable, viable Home for us and all other species can only be restored by living a new ethic that keeps biosphere health foremost in our minds, hearts, and actions. Professor Zook will introduce us to some of the courageous and science-based grassroots peoples in nations around the world who are practicing and even prioritizing an earth-centered ethic. Learn from these inspiring examples and begin to create and practice your own earth-ethics.
LINK  https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=2074&DayPlannerDate=9/24/2019

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Wicked Hot Boston 
Tuesday, September 24
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Museum of Science, 1 Museum of Science Driveway, Boston 
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wicked-hot-boston-tickets-63680353652

Extreme heat events, or heat waves, are on the rise in the US. This is intensified by the urban heat island effect, which makes cities warmer compared to non-urban environments. What are some ways that you can help reduce the urban heat island effect in your community?

In this program, you will learn about the health and social impacts of extreme heat, work with other participants to explore and recommend resilience strategies to keep our communities cool, and learn about how participating in community science can help inform scientists about which communities are the hottest.

Join us for a fun and interactive evening where you decide how communities around Boston should handle extreme heat!

Want to get involved in community science now? Go to www.SciStarter.org/NOAA to get started.

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The City-State of Boston
Tuesday, September 24
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Yale professor Mark Peterson reads from his book The City-State of Boston: 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 clich's, 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.

Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar figures alongside well-known ones, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston's origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain's empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, "Bostoners" aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston's regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state's vision of a common good for all.

Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America's history.

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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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cs87v-b6dbac

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"Hugs For the Planet" in support of the Green New Deal -- will take place late June or early July -- depending on when I can raise the money. I may be able to cover a small shortfall myself but, like many people, I struggle to cover my own needs for the most part.

I'm looking at a Saturday or Sunday, 1pm, one hour.

Our idea is to position ourselves at the Park Street T exit on Boston Common and give out free "Hugs for the Planet." The goal is to raise awareness of the climate change crisis and garner support for the Green New Deal -- the only blueprint to date that offers a comprehensive plan that reflects the urgency needed to, literally, save the planet for our kids and grandkids.

There is no party or group affiliation. I am a career journalist/writer/editor/activist of some standing, working independently, to contribute to building a critical mass of support for the Green New Deal.

I plan to hire (probably six) promotional/event models to give out free hugs and hand out leaflets with some basic info, a call to action, and Congressional phone numbers on them.

OUR SECONDARY GOAL IS TO GET SOME MEDIA COVERAGE. (I have worked in the media, as well as in the capacity of Press Officer and Communications Director.) I will also contact the mayor's office.

You can support Hugs for the Planet at https://www.gofundme.com/quothugs-for-the-planetquot-for-the-green-new-deal

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Envision Cambridge citywide plan
https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/News/2019/5/~/media/A0547DC0640E4ABD86B519CA6FEEFF38.ashx

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Climate Resilience Workbook
https://sustainablebuildingsinitiative.org/toolkits/climate-resilience-guidelines/climate-resilience-workbook

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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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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
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
Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub:  https://www.universalhub.com/
Extinction Rebellion:  https://xrmass.org/action/
Sunrise Movement:  https://www.facebook.com/SunriseBoston/events/

Mission-Based Massachusetts is an online discussion group for people who are interested in nonprofit, philanthropic, educational, community-based, grassroots, and other mission-based organizations in the Bay State. This is a moderated, flame-free email list that is open to anyone who is interested in the topic and willing to adhere to the principles of civil discourse.  To subscribe email 
mbm-SUBSCRIBE at missionbasedmassachusetts.net

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.