[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - October 13, 2019

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Monday, October 14
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11am  Sunrise Movement Teaching Workshop
6:30pm  Impacts of the Climate Crisis in our Communities
7pm  Climate Grief Listening Circle in JP

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Tuesday, October 15
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11am  Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease with Jimmy Crott, PhD
12pm  Systems Thinking Webinar: Michael A. Cusumano, “The Business of Platforms”
12pm  Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America
12pm  Open Doc Lab Talk: Michelle Cortese on Designing Respect for Virtual Reality
12pm  Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador
1pm  MADMEC Final Presentations and Award Ceremony
3pm  Virtual Reality Pedagogical Initiatives across Harvard
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  Reparations: A Revolutionary Demand! - Boston
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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Wednesday, October 16
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7:30am  Boston Sustainability Breakfast
8:30am  Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition
11am  Weaving indigenous knowledge and science in environmental decision making
11:45am  Nourishing Africa's 2.4 Billion People: Leapfrogging Through Innovation and Technology
12pm  Engaging citizen scientists: Will the walls of the ivory towers come tumbling down?
12pm  From “Fire and Fury” to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
3:30pm  Refugees, Cellphones, and Information Precarity
3:30pm  When Hackers Attack: A View of the Ensuing Chaos from the Inside
4pm  Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive? Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in Europe
4pm  The Holy Land of Industrialism: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution
4:15pm  Coase, Hotelling, and Pigou: The Incidence of a Carbon Tax and CO2 Emissions
5pm  The Immersive Tech Lab at Berklee College of Music
5:15pm  The optimum allocation of available budget to joint climate control mechanisms
5:30pm  Housing as History: Villa Victoria and the Fenway Community Development Corporation
5:30pm  Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
6pm  FORUM: A Conversation with Mark Carney and Lawrence H. Summers
6pm  Zero Waste Campus Forum (CRC)
6pm  Land Loss, Wealth, and Reparations
6:15pm  #BUcityplanning Fall 2019 Keynote Lecture: Former Rep. Michael Capuano
6:15pm  Immigration Crisis: Lives at Risk at our Southern Border
6:30pm  Curious Forms & Other Houses by Sean Canty
6:30pm  Panel Discussion: Slavery and Its Legacies at Old North
6:30pm  Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination, and Long-Term Thinking
7pm  Why Trust Science
7pm  Mutants on the Rise:  Survival tricks of a flu virus
7pm  William Belden Noble Lecture Series: Lecture 1
7pm  Ashley LeMieux BORN TO SHINE 10/16

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Thursday, October 17
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8am  Beyond 2020 Conference
8:30am  Civic Tech Coffee Meet Up
12pm  Moral Disruption: Power of Youth to Make Lasting Change
12pm  The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health
12pm  The Education of an Idealist: A Conversation with Samantha Power
12:15pm  Playing with Fire: Provocation, Signaling, and Unwanted Crisis Escalation
1pm  The Aftermath of Zika in Brazil
3pm  How to Change the World with Shruti Sehra at New Profit
3pm  Robotics Connect
4pm  Zero Waste Campus Forum (BUMC)
4:30pm  ‘Erdogan’s Empire’: Continuity and ‘Revolution’ in Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East?
4:30pm  The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
5pm  Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
5pm  DUSPx + Lightning Talks
5:30pm  Does Nature Make Laws?
5:30pm  Climate action on the inside: Engaging Representatives on a Green New Deal
6pm  No Stopping Us Now:  The Adventures of Older Women in American History
6pm  Hate Speech and Free Speech in America today
6pm  "Freedom from Truth: Self Portraits of Nell Painter”
6pm  Our Dogs, Ourselves
6pm  Grolier Film Screening & Discussion
6:30pm  Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
7pm  Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
7pm  MORALITY, POLITICS AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS Can Massachusetts Lead the Way Forward?
7pm  Getting Smarter about Visual Information with Alberto Cairo

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Friday, October 18 & Saturday, October 19 
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Turning Up The Heat: Climate Resilience & Community Engagement

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Friday, October 18
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12pm  A tale of two molecules: NH3 [Ammonia] and CH4 [Methane]
12pm  Underground markets in mutualisms: making fertilizer from thin air
12pm  Rip off or Reasonable? Cities & Corporate Financial Incentives
1:30pm  On the Detection of Malware on Virtual Assistants Based on Behavioral Anomalies
2pm  Alicja Kwade Panel Discussion: Visibility of Time
2pm  Passive House Affordable Multifamily Design Manual Workshop
2:30pm  Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
4pm  FORUM: A Public Address by Michelle Bachelet:  UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
4:30pm  EAPS Active Talk Series (EATS): Andrew Babbin and Glenn Flierl
5pm  Reimagine This Place
6pm  FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience
6pm  Facial Recognition as Surveillance: The Need for Public Oversight
6pm  LASER Boston – Beauty and the Brain- Exploring the intersection of art, design and neuroscience 
7pm  The Body:  A Guide for Occupants

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Saturday, October 19 - Sunday, October 20
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Hack/ED: Hacking Emergency Care
MICE -- The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
Boston Book Fest

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Saturday, October 19
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9am  Careers in Conservation 2019
10am  oiConference: The Green Future of Investment
10am  2019 MIT AgeLab OMEGA Summit
11am  Twelve Blocks of Boston - A People's Walking Tour
1:30pm  Transforming a City: Honoring Boston’s Visionaries

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Sunday, October 20
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11am  MassRobotics Robot Block Party
2pm  Sunrise Boston Full Hub Meeting
3pm  Be the Change:  Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Book Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
6pm  Healing the Internal and External Landscape - Upper Peruvian Amazon Shamanism

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Monday, October 21
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9am  U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee Meetings
11am  Environmental and Climate Science Under Attack
11:45am  The Energy and Climate Change Puzzle
12pm  Theological Bioethics Within Marginalized Communities: Women’s Mass Incarceration and Food Insecurity
1pm  The Military-Industrial-Aesthetic Complex: Gyorgy Kepes at MIT
4:30pm  What on Earth is Going on With Brexit?
5:30pm  The Power of Playful Learning: Creating educational settings that bring “school” and “play” together
6pm  Authors at MIT | John R. Blakinger: Gyorgy Kepes
6pm  Voices of the Rainforest: Film Screening & Discussion
6pm  Six Locked Doors: The Legacy of the Cocoanut Grove
6pm  Boston New Technology Artificial Intelligence & IoT Startup Showcase #BNT106
6:30pm  Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We
6:30pm  The United States and Ukraine: Reflections of an American Diplomat
7pm  Axiomatic
7pm  Jamaica Plain Solar Meetup

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Tuesday, October 22
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8am  TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
8:30am  EcoRise: Classroom Grants & Environmental Stewardship
12pm  Pathways to Public Service: A Computer Scientist and a Mayor on ways to make service a career
12pm  A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It's not fake news if we believe the thread.
1:30pm  E2 National Webinar:  The Business of Recycling
1:30pm  Food Innovation Summit
4pm  Excitons for Light and Energy
4:30pm  Election Security
4:30pm  Europe’s Travails: Forging a French-German Response in an Era of Transatlantic Disequilibrium
5:30pm  Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter
6pm  There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead
6pm  Chat & Chowder with Dr. Angela Stent | Putin's World
6pm  Wireless Connectivity: The 6th Sense for Self-Driving Vehicles
6pm  Dangerous Exposures: Work and Waste in Victorian Photography & the Chemical Trades
6pm  Heritage in Peril – Alternative Approaches to Preservation
6:30pm  Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
6:30pm  Innovative Models for Resolving Disputes after Mass Disasters and Catastrophic Harms
6:30pm  Mystic River Watershed Association Annual Meeting
7pm  American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
7pm  The Cult of Trump
7pm  Technology, Amnesia, & the Future: A Conversation with a Messenger from the Past

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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

Donella Meadows' Guidelines for Living in a World of Systems
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2019/10/donella-meadows-guidelines-for-living.html

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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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Impacts of the Climate Crisis in our Communities
Monday, October 14
6:30 p.m.
Northeastern, 109 Robinson Hall, 336 Huntington Ave, Boston

Extinction Rebellion MA is joining Northeastern University's Latin American (LASO) and Filipino (Barkada) Student Organizations to discuss the impacts of the climate climate crisis in these communities. Join us on Monday, October 14, 6:30pm, 109 Robinson Hall, Northeastern University. We will cover the latest scientific facts on our climate and ecological emergency, and what we can do to overcome the inability and/or unwillingness of our institutions to effectively tackle this crisis. This event is free and open to the public.

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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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Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease with Jimmy Crott, PhD
Tuesday, October 15
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge

Cambridge Neighbors, an aging-in-place community, and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University present: Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease with Jimmy Crott, PhD.

Each of us has a unique collection of microbes in your gut that directly influence our health and risk for disease. Learn how to choose foods that are most beneficial to our health.

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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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Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wexner 434, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Shorenstein Center
SPEAKER(S)  April De Simone
Katie Swenson
Moderator: Miriam Aschkenasy
DETAILS  Join us for Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America, a lecture by April De Simone and Katie Swenson, moderated by Miriam Aschkenasy MD, MPH, MPA, Program Manager, Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability.
Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America is an explorative and visioning framework for addressing systemic challenges. These challenges — inequalities in housing, education, income, criminal justice, and health — are far from separate issues. These challenges are rooted in a deep and entangled history of policies, practices and processes that remain unrevealed and misunderstood. As new forces begin to transform cities and towns, decisions about interconnected challenges are, therefore, often made ‘in the dark.’ Gone unanswered are fundamental questions about our communities: how did we get here, and what does that mean for where we are going? Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America explores these reframed opportunities from a shared value perspective, and grounds discussions about race, wealth, opportunity and power in an honest context that is not about guilt and blame. This allows everyone to contribute their value to the design and development of projects, partnerships, and decisions that seek to transform communities and move beyond the challenging and often clouded situation of our entangled past.
LINK  https://shorensteincenter.org/event/undesign-redline-transformation-race-place-class-america/

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Open Doc Lab Talk: Michelle Cortese on Designing Respect for Virtual Reality
Tuesday, October 15
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E15-318, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge 

Virtual reality designers accept the ethical responsibilities of removing a user’s entire world and replacing it with a reality of their own creation. These unique challenges are intensified when virtual experiences become public and socially-driven. As a female VR designer in the age of #METOO, Cortese sees an opportunity to fold the language of consent and body sovereignty into VR design practice to build safer, more accessible, and more inclusive virtual spaces.

This discussion unpacks Cortese’s experience co-authoring “Designing Safe Spaces for Virtual Reality”—a Facebook Research publication and chapter from an upcoming book, Ethics in Design and Communication: New Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London)—and the Facebook Horizon comfort and safety features it helped inspire. Takeaways include: (1) Edward T. Hall’s zones of interpersonal space, (2) ethical responsibilities of designing embodied virtual spaces, (3) body sovereignty ideology as a VR design practice, and (4) specific VR design solutions that promote safety and inclusivity.

Michelle Cortese is a Canadian virtual reality designer, artist and futurist residing in Brooklyn. She splits her professional time between designing VR experiences for Oculus at Facebook and teaching creative technology at NYU Steinhardt. Most of her work investigates the transmutation of communication across new technologies and formats. Michelle was previously a Design Technologist at Refinery29; an Experiential Art Director at The New York Times’ Fake Love; and has exhibited work at CES, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Sundance Film Festival.

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Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Eduardo Montero, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  This presentation examines the effects of cooperative ownership — a form of ownership particularly prevalent in Latin America — on agricultural productivity and economic development. It focus on the 1980 El Salvador land reform program, where properties owned by individuals with cumulative holdings over 500 hectares were targeted for redistribution to the former hacienda workers in the form of cooperatives, but properties belonging to individuals with less than 500 hectares were to remain as privately-owned haciendas. Relative to properties that were never expropriated, the reform cooperatives are (i) less likely to produce cash crops and more likely to produce staple crops; (ii) less productive at cash crops; but more productive at staple crops, and (iii) have higher worker incomes and more compressed wage distributions.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/cooperative-property-rights-and-development-evidence-land-reform-el-salvador?admin_panel=1&month=2019-10&type=month

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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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Virtual Reality Pedagogical Initiatives across Harvard
Tuesday, October 15
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Harvard, Boylston Hall -110 Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-reality-pedagogical-initiatives-across-harvard-tickets-74700815149

Talk and panel discussion detailing innovative applications of VR in pedagogy across Harvard University.

Join us for an overview of virtual reality and pedagogy by VR specialist Rus Gant followed by a discussion with panelists from various disciplines about the affordances of VR in education and the VR pedagogical initiatives taking place across Harvard’s schools. Brainstorm new possibilities for the integration of virtual reality in education. 
Sponsored by a HILT Spark Grant.

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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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Reparations: A Revolutionary Demand! - Boston
Tuesday, October 15
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reparations-a-revolutionary-demand-boston-tickets-67890362903
Cost:  $5 suggested donation - no one turned away for lack of funds

Uhuru Solidarity Movement presents: Days of Reparations to African People speaking tour REPARATIONS: A REVOLUTIONARY DEMAND

A call for white people to stand in solidarity with African liberation and the Black Power Blueprint.

Featured Speakers:
Omali Yeshitela - Founder of the Uhuru movement, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, creator of African Internationalism, author of several books including Vanguard: The Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution
Penny Hess - Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, author of Overturning the Culture of Violence
Days of Reparations to African People is an annual speaking tour of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement that brings the issue of reparations and African liberation to the white community. It takes the discussion of reparations out of the courtrooms and classrooms and makes it a reality through a people’s movement lead by the black working class.
The Black Power Blueprint is a black-led self-determination project of the Uhuru Movement building economic institutions for the black community of St. Louis to feed, clothe, and house themselves. To learn more go to blackpowerblueprint.org
Uhuru Solidarity Movement is an organization created by the African People’s Socialist Party as a strategy to win white solidarity with black power and white reparations to African people.
#whitesolidaritywithblackpower
#daysofreparationstoafricanpeople
#unitythroughreparations
#reparationsnow

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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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Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, October 16
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT
Pret A Manger, 101 Arch Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-72997402195

Join us every month for Net Impact Boston's informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals for networking, discussion, and moral support. It's important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good! Feel free to drop by Pret a Manger any time between 7:30 and 8:30 AM.

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Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition
Wednesday, October 16
8:30am to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 46, Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neural-mechanisms-of-memory-and-cognition-tickets-70139181179

Join hundreds of colleagues as 10 speakers from around the country and the world discuss the latest research underlying brain function.

Speakers list:
Jessica Cardin, PhD, Yale University
Martin Fuhrmann, PhD, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lisa Giocomo, PhD, Stanford University
Michael Halassa, PhD, MIT
Christopher Harvey, Harvard University
Thomas McHugh, PhD, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Elly Nedivi, PhD, Picower Institute at MIT
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Mu-ming Poo, PhD, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai
Andreas Schaefer, PhD, Francis Crick Institute 

Registration is free, but is required.

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Weaving indigenous knowledge and science in environmental decision making
Wednesday, October 16
11:00am to 12:00pm
MIT Media Lab, Building E14 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Join us on Wednesday at 11am in the E14 3rd floor atrium for a talk with Doug Jones, General Manager Māori at the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority, on the opportunities and challenges of integrating indigenous knowledge into environmental decision-making. By identifying shared values and concerns using language that avoids forcing people to choose sides, Doug is working to bridge cultural and philosophical divides over certainty, reductionism, genome engineering, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

Doug Jones in conversation with Kevin Esvelt
The New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has committed to a mātauranga (Māori indigenous knowledge) work programme that focuses on ways of weaving mātauranga into its decision-making processes. The aspiration is to weave an understanding of mātauranga into the daily work of the EPA, and to build on Māori partnerships to better protect the environment. The EPA has engaged proactively with Ngā Kaihautū Tikanga Taiao—its statutory Māori advisory committee, Te Herenga—the Māori national network centered in the regions, and Ngā Parirau o te Mātauranga—a group of elders who are treated as trusted advisors. One of the most critical strands of the mātauranga programme is creating an understandable framework for use by decision-makers, to examine the veracity of mātauranga when presented as evidence for environmental consent applications.

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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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Engaging citizen scientists: Will the walls of the ivory towers come tumbling down?
Wednesday, October 16
12:00 p.m. ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://view6.workcast.net/register?cpak=1435707337778563&referrer=ScienceWebsite

Chris Lintott, Ph.D., Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Renata van der Weijden, Ph.D., University College Roosevelt, Middleburg, The Netherlands
François Taddei, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Paris, France
Olivier Le Gall, Ph.D., INRA Bordeau, Bordeaux, France
Moderated by Sean Sanders, Ph.D., Science/AAAS, Washington, DC

Science is meant to serve and advance humanity. For more than 200 years, however, it has been conducted only by scientists, making it the domain of the highly (some might say over-) educated. An exclusive club, science is most often cloistered in the ivory towers of academia. While some argue that this exclusivity is critical for the success of science, we also live in a world where openness and accessibility are increasingly valued. Yet accrediting members of the public with the label “scientist” could be viewed as a threat to the closed system that keeps scientists in their privileged position. Fortunately, optimism has won the day as the scientific community, through the power of the Internet, has begun to embrace members of the public as scientific partners. Citizen scientists have been engaged to measure bird migration, the proliferation of plastics pollution, and disease outbreaks. As a scientist, are you afraid of competition from members of the public? If you are a member of the public, would you like to join this movement? Listen in as a group of citizen science gurus discusses its pros and cons. Together, let’s change the world for the better.

This webinar will last for approximately 60 minutes.

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From “Fire and Fury” to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
WHEN  Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 308, Morgan Courtroom, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	East Asian Legal Studies, HLS
Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund, Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
SPEAKER(S)  John Park, Director, Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
DETAILS  EALS Lunchtime Talk Series
LINK  http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/

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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.
	
More information at https://www.bu.edu/european/news/calendar/?eid=229714

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Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture:  The Holy Land of Industrialism: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution
WHEN  Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Economics Department
SPEAKER(S)  Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
CONTACT INFO	Claire Paddock:
clairepaddock at fas.harvard.edu
617-495-2144
DETAILS  Each semester the Department of Economics hosts the Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture. This fall, Professor Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) will be the speaker. The title of his talk is "The Holy Land of Industrialism: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution.”
LINK  https://economics.harvard.edu/seminars-events/economics-lectures

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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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Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Wednesday, October 16
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Tufts, Cabot 703, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/serhii-plokhy-chernobyl-the-history-of-a-nuclear-catastrophe-registration-70520561899

Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a conversation with Serhii Plokhy about his book Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (2018). The book talk will be accompanied by a screening of selected scenes from the critically acclaimed HBO historical drama television miniseries Chernobyl (2019), created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite.
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist Party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else.
Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has lived and taught in Ukraine, Canada, and the United States. Plokhy is the author of ten books, including the award-winning The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2015), which received the Lionel Gelber Prize, the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize and the Antonovych Ukrainian Book Prize.

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FORUM: A Conversation with Mark Carney and Lawrence H. Summers
WHEN  Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer 145 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S)  Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of England; Chair, Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee and the Board of the Prudential Regulation Authority
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/436772240288436/
CONTACT INFO	rsvp_iop at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  A conversation with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and Professor Lawrence H. Summers on the new international order.
LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/436772240288436/

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Zero Waste Campus Forum (CRC)
Wednesday, October 16
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
BU, 1 Silber Way, Metcalf Trustee Center, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zero-waste-campus-forum-crc-registration-75293965277

Do you want to help BU reduce its environmental impact? We want to hear from YOU!

One of the recommendations of the Climate Action Plan is for the University to pursue a goal of zero waste. In response, sustainability at BU has recently assembled a Zero Waste Implementation Task Force, consisting of approximately 50 staff, faculty, and students from different areas of the University. Over the next five months, they are tasked with developing recommendations and clear actions the University can take to meet this goal.
We are hosting two Zero Waste Campus Forums in order to incorporate essential and valuable insight from our community in our planning process. 
Are you interested in learning more about zero waste and what BU is planning? Do you want to get involved in shaping BU culture around waste, recycling, composting and more? Come participate in one of our forums this October to share your thoughts and help BU become a leader in redesigning our resource lifecycles.
The forums are open to all BU community members. 
Snacks provided. We encourage you to bring a travel mug to help reduce waste.
Hope to see you there!
Forum Structure:
1.What is “zero waste,” why you should care, and what BU is doing
2.Zero Waste Implementation Task Force Co-Chairs present initial ideas
3.Breakout sessions - share feedback and bring your own ideas to the table
4.Present ideas to the group

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Land Loss, Wealth, and Reparations
Wednesday, October 16
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Austin Hall, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/land-loss-wealth-and-reparations-tickets-72863878823

The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic Presents Land Loss, Wealth, and Reparations
Black farmers owned over 16 million acres of land in 1910, a time when black families owned “the largest amount of property they would ever own in the United States,” according to one scholar. These farmers were often respected in their communities, held civic leadership positions, and many were civil rights activists. Yet by the end of the 20th century, almost all black owned farmland—and the way of life—was gone. Black farmers faced widespread discrimination and violent reprisal from local white residents, as well as federal policy designed to drive them out of business. 

We invite you to join us on October 16, 2019, for a panel presentation on black land loss, wealth, and reparations. The panel presentation is hosted by Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and will be held in Harvard University’s Austin Hall North at 6:00 pm. 
The panelists will discuss their research estimating that black farmers have lost hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of land and income as a result of discrimination, the impact this loss has had on racial wealth inequality, and efforts to address these disparities through legal reform, certain policy initiatives, and reparations. 

Panelists include: 
Dania Francis, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University.
Thomas Mitchell, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, Texas A&M University School of Law.
Bryce Wilson Stucki, independent researcher and journalist

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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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Immigration Crisis: Lives at Risk at our Southern Border
Wednesday, October 16
6:15 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Courtyard Marriott Downtown Boston, 275 Tremont Street, (near the Boylston St/Green Line and Tufts Medical Center/Orange Line T Stations), Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/immigration-crisis-lives-at-risk-at-our-southern-border-tickets-71552452311

Join us for a conversation with people on the front lines

Every day, we are bombarded with news reports of a new policy or program intended to stop migration across our southern border. These policies are putting lives at risk as God’s people seek a new life of peace, hard work, and prosperity in the United States. In Massachusetts, thousands of miles away, we sorrow for them and we empathize with them. But we struggle with how to help them. 

Please join us for a conversation with people on the front lines, helping those seeking a better life to safely immigrate to our country. From this conversation, you will hear firsthand stories about the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, connect with others committed to standing up for the human dignity of all God’s people and learn what you can do to make a difference.

We will hear from:
Father Pat Murphy is the Director of the Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico a house for 150 for migrants and refugees. He was ordained a priest in 1980 and since then his ministry commitments have been mostly with the Hispanic community in places like Chicago, Los Angeles and Kansas City. 
Iván Espinoza-Madrigal is the Executive Director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, the organization that filed the first lawsuits in the country against the Trump Administration to protect sanctuary cities; to save temporary protected status on behalf of Honduran and Salvadoran immigrants; and to block immigration arrests in courthouses. 
Westy Egmont is Professor Emeritus of Macro Practice at the Boston College School of Social Work. With a Doctor of Ministry and experience both in pastoral counseling and executive leadership at anti-poverty social service agencies, Egmont has focused his work on the human needs and social services of newcomer communities, immigrant rights, and the complex, dynamic process of immigrant integration. 

This event will also be live-streaming beginning at 6:30PM EST at www.faith-justice.org

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Curious Forms & Other Houses by Sean Canty
Wednesday, October 16
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
ArtScience Culture Lab & Café, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/75198700337

Sean Canty will present six design proposals of recent work from his independent practice, Studio SC. Curious Forms & Other Houses is a collection of work and research which explores the formal, spatial, and perceptual misalignment's between geometry and building typology as a speculative process of design. The work draws inspiration from conceptual frameworks found in art and architecture as well as techniques of descriptive geometry. These frameworks and techniques are combined to complicate disciplinary ideas around building organization with artistic practices around shape, form and perception. Through these convergences of geometry and typology, new architectural typologies can curiously call into question assumptions embedded within existing typologies, while playfully speculating on the production of other typologies.

Sean Canty's biography
Sean Canty is a Designer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and teaches architectural design in the Core Design Studios.
Canty's teaching, research and practice explores unexpected forms of visuality, motivated by architectural type and geometry. Exploring the interrelationships between interior, envelope, and building, Canty explores montage as a spatial practice.
Sean directs Studio SC and is also one of the founding principals of Office III, an experimental architectural collective based in New York, San Francisco and Cambridge. Office III was selected in November 2016 as a finalist for the Young Architect's competition at MoMA PS1. They have also recently completed the Governors Island Welcome Centre for The Friends of Governors Island and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the storefront for art and architecture, the Cooper Union, and the A+D Museum in Los Angeles. Before establishing these two respective practices, Canty was a project Designer at IwamotoScott Architecture in San Francisco, during which he led projects including the Pinterest headquarters, Bloomberg TechHub, The Goto House, Noe Valley Residence, and HeavyBit Industries.
Canty has been a Visiting Professor at the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and a Lecturer at both the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and The College of Environmental Design at the University of California Berkeley. He received a MArch from the GSD and BArch from California College of the Arts.

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Panel Discussion: Slavery and Its Legacies at Old North
Wednesday, October 16
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Old North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussion-slavery-and-its-legacies-at-old-north-tickets-70950399555

An inside look into how a historic site comes to terms with information that alters its self-identity, its interpretation, its public face

Slavery and Its Legacies at Old North: Confronting the Past, Envisioning the Future
Speakers: Jared Hardesty, PhD, Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University; Jonathan Chu, PhD, Professor of History at UMass Boston; Madeleine Rodriguez, JD, associate at Foley Hoag in the Litigation Department; and the Rt. Rev. Gayle E. Harris, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts 
Captain Newark Jackson was a merchant, mariner, and congregant of Old North Church in the 1730s and 1740s who made and sold chocolate near Clark’s Shipyard in the North End. In 2013, Old North Church & Historic Site opened a living history chocolate experience named after the seemingly innocuous seafarer and cacao importer. Over the past seven years, Captain Jackson’s Historic Chocolate has become an integral part of the historic site and a beloved gem along the Freedom Trail. The story of colonial chocolate and Jackson is woven into the story of Old North Church. In 2016, historian Jared Hardesty became intrigued with this man about whom very little was known. So began a three-year international research project that revealed significant insights into Old North’s past that affects its future. Jackson’s personal history, as that of Old North and the city of Boston, reveals a complicated past involving slave owning and slave trading that weighs upon the present and alters our sense of ourselves.

Join us for an inside look into how a historic site comes to terms with information that alters its self-identity, its interpretation, and its public face. The panelists – two historians, a lawyer, and a bishop (three of whom are Old North board members) – weave together their differing perspectives and areas of expertise to illustrate the complexity of past narratives, the impact of the past upon the present, and the necessity of history in correcting a fractured identity. 

There will be plenty of time for Q&A at the end, and the community is invited to weigh in on the research revealed.

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Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination, and Long-Term Thinking
Wednesday, October 16
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Emerson College, Jackie Liebergott Black Box theatre, 559 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-science-fiction-the-imagination-and-long-term-thinking-tickets-74722542135

Join Emerson College and Long Now Boston for a conversation on "Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination, and Long-term Thinking."

Join Emerson College, Media Art Gallery and The Long Now Boston for a provocative conversation about indigenous science fiction, the imagination, and long-term thinking. Featured speakers are artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and author Dr. Jimena Canales. Both speakers are concerned with the nature of time – historic, present, and future – and how science/fiction, storytelling and long-term thinking intersect.

The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury, Henry and Lois Foster Chair of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College. 

This event is co-presented by Long Now Boston, an organization that fosters long-term thinking on the local and global level. They encourage individual and collective responsibility in a time-scale of the next ten thousand years, and offer tools and resources to our future leaders. 

Reception 6:30-7:30pm and Talk 7:30-8:30pm. 
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition FUTURE ANCESTRAL TECHNOLOGIES nágshibi, featuring new art work by Cannupa Hanska Luger on view at Emerson College's Media Art Gallery October 17- December 15, 2019. Future Ancestral Technologies is an approach to making art objects, videos, and performance with the intent to influence global consciousness. This Indigenous-centered science fiction uses creative storytelling to radically reimagine the future. Moving sci-fi theory into practice, this methodology conjures innovative life-based solutions that promote a thriving Indigeneity. **An optional exhibition preview will follow the talk.
SPEAKER BIOS
Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel and repurposed materials, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity. Luger lectures and produces projects around the globe and his work is collected internationally. He is a 2019 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, a 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Honoree and the recipient of the 2018 Museum of Arts and Design’s inaugural Burke Prize. Luger holds a BFA in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts. 
Dr. Jimena Canales is an expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences, working for a better understanding of science and technology in relation to the arts and humanities. Her book, A Tenth of a Second: A History explored the relation between science and history as one of the central intellectual problems of modern times. Her second book, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time explores the nature of time, the meaning of relativity, and the place of philosophical thought in a scientific age. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of Science and a BSC in Engineering Physics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. 

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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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William Belden Noble Lecture Series: Lecture 1
WHEN  Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, The Memorial Church Sanctuary, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Memorial Church of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO	617-495-5508
DETAILS  Presented by the 2019-2020 William Belden Noble Lecturer in Residence, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock. Rev. Warnock is Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A national voice on social justice issues such as voting rights and criminal justice, Rev. Warnock will deliver four lectures over the course of the academic year on Oct. 16, Nov. 20, March 11, and April 22. All lectures will take place at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Church Sanctuary and are free and open to the public.
LINK  https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/william-belden-noble-lecture

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Ashley LeMieux BORN TO SHINE 10/16
Wednesday, October 16
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ashley-lemieux-born-to-shine-1016-tickets-67341443069
Cost:  $15

Seating space for this reading is limited. 
Attendees who purchase signing line tickets may not enter the 7pm reading but can listen to Ashley's talk over the loudspeakers upstairs, then meet the author and get their book autographed afterward.
Born to Shine is a story of loss, resilience, and the life-changing lessons found in the darkest seasons of life.
When Ashley LeMieux and her husband lost their children in an adoption battle, it sent her into a tailspin that, ultimately, taught Ashley how to soar. Most people live with constant fears, burdens, and pains. Born to Shineshares Ashley’s message of hope for women brave enough to say that everything is not okay. The message is also for those who want the courage to believe they are not done yet—the unique message that acknowledges the overwhelming truth that even when life is in ruins, people can still shine. Born to Shine tells the LeMieux’s story in installments with alternating chapters and practical applications in between. It shares stories, lessons, and practical tools to help women shine despite the darkness, to press forward one day at a time even when there is no end in sight, and to turn their most painful moments into their greatest teachers and signposts to true, deep, unassailable joy.

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Thursday, October 17
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Beyond 2020 Conference
Thursday, October 17
8am - 7pm
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), 245 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-2020-conference-tickets-68563109105

Innovations in emerging technologies, services, and programs for blindness and low vision. OCTOBER 17, 2019

Brief Description: This day conference invites members of the blind and low vision community, organizational leaders, technologists, entrepreneurs and government leaders to learn, discuss and share ideas about innovative programs, services and emerging technologies that are advancing and empowering the blind and low vision community. The event will host panel discussions, talks and demonstrations. The conference will conclude with a social mixer and exhibits.
Join experts, clinicians, innovators leading companies and influencers to share ideas, experiences and our passion for assistive technology and services at the all new Beyond 2020 Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Who - Members of the blind and low vision community; professionals in the field, innovators, caregivers and family.
Why - Empower those with blindness and vision loss; Educate the fully sighted

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Civic Tech Coffee Meet Up
Thursday, October 17
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EDT
District Hall Boston, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-tech-coffee-meet-up-tickets-72960365417

Creating space for innovators who want to discuss the vital relationship between people, technology, and civic engagement.

Venture Cafe New England is excited to continue hosting Civic Tech Coffee at District Hall in the Boston Seaport! We look forward to providing space for innovators who want to improve the relationship between citizen and government, and the role technology serves in creating better outcomes for communities.

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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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The Education of an Idealist: A Conversation with Samantha Power
WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Kennedy School, Malkin Penthouse, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of the Practice of Human Rights at Harvard Law School, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
DETAILS  The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs welcome Samantha Power for a discussion of her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist. Power, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of the Practice of Human Rights at Harvard Law School. Power will be joined in conversation with Director of the Belfer Center and former United States Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter.
The event will be followed by a book signing. Please note that while books will not be available for purchase at the event, attendees are encouraged to bring a copy for Amb. Power to sign.
LINK  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/education-idealist-conversation-samantha-power?admin_panel=1

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Playing with Fire: Provocation, Signaling, and Unwanted Crisis Escalation
WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, 1 Brattle Square, Room 350, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)  Hyun-Binn Cho, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
CONTACT INFO	susan_lynch at harvard.edu
DETAILS  Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
LINK  https://www.belfercenter.org/event/playing-fire-provocation-signaling-and-unwanted-crisis-escalation

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The Aftermath of Zika in Brazil
WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, GHP 12th floor conference room (SPH-1, 1208), 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in collaboration with the HSPH Department of Global Health and Population
SPEAKER(S)  Debora Diniz, CLACS Visiting Scholar, Brown University
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  While media attention about Zika has all but disappeared, there are still new cases being identified in Brazil, as well as other countries in the region such as Cuba and Venezuela. However, governments and other health authorities are doing little to stem the spread of the virus, particularly sexual transmission which can be prevented by sexuality education and other sexual and reproductive health services such as contraception. As a result, women continue to bear the brunt of the epidemic; particularly poor, young, women of color who have little access to health care and live in areas with high mosquito populations.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/reproductive-rights-brazil

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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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Zero Waste Campus Forum (BUMC)
Thursday, October 17
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
BU, Hiebert Lounge, L Building, 72 E Concord Street, Floor 14, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zero-waste-campus-forum-bumc-tickets-75304356357

Do you want to help BU reduce its environmental impact? We want to hear from YOU!

One of the recommendations of the Climate Action Plan is for the University to pursue a goal of zero waste. In response, sustainability at BU has recently assembled a Zero Waste Implementation Task Force, consisting of approximately 50 staff, faculty, and students from different areas of the University. Over the next five months, they are tasked with developing recommendations and clear actions the University can take to meet this goal.
We are hosting two Zero Waste Campus Forums in order to incorporate essential and valuable insight from our community in our planning process.

Are you interested in learning more about zero waste and what BU is planning? Do you want to get involved in shaping BU culture around waste, recycling, composting and more? Come participate in one of our forums this October to share your thoughts and help BU become a leader in redesigning our resource lifecycles.
The forums are open to all BU community members. Snacks provided. We encourage you to bring a travel mug to help reduce waste.
Hope to see you there!
Forum structure:
1. What is “zero waste,” why you should care, and what BU is doing
2. Zero Waste Implementation Task Force Co-Chairs present initial ideas
3. Breakout sessions - share feedback and bring your own ideas to the table
4. Present ideas to the group

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‘Erdogan’s Empire’: Continuity and ‘Revolution’ in Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East?
WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S)  Soner Cagaptay, Director, Turkish Research Program, Beyer Family Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; author: "'Erdogan's Empire': Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East", www.erdogansempire.com
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the 'Wall Street Journal', 'Washington Post', 'New York Times',' Foreign Affairs', and 'The Atlantic'. He appears regularly on CNN, PBS, NPR, and BBC.
A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. He has also served on contract as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. He is the author of, most recently, 'The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey'.

His forthcoming book, "'Erdogan's Empire': Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East" will be published in October 2019 by I.B. Tauris. For more information: cagaptay.com.
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/calendar/upcoming

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The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, GCC2, Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Universities: Past, Present, and Future
SPEAKER(S)  Jennifer Morton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and Senior Fellow, Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
COST  Free
DETAILS  This talk discusses the ethical costs upwardly mobile students must bear if they are to dramatically transform their life circumstances. These costs affect their relationships with family and friends, their sense of cultural identity, and their place in their community. Morton argues they are ethical in so far as they concern those aspects of life that give it value and meaning. Using social science evidence, Morton shows how these costs are the result of a complex tangle of economic, cultural, and structural factors that unjustly and disproportionately affect disadvantaged students and their communities. Morton suggests that we need to offer students a new ethical narrative of upward mobility that recognizes and acknowledges these ethical costs. Morton concludes with some thoughts on how institutions of higher educate might mitigate some of these costs.
LINK  https://universities-pastpresentfuture.mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ethical-costs-upward-mobility?type=month&month=2019-10

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Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
Thursday, October 17
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building E15-318 (Open Area), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status. He will also provide an update on his documentary film, In Search of Bengali Harlem, recently funded by the PBS-affiliated Center for Asian American Media, and currently being edited by Comparative Media Studies master’s alum, Beyza Boyacioglu. Between the essay and film, Bald will reflect on South Asian American experiences of multi-racial identity and histories of cross-racial community-making.

Bald is a scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013), and co-editor, with Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013).

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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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Does Nature Make Laws?
Thursday, October 17
5:30 PM
MIT, Building 3-Room 270, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/does-nature-make-laws-tickets-75223400215

A lecture by Prof. Raymond Hain (Providence College)

This event is free and open to all.

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Climate action on the inside: Engaging Representatives on a Green New Deal
Thursday, October 17
5:30 PM
625 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Climate action on the inside: Engaging representatives on a GND
The climate crisis is upon us, and we must act fast. As activist groups push politicians to realize the urgency of the crisis, some elected officials are already hard at work on implementing a local Green New Deal inside city halls and the State House.
 
Join ClimateXChange and Cambridge City Councilor Quinton Zondervan, State Rep. Nika Elugardo, and State Rep. Mike Connolly for a discussion on their work to implement a Green New Deal at the state and local levels. The panel will be moderated by ClimateXChange Executive Director Michael Green and will focus on the challenges and opportunities the elected officials face in implementing the just transition we need to tackle this crisis. The panel will be followed by a discussion on how to grow partnerships between citizens and politicians trying to build towards a Green New Deal. Join us for this important opportunity to engage directly with your representatives on a local and state level Green New Deal!

Co-sponsors: @[1461892927387110:274:Climate XChange], @[442669706120413:274:Sunrise Movement Boston]

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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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Hate Speech and Free Speech in America today
Thursday, October 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Museum of African American History, Boston Campus, 46 Joy Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hate-speech-and-free-speech-in-america-today-tickets-65123572358

This event part of our "Race in the Public Dialogue" Series

Race in the Public Dialogue: Hate Speech and Free Speech in America today
Randall L. Kennedy (Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School), Maya Wiley (Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment), and Nina McConigley (Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming and Fiction Writer) discuss the state of free speech in a political and cultural climate of deep divisions and heightened polarization. Has hate speech become ubiquitous as hate crimes are on the rise? Must free speech be at odds with anti-racism and inclusion? How do we protect the right to freely express and debate opposing views when Americans are more and more divided? How do we (re)build a common ground?
Doors at 5:30pm, Program at 6:00pm

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"Freedom from Truth: Self Portraits of Nell Painter”
WHEN  Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
SPEAKER(S)  Nell Irvin Painter
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	histlit at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Nell Irvin Painter will be in conversation with Winthrop Professor of History Walter Johnson in the Distinguished Lecture, which inaugurates two exhibits of her art curated by History & Literature Lecturer Jonathan Square. The main show, Freedom from Truth: The Self-Portraits of Nell Irvin Painter, will be held in the Arts Wing of the Smith Center, while a satellite show at the Center for Government and International Studies, White History as Told Through Art, will focus on her cartographic work.
LINK  https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/event/nell-irvin-painter

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Our Dogs, Ourselves
Thursday, October 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Boston Central Library in Copley Square

Alexandra Horowitz in conversation with Harriet Ritvo and Craig LeMoult
We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes; we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing.

As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, sterilized and/or euthanized as we wish. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful. 

Alexandra will appear in conversation with Harriet Ritvo, author and professor at MIT, where they will explore the nature of “family”, property and reproductive rights as they apply to animals/pets/dogs.

Alexandra Horowitz is the author of three previous books, Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell (2016); On Looking(2013); and Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (2009), a New York Times best-seller. She is Senior Research Fellow and head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is owned by canines Finnegan and Upton, and tolerated by feline Edsel.

Harriet Ritvo teaches courses in British history, environmental history, the history of human-animal relations, and the history of natural history. She is the author of The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1987), Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History (2010), and several others. Her current research concerns wildness and domestication. She serves on the Board of Incorporators of Harvard Magazine; on the editorial boards of Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Agricultural History Review, and Animals and Society, and as editor of the "Animals, History, Culture" series published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past President of the American Society for Environmental History. She has received a Whiting Writers Award and a Graduate Society Award from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Craig LeMoult produces sound-rich features and breaking news coverage for WGBH News in Boston. His features have run nationally on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, as well as on PRI's The World and Marketplace. Craig has won a number of national and regional awards for his reporting, including two national Edward R. Murrow awards in 2015, the national Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award feature reporting in 2011, first place awards in 2012 and 2009 from the national Public Radio News Directors Inc. and second place in 2007 from the national Society of Environmental Journalists. Craig is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Tufts University.

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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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Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
Thursday, October 17
7 PM – 8:30 PM
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-dr-soner-cagaptay-tickets-72396815825

Discussion, Q & A and signing - 
Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East (2019), which details Turkey's foreign policy under Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ankara's evolving ties with the U.S., Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in the context of Turkish and Ottoman history, is the final book in the Cagaptay trilogy. The previous two editions of the trilogy are: The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power (2014), which describes the economic growth that Erdogan delivered in the last decade, and The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey (2017), which sheds light on Turkey's domestic political crisis under Erdogan

About the Author:
Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, New Republic, and Newsweek Turkiye. He has been a regular columnist for Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey's oldest and most influential English-language paper, and a contributor to CNN's Global Public Square blog. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, BBC, and CNN-Turk. A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. His spring 2003 course on modern Turkish history was the first offered by Yale in three decades. From 2006-2007, he was Ertegun Professor at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies.Dr. Cagaptay is the recipient of numerous honours, grants, and chairs, among them the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships, as well as the Ertegun chair at Princeton. 

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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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Getting Smarter about Visual Information with Alberto Cairo
Thursday, October 17
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Northeastern, 102 ISEC, 805 Columbus Avenue, Boston

Data vis guru Alberto Cairo from the U of Miami will talk about "How Charts Lie"
More information at https://www.meetup.com/hackshackersboston/events/265350976/

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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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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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Underground markets in mutualisms: making fertilizer from thin air
Friday, October 18
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Environmental Science Seminar Series

Prof. Maren Friesen, Washington State University

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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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IACS Seminar: "On the Detection of Malware on Virtual Assistants Based on Behavioral Anomalies”
WHEN  Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S)  Spiros Mancoridis, Auerbach Berger Chair in Cybersecurity and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University
COST  Free and open to the public; no registration required.
CONTACT INFO	Email: nrbaker at seas.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-2623
DETAILS  Lunch will not be provided.
Dr. Spiros Mancoridis's work explores some of the security concerns pertaining to running software similar to Amazon Alexa home assistant on IoT-like platforms. Researchers implemented a behavioral-based malware detector and compared the effectiveness of different system attributes that are used in detecting malware, i.e., system calls, network traffic, and the integration of system call and network traffic features. Given the small number of malware samples for IoT devices, researchers created a parameterizable malware sample that mimics Alexa behavior in varying degrees, while exfiltrating data from the device to a remote host. The performance of the anomaly detector was evaluated based on how well it determined the presence of the parameterized malware on an Alexa-enabled IoT device.
LINK  https://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/event/detection-malware-virtual-assistants-based-behavioral-anomalies

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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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Passive House Affordable Multifamily Design Manual Workshop
Friday, October 18
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Mintz - 40th Floor, One Financial Center, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/71543555701

This workshop provides cost-effective strategies and a practical guide for affordable multi-family Passive House projects.

In the next eleven years, everyday architects, builders, developers, and engineers will face challenges tonormalize the Net-Zero Energy (NZE) housing design.. Simplified, demystified, comprehensive, and straightforward strategies for approaching any sized NZE multi-family building is necessary to effectively and quickly train industry professionals. While there is an ever-increasing array of products and systems currently flooding the sustainable building market, how does one begin to ask the right questions with choosing the best energy efficiency measures and methodology?
We are energy efficiency building experts with twenty years of designing multi-family high-performance buildings and more recently, five years of working on multi-family affordable Passive House projects. We created this workshop to provide design, development, and building professionals with a step-by-step guide to cost-effective strategies for approaching affordable multi-family Passive House buildings.We will provide a manual, delivered in the form of a “decision tree” with pros and cons associated with the two or three most cost-effective and energy efficient strategies for managing all aspects of designing a multi-family Passive House building, including metering, monitoring, heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water, site-built and prefabricated envelopes, foundations, and airtightness. An Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) provides a strategic backbone to the manual and is demonstrated through several case study projects.
Presenters: 
Tim McDonald, Onion Flats
David Salamon, Re:Vision Architecture
Location
Due to popular demand, this event has been moved to a larger space at the Mintz office on the 40th floor of One Financial Center. Please arrive 15 minutes early and bring a photo ID to get through building security. 
About the Passive House Training Program
The Sponsors of Mass Save®, in partnership with Passive House Massachusetts, have launched a Passive House Training offer to support workforce development and market transformation in the energy efficiency and building construction industries. Our goal is to enhance the skill set of the energy efficiency workforce in Massachusetts. You can keep up with the growing demand for high-performance housing and become certified as a Passive House builder, consultant, designer, rater, or verifier.
Have a question? Visit MassSave.com/PassiveHouseTraining

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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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FORUM: A Public Address by Michelle Bachelet
WHEN  Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer 145 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics
Co-Sponsered by Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S)  Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, President of Chile (2006-2010, 2014-2018)
Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/761258537657666/
CONTACT INFO	Free
DETAILS  United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will deliver a public address on global human rights.
LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/761258537657666/

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EAPS Active Talk Series (EATS): Andrew Babbin and Glenn Flierl
Friday, October 18
4:30pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker #1: Andrew Babbin (Professor), A bacterial view of Earth's climate
Speaker #2: Glenn Flierl (Professor), Spread of plastic in the ocean

EAPS Active Talk Series (EATS) is a space where members of our community share their science, prepare for conferences, practice communication skills, and engage in multidisciplinary conversations. EATS meets weekly on Fridays, at 4:30p, with two 15 minutes talks (12 minutes lecture + 3 minutes questions) by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, research scientists and professors.

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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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FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience
Friday, October 18
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fail-inspiring-resilience-mit-tickets-73975020277

Have you ever felt your productivity and creativity hindered by the constant pressure of an environment where “failure is not an option”? A misstep can happen to everyone.

FAIL! is an event aimed at embracing the deeper meaning of failures and learning how to make the most of them. Through the stories of personal and professional life shared by renowned speakers, you will be challenged to look at failures differently, learning how to accept, understand, and conquer them, rather than giving up or ignore the lessons they can provide us with.

Come and join the next edition of FAIL! at MIT, featuring exceptional individuals sharing their personal and professional failures:
Eva Wolfnagel, journalist and Knight Science Fellow
Ramesh Raskar, Professor and head of the Camera Culture Lab, MIT,
Rodney Mullen, professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and inventor,
Ronald Kessler, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School,
Sara Saeger, Professor of Physics and Planetary Science at MIT,
Yang Shao-Horn, Professor of Material Science and Engineering at MIT

Additionally, John Werner, curator of TEDxBeaconStreet will be our special guest. The event will be hosted by Raymond Coderre, director of People Development at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The conference will be followed by a reception dinner, discussion tables and more!!

Come and be inspired!

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Facial Recognition as Surveillance: The Need for Public Oversight
Friday, October 18
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Join us for a substantive discussion on facial surveillance and other remote biometric monitoring technologies that pose unprecedendted risks to personal autonomy, privacy and democracy.  Some have referred to these technologies as "nuclear waste". Others have called it "the perfect tool for oppression." Never before has a technology equipped governments with the power to automatically generate and store permanent, detailed records of every person's every public movement, habit, and association—until now.

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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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Hack/ED: Hacking Emergency Care
WHEN  Saturday, Oct. 19 – Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019
WHERE  Boston University EPIC Lab, 750 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Health Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	BMC Emergency Department
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyT-1rfCGI85K78L1JEzpjaLa5JAXVw7gP0rcUmcj-q-q1xg/viewform
DETAILS  Sign ups are now open for a new emergency medicine hackathon. At Hack/ED, Boston Medical Center ED physicians will outline problems they’ve noticed that impact patient care, and you’ll work as part of a team to prototype solutions. This is a great chance to join forces with folks from other disciplines including computer science, business, and engineering to see how our combined efforts can improve emergent care.
LINK	bostonhack-ed.com

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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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Careers in Conservation 2019
Saturday, October 19
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Harvard Northwest Science Building, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/careers-in-conservation-2019-harvard-college-conservation-society-tickets-68220923619
Cost:  $0 - $10

The Harvard College Conservation Society invites you to this year's Careers in Conservation Conference. The theme for this year is environmental justice in conservation through the increase of diverse perspectives within the field.

Careers in Conservation (CiC) is an annual event, hosted by the Harvard College Conservation Society, which provides inspiration, career advice, and connections for students from Harvard and nearby Boston area universities who are interested in pursuing careers in any of many disciplines within the field of conservation. CiC includes renowned speakers from the field, various workshops for students to gain more information on various subfields within conservation, and an interdisciplinary panel. We are also expanding our networking opportunities this year, inviting more alumni and representatives from various organizations in the hopes of connecting with students with potential job/internship opportunities and mentors. Lunch will be provided free to attendees.

This year's event schedule is:
9 am-10am: Registration and breakfast in Northwest Basement.
10 am-11am: Keynote Address by Lisa Famolare, Vice President, Amazonia at Conservation International.
11 am-11:50 am & 11:50 am-12:40 pm: Workshops on topics including conservation communication, technology in conservation, environmental legislation, environmental leadership/advocacy, and conservation education.
12:40 pm-2 pm: Networking lunch with local environmental organizations.
2 pm-3:30 pm: Interdisciplinary panel featuring Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University; Angelou Ezeilo, author of "Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders"; and José González, Founder and Director Emeritus of Latino Outdoors.
3:30 pm-4 pm: Closing Remarks

If you cannot attend the entire day, please come for as many sessions as you are able to!

This event is made possible by our generous sponsors: Harvard Forest, Harvard Office for Sustainability, Harvard Office of Careers Services, Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), and Academics for Land Protection in New England (ALPiNE).

Please reach out to harvardconservation at gmail.com with any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

NOTE: If you are a student, please select the student ticket. If you are a non-student, we ask that you please choose the $10 ticket in order to help us fund this conference. However, if cost is a burden (which we recognize deeply as it is intrinsic to the topic this year), please choose the student ticket (we will not see what type of ticket you chose at check-in).

Contact Name:  Sophie Pesek
spesek at college.harvard.edu

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oiConference: The Green Future of Investment
Saturday, October 19
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oiconference-the-green-future-of-investment-tickets-71673277703

oikos International and Harvard’s Environmental Club are partnering to bring you a virtual, student-led conference focused on helping you learn about Sustainable Investing.

This series of workshops will be held in an interactive style, encouraging you to learn and discuss. Each session will run about 45mins long with plenty of time for Q&A. Come learn from experts in the field, your fellow students, and professors/researchers. 
Agenda - Saturday, October 19, 2019 (EDT):
Session 1, 10am - What does Sustainable Finance/Investing Mean?
Session 2, 11am - The Environment and Profit - an Industry Perspective
Session 3, 12pm - Innovation, Sustainability, and the Financial Revolution
Session 4, 1pm - World Cafe and Breakouts - Reflection and Networking
Read more about the agenda here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EV7NUZZLO_EYA231yzeJdq6KGWyiUHZufEuwn_plSCw/edit?usp=sharing

Purpose:  Sustainable Investing is a growing niche within traditional finance as investment professionals around the world are increasingly considering Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in their decision making. This conference will delve into this niche by having both theoreticians and practitioners present their take on the current state and the development of sustainable investing. We will critically discuss the connections between theory and practice as well as the limits of this approach, and we will question the validity of the supposed trade-off in our investment decisions between profitability, risk, and considerations for the planet and people.

Are you curious about how you can get involved? Do you want to learn what all the jargon really means? Is Responsible Investing just a trend? We will tackle these questions, and more together!

Participation:  This eConference will be live-streamed globally. ZOOM video conferencing will be used. You do not have to download the application, but for the best quality video, it is advised to do so. You also have the option to call in using your phone. Details to follow.

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2019 MIT AgeLab OMEGA Summit
Saturday, October 19
10am - 2pm
MIT, 3rd floor, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet-otsVfI5uu5mOQgbY-XCUhBkm8rLrfcC3AjyCUrw67X52A/viewform

Students will learn about community-based intergenerational programming and brainstorm ideas for intergenerational exchange. The OMEGA Summit prepares students to take on leadership roles in their school and community to develop and sustain relationships between older adults and high school students.  All high school students from across New England are invited to participate! It’s not too late to sign up!

Please help us spread the word to teachers, parents, students, community organizations,
and members of your community!
Questions can be directed to omegamit at mit.edu [mailto:omegamit at mit.edu] or 617-253-1894.

http://agelab.mit.edu/omega

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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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Transforming a City: Honoring Boston’s Visionaries
Saturday, October 19
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, 2300 Washington Street, Roxbury
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transforming-a-city-honoring-bostons-visionaries-tickets-71737768597
Cost:  $25 – $500

Join us for a celebration of the lives and legacy of Mel King and Chuck Turner, two Boston visionaries who shaped and empowered coalitions!

Transforming a City: Honoring Boston’s Visionaries will bring people together from all over Boston to celebrate the lives and legacy of Mel King and Chuck Turner, that dynamic duo, who changed the course of Boston’s history.

More than fifty years ago, Boston’s black community was in motion with a spirit and a need, challenging the longstanding racist status quo in public education, housing, employment, policing, neighborhood development, and political representation. As an awakened community organized to assert its right to the City, the efforts of Mel King and Chuck Turner stand out. They exposed the white power structure dominated by moneyed interests that oppressed all communities of color, and that also left behind working-class white Bostonians. They built powerful new coalitions – a “rainbow” of folks – that insisted on the inclusion of formerly marginalized peoples to security, prosperity, and dignity. Mel and Chuck saw the need, felt the spirit of change and put their imprint on the city.

We are just a few of the many residents inspired by their example and touched by the transformation they set in motion. And while our work is far from finished, it is the clear-eyed and far-sighted vision of Mel King and Chuck Turner of a 21st century “city upon a hill” based on caring and respectful relationships that continues to light the way forward for Boston and beyond.

Let’s show our deep love, abiding respect and firm commitment to these city fathers and the principles they embody!

Please consider an extra donation for those who can't afford to pay.
For questions, email mel.chuckevent at gmail.com
*Community Labor United is a fiscal sponsor of this event. The event is hosted by loving fans of Mel & Chuck*

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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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Sunrise Boston Full Hub Meeting
Sunday, October 20
2 PM – 4 PM
Old South Church in Boston, 645 Boylston Street, Boston

All are welcome! Come join us, get to know the Boston Hub, and hear what's next for Sunrise Boston! 

The meeting will take place in the Guild Room of Old South Church, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Directions: Come into Old South Church through the double doors and take the elevator to the left of the reception desk to the 4th floor. The Guild Room is to the right when you get off the elevator.

Questions? Email: SunriseMovementBoston at gmail.com or message our facebook page.

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Be the Change:  Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Book Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
Sunday, October 20
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Join Porter Square Books for a workshop drawn from the book Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Book Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather by Shawna Potter

Shawna Potter, singer for the band War On Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she's turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up. The steps she outlines are realistic, practical, and actionable. With the addition of personal stories, case studies, sample policies, and no-nonsense advice like "How to Flirt without Being a Creep," she shows why safer spaces are important, while making it easier to achieve them. Eschewing theory, she assumes the reader is already an ethical creature and jumps right in with candor, punk passion, and righteous anger to get the job done

Shawna Potter is a musician, activist, educator, and writer. She fronts the political hardcore punk band War On Women and is the founder of Hollaback! Baltimore. Shawna trains venues for the Safer Spaces Campaign, which she also co-founded. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her partner and a porch cat that visits when the weather's nice.

The workshop will be followed by a book signing.

20% of sales will be used to provide free copies of Making Spaces Safer to venues, conferences, and other organizations.

Learn more about Be the Change here.

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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 https://www.meetup.com/Biodiversity-for-a-Livable-Climate/events/265071921/

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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U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee Meetings
Monday, October 21
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
Boston Park Plaza, 50 Park Plaza, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-offshore-wind-standards-subcommittee-meetings-tickets-74192151723

Join us for the semi-annual U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee Meeting on October 21, 2019 in Boston, MA

U.S. Offshore Wind Standards Meeting Subcommittee Agenda (DRAFT)
8:00am - 9:00am Registration Open
9:00am - 10:00am Opening Plenary – Briefing of Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee (OWTAP) and Working Group Members (Room TBD)
Walt Musial, Chairman of the OWTAP committee, will lead a plenary discussion to introduce the AWEA offshore standards initiative to new members, provide an update on progress, and describe next steps for the project.
Working Group Convener Presentations: The conveners from each of the five Working Groups will introduce the working groups and provide a progress update.
10:00am - 10:15am Break 
10:15am - 12:30pm Working Group Meetings (Morning Session)
Working Group 1: Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices (OCRP) Maintenance (Room TBD)
Working Group 2: U.S. Floating Offshore Wind Systems (Room TBD)
Working Group 3: U.S. Offshore Wind Metocean Conditions Characterization (Room TBD)
Working Group 4: U.S. Geotechnical and Geophysical Investigations and Design (Room TBD)
Working Group 5: Offshore Wind Submarine Cables (Room TBD)
12:30pm - 1:45pm Lunch Break* & WG Liaison Breakout Meetings
1:45pm - 4:00pm Working Group Meetings (Afternoon Session)
4:00pm - 4:15pm Break 
4:15pm - 5:00pm Closing Plenary – Briefing of Offshore Wind Standards Subcommittee (OWTAP) and Working Group Members – Review & Wrap-Up (Room TBD)
Working Group Conveners present outcomes and progress report from WG meeting. WG & OWTAP members discuss goals for the working groups and address any issues.
Q&A
Walt Musial wrap up the discussion and conclude session.
Background Information on U.S. OSW Standards
The U.S. Offshore Wind Standards initiative is underway, a collaboration between the Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the Business Network for Offshore Wind, and the American Wind Energy Association.
The anticipated outcome will be a new suite of consensus-based offshore wind standards and guidelines that will clarify the requirements for developers and original equipment manufacturers in U.S. waters and allow U.S. regulators to adopt best industry practices. For background information visit the AWEA Offshore Wind Subcommittee community page.

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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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The Military-Industrial-Aesthetic Complex: Gyorgy Kepes at MIT
Monday, October 21
1:00pm
MIT, Building E15-207, Wiesner Room, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Gyorgy Kepes was MIT's first tenured artist, a pioneer of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies.  But despite his success relating artistic, scientific, and technological research at MIT, his tenure was also defined by backlash and controversy.  Kepes found himself entangled in a new military-industrial-aesthetic complex during the Vietnam War era.

In this talk and discussion, John R. Blakinger shares from his book Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2019) -- the first comprehensive study of artist, designer, and visual theorist Gyorgy Kepes's career in the US.  Blakinger demonstrates the profound resistance Kepes faced while trying to "undream" the Bauhaus into reality at MIT in the early years of the Cold War.  This discussion focuses specifically on Kepes's complex and contradictory relationship with MIT through various projects completed at the Institute from 1946 until his retirement in 1974.

This event is cohosted by the History Theory and Criticism, Department of Architecture at MIT.

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What on Earth is Going on With Brexit?
WHEN  Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer 280, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)  Ed Balls, Former UK Shadow Chancellor and M-RCBG Research Fellow
Sir Paul Tucker, Chair of the Systemic Risk Council and M-RCBG Research Fellow
Pippa Norris, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS.
CONTACT INFO	mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  This seminar will include a panel discussion with Ed Balls, former UK Shadow Chancellor and M-RCBG Research Fellow; Sir Paul Tucker, Chair of the Systemic Risk Council and M-RCBG Research Fellow; and Pippa Norris, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS.
LINK  https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar

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The Power of Playful Learning: Creating educational settings that bring “school” and “play” together
WHEN  Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT	Forum
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT  Askwith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM  Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME  Donor and Alumni Relations
CONTACT EMAIL  askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT	Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
ADMISSION FEE	This event is free and open to the public.
FEATURED EVENT  Askwith Forums
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
DETAILS  Panelists:
Susan Harris MacKay, Pedagogical Director, Museum Center for Learning and Opal School, Portland Children’s Museum 
Jack Shonkoff, Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, HGSE and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University 
Lynneth Solis, Ed.M.’10, Ed.D.’18, Senior Research Manager, Project Zero, HGSE 
Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Vice-President and Chair of Learning through Play, The LEGO Foundation 
Moderator: 
Benjamin Mardell, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, HGSE 
We learn through play. In play, we learn how to collaborate and negotiate rules and relationships. In play, we imagine, create, think flexibly and critically, and solve problems. Play provides important pathways for social, intellectual, physical, and emotional growth. Yet informal play and formal schooling are not always an easy combination. This session focuses on creating formal educational settings (preK through high school) where playful learning thrives.
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.

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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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Six Locked Doors: The Legacy of the Cocoanut Grove
Monday, October 21
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/six-locked-doors-the-legacy-of-the-cocoanut-grove-tickets-74368483135

The Nov 1942 Cocoanut Grove tragic fire

SIX LOCKED DOORS: THE LEGACY OF COCOANUT GROVE examines the story behind the deadliest nightclub fire in American history, which occurred in 1942 in Boston’s Bay Village. The Cocoanut Grove attracted a mix of socialites, athletes, celebrities and military personnel. With double the allowed occupants, locked doors, and flammable materials, the fire left 492 people dead. Featuring interviews with survivors and local notables including The Boston Globe’s Kevin Cullen and former mayor Ray Flynn, SIX LOCKED DOORS explores how corruption and greed led to an unimaginable tragedy. The film was chosen as the closing night selection at this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival. The film’s director, Zachary Graves-Miller, will be on hand to answer audience questions after the screening.

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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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Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We
Monday, October 21
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge

Join us for a reading with Sasha Sagan, joined on-stage by Harvard University chaplain Greg Epstein, from her new book For Small Creatures Such as We. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, For Small Creatures Such as We is the first book from the daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan—a luminous exploration of Earth’s marvels that require no faith in order to be believed.

Sagan grew up learning that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. When she became a mother herself, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions—from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and more—growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience; of the natural world, of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.

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The United States and Ukraine: Reflections of an American Diplomat
WHEN  Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Ambassador John F. Tefft, Former United States Ambassador to Russia (2014-2017), Ukraine (2009-2013), Georgia (2005-2009), and Lithuania (2000-2003); Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation Ambassador
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	kconroy at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Join TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice, Ambassador Tefft, donor James Temerty, and other guests for a special lecture followed by light refreshments to celebrate the start of a promising program.
Ambassador Tefft offers his perspective on the current situation in Ukraine, prospects for peace, the evolution of U.S.-Ukrainian relations, and his assessment of the future challenges facing the U.S.
and Ukraine.
The Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program (TCUP) is the Ukrainian Research Institute’s new initiative to promote a deeper understanding of Ukraine through contributions from social scientists and policy makers.
LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/2507877635973140/

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Axiomatic
Monday October 21 
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline

Small Press Book Club
Discussing Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
Read something off the beaten path! Our Small Press Book Club will meet to discuss a book from an independent publisher. To contact our moderator, email smallpress at brooklinebooksmith.com.

Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections–each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present–Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide, a grandmother’s quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe, one community lawyer’s struggle inside and against the criminal justice system, a larger-than-life Holocaust survivor, and the history of the author’s longest friendship.

Maria Tumarkin is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of three previous books of ideas, Traumascapes, Courage, and Otherland, all of which received critical acclaim in Australia, where she lives. Her most recent work, Axiomatic, won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award.

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Jamaica Plain Solar Meetup
Monday, October 21
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Doyle's Cafe, 3484 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jamaica-plain-solar-meetup-tickets-75066506943

Monthly meetup of solar and allied professionals from Jamaica Plain and nearby neighborhoods.

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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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EcoRise: Classroom Grants & Environmental Stewardship
Tuesday, October 22
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM EDT
Structure Tone, 711 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecorise-classroom-grants-environmental-stewardship-tickets-69419959969

Re-imagine your campus as a laboratory for applied sustainability education!
Join EcoRise and fellow Boston-area teachers in a day of learning and collaboration to empower your students to solve sustainability challenges on your campus through scientific inquiry, eco-audits, and the use of grant funds for green campus projects.
Using EcoRise's Sustainable Intelligence and Design Studio curricula, we'll collect data and tackle an environmentally-themed design challenge. We'll also explore exemplary student projects that have been funded by EcoRise's Student Innovation Fund, complete a mock grant application, and network with experienced teachers to create an action plan that you can take back to your classroom and implement right away. 
This workshop is for current K-12 teachers. New and experienced EcoRise teachers from all content areas are welcome! Please be sure to bring a laptop.
EcoRise teachers in Boston have access to the Sustainable Intelligence Program through the generous support of Salesforce.org. Get started today: ecorise.org/enroll. 

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Pathways to Public Service: A Computer Scientist and a Mayor on ways to make service a career
Tuesday, October 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Join us for a conversation on careers in public service with Shorenstein Center fellow Kathy Pham, and executive director Setti Warren.

Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and researcher on ethics and technology. She has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. Her work has spanned Google, IBM, Harris Healthcare, and the federal government at the United States Digital Service at the White House, where she was a founding product and engineering member. She is a Fellow at Mozilla co-leading the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, and Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center where she leads the Ethical Tech working group. Most recently, she founded Product and Society, and The Ethical Tech Collective. While at the Shorenstein Center she will work closely with the Technology and Social Change Research Project.

Setti Warren is the Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy. He served as mayor of Newton, Massachusetts from 2010 to January 2018, where he represented 90,000 citizens and managed a $390 million budget, 24 city departments, and over 900 city employees. He worked closely with unions and community members to create a balanced budget without sacrificing vital services. He also worked as deputy state director for Senator John Kerry’s Massachusetts office (2004-2008), national trip director for Kerry for President (2003-2004), and held numerous positions in the Clinton White House (1997-2000). From 2000 to 2002 he served as New England regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University Law School. From 2007 to 2008 he served on active duty in Iraq and from 2002 to 2011 was an intelligence specialist in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

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A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It's not fake news if we believe the thread.
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Ernesto Calvo, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Social networks are today the primary source of political content among the unsteadily informed voters of Latin America. Much of the content, produced and published by traditional news organizations, caters to communities of partisans who activate posts among their peers. In this presentation, Ernesto Calvo provides a tweeted version of network activation, and describes one out of several possible 2019 roads to the Argentine Pink House. Alternating facts, theories, and fiction, the presentation introduces readers to new debates in political communication that shed some light on the 2019 presidential election.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/title-tbd-3?admin_panel=1&month=2019-10&type=month

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E2 National Webinar:  The Business of Recycling
Tuesday, October 22
1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern
Webinar
Dial-in information will be provided immediately upon registration. If you have any questions, please contact Michelle Embury at membury at e2.org

We all know recycling is the right thing to do. It keeps trash out of landfills, saves energy and reduces carbon pollution. While people, companies and public institutions recycle, questions remain about how to reduce waste.

Please join E2 to learn from experts on the front lines about the challenges and solutions to America’s waste problem. What are the business opportunities to expand recycling programs now and in the future? What will it take to become a Net Zero Waste society and manage our resources sustainably? Can we simply recycle our way out of the growing mass of so-called recyclable materials, or do we need to seek other solutions?  What policies are leading this effort and driving an increase in jobs in investments?

Speakers:
Nick Lapis, Director of Advocacy, Californians Against Waste
Kate Bailey, Director of Policy & Research, Eco-Cycle
John Shegerian, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, ERI
Moderated by Susan Nedell, E2 Mountain West Advocate
 
About the Speakers:
Nick Lapis, Nick is Director of Advocacy for Californians Against Waste-(CAW). Founded in 1977, Californians Against Waste is a non-profit environmental research and advocacy organization that identifies, develops, promotes and monitors policy solutions to pollution and conservation problems posing a threat to public health and the environment.

Since joining the organization in 2007, Nick has led several campaigns to enact nation-leading waste reduction legislation and regulatory action in California. In addition to coordinating CAW's overall advocacy strategy, Nick leads the organization's efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change and recover organic wastes. He also engages in policy development and coalition-building, representing CAW on a variety of boards, committees, work-groups, and coalitions. Before joining CAW, he interned at the Coalition for Clean Air and California State Parks and worked on ecological restoration and youth leadership development through several positions at the Golden Gate National Parks.

Kate Bailey is Director of Policy & Research for Eco-Cycle, one of the largest non-profit recyclers in the USA and has an international reputation as a pioneer and innovator in resource conservation.

She is a leading authority on Zero Waste best practices and focuses on the facts, details, and logistics that help Zero Waste initiatives succeed. She has more than 10 years of experience creating national reports, websites, webinars, and tools to empower citizens, government staff and elected officials to adopt Zero Waste solutions.  She is a frequent speaker on Zero Waste, particularly as a climate solution, for audiences from citizen groups to state officials to industry panels.
 
John Shegerian is a serial social entrepreneur who focuses on solving global problems through game changing innovation to build successful, socially responsible impact companies.  
 
As cofounder and Executive Chairman of ERI, he has played a significant role in paving the way for the electronic recycling, data protection and ITAD industries as a whole.
 
Building ERI from the ground up, Shegerian has helped lead ERI to its current standing as the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company in the United States. Under his stewardship, ERI now has the capacity to process more than a billion pounds of electronic waste annually at its eight certified locations, serving every zip code in the United States.
 
Shegerian is also a sought-after speaker, panelist and electronic recycling and ITAD industry authority, presenting “state of the industry” analyses at events all over the world, including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. He has also authored articles on the industry for Recycling Today, E-Scrap News and various business journals and regularly provides his expert knowledge to news media, including The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, Gizmodo and Wired, among others.
 
Shegerian is currently a member of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business’ Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) Advisory Board and was named the Clean Tech Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California by Ernst & Young.
About E2:
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate for smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. Our members have founded or funded more than 2,500 companies, created more than 600,000 jobs, and manage more than $100 billion in venture and private equity capital. For more information, see http://www.e2.org or follow us on Twitter at @e2org.

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Food Innovation Summit
Tuesday, October 22
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-innovation-summit-tickets-65373268205

The Summit features a symposium on three mega-trends shaping the future of food and nutrition.

The mission of the Food & Nutrition Innovation Council is to foster an ecosystem of science-driven innovation and entrepreneurship to catalyze a healthier, more sustainable, and more equitable food system.  The Council bring together diverse stakeholders, including major insurance, pharma, global food companies, exciting start-ups, investment funds, and leading national and international advocacy organizations.   
Our 2019 Summit will highlight cutting–edge science related to specific grand challenges in food and nutrition innovation, including in the areas of: (1) Financial rewards for tackling obesity and diabetes; (2) the sustainability of novel plant-based meat replacements; (3) skepticism of Big Food and brand communication. The Summit will include a keynote address on the scientific evidence for each grand challenge as well as moderated panel discussions comprised of leading scientists in each field. 
Innovation Summit Schedule 
1:30PM – 4:00PM Innovation Summit, Behrakis Auditorium 
Grand Challenge 1: Financial Rewards for Tackling Obesity & Diabetes 
Grand Challenge 2: Sustainability of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives 
Grand Challenge 3: Skepticism of Big Food and Brand Communication 
4:00PM – 5:00PM Reception, Jaharis Cafe 
Speaker Information
Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean & Jean Mayer Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy 
Jason Karp, Founder & CEO at HumanCo
Tom Crohan, Assistant VP at Hancock Life Insurance
Michel Nischan, Founder & President at Wholesome Wave
Pamela Schwartz, Senior Director at Kaiser Permanente
Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Assistant Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Tim Griffin, Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy 
Nicole Negowetti, Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School
Bernhard Van Lengerich, Board Member at Beyond Meat
Jeffrey Blumberg, Research Professor & Director of Entrepreneurship at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Lucy Sullivan, Founder & Executive Director at 1000 Days
William Layden, Entrepreneurship Advisor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Adjunct Professor at Indiana University

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Excitons for Light and Energy
Tuesday, October 22
4:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT,  Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Professor Dan Congreve, Harvard U. Rowland Institute
Physical Chemistry Seminar

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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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Europe’s Travails: Forging a French-German Response in an Era of Transatlantic Disequilibrium
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Henrik Enderlein, President and Professor of Political Economy, Hertie School
Sigmar Gabriel, Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; CES Senior Fellow, Harvard University
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Professor of Economics and Public Management, Hertie School; Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School
Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University
Moderator: Hans-Helmut Kotz, Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO	Anna Popiel
apopiel at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  As a new EU Parliament and Commission take up their duties, the historic challenges facing Europe, such as migration and border control, fiscal policy and rule of law, loom large. These issues represent cleavages, both between North and South, as well as East and West, which continue to widen. Moreover, Brexit and strains on the transatlantic relationship add to Europe’s travails. This panel of eminent experts will explore what implications these background conditions may have on le couple franco-allemand, what core projects it might pursue, and what a "Franco-German economic space" may look like.
LINK  https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/10/europes-travails-forging-a-french-german-response-1

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Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wexner-434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Religion, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
SPEAKER(S)  Megan Phelps-Roper, Author of "Unfollow" & Granddaughter of the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church
DETAILS  Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a new talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on society and human life.
Megan Phelps-Roper, Author of "Unfollow" & Granddaughter of the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, will give a talk titled, "Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter."
Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church — the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, and jubilant about AIDS and natural disasters. From the age of five, Megan participated in the church's picketing almost daily and spearheaded the use of social media in the church.
Dialogue with "enemies" online proved instrumental in her deradicalization, and in 2012, at the age of twenty-six, Megan left the church, her family, and her life behind. Since then she has become an advocate for people and ideas she was taught to despise — especially the value of empathy in dialogue with people across ideological lines.
A light dinner will be served.
LINK  https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/towards-life-30-ethics-and-technology-21st-century-unfollow-deradicalization-twitter?admin_panel=1

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There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead
Tuesday, October 22
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Harvard, Taubman Building 5th floor, Allison Dining Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Join us for a discussion with Kristin Gilger and Julia Wallace, authors of “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead,” moderated by Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs.

There’s No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view and think about the world. These women, who were calling in news stories while in labor and parking babies under their desks, never imagined that 40 years later young women entering the news business would face many of the same battles they did – only with far less willingness to put up and shut up.

Kristin Grady Gilger is Senior Associate Dean and Reynolds Professor in Business Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She spent the first twenty years of her career as a reporter and editor at newspapers that include The Arizona Republic; the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon; and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. At Cronkite, she directs the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and the National Center on Disability and Journalism. She has done training in media management, leadership, ethics and writing around the country and the world. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in journalism from the University of Nebraska.

Julia Wallace is the Frank Russell Chair at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She is an award-winning news industry executive with deep experience in investigative journalism, industry leadership, digital transformation and change leadership. She was the first female editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was named Editor & Publisher Editor of the Year in 2004. She also served as managing editor of USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times and The Arizona Republic and led Cox Media Group Ohio. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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Chat & Chowder with Dr. Angela Stent | Putin's World
Tuesday, October 22
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
McDermott Will & Emery, 28 State Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chat-chowder-with-dr-angela-stent-putins-world-tickets-74707083899
Cost:  $15 – $25

Join us for October's Chat & Chowder with Dr. Angela Stent!

Angela Stent examines Russia’s turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russian’s understanding of their position on the global stage, and their future ambitions, as well as their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed. This book looks at Russia’s key relationships — its downward spiral with the U.S., Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, and the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. Putin’s World will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world—one in which Russia poses a threat in every corner of the globe, and has become a toxic and divisive subject in U.S. politics. 

Angela Stent is Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies and a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution, and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-2006 she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001, she served in the office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. Stent was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Philip Breedlobe. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on several editorial boards. 
WorldBoston's Chat & Chowder features key authors on international affairs in an engaging setting. In addition to discussion of a featured book (usually sold at a significant discount), the program offers the opportunity for discussion among members and guests - and of course a selection of chowders and beverages. Tickets $15 for WorldBoston members and $25 for general admission.

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Wireless Connectivity: The 6th Sense for Self-Driving Vehicles
Tuesday, October 22
6 p.m.
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://bit.ly/2pWUHrS

*Can wireless connectivity make self-driving cars safer? *

Accurate, real-time, and comprehensive situational awareness of the road environment is critical for the safe operation of any vehicle, whether it is human-operated or self-driving. Although almost all self-driving vehicles rely on sensor technologies such as LIDAR, RADAR, and vision systems to gather data about the surrounding road conditions to achieve situational awareness, wireless connectivity between cars and nearby infrastructure is often overlooked in the discussion about autonomous vehicles. In fact, wireless connectivity with other vehicles, roadside units, and remote services offer significant advantages over all these other sources of information.

In this talk, Alex Wyglinski, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will present the current state-of-the-art in vehicular wireless connectivity, including approaches that facilitate vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Some of these innovative techniques are based on bumblebee behavioral models and advanced signal processing algorithms that manipulate the electromagnetic properties of wireless signals.

After the presentation, audience members will get a sneak peek at the new NOVA film *Look Who's Driving* airing on Wednesday, October 23 at 9 p.m. on PBS.

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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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Mystic River Watershed Association Annual Meeting
Tuesday, October 22
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Tufts University, Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street, Medford
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Mystic-River-Watershed-Association/events/265414060/

Come meet the people and learn about the programs that are improving your Mystic.

During an interactive showcase, you will hear directly from staff and volunteers about water quality science, path improvements, river herring restoration and local environmental advocacy. During the brief keynote, Patrick Herron, MyRWA's Executive Director, will share the impact of this programming on our Mystic communities highlighting the major successes of the year. Volunteers will be honored and the 2019-2020 Board of Directors will be elected.

6:30 p.m. Appetizers and mingling
7:30 p.m. Brief Program

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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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The Cult of Trump
Tuesday October 22
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline

Steven Hassan
One of America’s leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trump and the indoctrination tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters. The Cult of Trump is an accessible and in-depth analysis of the president, showing that under the right circumstances, even sane, rational, well-adjusted people can be persuaded to believe the most outrageous ideas.

Steven Hassan is a mental health professional who specializes in helping people to recover from mind control as well as helping loved ones to exit without coercion. He has been helping people leave destructive relationships and organizations since 1976 after he was rescued from the infamous cult, the Moonies. Hassan directs the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, a counseling and publishing organization outside of Boston, teaches at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Technology, Amnesia, & the Future: A Conversation with a Messenger from the Past
Tuesday, October 22
7:00pm to 9:00pm
MIT, Building 32-155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Dr. Jim Walsh, MIT Security Studies Program, is a globally renowned commentator and thinker known for his humor and insight.  Playing the theatrical role of a "Messenger from the Past," Dr. Walsh tells the story of how humankind has built the capacity to destroy the planet while also demonstrating the will to push back and alter the course of history.  This conversation explores both the dangers and opportunities confronting the generation of young technologists today.

Sponsored by radius at MIT and the MIT Security Studies Program

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AI World Conference and Free Expo! (Separate Registration)
Wednesday, October 23 - Friday, October 25
8:00 AM
RSVP at https://register.cambridgeinnovationinstitute.com/reg?AIW19&ID=19222&CO=79


More information at https://aiworld.com/

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The War Scare That Wasn’t: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War
Wednesday, October 23
12:00-1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Simon Miles, Duke University

Abstract
Did the Cold War of the 1980s nearly turn hot? Much has been made of NATO’s November 1983 Able Archer 83 command post exercise, which the literature typically casts as having nearly precipitated a nuclear war. Warsaw Pact policy-makers, according to the conventional wisdom, suspected that the exercise was more than just a rehearsal of nuclear escalation and concluded that a surprise nuclear attack was imminent, nearly launching a preemptive strike of their own. This paper overturns this narrative using new, international evidence from the political, military, and intelligence archives of the Eastern bloc.

Bio
Simon Miles is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Russian and Eurasian Studies at Duke University’s Sanford School. A diplomatic historian, Simon’s work focuses on US-Russian relations in particular and Cold War international history in general. His first book, Engaging the ‘Evil Empire’: US-Soviet Relations, 1980–1985 (forthcoming from Cornell University Press), uses archival materials from both sides of the Iron Curtain to understand the origins of the end of the Cold War. He is beginning his second, On Guard for Peace and Socialism, an international history of the Warsaw Pact.

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Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property
Wednesday, October 23
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Northeastern, 250 Dockser Hall, 65 Forsyth Streeet, Boston

"This is What Democracy Looks Like" CLIC IP/Tech Lecure Series
Featuring Jane Anderson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, New York University 

Jane Anderson, NYU professor and founder of the Local Contexts project, which works to help Indigenous, Métis, Aboriginal, Inuit and First Nations preserve their intellectual property and cultural heritage, will be our guest speaker in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  

Co-hosted by the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration and the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity  

2019 IP/Tech Lecture Series: This is What Democracy Looks Like

What is the relationship between rapid technological innovation and our democratic values?

Now that issues concerning access to justice have entered the arena of digital surveillance and big data, what role does the law play in shaping the civil rights and civil liberties landscape of the future?

How does intellectual property shape our understanding of citizenship and rights?

More importantly, what does all of this mean for those working at the intersection of social justice, technology and innovation?

The Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) invites you to join us for “This is what democracy looks like!” — a yearlong program featuring guest speakers, workshops and tech-focused events exploring what citizenship, community and belonging mean in the digital age. 

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xTalk: Michael Phillips on "Technology Mediated Feedback: Powerful, Clear and Personalized"
Wednesday, October 23
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 34-302, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Assessment feedback for learning is the lynchpin to students’ effective decision making, and the basis of improved learning outcomes. However, feedback is under-utilised and often misunderstood by both students and educators and there is no single feedback strategy or model that has been shown to work across all contexts.

This talk will introduce a new definition of feedback that places learners at the centre of the feedback loop together with results from multi-year investigation involving more than 4,500 Australian college students that reveals what works and why. Practical strategies to leverage the affordances of multi-modal feedback (audio, video and screencast) opportunities will also be showcased.

Dr. Michael Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. His work focuses on the knowledge expert teachers develop when integrating educational technologies into their practice. Additionally, Mike researches the ways in which expert teachers make active decisions about their classroom technology integration. Michael’s research regularly involves collaboration with colleagues from Australia, the United States, Europe, Asia and the sub-continent.

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The U.S. Census Bureau Tries to be a Good Data Steward in the 21st Century
Wednesday, October 23
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
BU School of Law, 15th Floor Faculty Lounge, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Please RSVP to tgabs at bu.edu

The Fundamental Law of Information Reconstruction, a.k.a. the Database Reconstruction Theorem, not only exposes a vulnerability in the way statistical agencies have traditionally published data, but it also exposes the same vulnerability in the way Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and other Internet giants publish data. Solutions are needed as to how to publish information from these data while still providing meaningful privacy and confidentiality protections to providers.

Fortunately for the public, the U.S. Census Bureau's curation of their data is regulated by a strict law that mandates publication for statistical purposes only, not exposing the data of any respondent that could identify them as the source of specific items. The Census Bureau has interpreted that stricture as governed by the laws of probability. An external user should not be able to assert with reasonable certainty that particular values were supplied by an identified respondent. Traditional methods of disclosure avoidance fail because they are not able to quantify that risk. Moreover, when these methods are assessed using current tools, the relative certainty with which specific values can be associated with identifiable individuals turns out to be much greater than anticipated.

In this Cyber Alliance talk, Census Bureau Assoc. Director for Research and Methodology and Cornell Prof. John Abowd will discuss how his agency has responded to these developments. The Census Bureau has committed to a transparent modernization of its data publishing systems using formal methods like differential privacy. The intention is to demonstrate that statistical data, fit for their intended uses, can be produced when the entire publication system is subject to a formal privacy-loss budget.

There will be time for casual conversation and light refreshments before and after the presentation. 

More information at http://www.bu.edu/law/faculty-and-staff/colloquia-workshops/cyber-alliance-speaker-series/

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Metabolites of the Marine Carbon and Sulfur Cycles
Wednesday, October 23
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54, 915/923, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

Mary Ann Moran, University of Georgia
 
Abstract:  Marine microbes interface through the exchange of organic molecules that function variously as substrates, co-factors, and signals, and these interactions affect biogeochemical processes in ways that we are just beginning to understand. The mechanism by which much of the chemical exchange occurs is through release of metabolites from autotrophic microbes into seawater, followed by rapid and efficient uptake by heterotrophic microbes. We focused on this exometabolite exchange using model systems consisting of co-cultured phytoplankton and bacteria that were interrogated using both biological and chemical approaches. Within the complex networks of marine microbial communities, high flux/low concentration compounds are among the most difficult to characterize but play critical roles in carbon turnover in the surface ocean.

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In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities
Wednesday, October 23
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Clare Balboni, MIT

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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America’s Best Idea: National Parks in the 21st Century
Wednesday, October 23
4:30PM TO 5:45PM
Harvard, Taubman Building, Room 135, Darman Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q3SY7GK

The Center for Public Leadership at HKS hosts Will Shafroth, President and CEO of the National Park Foundation, who will share his perspective on the state of our national parks – the challenges that face them and what the future holds. He will also share how his 38-year public service career and time at HKS has prepared him for the work he does today.

Speaker Bio: As president and CEO of the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, Will Shafroth leads the organization’s work to inspire all people to connect with and protect America’s unique national parks.

Shafroth led the National Park Foundation’s partnership with the National Park Service during the agency’s Centennial in 2016, contributing to increased public awareness of parks through the popular Find Your Park/Encuentra Tu Parque program, engaging new, more diverse audiences, and expanding public-private partnerships supporting national parks and park programs. 

He also oversaw the successful conclusion of the Foundation’s Centennial Campaign for America’s National Parks, raising over $550 million over five years, leveraging transformational private philanthropy to support national parks.

Before joining the National Park Foundation, Shafroth served as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), Ken Salazar. He has also served as executive director of the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund and Colorado Conservation Trust, and chairman of the Land Trust Alliance and Resources Legacy Fund.

Registration required. 

Contact Name:  Kevin Moloney
kevin_moloney at hks.harvard.edu

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Work of the Future Book Series: Ellen Ruppel Shell, Author of "The Job"
Wednesday, October 23
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell (Boston University College of Communication) will talk about her book The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change.  This will be a conversation with Elisabeth Reynolds (Executive Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center; Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Executive Director, MIT Work of the Future Task Force) 

From the Amazon.com description: "Through exhaustive reporting and keen analysis, The Job reveals the startling truths and unveils the pervasive myths that have colored our thinking on one of the most urgent issues of our day: how to build good work in a globalized and digitalized world where middle class jobs seem to be slipping away...The book's four sections take us from the challenges we face in scoring a good job today to work's infinite possibilities in the future. Work, in all its richness, complexity, rewards and pain, is essential for people to flourish. Ellen Ruppel Shell paints a compelling portrait of where we stand today, and points to a promising and hopeful way forward."

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Trust but Verify: The Role of Cognitive Skills & the Media 
Wednesday, October 23
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm 
BU, George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Presenter: Dr. Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
When citizens trust or mistrust government actors, under what circumstances do they make rational or erroneous judgments? Dr. Pippa Norris will present a recent study (co-led by researchers from the University of Southampton and Canberra University) that focuses on several factors that potentially explain such errors, including a lack of cognitive capacity at an individual level and limits to the information environment, measured by macro-level indices of press freedom and mass communications in societies. This work draws on new cross-national time-series data from over 40 diverse societies contained in the World Values Surveys/European Values Surveys to explore how far—and under what conditions—subjective perceptions of institutional trust are related to the trustworthiness of national governments. Conclusions and implications will be discussed.

Reception will follow presentation. Light refreshments will be served.

Part of the Communication Research Center's Dr. Melvin L. DeFleur Distinguished Lecture Series, in which The College of Communication annually invites two distinguished scholars to share their outstanding scholarship, expertise, and experience with the BU community.

More information at http://sites.bu.edu/crc/crc-lecture-series/defleur-distinguished-lectures/

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Science & Democracy Lecture: Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk
Wednesday, October 23
5:00PM TO 7:00PM
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Science & Democracy Lecture: Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk

The Program on Science, Technology & Society at HKS presents "Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculative Technologies" with Jens Beckert, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and Richard Bronk, European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

PANEL
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics, MIT
Jason Jackson, Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning, MIT
Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History & Director, Center for History and Economics, Ha
MODERATED BY Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, HKS

ABSTRACT
Dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. How then do economic actors form expectations and decide how to act despite this uncertainty? This talk will focus on the role played by imaginaries, narratives, and calculative technologies, and argue that the market impact of shared calculation devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of ‘narrative economics’ and a theory of fictional (rather than rational) expectations. When expectations cannot be anchored in objective probability functions, the future belongs to those with the market, political, or rhetorical power to make their models or stories count. The talk will also explore the dangers of analytical monocultures and discourses of best practice in conditions of uncertainty, as well as the link between uncertainty and some aspects of populism such as the distrust of experts.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jens Beckert is the director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. He is currently Theodor Heuß Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Beckert works in the field of economic sociology with a special interest in the investigation of markets. In recent years his research has focused on the role of expectations and imaginaries in economic decision making. His book Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics was published in 2016 with Harvard University Press.

Richard Bronk is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to joining the LSE in 2000, Bronk worked for seventeen years in the Bank of England and as an equity fund manager. His approach to philosophy of economics is grounded in a history of ideas perspective and in his practical experience in markets and policy. He is the author of The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics, published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact Name:  Laura Hanrahan
laura_hanrahan at harvard.edu

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MITEI Colloquium: The age of living machines: A biology-based energy technology revolution
Wednesday, October 23
5:15pm to 6:15pm
MIT, Samberg Conference Center, 7th Floor, Salons I & T, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mitei-colloquium-the-age-of-living-machines-a-biology-based-energy-technology-revolution-tickets-71537545725

MIT Energy Initiative Colloquium: The age of living machines: A biology-based energy technology revolution with Susan Hockfield, President Emerita and Professor, MIT

Today we’re on the cusp of a new convergence—between biology and engineering—that has the potential to be every bit as revolutionary as the 20th century’s convergence of physics with engineering that produced today’s digital technologies. Susan Hockfield’s new book, The Age of Living Machines, describes some of the breathtaking new technologies that are coming our way in the energy/water/food nexus, including virus-built batteries, protein-based water filters, and computer-engineered crops. The development of these biology-based technologies is the scientific story of the 21st century—one that holds the promise of overcoming some of the greatest environmental and humanitarian challenges of our time.

All Colloquium attendees will receive a free, signed copy of Susan Hockfield’s book, The Age of Living Machines, at the event while supply lasts.

About the speaker:
Susan Hockfield served from 2004 to 2012 as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is now President Emerita, professor of neuroscience, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. As president, Hockfield strengthened the foundations of MIT’s finances and campus planning while advancing Institute-wide programs in sustainable energy and the convergence of the life, physical, and engineering sciences. Hockfield helped shape national policy for energy and next-generation manufacturing, appointed by President Obama in 2011 to co-chair the steering committee of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and by serving as a member of a Congressional Commission evaluating the Department of Energy laboratories in 2015. As a biologist, she pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research. She is the past president and chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and currently serves as a director of Partners HealthCare System, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation, is a life member of the MIT Corporation, and a board member of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School

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

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

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Josh Berson in Conversation with Ben Wurgaft, discussing Berson’s new book The Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food. 
Wednesday, October 23 
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchises and the example set by celebrity vegans, demand for meat is projected to grow at twice the rate of demand for plant-based foods over the next thirty years. Between 1960 and 2010, per capita meat consumption in the developing world more than doubled; in China, meat consumption grew ninefold. It has even been claimed that meat made us human—that our disproportionately large human brains evolved because our early human ancestors ate meat.

We may associate meat-eating with wealth, but in fact, meat-eating is a sign of poverty; cheap meat—hunger killing, easy to prepare, eaten on the go—enables a capitalism defined by inequality. To answer the meat question, says Berson, we need to think about meat-eating in a way that goes beyond Paleo diets and PETA protests to address the deeply entwined economic and political lives of humans and animals past, present, and future.

Josh Berson is an independent social scientist. He has held research appointments at the Berggruen Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, among other places. He is the author of Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche.

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Wednesday, October 23
6pm
Harvard, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sean_carroll1/

Sean Carroll
One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which observational results can only be predicted probabilistically rather than with certainty. Yet, after decades in which the theory has been successfully used on an everyday basis, most physicists would agree that we still don't truly understand what it means. Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, host of the Mindscape podcast, and author of From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe, and The Big Picture, will talk about his new book that examines the source of this puzzlement. He will explain why an increasing number of physicists are led to an apparently astonishing conclusion: that the world we experience is constantly branching into different versions, representing the different possible outcome of quantum measurements. This could have important consequences for quantum gravity and the emergence of spacetime

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Data and Music
Wednesday, October 23
6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT
GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/data-music/boston/86289

Data plays an important role in every aspect of a company, regardless of industry-- the music industry is no exception.

At this panel discussion, learn from music and audio tech industry experts as they discuss how their roles leverage data to drive business growth and attain business objectives. Walk away with an understanding about how data plays into the role of running the business and how it is making an impact in expanding the industry.

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The Great Connecting:  The Emergence of Global Broadband and How That Changes Everything
Wednesday, October 23
7 PM – 8:30 PM
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-alumn-jim-cashel-tickets-73134281605

Discussion, Q&A and signing - The Great Connecting
What happens when affordable broadband finally reaches the half of the planet that has little or no Internet access? Google, Facebook, SpaceX, and many others have major initiatives underway to connect the rest of the planet over the next few years. For the first time, even the poorest and most remote of global citizens will have access to information, communications, identity authentication, government programs, global philanthropy, online banking, telehealth, distance education, and other powerful services heretofore impossible. In The Great Connecting, Jim Cashel speaks with the major players driving the broadband revolution and travels to the most remote corners of the globe to consider the changes in our world about to take place ― certainly one of the biggest events in human history. As Cashel explains, the expansion of broadband offers many challenges but will also bring a remarkable opportunity for the planet.

About the Author:  Jim Cashel is a researcher and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has an eclectic background: a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford, a master’s from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He also is Chairman of Forum One, a web strategy and development firm. After completing studies in Human Biology at Stanford University, and Public Policy and Medicine at Harvard University, Jim has worked in international development, philanthropy, and technology. When not on the road, Jim lives with his family in Sonoma, California.

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Cambridge Forum
Wednesday, October 23
7pm

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Computers Dream of a Better Future:  Artificial Intelligence in materials science
Wednesday, October 23
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 24 - Friday, October 25
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Third Annual Authors and Innovators Business Ideas Festival
Thursday, October 24 - Friday, October 25
UMASS, Mt. Ida Campus, 777 Dedham Street, Newton
RSVP at https://www.authorsinnovators.org/register

Two days of Ideas, Insights, and Conversation 
Great ideas drive business. 
 
The Authors and Innovators Business Ideas Festival is a unique opportunity to take your business knowledge to the next level.
This two-day event is jam-packed with insights, idea exchange, and thoughtful, intelligent conversation. You will learn from business book authors, innovators, and top business minds as we engage in discussions on a variety of topics.

More information at https://www.authorsinnovators.org

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Thursday, October 24
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Sculpture Made in Response to Environmental Concerns
Thursday, October 24
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Multi-Purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford

Nancy Selvage, artist
Nancy Selvage engages herself and others in an exploratory process by altering and concentrating the experience of space and substance in her sculptural installations. This artwork is often created in response to environmental concerns. Her illustrated presentation will explore the expressive development and impact of these concerns on her art practice. Included will be a preview of the art project she is designing for the new Green Line Extension station at College Avenue/Tufts.

Nancy Selvage is an artist and educator with an MFA from Tufts University. In her former role as Director of the Ceramics Arts Program at Harvard University, Selvage lectured widely on ceramics and sustainability. As an honorary professor at Tohoku University, Japan, she contributed an art/science perspective to a variety of interdisciplinary, international conferences. Her sculpture has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  Her public sculptures and murals have been commissioned for the City of Lowell, the MBTA College Avenue station at Tufts, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Bristol Community College, the Keene State College Science Building, the City of Cambridge, the National Park Service’s Grand Canyon Visitor Center, and the North Carolina Zoo. Selvage is a member of Boston Sculptors Gallery.

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How to Change the World with Casey van der Stricht
Thursday, October 24
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 Casey van der Stricht, Principal at MIT Solve's Innovation Future, an innovative mechanism to make investments in the Solver teams. Casey joined MIT Solve from Social Finance, where she was Vice President, Social Investments, responsible for sourcing, structuring, and placing social impact bonds and other impact instruments, as well as advancing firm strategic positioning. Committed to leveraging new tools to make impact, she has experience in management consulting, financial services, and the nonprofit sector. Casey holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in history from Yale University.

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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Behavior is a Motor and Brake for Evolution
Thursday, October 24
3:30PM
Harvard, Biological Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Martha Munoz, Assistant Professor, Yale University

Abstract: Nature can be viewed, as Darwin suggested, as a "tangled bank", full of diverse forms connected by the laws of evolution. One of nature's most ubiquitous phenomena is the unequal distribution of biological diversity. Whereas some genes, traits, and lineages diversify rapidly, others remain inert for millions of years. Why is this true? Which laws cause some features to achieve evolutionary overdrive while others straddle the slow lane? I address this question by focusing on one of evolution's most powerful architects: behavior. I discover how behavior generates phenotypic diversity in natural populations and reveal these signatures at both micro- and macroevolutionary scales.

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

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

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Rebecca Henderson: Re-Imagining Capitalism
Thursday, October 24
3:45pm to 5:15pm
Northeastern, John D. O'Bryant African American Insititute, Cabral Center 40 Leon Street, Boston

As part of the Economic Policy Forum Fall 2019, join us as Rebecca Henderson shares her views on capitalism.

Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School, where she co-teaches a hugely popular course by this title.  This course also won the 2018 Aspen Institute Award for “Ideas Worth Teaching.”

The Economic Policy Forum Fall 2019:  Capitalism, Competition, and (In)equality
Discussions with prominent policymakers and thinkers on critical economic questions

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Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad
Thursday, October 24
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

With speakers Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
A session of the Focus on Russia Lecture Series co-chaired by Carol Saivetz and Elizabeth Wood
Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and Russian security services expert
Irina Borogan is a Russian investigative journalist
Together they are co-founders and editors of the Agentura.Ru website.  Their most recent book is The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad.  Their other books include: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB and The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries.

Their recent book The Compatriots will be signed and sold at the event.

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William Uricchio, “Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study”
Thursday, October 24
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building E15, Tables opposite room 320, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Co-Creation is picking up steam as a claim, aspiration, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter? Drawing on a just-released field study, Collective Wisdom, this session will address those questions and explore the method’s implications for just and equitable creation. It will consider co-creation in the arts with communities, across disciplines and organizations, and with non-humans (both biological and AI systems), calling out precedents and best practices in a broad array of communities, including historically marginalized groups. What are the trends, opportunities, and challenges bound up in co-creation and its various deployments, and why it is increasingly urgent in our time?

William Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, where he is also founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio. He, together with Katerina Cizek, authored Collective Wisdom — a field study on co-creation. His current research considers co-creation, documentary, and the epistemological crisis that characterizes our time.

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TEDxCambridge Salon Series:  Marine Conservation & Aquaculture
Thursday, October 24
6:00PM – 7:30PM
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.tedxcambridge.com/salon/marine-conservation-aquaculture/
Cost:  $30

Erik Thulin, BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
Erik Thulin is the applied behavioral science lead at Rare, a global non-profit focusing on inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive. Based in Rare’s Center for Behavior and the Environment, Erik directs the organization’s behavioral research agenda. He focuses on bridging the academic-practice gap through collaborations with research partners and environmental practitioners within and outside of Rare. Previous to joining the Center, Erik worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Social Norms Group, developing measurement and behavioral intervention strategies in the development sector and teaching behavioral economics.

Scott Lindell, AQUACULTURE PIONEER
Scott Lindell is a Research Specialist in marine farming at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has dedicated the last 17 years to scientific research and development of shellfish and seaweed farming. He has managed multiple projects to bridge the biological, engineering, and political challenges of developing a thriving marine farming community. His projects include the development of methods for combining mussel and seaweed farming, establishing a breeding and genetic improvement program for sugar kelp, and establishing large-scale demonstration farms for kelp in Alaska and New England that may one day provide a significant resource for carbon-neutral biofuels as well as food.

Performance By Boston Dance Theater
Jessie Jeanne Stinnett is a dancer, choreographer, and co-artistic director of Boston Dance Theater. She received a BFA in Dance Performance from The Boston Conservatory and an MFA from Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London (UK). Jessie has performed for the Metropolitan Opera, Tate Britain (UK), Prometheus Dance, Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna), and The Boston Baroque Opera. She is the recipient of the 2020 Boston Dancemakers Residency grant award and will be the 2020 Choreographer in Residence at Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Dance Alliance.
Event Details.

Each salon features an artistic performance, two distinguished speakers, and a Q&A that provides audience members an opportunity to speak directly with some of the region’s brightest innovators and creative minds.
WBUR CitySpace

WBUR CitySpace is the new state-of-the-art multimedia venue for interviews, conversations, and performances located at 890 Commonwealth Avenue. It brings the stories you hear every day from WBUR and NPR to life. CitySpace is the region’s premier destination to be inspired, entertained, and educated.

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Panel Discussion: Art, Activism, and Public Awareness of the Opioid Crisis
Thursday, October 24
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm 
BU, Photonics Center, Colloquium Room - 9th Floor, 8 St. Mary's Street
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-activism-and-public-awareness-of-the-opioid-crisis-panel-discussion-registration-72586569383

To mark the conclusion of the temporary installation of Domenic Esposito’s FDA Spoon sculpture on the Boston University campus, we will hold a panel discussion on art’s role in supporting activism directed toward the opioid crisis. Esposito will be joined by artist-activists Adam DelMarcelle and Nancy Marks for a conversation moderated by art historian Gregory Williams. Among other topics, the panel will explore how artists balance their studio practice with their activism, how such activist work builds audiences, and how artist-activists negotiate with a wide range of institutions. Free with RSVP	

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Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, And Honeybee Health, With Daniel Kleinman
Thursday, October 24
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
BU, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Fuller Building, Boston
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/registration-manager2/catalogs/foodandwine/app/catalog.php?action=section&course_section_id=4042

Vanishing Bees takes readers inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of colony collapse disorder (CCD), including beekeepers, entomologists, growers, agrichemical companies, and government regulators. Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD and exploring the often-contentious interactions among different groups, detailing how they assert authority, gain trust, and build alliances. At this event, Kleinman—author and associate provost for graduate affairs as well as College of Arts & Sciences professor of sociology—will lead a discussion about his book, and Janine Sciarappa, a core chef instructor in pastry for the Certificate Program in Culinary Arts at BU, will provide a honey-based treat to sample.

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DIGITAL TRENDS OF 2020 
Thursday, 24 October
6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT
GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/digital-trends-of-2020/boston/86245

Because the digital marketing landscape is so vast it is hard to predict what trend is going to rule the upcoming year. What one aspect of your marketing strategy do you need to make a priority? What one marketing tactic is crucial for your brand to incorporate?

Let our experts help you cut through the noise in order to spot the impactful new strategies. Join us to hear from a panel of Digital Marketers. They will predict trends and give us insight into what they believe will be the most important digital marketing strategies or tactics to plan for in 2020. Will it be integrating conversational commerce, shifting focus to Generation Z, or increasing personalization through AI? There are so many possibilities. 

We’ll dive into: How each marketer determines trends. Trends from 2019 and lessons learned. Predicted trends for 2020 and beyond.

While improving the personal connection your brand has to its customers will always be a priority in marketing; some trends will last and some will not. Come learn from the pros on how to set your brand up for success this year. 

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Catch and Kill:  Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Thursday, October 24
7:30 PM (Doors at 6:30)
Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/ronan_farrow1/
Cost:  $38.00 (book included)

Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter RONAN FARROW for a discussion of his highly anticipated new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.
About Catch and Kill

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.
All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance they could not explain—until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington and beyond.
This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.
Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook our culture.

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Friday, October 25
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Making the Cut: Promises and Challenges of Gene Editing
WHEN  Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, 9 a.m. – 4:25 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Conferences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Research study, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO  events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Gene editing, a technology that enables scientists to change an organism’s DNA, holds promise for the prevention and cure of complex human disease, such as cancer, heart disease, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
The techniques used, such as CRISPR, have generated a great deal of excitement for their efficiency and potential impact on human health, but they have also raised legal and ethical issues regarding germline and embryo manipulation, and many countries have banned such techniques because of these concerns.
The 2019 Radcliffe Institute science symposium will bring together leading international scientists, clinicians, and ethicists to explore case studies of particular gene therapies as well as the legal and bioethical implications of this research. Register online.
LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-making-the-cut-symposium

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Nature's Patterns as Ideas for Design of Inventions (Bio-mimicry)
Saturday, October 19
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
DCR's Revere Beach, One Eliot circle, Revere
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/natures-patterns-as-ideas-for-design-of-inventions-bio-mimicry-tickets-73333629861

A Free Introductory Creative Workshop.

Create an idea for a new product or service that is inspired by observing patterns in Nature.
DCR’s Revere Beach Reservation, Coastal District Office, One Eliot Circle, Revere, MA (The tan house on the corner of Dolphin Avenue). MBTA: Blueline to Revere Beach or Beachmont station. For more info visit mass.gov/dcr/calendar or contact Matthew.Nash at state.ma.us or 781-656-1485.

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Coffee & Conversation: Ask Me Anything with Congressman Capuano
Friday, October 25
3 pm to 4 pm
BU, Howard Thurman Center, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/thurman/programs/coffee-conversation/
 
Coffee & Conversation, the Howard Thurman Center’s weekly open forum-style discussion on the issues of the day. Their topics range from newsworthy events to popular culture, and our student attendees welcome the chance to ask the Congressman about his experience and opinion on our current national climate.

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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front:  American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
Friday, October 25
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning Eastern Europe historian and Harvard professor SERHII PLOKHY—author of Chernobyl—for a discussion of his latest book, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance.

About Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory, in order to "shuttle-bomb" the Germans from the Eastern front. For all that he had been pushing for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort—the Soviets were bearing by far the heaviest burden in terms of casualties—Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked at the suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil. His concern was that they would spy on his regime, and it would be difficult to get rid of them afterword. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 Flying Fortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltava region in Ukraine.
As Plokhy's book shows, what happened on these airbases mirrors the nature of the Grand Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for the same goal, Germany's unconditional surrender, differences arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret policeman watched over the operations, shadowing every move, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American servicemen and local women. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and the operations went south. Indeed, the story of the American bases foreshadowed the eventual collapse of the Grand Alliance and the start of the Cold War. Using previously inaccessible archives, Forgotten Bastards offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance, showing how it first began to fray on the airfields of World War II.

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The Things That Divide Us: Meditations
Friday, October 25
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

There are so many “things” that divide us – that create tyrannical perimeters, borders, boundaries and walls; that order the way we look at each other and “other” others; that perpetuate hierarchies; and that all too often tragically legitimate and elaborate ignorance, misunderstanding, inequalities, violence, oppression, and death. 

This performance-lecture ...through narrative poetics, music, and images ... cogitates on some of those “things," with the aim of both bearing witness and hopefully stimulating thinking about ways to vision ... something else. 

A dialogue will follow

Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, MLK Jr. Visiting Professor, Department of History, MIT, John L. Seigenthaler Chair in American History, Vanderbilt University

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2019 Ikeda Forum: Can Dialogue Save The World?
Friday, October 25
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, 396 Harvard Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-ikeda-forum-can-dialogue-save-the-world-tickets-72725737639

Please SAVE THE DATE for our annual Ikeda Forum on Friday, Oct 25, 6:30-9:00 pm (reception starts at 6 pm)! 

This year's forum "Can Dialogue Save The World? Exploring the Power of Human Connections" will highlight the experiences of eight young professionals who have engaged in sustained dialogues with four Boston-area scholars. Inspired by our founder Daisaku Ikeda's conviction that by forging life-to-life bonds with others, we can "meet the severe challenges of our age as agents of proactive and contagious change," they engaged with each other on pressing issues facing all of us today. Together they also sought to answer the question: "What kind of inner transformation does one experience through sustained dialogue with another?" 

Join us this October to hear their adventures in dialogue and learn concrete ways we can forge powerful human connections in our daily life. 

Launched in 2004, the annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue is named after our founder Daisaku Ikeda in honor of his untiring commitment to dialogue as the surest path to peace.

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Sunday, October 27
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Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
Sunday, October 27
1:15 p.m.
Friends Meeting at Cambridge, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-talk-friends-meeting-cambridge/

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

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Climate Change & Climate Action in Massachusetts
Sunday, October 27
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Phillips Brooks House, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/GreaterBostonHumanists/events/265238630/

Shaina Rogstag
Climate change affects the entire planet, but what the impacts look like vary geographically. What will it look like here in Massachusetts, what is being done about it, and how can we help?

This month, following September's Climate Strike and ramped up activism around the globe, please join us for a special presentation about projections for climate change in Massachusetts over the next century and how we can respond to it led by Shaina Rogstad. We will discuss current Massachusetts legislative action that aims to combat the climate crisis, and what we can do as individuals to support and expand it.

Shaina is a Ph.D Candidate at UMass Amherst in the Department of Geosciences. Her research focuses on using global climate modeling to determine how the climate system as a whole might respond to changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS). Her social media handle is @ScienceShaina.

The event will be photographed and recorded.
Snacks and socializing will follow the talk.

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Saturday, October 26
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Anand Patwardhan film "Reason"
Saturday, October 26
9:30am to 1:30pm
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Join us for a special screening of the award winning documentary Reason: The War Between Faith and Rationality with director Anand Patwardhan.

9:30am film start
12:30 – 1:30pm lunch
1:30pm panel

A conversation with film director Anand Patwardhan &
Professor Sana Aiyar, History, MIT 
Professor Amartya Sen, Economics & Philosophy, Harvard

Reason sets out to chart what Patwardhan sees as India's slide away from the complex tumult of a secular democracy towards hardening divisions of power, caste, and religious belief — lines that are enforced increasingly by violence.

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Monday, October 28
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THE GEOMICRODISTRICT APPROACH FOR A UTILITY-SCALE TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY
Monday, October 28
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
BU, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-geomicrodistrict-approach-for-a-utility-scale-transition-to-clean-energy-tickets-73867125561

The GeoMicroDistrict Approach for a Utility-Scale Transition to Clean Energy
Spend a day diving into the possibilities of HEET’s GeoMicroDistrict as a utility-scale solution to heating and cooling in Massachusetts. Together with some of the world's preeminent experts on shared-loop geothermal systems, including Cary Smith, Garen Ewbank and Garry Sexton. 

Following BuroHappold’s statewide feasibility study on the potential of the GeoMicroDistrict, some possible pilot sites in MA will be evaluated and discussed. There will be opportunities to dive into both the engineering and the economic details as well as plenty of time to ask questions and share experiences. 
Lunch, snacks, and coffee provided

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2019 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard
WHEN  Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Conferences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES)
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO  Vassilis Coutifaris
coutifaris at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The Summit on the Future of Europe is an initiative of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. Since 2014, this annual conference convenes scholars and public leaders to debate critical challenges facing Europe.
LINK  https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/10/hold-ces-summit

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Kristen Schild
Monday, October 28
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

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"Trajectories of Hate: Mapping the Development of Racism and Misogyny On Social Media”
Monday, October 28
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Northeastern, 909 Renaissance Park 1135 Tremont Street, Boston

Nicholas Beauchamp, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Presented by the CSSH Dean’s Office and the Northeastern Humanities Center
For more information, please contact Gaby Fiorenza at g.fiorenza at northeastern.edu 

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Teresa Galí-Izard, "PRODUCTIVE RESURGENCES : the  garden of the XXI century"
WHEN  Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S)  Teresa Galí-Izard
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO  Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
DETAILS  Teresa Galí-Izard is a landscape architect that translates the hidden potential of places, exploring new languages that integrate living systems into design. She seeks to find a contemporary answer that includes non-humans and their life forms through exploring climate, geology, natural processes, dynamics and management.
LINK  https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/teresa-gali-izard-productive-resurgences-the-garden-of-the-xxi-century/

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Interactions Above and Below Ground Affect Plants and Their Pollinators
Monday, October 28
12:10PM
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Lecture Hall, 300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Alison Brody, Professor, University of Vermont

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

Arnold Arboretum Research Talk
https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/

arbweb at arnarb.harvard.edu
617-524-1718

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Climate Change from the Streets
Monday, October 28
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
STS Circle at Harvard

Michael Mendez, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to via the online form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu0kpmXh6oz11MgFw/viewform by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

sts at hks.harvard.edu

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The Great Hack
WHEN  Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 3 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Film, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events, Sustainability
SPONSOR	Harvard Divinity School gratefully acknowledges the support of the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies for this event.  Partners for the event are the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School; Harvard University Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies; and the Constellation Project.
CONTACT	Gretchen Legler, glegler at hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS   Monday Matinees, "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination," presents The Great Hack, a 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer. Following the film, Geralyn Dreyfous, executive producer, and Carole Cadwalladr, journalist from The Guardian will discuss the film. Dialogue with the audience will be encouraged. This is the first of a special film series that focuses on issues of social and racial justice; ethics of data collection and its impact on free elections; moral leadership; gun violence; and dreams of farming and caring for the land. Discussions will center around what role the moral imagination plays in addressing societal concerns, how each film contributes to our understanding of social change, and how we as community might engage more fully in movement building rooted in creativity and compassion. This event is free and open to the public.  To register for the film series, please contact Gretchen Legler. Priority seating will be given to registered participants. Doors close promptly at 3 pm.

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Robotics and Energy Efficiency Workshop
Monday, October 28
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
MassRobotics, 12 Channel Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robotics-and-energy-efficiency-workshop-tickets-7299295288

In collaboration with MassCEC, MassRobotics is organizing this workshop to discuss related topics around energy-efficient robotics systems.

With the growing markets for mobile robots and drones in different industry verticals, designing and developing these products to be energy efficient is becoming increasingly important.

Presentations and discussion include:
Aaron Birt, CEO of Kinetic Batteries, 3D Printed Lithium-Ion Batteries for Advanced Energy Storage Needs
Omar Eleryan, CEO of Cleo, Energy Efficiency for Drones
Analog Devices, Monitoring Energy consumption

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AKPIA at MIT Lecture by D. Fairchild Ruggles: Water and Community in Islamic Granada
Monday, October 28
6:00pm
MIT, Buidling 3-133 77 Massachusetts Avenue

D. Fairchild Ruggles, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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How We Win: How Cutting Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat
Monday, October 28
6:00pm
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston

How We Win’s message is urgent: America and its allies can defeat extremism, but not until we significantly shift our approach. We must counter extremism intellectually. Extremists are preying on a rising generation of nearly one billion Muslim millennials and Gen Z who are in the midst of an identity crisis, vulnerable to extremists’ seductive, intolerant, “us” versus “them” ideology, delivered using the latest technologies and real-life peer-suasion. Drones and special forces operations won’t destroy extremism at its root like a grassroots war of ideas will. In How We Win, Farah Pandith reveals emerging data, on-the-ground stories, and proven solutions.

How We Win offers hope. Farah Pandith explains how government, the private sector, and civil society can help Muslim youth solve their identity crisis and in turn build a safer, more stable world. Her perspective and insights are rare, bold, and important. By focusing on human behavior and cultural influence, she convincingly explains how companies must play a role that has—so far—been absent. She demands more from the governments and multinational organizations. Her positive message is a hopeful chapter for Muslim youth, and the world at large. Pandith’s prescription drowns out the voices of extremists by supporting new concepts, causes, and charismatic leaders for young people.

Farah Pandith is an author, foreign policy strategist, and former diplomat. A world-leading expert and pioneer in countering violent extremism, she is a frequent media commentator and public speaker. She served as a political appointee under Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, and most recently she was the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities, serving both Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. She has served on the National Security Council, at the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in various senior roles.

She has also served on the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council, chairing its task force on countering violent extremism. She is a senior fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Pandith divides her time between Washington, D.C.; London; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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AUTHORS at MIT | Daniel M. Russell on The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics
Monday, October 28
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, Building N50, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness at Google Daniel M. Russell, author of The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics. Daniel will be joined in conversation by MIT Press Executive Editor, Marie Lufkin Lee.

We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population” or “Nobel Peace Prize” or “poison ivy” or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online. In The Joy of Search, Daniel Russell shows us how to be great online researchers. We don't have to be computer geeks or a scholar searching out obscure facts; we just need to know some basic methods. Russell demonstrates these methods with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions—from “what is the wrong side of a towel?” to “what is the most likely way you will die?” Along the way, readers will discover essential tools for effective online searches—and learn some fascinating facts and interesting stories.

Russell explains how to frame search queries so they will yield information and describes the best ways to use such resources as Google Earth, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia. He shows when to put search terms in double quotes, how to use the operator (*), why metadata is important, and how to triangulate information from multiple sources. By the end of this engaging journey of discovering, readers will have the definitive answer to why the best online searches involve more than typing a few words into Google.

Daniel M. Russell is Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness at Google. He has taught many classes on search methods, and more than four million students have taken his online power searching course.

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Conversations on the Edge: Climate Change in Cambridge
Monday, October 28
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM 
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge

Join the Cambridge Center for Adult Education for a critical discussion on climate change in Cambridge. An October 2018 report suggested we have only 12 years left to significantly reduce worldwide carbon emissions to have any chance of decelerating global warming. The climate crisis predictions include sea-level rise, increased natural disasters, economic disruption, public health emergencies, an exacerbated refugee crisis, and worsened conditions for all—but especially for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Cambridge gets no pass—how will “our fair city” be transformed by climate change? What is the Greater Boston Area doing to prepare for the crises that are now inevitable and to prevent the worst outcomes for this city? How can we hold individuals, corporations, and governments responsible for ensuring a sustainable and environmentally-just future?

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Bridging the Academic-Industry Divide in Infectious Disease Research
Monday, October 28
6:30pm
Aeronaut, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville

More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/

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Women's National Book Association Boston Chapter at Porter Square Books to celebrate National Reading Group Month with Adrienne Brodeur and Tova Mirvis!
Monday, October 28
7:00pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge

Please join the Women's National Book Association Boston Chapter at Porter Square Books to celebrate National Reading Group Month with Adrienne Brodeur and Tova Mirvis!

Adrienne Brodeur's new memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me is a daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. Wild Game is a brilliant, timeless memoir about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It’s a remarkable story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us.

Adrienne Brodeur began her career in publishing as the co-founder, along with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, of the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story, which won the National Magazine Award for Best Fiction three times and launched the careers of many writers. She was a book editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for many years and, currently, she is the Executive Director of Aspen Words, a program of the Aspen Institute. She has published essays in the New York Times. She splits her time between New York City and Cape Cod with her husband and children.     

In The Book of Separation, a moving memoir about leaving the only life she’s ever known, Tova Mirvis chronicles her courageous journey of walking away from her marriage and her faith. Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life, including marrying a man from within the fold and quickly beginning a family. But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and a month shy of her 40th birthday—after almost 17 years of marriage and three children—she upends the foundations of her life. Even though it would mean the loss of her friends, her community, and possibly even her family, Mirvis decides to leave her husband and her religion. Mirvis takes us through the first year of this new life, as she learns to move forward in a newly mapless world, balancing the rewards and costs of her choices.

Tova Mirvis is the author of three novels: Visible City, The Outside World, and The Ladies Auxiliary, a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in various publications including the New York Times, the Boston Globe Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Poets and Writers, and her fiction has been broadcast on NPR. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

This event is being organized in partnership with the Women's National Book Association, in honor of National Reading Group Month. Founded in 2007, NRGM releases an annual "Great Group Reads" list and hosts author events every October throughout the nation, aiming to foster the values reading groups encourage: camaraderie, enjoyment of shared reading, and appreciation of literature and reading as conduits for transmitting culture and advancing civic engagement.

RSVP with the WBNA here: https://nrgmboston.splashthat.com/ - If you're a WNBA member, your RSVP will enter you to our raffle for free books, plus a limited number of Porter Square Books gift cards for the first few who sign up!

About the Women's National Book Association Boston Chapter: Since its organization in 1954, the Boston Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association has worked to bring together women and men from all different segments of the book world – publishing professionals, writers, librarians, and anyone who loves books – by providing a range of events that aim to educate, entertain, and inspire. WNBA Boston also seeks to promote equality in the world of arts and letters by raising awareness of the professional challenges still extant for women in the publishing industry. To learn more or join today: http://www.wnba-boston.org/

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CAN UTILITY-SCALE GEOTHERMAL REPLACE GAS IN THE COMMONWEALTH?
Monday, October 28
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
BU, Metcalf Trustee Center, 1 Silber Way # 9, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-utility-scale-geothermal-replace-gas-in-the-commonwealth-tickets-75229223633

Environmentalists, community groups and gas companies are working together to create solutions to the climate crisis. 

We have developed a way for gas companies to go electric while still delivering heat through pipes under the ground. The fuel is renewable and safe. The transformation can happen along whole streets at a time to deliver energy for all at a lower cost. 

HEET has proven the capacity with a state-wide independent feasibility study and found pre-eminent experts to explain the answer. We are now ready to describe our practical path forward and make an exciting announcement. Come learn about the HEET Grid and how Massachusetts can lead the way.
In times of crisis, when many things seem impossible, sometimes we are fortunate enough to find an innovative way forward.

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Tuesday, October 29
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Ecosystem Climate Adaptation Network Conference
Tuesday, October 29
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst, Shaw Conference Center, 777 Dedham Street, Newton
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-ecan-conference-2019-tickets-66459493133
Cost:  $17.31

Registration for the 3rd annual Mass ECAN (Ecosystem Climate Adaptation Network) conference is now open! Mass ECAN is a Massachusetts-based community of practice that works at the intersection of climate adaptation, ecosystem resilience and natural resources conservation.
Our annual conference is a chance to connect and collaborate with peers working across the state to advance adaptation actions.
Join us on Oct. 29th to:
Learn about current climate adaptation work in Massachusetts 
Connect to new colleagues and mingle with network members and partners
Showcase your adaptation projects by sharing your organization's publications and joining our Poster Session

Additional details, along with the full agenda, will be available on our conference website:  https://www.massecan.org/2019-conference
Space is limited, so please rsvp.
Questions?
Contact Mass ECAN with any questions. We'll be in touch with additional information as the event approaches. 
If you are unable to accomodate for the fee, but would still like to attend, please email massecan at umass.edu.
If you're not already signed up, join the Mass ECAN community here.
We look forward to seeing you in October!

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The Social Determinants of Health and Educational Success: And What We Can Do About Them
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gutman Conference Center, (ground floor of Gutman Library), 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education, Health Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Education Redesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S)  Keynote: Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, The California Endowment
Panelists:
Josephine Kim, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Natalia Linos, Executive Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderator:  Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration; Director, Education Redesign Lab, HGSE
COST  Free & open to the Harvard community
CONTACT INFO  Marina Jokic, Sr. Communications Manager, Education Redesign Lab, HGSE
DETAILS  How and when do zip codes become more important than genetic codes when it comes to people’s health and educational outcomes? Join us for a talk and panel discussion with Dr. Anthony Iton, senior vice president for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment, who will be presenting his work to advance policies and forge partnerships to build healthy communities. He will discuss how to design intensive, place-conscious interventions that draw on existing assets to socially, politically, and economically empower disadvantaged communities. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Josephine Kim, Lecturer on Education, HGSE and Natalia Linos, Executive Director, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, HSPH. Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE; Director of the EdRedesign Lab will serve as moderator. The event is co-sponsored by the Education Redesign Lab, HGSE and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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On the Trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times correspondent talks about her time in China
Tuesday, October 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harvard, Wexner 434AB, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jane Perlez is the bureau chief for The New York Times in Beijing. She has been a long time foreign correspondent for The Times, serving in East Africa, Central Europe, Southeast Asia, and Pakistan. She was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan. She is married to Raymond Bonner, former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and author. While at the Shorenstein Center, Perlez will write about how the Chinese and American governments treat each other’s reporters as each side strives to describe, in very different ways, the world’s most important strategic relationship.

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What's So Special About Ukraine? Why Ukraine Is in the Middle of US Politics
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, 3:30 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South Building, Room S-030, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard
Emily Channell-Justice,Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard
George Soroka, Lecturer on Government, Harvard
Margarita Balmaceda, Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	kconroy at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In recent weeks, Ukraine has found itself at the center of major events in US politics. Find out from Harvard experts and guest speaker(s) what makes this country geopolitically important, how it got caught up in the impeachment inquiry, and what's going on in its own government.
Geared toward a public audience, experts will offer some insights and be ready to answer questions.
LINK  https://www.huri.harvard.edu/events/calendar/g-3-0vs8ous75gcposdh9nhe2ea9q9_201910151930.html

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MIT Climate Symposium: Challenges of Climate Policy
Tuesday, October 29
4:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT, Building E51: Wong Auditorium 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-action-symposia-series-challenges-of-climate-policy-tickets-72134330725

Chair: Richard Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Sloan School of Management and Department of Economics

Reception to follow

The second of MIT's six Climate Action Symposia, Challenges of Climate Policy, will be held on Tuesday, October 29. Topics will include:
societal impacts and policy challenges of climate change;
adaptations that could limit economic damages and national security risks; and
potential solutions to overcome domestic and international political hurdles for addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Climate Action Symposia series aims to advance our community’s understanding and expand our capacity to generate solutions for the urgent global challenge of climate change. Over the 2019-2020 academic year, the six symposia examine the current state of climate science and policy, as well as pathways for decarbonization of the global economy. We will also look at how universities can and should contribute solutions, including MIT’s efforts under our Plan for Action on Climate Change.

Schedule, speaker bios, livestream, and more: http://climatesymposia.mit.edu
Can't attend in person? Watch the livestream.

Speakers:
Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
Max Auffhammer, UC Berkeley
Kathleen Hicks, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Henry Jacoby, MIT
Susanne Moser, Social Science for Climate Change
Andrew Steer, World Resources Institute
Leah Stokes, UC Santa Barbara

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Our Hidden Borders: Guantanamo, Interdiction, and the Rise of Offshore Migration Policing
Tuesday, October 29
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E51-095, 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge 

Jeffrey Kahn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on issues of migration, mobility, border policing, and sovereignty. Prior to joining the Anthropology Department at UC Davis, Professor Kahn was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, a Robina Foundation International Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School, and a law clerk to the Hon. Judith W. Rogers of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and his JD from Yale Law School. Professor Kahn’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright program, and the American Society for Legal History. He is the author of Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (University of Chicago Press 2019).Jeffrey Kahn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on issues of migration, mobility, border policing, and sovereignty. Prior to joining the Anthropology Department at UC Davis, Professor Kahn was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, a Robina Foundation International Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School, and a law clerk to the Hon. Judith W. Rogers of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and his JD from Yale Law School. Professor Kahn’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright program, and the American Society for Legal History. He is the author of Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (University of Chicago Press 2019).

Synopsis:  Where exactly are the United States' immigration borders? Are they simply at the edge of US sovereign territory as the fixation on walls, fences, and domestic enforcement programs would suggest? In this talk, I offer a different perspective by tracing the rise of a mobile US border regime and its extension out into ocean spaces hundreds and thousands of miles beyond US soil. Along the way, we'll examine the reimagining of Guantánamo as a model for flexible, extraterritorial migration control and the intensive litigation battles over the treatment of Haitian asylum seekers that both gave birth to the US asylum system and partially drove it into a space of oceanic exceptionalism. As we'll see, the emergence of offshore interdiction and detention reveals not only hidden features of our contemporary borderscape but the roots of a respatialization of the nation-state itself.

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Driving Government Innovation: City and Philanthropic Leaders Partnering to Improve Child Well-being: Eat Up Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion
WHEN  Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business, Education, Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR  Education Redesign Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Education
SPEAKER(S)   Panelists will include community leaders, educators, and philanthropists such as Jill Shah of the Shah Family Foundation.
COST  Free & open to the Harvard community
CONTACT INFO  Marina Jokic, Sr. Communications Manager, EdRedesign Lab, HGSE
marina_jokic at gse.harvard.edu
DETAILS  To address the urgent needs of children in many communities across the U.S., mayors and superintendents are experimenting with new ways to improve student achievement, expand programs and opportunities--including early childhood education, health and mental health services and college access--and improve government operations. This session will begin with the screening of Eat Up which describes the transformation Boston Public Schools' healthy program (to locally prepared meals that students like!) through a partnership with the Shah Family Foundation. Following the 30-minute film, a panel will discuss examples of innovations in their communities and nationally that have resulted in positive outcomes for children and families.

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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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The Technical Revolution of Esports, Gaming, Gambling, and Blockchain
Tuesday, October 29
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
MIT Stata Center, Building 32- 123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/the-technical-revolution-of-esports-gaming-gambling-and-blockchain/
Pre-registration is required – livestream or in person

This event will be live streamed. Select the live stream ticket option if you would like to watch the event on-line.

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.

Agenda
6:00 - 6:30 pm Registration with snacks
6:30 - 8:00 pm Panel Discussion
8:00 - 9:00 pm Networks with drinks in the 4th floor R&D Pub

In recent years, esports, gambling, and gaming companies have embraced technological advances in broadcasting, content distribution, and blockchain technologies. The technological expansion opportunities in tournaments, gameplay, merchandise sales, sponsorship, patent protection, and even skin trading have accelerated the esports and gaming industry’s expansion. The fusion of esports, gambling, and gaming with emerging blockchain technologies allows for unprecedented access to the management of electronic assets in a secure environment and long-term monetization.

Take a deep dive with our panel of gaming, gambling, esports, and software experts, legal experts, and entrepreneurs into the technological revolution driven by esports, gaming, and online gambling.

At this panel discussion, attendees will learn about:

Future of technology, business, and marketing in esports, gaming, and online gambling
Successful entrepreneurial trends and launch strategies – pitfalls and key wins
Funding experiences
Protecting innovation
Blockchain’s role in augmenting these industries
Moderator
Khalid Jones, Managing Partner, Source Rock Partners, LLP
Speakers
Jonathan Baha’i, Founder and President, Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association
Soham Chowdhury, Director of Data Science and CS:GO Head Coach, Cloud9 Esports
Jon Fallon, General Counsel & SVP of Legal Affairs, High 5 Games
Giovanna Fessenden, Of Counsel, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds
Marco Mereu, Senior Vice President of Content Marketing/Distribution & GM of Framerate, Super League Gaming
Kevin Mitchell, Director of Business Development at National Amusements Inc., Adjunct Professor for eSports, Emerson College

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Food Routes: Growing Bananas In Iceland And Other Tales From The Logistics Of Eating, With Robyn Metcalfe
Tuesday, October 29
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 
BU, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/registration-manager2/catalogs/foodandwine/app/catalog.php?action=section&course_section_id=4045

Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food—buying organic, subscribing to slow food, reading Eater—we likely don't know much about how our food gets to the table. What happens between the farm and the kitchen? Why are all avocados from Mexico? Why does a restaurant in Maine order lamb from New Zealand? In Food Routes, food historian and food futurist Robyn Metcalfe explores an oftenoverlooked aspect of the global food system: how food moves from producer to consumer. A lecturer and research scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and director of Food+City, who earned her PhD in history at Boston University, Metcalfe finds that the food supply chain is adapting to our increasingly complex demands for both personalization and convenience—but, she says, it won't be an easy ride.

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Boston Green Drinks - October 2019 Happy Hour
Tuesday, October 29
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Warehouse Bar & Grille, 40 Broad Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-october-2019-happy-hour-tickets-75944368651

Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community! Boston Green Drinks builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues. We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.
https://bosgreendrinks.wordpress.com/

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The First Cell:  And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
Tuesday, October 29
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/azra_raza/

Harvard Book Store welcomes oncologist and author AZRA RAZA—Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director, MDS Center at Columbia University—for a discussion of her new book, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. She will be joined in conversation by DR. PETER D. KRAMER, psychiatrist, writer, and Brown Medical School professor. 

About The First Cell
We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet—a few innovations notwithstanding—a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost.
In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. Indeed, Raza describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. Like When Breath Becomes Air, The First Cell is no ordinary book of medicine, but a book of wisdom and grace by an author who has devoted her life to making the unbearable easier to bear.

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Atlas Obscura, Second Edition
Tuesday, October 29
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline

Joshua Foer in conversation with Jack Lepiarz
This revised and updated second edition includes 120 new entries and a fold-out road trip map (with a dream itinerary) to offer readers even more of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth. Oversized, beautifully packaged, compellingly written, scrupulously researched, and filled with photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, and more, this is the book that inspires equal parts wonder and wanderlust.

Joshua Foer is the co-founder and chairman of Atlas Obscura. He is also the author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, a bestseller published in 33 languages, and a forthcoming book about the world’s last hunter-gatherers.

The son of a circus performer and an anthropology professor, Jack Lepiarz received his broadcasting degree from Emerson College, where he worked as an anchor, producer and news director for WERS 88.9 FM. He joined WBUR in the spring of 2010, and maintains a healthy love for performing and the circus.

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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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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
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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.