[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - October 6, 2019
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Monday, October 7 - Friday, October 11
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Extinction Rebellion: Worldwide Rebellion Continues
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Monday, October 7
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8am AltWheels Fleet Day
10am Can We Talk About Race? A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Tatum
11:45am The Future of U.S. Carbon Pricing Policy
12pm Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - David Hutchins
12pm Air Pollution in the Short and Long Term: Integrating Science and Policy Analysis to Inform Action
12pm Upstream Emissions from the Production and Transport of Fuels
12pm Elina Mariutsa Lecture: 2019 Global Peace Index Report
12pm Tufts Institute of the Environment 20th Anniversary Celebration
12:30pm Agrosocial Resilience in a Changing World: Working Across the Coffee Supply Chain in a Coupled Socio-Environmental System
2:30pm Economics of Grid Energy Storage
3:30pm Bending the Arc: Film Screening and Discussion
5pm Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - East Boston
5:30pm "Soul Witness: The Brookline Holocaust Project" Film Screening
6pm Mass Innovation Nights #127
6:30pm Iconic Cambridge
6:30pm Empathy + Design
7pm Extinction Rebellion Welcome Call
7pm Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus
7pm She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
7pm The AI Republic: Building the Nexus Between Humans and Intelligent Automation
7pm The Net - Film Screening and Discussion with Director Lutz Dammbeck
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Tuesday, October 8
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8:30am Statewide Municipal Partnerships Conference
12pm Civic Life Lunch – Media for Democracy: Journalism Then + Now in American Politics
12pm ABL Think Tank Brown Bag Lunch: Criminal Justice Reform in Massachusetts
12pm China's Belt and Road Initiative: Impact and Perceptions in Europe
12pm WBCN and The American Revolution
12pm Lunch & Learn with IHCD: Body Politics - Social Equity and Public Space
3pm How Will the City of the Future Be Impacted by Water?
3pm LOCAL ECOLOGIES: INDIGENOUS BOSTON HARBOR
4:30pm Emile Bustani Seminar: "Is the 1979 Revolution Still Relevant to the Islamic Republic of Iran?”
5:30pm EnergyBar: Autumn Edition
6pm ORUM: 2020 Election and Engaging Communities of Color
6pm Addiction, Community, and Impact: Panel & Lightning Talks
6:30pm Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
6:30pm 2020: The Most Startup-Minded, Tech & Data-Driven Political Campaign - Ever
7pm FLP Open Meeting: Investing in the Building Blocks of the Food System
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Wednesday, October 9 – Saturday, October 12
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Sound Education: An Educational Audio Conference
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Wednesday, October 9
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8am MIT Materials Day 2019 Symposium and Poster Session
10:30am Filmmaker Alex Eaves to speak on sustainability
11:45am Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Myanmar | Perspectives from the Ground
12pm Ralph Nader at Harvard Law School
12pm Beyond the Headlines: The Cost of Intervention in Iran and Beyond
4pm Developments in China’s Capital Markets and Implications of the US-China Trade War
4:30pm Book talk: 'Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen’
5:30pm Mikhail Krutikhin: Russia: Abundant Gas, Vanishing Oil
5:30pm Careers in Sustainability: Charging into a Career in Renewables
6pm City of the Future: A Conversation with Sidewalk Labs
6:30pm Diversity Matters; Effects of Genetic Variation on Coastal Habitat Resilience and Restoration
7pm Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
7pm The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy
7pm Panel: First Second's Science Comics
7pm America’s Next Top Neuron: How microscopic competition shapes our brains
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Thursday, October 10 - Friday, October 11
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2019 Boston Science Diplomacy Dissertation Enhancement Workshop
Weaponized Interdependence in World Politics
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Thursday, October 10
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8:30am Citywide Domestic Violence Training
9am Stigma and Access to Treatment: Harvard University and University of Michigan Summit on the Opioid Crisis
8am Post Carbon Institute We Need To Talk!
11:30am Foreseeing the Climate Future
11:45am Sustainability Lunch Series: Climate Policy to Climate Action
11:45am Autonomous Vehicle Benefits & Challenges
12pm Global Change Ecology: From plants and predictions to people and politicians
1pm Activism that gives hope and security that is in risk
4:30pm The Lands in Between: Russia vs. The West and the New Politics of Hybrid War
4:30pm Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - Dorchester
5pm The Demise of Tropical Glaciers: Why Should We Care?
5pm Anushka Shah, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
5:30pm An Interview with Dr. Tara Swart
6pm An Evolutionary Journey through Domestication
6pm Patricia Williams Lecture: Unthinking the Politics of Fear
6pm Meat Planet, With Benjamin Wurgaft
6pm Ignite that Spark – A Deep Dive Into the Entrepreneurial Mindset
6:30pm When Should Law Forgive?
6:30pm Heading for Extinction (And What To Do About It)
6:30pm Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II
6:30pm Energy Efficiency and Climate Justice
7pm On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
7pm Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
7pm The Boston Area Solar Energy Association
7pm A Night in for Refugees with Clemantine Wamariya
7pm "The Human Scale" film screening
8pm Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III (MA-4, D)
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Friday, October 11 - Sunday, October 13
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HONK! FESTIVAL: 14TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
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Friday, October 11
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12pm Environmental Exposure Modeling for Air Pollution in Epidemiological Studies: The Advancement from Local to National Scale
12pm CEE Seminar: Land Reclamation and flood control in the Netherlands
12pm Drug-Resistant Infections: Confronting an Escalating Crisis
1pm The NeuroArts Forum
2pm The Opioid Epidemic: Addressing Low-Value Addiction Care
2:30pm The Great Chernobyl Acceleration
3pm A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
3:30pm Extinction Rebellion & Forward! Marching Band Funeral Procession
4:30pm MERE Keynote Address: Helen Greiner, iRobot
4:30pm Leadership for Student Success: How colleges and universities can close critical gaps in access, equity, and outcomes
4:30pm Macabre Social Capital: The Families of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba
7pm The College Dropout Scandal
7pm MIT Energy Night
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Saturday, October 12
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10am Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - West Roxbury
11am Urban Agriculture Fair
2pm "Orchestrating Change" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
4pm 4th Local Craft Spirits Festival
4pm Jane Elliott at The Strand Theatre in Boston
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Sunday, October 13
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11am Extinction Rebellion Joins the HONK! Parade in a Die In/Rise Up
3pm Community Conversations with Samuel Stein on Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
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Monday, October 14
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11am Sunrise Movement Teaching Workshop
7pm Climate Grief Listening Circle in JP
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Tuesday, October 15
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12pm Systems Thinking Webinar: Michael A. Cusumano, “The Business of Platforms”
1pm MADMEC Final Presentations and Award Ceremony
5pm Action on Climate Change: The Sustainable Growth Story of the 21st Century
6pm The Changing Face of Poverty: Can Africa Surprise the World?
6pm Lessons Learned in Building Collaborative Cyber Defenses
6:30pm Waylaid in Tijuana Documentary Pre-screening
7pm City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
7pm More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Monday, October 7 - Friday, October 11
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Extinction Rebellion: Worldwide Rebellion Continues
midnight
Join XR Mass for the continuation of the international rebellion! Save the dates.
https://rebellion.earth/event/international-rebellion-begins-7-october-2019/
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Monday, October 7
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AltWheels Fleet Day
Monday, October 7
8AM – 4:30PM
Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, 1125 Boston Providence Turnpike, Norwood
RSVP at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/748d9f_03ff48d4985f4f6b889a0f7aea3e6b5d.pdf
Cost: $65
Join corporate and municipal Fleet Managers at the14th Annual Fleet Day Conference on Monday, October 7, 2019! AltWheels Fleet Day is the largest meeting of Fleet Managers from around New England and includes more than 30 cities and towns in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Maine, Vermont, and Rhode Island with attendance from many state agencies such as MassDOT. Hear from professionals about the latest in fleet transportation technologies, alternative fuels and fleet management practices. The conference will feature a large outdoor vehicle display alongside panels, exhibits, and alternative transportation solutions that cuts down on emissions and saves money!
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Can We Talk About Race? A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Tatum
Monday, October 7
10:00 am to 11:30 am
BU, Metcalf Trustee Center, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-we-talk-about-race-a-conversation-with-dr-beverly-tatum-tickets-73598712731
Please join us for a conversation titled "Can We Talk About Race?" with Dr. Beverly Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and author of several best-selling books. The event will be moderated by Dr. Michelle Porche, with remarks by Reggie Jean, Director for Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math/Science, and Dr. Raul Fernandez, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
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The Future of U.S. Carbon Pricing Policy
Monday, October 7
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Bldg, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Robert N. Stavins, Harvard University. Lunch is provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Contact Name: Julie Gardella
julie_gardella at hks.harvard.edu
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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - David Hutchins
Monday, October 7
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
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Air Pollution in the Short and Long Term: Integrating Science and Policy Analysis to Inform Action
Monday, October 7
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall (102), Geo Museum, 24 Oxford Stret, Cambridge
Noelle Eckley Selin, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, MIT
Abstract: Toxic air pollutants damage human health and well-being worldwide. Some pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter affect human health in the near term, while others like mercury can further affect future generations. Industrial sources of air pollution also emit greenhouse gases, contributing to climate change. Understanding and managing air pollution, climate change, and other sustainability challenges in the short and long term requires knowledge of not only environmental processes, but also the human and technological drivers that affect and are affected by them, and the institutions and policies that shape decision-making. For many issues related to sustainability, the overall impacts of potential policy actions on present and future generations are poorly characterized and understood. In this talk, I will present work developing and applying new conceptual frameworks and modeling approaches that can evaluate the positive and negative impacts of strategies to mitigate toxic air pollution in the context of sustainability and examine the distribution of impacts in time and space. Examples given include (1) assessing the air pollution and related health impacts of strategies to mitigate carbon emissions, and (2) quantifying the long-term implications of persistent pollutants such as mercury in ways that can better inform policy. Effectively informing decision-making also requires interactions with stakeholders: I will describe ways in which I have incorporated public and policy engagement in my work, and examine how research on air pollution, toxic substances, and climate has influenced decision-making.
Short Bio: Noelle Eckley Selin is Associate Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also the Director of MIT’s Technology and Policy Program. Prof. Selin's research uses atmospheric chemistry modeling to inform decision-making on sustainability challenges, including air pollution, climate change and hazardous substances such as mercury and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Her work also examines interactions between science and policy in international environmental negotiations and develops systems approaches to address sustainability challenges. She received her PhD from Harvard University in Earth and Planetary Sciences as part of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group. Her M.A. (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and B.A. (Environmental Science and Public Policy) are also from Harvard University. Before joining the MIT faculty, she was a research scientist with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Her articles were selected as the best environmental policy papers in 2015 and 2016 by the journal Environmental Science & Technology. She is the recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award (2011), a Leopold Leadership fellow (2013-2014), Kavli fellow (2015), a member of the Global Young Academy (2014-2018), an American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Institute Fellow (2016-2017), and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich Institute for Advanced Study (2018-2021).
EPS Colloquium
https://eps.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-series-30
Contact Name:
summer_smith at fas.harvard.edu
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Upstream Emissions from the Production and Transport of Fuels
Thursday, October 7
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Multi-Purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Anjuliee Mittelman, Environmental Engineer at USDOT/Volpe
The Volpe Center is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop an upstream emissions modelling tool, which will support future rulemakings for mobile sources (highway, rail, and marine). Upstream emissions occur during the production and transport of fuels used in transportation. Upstream sources include petroleum refineries and biorefineries, storage depos and fuel blending terminals, and the trucks, rail lines, and barges used to transport biofuel crops, crude, and finished fuels. The upstream component can be a significant portion of the impact of a new heavy-duty truck emissions standard, for example. This work shows the importance of considering emissions along the entire lifecycle of a fuel, from the field/well to tailpipe.
Dr. Anjuliee Mittelman joined the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center as an environmental engineer in 2015. She provides technical and policy support to federal and state agencies on air quality and water quality issues. Her recent work has focused on developing tools to assess the emissions benefits of alternative fuel vehicles and bicycle-pedestrian infrastructure and quantifying emissions from the production and transport of biofuels. Dr. Mittelman also works on air pollution and drinking water contamination stemming from the use of firefighting foams by the Federal Aviation Administration. Her PhD research at Tufts University focused on contaminant fate and transport in groundwater and drinking water treatment systems, with an emphasis on the environmental and public health implications of nanotechnology
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Elina Mariutsa Lecture: 2019 Global Peace Index Report
Monday, October 7
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Northeastern, 177 Huntington Ave, 3rd Floor, Boston
This is an educational lecture about the 2019 Global Peace Index (GPI) report. GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness, ranking 163 countries and territories according to their level of relative peacefulness. Produced annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace, the GPI covers 99.7% of the world’s population and presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to-date on trends in peace as well as its economic value. The GPI measures the absence of violence (negative peace) using 23 indicators across three domains: Societal Safety and Security; Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and Militarization. The report also includes a statistical analysis of Positive Peace - defined as the attitudes, institutions, and structures that correlate to the world’s most peaceful societies. A broader and more ambitious concept, Positive Peace represents the capacity for a society to meet the needs of its citizens and to address grievances without the use of violence. Key findings and trends from the 2019 GPI will be presented, along with an analysis of Positive Peace and the linkages between these bodies of research.
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Tufts Institute of the Environment 20th Anniversary Celebration
Monday, October 7
12:00PM - 1:00PM: Lunch & Lightning Talks ⟩ Barnum 208
1:30PM - 3:30PM: Panels on Environmental Activism & Justice ⟩ Cabot 205
4:00PM - 5:30PM: Environmental Alumni & Faculty Awards and Reception ⟩ Cabot 302 & Mezzanine
6:30PM - 7:30PM: Green New Deal Keynote Forum with U.S. Senator Ed Markey ⟩ Cohen Auditorium
RSVP at https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2u9lsHFyffuO5Y9
A full afternoon of events featuring food, lightning talks, panel presentations, awards, and a keynote forum all highlighting a range of environmental work, activism, and research. Full schedule at https://environment.tufts.edu/celebration/
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Agrosocial Resilience in a Changing World: Working Across the Coffee Supply Chain in a Coupled Socio-Environmental System
Monday, October 7
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Tufts, Location TBD
Presented by Colin Orians
Professor of Biology, Tufts University
Co-investigators include Laura Kuhl and Sean Cash
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Economics of Grid Energy Storage
Monday, October 7
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
MIT, Building E52-432, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Omer Karaduman (MIT)
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Bending the Arc: Film Screening and Discussion
WHEN Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, 3:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Askwith Hall (inside Longfellow Hall), 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Film, Health Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Global Support Services
SPEAKER(S) Dr. Paul Farmer
Dr. Mercedes Becerra
Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee
DETAILS Join us for a film screening of Bending the Arc, the story of Partners in Health, followed by a discussion on global health equity, research, and resilience with Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, and Dr. Mercedes Becerra. After the 45-minute movie clip and panel discussion, enjoy light refreshments and an opportunity to connect with faculty, staff, and students to celebrate Harvard’s international activities.
LINK https://www.globalsupport.harvard.edu/news-advice/film-screening-talk-bending-arc
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Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - East Boston
Monday, October 7
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
East Boston branch of Boston Public Library, 365 S Bremen Street, East Boston
RSVP at https://forms.gle/m1jJADJkjmdticHs5
The Greenovate Boston Leaders Program aims to increase understanding of the climate impacts in Boston and the actions required to mitigate the impacts. We want to involve Bostonians as part of the collective action needed in advancing the citywide initiatives. Our program gives you the materials and support you need to lead conversations about climate change and climate action.
This program is a great opportunity to network with a wide variety of leaders, learn how to format community discussions around climate change, and to make a positive impact on Boston.
This training will be held at the East Boston branch of Boston Public Library on October 7th from 5-8pm. The other training dates are Thursday, October 10th, and Saturday, October 12th. Please choose the (1) training that works best for you.
The max occupancy for each training is 30 people. Once we've reached 30 people, we will open up a wait list in the order of submissions.
Learn more about the Greenovate Leaders program - https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/greenovate-boston-leaders-program
If you have questions or are no longer able to attend the training you've signed up for/want to switch trainings, email David Corbie at David.Corbie at boston.gov.
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"Soul Witness: The Brookline Holocaust Project" Film Screening
Monday, October 7
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
BU, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/boston-university-howard-thurman-center-6409521769
The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and Boston University Hillel are proud to bring "Soul Witness: The Brookline Holocaust Project" to campus. <p>Join us for a special screening and discussion with filmmaker R. Harvey Bravman. Harvey will discuss what it was like to unearth hours of interview footage of survivors who settled in Brookline, MA in a vault, and how that led to the creation of a powerful documentary.
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Mass Innovation Nights #127
Monday, October 7
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
District Hall Boston, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-innovation-nights-127-tickets-70642201727
Join us for our 6th Annual Women Founders event on Monday, October 7th at 6pm to kick off WEBOS week. This event will feature 10 innovative tech products from women founders, and will be sponsored by CohnReznick, Sapers & Wallack with supporting sponsor Intralinks.
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Iconic Cambridge
Monday, October 7
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Cambridge, Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge
In Iconic Cambridge world-renowned photographer and artist Camila Cortes embeds herself in the environment to celebrate the beauty of the city in a way that only insiders can appreciate. She documents people, buildings, and events creating a commemorative and joyful portrait of a city where challenges and dreams are met with possibility.
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Empathy + Design
WHEN Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard University GSD, Room 124, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Master in Design Engineering at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Susan Lanzoni, Historian of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience
COST Free
DETAILS This lecture will reveal the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of empathy and will track its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite the word’s ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung (“in-feeling”), a term in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and nature. This early conception of empathy transformed into its opposite over the ensuing decades. Social scientists and clinical psychologists refashioned empathy to require the deliberate putting aside of one’s feelings to more accurately understand another’s. Even as neuroscientists continue to map the brain correlates of empathy, its many dimensions still elude strict scientific description. This talk will uncover empathy’s historical layers, offering a rich portrait of the tension between the reach of one’s own imagination and the realities of others’ experiences.
LINK https://mde.harvard.edu/susan-lanzoni-empathy
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Extinction Rebellion Welcome Call
Monday, October 7
7:00 PM
Webinar
RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/2113063485a432214ac87b605f06faf5
If you are new to XR or would just like to learn more about how it works, please to this online orientation session via Zoom. 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?
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Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus
Monday, October 7
7:00 PM
Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/jim_wallis/
Cost: $6 - $27.75 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling author and esteemed public theologian JIM WALLIS for a discussion of his latest book, Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus.
About Christ in Crisis
In Christ in Crisis, Jim Wallis provides a path of spiritual healing and solidarity to help us heal the divide separating Americans today. Building on “Reclaiming Jesus”—the declaration he and other church leaders wrote in May 2018 to address America’s current crisis—Wallis argues that Christians have become disconnected from Jesus and need to revisit their spiritual foundations. By pointing to eight questions Jesus asked or is asked, Wallis provides a means to measure whether we are truly aligned with the moral and spiritual foundations of our Christian faith.
“Christians have often remembered, re-discovered, and returned to their obedient discipleship of Jesus Christ—both personal and public—in times of trouble. It’s called coming home,” Wallis reminds us. While he addresses the dividing lines and dangers facing our nation, the religious and cultural commentator’s focus isn’t politics; it’s faith.
As he has done throughout his career, Wallis offers comfort, empathy, and a practical roadmap. Christ in Crisis is a constructive field guide for all those involved in resistance and renewal initiatives in faith communities in the post-2016 political context.
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Monday, October 7
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/jodi_kantor_and_megan_twohey/
Cost: $29.75 (book bundled)
Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters JODI KANTOR and MEGAN TWOHEY for a discussion of their new co-authored book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. They will be joined in conversation by author, actor, and social justice humanitarian ASHLEY JUDD.
About She Said
For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated. But in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation into the prominent Hollywood producer for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with power. During months of confidential interviews with top actresses, former Weinstein employees, and other sources, many disturbing and long-buried allegations were unearthed, and a web of onerous secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements was revealed.
These shadowy settlements had long been used to hide sexual harassment and abuse, but with a breakthrough reporting technique Kantor and Twohey helped to expose it. But Weinstein had evaded scrutiny in the past, and he was not going down without a fight; he employed a team of high-profile lawyers, private investigators, and other allies to thwart the investigation. When Kantor and Twohey were finally able to convince some sources to go on the record, a dramatic final showdown between Weinstein and the New York Times was set in motion.
Nothing could have prepared Kantor and Twohey for what followed the publication of their initial Weinstein story on October 5, 2017. Within days, a veritable Pandora’s box of sexual harassment and abuse was opened. Women all over the world came forward with their own traumatic stories. Over the next twelve months, hundreds of men from every walk of life and industry were outed following allegations of wrongdoing. But did too much change—or not enough? Those questions hung in the air months later as Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court, and Christine Blasey Ford came forward to testify that he had assaulted her decades earlier. Kantor and Twohey, who had unique access to Ford and her team, bring to light the odyssey that led her to come forward, the overwhelming forces that came to bear on her, and what happened after she shared her allegation with the world.
In the tradition of great investigative journalism, She Said tells a thrilling story about the power of truth, with shocking new information from hidden sources. Kantor and Twohey describe not only the consequences of their reporting for the #MeToo movement, but the inspiring and affecting journeys of the women who spoke up—for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves.
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The AI Republic: Building the Nexus Between Humans and Intelligent Automation
Monday, October 7
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-mark-esposito-harvard-faculty-tickets-71705622447
You've been made to believe that AI will take your job. The truth is AI will deeply change the nature of work itself and lead to the creation of jobs that don't exist yet. Sensational media reports speculate about the "rise of the machines" but fail to see that there's no real intelligence in AI. It is not an all-seeing master, but rather a functional tool that must combine with the intelligence we possess to be effective. With The AI Republic, Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Danny Goh have not written a book for coders, but for everyone curious about a future shaped by AI. They demystify this life-changing technology and explain how we can build a shared space where humans and intelligent automation work together, whether you're a business executive who wants to implement it, a government leader responsible for policy creation, or a parent who wants to prepare your children to grow up with AI as a companion.
About the Author: Mark Esposito is Co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech, a leading global firm providing AI solutions to a variety of clients across industries, sectors, and regions. In 2016 he was listed on the Radar of Thinkers50, as of the 30 most prominent business thinkers on the rise, globally. Mark has worked as Professor of Business & Economics at Hult International Business School and at Thunderbird Global School of Management at Arizona State University and as Fellow at the Judge Business School in the UK, as part of the Circular Economy Center. He has developed and conducted courses in Business, Government & Society & Economic Strategy and Competitiveness for Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education and served as Institutes Council Co-Leader, at the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter. He holds Fellowships with the Social Progress Imperative and with the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils in Washington D.C. He is a nonresident Fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai. Mark has been appointed as a global expert for the Fourth Industrial Revolution at World Economic Forum.
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The Net - Film Screening and Discussion with Director Lutz Dammbeck
Monday, October 7
7:00pm
MIT, Building 2-190, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Synopsis: Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck's THE NET explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology - a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution. (Source: IMDb)
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Tuesday, October 8
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Statewide Municipal Partnerships Conference
Tuesday, October 8
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, 1 College Street, Worcester
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egjmqq6k10d0c333&oseq=&c=&ch=
Cost: $20
Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito and members from all the Massachusetts Regional Planning Agencies welcome you to join them at the 2019 Annual Statewide Conference for Municipal Officials and Staff, co-hosted by the Division of Local Services. The event titled “21st Century Municipalities – Challenges & Opportunities” will be hosted at Holy Cross College on Tuesday, October 8, 2019.
Attendees will hear from Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito in the morning, as well as a panel discussing the clear economic benefits of communities adapting to the fast-paced changes prevalent in modern municipal management.
We will then break into sessions focused on Community Compact Best Practice areas so you can learn from your colleagues around the Commonwealth.
At the conference you will learn about a range of key subject areas facing communities in the 21st Century, including:
Climate Resiliency
New Challenges of Running A Municipality
Intergenerational Opportunities: Becoming an Age Friendly Community
Cybersecurity
Regionalization of Services
Questions?
Contact Diego Huezo
617-933-0711
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Civic Life Lunch – Media for Democracy: Journalism Then + Now in American Politics
Tuesday, October 8
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
RSVP at https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/content/hedrick-smith
Hedrick Smith is one of America’s most distinguished journalists: a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor and an Emmy award-winning producer. Smith has covered the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War, the Middle East, the Cold War, and six American presidential administrations. In 1971, he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that produced the “Pentagon Papers." He's produced 26 prime-time specials and documentaries for PBS.
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ABL Think Tank Brown Bag Lunch: Criminal Justice Reform in Massachusetts
Tuesday, October 8
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Draft Kings, 222 Berkeley Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abl-think-tank-brown-bag-lunch-criminal-justice-reform-in-massachusetts-tickets-72579273561
Join the Alliance for Business Leadership and UTEC for a special lunch discussion on teen and young adult criminal justice reform in Massachusetts on October 8.
We will focus our discussion on the state's criminal justice reform efforts for teens and young adults in the age of mass incarceration and its impact on state-wide economic growth. Bring your questions and an open mind as we focus on a hot policy issue during these succinct, one-hour policy session.
Lunch will be provided.
OUR SPEAKERS:
Peter J. Koutoujian, Sheriff of Middlesex County
Gregg Croteau, CEO at UTEC
Sana Fadel, Deputy Director at Citizens for Juvenile Justice
MORE ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:
Peter J. Koutoujian, Sheriff of Middlesex County
Peter J. Koutoujian has served as Middlesex Sheriff since January of 2011. In February of 2019, he was elected as Vice President of Major County Sheriffs of America, representing sheriffs from the most populous counties in the country. Sheriff Koutoujian currently serves as President of the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association, and is a founding member of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration, a group committed to reducing rates of incarceration. He has also been recognized as a “Champion of Justice Reform” by the Coalition for Public Safety - a national bipartisan collective advancing criminal justice reform.
Prior to serving as sheriff, Koutoujian served as a state legislator holding several leadership positions, including Chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Health. Additionally, he chaired the Commonwealth’s OxyContin and Other Drug Abuse Commission created in 2004. A lawyer by trade, Sheriff Koutoujian served as an assistant district attorney before being elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. He is a graduate of Bridgewater State University, the New England School of Law and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Gregg Croteau, CEO at UTEC
Hired as UTEC’s first Chief Executive Officer by the founding group of teens and community leaders, Gregg has overseen the growth of the agency from a grassroots safe haven to a nationally recognized youth development agency. Gregg came to UTEC with youthwork experience that ranged from streetwork to program development in Detroit, East Boston, and his hometown of Revere, MA. Gregg earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan.
He has received recognition ranging from the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leader Award to “Greatest Contribution to Social Work Practice” by the National Association of Social Workers–MA Chapter (2014). In 2015, Gregg was appointed to the Governor’s task force on Economic Opportunity for Populations Facing Chronically High Rates of Unemployment. He has served on numerous other boards and commissions and is currently a Leap of Reason Ambassador.
Sana Fadel, Deputy Director at Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Sana Fadel serves as Deputy Director and is primarily responsible for CfJJ's legislative advocacy and is the lead organizer of the statewide Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Reform Coalition. Prior to joining CfJJ, Sana was the Director of Public Policy at Rosie’s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women in Boston where she led campaigns on access to substance abuse treatment, strengthening families involved with the child welfare system, and improving services for customers applying for and receiving public benefits. She was responsible for advocating at the state-level on issues affecting Rosie’s Place guests as well as empowering them through voter mobilization and advocacy trainings. Sana holds a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University, New York and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Augusta State University, Georgia.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Impact and Perceptions in Europe
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse (fourth floor), 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
SPEAKER(S) Philippe Le Corre, Research Associate, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
COST Free
CONTACT INFO info at ash.harvard.edu
DETAILS When China started promoting its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Europe was always going to be a key destination for both the "Belt" and the "Maritime Road" with an open goal of targeting the European consumer market. While Beijing has tried to promote its initiative across Europe, the BRI concept remains unclear to a lot of Europeans. In addition, it has been hard to differentiate between Chinese foreign direct investments (with a total amount of EUR 17.3 billion in 2018, mainly in the UK, Germany and France) and BRI-related projects, which have been scarce in the European Union - although the situation is quite different in the Balkans just outside the EU. Meanwhile, the EU has launched its own connectivity strategy, which makes Chinese objectives of offering to build infrastructures to European countries ever more challenging.
Lunch will be served. This event is open to the public and RSVPs are not required. Seats are first come, first served.
LINK https://ash.harvard.edu/event/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-impact-and-perceptions-europe
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WBCN and The American Revolution
Tuesday, October 8
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Northeastern, Snell Library 90, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
WBCN and The American Revolution is an award-winning documentary tha tells the story of WBCN-FM, which began as an underground, radical radio station, and how political activism and the counterculture intersected in Boston. Through first-person accounts and archival material, WBCN and The American Revolution offers an extremely relevant documentary about how media can affect and be involved in social change. Join us for a screening with director Bill Lichtenstein in attendance. Film runs 124 minutes.
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served.
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Lunch & Learn with IHCD: Body Politics - Social Equity and Public Space
Tuesday, October 8
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD), 200 Portland Street, 1st Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/74696682789
Joel Sanders is the founder of MIXdesign, a think-tank and design consultancy that is a branch of his New York based architecture studio JSA. MIXdesign works with commercial and institutional clients to create accessible and welcoming spaces that meets the needs; of people of different ages, genders, races, religions and abilities. Initiatives include Stalled!, an AIA award-winning project that responds to national controversies surrounding transgender access to pubic restrooms and MIXmuseum, a Toolkit for making the public spaces of museums accessible to diverse audiences.
Drawing from his design research on restrooms and museums, Joel Sanders will discuss the imperative for designers to form cross-disciplinary collaborations dedicated to creating inclusive public spaces that meet the needs of people of different ages, genders, races and abilities.
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How Will the City of the Future Be Impacted by Water?
Tuesday, October 8
3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Harvard, Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, Harvard GSE, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
John Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Finance & Faculty Chair, Africa Research Center, Harvard Business School
James Matheson, Founder & Principal, Flybridge Ventures; Chairman & CEO, Oasys Water; Senior Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School
Joyce Coffee, Founder & President, Climate Resilience Consulting
John Fernandez, Professor and Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative, MIT; Director, Urban Metabolism Group
Efosa Ojomo, Global Prosperity Lead, Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation
Loreta Castro Reguera, Professor, UNAM Mexico; Design Director, Taller Capital, Mexico; Visiting Scholar in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
The future of cities is impacted by water in two main manifestations: too much water (notably flooding and sea rise) or not enough water (leading to drought, extreme heat, and increased fire risk). Mature cities in developed economies cope with these stressors one way, while fast growing cities in emerging economies have quite different tools to anticipate and deal with perils. For example, sea rise issues in Jakarta and Lagos are considered differently than in Miami or Amsterdam; drought and heat is experienced one way in Beijing or Mexico City than in Los Angeles, subject to terrifying wildfires.
All of these world cities, home to hundreds of millions of people, face water issues in the next decades. The world is seeing increasing migration as people move to cities for economic, political, or climate reasons.
Contact Name: Anna Dellicker
adellicker at hbs.edu
617-495-1432
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LOCAL ECOLOGIES: INDIGENOUS BOSTON HARBOR
Tuesday, October 8
3-6pm
Meet at Fox Point Dock (UMass Boston) at 2:30pm for a 3pm departure on the M/V Columbia Point to Deer Island. The boat will return to Fox Point at 6pm.
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-ecologies-indigenous-boston-harbor-tickets-69225650785
A free boat tour of the Boston Harbor Islands and walking tour of Deer Island
Please be sure register as space is limited!
Join us for a free boat tour of the Boston Harbor Islands and walking tour of Deer Island on Tuesday, October 8. The tour, led by Elizabeth Solomon (Massachusett), Nia Holley (Nipmuc), and Faries Gray (Massachusett), will focus on Indigenous relationships—past, present, and future—with the Harbor Islands, particularly Deer, Thompson, Long, Moon, Spectacle, and Peddocks Island.
We’ll travel together by boat to Deer Island, where we’ll disembark and walk the perimeter of the island, which is home to the Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, the second largest sewage treatment plant in the United States. Deer Island is also one of 34 islands that comprise Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.
Centering Indigenous perspectives on and relationship with Deer Island, the tour will consider how Deer Island’s “varied past” is interpreted today by the National Park Service and the ten other agencies that make up the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. A sign on the island briefly outlines this varied, layered, and contested past, and present: “Since colonial days, Deer Island has served as a detention center for American Indians, a quarantine station and hospital for immigrants, an asylum for the city’s social outcasts and the poor, a reformatory for juvenile delinquents, an orphanage, a prison for petty criminals, and a military post.”
The tour will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the practice and politics of land acknowledgements, which are necessary but insufficient gestures of accountability to Indigenous peoples in the colonial present.
The tour is a part of Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown’s project, “Ecologies of Acknowledgement,” which is featured in the LOCAL ECOLOGIES exhibition at UMass Boston's University Hall Gallery, on view September 3rd through October 26th.
For more information on the LOCAL ECOLOGIES initiative and exhibition, please visit: https://sites.uml.edu/local-ecologies/
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Emile Bustani Seminar: "Is the 1979 Revolution Still Relevant to the Islamic Republic of Iran?"
Tuesday, October 8
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E51-335. 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Naghmeh Sohrabi ’94, Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History, Brandeis University
The Iranian revolution of 1979 recently turned forty. Unlike with the French who forty years after their time-altering revolution saw both the restoration and final disappearance of the Bourbon monarchy and the short life of the Orlean reign, the four decades following Iran's revolution have been remarkably stable. The Islamic Republic, the hybrid political system that was created in the revolution's aftermath, remains in place, absorbing political, economic, social, and cultural shocks through the unique flexibility built into its skeletal frame. But are we standing at a turning point whereby the Islamic Republic of Iran is no longer tethered to its revolutionary past?
On the one hand, the revolution, in terms of history and memory, is alive and well in the discourse of the Islamic Republic. The men (and a handful of women) who are steering the country in these volatile times for the most part forged their political identities within the fires of the revolution. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, undisputedly the most powerful force in Iran's political and economic system, was born out of the revolution's zeal and passion. Its constitution, which it has as yet to discard, remains a document of revolutionary power struggle and, in places, compromise. Its oppositional forces, regardless of their legitimacy, are all in different ways in conversation with the revolutionary past. On the other hand, there is a sense that the revolution as both an engine and brake for post-revolutionary developments, particularly those within the political realm, has left the scene. Since 2005 and the emergence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a new cadre of political figures have emerged—younger and less bound to the ideals of this particularly twentieth century revolution with its ideals of social justice, anti-imperial struggle, and even, counter intuitively, clerical rule. In this talk, Naghmeh Sohrabi will draw on her research on the 1979 Iranian revolution to assess the degree to which the revolution is still relevant for our understanding of Iran today.
Naghmeh Sohrabi ’94 is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Associate Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. She is the author of the book Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous articles on Iranian history and culture. She is the 2014 recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, and in 2017-18, along with Prof. Greg Childs, she received a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Fellowship in Comparative Revolutions. In 2015 she received the Bernstein Faculty Fellowship and a Provost Teaching Innovation Grant. She is currently writing a book on the experience of the 1979 revolution in Iran. Her courses include the history of modern Middle East and modern Iran, Nationalism in the Middle East, The Middle East and the West, History for the Global Citizen, and The Event in History.
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EnergyBar: Autumn Edition
Tuesday, October 8
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-autumn-edition-tickets-70201946913
Please join us on Tuesday, October 8 for an autumn edition of our free, monthly EnergyBar networking event! Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
At this EnergyBar you'll hear brief remarks from the Greentown Labs team, as well as our EnergyBar sponsor, Bank of America. Ellen Handly, SVP, Small Business Banker Manager, will highlight all the great work Bank of America does with small businesses and entrepreneurs!
Ellen Handly is a Small Business Banker Manager in New England, and oversees a team of 17 Small Business Bankers, covering small business clients between $1-$10MM in Eastern MA and Rhode Island. Joining the firm in 2014, Ellen held multiple roles in the consumer channel before joining Small Business, and was recognized with the Delivering One Company award in 2016 and 2017. Ellen is the co-chair for LEAD Boston, chair of the National Small Business Leadership Advisory Council, a Boston Main Streets Foundation board member, Cheri Blair mentor, Big Sister, and member of several employee network groups. Ellen received the President’s Volunteer Service award for her volunteer efforts in 2018.
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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ORUM: 2020 Election and Engaging Communities of Color
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer Building, John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HKS IOP
SPEAKER(S) Maria Hinojosa, Co-Host, In The Thick, Anchor and Executive Producer, Latino USA on National Public Radio
President, The Futuro Media Group
Julio Ricardo Varela, Co-Host, In The Thick, Digital Media Director, Futuro Media
LaTosha Brown, IOP Fall 2019 Resident Fellow, Co-founder, Black Voters Matter Fund
Renée Graham, Associate Editor and Columnist, The Boston Globe
COST free
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/1334296463392203/
CONTACT INFO benjamin_hull at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS
A conversation on election 2020 and civic engagement among communities of color with NPR's Maria Hinojosa, Futro Media's Julio Ricardo Varela, IOP Fall 2019 Resident Fellow LaTosha Brown and Boston Globe's Renée Graham.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/1334296463392203/
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Addiction, Community, and Impact: Panel & Lightning Talks
Tuesday, October 8
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center, 730 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/addiction-community-and-impact-panel-lightning-talks-tickets-73009749125
A night of short talks and stories from founders, artists, and activists who are addressing addiction from all angles.
Through short Lightning Talks, a panel, and Q&A session, our guest speakers will share their personal entry points into this work, how they found the resources to build their ventures and projects, and how they plan to navigate challenges and scale the impact of their work.
This event is part of BU's Week of Wellbeing and is co-sponsored by Innovate at BU, BU Arts Initiative, and The Wellbeing Project.
Meet the speakers:
Kruti Kanojia is CEO and Co-Founder of Healthy Gamer, a digital therapeutic platform for video game addiction. Her professional background includes 10 years of experience in digital marketing and startup team management, and her personal background includes supporting pediatricians as well as gamers through changing technological trends. Kruti is a 2nd year MBA student at the Questrom School of Business specializing in Health Sector Management, Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
Domenic Esposito is an artist and activist living in the Boston area.Running as an undercurrent to his sculpture is Esposito’s passion for architecture. Later works are increasingly emotional and wrought with social messages and cues. Most recently the artist embarked on an ambitious, personal and controversial project with the “Purdue Spoon”. Esposito has attended metalworking and design classes at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Stonybrook Fine Arts, Artist Asylum and Prospect Hill Forge. He currently works and resides in Westwood, MA.
Rafik Nader Wahbi is a Masters of Public Health student at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is a researcher and Program Coordinator at Boston Medical Center's Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) unit. His main interests in Public Health are Substance Disorders and individuals currently incarcerated or with a history of incarceration. Rafik utilizes quantitative and qualitative research skills, with an emphasis on ethnographic approaches. He is an avid hip-hop music fan and has begun incorporating that into his projects. Rafik is passionate about amplifying the voices of those involved in corrections.
Innovate at BU is a University-wide initiative to enable all BU Terriers to become drivers of innovation in their own lives, careers, and communities. Innovate at BU's physical home, the BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center, hosts experiential learning programs that foster an entrepreneurial mindset by teaching innovation, communication, and collaboration skills. Check our more Innovate at BU events!
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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
Tuesday, October 8
6:30 p.m.
Encuentro 5, 19A Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/orientation-10-8-19/
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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2020: The Most Startup-Minded, Tech & Data-Driven Political Campaign - Ever
Tuesday, October 8
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/2020-election-technology-startup-mentality/
Cost: $25 Members; $45 Non-Members; $10 Students; $5 Student Members $25 Livestream Members; $45 Livestream Non-Members; $10 Livestream Students; $5 Livestream Student Members
This event will be live streamed - select the live stream ticket option @ checkout if you would like to watch the event online. If you registered for the live stream, you'll be emailed a link & password between 5:30 PM & 6:00 PM on the day of the event.
We need volunteers to help with set and registration! Interested in helping out and attending the event for free?
Presidential campaigns are some of the fastest growing startup cultures in existence - doing more with less and scaling faster than ever both with talent, technology, and digital efforts.
Deepfakes, foreign election meddling, and other incidents have highlighted how cutting-edge technology might be harming our democratic process...but it’s also helping. Political campaigns on both sides are extraordinarily digitally savvy, using all means of technology available to learn about and reach voters, but also scaling to grow to an ever-changing daily campaign grind.
Join us on October 8th for a bipartisan panel discussion with some of the most talented Democrat and Republican operatives in the business, deeply involved in the 2020 election cycle at the highest level, who will discuss:
How a startup mentality influences a campaign (especially a Presidential primary campaign)
The current state of data-driven campaigning on the Democrat and Republican side
Tactics and strategies to "fail fast" on campaigns, and do more with less
What new tools will be used in 2020 for the first time?
Moderator
Tom Serres, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Animal Ventures, founder of rally.org and host of Tech on Politics podcast
Speakers
Ellen Bredenkoetter, Chief Data Officer, Republican National Committee
John Hagner, Partner, Clarity Campaign Lab
Mike Shields, Founder, Convergence Media
David Shor, Head of Political Data Science, Civis Analytics
Event Schedule
Registration & Networking: 6:00 - 6:30 PM
Welcome and Panel Discussion: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Networking hour after the event: 8:00 - 9:00 PM
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FLP Open Meeting: Investing in the Building Blocks of the Food System
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel, K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Food Literacy Project
SPEAKER(S) Dorothy Suput, Executive Director, The Carrot Project
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=429&SINGLESTORE=true
CONTACT INFO foodliteracy at harvard.edu
DETAILS The Carrot Project's work facilitates access to financing and business support so that today’s small farm and food businesses can grow into thriving, enduring enterprises.
Executive Director, Dorothy Suput, will tell us how farm business training and financial planning can be transformative for small business owners.
LINK https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true
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Wednesday, October 9 – Saturday, October 12
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Sound Education: An Educational Audio Conference
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 9, 5:30 p.m. – Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, 11 p.m.
WHERE Various Locations, Harvard and Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences
SPONSOR Ministry of Ideas, 90.9 WBUR, himalaya, Harvard Divinity School
CONTACT Zach Davis
DETAILS Every day, millions of listeners listen to podcasts and radio programs to teach themselves about the humanities, sciences, and other academic topics, selecting the programs and hosts that suit their learning styles. From tenured academics in university studios to young hobbyists in bedroom closets, producers of educational audio are a diverse set. But they share a common goal—to distill complex information into lectures, conversations, and interviews that are free and accessible to everyone in the world.
Sound Education is a 4-day event in Boston for educational and academic podcasters and radio hosts, and their listeners. It is hosted by Ministry of Ideas, a podcast based at Harvard Divinity School. A full schedule, registration information, and list of speakers, presentations, and workshops can be found on the conference website.
LINK www.soundeducation.fm
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Wednesday, October 9
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MIT Materials Day 2019 Symposium and Poster Session
Wednesday, October 9
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materials-day-2019-symposium-and-poster-session-registration-65583757785
Cost: $0 – $150
Recent advances in machine learning have increasingly been used in materials science research. Scientists and researchers are utilizing higher level computational methods to help leverage massive data streams of their findings for real world applications. The benefits of machine learning in materials science are vast and have completely changed the research arena. Speakers from industry as well as professors from MIT will be discussing their research, the specific challenges they have experienced and how using machine learning has led to new insights and breakthroughs.
The symposium begins at 8:30 a.m., and is followed by a student poster session, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
FEES: Early Registration by October 7, General Public and MIT Alumni $100, late registration or at the door $150
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Filmmaker Alex Eaves to speak on sustainability
Wednesday, October 9
10:30am to 11:35am
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Alex Eaves, Northeastern Alumnus and documentary director/producer of Reuse because you cannot recycle the planet will be a special guest of Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan on October 9 in 909 Renaissance Park (1135 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02115) as a speaker in her Economics of Sustainability course. Alex, who graduated with a major in journalism in 2000, is a noted expert on the reuse perspective of consumption and is most recently working on a documentary related to the tiny house movement. More information on his documentary and focus is available at alexeaves.com.
Information on Dr. Venkatesan’s initiatives related to sustainability can be found at http://sustainablepracticesltd.org
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Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Myanmar | Perspectives from the Ground
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Wexner-434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Smith, CEO & Co-Founder of Fortify Rights & Fellow at the Carr Center
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, Myanmar, and the dismantling of democracy.
Matthew Smith, CEO & Co-Founder of Fortify Rights & Fellow at the Carr Center, will give a talk titled, "Myanmar: Perspectives from the Ground.”
LINK https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights-hard-places-speaker-series-myanmar-perspectives-ground
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Ralph Nader at Harvard Law School
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Law Record
SPEAKER(S) Ralph Nader
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO Pete Davis, PeDavis at jd18.law.harvard.edu
DETAILS On Oct. 9 at noon in Milstein East C, Ralph Nader — consumer advocate, public citizen, Harvard Law alumnus, and one of The Atlantic's 100 most influential figures in American history — is coming to Harvard Law to inspire students to deploy their legal education for justice, democracy and the public interest.
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be served.
LINK https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/
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Beyond the Headlines: The Cost of Intervention in Iran and Beyond
Wednesday, October 9
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
BU, 121 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP to eventsps at bu.edu
Join us as our Beyond the Headlines series continues with a discussion entitled "The Cost of Intervention: Iran and Beyond.”
Panelists include Pardee School Assistant Professor of International Relations Joshua Shifrinson; Rosella Cappella Zielinski, BU Assistant Professor of Political Science; and Narges Bajoghli, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University. The discussion will be moderated by Pardee School Assistant Professor of International Relations Shamiran Mako.
A light lunch will be provided.
Limited seating. Doors close when room capacity is reached.
The building is located in an historic district and is not ADA-accessible.
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Developments in China’s Capital Markets and Implications of the US-China Trade War
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Morgan Courtroom, 1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) James C. Lin, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardell; Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
CONTACT INFO Mike Zaisser
DETAILS
EALS talk
LINK http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
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Book talk: 'Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen’
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series
SPEAKER(S) Nathalie Peutz, Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Nathalie Peutz received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University. Her research, based on fieldwork conducted in Yemen, Djibouti, and Somaliland, focuses on forced migration, displacement and immobility, conservation and development, and identity and heritage in the Arab world and the Western Indian Ocean region. Before coming to New York University Abu Dhabi, Peutz spent a year as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University and a year as a Post-Graduate Associate at the Council of Middle East Studies at Yale University. Peutz is also the recipient of fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (DDRA), the SSCR-IPFP, the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation (Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies), and three grants from the American Institute of Yemeni Studies. Her current project, an ethnographic study of Yemeni migrant and refugee communities in Somaliland and Djibouti, has been funded by an internal award (REF) from NYUAD.
CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed.
LINK https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-islands-heritage-conservation-and-transformation-yemen
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Mikhail Krutikhin: Russia: Abundant Gas, Vanishing Oil
Wednesday, October 9
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Cabot 102, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mikhail-krutikhin-russia-abundant-gas-vanishing-oil-registration-70503368473
Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a conversation with Mikhail Krutikhin on the future of Russia's energy sector. He will compare the situation with available oil and gas reserves, analyze prospects of export, and discuss Russia’s global role in the circumstances. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite.
Mikhail Krutikhin is a co-founder and leading analyst of RusEnergy, an independent consulting agency based in Moscow, Russia. A graduate of the Institute of Oriental Languages at the Moscow Lomonosov State University, he majored in Iranian philology in 1970, and in 1985 obtained a Ph.D. in modern history. Between 1972 and 1992, he worked at the TASS news agency on missions to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. Since 1993, he has been analyzing opportunities and specifics of investments in the energy industry in the post-Soviet space — first with the U.S.-based Russian Petroleum Investor Inc. and then with RusEnergy. He is a permanent member of international think tanks that deal with a wide array of political and economic issues — notably Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Germany’s SWP and DGAP, the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, the Canadian Energy Research Institute, and a few other prominent analytical centers.
Editorial Comment: At some point, the pundits will recognize that the rise of authoritarian nationalism funded out of Putin’s Russia and Saudi Arabia, among others, is all about keeping the carbon bubble inflated so that the kleptocratic plutocrats can get as much $$$$ out of fossil foolishness before the climate emergency shuts it all down.
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Careers in Sustainability: Charging into a Career in Renewables
Wednesday, October 9
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
BU College of the Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 132, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/careers-in-sustainability-charging-into-a-career-in-renewables-tickets-72419700273
Learn about careers in sustainability from a panel of energy professionals involved in multiple industries
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City of the Future: A Conversation with Sidewalk Labs
Wednesday, October 9
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
CultureHouse, 500 Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-of-the-future-a-conversation-with-sidewalk-labs-tickets-72426963999
Cost: $5
A discussion on vacant storefronts with Sidewalk Lab's Vanessa Quirk and Carrie Denning Jackson.
Vacant storefronts are becoming ubiquitous on main streets around the world. How did we get here? And how can we ensure the ground floors of our cities remain vibrant, active community spaces over the long term? In the second season of the Sidewalk Labs podcast City of the Future, hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk explore an idea that could help address this crisis — and embed flexibility into the ground floor itself.
Join Vanessa at CultureHouse to learn more about issues and stories she encountered in reporting this story. After an overview of the episode, she'll lead a panel discussion on vacant storefronts with Carrie Denning Jackson, Kai Grant, and Allie Girouard.
Carrie Denning Jackson is a Director on the Development team at Sidewalk Labs, where she is responsible for the ground floor development and innovation strategy. Prior to this role, Carrie spent a year in Toronto launching Sidewalk’s experimental lab and workspace, 307, and she originally joined Sidewalk as the Chief of Staff, where she oversaw much of the company’s growth from the mid-teens to 100 plus.
Kai Grant is as a Roxbury-Born serial entrepreneur and idea generator. Her extensive knowledge of Boston’s retail landscape and the microbusiness community compliment her experience in producing creative strategies and building authentic partnerships between community stakeholders. Her expertise is impactful space-making and place branding. Currently, Kai manages a 12,000 square feet in Dudley Square as the Owner + Chief Curator of Black Market Dudley (1,700 sq. ft) and Curator and Operations Manager for the Nubian Gallery, formerly the Hamill Gallery (10,000 sq. ft.)
Allie Girouard is the Community and Communications Lead at CultureHouse. A recent graduate of Connecticut College's Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, she brings a socio-political perspective to urban design. She has worked on CultureHouse for over a year, developing the organization's community engagement and communication strategies.
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Diversity Matters; Effects of Genetic Variation on Coastal Habitat Resilience and Restoration
Wednesday, October 9
6:30pm
Hops n Scotch, 1306 Beacon Street, Brookline
Dr Randall Hughes, Northeastern
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Wednesday, October 9
7pm
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cambridge Forum welcomes award-winning author and journalist CHRISTOPHER LEONARD for a discussion of his latest book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America.
About Kochland
The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food, to the chemicals that make our pipes, to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers, to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way.
For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He’s a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. These strategies have made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates.
But there’s another side to this story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read this book.
Seven years in the making, Kochland reads like a true-life thriller, with larger-than-life characters driving the battles on every page. The book tells the ambitious tale of how one private company consolidated power over half a century—and how in doing so, it helped transform capitalism into something that feels deeply alienating to many Americans today
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The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy
Wednesday, October 9
7:00 PM
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed political analyst ROBERT KUTTNER for a discussion of his latest book, The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy. He will be joined in conversation by Georgetown University professor and Washington Post contributor E.J. DIONNE, JR.
About The Stakes
The 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government―and win the election―Democrats need to nominate and elect an economic progressive. The Stakes explains how the failure of the economy to serve ordinary Americans opened the door to a demagogic president, and how democracy can still be taken back from Donald Trump.
Either the United States continues the long slide into the arms of the bankers and corporate interests and the disaffection of working Americans―the course set in the past half century by Republican and Democratic presidents alike―or we elect a progressive Democrat in the mold of FDR. At stake is nothing less than the continued success of the American experiment in liberal democracy. That success is dependent on a fairer distribution of income, wealth, and life changes―and a reduction in the political influence of financial elites over both parties.
The decay of democracy and economic fairness began long before Trump. The American republic is in need of a massive overhaul. It will take not just a resounding Democratic victory in 2020 but a progressive victory to pull back from the brink of autocracy. The Stakes demonstrates how a progressive Democrat has a better chance than a centrist of winning the presidency, and how only this outcome can begin the renewal of the economy and our democracy.
A passionate book from one of America’s best political analysts, The Stakes is the book to read ahead of the 2020 primaries and general election.
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Panel: First Second's Science Comics
Wednesday, October 9
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Join Porter Square Books for a panel reading with creators of First Second's Science Comics series! Creators Zack Giallongo, and Alex Graudins, Jason Viola, and Maris Wicks will present their respective comics and discuss the series and process. Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic – dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you’re a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!
Zack Giallongo is a teacher, podcaster, and cartoonist with several books under his belt including Star Wars Doodles, Ewoks: Shadows of Endor, the Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue series, and his original graphic novel, Broxo, which was a New York Times bestseller. He forages for food in the sometimes-quite-brisk landscapes of New England.
Alex Graudins is a cartoonist and illustrator currently living in Rhode Island. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts' cartooning class of 2016. Science Comics: The Brain was her first book, which made it a learning experience in more ways than one!
Jason Viola grew up in Massachusetts, spending many afternoons drawing comic strips about birds and cats. He went to college in Buffalo, New York, where he met his wife Rebecca. They both help organize the Boston-area comics convention MICE and like spending their time hiking and cooking together. These days, Jason enjoys reading to his son and looks forward to teaching him all about polar bears.
Maris Wicks lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has harnessed the power of her various biological systems to draw comics for Adhouse Books, Tugboat Press, and Spongebob Comics, and has written stories for Image and DC Comics. Wicks is the illustrator of New York Times Bestselling Primates, with Jim Ottaviani. Her solo graphic novels include Human Body Theater and Science Comics: Coral Reefs. She is quite fond of being in the water, whether it's swimming in ponds or scuba diving in the Atlantic Ocean.
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America’s Next Top Neuron: How microscopic competition shapes our brains
Wednesday, October 9
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium (in Goldenson Hall),200 Longwood Avenue,
Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, October 10 - Friday, October 11
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2019 Boston Science Diplomacy Dissertation Enhancement Workshop
Thursday, October 10 - Friday, October 11
University of Massachusetts Club 1 Beacon Street, Floor 32, Boston
Are you ready for your research to inform real-world decision making and decision makers?
Join the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University for lectures and activities on the theory and practice of science diplomacy and international policy at the third annual Boston Science Diplomacy Dissertation Enhancement Workshop.
This year’s theme will be, “Evidentia: Proof and Decision-making” covering academic content related to the natural sciences, political science, international relations, and more. We welcome doctoral students and researchers from all disciplines as well as diplomatic officials working on science and technology.
The cost for participation is $60 and will cover all materials and meals.
Please Note: A UMass Boston staff member will contact registrants prior to October 4th to collect registration fees via UMass Boston systems.
For more information and preparatory materials, please visit the event website- https://mccormack.umb.edu/special-projects/2019-boston-science-diplomacy-dissertation-enhancement-workshop
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Weaponized Interdependence in World Politics
Thursday, October 10, 3:30 PM – Friday, October 11, 5:00 PM EDT
Tufts, The Fletcher School, Cabot 702, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weaponized-interdependence-in-world-politics-registration-70571189327
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University welcomes you to a conference on “Weaponized Interdependence in World Politics” on October 10-11, 2019. In their recent paper in International Security, Henry Farrel and Abraham Newman challenge traditional ways of thinking about complex interdependence by explaining how global economic networks shape state coercion. This reformulation affects how scholars and practitioners may think about hegemonic power in the 21st century. What areas of the global political economy are likely to be vulnerable to chokepoint effects and panopticon effects?
This paradigm shift also informs policy debates about how to approach everything from energy pipelines to developing the infrastructure for 5G. How sustainable is the open global economy if weaponized interdependence becomes a regular tool of statecraft? What are the possible responses from non-hegemonic actors? How does weaponized interdependence tie in with other research into economic power, and what are the policy implications? We will begin to address these questions at the conference.
The conference will consist of a keynote address and five panel discussions on weaponized interdependence and international relations theory, cyberspace, finance, energy and transit, as well as resistance and reaction to weaponized interdependence. The event is organized by the Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program and sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York. We are thankful for the support of our partners, sponsors, and volunteers. When tweeting about the event, please use #WeaponizedInterdependence.
Learn more about the conference here:
https://sites.tufts.edu/fletcherrussia/october-2019-conference/
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Thursday, October 10
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Citywide Domestic Violence Training
Thursday, October 10
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EDT
2nd Floor Conference Room, 344 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/citywide-domestic-violence-training-tickets-70505458725
Annual Domestic Violence Training hosted by Transition House & the City of Cambridge Domestic & Gender-Based Violence Prevention Initiative
This training will cover the dynamics of abuse, working with survivors, tips for responding to disclosures, and the chance to connect with many resources in Cambridge who help survivors. Staff from Transition House, the City of Cambridge, and other community resources will be presenting on all of these topics.
Lunch will be provided.
Please contact Liz Speakman with questions: espeakman at cambridgema.gov
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Stigma and Access to Treatment: Harvard University and University of Michigan Summit on the Opioid Crisis
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
WHERE Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Education, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This event is sponsored by the Harvard University Office of the President, with support from the Harvard François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of the Dean.
COST Free, registration required
TICKET WEB LINK https://fxb.harvard.edu/opioidsummit/
DETAILS The presidents of Harvard University and the University of Michigan teamed up to organize two summits to address the opioid crisis affecting millions of Americans every year. The first summit, “Opioids: Policy to Practice” was held on May 10, 2019 in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The October summit will explore stigma and how care of people with addiction has been framed – including racial aspects, historical roots, and ethical dimensions. Clinicians will discuss barriers to medical treatment including shame, cost and availability. Lawyers and law enforcement will discuss changing norms within the criminal justice system.
The summit is co-chaired by Dr. Mary T. Bassett, Harvard FXB Director and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the department of Social and Behavioral Science, and Dr. Chad Brummett, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Director, Anesthesia Clinical Research and Director, Division of Pain Research at the University of Michigan.
LINK https://fxb.harvard.edu/opioidsummit/
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Post Carbon Institute We Need To Talk!
Thursday, October 10
8:00 AM - 11:15 PM
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.postcarbon.org/events/we-need-to-talk/
Cost: Donation
Talking about the climate crisis with family, friends, and colleagues can be so difficult that we choose not to do it at all, even when we feel passionately about it. How can we overcome our reluctance to have these important conversations? And how can we talk about this issue in a way that tears down walls and allows for real, meaningful connections?
We've asked Karin Kirk and Dr. Susanne Moser, experts in climate change communication, to help us understand the best ways to approach this overwhelming topic with the people in our lives.
During the webinar we'll explore questions like:
How can we talk about the climate crisis in a way that inspires action?
What role does compassion and understanding play in discussing such a daunting and frightening topic?
How do we express the urgency and magnitude of the situation in a way that draws people into the conversation—rather than drives them away?
You'll come away with a deeper understanding of the strategies that work, inspiration to connect with people in your community—even those who disagree with you, and real world examples of how to make these meaningful conversations have a real impact on the people in your life.
We hope you'll join us for this important discussion.
Funds raised from the event will support Post Carbon Institute’s efforts to inspire, educate, and support many more people to respond with urgency and boldness to the defining challenges of our time
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Foreseeing the Climate Future
Thursday, October 10
Lunch 11:30 am; Program 12-2:00 pm
WilmerHale, 60 State Street, Boston
RSVP at https://act.nrdc.org/donate/e2-member-events/
Cost: $30 per person
Please join E2 New England at this special briefing and interactive workshop to investigate the potential impacts of various policies on climate change.
Can we limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degree Celsius?
Dr. Jason Jay, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Dr. David Miller, Clean Energy Ventures Group, will provide preliminary comments about our climate challenge and then lead us in an interactive group exercise, an En-ROADS Climate Workshop. Participants will gain insights and learn for themselves what effects different policy levers have in reversing the harmful effects of climate change.
How much can different options, like 100% renewable electricity, change warming?
Can carbon pricing of $30/ton reduce global temperature increase to under 2 degrees Celsius? $50?
Are transportation policies a big part of the picture?
Will tree-planting and other natural solutions extract enough carbon?
How quickly is action needed? The science and the youth climate strikers tell us the work to save our climate must be underway NOW.
En-ROADS is a state of the art, system dynamics simulation model, grounded in the best available science and tested against other energy and climate models. Based on more than a decade of research and development by Professor John Sterman of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiativeand the team at Climate Interactive, this tool was designed to make sense of our complex economic and climate systems and how they change. Climate Interactive simulations with En-ROADS.and its predecessor models have encouraged policy-makers, business leaders and civil society in more than 88 countries to explore different climate policy scenarios and better understand their long-term impacts on the environment
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Sustainability Lunch Series: Climate Policy to Climate Action
Thursday, October 10
11:45am to 12:45am
MIT, Building E62-262, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
What are the most effective climate policies local and state governments can enact? And how can corporate political activity promote (or hinder) progress? Join us for a panel discussion on local and state climate policy in Massachusetts, moderated by Bethany Patten (MIT Sloan).
Panel Participants:
Mia Mansfield, Director of Climate Adaptation and Resilience at MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Hannah Payne, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Somerville.
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Autonomous Vehicle Benefits & Challenges
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Christopher Hart, Former Chair, National Transportation Safety Board
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar will be given by Christopher Hart, Former Chair, National Transportation Safety Board as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.
Lunch will be served. RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
LINK https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar
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Global Change Ecology: From plants and predictions to people and politicians
Thursday, October 10
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Multi-Purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford
Jeff Dukes, Purdue University
Jeff Dukes and his research group seek to address environmental challenges through ecological research and outreach. Their research currently focuses on three themes: understanding how ecosystems respond to climate and atmospheric change, understanding and minimizing the impacts of invasive species on ecosystems, and exploring the ecological consequences of switching our energy supply from fossil fuels to biofuels. Dukes has a particular interest in understanding how changes in climate and the atmosphere will affect the success and impact of invasive species.
Dukes directs the Boston-Area Climate Experiment (BACE), which characterizes ecosystem responses to gradients of climate change. Dukes also leads the INTERFACE research coordination network, which brings together experimentalists and modelers from around the world to advance global environmental change research. Dukes has appointments in the Departments of Forestry and Natural Resources and Biological Sciences at Purdue, and an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Activism that gives hope and security that is in risk
Wednesday, October 10
1pm
Webinar
RSVP at https://can-october.confetti.events/?invite=8ccfeddd44a438d21e81b93823b532d816df
As leaders fail to act in a time of crisis, it's easy to doubt the positive effects of activism. But there are many examples of when the climate movement has contributed to meaningful progress. The marches ahead of COP 21 emboldened world leaders to work out the Paris agreement, tireless advocacy for a carbon fee and dividend system has led to the adoption of such policies in Switzerland and Canada, and the school strike movement continues to amplify our sense of emergency.
But as we know progress has been much too slow. We already experience the effects global warming has on our security, well-being, and social stability. Security analysts and military personnel are often among the most forthcoming about the seriousness of our situation, as it is in their DNA to assess systematic risks.
This is a broadcast about hope through activism and the clarity of the security perspective. Welcome!
Ask questions before the show start at 7 PM CEST, October 10 2019
Guests: Cathy Orlando Climate Citizens’ Lobby Canada, Andreas Follér Head of Sustainability Scania Group, Isabelle Axelsson Fridays For Future, Nick Nuttall Earth Day Network, Jill Kubit Our Kids' Climate, Jamie Margolin This is Zero hour, Ian Dunlop Safe Climate Australia, Neil Morisetti Royal Navy and Dr. Sweta Chakraborty We Don't Have Time US Representative.
We invite you to tune in, watch, listen and participate actively by commenting live during and after the broadcast. We will send you instructions on how to participate and a reminder before the event begins.
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The Lands in Between: Russia vs. The West and the New Politics of Hybrid War
Wednesday, October 10
4:30-6:00pm
MIT, Building E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Mitchell A. Orenstein, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Orenstein will discuss why Russia launched its hybrid war on the west and examine how hybrid warfare affects the domestic politics of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
Mitchell Orenstein is the author most recently of The Lands in Between: Russia vs. The West and the New Politics of Hybrid War (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - Dorchester
Thursday, October 10
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Lower Mills branch of Boston Public Library, 27 Richmond Street, Dorchester
RSVP at https://forms.gle/m1jJADJkjmdticHs5
The Greenovate Boston Leaders Program aims to increase understanding of the climate impacts in Boston and the actions required to mitigate the impacts. We want to involve Bostonians as part of the collective action needed in advancing the citywide initiatives. Our program gives you the materials and support you need to lead conversations about climate change and climate action.
This program is a great opportunity to network with a wide variety of leaders, learn how to format community discussions around climate change, and to make a positive impact on Boston.
This training will be held at the Lower Mills branch of Boston Public Library on October 10th from 4:30-7:30pm. The other training dates are Monday, October 7th, and Saturday, October 12th. Please choose the (1) training that works best for you.
The max occupancy for each training is 30 people. Once we've reached 30 people, we will open up a wait list in the order of submissions.
Learn more about the Greenovate Leaders program - https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/greenovate-boston-leaders-program
If you have questions or are no longer able to attend the training you've signed up for/want to switch trainings, email David Corbie at David.Corbie at boston.gov
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The Demise of Tropical Glaciers: Why Should We Care?
Thursday, October 10
5:00PM
Harvard, Northwest Labs B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join the Harvard University Center for the Environment for a special lecture by one of the world's authorities on the melting of glaciers and ice caps as a warning of rising global temperatures:
LONNIE G. THOMPSON, Distinguished Professor of Geologic Sciences, The Ohio State University; Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
For the past four decades, Thompson has led an effort to rescue the remaining archives of ancient climate trapped in ice cores from those locations for future research as melting has progressed. To rescue those records, Thompson and his team have conducted more than 50 expeditions to some of the Earth's most remote places, some as high as 23,600 feet (7,200 meters, to drill ice cores and bring them back to Ohio State to extract those climate records. He is believed to have spent more time at altitudes above 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) than any other human. Thompson was elected to the National Academy of Science in 2005 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. In 2005, he was awarded both the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and the National Medal of Science.
Contact Name: Erin Harleman
eharleman at fas.harvard.edu
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Anushka Shah, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
Thursday, October 10
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building E15-318 (Open Area), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Around the world, citizens are saying the system is broken. If it’s education and schools one day, it’s healthcare the next. Our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally, and our confidence in the ability to solve problems around us is teetering.
Can entertainment and pop culture be a way out? Can films, television shows, and digital content become spaces to teach us how to fix our systems? Can we create influential media that changes how we talk about identity, social justice, public institutions, and citizen power?
In this talk, Anushka Shah, founder of the production house Civic Studios and the Civic Entertainment project at the MIT Media Lab, explores how entertainment can provide alternate narratives of citizen participation.
Shah’s Civic Entertainment project explores the intersection of civic participation with film, television, radio, theatre and digital entertainment. The project focuses on researching the media effects of fiction towards thought and behavior change, explores how methods of social change available to citizens can be best represented in entertainment media, and investigates the representation of protest and activism in current popular culture.
Her production firm Civic Studios focuses on creating such civic entertainment content for Indian audiences. The aim of the content is to empower audiences by addressing the lack of trust in public institutions, knowledge of government and democratic systems, and increasing self-efficacy to participate in change as a citizen.
Originally from Mumbai, India, Anushka divides her time between Mumbai, Boston, and Chicago. She has a background in applied statistics and digital text analysis, and has also previously worked with non-profits and political parties in India.
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An Interview with Dr. Tara Swart
Thursday, October 10
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
MIT Sloan School of Management, 100 Main Street, Executive Education Suite - 1st Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-interview-with-dr-tara-swart-tickets-72847118693
Ready to unlock your mind?
Yes, you can visualize and manifest the life you want. Join us for a mentally stimulating evening as Dr. Tara Swart discusses how neuroscience concepts and techniques can be applied to achieve your full potential – personally and professionally.
Take advantage of this exclusive gathering to network with fellow professionals and learn about additional opportunities to train your brain with Tara.
Bubbly and brain-boosting refreshments will be served. Signed copies of Tara’s book, The Source - The Secrets of the Universe, The Science of the Brain, will also be available for purchase prior to national release!
Agenda
5:30p-6:00p – Networking & Refreshments
6:00p-6:30p – Interview with Tara
6:30p – 7:00p – Networking & Refreshments
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An Evolutionary Journey through Domestication
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
SPEAKER(S) Barbara Schaal , Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of Biology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK https://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/evolutionary-journey-through-domestication
DETAILS As the earliest farmers began to select wild plants and animals that had desirable traits, they initiated a series of genetic changes in these species that gradually made them more suitable for agriculture. Plants became higher quality. Animal species exhibited favorable changes in behavior, coat color, and reproductive traits. Barbara Schaal will discuss how the artificial selection of these species has influenced their genetics, evolution, and capacity to flourish in the care of humans.
LINK https://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/evolutionary-journey-through-domestication
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Patricia Williams Lecture: Unthinking the Politics of Fear
Thursday, October 10
6:00 PM
Northeastern, Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Sixth Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unthinking-the-politics-of-fear-tickets-71264944367
Legal regimes premised on fear and denial of human interdependency function as literal dead ends. A world divided into a warren of walled cells is not one in which creativity or kindness or life itself may easily flourish. How then to resurrect foundational notions of civility, vulnerability, amnesty and forbearance in times of great intemperance and blinding trauma? This lecture will invite consideration of how we might build more conciliatory exchange into juridical structures, and make place for the urgent politics of redemptive reconstitution.
Patricia Williams joined the Northeastern University faculty in July 2019. One of the most provocative intellectuals in American law and a pioneer of both the law and literature and critical race theory movements in American legal theory, she has published widely in the areas of race, gender, literature and law. Her books, including The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Harvard University Press), illustrate some of America’s most complex societal problems and challenge our ideas about socio-legal constructs of race and gender. Drawing on her prior interrogation of race, gender and personhood, Professor Williams’ current research raises core questions of individual autonomy and identity in the context of legal and ethical debates on science and technology. A MacArthur Fellowship recipient, she is a regular columnist for The Nation.
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Meat Planet, With Benjamin Wurgaft
Thursday, October 10
6:00 pm
BU, College of General Studies, Room 505, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/registration-manager2/catalogs/foodandwine/app/catalog.php?action=section&course_section_id=4046
In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world’s first laboratory-created hamburger, and since then the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues, has spread through the media like wildfire. Racing against population growth and climate change, researchers have dedicated their efforts to making sustainable protein. Meat Planet,
by historian and University of California, Berkley PhD Benjamin Wurgaft, explores the quest to generate meat in the lab—a substance sometimes called “cultured meat”—and asks what it means if this new creation might be the future of food.
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Ignite that Spark – A Deep Dive Into the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Join us for an evening of entrepreneurial fun with Michel Jordi.
Thursday, October 10
6 - 9pm
swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://ignitethatspark.eventbrite.com/
swissnex Boston and the Fribourg School of Management will host Michel Jordi, serial entrepreneur and disruptor of the Swiss watch industry, for an evening conversation at swissnex Boston. Michel Jordi will share insights from his extraordinary entrepreneurial journey and his new book “Ignite that Spark – 10 Commandments of Entrepreneurship.”
Various studies have shown that we think in images and recognizing that time is such a precious commodity, Michel Jordi has deliberately adopted a straight-to-the point approach. These considerations gave birth to this uplifting 160-page handbook – based to a large extent on his own experiences and vision – that is a must-read for every aspiring entrepreneur.
Bio
Michel Jordi is a serial entrepreneur and a disruptor of the Swiss watch industry for over three decades. As the inventor of the legendary Swiss Ethno watch and LE CLIP, which brought him international fame and recognition, he pioneered “Swissness” to highlight the value of Swiss made brands. Over the course of his career, he started five different companies, three of which became high revenue earners and global players.
Michel Jordi was born in Switzerland, studied in England and pursued post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School and IMD in Lausanne. Recognized for developing iconic products and disrupting traditional Swiss watchmaking, he was honored with the Leadership Award 2018 of the EU Business School, Barcelona and received the “Grand Prix Triomphe de l’Excellence Européenne” for the creation of LE CLIP in Monte Carlo in 1986.
In 2017, he published his autobiography Der Uhrschweizer in German, and his entrepreneurial guidebook “Ignite that Spark – 10 Commandments of Entrepreneurship” debuted in November 2018.
Program
6.00 pm Doors Open
6.30 pm Welcome Remarks, Keynote, Q&A
7:30 pm Networking Reception
9:00 pm Doors Close
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When Should Law Forgive?
Thursday, October 10
6:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned legal scholar MARTHA MINOW—former dean of Harvard Law School—for a discussion of her latest book, When Should Law Forgive?.
About When Should Law Forgive?
Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy―a fresh start for debtors―were available to people convicted of crimes? Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection of the law, justice, and forgiveness, asking whether the law should encourage people to forgive, and when courts, public officials, and specific laws should forgive.
Who has the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what terms? Minow tackles these foundational issues by exploring three questions:
What does the international response to child soldiers teach us about the legal treatment of juvenile offenders in the United States?
Why are the laws surrounding corporate debt more forgiving than those governing American student and consumer debt, and sovereign debt in the developing world?
When do law’s tools of forgiveness, amnesties, and pardons strengthen justice, peace, and democracy (think South Africa), and when do they undermine law’s promise of fairness (think Joe Arpaio)?
There are certainly grounds for both individuals and societies to withhold forgiveness, but there are also cases where letting go of legitimate grievances can make the law more just, not less. The law is democracy’s girder beam, and Minow urges us to build forgiveness into the administration of our laws. Forgiveness, wisely exercised, can strengthen law, democracy, and respect for the humanity of each person.
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Heading for Extinction (And What To Do About It)
Thursday, October 10
6:30 p.m.
Ruggles Baptist Church, 874 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/hfe-10-10-19/
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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Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II
Thursday, October 10
6:30 to 8pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, Jamaica Plain
With author Judith Sumner, military history meets plant science. From victory gardens to drugs, timber, rubber, and fibers, materials from plants played key roles in victory, incorporated into wartime safety materials, diet and rations, even bombers. Free, but registration requested: http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu or 617-384-5277
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Energy Efficiency and Climate Justice
Thursday, October 10,
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts (ULEM), 88 Warren Street, Roxbury
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-efficiency-and-climate-justice-tickets-73212533659
Clean energy and climate change are paramount issues facing the human race. However, where is the social equity in these businesses?
Clean energy and climate change are paramount issues facing the human race. However, what about social equity in the businesses clamoring to solve the issue? One non-profit, All In Energy, seeks to tackle these issues. Jared Johnson, Clean Energy Organizer for All In Energy, joins us for a discussion on how we fight for the planet and create equal opportunities in the clean industries of the future.
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On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Thursday, October 10
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $8 - $28.75 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes NAOMI KLEIN—award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist—for a discussion of her latest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. She will be joined by JULIET B. SCHOR, Boston College professor and former Guggenheim fellow. This event is co-sponsored by 350 Mass, Cambridge Forum, The Intercept, The Leap, and Sunrise.
About On Fire
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices.
These long-form essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one, as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.
With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.
An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Thursday, October 10
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning foreign correspondent and Boston University professor STEPHEN KINZER for a discussion of his latest book, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.
About Poisoner in Chief
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 sex workers 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.
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The Boston Area Solar Energy Association (BASEA.org) will begin the 2019-2020 season with a Forum on Thursday, October 10th.
Please look for an update in a few weeks.
BASEA is becoming an Associate Chapter of ASES (The American Solar Energy Society) which will provide opportunity to grow your network of both energy professionals and advocates for transition to a 100% renewable energy economy.
BASEA's new website will be up this fall and will include many parts of the ASES
Network to help you make a greater impact with items like the following:
National news: https://www.ases.org/resources/news-and-stories/
Educational opportunities: https://www.ases.org/resources/solar-trainings/
Jobs in renewable energy: https://careers.ases.org/
Webinar series: https://www.ases.org/resources/webinars/
as well as financing your next renewable project or electric car using the Clean Energy Credit Union https://www.cleanenergycu.org/home/home/
The BASEA board is looking for a few new members to help shape our future.
Please email hkv(at)solarwave.com if you are interested
and include "BASEA Board" in the subject line.
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A Night in for Refugees with Clemantine Wamariya
Thursday, October 10
7:00pm
Trident Booksellers Cafe, 338 Newbury Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-in-for-refugees-with-clemantine-wamariya-tickets-71671369997
Suggested donation: $30
Join Read4Refugees and Girls' Night In for an evening with a local author to raise money for refugees. Wear your best pajamas, bring a book to swap, and get ready to cozy up with other compassionate booklovers. The event will run from 7 - 9pm and feature a reading and Q&A from an incredible author (TBA).
All proceeds from this event will support RefugePoint, an award-winning organization that brings critical resources to highly vulnerable refugees around the world. The Read4Refugees campaign supports highly vulnerable refugees who are often overlooked by traditional forms of humanitarian aid, including refugees who have spent almost 20 years in a country of asylum, the chronically ill, LGBTQI individuals, survivors of violence and torture, and women and children.
This event is ticketed and there are a limited number of spots. All tickets are donation-based, and the suggested donation is $30.
About the Author
Clemantine Wamariya is a storyteller and human rights advocate. Born in Kigali, Rwanda, displaced by conflict, Clemantine migrated throughout seven African countries as a child. At age twelve, she was granted refugee status in the United States and went on to receive a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She lives in San Francisco.
To learn more visit: http://www.read4refugees.org
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"The Human Scale" film screening
Thursday, October 10
7:00pm to 9:30pm
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues due to our way of life. But why?
The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through 40 years. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account.
Sponsored by the Department of Urban Studies & Planning (DUSP), the Massachusetts Association for Consulting Planners (MACP), and the Mass Chapter of APA, with movie snacks and opportunities to network with urban planners and colleagues before/after the show.
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Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III (MA-4, D)
WHEN Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, 8 – 9:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer, 145 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Joseph P. Kennedy III, Congressman (MA-4, D)
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/2403256663307555/
CONTACT INFO RSVP_IOP at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III (MA-4, D) will address the Forum.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/2403256663307555/
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Friday, October 11 - Sunday, October 13
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HONK! FESTIVAL: 14TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
October 11 - October 13
a wide variety of events planned in Somerville, Cambridge, & Boston
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
More information at http://www.honkfest.org
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Friday, October 11
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Environmental Exposure Modeling for Air Pollution in Epidemiological Studies: The Advancement from Local to National Scale
Friday, October 11
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Meng Wang, University at Buffalo
Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/events?field_calendar_tid=286
Contact Name: Maryann Sargent
mracine at fas.harvard.edu
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CEE Seminar: Land Reclamation and flood control in the Netherlands
Friday, October 11
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Robinson Hall Room 253, 200 College Avenue, Medford
Speaker: Lewis Edgers, Tufts University
More information at https://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/news-events/seminars
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Drug-Resistant Infections: Confronting an Escalating Crisis
WHEN Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE The Leadership Studio, Harvard T.H. 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) Helen Boucher, Tufts Medical Center
Lauri Hicks, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Marc Lipsitch, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kevin Outterson, Boston University
David Freeman, NBC News MACH
COST Free webcast
TICKET WEB LINK RSVP to Attend: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bw5KzB6ynpWkhRr
CONTACT INFO theforum at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Antibiotics are a pillar of modern medicine. They have saved millions of lives and added some 20 years to human life expectancy. But as the use of antibiotics has increased, so has the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant microbes that have adapted to survive most, or all, of today’s antibiotics. The CDC reports that two million people are infected with drug-resistant bacteria every year in the United States, and the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance estimated that, around the world, 700,000 people die of such infections annually. That number stands to increase: the Review predicts that, by 2050, drug resistance could be responsible for 10 million deaths a year. And while these numbers are dominated by bacterial infections, fungal infections like Candida auris are also a threat, especially to vulnerable patients in hospitals and nursing homes.
Despite drug resistance growing, the development of new antibiotics has slowed. How can policymakers help accelerate the pace of new drug development. How can all of us — doctors, hospitals, and patients, as well as the agricultural sector — be better stewards of existing drugs? Forum panelists will examine the scope of this looming crisis and look at how changes in policy and practice can help us stay one step ahead of these superbugs.
LINK https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/drug-resistant-infections/
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The NeuroArts Forum
Friday, October 11
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
BU, Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-neuroarts-forum-tickets-71166592193
The goal of the NeuroArts Forum is to traverse multiple disciplines to highlight the integration of neuroscience with various artistic mediums. We hope that the event will facilitate crosstalk and collaboration between faculty, students, and artists to investigate interdisciplinary topics.
Our guest speakers will be:
1pm Margaret Livingstone, Takeda Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
2pm Hugh O’Donnell, Professor of Art, Painting at Boston University
3:30pm Psyche Loui, Assistant Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice at Northeastern University
4:30pm Praneeth Namburi, Postdoctoral Research Associate at MIT, Dancer
Refreshments will be provided!
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The Opioid Epidemic: Addressing Low-Value Addiction Care
Friday, October 11
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
BU, Larsen Alumni Room - Floor 3, Room 355, 180E Riverway, Boston
This lecture will address low-value addiction care’s impact on the U.S. Opioid Epidemic, discussing how:There is very good evidence about what works to help people avoid overdose and recover from opioid addiction.Yet treatment systems are dominated in many areas by programs that do not offer effective care.Dr. Sharfstein will review the evidence and discuss the barriers to reducing low-value or no-value addiction treatment – as well as make suggestions for how these barriers can be overcome.
More information at http://www.bu.edu/ihsip/2019/08/14/the-opioid-epidemic-addressing-low-value-addiction-care/
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The Great Chernobyl Acceleration
Friday, October 11
2:30PM TO 4:30PM
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Kate Brown, MIT
MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history
history-info at mit.edu
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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Friday, October 11
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Harvard Book Store and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome authors and professors NANCY L. ROSENBLUM and RUSSELL MUIRHEAD for a discussion of their new co-authored book, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy. This event is also sponsored in part by Mass Humanities.
About A Lot of People Are Saying
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new―conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. In A Lot of People Are Saying, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum show how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory, why so few officials speak truth to conspiracy, and what needs to be done to resist it.
Classic conspiracy theory insists that things are not what they seem and gathers evidence―especially facts ominously withheld by official sources―to tease out secret machinations. The new conspiracism is different. There is no demand for evidence, no dots revealed to form a pattern, no close examination of shadowy plotters. Dispensing with the burden of explanation, the new conspiracism imposes its own reality through repetition (exemplified by the Trump catchphrase "a lot of people are saying") and bare assertion ("rigged!”).
The new conspiracism targets democratic foundations―political parties and knowledge-producing institutions. It makes it more difficult to argue, persuade, negotiate, compromise, and even to disagree. Ultimately, it delegitimates democracy.
Filled with vivid examples, A Lot of People Are Saying diagnoses a defining and disorienting feature of today's politics and offers a guide to responding to the threat.
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Extinction Rebellion & Forward! Marching Band Funeral Procession
Friday, October 11
3:30 p.m.
Meet at 3:30pm at the Park Street T station, we should be easy to find, we will be loud!
A funeral procession with Forward! Marching Band (one of the bands that will be in town for the HONK! Festival) in downtown Boston to mourn the Sixth Mass Extinction and the inevitable flooding of Boston. Please sign up here to receive complete information. We will convene at Park St T station at 3:30pm and will finish nearby by 6pm.
PLEASE WEAR YOUR BEST FUNERAL FINERY (references to extinct or soon-to-be-extinct species encouraged) and also PLEASE SIGN UP at https://xrmass.org/action/funeral-march-with-Forward-Marching-Band/?link_id=8&can_id=c24e327d71079787c6f56a6ac1caa7b3&source=email-xr-call-to-action-week-of-930&email_referrer=email_630241&email_subject=xr-call-to-action-week-of-930, thank you!
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MERE Keynote Address: Helen Greiner, iRobot
Friday, October 11
4:30pm to 5:30pm
MIT, Building W20-202, Stratton Student Center, La Sala, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Following the annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), join us for a keynote address by MechE alum Helen Grenier '89, SM '90, co-founder of iRobot, innovator in robotics, and co-designer of the Roomba.
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Leadership for Student Success: How colleges and universities can close critical gaps in access, equity, and outcomes
WHEN Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 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 Panelists:
Archie Cubarrubia, Deputy Director, Institutional Transformation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bridget Terry Long, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Saris Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE
James P. Honan, Ed.M.’85, Ed.D.’89, Senior Lecturer on Education and Faculty Co-Chair, Institute for Educational Management (IEM), HGSE
Moderator: Matthew Miller, Ed.M. ’01, Ed.D. ’06, Senior Lecturer on Education, Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching, Learning Initiatives and Teaching Support, and Faculty Chair, Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE), HGSE
This forum is being held in conjunction with Reflecting on the Past, Transforming the Future: A 50th Anniversary Symposium with the Institute for Educational Management (IEM). It will mark the history and continuing impact of IEM, the nation’s oldest and preeminent program for professional development of college and university leaders. Today, IEM is helping leaders directly confront our nation’s critical challenges: access to a high-quality college education; inclusive opportunities within the college curriculum; and equitable outcomes and career readiness. This forum will discuss all of those challenges — and how to lead for student success.
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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Macabre Social Capital: The Families of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba
WHEN Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) C. Christine Fair, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Kristin E. Fabbe, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Selmon Rafey
srafey at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is a competent and lethal terrorist organization based in Pakistan, operating in India, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in South Asia and beyond. In this presentation, C. Christine Fair will draw from a narrative analysis of a ten percent random sample of nearly 1,000 biographies of slain LeT fighters to delve into the battlefield motivation of the fighters. She will reveal the dark role that families play in a young man’s decision to fight in Pakistani terrorist organizations, deriving various forms of social capital from a male family member’s participation in so-called “jihad.”
LINK https://mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/macabre-social-capital-pakistans-lashkar-e-taiba/
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The College Dropout Scandal
Friday, October 11
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-kirp-tickets-72299430543
Higher education today faces a host of challenges, from quality to cost. But too little attention gets paid to a startling fact: four out of ten students -- that's more than ten percent of the entire population - -who start college drop out. The situation is particularly dire for black and Latino students, those from poor families, and those who are first in their families to attend college. In The College Dropout Scandal, David Kirp outlines the scale of the problem and shows that it's fixable - -we already have the tools to boost graduation rates and shrink the achievement gap. Many college administrators know what has to be done, but many of them are not doing the job - -the dropout rate hasn't decreased for decades. It's not elite schools like Harvard or Williams who are setting the example, but places like City University of New York and Long Beach State, which are doing the hard work to assure that more students have a better education and a diploma. As in his New York Times columns, Kirp relies on vivid, on-the-ground reporting, conversations with campus leaders, faculty and students, as well as cogent overviews of cutting-edge research to identify the institutional reforms--like using big data to quickly identify at-risk students and get them the support they need -- and the behavioral strategies -- from nudges to mindset changes - -that have been proven to work.
David Kirp is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, a contributing writer at The New York Times, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a member of the National Academy of Education. His most recent book, Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools, was awarded the 2014 Outstanding Book Award by the American Educational Research Association. He served on President Obama's education policy team during the 2008 transition.
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MIT Energy Night
Friday, October 11
7:00pm to 9:30pm
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Now entering its 13th year, MIT Energy Night showcases over 50 interactive presentations highlighting MIT’s unique innovation in energy, annually drawing over 1,000 attendees. Presenters include MIT research labs, early-stage start-ups based on MIT technologies, and other energy-focused companies. This year’s event will take place 7:00 - 9:30 PM on Friday, October 11th at the MIT Museum.
Energy Night is free and open to the public. This is a great opportunity to witness the cutting-edge energy research developing across MIT’s ecosystem and spark conversations with students, researchers, faculty, and industry leaders.
Food and drinks will be provided, but limited, so be sure to show up early!
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Saturday, October 12
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Greenovate Boston Leaders Training - West Roxbury
Saturday, October 12
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
West Roxbury branch of Boston Public Library, 1961 Centre Street, West Roxbury
RSVP at https://forms.gle/m1jJADJkjmdticHs5
The Greenovate Boston Leaders Program aims to increase understanding of the climate impacts in Boston and the actions required to mitigate the impacts. We want to involve Bostonians as part of the collective action needed in advancing the citywide initiatives. Our program gives you the materials and support you need to lead conversations about climate change and climate action.
This program is a great opportunity to network with a wide variety of leaders, learn how to format community discussions around climate change, and to make a positive impact on Boston.
This training will be held at the West Roxbury branch of Boston Public Library on October 12th from 10am-1pm. The other training dates are Monday, October 7th, and Thursday, October 10th. Please choose the (1) training that works best for you.
The max occupancy for each training is 30 people. Once we've reached 30 people, we will open up a wait list in the order of submissions.
Learn more about the Greenovate Leaders program - https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/greenovate-boston-leaders-program
If you have questions or are no longer able to attend the training you've signed up for/want to switch trainings, email David Corbie at David.Corbie at boston.gov.
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Urban Agriculture Fair
Saturday, October 12
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Roxbury Heritage State Park, 183 Roxbury Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-agriculture-fair-tickets-74027595531
Farming isn't just for guys with big tractors. Come to the Fair and learn how urban farmers are using small spaces to raise chickens, bees, pigeons, and rabbits, and how others are growing mushrooms, tapping for maple syrup, composting food wastes with voracious worms, making cheese and butter, canning & fermenting, and more. Grind, press and drink your own apple cider between the egg toss and pie-eating contests. And PLEASE enter your garden produce or kitchen concoctions at the judging table for a chance to win a blue ribbon, prizes and bragging rights. For more information, see http://www.aghall.com/fair-2019.html or call 617-388-7378.
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"Orchestrating Change" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 12
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Boston Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
Please join us for A FREE screening made possible by Massachusetts Humanities Council & Mass Cultural Council.
ORCHESTRATING CHANGE is the new feature documentary that tells the story of Me2/Orchestra, the world’s only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness and those who support them. Once Music Director, Ronald Braunstein’s diagnosis of bipolar disorder was made public, his acclaimed international conducting career came to an end. He dreamed of creating an orchestra for people “like me.” Me2/Orchestra, Inc., based in Boston, is the realization of that dream. The mission of the orchestra is to erase stigma one exhilarating performance at a time. While preparing for a major concert, these extraordinary musicians reveal what it is like to live with a mental illness - the joys and the devastating setbacks - and how the orchestra is changing their lives in ways they never imagined.
Powerful and inspiring, ORCHESTRATING CHANGE celebrates the abilities in all of us.
STAY FOR THE DISCUSSION: MEET THE FILMMAKERS, THE ME2/ORCHESTRA MAESTRO & ONE OR MORE OF THE ME2/BOSTON MUSICIANS
The 90-minute film will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q & A with the filmmakers, Margie Friedman and Barbara Multer-Wellin, Maestro Ronald Braunstein, Me2/Music Director, Caroline Whiddon, Me2/Executive Director, and one or more of the Me2/Boston musicians.
JOINING THE PANEL DISCUSSION: Aubrey D. Threlkeld, Director of Graduate Education and Fellowship Programs, Assistant Professor of Education, Endicott College. Professor Threlkeld has published, taught and lectured extensively on Disability and Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality and Special Education including at Harvard, Tufts and Pace Universities. He received his Ed.D in Human Development from Harvard University.
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4th Local Craft Spirits Festival
Saturday, October 12
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Landsdowne Quad at University Park, 38 Sidney Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/4th-local-craft-spirits-festival-tickets-65257028529
Cost: $50 – $90
Back by popular demand, Sustainable Business Network's Local Craft Spirits Festival is Boston’s premier spirits festival focusing on New England craft distilleries and brews. The festival will be held in Central Square, Cambridge on October 12, 2019, from 4:00 pm-7:00 pm (with a special 3:30 pm start time for our VIP guests). Join us at the Landsdowne Quad on 38 Sidney Street, University Park, at MIT to sample New England’s best artisan beverages from more than 25 craft spirits-makers, wine-makers, cider-makers, and craft brew-makers, all of whom will offer an expansive variety of locally crafted cider, gin, wine, vodka, rum, bourbon, whiskey, bitters, beer and more. In addition, our vendors will be serving a variety of unique and interesting artisan beverages. The event is presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts Distillers Alliance, Central Square Business Association, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, and with support from Forest City.
Local restaurants will present delicious and creative fusions of local flavor, and will price each item at $6 or less. Our cocktail gurus will share special "tricks of the trade" with their Cocktail Demos, and our pros will compete during the Local Craft Cocktail Throwdown for bragging rights over who can mix Boston’s Best Local Craft Cocktail. Our DJ will keep the audience energized throughout the evening, but patrons can also chill out with fun games and our photo booth.
Participants will receive plenty of tasting tickets to try cocktails and alcoholic beverage products. We are also offering unlimited tastings for non-alcoholic beverages.
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Jane Elliott at The Strand Theatre in Boston
Saturday, October 12
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
STRAND THEATRE, 543 Columbia Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59641123205
Cost: $50 – $200
On October 12th Jane Elliott will be in Boston at the Strand Theatre! She is the adaptor of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise in teaching about the anatomy of prejudice as well as the subject of the Peabody Award-winning film, "The Eye of the Storm." She will discuss the reality of racism and the responsibility shared by all of us for illuminating it in and eliminating it from ourselves and our environment.
Those attending the presentation will be encouraged to share with others the issues Jane Elliott raises as they relate to our workplaces. We will also be encouraged to share the resources she will provide that are designed to help us identify our own racist statements, behaviors, and attitudes. Participants will also receive a list of suggested activities which, if implemented, can help them to decrease the amount of racism in their environment. Finally, she will offer a list of books which, if read, can provide added insights to the problems of racism with which we are all confronted.
“Whites need to acknowledge and work through the negative historical implications of ‘Whiteness’ and create for ourselves a transformed identity as White people committed to equity and social change...To teach my White students and my own children...that there are different ways of being White, and that they have a choice as White people to become champions of justice and social healing.” ~Gary Howard
$50 General Admission - Saturday, October 12, 2019 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
$200 VIP Ticket - All Day Learning Experience with Jane Elliott
Saturday, October 12, 2019 VIP Schedule:
10:00 AM - Registration & Networking with Colleagues [LOCATION: Bruce Bolling Building, 2300 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA]
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Workshop and Lunch with Jane Elliott [LOCATION: Bruce Bolling Building, 2300 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA]
2:00 - 4:00 PM: TRANSITION/BREAK
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Priority Entrance to Evening Lecture Open to the General Public [LOCATIONL: Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Dorchester, MA]
PLEASE NOTE THAT VIP TICKET HOLDERS WHO ARE EDUCATORS ARE ELIGIBLE TO BUNDLE HOURS FROM THIS EVENT WITH OTHER THEMATICALLY RELATED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND APPLY IT TOWARDS LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS.
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Sunday, October 13
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Extinction Rebellion Joins the HONK! Parade in a Die In/Rise Up
Sunday, October 13
11 am
parking lot at the corner of Herbert and Day streets, behind the post office in Davis Square, Somerville
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/honk-parade/
We will be joining the HONK Parade which will end in a spectacular Die In/Rise Up in coordination with ACT, the Cambridge Tenant Association, MIRA the Mass Immigration and Refugee Alliance and members of 350 Mass. We will have a funeral procession followed by a group of rebels. Wear balck to be a part of the funeral procession and colors if you want to be a part of the rebellion.
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Community Conversations with Samuel Stein on Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Sunday, October 13
3:00pm
Remnant Brewing Company, 2 Bow Market Way, Somerville
Join us at Remnant Brewing Company in Bow Market for a Community Conversations event featuring Samuel Stein, author of Capital City!
Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world—the president of the United States—made his name as a landlord and developer.
Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents.
Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.
Samuel Stein studies geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches urban studies at Hunter College. His writing on planning politics has been published by Jacobin, The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, and many other magazines and journals.
Remnant Brewing
Community Conversations is a monthly event where we invite members of the community join us in exploring and discussing featured, rotating theme.
Remnant Brewing was founded on the principles of inclusion and community and we hope to achieve that by creating opportunities for open discussion and reflection and to showcase art representative of the diverse world in which we live. That’s why we are happy to announce the start of a new monthly program: Community Conversations.
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Monday, October 14
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Sunrise Movement Teaching Workshop
Monday, October 14
11 AM – 3 PM
encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/439376306706003/
Join us to be part of the first ever Education Team Teaching Workshop! This is the first in a series of gatherings aimed at building our communication and understanding skills through the lens of teaching culture.
During the workshop, we'll talk about our educational experiences in life and why they're often not engaging, practice teaching culture, learn to critique without blame, and build a mentality for teaching in our lives and our organizing.
Since this is a longer workshop, we do encourage bringing some food or water for yourself, but vegetarian snacks will be provided! If you've ever been interested in teaching, or want to learn some new skills for your day-to-day organizing, this is the place for you.
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Climate Grief Listening Circle in JP
Monday, October 14
7 p.m.
14 Miles Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/listening-circle-jp-Oct14/
Gather with fellow human beings to share and connect about the changing climate and its emotional toil.
In our fast-paced, responsibility-driven lives, there is often little space to reflect and process the impact of this profound loss of our shared home and future embedded in this unfolding ecological crisis.
Join with others and fight the temptation to dissociate and wallow in isolation. Together let us find our voice, our power and our common nature.
All all welcome.
Location: 14 Miles St, Jamaica Plain (private home, 2nd floor; 5 min walk from Stony Brook/Jackson Sq on the MBTA Orange Line)
Host contact: Christopher Collins, cmcollins8 at gmail.com, 310-600-7562
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Tuesday, October 15
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Systems Thinking Webinar: Michael A. Cusumano, “The Business of Platforms”
Tuesday, October 15
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online
RSVP at https://sdm.mit.edu/webinar-michael-a-cusumano-the-business-of-platforms/
Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday, October 15 at 12:00 PM EDT with Michael A. Cusumano, Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lecture, “The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power,” will summarize key findings from a new book by Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David Yoffie of the same title.
Michael A. Cusumano specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in computer software and Internet services as well as automobiles and consumer electronics. From 2016 to 2017, he served as Vice President and Dean at Tokyo University of Science and Founding Director of the Tokyo Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center, established with support from the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program (MIT REAP). He has lived in Japan for more than eight years, published 14 books and more than 120 articles, and has consulted for approximately 100 companies around the world.
About the series: The MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series, sponsored by the System Design & Management (SDM) program, features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges. Recordings and slides from prior SDM webinars can be accessed on our website: http://sdm.mit.edu/news-and-events/webinars/
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MADMEC Final Presentations and Award Ceremony
Tuesday, October 15
1:00pm to 2:30am
MIT, Building 6-120, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Materials science can provide solutions for energy storage, building efficiency, transportation, and many other critical needs in today's society. MADMEC invites student teams to develop and build prototypes that address these and more challenges.
Come to 6-120 at 1:00pm to see the inventions and innovations created by MIT students to improve sustainability! Join us afterward for the Awards Ceremony in 6-104, the Chipman Room.
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Action on Climate Change: The Sustainable Growth Story of the 21st Century
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall (100), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Harvard’s Center for International Development, and Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government; Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics
COST Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO Erin Harleman, HUCE Events Coordinator
eharleman at fas.harvard.edu
617-495-8883
DETAILS Lord Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He was President of the Royal Economic Society (2018-19) and President of the British Academy (2013-2017). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2014).
He has held academic appointments in the U.K. at Oxford, Warwick, the LSE and abroad at MIT, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People’s University of China in Beijing. He was Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1994-1999, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, 2000-2003.
He was knighted in 2004, made a cross-bench life peer in 2007 and appointed Companion of Honour in 2017 for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change.
Lord Stern was Second Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury from 2003-2005; Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa from 2004-2005; Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published in 2006; and Head of the Government Economic Service from 2003-2007.
He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles. His most recent books include "Why Are We Waiting? "The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change" (MIT Press, 2015), followed by "How Lives Change." Palanpur, India and Development Economics (Oxford University Press, 2018).
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2019-10-15-210000/action-climate-change-sustainable-growth-story-21st-century
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The Changing Face of Poverty: Can Africa Surprise the World?
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics, JFK Jr. Forum
Cosponsored by the Belfer Center
SPEAKER(S) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chair of the Board, Gavi, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Former Managing Director of Operations, World Bank, Nigeria’s Finance Minister (2003-2006, 2011-2015)
Moderator: Zoe Marks
COST Free
DETAILS Join us for the 2019 Robert S. McNamara Lecture on War and Peace with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on solutions to global poverty, moderated by Professor Zoe Marks.
LINK https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/changing-face-poverty-can-africa-surprise-world
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Lessons Learned in Building Collaborative Cyber Defenses
Tuesday, October 15
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/internationalcenter/event/lessons-learned-in-building-collaborative-cyber-defenses/
Talk by Michael Figueroa, Independent Executive Security Advisor and former Executive Director of the Advanced Cyber Security Center
Each academic year, the Northeastern University’s Center for International Affairs and World Cultures, the Northeastern Humanities Center, and the Department of Political Science host a lecture series focused on “Contemporary Issues in Security and Resilience” (formerly “Controversial Issues in Security and Resilience”).
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Waylaid in Tijuana Documentary Pre-screening
Tuesday, October 15
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Tufts, Asean Auditorium, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/75162283413
The Henry J. Leir Institute of Fletcher, in partnership with Tufts Latin American Studies, FLAG, and IMG, will present a documentary film which tells the story of Haitians and Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States whose journeys are disrupted by sudden changes in US policy.
Produced by Professor Katrina Burgess from the Fletcher School. Directed by Tim Ouilette from Northeastern University. The event will include a conversation with the production team and special guest Father Pat Murphy, Director, Casa del Migrante, Tijuana.
Audience members are invited to provide feedback in a live poll and should bring a phone or laptop to participate.
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City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
Tuesday, October 15
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes leading urban planner and scholar ALEX KRIEGER for a discussion of his new book, City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities.
About City on a Hill
The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment.
The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal―one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare―and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas.
Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.
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More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
Tuesday, October 15
7:00 PM EDT
First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrew-mcafee-at-first-church-cambridge-tickets-73892655923
Cost: $6 – $29.75
Harvard Book Store welcomes Andrew McAfee, bestselling author and a principal researcher for MIT, for a discussion of his latest book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next.
Tickets are available online only. All tickets for this event include a $5 coupon for use in the bookstore. Pre-sale tickets include a copy of More from Less. Books bundled with pre-sale tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.
Learn more at http://harvard.com/events/andrew_mcafee
Tickets are non-refundable and non-returnable.
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Wednesday, October 16
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Nourishing Africa's 2.4 Billion People: Leapfrogging Through Innovation and Technology
WHEN Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Ndidi Nwuneli, Founder, LEAP Africa
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS This seminar, given on World Food Day, will be led by Ndidi Nwuneli, former M-RCBG senior fellow and Founder of LEAP Africa. Lunch will be served.
RSVPs are helpful: mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
LINK https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/events
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Refugees, Cellphones, and Information Precarity
Wednesday, October 16
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
BU, 640 Commonwealth Avenue (COM), Room 209, Boston
Dr. Dana Janbek: Master Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations</p>
Based on years of field research with refugees, NGOs, and volunteers, Dr. Janbek will give an overview of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis and the conditions under which refugees live in urban areas and refugee camps in Jordan and Germany. The presentation will explore how information and communication technologies, especially cellphones, are used during refugees’ migration journeys and while navigating displacement to overcome information precarity.
Contact Name Susie Blair, Lab & Research Manager
Phone 6173581300
Contact Email susieb at bu.edu
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When Hackers Attack: A View of the Ensuing Chaos from the Inside
Wednesday, October 16
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm on
BU, Seminar Room, Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston
Please RSVP to tgabs at bu.edu
This Cyber Alliance talk, featuring Cyber Security Affairs CEO and Pepperdine Adjunct Hemu Nigam, will explore the chaotic and conflicting challenges that arise inside a company when hackers attack or a critical privacy breach occurs. These events trigger concerns including legal compliance, public relations management, and protection of the interests of stakeholders, including customers and employees. Mr. Nigam will describe the typical reactions of key decision-makers within a firm—the CEO, CTO, CSO, CMO, CFO, GC, PR, and employees—and will consider the legal and economic incentives that shape their behavior.
Mr. Nigam will also explore the gap between perception and reality in corporate leaders' views about the stakeholders they are serving, as well as the reasons for this gap and what can be done about it. He will showcase the events that take place prior to the first press release or statement about an attack, including efforts to change the narrative. Never is there a more clear intersection of technology, policy, and law, than when hackers attack. The question is, how does one balance the fundamental challenges of today's digital and physical worlds while ensuring one's business can survive and continue to thrive?
There will be time for casual conversation and light refreshments before and after the presentation.
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Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive? Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in Europe – A Lecture by Bart Bonikowski
Wednesday, October 16
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
BU, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor), Boston
Despite the centrality of national identity in the exclusionary discourse of the European radical right, scholars have not investigated how popular definitions of nationhood are connected to dispositions toward Muslims. Moreover, survey-based studies tend to conflate anti-Muslim attitudes with general anti-immigrant sentiments. Bonikowski demonstrates that varieties of national self-understanding are predictive of anti-Muslim attitudes, above and beyond dispositions toward immigrants. Moreover, conceptions of nationhood are heterogeneous within countries and their relationship with anti-Muslim attitudes is contextually variable. Consistent with expectations, anti-Muslim attitudes are associated with “thicker” conceptions of nationhood in most countries. In Northwestern Europe, however, it is civic nationalism that is linked to greater antipathy toward Muslims. He suggests that in this region, elective criteria of belonging have become fused with exclusionary notions of national culture that portray Muslims as incompatible with European liberal values, effectively legitimating anti-Muslim sentiments in mainstream political culture.
Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and Resident Faculty at the Minda the Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Relying on surveys, large-scale digital data, and experimental methods, his research applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on populist claims-making in political discourse and the political implications of nationalist beliefs.</p>
More information at https://www.bu.edu/european/news/calendar/?eid=229714
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Coase, Hotelling, and Pigou: The Incidence of a Carbon Tax and CO2 Emissions
Wednesday, October 16
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Geoffrey Heal and Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia 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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The Immersive Tech Lab at Berklee College of Music
Wednesday, October 16
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Immersive Tech Lab at the Berklee School of Music, 150 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Virtual-Reality/events/264047662/
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The optimum allocation of available budget to joint climate control mechanisms
Wednesday, October 16
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM EDT
MIT, Building 66-110, Landau Building, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-optimum-allocation-of-available-budget-to-joint-climate-control-mechanisms-tickets-73580959631
John Deutch, Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In this seminar, Institute Professor Emeritus John Deutch will introduce a model that couples the modes of action of four different climate control mechanisms—emission reduction, CO2 removal, adaptation, and geoengineering—that can help limit future increases in average global temperature. The model solves for the optimal allocation of available budget to these different control mechanisms over their entire range of action. The results provide powerful insights into the factors that influence efficient climate control deployment and point to research needed to improve understanding.
About the speaker: John Deutch is an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970, and has served as chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science , and Provost. Deutch has published over 160 technical publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues. He is an active member of the MIT Energy Initiative and a faculty associate of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy.
Reception with light refreshments will follow.
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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Housing as History: Villa Victoria and the Fenway Community Development Corporation
Wednesday, October 16
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Blackstone Community Center, 50 W. Brookline Street, Boston
In the 1960s and 1970s Boston struggled to stem urban flight and a landscape of deteriorating housing stock. Massive redevelopment projects, such as the razing of the West End, sent shockwaves through the city. By the mid-1960s, the South End found itself the focus of redevelopment plans. A group of mostly Puerto Rican residents began to meet and then incorporated as the Emergency Tenants’ Council, which became Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Inc. (IBA). In 1969, following a widespread campaign, the IBA won the right to serve as the developer for their neighborhood and; using the architecture of Puerto Rico as inspiration, built Villa Victoria. A few years later and few blocks away, the Fenway neighborhood faced the Fenway Urban Renewal Plan (FURP), which planned to clear sections of the neighborhood. local residents sued the city to block FURP and won the right to have a neighborhood-elected board become part of the decision-making process. Out of these efforts came the Fenway CDC with a mission to develop and maintain affordable housing and advocate on behalf of a vibrant and diverse community.
Please note: This program will be held at Blackstone Community Center, 50 W. Brookline St, Boston, MA 02118.
This discussion will be led by Mario Luis Small, Grafstein Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Mathew Thall, founding Executive Director, Fenway Community Development Corporation; and Mayra I. Negrón-Roche, COO, IBA - Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción
This program is made possible by the generosity of Mass Humanities and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
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#BUcityplanning Fall 2019 Keynote Lecture: Former Rep. Michael Capuano
Wednesday, October 16
6:15 PM to 7:30 PM
BU, College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, CGS 511, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bucityplanning-fall-2019-keynote-lecture-former-rep-michael-capuano-tickets-70031747843
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Why Trust Science
Wednesday, October 16
7:00PM TO 8:30PM
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-author-naomi-oreskes-harvard-faculty-tickets-72394870005
Naomi Oreskes
Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, Oreskes explains that, contrary to popular belief, there is no single scientific method. Rather, the trustworthiness of scientific claims derives from the social process by which they are rigorously vetted. This process is not perfect—nothing ever is when humans are involved—but she draws vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong. Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy. Based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University, this timely and provocative book features critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.
About the Author: Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her books include The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future and Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Twitter @NaomiOreskes
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Mutants on the Rise: Survival tricks of a flu virus
Wednesday, October 16
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium (in Goldenson Hall),200 Longwood Avenue,
Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, October 17
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Moral Disruption: Power of Youth to Make Lasting Change
Thursday, October 17
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Dowling Hall, Room 745B, 419 Boston Avenue Medford, Medford
Saya Ameli Habani, Sunrise Movement
According to the UN’s IPCC report, we only have 11 years left to solve the climate crisis, the urgency of which has given rise to a new youth-powered movement determined to ensure this deadline is met by the U.S. government. The Sunrise Movement has been at the forefront of the fight to unite the interwoven complexities of climate justice and a widespread economic shift towards sustainability. The movement that hosted a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s office alongside Alexandria Ocasio Cortez when she first proposed the Green New Deal on Nov. 24th, 2018, has since empowered and mobilized thousands and thousands of youth to take action. This talk will discuss the emerging shift in our political atmosphere as we move away from a passive approach to solving the climate crisis and towards an ambitious plan to secure a green future, while elucidating how the Sunrise Movement has been instrumental in initiating a diverse campaign led by young people, normally left unheard in politics, towards a national transformation of the U.S. economy.
Saya Ameli Hajebi became an environmental activist soon after she stepped off the long plane ride from her birthplace in Tehran, Iran. After experiencing pollution so extreme that her school was often cancelled due to the exposure risk, she was determined to put a stop to climate change alongside her peers. After establishing a
composting system at her High School and expanding the program to local elementary schools with the Brookline High School Environmental Action Club, she joined the Sunrise Movement. She has since helped organize a number of Youth Climate Strikes
outside the MA statehouse, and co-leads the local press/media team at the Sunrise Boston Hub. She is also a national Spokesperson and trainer for the Sunrise Movement, and has represented Sunrise on various media outlets including the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Univision News and Buzzfeed News.
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The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health
Thursday, October 17
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/2019/10/03/upcoming-seminar-the-informal-economy-implications-for-development-the-environment-and-health/#RSVP
Informality -- the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside legal and regulatory frameworks or outside the modern economy -- is considered one of the most difficult challenges facing developing countries. Informality not only reflects underdevelopment but may also lead to further economic decline. This presents two questions: what is the role of informality in socioeconomic development, and how does informality influence welfare and sustainability? This seminar brings together thought leaders on different aspects of informality and sustainability, thus facilitating a discussion around these issues vis-à-vis the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a view of forging a conversation around meaningful and timely solutions to the challenge of informality.
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How to Change the World with Shruti Sehra at New Profit
Thursday, October 17
3:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 4-265, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Each week MIT Solve is inviting social impact leaders to speak in our First Year Discovery class, "How to Change the World: Experiences from Social Entrepreneurs." But it is so much more than a class! Join us for this free event with free refreshments open to the public to be inspired by incredible leaders.
This week, we'll have Shruti Sehra, the Managing Director of New Profit. Read more about Shruti at https://www.newprofit.org/about-us/the-team/shruti-sehra/
Class description:
Every week, we’ll meet role models who will provide a taste of what it means to change the world through social innovation. We’ll span from micro to macro: interviewing individual entrepreneurs, and exploring the broader ecosystem that supports change-makers, both around MIT and globally. Each session will cover an aspect of making an impact, from identifying opportunities for change, to market fit, and planning for scale. We will feature conversations with social entrepreneurs from MIT Solve’s portfolio. Each student will get hands-on mentoring from established leaders within the Solve, MIT and, Kendall Square ecosystem. This includes visits to MIT labs and offices in the Cambridge innovation community. Through these speakers and field trips, students will gain a greater understanding of how technology-based, impactful solutions can address global challenges.
At the end of the semester, students will be confident in their ability to identify and address social and environmental problems. They will understand the relevance of this work for their time at MIT. They will see how to bring their ideas to fruition and extend their ties with the Solve community.
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Robotics Connect
Thursday, October 17
3:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Venture Café Cambridge @ Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), 5th Floor, 1 Broadway 5th Floor, Cambridge
Venture Cafe’s Robotics Connect is a mini-conference taking place on October 17, 2019. This special ‘conference night’ event seeks to bring together the brightest minds who are building, funding, and innovating in the Greater Boston area’s Robotics & A.I. Communities. Come prepared to not only hear the best ideas and see the latest technologies but also to participate in building Boston’s Robotics ecosystem.
Please visit vencaf.org/roboticsconnect for more details!
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DUSPx + Lightning Talks
Thursday, October 17
5:00pm to 7:30pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Department of Urban Studies and Planning talks
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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
Thursday, October 17
6:00 PM
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/gail_collins/
Cost: $6 - $32.00 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes esteemed New York Times columnist GAIL COLLINS for a discussion of her new book, No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities.
About No Stopping Us Now
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad—for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it—and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not.
In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
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Grolier Film Screening & Discussion
Thursday, October 17
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Northeastern, Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Place, 6th Floor, Boston
Olivia Huang’s, MS’17 digital media capstone project and short film, Grolier Poetry Book Shop: The Last Sacred Place of Poetry, has premiered in numerous film festivals across the world such as the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, Barcelona Planet Film Festival, and the World Premiere Film Awards. Join us for a special screening of the film and a discussion with the filmmaker and Mary Loeffelholz, Dean of the College of Professional Studies.
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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
Thursday, October 17
6:30 p.m.
Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/2019-10-17-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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MORALITY, POLITICS AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS Can Massachusetts Lead the Way Forward?
Thursday, October 17
7–-9pm
Temple Shalom, 175 Temple Street, West Newton
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egk72a3fa0aed2c0&llr=evkqo7bab
Keynote speakers:
Jennifer Benson
Representative Jennifer Benson, is the principal sponsor of An Act to Promote Green Infrastructure and Reduce Carbon Emissions (H.2810). The Benson carbon fee and rebate bill would fund between $400 to $600 million of local clean energy, transportation and resilience projects while protecting low and middle-income households. She represents the 37th Middlesex District consisting of Boxborough, Shirley, Harvard, and parts of Lunenberg, Acton and Ayer.
Roger Gottlieb
In Morality and the Environmental Crisis, Professor Roger Gottlieb combines compassion for the difficulties of contemporary moral life with an unflinching ethical commitment to awareness and action. Gottlieb is the author or editor of over 20 books and 150 articles on religious environmentalism. He is a member of Temple Israel in Boston.
Light refreshments served.
Donations gratefully accepted
Book signing following the event.
For more information contact Mary Anne Schoonover at maryanne at MIPandL.org or Vince Maraventano at vince at MIPandL.org or 617-244-0755.
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Friday, October 18 & Saturday, October 19
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Turning Up The Heat: Climate Resilience & Community Engagement
October 18 & 19
Northeastern, Raytheon Amphitheater, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgOirsuInBaHMZE1Gk1Fu88L6bkFAM9PalmC88XJYTeTg75w/viewform
Climate resilience is rarely stated as a top priority by diverse urban communities struggling with issues of housing affordability, economic mobility, education, food deserts, crime, opioid addiction, homelessness, and youth employment and training. Yet community engagement with climate resilience opens pathways to STEAM education, youth employment and training, lowered energy consumption, and knowledge sharing across global communities in ways that can create approaches to solutions to the generally prioritized issues.
Resilience planning and community engagement is a humanistic way of combining disciplines such as community planning, infrastructure development, health and wellness, architecture and urban policy development, youth education and training, place-making and the arts, AI and data analysis, social psychology, law, and engineering. Our goal with the Turning Up the Heat conference will be to bring together people from these multiple disciplines and community stake-holders, to engage in discussions and a planning charrette around how communities can be better engaged in resilience planning and training for green jobs of the future.
More information at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/policyschool/event/turning-up-the-heat-climate-resilience-and-community-engagement/
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Friday, October 18
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Turning Up the Heat: Climate Resilience and Community Engagement
Friday, October 18
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Northeastern, Raytheon Amphitheater, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgOirsuInBaHMZE1Gk1Fu88L6bkFAM9PalmC88XJYTeTg75w/viewform
Climate resilience is rarely stated as a top priority by diverse urban communities struggling with issues of housing affordability, economic mobility, education, food deserts, crime, opioid addiction, homelessness, and youth employment and training. Yet community engagement with climate resilience opens pathways to STEAM education, youth employment and training, lowered energy consumption, and knowledge sharing across global communities in ways that can create approaches to solutions to the generally prioritized issues.
Resilience planning and community engagement is a humanistic way of combining disciplines such as community planning, infrastructure development, health and wellness, architecture and urban policy development, youth education and training, place-making and the arts, AI and data analysis, social psychology, law, and engineering. Our goal with the Turning Up the Heat conference will be to bring together people from these multiple disciplines and community stake-holders, to engage in discussions and a planning charrette around how communities can be better engaged in resilience planning and training for green jobs of the future.
More information, including speaker panels, is forthcoming.
This event is co-sponsored by the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and its research center, the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, in partnership with the UMass Boston Sustainable Solutions Lab.
Sponsored By: Northeastern University School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and its research center, the Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy, in partnership with the UMass Boston Sustainable Solutions Lab
Contact: sppua at northeastern.edu
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A tale of two molecules: NH3 [Ammonia] and CH4 [Methane]
Friday, October 18
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Haarvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Kang Sun, University at Buffalo
Contact Name: Maryann Sargent
mracine at fas.harvard.edu
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Rip off or Reasonable? Cities & Corporate Financial Incentives
Friday, October 18, 12 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
Register: bit.ly/financial-incentives
Businesses are potentially more mobile today than ever before and have a wide range of options on where to locate. Cities and states try hard to attract investment; as in the competition for Amazon’s HQ2, they often promise significant sums in tax rebates, subsidies and services. Are these offers surrenders to corporate power or are they intelligent investments in future growth? Are these concessions reasonable or rip offs?
Speakers:
Professor Nathan Jensen, University of Austin, TX, and author of Incentives to Pander
Professor David Glick, Boston University
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Public Program | Alicja Kwade Panel Discussion: Visibility of Time
Friday, October 18
2:00pm to 3:30pm
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alicja-kwade-panel-discussion-visibility-of-time-tickets-69744966071
In conjunction with the exhibition Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances, this conversation explores the relationship between Alicja Kwade’s work and principles of science and history that relate to visualizing the concept of time. How do we perceive time; what are the theories of time; what is fabricated and what is illusion? Join artist Alijca Kwade, Jimena Canales, historian of the physical sciences, and Taylor Perron, Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at MIT in a discussion about visualizing time through both abstract and concrete terms. This discussion will reconsider what is actually real, and explore the possibilities of the imagination
Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances is organized by Henriette Huldisch, Director of Exhibitions & Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Huldisch will serve as moderator for the panel discussion.
*The event will be Real-time translated for personal devices.
All programs are free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.
For more information, contact:
Emily A. Garner
eagarner at mit.edu
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Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs”
Friday, October 18
2:30pm - 4:30pm
MIT Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
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Reimagine This Place
Friday, October 18
5:00pm to 10:00pm
MIT, Building E14: Media Lab, 6th floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reimagine-this-place-tickets-74228929727
Reimagine This Place is an art-based benefit fundraiser organized by Media Lab students and staff in response to recent revelations of MIT’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. We invite members of the MIT community (including students, faculty, employees, and alumni) to a night of art-making and music on Friday, 10/18 from 5pm to 10pm at the MIT Media Lab (6th Floor). At the event, attendees will be able to create poster designs reimagining this place, referring to both MIT and the larger world. Posters created will be distributed around campus as a way to reimagine the space that surrounds us. Proceeds from the event, as well as from the sale of posters created, will benefit victims of trafficking through the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking.
The evening will include poetry readings and music performances, as well as food and drinks. For tickets and additional information, go to reimagine-mit.org.
Find the Facebook event link at https://www.facebook.com/events/517970295438035/
If you cannot attend, you can still participate by donating or submitting a poster design to reimagine-mit at mit.edu. See website for details.
If you would like to volunteer, please email reimagine-mit at mit.edu
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LASER Boston – Beauty and the Brain- Exploring the intersection of art, design and neuroscience
Friday, October 18
6- 9pm
swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://laserboston_beautyandthebrain.eventbrite.com/
How do art and design influence our perception of the world? How does what we see affect how we feel? How can aesthetics deepen our understanding of science and medicine?
On October 18th, LASER Boston will explore these questions and more as we hear from three speakers across the arts and sciences. With the ultimate goal of fostering cross-disciplinary discovery and dialogue, this event will feature psychologist and designer Claire Reymond, sculptor Ralph Helmick and cognitive neuroscience researcher Sarah Schwettmann.
Presented by swissnex Boston and SciArt Initiative.
Program
6:00 pm Community Networking - Speakers and audience members are welcome to join in a pre-talks networking session.
6:30 pm Talks - See descriptions below.
7:30 pm Networking Reception - Stick around to continue the discussion over drinks and snacks.
Talks
Claire Reymond
“Image Interactions. A subtle way to influence the message of a picture”
Claire Reymond is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Basel and a visiting researcher at Harvard University’s metaLAB. At Harvard, she is conducting research on image perception in the fields of art, design and psychology. Claire is interested in how images interact with each other in a perceptual field and how this interaction may manipulate an image’s message. She also researches how images need to be used in therapeutic settings or neuropsychological analysis. She earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Basel and has as an MA in Visual Communication and Iconic Research from the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Art. She also trained as a graphic designer at the Basel School of Design.
Ralph Helmick
“From Body to Brain”
Ralph Helmick is an award-winning sculptor and public artist based in Newton, Massachusetts. Ralph’s work can be seen at over 50 institutions across the United States including courthouses, parks, airports, schools, hospitals, museums and other civic spaces. One such work hangs in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, by whom he was commissioned to create a work in celebration of the brain. Ralph’s sculptures often involve themes of science and incorporate elements that explore perception, anamorphosis and optical consolidation. Ralph studied at the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and earned his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Sarah Schwettmann
“Vision in Art and Neuroscience”
Sarah Schwettmann is a PhD candidate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Sarah’s research focuses on “intuitive physics” – our perceptual capacity to make inferences about our physical world. Her research also explores perception as it relates to the structure underlying artistic creation, a theme also present in her own artwork and the MIT course she teaches: Vision in Art and Neuroscience. Sarah earned BAs in Computational & Applied Mathematics and Cognitive Science at Rice University.
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Friday, October 18
7:00 PM (Doors at 6:30)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/bill_bryson/
Cost: $6 - $32.00 (book bundled) - On Sale Now
Harvard Book Store welcomes BILL BRYSON—the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything—for a discussion of his latest book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants.
About The Body
Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body—how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Bodywill lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information.
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Saturday, October 19 - Sunday, October 20
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MICE -- The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo -- will be Saturday and Sunday, October 19th and 20th! It's FREE and open to the public! You can find it at University Hall at Lesley University, which is 1815 Massachusetts Ave (in Porter Square, steps from the Porter Square T station on the Red Line and Commuter Rail). http://www.micexpo.org/
Schedule:
Saturday: 10am - 6pm
Sunday: 11am - 5pm
MICE 2019 Guest Creators:
Jaime Hernandez!
Ben Hatke!
Diane Noomin!
Ronald Wimberly!
Ellen Crenshaw!
Colleen AF Venable!
MICE 2019 Local Spotlight Creators:
Travis Dandro!
Erica Henderson!
Cathy G. Johnson!
Kurt Ankeny!
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Boston Book Fest
Saturday, October 19 - Sunday, October 20
Copley Square and Roxbury
Celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire, Boston Book Festival presents year-round events culminating in an annual festival that promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the vibrancy of our city.
More information at https://bostonbookfest.org
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Saturday, October 19
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Twelve Blocks of Boston - A People's Walking Tour
Saturday, October 19
11 AM – 1 PM
encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twelve-blocks-of-boston-a-peoples-walking-tour-tickets-74009334913
Cost: $1.00
Walk through Boston's movement history visiting places of moment and movement: we'll meet Malcolm X, John Brown, Anne Hutchinson, William Lloyd Garrison, Sacco & Vanzetti, Phillis Wheatley, and a host of other movement figures who helped define our times. The tour lasts 90 - 120 minutes and we will begin (and end) at 9A Hamilton Place. Bring your walking shoes! This is a walking tour based on “A People's Guide to Greater Boston” (forthcoming, 2020) by Joseph Nevins, Suren Moodliar and Eleni Macrakis. We have requested a nominal $1/person registration fee. Donations to encuentro5 (completely optional) are recommended.
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Sunday, October 20
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MassRobotics Robot Block Party
Sunday, October 20
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Seaport Innovation District, Boston
The MassRobotics Robot Block Party is back! Dozens of robots will descend upon Boston’s Seaport Innovation District for our 3rd Annual Robot Block Party on Sunday, Oct. 20th, marking the first day of the State’s STEM week. Families, professionals and students can check out the latest in robotics and experience exciting demos of the products that will shape our future, and maybe even win an opportunity to ride in an autonomous vehicle. The Robot Block Party is a free event and open to the public, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Along with robots of all shapes and sizes there will be music and food trucks and special guests.
Expanding upon popular activities from the last 2 years – robot demonstrations, presentations from area robotics companies and universities, FIRST teams, hands-on interactions with robots, games and more – 2019 will be even bigger than last year!
Check out personal home robots, from companion to cleaning & weeding
“Design your own robot” using tools for robot design, making the process of creating robots accessible to beginners and experts alike
Watch drones, from consumer to surveillance to agriculture, fly
Get up close to an autonomous vehicle, and maybe even ride in one
See what humanoid robots can do today, and what they might be able to do in the future
Learn about robotic arms and how they are used in a variety of applications including manufacturing
Find out how logistics robots are helping your online orders to you faster
See how robots are promoting a healthy lifestyle that move indoors and outdoors
Discover what exciting things are going on at local university robotics programs, including interactive and language-guided learning, NASA Mars Ice Challenge robot and research drones
Participants (confirmed to date) in this year’s block party included: Analog Devices, Aptiv Autonomous Mobility, Ava Robotics, ChartaCloud, Cleo Robotics, FLIR Unmanned Ground Systems, Franklin Robotics, GreenSightAG, Harmonic Drive, iRobot, MITRE, MVP Robotics, National Guard, Next Era Innovations, Optimus Ride, Piaggio Fast Forward, RightHand Robotics, RSE, SMC, SoftRobotics, UAS Development, Waypoint Robotics, FIRST robotics teams from the area and universities including Harvard, Northeastern, Tufts and UMass Lowell.
The MassRobotics Block Party is made possible by a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
No registration necessary to attend. If you are interested in participating, please contact us at info at MassRobotics.org with the subject line “Robot Block Party”.
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Healing the Internal and External Landscape - Upper Peruvian Amazon Shamanism
Sunday, October 20
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
One Fayette Park, Cambridge
RSVP at http://meet.meetup.com/wf/click?upn=ZDzXt-2B-2BZmzYir6Bq5X7vEQ2iNYdgjN9-2FU9nWKp99AU-2FoydEuhqJQ7EXUDHr7EGrAwP-2BWLTz1ls4pgf-2FKrZy5MUwHVeALpXHhwKnpvqifhLvm-2FwH4XIo3CACEz8I6Z8EOUTN1SFXRrBGV1s3g2IydXYhe4jXx0Sg4c1UCP9hKr6uXWq7vQqYfHeyGJBe2avvLLsgPQIPqpKx94CWQ2lBcPgKPF2sGGtuu3DVmhzoG4ks-3D_Q-2FAIwDkBcdJzm3UDl4bHX6xhh5a2rrODr-2F2JjmVG-2FeFeAQ-2B5Xuem-2B5rty9E-2Fhhy6JiAqpwearL8Ej5XDDfcymxCdrStTG6mEFUirjXVBvz0qL2xiogLKZBUN4s-2FaffFpkcpBGm5PGyxTD5hUkd-2BuW4Sq9xWcaYl-2BkSlqVS6aJbu3TXWOkN-2BQWOSaVnpQnooYDUyG5fQK-2BxIYAUh922h3HxnM1ehPILxinfMucyqh9CE7K084SKkN3pdfCK7TH-2B5W
You can heal your inner world as you work to heal the outer world, and the ancient wisdom practices of shamanism offer a powerful means of doing it.
RANDY CHUNG GONZALES was initiated by disembodied spirits into shamanic knowledge and power during an ayahuasca shamanic ceremony in 2016. Such initiations by spirits are extremely rare, the most common method being initiation by an embodied, living shaman. Since then he has been given powers by other indigenous spirits, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and other sacred beings. He directs a retreat-cum-ecological workshop center — called in English “The Place of the Sacred Mountain,” because it faces the mountain sacred to the local indigenous people, the Kichwa-Lamistas — located in the forest near the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in Lamas, Peru, where he is from. He is also a painter and a self-taught architect.
FRÉDÉRIQUE APFFEL-MARGLIN, PhD, is Professor Emerita, Dept. of Anthropology at Smith College and founded Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in the Peruvian Upper Amazon, which she directs, in 2009. She has spent years in India and Peru working with indigenous peoples and with farmers. She has authored or edited 15 books, including Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World, and published some 70 articles and book chapters.
AND, before our meetup . . .
You may also join Randy and Frédérique for a weekend workshop at the Rowe Center in Western Mass. on October 18 - 20, 2019. More at https://rowecenter.org/wp/events/randy-chung-gonzales-frederique-apffel-marglin-shamanic-healing-for-the-interior-and-exterior-landscape/
An extraordinary opportunity to work with a native Peruvian shaman and curandero near to home, at The Rowe Center in Rowe, Massachusetts. Shamanic Healing for the Interior and Exterior Landscape will be a deeply personal experience where you will learn how plants, trees, waters, and mountains manifest agency via their spirits and the importance of experiencing such spirits for developing a caring and sustaining relationship with the non-human world of nature.
What to bring to our potluck/discussion
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, October 21
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Environmental and Climate Science Under Attack
Monday, October 21
11:00AM
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents a panel discussing featuring:
Tasso Azevedo, General Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University
Beto Veríssimo, Co-founder, Imazon; Director, Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University
Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator, Director, C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderated by Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment; Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, HKS; Area Chair for Environmental Science and Engineering
Presented in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/environmental-and-climate-science-under-attack
Contact Name: Tiago Genoveze
tiago_genoveze at harvard.edu
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The Energy and Climate Change Puzzle
Monday, October 21
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Haarvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Amy Harder, Axios. Lunch is provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Contact Name: Julie Gardella
julie_gardella at hks.harvard.edu
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Theological Bioethics Within Marginalized Communities: Women’s Mass Incarceration and Food Insecurity
WHEN Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Conference Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT CSWR, 617.495.4476
DETAILS Women’s mass incarceration has grown exponentially in the last 40 years yet the lasting impact that the carceral system has on women and the array of subsequent challenges remain largely unaddressed and under-discussed. As women are more likely to face charges related to illegal substances, the negative impact of policy in conjunction with the
"War on Drugs" continues to affect women and their families post-incarceration. This event will explore this negative impact particularly through the lens of food security and will pose the question of the role of faith-communities and faith-based institutions in addressing these negative outcomes. Please join us for food and conversation!
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Authors at MIT | John R. Blakinger: Gyorgy Kepes
Monday, October 21
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Please join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming author John R. Blakinger to discuss his book, Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus.
About the Book
Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of László Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that, by opening the research laboratory to the arts, Kepes established a new paradigm for creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and sciences—what he termed “interthinking” and “interseeing.” Kepes and his colleagues—ranging from metallurgists to mathematicians—became part of an important but little-explored constellation: the Cold War avant-garde.
Blakinger traces Kepes's career in the United States through a series of episodes: Kepes's work with the military on camouflage techniques; his development of a visual design pedagogy; the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), an art-science research institute established by Kepes at MIT in 1967; and the Center's proposals for massive environmental installations that would animate the urban landscape.
Generously illustrated, drawing on the vast archive of Kepes's papers at Stanford and MIT's CAVS Special Collection, this book supplies a missing chapter in our understanding of midcentury modern and Cold War visual culture.
John R. Blakinger studies modern and contemporary American art, with a focus on the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and is particularly interested in the intersection of the visual arts with science and technology. He is the 2018–2019 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford. He comes to Oxford from the University of Southern California, where he has been in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities since 2016.
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Voices of the Rainforest: Film Screening & Discussion
Monday, October 21
6:00PM
Harvard, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Free admission, but tickets are required. Visit http://harvardartmuseums.org for parking and event details.
https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/voices-of-the-rainforest
Voices of the Rainforest is an experiential documentary about the ecological and aesthetic coevolution of Papua New Guinea’s Bosavi rainforest region and its inhabitants. The film immerses viewers in the rainforest, making myriad connections between the everyday sounds of the rainforest biosphere and the creative practices of the Bosavi people who sing to, with, and about it. Following the screening, Steven Feld will discuss the film with Amahl Bishara, an associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University.
Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Documentary Educational Resources, the Film Study Center at Harvard University, the Sensory Ethnography Lab, and the Harvard Art Museums.
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Boston New Technology Artificial Intelligence & IoT Startup Showcase #BNT106
Monday, October 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Hult International Business School, 1 Education Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/BNT106
Cost: $15
To save on tickets and enjoy exclusive benefits, purchase a BNT VIP Membership: http://bit.ly/BnTvip
Join us to:
See 6 innovative and exciting local Artificial Intelligence & IoT Tech demos, presented by founders
Network with attendees from the startup/tech community
Get your free headshot photo (non-intrusively watermarked) from The Boston Headshot!
Enjoy pizza, veggies, fruit and more
Each company presents an overview and demo of their product within 5 minutes and discusses questions with the audience.
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Tuesday, October 22
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TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Tuesday, October 22
8 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
The UMass Club, 1 Beacon Street, 32nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://parentingjourney.org/social-family-justice-institute/register/
Parenting Journey’s second annual Social and Family Justice Institute will reconvene cross-sector stakeholders and partners to continue last year’s conversation around uplifting parents and cultivating leadership.
Building on last year’s theme, Harnessing Parent Power for Change, speakers at this year’s institute will focus on Transforming Our Communities through Civic Engagement.
Join like-minded professionals from non-profits, government agencies, philanthropic foundations, and corporations to address systems in our society that disproportionately affect people of color, low-income families, and immigrants.
Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director, Parenting Journey
Introductory Remarks
Marty Meehan, president, The University of Massachusetts
Harnessing Community Power for Social Change
Meghan Irons, reporter, The Boston Globe (moderator)
Sheena Collier, director of economic opportunity, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and founder and CEO, The Collier Connection
Mac D’Alessandro, executive director and campaign manager, Voter Choice Massachusetts
Betty Francisco, general counsel, Compass Working Capital and co-founder, Latina Circle and Amplify Latinx
Segun Idowu, executive director, Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, Inc.
Progressive Policy Making: Reclaiming ‘Family Values’
A broadcasted conversation sponsored by State House News Service
Robert Lewis Jr., founder and president, The Base
State Representative Jim O’Day
Michael Curry, Esq., senior vice president of government affairs and public policy and general counsel, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and immediate past president, Boston Branch of the NAACP
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Election Security
Tuesday, October 22
4:30-5:30pm
Harvard, Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Ronald L. Rivest (MIT)
Ronald L. Rivest is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a founder of the Cryptography and Information Security research group within CSAIL. His research has been in the areas of algorithms, machine learning, cryptography, and election security, for which he has received multiple awards, including: the ACM Turing Award (with Adleman and Shamir), the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award, National Inventor’s Hall of Fame membership, and the Marconi Prize.
Prof. Rivest is also well-known as a co-author of the textbook “Introduction to Algorithms” (with Cormen, Leiserson, and Stein), and as a co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem (with Adleman and Shamir). He is a co-founder of RSA and of Verisign.He has served on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (advisory to the Election Assistance Commission), in charge of the Security subcommittee. He is a member of the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project, on the Board of Verified Voting, and an advisor to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Additionally, he has served on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (advisory to the Election Assistance Commission), as a member of the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and as an advisor to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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Dangerous Exposures: Work and Waste in Victorian Photography & the Chemical Trades
Tuesday, October 22
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Jennifer Tucker
This paper discusses how the alkali industry transformed two towns in northwestern England and considers some of the complexities of environmental systems and stories that are still embedded in the landscape – long after many of the physical traces of the Victorian chemical industry have long since disappeared.
The towns of Widnes and St. Helens, where many of the world’s first chemical factories and towns were created in open farmland during the nineteenth century, are especially important places to study historical responses to industrial pollution and its associated costs. Like modern-day alchemists, chemical industrialists transformed the rural landscape, their factories churning out base elements that were transformed into textile dyes, soap, and glass: materials that seemingly defined the Victorian era. Yet while many contemporary observers praised the alkali industry for providing materials that facilitated modern activities, others saw a different side to the new chemical industry. Not only did the process of generating salt cake from salt and sulfuric acid release hydrochloric acid gas into the atmosphere, it also produced an insoluble, smelly solid waste that became piled in heaps and spread on fields near the soda works. The chemical trade harmed not only the local air, water, and land, however, it also injured people: especially chemical workers.
Drawing on newly recovered archival sources in northwest England this paper explores the nature and significance of the Victorian alkali industry in addressing a range of questions in environmental history, history and theory of photography, law, and public health. Photography emerged in the nineteenth-century as both a new mode of documenting chemical pollution and a technological process that was itself the product of a chemical industry that produced chemical waste and photographic pollution. The paper offers new evidence of the importance of visual imagery (particularly news illustrations, photographs and lantern slides) in raising public awareness about the potential dangers of alkali waste products for local environments and chemical workers. It suggests that an understanding of the language of visual imagery of alkali industry is useful for understanding the later transformations of public environmental law and policy in the region.
Jennifer Tucker is a historian of science and technology at Wesleyan University specializing in the study of photography, visual culture and law. The author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science(2005), she has published several articles and edited several works including, most recently, A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019) . She currently is finishing a Photography and Law Reader and a book on photography and Victorian facial likeness.
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Heritage in Peril – Alternative Approaches to Preservation
Tuesday, October 22
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heritage-in-peril-alternative-approaches-to-preservation-tickets-74874795529
Join swissnex Boston and Swiss Touch for a special event at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on protecting at-risk heritage.
How do we protect cultural heritage? How do we build future heritage in communities threatened by conflict? How can we meaningfully engage local populations in creative actions that are grounded in ethical practice?
“Swiss Touch Presents: Heritage in Peril – Alternative Approaches to Preservation” will explore these questions with keynote presentations by Patrick Michel of the University of Lausanne (Unil) and Azra Akšamija of MIT, followed by a panel discussion moderated by journalist and author Rania Abouzeid.
The University of Lausanne is home to the Collart Collection, the world’s most comprehensive archeological archive of the Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra, Syria, which was destroyed by ISIS in 2015. Through an international collaboration which digitized the archives of the Collart Collection, researchers at the University of Lausanne were able to create a digital double of the Temple. This has laid the foundation for further research and for alternative approaches to preserving the cultural heritage related to the Temple.
This important archive now meets fertile ground at MIT, where the Future Heritage Lab (FHL) has been spearheading innovative approaches to preservation of cultural heritage through an artistic lens. FHL’s work, such as the Memory Matrix project, a temporary monument that translates the images of the Palmyra Arch into an empathetic experience, utilizes participatory art to question the ethics of preservation at the time of war. Informed by critical artistic methods, the Lab’s ongoing work with Syrian refugees advocates a performative approach to preservation of cultural heritage, modeling ways of supporting the continuation of the living social practices of threatened communities that underlie the creation of cultural monuments.
A collaboration between Unil and MIT’s Future Heritage Lab now aims to create future heritage. By translating ornamental elements from the Temple of Baalshamin and from Palmyra’s rich textile history into contemporary embroidery designs, this collaboration intends to engage both Syrian refugees and students in different countries in creative interpretations of heritage, presenting Palmyra’s history of transcultural exchange and identifying creative approaches to preserving the heritage of the now destroyed Temple. A first test workshop of this collaboration will take place at NuVu Studio in Cambridge in October.
Program
6:00 pm Doors Open – Calderwood Hall – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
6:30 pm Program Begins
8:00 pm Program Ends
8:00 pm VIP Reception (Invite Only) – Cloisters around the Museum’s Courtyard
9:00 pm Doors Close
About the collaborators
The Collart-Palmyra Project was launched in 2017 by the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Archeology and Sciences of Antiquity with the aim of digitizing the archives of Paul Collart, one of the most extensive collections of pictures, notes, and drawings from the Temple of Baalshamîn in Syria.
MIT Future Heritage Lab is a transdisciplinary research lab at MIT that invents creative responses to conflict and crisis by designing pedagogical frameworks, artistic tools, and co-creation processes to improve the lives of communities in threat and advance transcultural understanding on a global scale.
NuVu Studio is a full-time innovation school for middle and high school students. Its pedagogy is based on the architectural Studio model and geared around multi-disciplinary, collaborative projects, teaching students how to navigate the messiness of the creative process, from inception to completion by prototyping and testing.
Swiss Touch is an event series and social media campaign pushing Swiss innovation and creative ideas forward, through the participation of prominent Swiss and American stakeholders, a selection of compelling topics and unusual locations.
swissnex Boston creates opportunities for researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, and other future-makers to reach beyond their current capacity and make meaningful, collaborative connections with the top innovators in Switzerland and North America.
Speakers
Azra Akšamija
Azra is an artist and architectural historian, whose work explores how social life is affected by cultural bias and by deterioration and destruction of cultural infrastructures within the context of conflict, migration, and forced displacement. She holds graduate degrees in architecture from the Technical University Graz, Princeton University and a PhD in History of Islamic Art and Architecture from MIT. Since 2016, she has been leading a number of artistic, educational and research projects of her Future Heritage Lab in Jordanian refugee camps, in collaboration with local cultural institutions and international humanitarian organizations. Supported by the Graham Foundation Grant, the FHL is currently collaborating with displaced Syrians on the book “1002 Inventions” to document a range of refugee inventions from Al Azraq Refugee Camp. This book will accompany the Design & Scarcity course, MIT’s first art and design MOOC. Apart from FHL, Azra’s artistic work has been exhibited in leading international venues, including the Generali Foundation Vienna, Liverpool Biennial, Sculpture Center New York, Secession Vienna, the Royal Academy of Arts London, Design Week Festivals in Milan, Istanbul Eindhoven and Amman, and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini as a part of the 54th Art Biennale in Venice. In 2013, she received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for her design of the prayer space in the Islamic Cemetery Altach, Austria.
Azra is the founding director of the MIT Future Heritage Lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
Patrick Michel
Patrick studied Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Lausanne before specializing in Assyriology at the University of Geneva, where he also holds a PhD; he was awarded scholarships from the Fondation Ernst Boninchi and the Société Académique vaudoise. Patrick has done research at the Swiss Institute in Rome (of which he currently presides the alumni), the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and has taught at the universities of Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Rome. In 2013 he received the Fellowship of the International University of Venice for the interdisciplinary seminar Between East and West. He dedicated an exhibition to the collection of René Dussaud (1858-1958), Conservator of the Near Eastern Department of the Louvre with the publication of a catalogue. He also participated in several archaeological campaigns in Syria with the American University of Beirut. He is now finishing a Diploma of Advanced studies in Art Law.
Patrick currently leads the Collart-Palmyra Project at the University of Lausanne as Senior Researcher and he manages Fonds d’Archives de Maurice Dunand.
Rania Abouzeid (moderator)
Rania Abouzeid is a Beirut-based journalist and author of “No Turning Back: Life, Loss, And Hope in Wartime Syria.” She has covered wars, natural disasters and political upheaval across the Middle East and South Asia for more than 15 years and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Michael Kelly Award, the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting and the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Book Award. Abouzeid has written for The New Yorker, Time, National Geographic and other publications, and has reported and presented television documentaries and features. She has received fellowships from the European Council on Foreign Relations, New America and Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
She is studying the dynamics of post-civil war societies and how trust and the idea of community are rebuilt. She also plans to investigate and contextualize the legacy of the Arab Spring uprisings.
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Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
Tuesday, October 22
6:30 p.m.
Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-talk-robbins-library/
We are in the midst of an unprecedented climate crisis and ecological breakdown that threatens the continuation of life as we know it: record atmospheric carbon levels, global temperature rise, deforestation, plastic pollution, mass extinction of species... Join us to hear the latest information on the state of our planet, and learn how to become part of a global movement of social transformation for a livable future.
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Innovative Models for Resolving Disputes after Mass Disasters and Catastrophic Harms
WHEN Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Kenneth R. Feinberg, Attorney, Feinberg Rozen
Eric D. Green, Principal, Resolutions, LLC, Boston
Francis E. McGovern, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Moderator:
Professor Guhan Subramanian, Chair, Program on Negotiation, Professor, Harvard Law School, Professor, Harvard Business School
COST Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
CONTACT INFO dlong at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS About the event:
Mass disasters and catastrophes injuring large numbers of individuals present serious operational, management and fairness problems for traditional compensation systems, including courts. Whether it be terrorism, such as the 9/11 or Boston Marathon attacks, a mass shooting at Virginia Tech or Las Vegas, thousands of automobile airbag ruptures, community-wide natural gas pipeline explosions, widespread institutional sexual abuse, or pharmaceutical failures such as opioids, contraceptives, dialyses fluid or miracle pills, the breadth of these events often overwhelms the capacity of our standard compensation systems. In recent years public and private institutions have striven to develop new models in these mega cases to attempt to deliver fairer, faster, more efficient, and more equitable solutions to the numerous disaster victims. These innovative models vary in important ways but raise similar issues about how well they function and comport with important social, political, and conflict resolution norms. Ken Feinberg, Eric Green and Francis McGovern have been deeply involved in the design and operation of these mechanisms in many high profile applications. They will lead a discussion focusing on critical aspects of these systems. The entire community is invited to participate.
LINK https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/resolving-disputes/
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Tuesday, October 22
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Local author Holly Jackson presents her dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists—free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes—and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era.
“In the tradition of Howard Zinn’s people’s histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten yet inspiring past.”—Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country’s fiftieth birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds. They would leave behind a groundbreaking political system and a growing economy—as well as the glaring inequalities that had undermined the American experiment from its beginning. The young nation had outlived the men who made it, but could it survive intensifying divisions over the very meaning of the land of the free?
A new network of dissent—connecting firebrands and agitators on pastoral communes, in urban mobs, and in genteel parlors across the nation—vowed to finish the revolution they claimed the Founding Fathers had only begun. They were men and women, black and white, fiercely devoted to causes that pitted them against mainstream America even while they fought to preserve the nation’s founding ideals: the brilliant heiress Frances Wright, whose shocking critiques of religion and the institution of marriage led to calls for her arrest; the radical Bostonian William Lloyd Garrison, whose commitment to nonviolence would be tested as the conflict over slavery pushed the nation to its breaking point; the Philadelphia businessman James Forten, who presided over the first mass political protest of free African Americans; Marx Lazarus, a vegan from Alabama whose calls for sexual liberation masked a dark secret; black nationalist Martin Delany, the would-be founding father of a West African colony who secretly supported John Brown’s treasonous raid on Harpers Ferry—only to ally himself with Southern Confederates after the Civil War.
Though largely forgotten today, these figures were enormously influential in the pivotal period flanking the war, their lives and work entwined with reformers like Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as iconic leaders like Abraham Lincoln. Jackson writes them back into the story of the nation’s most formative and perilous era in all their heroism, outlandishness, and tragic shortcomings. The result is a surprising, panoramic work of narrative history, one that offers important lessons for today.
Holly Jackson is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, as well as a number of scholarly venues. She is the author of one previous book, a scholarly study of “family values” politics in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Solar bills on Beacon Hill: The Climate Minute Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cs87v-b6dbac
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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
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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
Boston Science Lectures: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonsciencelectures/home
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.
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