[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - November 17, 2019

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Monday, November 18 - Tuesday, November 19
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Massachusetts Digital Government
Arctic Dynamics Workshop 

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Monday, November 18
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11:45am  A Climate Solution Where All Sides Win
12pm  Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Jacky Austermann (Columbia)
12pm  Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders
12:10pm  Closing the Book on Sargent’s Weeping Hemlock
12:15pm  Race and Biopolitics in 21st-Century America
12:30pm  Unmapped Urbanism
1pm  Clean Peak Standard & Energy Storage Forum
3pm  xTalk: Eric Klopfer & Meredith Thompson on VR Learning Games
3pm  Us Kids: We Call BS
4:30pm  The Tragedy of the Last Mile: Economic Solutions to Congestion in Broadband Networks
5:30pm  John Herbst and Sergei Erofeev: The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain
6pm  This Land Is Their Land
6pm   FORUM: Europe Was Not Always Free and United: Celebrating 30 Years Since the End of Communism
6pm  Climate Puzzles for Diplomats 
6pm  A Conversation with Ash Carter
6pm  Author Discussion: Imagining Judeo-Christian America--Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
6:30pm  35+ Sunrise Support Meet and Greet
6:30pm  The Human Genomic Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
7pm  Saving America's Cities:  Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
7pm  Extinction Rebellion Online Listening Circle
7pm  Jamaica Plain Solar Professionals Meetup (November)
7pm  Harriet
7:30pm  Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture: Loung Ung, Author of "First They Killed My Father”

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Tuesday, November 19
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8:30am  The Future of Food & Its Global Impact
12pm  Root Functional Traits for Water and Nutrient Acquisition Linked to Plant Strategies: Unpacking the Black Box
12pm  Open Doc Lab Talk: Michelle Mizner - Making i-docs at FRONTLINE: A look back and look ahead
12pm  Prison Changes People, Education Changes Prison 
12pm  Security Matters: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico
12:30pm  ESRG: Micro-Grids and Energy Storage in India
1pm  Strategic Conversations: Deep Engagement to Build Broader Support for Immigrants
1pm  Futures Without Carbon Workshop: Roadmap to 2050
3:45pm  Taming the Tech Giants
4pm  From Controversy to Cure: Inside the Cambridge Biotech Boom documentary
4:30pm  Kelman Seminar: Negotiating Across Worldviews
4:30pm  Seeing America From a Distance -- Reflections from Turkey and Beyond
5pm  Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context
5pm  Boston Sustainability Dinner Series - Fall Dinner
5:30pm  Film Screening: A Way Out
5:30pm  Gutman Library Book Talk: Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success
5:30pm  Beantown Throwdown 2019
5:30pm  Fall Meeting Green Energy Consumers Alliance
6pm  The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal & Architecture in the Gilded Age New York 
6pm  All I Really Need to Know (About Politics), I Learned in Middle School
6pm  Why Trust Science?
6pm  FORUM: Digital Currency Wars: A National Security Crisis Simulation
6pm  A Slow Food Conversation: Worker Justice = Food Justice
6pm  B. Harun Küçük | Science Without Leisure
6pm  Swiss Touch in Space Exploration
6:30pm  Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
6:30pm  Science for the People
6:30pm  Free Live Interview: Kochland, The Secret History of Koch Industries
6:30pm  Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire
7pm  Listening Partnerships for climate activists: tools for sustaining and renewing ourselves
7pm  FLP Open Meeting: Inclusive Entrepreneurship & Healthy Food Access with CommonWealth Kitchen
7pm  Sunrise Boston Community Team Meeting

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Wednesday, November 20 - Thursday, November 21
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24 Hours of Reality: Truth in Action
US/Canada Energy Trade Conference Protest

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Wednesday, November 20
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7:30am  Boston Sustainability Breakfast
8:30am  Harbor Use Public Forum: One Waterfront Initiative
12pm  Climate Adaptation
12pm  We Have to Get This Right: The Future of Work and Labor -- Talk by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka
12pm  The Legal Case of Fukushima, in Japan and Beyond
12pm  The Pentagon, Greenhouse Gases & Climate Change
12pm  Blowback and Escalation Risks from the US Weaponization of Finance
12pm  Linking Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement Policies: Strategically Resolving an International Climate Policy Dilemma
12:30pm  Elections and Public Confidence: Getting It Right
1pm  Better Buses, Better Cities
4pm  The Sex Crimes Paradox
4:30pm  Emergency Powers of International Organizations
5pm  Racial Equity & Climate Roundtable
5:30pm  Housing as History: New Directions for Boston’s Subsidized Housing: Learning from the Past
6pm  Great Decisions | Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?
6pm  Earth is Not My Home
6pm  Immersive Media Community Screening
6pm  TEDxCambridge Salon Series:  A.I. Ethics & Civil Liberties
6pm  LivableStreets and TransitMatters Happy Hour
6:30pm  Climate Stories Project with Jason Davis
7pm  Creating Common Good: Food as Fulcrum
7pm  The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
7pm  Using Probabilistic Machines Learning towards Diagnosing Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Thursday, November 21 -  Friday, November 22
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MIT Water Summit 2019: Drowning in Plastic

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Thursday, November 21
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8am  AI and the Work of the Future Congress
12pm  Artist Talk: Metaphor, Meaning, Antarctica, and the Anthropocene (Oh my!)
12:15pm  Commerce and Coercion in Contemporary China
3pm  Artificial Intelligence and the “Barrier of Meaning” 
4pm  Digital Equity and Climate Resilience
4:15pm  Manshel Lecture "Toward a Politics of Responsibility: The Case of Climate Change" with Kathryn Sikkink
4:30pm  Starr Forum: Digital Feminism in the Arab Gulf
5pm  Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”
5pm  Gender Equity and Climate Roundtable
5pm  What Makes a City Great for 8-yer-olds and 80-year-olds Alike
5:15pm  Presenting “Insights into Future Mobility,” an MIT Energy Initiative report
6pm  Can Journalists Save the Planet?
6pm  Spatial Perception for Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
6pm  Ujima & Faith Communities for a Solidarity Economy
6pm  Water Innovation Prize 2020 Kickoff Dinner
6:30pm  Gene Editing as a Therapy for Human Blood Diseases
6:30pm  Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it)
6:30pm  Antarctica: Climate, Penguins and International Cooperation
7pm  Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision
7pm  30th Anniversary Commemoration of the Martyrs of El Salvador

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Thursday, November 21 – Friday, November 22
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Conference on New Media and Democracy

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Friday, November 22
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7:15am  Building Climate Resilience into Infrastructure
9:30am  3rd Annual Massachusetts Food System Forum
12pm  In assessing vulnerablitities to climate change, how sensitive are system sensitivities to our assumptions about how the future might evolve?  A case study in the Upper Colorado River
3pm  Being and the Screen:  How the Digital Changes Perception
5pm  Synthesizing Human-centric Architectural Layouts
7pm  Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

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Saturday, November 23
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8am  TEDxBeaconStreet
7pm  Climate Crafts: A Zine-Making Workshop

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Monday, November 25
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11:45am  The Welfare Implications of Carbon Price Certainty
12pm  Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium
12pm  Public Security and the Fate of Brazil’s Democracy
12:15pm  The Way We Trust Today: Encryption as an Instrument of Decentralization
12:30pm  Building energy innovation systems in Latin America: Insights from Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
1:25pm  American Factory: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
3pm  Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household
5:30pm  WISE-Boston November Meeting: Perspectives on Environmental Social Governance
6pm  AUTHORS at MIT | Rebecca Thompson: Fire, Ice, and Physics
6pm  GREAT LIVES WORTH RELIVING WITH MO ROCCA
7pm  Designing Sustainable Urban Development

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Tuesday, November 26
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6pm  The Last Sacred Place of Poetry: Film Screening & Discussion (Central Square)

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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

The Fifth Risk
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-fifth-risk.html

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Monday, November 18 - Tuesday, November 19
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Massachusetts Digital Government
Monday, November 18 - Tuesday, November 19
Westin Boston Waterfront, 425 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at https://events.govtech.com/Massachusetts-Digital-Government-Summit.html

Government Technology's passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Massachusetts Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda that is relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use the inspirational keynotes, leadership discussions, networking breaks, and timely topics discussed in the numerous breakout sessions to help advance the goals of their organizations and their own career paths.

Topics Include:
Securing the Commonwealth – A Framework for Success
AI and Government
Residents and Citizens Unite
Project Planning/IT Governance
Business Continuity and the Cloud
Building the Human Firewall
5G & Connected Communities
Collaborative Communications
Navigating the Technology Procurement Process
State/Municipal Collaboration Roundtable

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Arctic Dynamics Workshop 
Monday, November 18 - Tuesday, November, 2019 
MIT, Building E25-401, Whitaker College, 4th floor, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge

For information please contact mgl at mit.edu
The presence of sea-ice at the surface of the Arctic Ocean strongly reflects incoming radiation and mediates the effect of the winds driving the circulation below. As the Arctic warms and the ice becomes less extensive and more mobile, its buffering effect will change and the Arctic will move in to a new regime. The aim of this workshop is to survey key theoretical ideas, identify knowledge gaps and stimulate further advances in our understanding of Arctic Ocean change.
Monday (start at 8:45) 

Bienvenue/Welcome 8:45
Large Scale Circulation 

Mike Spall 
A theory for the mean and seasonal variability of sea ice in the eastern Arctic Ocean 
Lars Henrik Smedsrud 
How Atlantic heat makes Arctic sea ice retreat 
Sarah Dewey 
Revisiting Assumptions about Western Arctic Ice-Ocean Stress in the Age of Satellite Remote Sensing 
Coffee break: 10:30-11:00
Helen Johnson 
Controls on total Arctic freshwater content variability in coupled climate models 
Aleksi Nummelin 
Effect of coupling and resolution on climate response function for Barents Sea sea ice and heat content 
James Morison 
Observing the Cyclonic Mode of Arctic Ocean Circulation 
Lunch: 12:30-14:00
Mary-Louise Timmermans 
Arctic Ocean circulation in the context of a changing climate 
Thomas Haine 
Constraints on Arctic-Atlantic Exchanges Revisited 
John Marshall 
On the residual flow of the Beaufort Gyre 
Andrey Proshutinsky 
The Greenland Gyre and its role in Great Salinity Anomalies 
Coffee break: 16:00-16:30
Sea Ice models 

James Williams 
Implementation and tuning of the sea-ice dynamics component of the NASA GISS climate model 
Veronique Dansereau 
A Maxwell-Elasto-Brittle/DG model for sea ice 
Pierre Rampal 
Sea ice dynamics in the new Arctic 
Tuesday (start at 9am) 

Small scale processes 

Pal Erik Isachsen 
High-latitude vortex dynamics: A case study from the Lofoten Basin 
Johan Nilsson 
Ocean-Ice Tongue Interactions in the Sherard Osborn Fjord 
Georgy Manucharyan 
Eddies in the Beaufort Gyre: big or small?	
Coffee break: 10:30-11:00
Gianluca Meneghello 
Genesis and decay of baroclinic eddies in the seasonally ice-covered Arctic Ocean 
Camille Lique 
Response of Total and Eddy Kinetic Energy to the recent spin up of the Beaufort Gyre  
Mukund Gupta 
Vertical velocities under sea ice 
Lunch 12:30-14:00
Chris Horvat 
Eddies/floes/blooms in the Arctic 
Jen Mackinnon 
Frontal subduction of Pacific Summer Water and associated turbulent mixing rates in the Beaufort 
Jiaxu Zhang 
Impact of the Beaufort Gyre freshwater on the North Atlantic: results from an ocean-sea ice model 
Effie Fine	 
Near Inertial Waves and Mixing Observations in the Beaufort Sea 

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Monday, November 18
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A Climate Solution Where All Sides Win
Monday, November 18
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

with Ted Halstead, Climate Leadership Council. Lunch is provided.

Contact Name:  Julie Gardella
julie_gardella at hks.harvard.edu

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium - Jacky Austermann (Columbia)
Monday, November 18
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

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Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders
WHEN  Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Pound Hall 102, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program
SPEAKER(S)  Charlotte Blattner, Visiting Researcher
Discussant: Kristen Stilt
CONTACT INFO	alpp at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Charlotte Blattner, Visiting Researcher at Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program, will be speaking about her book “Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders,” published by Oxford University Press. 
In her book Blattner discusses how we can protect animals in a globalized world, in a time when multinational corporations are growing in number and power, production facilities are being moved to other countries to evade stricter laws, and animals are shipped for use and slaughter across borders by the millions.

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Closing the Book on Sargent’s Weeping Hemlock
Monday, November 18
12:10PM
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Lecture Hall, 300 Centre Street, Boston

Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Arnold Arboretum

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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Race and Biopolitics in 21st-Century America
Monday, November 18
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Anne Pollock, King’s College, London.

Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to via the online form by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

sts at hks.harvard.edu
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/ 

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Unmapped Urbanism
Monday, November 18
12:30pm to 2:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

What happens in places unmapped or otherwise ignored by the state? Governments play a critical role in shaping who lives where, and how, but equally vital to the life of cities is what happens outside official control – in the areas and activities that governments call the “informal sector.” Through a closer examination of the two case studies of Tondo, Manila (Philippines) and Little Manila, Los Angeles (US) in the 1970s and 80s, it becomes clear that this sort of extralegality does not simply exist at the edges of the formal city. Rather, informality is a constantly negotiated legal non-status, and it is anything but peripheral to the everyday workings of cities around the world.

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Clean Peak Standard & Energy Storage Forum
Monday, November 18
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Mintz, 1 Financial Center, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clean-peak-standard-energy-storage-forum-tickets-70801698787
$125 – $175

Join us for an afternoon discussion of regulatory opportunities and policy goals associated with the latest storage technologies, followed by real-world applications that monetize storage solutions and deliver on policy imperatives.
Featuring Kaitlin Kelly and Will Lauwers, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources; Andrew Belden, Eversource; and Ian Springsteel, National Grid.
Become a new SEBANE member and receive one free ticket to this event! Contact info at sebane.org for more information.

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xTalk: Eric Klopfer & Meredith Thompson on VR Learning Games
Monday, November 18
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 5-134, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Authenticity, interactivity, and collaboration: Designing for Success in VR Learning Games

Virtual reality (VR) is becoming more accessible, however hardware cost, technology management, and lack of quality educational experiences still hamper widespread adoption in schools. As the interest and potential is high, it is an appropriate time to understand how to design effective affordable educational approaches in VR. The Collaborative Learning Environments in VR (CLEVR) project seeks to address those needs by creating Cellverse, a game that helps students learn cellular biology through virtual reality. Through design based research, we have documented the benefits of developing authentic experiences that leverage the interactivity of VR. Additionally, we have found that collaboration is both a beneficial skill and a strategy to make VR more feasible in current classrooms.

Eric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade at MIT. He is the Head of the department of Comparative Media Studies and Writing. He is also a co-faculty advisor for MIT’s J-WEL World Education Lab. His work uses a Design Based Research methodology to span the educational technology ecosystem, from design and development of new technologies to professional development and implementation. Much of Klopfer’s research has focused on computer games and simulations for building understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He is the co-author of the books, “Adventures in Modeling”, “The More We Know”, and the recently released “Resonant Games”, as well as author of “Augmented Learning.” His lab has produced software (from casual mobile games to the MMO The Radix Endeavor) and platforms (including StarLogo Nova and Taleblazer) used by millions of people, as well as online courses that have reached hundreds of thousands. His work has been funded by federal agencies including NIH, NSF and the Department of Education, as well as the Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Tata Trusts. Klopfer is also the co-founder and past President of the non-profit Learning Games Network (www.learninggamesnetwork.org).

Meredith Thompson is a research scientist at the Teaching Systems Lab (TSL) and the Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP). Her research interests are in the use of games and simulations in helping students learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics topics and the use of games and simulations in developing playful approaches to teacher education. Meredith is also the co-PI on an education research project funded by the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative. She and professor Eric Klopfer are working on Collaborative Learning Environments in Virtual Reality (CLEVR) to determine when VR might enable more effective learning and when VR is most useful in different types of learning experiences.

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Us Kids: We Call BS
WHEN  Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, 3 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Film, Social Sciences, Special Events
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 We Call BS, a film in progress, features Emma Gonzalez, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when she gave a powerful speech at an anti-gun rally on February 18, 2018, calling "BS" on lawmakers and gun advocates.
Following the film, Robb Moss, Harvard College Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard, converses with Us Kids director Kim Snyder, Us Kids producer Maria Cuomo Coles, David Hogg, Harvard student and March for Our Lives founder, and Bria Smith, Emerson student and March for Our Lives board member. Dialogue with the audience will be encouraged.
This is the fourth 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. Priority seating will be given to registered participants. Contact Gretchen Legler to register. Doors close promptly at 3:00 PM.

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The Tragedy of the Last Mile: Economic Solutions to Congestion in Broadband Networks
Monday, November 18
4:30pm to 5:45pm
Harvard Littauer, Hansen-Mason Room, 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Joint with Harvard: Aviv Nevo (University of Pennsylvania)

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John Herbst and Sergei Erofeev: The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain
Monday, November 18
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Tufts, Cabot 702, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-herbst-and-sergei-erofeev-the-putin-exodus-the-new-russian-brain-drain-registration-70518461617

Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a conversation with Ambassador John Herbst and Dr. Sergei Erofeev about their new report The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain (2019). Attendance is by registration only on Eventbrite.

Human capital is fleeing Russia. Since President Vladimir Putin’s ascent to the presidency, between 1.6 and 2 million Russians – out of a total population of 145 million – have left for Western democracies. This emigration sped up with Putin’s return as president in 2012, followed by a weakening economy and growing repressions. It soon began to look like a politically driven brain drain, causing increasing concern among Russian and international observers. In this pioneering study, the Council’s Eurasia Center offers a clear analysis of the Putin Exodus and its implications for Russia and the West. The study examines the patterns and drivers of Russian emigration to the West since 2000 based on the findings from focused interviews and surveys with new Russian émigrés in four key cities in the United States and Europe.

John Herbst is the director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council. Ambassador Herbst served for thirty-one years as a foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State, retiring at the rank of career minister. He was the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006. Prior to his ambassadorship in Ukraine, he was the U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2003. Ambassador Herbst previously served as U.S. consul general in Jerusalem; principal deputy to the ambassador-at-large for the Newly Independent States; director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs; director of regional affairs in the Near East Bureau; and at the embassies in Tel Aviv, Moscow, and Saudi Arabia. He most recently served as director of the Center for Complex Operations at the National Defense University. He has received two Presidential Distinguished Service Awards, the Secretary of State’s Career Achievement Award, the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Civilian Service Award. Ambassador Herbst’s writings on stability operations, Central Asia, Ukraine, and Russia are widely published.

Sergei Erofeev is currently a lecturer at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has been involved in the internationalization of universities in Russia since the early 1990s. Previously, Dr. Erofeev has served as a vice-rector for international affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, the dean of international programs at the European University at Saint Petersburg, and the director of the Center for Sociology of Culture at Kazan Federal University in Russia. He has also been a Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at the University of Washington. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Erofeev was a concert pianist and has worked in the area of the sociology of the arts.

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This Land Is Their Land
Monday, November 18
6 PM - 7 PM (There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30)
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/519078755319516/

David Silverman explores the history of the Wampanoag people to reveal the distortions of the Thanksgiving Myth, a persisting story that promotes the idea that Native people willingly ceded their country to the English to give rise to a white, Christian, democratic nation.  Silverman traces how the Wampanoags have lived and told a different history over the past four centuries.

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FORUM: Europe Was Not Always Free and United: Celebrating 30 Years Since the End of Communism
WHEN  Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, John F. Kenndy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, The Harvard Club of Poland
SPEAKER(S)  Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, former President of Poland
Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government and director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	benjamin_hull at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa will deliver a public address on the history and transformation of European politics.
LINK  https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/europe-was-not-always-free-and-united-celebrating-30-years-end-communism

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Climate Puzzles for Diplomats 
Monday, November 18
6:00PM TO 7:30PM
Tufts, Mugar 200, Mugar Hall, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford

This is a special session with a multidisciplinary panel of students with experience in advocacy in various fields. Together we will discuss the forms that advocacy in climate takes. 

How do we productively engage with an authority? What does effective advocacy encompass in climate?

They will start the conversation with perspectives from the guests – MALD students accompanied by a Tufts undergraduate activist in carbon divestment, and together they will discuss how to embrace and embody productive activism.

Dean Rachel Kyte will join the conversation as a guest commentator. 

https://t.e2ma.net/webview/pyu5ed/db4f2a25067b9bf0e8ec21646b5f67ce
Contact Name:  Zdenka Myslikova
Zdenka.Myslikova at tufts.edu

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A Conversation with Ash Carter
Monday, November 18
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Dorchester
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-ash-carter-tickets-74725799879

Kennedy Library Forum | A Conversation with Ash Carter

Ash Carter, former Secretary of Defense and director of Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, discusses his distinguished career and new book, Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon.

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Author Discussion: Imagining Judeo-Christian America--Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
WHEN  Monday, November18, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Religion
SPONSOR	Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT	CSWR, 617.495.4476
DETAILS  Please join us as K. Healan Gaston, HDS Lecturer in American Religious History and Ethics, discusses her recent publication.
E.J. Dionne (HDS) and Mark Silk (Trinity College) will serve as respondents.

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35+ Sunrise Support Meet and Greet
Monday, November 18
6:30 PM – 8 PM
Encuentro 5 9 Hamilton Place, Boston

Join us for a special Sunrise event for people ages 35 and above. We are excited to welcome everyone who is committed to fighting for climate and economic justice into this youth-led movement and we are here to help you become involved. 
 
Members of the various Sunrise Boston teams will be available to discuss, engage, or simply chat as you explore the many roles available within our hub. They are also here to learn more about you and what you bring to the movement.
 
Teams include: actions, trainings, fundraising, data, welcoming, communications, media, presentations and outreach, and many others. Please come to learn more about these teams, their goals and objectives, active campaigns, roles within these teams, and how you can help!
 
This will be a first-of-its-kind event across any Sunrise hub. Please join us as we make Sunrise history and pave the way for other hubs across the country.

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The Human Genomic Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
Monday, November 18
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cambridgepl.libcal.com/event/5904583

Over 15 years ago, the scientific community celebrated the sequencing of the first human genome. It’s time to ask how this monumental effort has transformed biomedical science, from basic research to the understanding and treatment of disease. Eric Lander, Broad Institute president and founding director and one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project, will survey the impact — what we’ve learned, and what lies ahead.

Presented as part of Horizons: Exploring Breakthroughs in Science & Technology and Their Impact on Society, a lecture series of the STEAM Initiative at the Cambridge Public Library. 

Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) will be livestreaming this event on their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/cctvcambridge/), and when the archived video is available, we will be posting it on the Library's Horizon's series page.

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Saving America's Cities:  Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
Monday, November 18
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author LIZABETH COHEN—Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University—for a discussion of her new book, Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age.

About Saving America's Cities
In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good.

It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.

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Extinction Rebellion Online Listening Circle
Monday, November 18
7 p.m.
Webinar
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/online-listening-circle-2019-11-18/

Join us as we explore the effects of the climate crisis on our hearts and minds. Doing this with the support of others offers respite from a culture that often prefers to ignore our current predicament entirely.

We'll take turns speaking and listening without interrupting, advising, or criticizing. The intention of this space is to explore our emotional relationship to this evolving emergency, rather than to intellectualize it or brainstorm solutions.

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Jamaica Plain Solar Professionals Meetup (November)
Monday, November 18
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST
The Dogwood, 3712 Washington Street,  Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jamaica-plain-solar-professionals-meetup-november-tickets-81431763597

November gathering of solar and allied professionals from Jamaica Plain and surrounding communities. All welcome!

Come join us for drinks and energetic (renewable of course) conversation.

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Harriet
WHEN  Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, 7 – 10 p.m.
WHERE  Kendall Square Cinema, 355 Binney Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Film, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events
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  "The Politics of the Unseen: Exploring the Moral Imagination" presents Harriet, the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Following the film, David B. Wilkins, the Lester Kissel Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, Swartz Resident Practitioner in Ministry Studies at HDS, will be in conversation with Harriet producer Debra Martin Chase. Dialogue with the audience will be encouraged.
This is the last 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.

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Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture: Loung Ung, Author of "First They Killed My Father"
Monday, November 18
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
BU, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/jewishstudies/

American-Cambodian human rights activist Loung Ung will conclude the lecture series on the theme "Writing from a Place of Survival" on Monday, November 18. Ms. Ung survived the “killing fields” of the Khmer Rouge as a child soldier for the Pol Pot regime. Her book, “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” (2000), was made into a harrowing film, directed by Angelina Jolie (2017).
	
Contact Name	Theresa Cooney
Phone  617-353-8096
Contact Email	ewcjs at bu.edu

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Tuesday, November 19
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The Future of Food & Its Global Impact
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
8:30 am - 11:30am
BU, Photonics Center, 8 St. Marys Street, 9th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-food-its-global-impact-tickets-74699515261

Speakers  Dr. Benjamin Siegel (CAS); Dr. Lindsey Locks (SPH & SAR); Dr. Magaly Koch (CAS); Chef Michael Leviton (MET); Dr. Richard S. Deese (Pardee & CGS); Dr. Sarah Phillips (CAS)
This panel discussion will feature Boston University experts and faculty members who study food, climate change, groundwater resources, environmental change, global health, and environmental history. The discussion will explore what can be done to curb the effects of climate change - which require collective action on a global scale - and how we can feed the world's growing population more sustainably, while minimizing the effects on human health.

Contact Name	Pamela DeCoste
Phone  6173858729
Contact Email	global at bu.edu

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Root Functional Traits for Water and Nutrient Acquisition Linked to Plant Strategies: Unpacking the Black Box
Tuesday, November 19
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Louise Comas, Plant Physiologist, United States Department of Agriculture.
Abstract: Resource availability has long been recognized for playing a major role in structuring plant communities.  Nonetheless, a functional understanding of root traits, their plasticity, and their interactions with soil organisms involved in acquiring those resources has largely remained out of focus and outside mainstream ecology.  Several patterns of root trait variation can be identified associated with plant strategies for resource acquisition.  Fine-root morphological traits are also associated with the evolution of different types of mycorrhizal fungi.  Root traits have shifted across evolutionary time frames corresponding to climatic warming and drying, such that more recently diverged species appeared to adapt to a warmer and drier climate by evolving finer roots and less reliance on mycorrhizal fungi.  Plant growth strategies can be extended to include root hydraulic properties.  Root traits of shade-intolerant species are consistent with the ability to proliferate roots quickly for rapid water uptake needed to support rapid shoot growth while minimizing risk in uncertain environments. The awareness of root functional traits is growing and the ‘black box’ of belowground plant strategies opening as belowground plant traits are recognized for their important role in governing plant success as well as impacts on ecosystem functioning. 

Herbaria Seminar 
https://huh.harvard.edu/event/huh-seminar-series-louise-comas
Contact Name:  huh-requests at oeb.harvard.edu

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Open Doc Lab Talk: Michelle Mizner - Making i-docs at FRONTLINE: A look back and look ahead
Tuesday, November 19
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT,  Building E15-318, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge

Since 1983, FRONTLINE has been American television’s top long form news and current affairs series. In that time, it has also become known as a digital pioneer within PBS, committed to harnessing emerging technologies to bring their hallmark brand of investigative journalism to new platforms and audiences.

In this talk, FRONTLINE PBS Series Producer and Editor Michelle Mizner will look back on some early examples of the program’s transitions into interactive, multi-platform storytelling, including experiments in form, structure, and viewer experience. We will also discuss specific projects the team has produced recently, such as one that optimizes a rich archive of on-camera interviews used in films, and others that were created as wholly original, interactive stories. What projects and experiments are we excited about next? Join to find out.

Michelle Mizner is Series Producer & Editor at FRONTLINE PBS, where her work for the series spans many storytelling forms. Before joining the staff in 2014, she worked as an independent filmmaker and as a producer for the Museum of Science, Boston. Her interactive documentaries have been recognized by the Peabodys, the Emmys, and World Press Photo. 

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Prison Changes People, Education Changes Prison 
Tuesday, November 19
12 pm-1:30 pm
Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
Register: bit.ly/prison-ed
Lunch provided

There are 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States. Research has shown that education is one of the most effective ways to decrease crime and the financial and societal costs of incarceration. Incarcerated people who participated in education programs were less likely to return to prison than those who did not and were also better positioned to successfully re-enter society and make positive impacts on their families and communities.

This seminar will explore the transformative power of education and feature faculty, students, and advocates who have experiences on all sides of a range of prison education programs. Speakers will share their perspectives on the importance of educating the incarcerated, the experience of receiving an education as a formerly incarcerated individual, and the opportunities for university students to get involved. 

Moderated by: Spencer Piston, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Speakers:
Mary Ellen Mastrorilli, Faculty Director of Boston University Prison Education Program, Associate Professor of the Practice, Criminal Justice; Chair, Applied Social Sciences
Andre De Quadros, Professor of Music, Music Education, Affiliate faculty, African Studies Center, Center for the Study of Asia, Global Health Initiative, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations
Allegra Martinez, BU Prison Education Program student
Andrew Cannon, BU PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Maco L. Faniel, National Program Manager, Petey Greene Program

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Security Matters: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico
WHEN  Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Graham Denyer Willis, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge
Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Graham Denyer Willis is University Senior Lecturer in Development and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Queens’ College. His first ethnographic monograph, The Killing Consensus: Police, Organised Crime and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (California UP 2015) emerges from three years of participant observation with homicide and other detectives in São Paulo, Brazil. He has published work in the American Political Science Review, Public Culture, Comparative Studies in Society and History, World Development and the Latin American Research Review, among other journals. He is an Editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies. He is currently writing his second book, Politics Gone Missing, which traces the political conditions, spaces and social relations that allow 20-25,000 people to 'go missing' unexceptionally, every year, in São Paulo.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/security-matters-evidence-brazil-and-mexico

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ESRG: Micro-Grids and Energy Storage in India
Tuesday, November 19
12:30pm – 1:30pm (A lunch buffet will be available before the presentation begins, starting at 12:15pm.)
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/esrg-micro-grids-and-energy-storage-in-india-tickets-82236765379?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Praveer Sinha presents on micro-grids and energy storage in India.

Please join the Electricity Student Research Group (ESRG) as we host Praveer Sinha for a presentation and discussion about micro-grids and energy storage in India.

Abstract:  This presentation will revolve around Tata Power Company’s development of micro-grids in India. As the largest integrated power company in India, TPC has substantial experience in this sector. First, the commercial viability of microgrids: How does commercial value inform development strategy? How important is commercial viability compared to other goals like universal access? Second, different battery technologies: How are batteries deployed in microgrids today? Does Tata use different battery chemistries for different purposes, and how will this evolve in the future?

Bio:  Praveer Sinha is the CEO & MD of the Tata Power Company, the largest integrated power company and one of the largest renewable energy companies in India. 

Mr. Sinha has nearly 34 years of experience in generation, distribution, and asset development. Prior to his position at TPC, he served as the CEO & MD of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TP-DDL), a PPP between Tata Power and the Government of Delhi. Under his leadership, TP-DDL became a leader in innovating and adopting world class technologies like Advanced Distribution Management Systems, Integrated GIS, Advanced Metering Infrastructure, etc. TP-DDL also expanded through the promotion of DERs, including rooftop solar projects, energy storage programs, DR, and EV charging systems, applicable both in the urban and rural environment. 
Apart from managing operations at TPC, Mr. Sinha is extremely passionate towards the inclusive growth of society and has implemented numerous sustainability programs focusing on women’s empowerment and skill development for youth and children. 

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Strategic Conversations: Deep Engagement to Build Broader Support for Immigrants
Tuesday, November 19
1:00 to 2:00 PM EST
Webinar
RSVP at https://www.ilctr.org/promoting-immigrants/upcomingwebinar/

Many of the deep divisions in America stem from misinformation, particularly about immigrants. Much of what an immigrant is today is constructed out of myths versus reality. Letting loose facts on the American public is insufficient in changing minds, however. Instead, sustained conversations, deep canvassing, positive framing and tapping into tested core beliefs are proven and effective ways to improve public opinion about immigrants.

Join experts in deep canvassing, messaging, demographic change and conflict resolution for the free webinar Strategic Conversations: Deep Engagement to Build Broader Support for Immigrants on Tuesday, November 19 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM EST.

This webinar is for any member of the public, including educators, students, volunteers, immigrant- and refugee-serving professionals, researchers, law enforcement, local leaders and the media. It is free-of-charge, but you must register to participate.

You will learn: 
Understanding the populations with misinformed views of immigrants
The tested core beliefs that can positively reinforce your messages
Strategies for conversations, canvassing and messaging that uplift public opinion on immigrants and immigration and pivot toward solutions and an alternative vision.

Presenters (more to come): 
Rachel Brown, Author, Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech, Founder, Over Zero
Justin Gest, PhD, Author, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know, Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Mohammed Naeem, Associate, More in Common
Kimberly Serrano, Messaging Research Project Manager, California Immigrant Policy Center
Denzil Mohammed, Director, The ILC Public Education Institute

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Futures Without Carbon Workshop: Roadmap to 2050
Tuesday, November 19
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
USCG Sector Boston, 427 Commercial Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/futures-without-carbon-workshop-roadmap-to-2050-tickets-77901139405

EEA is hosting a half-day workshop/IAC meeting to solicit stakeholder input into the 80x50 Study.

The 80x50 Study is a project exploring how Massachusetts can achieve its Global Warming Solutions Act mandate of at least 80% greenhouse gas reductions by 2050. This workshop will gather stakeholder perspectives to help understand potential future uncertainties and construct plausible scenarios to help EEA model potential futures. This will also serve as the November Public Meeting of the Implementation Advisory Committee.
RSVP in advance (by 11/14). Please note that while the meeting space can accommodate a large group, this will be a focused workshop and we ask that attendees plan to participate actively and join for the entire workshop (1-5pm). 
Please contact Claire Miziolek, 80x50 Study Manager, at claire.miziolek at mass.gov with any questions.

Logistic note: this event will be held at the US Coast Guard Boston Base at 427 Commercial St in Boston's North End. While there is limited parking available in proximity, attendees are strongly encouraged to carpool or take public transportation (North Station and Haymarket are the closest T stops).  Government issued ID will be required to enter the base--please contact Claire with any questions or concerns.  When arriving, all registered attendees should walk down the driveway to the check-in station outside and show ID to enter. The meeting will be in the building to the left.

More information on the study can be found at: https://www.mass.gov/2050Roadmap

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Taming the Tech Giants
Tuesday, November 19
3:45pm to 5:15pm
Northeastern, Egan Research Center, Raytheon Amphitheater, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston

Join us for our third event in the Fall 2019 Economic Policy Forum as we hear from Jason Furman and his view of the tech industry.

Jason Furman is the former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama and lead author of the report to the UK government on “Unlocking Digital Competition.”  Furman teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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

More information at https://cssh.northeastern.edu/economics/the-economic-policy-forum-2/

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From Controversy to Cure: Inside the Cambridge Biotech Boom documentary
Tuesday, November 19
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall,Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-controversy-to-cure-inside-the-cambridge-biotech-boom-documentary-tickets-80051457063

A documentary about the transformation of Kendall Square into the Biotechnology Capital of the World.

The MIT community is invited to an exclusive documentary premiere screening event.
In the summer of 1977, a contentious debate about genetic engineering erupted in the city of Cambridge, pitting scientist against scientist and citizen against citizen. Join us for the story of how the unlikely mix of science and engineering, politics, the space race, and urban renewal transformed Kendall Square into the Biotechnology Capital of the World.

A conversation with biotech pioneer and Institute Professor Phillip Sharp and documentary producer Joe McMaster of MIT Video Productions will follow.
Join us for a reception after the screening
Presented by MIT Video Productions

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Kelman Seminar: Negotiating Across Worldviews
WHEN  Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS Knafel North, Room K-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Alliance for Peacebuilding
SPEAKER(S)  Jeffrey Seul, Lecturer on Peace Studies, Harvard Divinity School
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO	Donna Hicks dhicks at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Leaders and change agents of all kinds must learn to engage effectively with people whose ways of seeing the world and moral codes—their worldviews — are very different from their own. Conflicts involving deeply held values and other fundamental differences in perspective often are resistant to approaches to negotiation and dialogue that serve us well in other situations, particularly when individuals and groups have a history of animosity, and even violent confrontation. This talk will introduce an approach to negotiation focused on ways in which our own and others’ worldviews influence our experiences as negotiators and dialogue partners — an approach designed to help us negotiate across worldviews more effectively.
LINK  https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/kelman-seminar-negotiating-across-worldviews/

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Seeing America From a Distance -- Reflections from Turkey and Beyond
WHEN  Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	CMES Director's Series
SPEAKER(S)  Suzy Hansen, Writer; author of "Notes on a Foreign Country", a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Suzy Hansen is a journalist who has lived in Istanbul for over 10 years. She is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for many other publications. Her first book, "Notes on a Foreign Country", was published in 2017. It was a Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and the winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs.
In 2020, she will be a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, as well as an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America. She is currently a Practitioner in Residence at NYU's Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
CMES events are open to the public (no registration required) and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed.
LINK  https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/seeing-america-distance-reflections-turkey-and-beyond

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Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context
WHEN  Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by: the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Associate and Organizer, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Sooyeon Kang, Pre-doctoral Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School; PhD Candidate, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
David Slater, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sophia University, Tokyo
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
LINK  https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/repercussions-the-hong-kong-protests-in-context-742

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Boston Sustainability Dinner Series - Fall Dinner
Tuesday, November 19
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Central Wharf Company, 160 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-sustainability-dinner-series-fall-dinner-tickets-74343155379
Cost:  $65

Boston Sustainability Dinner Series! Fall dinner and optional pre-dinner discussion on transportation

The Sustainability Dinner Series continues with our fall dinner, an all-vegetarian spread in the private room at Central Wharf.
5-6: Optional discussion on transportation (see below for details) 
6-6:45 Wine, connecting
6:45 Sit for dinner; rotate seatmates between courses

What is the dinner's culture and format?
The intent is to build a lively mutual aid society for those working to improve the environmental performance of organizations. This isn't a forum for sales pitches, but for human connection and collegial exchange. 
Dinners have robust vegetarian options, good public transit access, rotating seatmates with each course, and camaraderie with other organizational sustainability professionals. 
Short personal introductions will be done early in the evening. Otherwise no formal agenda. 
Chatham House Rules may be invoked by anyone at any time.

Optional discussion?
Over the years, some dinner guests have expressed a wish to dig deeper into specific topics, but have been reluctant to change the format of the dinner to do so. As an experiment, we're carving out an hour ahead of the dinner for a lightly-facilitated roundtable on a timely subject. 
November's dinner features a brief update on the Transportation Climate Initiative and an opportunity for guests to share (and debate) what's working in their own transportation decarbonization efforts.

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Film Screening: A Way Out
Tuesday, November 19
5:30pm to 7:00pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Mindfulness is a psychological process of being present and relating to others and the environment with compassion. Can mindfulness also help us completely reboot the way we address social and environmental sustainability? The Way Out provides a riveting and personal exploration of the issue of sustainability as well as the value of mindfulness for rewiring the way we think about complex global challenges. An integrative discussion of sustainability and mindfulness will follow the film.

Discussants
Susy Jones, Senior Sustainability Project Manager, MIT Office of Sustainability
Zan Barry, Senior Program Manager in Community Wellness at MIT Medical,who has provided mindfulness programs at MIT for over 16 years.

Watch trailer of The Way Out at https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/blog/2019/9/19/the-way-out-an-urgent-film-about-the-climate-crisis

Co-Sponsored with the MIT Office of Sustainability and Community Wellness at MIT Medical.

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Gutman Library Book Talk: Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success
WHEN  Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Eliot-Lyman, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Gutman Library
SPEAKER(S)  Susan Moore Johnson, Jerome T. Murphy Professor in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CONTACT INFO	myanne_krivoshey at gse.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In "Where Teachers Thrive," Susan Moore Johnson outlines a powerful argument about the importance of the school as an organization in nurturing high‐quality teaching. Based on case studies conducted in fourteen high-poverty, urban schools, the book examines why some schools failed to make progress, while others achieved remarkable results. It explores the challenges that administrators and teachers faced and describes what worked, what didn’t work, and why.
LINK  https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/where-teachers-thrive

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Beantown Throwdown 2019
Tuesday, November 19
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
LogMeIn, 333 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/beantown-throwdown-2019/
Cost:  $25 Members, $45 Non-Members, $10 Students

Home to over 60 colleges and universities, Boston has launched some of the most creative and inventive student-founded startups in the world. The Beantown Throwdown is all about celebrating and showcasing them!

Hosted at LogMeIn's Boston Headquarters, the #BeantownThrowdown will feature student teams representing a cross-section of local colleges and universities who will pitch their startups for recognition, as voted by the audience, as the winner of this annual event.

In a fun, collaborative environment, this program will also include a panel with unbridled insights from area entrepreneurs and investors.

Speakers
The event will open with a 20 minute panel discussion on entrepreneurial opportunities in the Boston area led  by Boston Globe Innovation Economy columnist and Innovation Leader co-founder and editor, Scott Kirsner.  

Last year's student team winning presenter,  Rachel Pardue, Co-Founder & CEO, Lou, will join the panel.
Kiki Mills, Managing Director, Drive by DraftKings
Lily Lyman, Investor, Underscore VC

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Fall Meeting Green Energy Consumers Alliance
Tuesday, November 19,
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, 100 W 2nd Street, South Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-meeting-tickets-76260690779
Cost:  $10

Every year, we host two meetings (Fall & Spring) to bring together climate movers and shakers. Join us to celebrate impressive, tangible progress on climate action at our Fall Meeting this November 19th. We're excited to hear from our featured speaker, co-founder of Mothers Out Front and McNulty Prize winner Kelsey Wirth.

Tickets are $10 per person and we are grateful to accept additional donations, or donations in lieu of attendance, to further our non-profit mission.

About the evening:
We're gathering energy professionals and friends for a networking event over appetizers and cocktails at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter - one of the most modern and green buildings in Boston! This event is open to the public. Cocktail Hour starts at 5:30 PM, and the program begins at 6:45pm.

Through our annual Energy Leadership Awards, we'll recognize:
The communities of Rockland, Medford, and Bedford, for making green electricity more accessible to their residents through community electricity programs.
Jet-Set Offset for its work on reducing the carbon footprint of air travel through advocacy and offering meaningful offsets

Contact information:
If you have any questions, reach out to Erin Taylor at erin at greenenergyconsumers.org

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The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal & Architecture in the Gilded Age New York 
Tuesday, November 19
6:00pm 
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston

The Grandest Madison Square Garden tells the non-fiction story of the fabulous 1890 “palace of pleasure” designed by Stanford White and the nude sculpture of the virgin goddess Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, set on the Garden’s and America’s tallest tower. While revealing much new information, dispelling long-held myths, and proposing controversial new theories, the book conveys a sense of on-scene immediacy and excitement as this remarkable amalgamation of architecture, art, and spectacle rises amid the Gilded Age.

Dr. Hinman will be reading from the book’s prologue, which places the reader vividly at the 1891 dedication of the tower and the sculpture that topped it, while annotating the story with illustrated “footnotes” that dramatically link the Garden with Boston’s heritage, from the first collaboration of White and Saint-Gaudens on Trinity Church, to architectural borrowings from the Boston Public Library, and to their various professional and private connections with the city of Boston itself.

Suzanne Hinman holds a Ph.D. in American art history and has been a curator, gallerist, museum director, professor, and an art model. She owned an art gallery in Santa Fe and then served as director of galleries at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the world's largest art school. Her interest in the artists and architects of the American Gilded Age and the famed Cornish Art Colony in New Hampshire grew while associate director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. The author continues to reside near Cornish as an independent scholar.

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All I Really Need to Know (About Politics), I Learned in Middle School
Tuesday, November 19
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-i-really-need-to-know-about-politics-i-learned-in-middle-school-tickets-81614271483

How does psychology drive our political processes and decisions?

Seeking allies, strategizing against enemies, protecting territory and having one group decide the distribution of power and resources for everyone else. Are we talking about politics or middle school? 
With just one year out from the next U.S. presidential election, join Dr. Diana Direiter for a discussion to unpack the human psychology that drives some of our political processes and decisions. 

About Dr. Diana Direiter
Diana Direiter, Ph.D., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at Lesley University, where she serves as the Dean of Faculty. Dr. Direiter works to help students find and understand the connections between the real world and the academic world, often analyzing stories from the worlds of celebrities and pop culture to recognize the threads relevant to what they are learning in their classes. Dr. Direiter’s academic and research interests include trauma, rape culture, women’s leadership, and the depiction of gender in pop culture. She is fascinated by the messages we all begin receiving from society from our first moments and how those messages – especially those related to gender – shape our views of ourselves and each other.

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Why Trust Science?
Tuesday, November 19
6:00 PM
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library welcome acclaimed author and Harvard professor NAOMI ORESKES for a discussion of her latest book, Why Trust Science?.

About Why Trust Science?
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.

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FORUM: Digital Currency Wars: A National Security Crisis Simulation
WHEN  Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Ash Carter, Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs; Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
Jennifer Fowler, Director, Brunswick Group; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Treasury Department
Gary Gensler, Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Aditi Kumar, Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Neha Narula, Director, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT
Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Special Assistant and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
Eric Rosenbach, Lecturer in Public Policy; Co-Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Director, National Economic Council; Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Treasury Department
Richard Verma, Vice Chair and Partner, The Asia Group; Ambassador to India, U.S. Department of State
COST  free - no ticket required
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/1521908537949700/
CONTACT INFO	benjamin_hull at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  A live simulation of a White House National Security Council meeting during a major national security crisis with former senior administration officials and thought leaders Nicholas Burns, Ash Carter, Jennifer Fowler, Gary Gensler, Aditi Kumar, Neha Narula, Meghan L. O’Sullivan , Eric Rosenbach, Lawrence H. Summers, and Richard Verma.
LINK  https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/digital-currency-wars-national-security-crisis-simulation

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A Slow Food Conversation: Worker Justice = Food Justice
Tuesday, November 19
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Remnant Brewing, 2 Bow Market Way, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-slow-food-conversation-worker-justice-food-justice-tickets-78066702609
Cost:  $18

Did you know?
Restaurant workers are more likely to require food stamps, live in poverty and are 70% made up of women. Current federal laws allow employers to pay as little as $2.13 in the restaurant industry for tipped employees instead of the minimum wage ($15). With lenient labor laws and wealthy lobbyists keeping restaurant wages low, how can we expect workers in the food and beverage industry to earn a decent living?

Slow Food Boston fully believes in wage equity, that food industry staff should be fairly compensated by their employers, and that national policies should reflect these basic human rights. That is why we are excited to host our second Slow Food Conversation, "Worker Justice = Food Justice.”

Join us for a lively conversation to hear about local initiatives to pay food service workers and suppliers a fair wage/price and provide benefits to employees. We'll also get insights and hear first-hand about the challenges faced by restaurant owners to account for dozens of overhead costs that are often obscured from diners. Guest speakers will also discuss tipped employee minimum wage, open book management, worker owned co-ops, and the fight for $15. Please join us and take part in a thoughtful discussion about how the Slow Food community can work collectively to develop a more equitable food system that can afford to pay a living wage. 
Enjoy complimentary appetizers provided by Mei Mei and grab a beer in tune with the seasons and current trends from our hosts Remnant Brewery. Additional food will be available for purchase. More details about participants to come. Space is limited so advance RSVP is required. 

In an effort to make this event accessible to all who would like to attend regardless of income, a limited number of 'pay what you can' tickets are available. You are also welcome to help us fund our 'pay what you can' tickets by making a donation -- any amount is greatly appreciated!

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B. Harun Küçük | Science Without Leisure
Tuesday, November 19
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Does science need to be useful? Are productivity and innovation good goals for academics? Do academics need to be paid? For what would you pay them and how much? And what would happen if you did not pay them? Does anyone need to go to school? Can’t you make do with apprenticeship and perhaps a few private lessons? Seventeenth-century Istanbul may hold some possible answers. For roughly a century, Istanbul produced no texts dealing with the classical sciences of astronomy, theoretical medicine and natural philosophy as hyperinflation wrecked living conditions of the professoriate. On the other hand, the city had its most prolific century in almanacs, drug recipes and instrument manuals. By focusing on temporal and monetary underpinnings of scientific activity, I would like to do away with much of the vocabulary that we use to understand the flourishing of science and the decline of science, such as culture, practice, modernity, conservatism, innovation and civilization. In its stead, I will propose a quasi-economic model of science as nonproductive labor that requires a specific kind of leisure.

B. Harun Küçük, University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science
Harun Küçük is Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His work explores the relationship between daily practices and science in Ottoman Istanbul. Küçük has received his PhD from UC San Diego and has previously held pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He is currently working on a book-length essay that outlines the temporal regimes of science. His first book, Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in November 2019.

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Swiss Touch in Space Exploration
Tuesday, November 19
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Museum of Science, 1 Museum Of Science Driveway, Cahners Theater, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swiss-touch-in-space-exploration-tickets-79135970819

With 2019 Nobel winner Didier Queloz, learn how a meticulous pursuit for precision led to the discovery of the first exoplanet.

During the great space race, Switzerland was the only foreign country to provide Apollo missions with a scientific experiment. Since then, this small watchmaking country has become a discreet but key player in space research and industry, providing know-how in materials and precision mechanics for rockets, satellites and planetary rovers. In 1995, Switzerland pioneered the field of exoplanetology with the discovery of 51 Pegasi B by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, thanks to the unprecedented accuracy of their observations.

swissnex Boston and Swiss Touch invite you for an exploration of outer space, where careful measurements can uncover entire worlds orbiting light-years away. Our evening reception will feature a first keynote from 2019 Nobel prize winner Didier Queloz (University of Geneva) about the impact of his discovery followed by Willy Benz (University of Bern) who will present the Swiss-led ESA satellite CHEOPS(CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite), that aims to precisely measure the diameter of extrasolar planets.

Didier Queloz and Willy Benz will be joined on stage by a panel of local experts of space exploration and alternative cosmologies, including:
Kim Arcand, Visualization Lead, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at CfA
George Ricker, Senior Research Scientist, TESS PI, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Prathima Muniyappa, MIT Media Lab, Space Enabled, Alternative and Indigenous Cosmologies
The evening will come to a close with a networking reception.

Program
6.00pm Doors open
6.30pm	Introductions
6.40pm Keynote by Didier Queloz, Nobel Prize
7.00pm Keynote by Willy Benz
7.20pm Panel discussion
7.45pm Q&A
8.00pm Networking reception
9.00pm Doors close

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Extinction Rebellion New Member Orientation
Tuesday, November 19
6:30 p.m.
Cambridge Public Library, Central Square Branch, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/new-member-orientation-11-19/

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

The session will run for around 90 minutes.

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Science for the People
Tuesday, November 19 
6:30 pm
MIT, Building 56-154, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

The doors should be unlocked until 7:00, but text or call Bennett M at 720-468-0762 if you are lost or need to be let in. 

Among other things, we will be discussing this response from Tim L, to a study in Science last month about bias in healthcare algorithms. The study, and a response Science published from Ruha Benjamin, are attached. You can also see a quick write-up of the study here. 

An agenda and zoom details for those who would like to join remotely are forthcoming, in the meantime feel free to email sftp-boston-internal at googlegroups.com with any questions or requests. 

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Free Live Interview: Kochland, The Secret History of Koch Industries
Tuesday, November 19
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
UMass Boston, University Hall Room 2110, 100 William T Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-live-interview-kochland-the-secret-history-of-koch-industries-tickets-78997043283

Investigative journalist Christopher Leonard and environmental radio show Living on Earth discuss Leonard's newest book on Koch Industries.

Join best-selling author Christopher Leonard and nationally syndicated environmental radio show Living on Earth for a discussion for Leonard’s new book, “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America.”

Koch Industries, the sprawling industrial conglomerate owned by Charles and David Koch, specializes in the kinds of stunningly profitable businesses that undergird every aspect of modern life: it controls the nitrogen fertilizer that puts food on your table, the gasoline that powers your car, the fibers in your clothes, the building materials that make your homes and offices, and the microchips that drive your life online. The company’s annual revenue is larger than that of Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and US Steel combined, and together the two brothers are worth more than Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Yet few Americans know how Koch got so big or the costs of its unrivaled success. Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard uses Koch’s ascent to tell the story of modern corporate America.

This event is part of Good Reads on Earth, a series of events where public radio program Living on Earth holds live radio interviews with authors of the latest environmental books. To learn more about Living on Earth, please visit http://loe.org 

This event is sponsored by Living on Earth, the UMass Boston School for the Environment, & the UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School.
This is a free event.
Books will be available for sale and signing.

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Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire
Tuesday, November 19
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
IBM, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-digital-tangible-the-battle-against-the-pixel-empire-tickets-77570689019

Today's mainstream Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research primarily addresses functional concerns – the needs of users, practical applications, and usability evaluation. Tangible Bits and Radical Atoms are driven by vision and carried out with an artistic approach. While today's technologies will become obsolete in one year, and today's applications will be replaced in 10 years, true visions – we believe – can last longer than 100 years.
Tangible Bits seeks to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment by giving physical form to digital information and computation, making bits directly manipulatable and perceptible both in the foreground and background of our consciousness (peripheral awareness). Our goal is to invent new design media for artistic expression as well as for scientific analysis, taking advantage of the richness of human senses and skills we develop throughout our lifetime interacting with the physical world, as well as the computational reflection enabled by real-time sensing and digital feedback.

Radical Atoms leaps beyond Tangible Bits by assuming a hypothetical generation of materials that can change form and properties dynamically, becoming as reconfigurable as pixels on a screen. Radical Atoms is the future material that can transform its shape, conform to constraints, and inform the users of their affordances. Radical Atoms is a vision for the future of Human- Material Interaction, in which all digital information has a physical manifestation, thus enabling us to interact directly with it.

I will present the trajectory of our vision-driven design research from Tangible Bits towards Radical Atoms, illustrated through a variety of interaction design projects that have been presented and exhibited in Media Arts, Design, and Science communities. These emphasize that the design for engaging and inspiring tangible interactions requires the rigor of both scientific and artistic review, encapsulated by my motto, “Be Artistic and Analytic. Be Poetic and Pragmatic.”

BIO: Hiroshi Ishii is the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory. After joining the Media Lab in October 1995, he founded the Tangible Media Group to make digital tangible by giving physical form to digital information and computation. Here, he pursues his visions of Tangible Bits (1997) and Radical Atoms (2012) that will transcend the Painted Bits of GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces), the current dominant paradigm of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction).
He is recognized as a founder of “Tangible User Interfaces (TUI),” a new research genre-based on the CHI ’97 “Tangible Bits” paper presented with Brygg Ullmer in Atlanta, Georgia, which led to the spinoff ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) from 2007. In addition to academic conferences, “Tangible Bits” was exhibited at the NTT ICC (2000) in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ars Electronica Center (2001-2003) in Linz, Austria, and many other international arts & design venues. For his Tangible Bits work, he was awarded tenure from MIT in 2001 and elected to the CHI Academy in 2006.
Read more about Hiroshi Ishii at https://tangible.media.mit.edu/person/hiroshi-ishii/

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

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Listening Partnerships for climate activists: tools for sustaining and renewing ourselves
Tuesday, November 19
7 p.m.
Small Planet Institute, 12 Eliot Street, Cambridge 
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/listening-partnerships-climate-activists-tools-sus/

Come learn one of the most effective, free, readily-available skills you can develop for ongoing mental and emotional health. Building “listening partnerships” into your life can help you:

Roll constructively with the emotional challenges of climate activism (e.g., fear, despair, overwhelm)

Gain energy to act from a more grounded place
Become a better listener in all the relationships in your life
Heal from personal and societal hurts
Connect to a worldwide network of people who practice listening partnerships
In the introductory session you'll be introduced to the basic theory and be invited to experience the method with several of the people present. If you're drawn to it, you can sign up for a 6-week class that will start mid-January. (Coming to the intro session does not obligate you to sign up for the class.)

Led by John Bell, a leader in the Buddhist climate justice community, whose joy has been fueled for decades by the practice of listening partnerships. Questions? Contact jbellminder at gmail.com

Listening Partnerships for climate activists: tools for sustaining and renewing ourselves

Note: another introductory session be held Thurs. Dec. 12th, 7-9pm, at the same location

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FLP Open Meeting: Inclusive Entrepreneurship & Healthy Food Access with CommonWealth Kitchen
WHEN  Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS Knafel, K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Education, Special Events, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Food Literacy Project
SPEAKER(S)  Ismail Samad, Director of Manufacturing Business Operations at CommonWealth Kitchen
COST  FREE
TICKET WEB LINK  https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true
CONTACT INFO	foodliteracy at harvard.edu
DETAILS  CommonWealth Kitchen is Boston's only nonprofit food business incubator and food manufacturing social enterprise. Home to over 55 delicious and diverse companies, CommonWealth Kitchen provides shared commercial kitchens combined with robust business and technical support to help aspiring entrepreneurs build great food companies, create jobs, improve healthy food access, and strengthen our regional food economy. Director of Manufacturing Business Operations, Ismail Samad, joins us to tell CommonWealth Kitchen's story.
LINK  https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=51&CATID=61&SINGLESTORE=true

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Sunrise Boston Community Team Meeting
Tuesday, November 19
7 PM – 9 PM
Harvard, Smith Campus Center, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/2569004379980753/

The community team plans social events for Sunrise Boston members to have fun, get to know each other, and prevent burnout. If you're interested in planning events with us, come join us at this meeting, where we will brainstorm future events!

We will meet in Harvard's Smith Campus Center, which is open to the public and wheelchair-accessible. Right before the meeting, we'll post our exact location within the building.

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Wednesday, November 20 - Thursday, November 21
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24 Hours of Reality: Truth in Action
https://www.24hoursofreality.org/

You’ve seen the headlines. You know the climate crisis is devastating the Earth. You want to know what we can do. What you can do.  

You’re not alone – and we think it’s time for answers.   

So on November 20–21, we’re presenting 24 Hours of Reality: Truth in Action, a global conversation on the truth of the climate crisis and how we solve it.  

For one full day, Climate Reality Leader volunteers trained by former Vice President Al Gore will hold public presentations and conversations on our changing climate in schools, community centers, workplaces, and more across all 50 US states and countries worldwide.  

It’s a chance for friends, neighbors, and colleagues to hear the truth of what’s happening to our planet. A chance to learn how we’ll overcome this existential threat together. A chance to turn truth into real action and bold solutions. Now, while we still have time.  

There are many ways to get involved, from hosting a free presentation to joining a Truth in Action event in your community. Sign up at https://www.24hoursofreality.org/ to learn how you can be part of this historic event on November 20–21.   

After all, it’s your planet at stake. Your future on the line. If the world is talking about how we’ll solve this crisis, you need to be part of the conversation.

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US/Canada Energy Trade Conference Protest
Wednesday, November 20 - Thursday, November 21
noon
Seaport Boston Hotel, 1 Seaport Lane, Boston

Solidarity event with Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station Please note this is a two-day conference, 11/20-21, hours below

Enbridge, the Canadian company pushing the fracked-gas compressor station in Weymouth, is a lead sponsor of this year’s “Energy Trade and Technology Conference.” The event will be taking place on Wednesday and Thursday, November 20-21, at Boston’s Seaport Hotel. This is a great opportunity to let them know that their toxic presence isn’t welcome here or anywhere. 

Since Enbridge has spent significant money to be a platinum sponsor at the event, we want to give them their money’s worth of bad publicity by picketing the entire event. The people Enbridge wants to impress need to know that we won’t just sit back and watch them build this monstrosity in the Fore River!

Not only would the compressor station further pollute the dangerous air quality of the Fore River Basin, but it would allow energy companies to export fracked-gas to Europe and accelerate global warming. Now that the utilities have said the compressor station isn’t needed, and the people won’t let them build it, let’s hammer the message that the compressor station is a STRANDED ASSET.

The conference will be held on Wednesday, November 20 from noon - 7:30PM and on Thursday, November 21 from 7:30AM - 2:30PM. We are planning a peaceful protest and picket with signs to cover several entry points of the hotel. Please fill out this form (https://bit.ly/2CHOKlw) to let us know if you or your group could stand outside to hold signs for a period of time on either day of the conference. We won't be able to cover the whole conference, so we encourage groups to show up with signs whenever they can. Email us with questions: nocompressor at gmail.com. Thank you!

You can sign up with FRRACS on the form above if you just wanna stand out with signs for an hour or two; if you would like to sign up with the XR contingent to do something a little more planned, please do so here.

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Wednesday, November 20
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Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, November 20
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EST
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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Harbor Use Public Forum: One Waterfront Initiative
Wednesday, November 20
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Leventhal Room at the Boston Harbor Hotel, 50 Rowes Wharf, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harbor-use-public-forum-one-waterfront-initiative-tickets-78078475823

Join us in November for a conversation with the Trustees of Reservations to learn about the One Waterfront Initiative.

Boston Harbor Now now holds monthly Harbor Use Public Forums in order for interested stakeholders to learn about and provide feedback to waterfront developers and public agency planners on projects affecting Boston Harbor, its waterfront and islands.

Join us in November for a conversation with the Trustees of Reservations to learn about the One Waterfront Initiative – an ambitious project to build a network of new green open spaces along Boston’s inner harbor. Hear from Nick Black, the managing director of the Trustees’ Boston Waterfront Initiative about the successes and challenges, plans for community outreach, partnerships with Massport and the City of Boston, and feasibility studies that have shaped the initiative’s progress in East Boston, South Boston, and the North End. Stay for a Q&A session with the project team.

These meetings are meant to provide opportunities for the frank, open discussion needed to optimize both private and public amenities as Boston's waterfront undergoes redevelopment. For more information, including opportunities to present your proposal at one of these meetings, please contact Alice Brown, planning director, at abrown at bostonharbornow.org

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Climate Adaptation
Wednesday, November 20
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Almunae Hall, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

Ann Rappaport, Senior Lecturer, Tufts UEP, with UEP alumni.

UEP's Colloquium series brings together students, faculty, affiliates, alumni, and friends to share, learn, and inspire. Colloquia are typically held on a bi-weekly basis during the fall semester and about once a month in the Spring semester. A light lunch will be provided.

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We Have to Get This Right: The Future of Work and Labor -- Talk by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka
Wednesday, November 20
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building E51-315, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://sloangroups.mit.edu/leadershipandhumancapital/rsvp_boot?id=623164

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will share findings from the AFL-CIO's new report on the future of work and unions. With 12.5 million members and 55 unions, the AFL-CIO is America's largest labor federation.  Advanced registration is required for this free event, and food will be provided.

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The Legal Case of Fukushima, in Japan and Beyond
WHEN  Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Morgan Courtroom, Austin 308, 1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	East Asian Legal Studies (HLS)
Reischauer Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Julius Weitzdorfer, Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Fellow (2019-2020); Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government
DETAILS  EALS Lunchtime Talk
A non-pizza lunch will be provided. 
LINK  http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

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The Pentagon, Greenhouse Gases & Climate Change
Wednesday, November 20
12:00 - 1:30 pm (Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 am)
BU, Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, Boston 
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2019/11/05/upcoming-seminar-the-pentagon-greenhouse-gases-climate-change/#RSVP

The U.S. Department of Defense is a large fuel user -- in any one year, larger than many of the world's countries combined. This raises several questions. What are the trends in DOD greenhouse gas emissions? What explains those trends? And how does the Pentagon think about its fuel use and climate change? The Pentagon (and some academics) believe that climate change will lead to greater conflict and perhaps even war. Are they right? Is climate change-caused war likely? 

Join the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future for a lunch seminar exploring these questions and more titled "The Pentagon, Greenhouse Gases & Climate Change," featuring Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow. The seminar is the first event in the "20 Years of War" research series, a two-year collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University to expand the Costs of War project, which Prof. Crawford co-founded and co-directs. 

This event is free and open to the public.

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Blowback and Escalation Risks from the US Weaponization of Finance
Wednesday, November 20
12:00-1:30pm
MIT, Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Cynthia Roberts, Hunter College
The only material domain where the United States still reigns indisputably supreme is in financial power, which rests on the dominance of the US dollar and the centrality of the American economic and financial system to international commerce. Despite its declining share of the world economy, the US has successfully leveraged its structural financial power to assert its dominance in new disruptive ways, such as by treating global access to the American financial system as a set of proprietary nodes. With such clever retooling, the number of foreign actors that Washington has cut off because of proscribed extraterritorial conduct, even if none of that activity touches the United States directly, has been on an annual upward trend since 2001. This seminar will address two concerns arising from the US weaponization of finance: (1) how aggressive use of financial coercion and punishment is incentivizing opponents, such as China, and even US allies, to search for alternative instruments and evasions to limit their vulnerability and increase their autonomy; and (2) how the threat or use of financial swords as a powerful alternative to military engagement can create under-explored risks of escalation. It draws on recent publications and work in progress.

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Linking Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement Policies: Strategically Resolving an International Climate Policy Dilemma
Wednesday, November 20
12:00PM TO 1:35PM
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Jesse Reynolds, UCLA School of Law
Solar geoengineering may be able to significantly reduce climate-change risks, but raises sharp controversy. The leading cause of controversy is the concern that its research, development, or use might inappropriately displace efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A possible response would be to strategically link the international policies of abatement and solar geoengineering. I expand on this idea, including by disaggregating states based on relevant characteristics, considering the processes of developing linkages, and the incentives that various policy linkages could foster. I explore various potential linkage mechanisms and identify one that could effectively reduce abatement displacement (if not increase abatement), appears feasible, and would be consistent with widely-held norms.

Contact Name:  Amy Chang
acchang at seas.harvard.edu
Solar Geoengineering Research Program Seminar
https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/event/seminar-jesse-reynolds-0

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Elections and Public Confidence: Getting It Right
Wednesday, November 20
12:30 pm
Tufts, 205 Cabot Hall, 70 Packard Avenue, Medford

Policy Talk by Josh Benaloh, Senior Cryptographer, Microsoft Research

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Better Buses, Better Cities
Wednesday, November 20
1:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time
Webinar
RSVP at https://nextcity.org/events/rsvp/steven-higashide-on-better-buses-better-cities
Cost:  Donation

Steven Higashide

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The Sex Crimes Paradox
WHEN  Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Law, Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Corey Rayburn Yung, 2019–2020 Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; William R. Scott Research Professor, University of Kansas School of Law
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In this lecture, Corey Rayburn Yung will discuss his project analyzing the paradox between panic and denial at the heart of American laws related to sexual violence. Built upon his previous research, Yung will offer a coherent explanation for the social and legal dynamics surrounding sexual violence.
LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-corey-rayburn-yung-fellow-presentation

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Emergency Powers of International Organizations
WHEN  Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Adolphus Busch Hall at Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street
SPEAKER(S)  Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Assistant Professor for International Organizations, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Joel P. Trachtman, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Chair: Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO	Anna Popiel apopiel at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  To launch his new book "Emergency Powers of International Organizations," Christian Kreuder-Sonnen will talk about exceptionalist crisis politics of international organizations (IOs) such as the United Nations Security Council, the World Health Organization, and the European Union. His book studies cases in which IOs adopt emergency measures bending the limits of their competence and infringing on the rights of the rule-addressees. It offers a comprehensive explanation for the longer-term institutional effects of such instances of IO self-empowerment, ranging from normalization to containment or from ratchet to rollback. In his talk, Kreuder-Sonnen will critically reflect upon the (anti-)constitutional implications of globalized emergency politics.
LINK  https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/11/emergency-powers-of-international-organizations

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Racial Equity & Climate Roundtable
Wednesday, November 20
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
The Great Hall at Codman Square Health Center, 6 Norfolk Street, #3520, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-equity-climate-roundtable-tickets-78177110843

Join our discussion with other community members on how climate change impacts our most vulnerable first and worst

The Racial Equity & Climate Roundtable is meant to encourage conversation around the connection between climate change and racial equity. Though climate change will affect all Bostonians, many Bostonians are more vulnerable to climate change. Climate change will have a greater negative effect on these groups. The Equity Dialogues focus on the most climate vulnerable populations to encourage greater dialogue on the importance of social equity in addressing climate change. This is with the goal of utilizing the conversations to foster greater social resilience for Boston communities.
These populations include:
Older Adults,
Youth,
People of Color,
Women,
People with Disabilities (Mobility, Cognitive, Sensory), and
Citizens experiencing Homelessness

The conversation will go over the impacts the city is expecting, connect how existing social structures disparately impact communities of color, and how that will impact preparation against climate change. We will then end with a roundtable conversation having communal dialogue around the connection and what we can all do to address the disparities. 
Please fill out this google form if you plan to participate in this conversation: https://forms.gle/BnxXFzABfvytXL449

If you have any questions, please email David Corbie at David.Corbie at Boston.Gov.

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Housing as History: New Directions for Boston’s Subsidized Housing: Learning from the Past
Wednesday, November 20
5:30pm to 7:00pm
1154 Boylston Street, Boston

As neighborhoods across Boston face enormous development pressure, there is a risk that low-income residents will be forced out of the city. Social disruption due to gentrification, shifting government policies and programs, and the challenges of climate change make the future of affordable housing in Boston precarious. In the past, Boston modeled creative and successful solutions to dire housing problems, and there is hope that the city can continue to deploy innovative policies that will brighten the future for all city residents. Our final panel in this series will look at the future of affordable housing in Boston, taking stock of past lessons learned.

This discussion will be led by William McGonagle, former Administrator, Boston Housing Authority; Soni Gupta, Director of Neighborhoods and Housing, The Boston Foundation; Lawrence Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Sandra Henriquez, Executive Director, Detroit Housing Commission; former administrator and CEO, Boston Housing Authority; and moderator David Luberoff, Deputy Director, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

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Great Decisions | Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?
Wednesday, November 20,
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/great-decisions-nuclear-negotiations-back-to-the-future-tickets-76583518365

Join us for the penultimate Great Decisions event in the 2019 series!

Nuclear weapons have not gone away, and the Trump administration has brought a new urgency, if not a new approach, to dealing with them. The President has met with Vladimir Putin as the New Start Treaty with Russia comes up for renewal in 2021, the first presidential summit ever with Kim Jong-un occurred to discuss denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, and President Trump has decertified the Obama nuclear deal with Iran. To what degree should past nuclear talks guide future U.S. nuclear arms control negotiations? Can the art of the deal apply to stabilizing our nuclear future?

Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman is a Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. In addition, she is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center. Amb. Sherman is Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group. 

Amb. Sherman led the U.S. negotiating team that reached agreement on a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between the P5+1, the European Union, and Iran for which, among other diplomatic accomplishments, she was awarded the National Security Medal by President Barack Obama. Prior to her service at the Department of State, she was Vice Chair and founding partner of the Albright Stonebridge Group, Counselor of the Department of State under Secretary Madeleine Albright and Special Advisor to President Clinton and Policy Coordinator on North Korea. 

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED!

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Earth is Not My Home
WHEN  Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard University Center for the Environment, GSD 5389: Integrated Design and Planning for Climate Change
SPEAKER(S)  Troy Conrad Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives at the Guggenheim Museum
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	huce at environment.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The present architectural discourse about climate change predominantly focuses on solutions, adaptations, regulations, and other approaches for changing course. And, of course, it does — but, architecture can also tell us about our climate past. This lecture incorporates new discoveries ranging from paleoanthropology to the science of psychedelics, scriptural exegesis to chaos magic, to speculate an origin story for architecture that can be used to think through our climate future. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Jesse M. Keenan.
Troy Conrad Therrien is the Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives at the Guggenheim Museum and a faculty member at Columbia University and the Architectural Association.
LINK  http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2019-11-20-230000/earth-not-my-home

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Immersive Media Community Screening
Wednesday, November 20
6-9 PM
Cambridge Community Television, 438 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at Ellen Daoust at 617-661-6900 or email ellen at cctvcambridge.org

with Xia Rondeau
JOIN US for our first ever Immersive Media Community Screening featuring 360 films and 3D worlds produced by CCTV Members! Come experience thrilling 360 narratives, thought provoking documentaries, and unforgettable 3D experiences that you will view using CCTV's Oculus Go's and HTC Vive. Learn about our course and technology offerings so you too can tell your stories through Immersive Media! This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is required. Space is limited. See you there!

Advance registration is required and is accepted on a first-come basis. Early registration is advised since courses may fill up or be canceled due to low enrollment. Members with sufficient voucher balance may register over the phone (617) 661-6900; all others must provide full payment at the time of registration. Schedules are subject to change.

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TEDxCambridge Salon Series:  A.I. Ethics & Civil Liberties
Wednesday, November 20
6:00PM – 7:30PM
WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.tedxcambridge.com/salon/a-i-ethics-civil-liberties/
Cost:  $30

Cansu Canca, TECHNO PHILOSOPHER
Cansu Canca is a philosopher and the founder and director of the AI Ethics Lab. She leads teams of computer scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars to provide ethics analysis and guidance to researchers and practitioners. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the National University of Singapore specializing in applied ethics. Her area of work is in the ethics of technology and population-level bioethics with an interest in policy questions. Prior to the AI Ethics Lab, she was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, and a researcher at the Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Osaka University, and the World Health Organization.

Kade Crockford, PRIVACY ADVOCATE
Kade Crockford is the director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts. Kade writes, researches, organizes, lobbies, and advocates to ensure privacy and civil liberties law keeps pace with new technologies, with a focus on how systems of surveillance and control impact not just society in general, but also their primary targets: people of color, Muslims, immigrants, and dissidents. Kade’s writing on digital security, surveillance, and state power have appeared in outlets including The Nation, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, New Inquiry, and The Baffler.

Performance By Olivia Pérez Collellmir, MUSICIAN
Olivia is a pianist, bandleader, and composer from Barcelona, Spain. She started playing piano at the age of five and as a young scholar pianist toured and recorded for the National Radio of Spain. Olivia received a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music where she won the prestigious Chair Award and a Piano Achievement Award. Olivia is a faculty member in the Berklee piano department and regularly performs at The Beehive, Regattabar, Museum of Fine Arts, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Sonia Olla, DANCER
Sonia was born and raised in Barcelona where she earned a degree in Spanish Dance and Flamenco at the esteemed Instituto de Teatro y Danza. Hailed by The New York Times as “a furnace of earthy sensuality”, she has performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and choreographed Madonna’s worldwide 2015-16 Rebel Heart Tour. Sonia currently resides in New York and is a bailaora of international prestige who directors and choreographs her own shows.
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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LivableStreets and TransitMatters Happy Hour
Wednesday, November 20
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
The Kinsale Irish Pub & Restaurant, 2 Center Plaza, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livablestreets-and-transitmatters-happy-hour-tickets-82038434165

LivableStreets and TransitMatters are hosting a combined Happy Hour! Join us Wednesday, 11/20 at 6pm @ Kinsale Irish Pub

LivableStreets and TransitMatters are hosting a combined Happy Hour! Join us Wednesday, 11/20 at 6pm inside the Kinsale Irish Pub and Restaurant for some light appetizers, transit conversations, and fun. There will be a brief speaking program at 7pm where TransitMatters and LivableStreets staff will share updates and highlight ways to be involved. We hope to see you there!

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Climate Stories Project with Jason Davis
Wednesday, November 20
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall, Cambridge

Event image for Climate Stories Project with Jason Davis
Jason Davis, a Massachusetts-based musician, composer, and the director of Climate Stories Project, will present and perform two pieces for solo double bass which feature the recorded voices of people from around the world talking about their responses to the climate crisis. Jason will also discuss Climate Stories Project, an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about climate change. You will learn how you can share your climate story and why it's so important to do so, and why your creativity is essential in confronting the climate crisis.

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Creating Common Good: Food as Fulcrum
Wednesday, November 20
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, DMC Lecture Hall, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-common-good-food-as-fulcrum-tickets-80082381559

QUESTION: What do artists and chefs have in common?
ANSWER: The desire to nourish.

This shared desire is what inspired the theme for MassArt’s 5th Alumni Biennial Exhibition, and exemplifies our mission to prepare students and alumni to shape communities, economies, and cultures for the common good, wherever their paths may lead them. Join us as MassArt President David Nelson dives deeper into this conversation with artists and entrepreneurs who are creating positive change and fostering generosity through the medium of food. 

Afterwards, linger at the table for some inspired discussions and a chance to learn about how current MassArt students are creating their own social impact right here on campus. The 5th Biennial Alumni Exhibition “Nourish” will also be on view in the Patricia Doran Gallery.
And since sharing is caring – we will also be accepting donations for The Shelf, MassArt's food pantry. Please consider bringing in any non-perishable items or toiletries to help support our food-insecure students!
Limited parking will be available in MassArt's Ward Street Lot.

#MassArtNourish
PANELISTS:
Jody Adams // Chef and Co-owner of TRADE, Porto, and Saloniki restaurants 
Jody Adams is a two-times James Beard award-winning chef based in Boston, with a national reputation for her acclaimed restaurants Rialto and TRADE. She has also collaborated with her husband Ken Rivard on the successful blog, The Garum Factory, a colorful weekly narrative of recipes for the home cook, illustrated with Ken’s photographs, and recently served as a juror for MassArt’s 5th Alumni Biennial Exhibition "Nourish.”

Adams has a strong commitment to hunger relief and is known for her loyal support of the Greater Boston Food Bank and Share Our Strength, who awarded her the Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2010. She serves as board member to Partners In Health, Island Creek Oysters Foundation and is a member of the Nutrition Round Table at the Harvard School of Public Health. 

Toni Elka // Founder and Executive Director, Future Chefs
Toni Elka founded Future Chefs in 2008. An alumna of MassArt with 20 years of experience in the youth development field, she is a serial innovator and committed social change agent. She received national recognition for her innovative leadership (Mass. Statewide Peer Leadership Institute) and founded the Circle of Girls program prior to Future Chefs. As the granddaughter of a union organizer and farmer and holding jobs as a cook and caterer, her passion for the culinary arts fueled her sense of excitement about directing a career program that addresses the needs of youth who might find fulfillment in this creative, hands-on field. In 2013 she received a Boston Neighborhood Fellows Award from the Philanthropic Institute and serves on the boards of Boston Day and Evening Academy and The Boston Private Industry Council. In May of 2015, Ms. Elka received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Newbury College. 

Tuyen Bui-Lally // Design Educator and Creator, Juste Tutu
Tuyen Bui-Lally is a French-Vietnamese communicator, design educator and entrepreneur passionate about food, technology and intercultural identity. She loves sharing her experiences and ideas with others to help inspire hospitality, conviviality + creativity.

She holds degrees in both International Business Communication from CELSA Paris IV La Sorbonne, and a Master of Fine Arts in Design from the Dynamic Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art + Design.
Tuyen is currently teaching a Color Design Workshop at Lesley University and is nurturing her new venture called Juste Tutu curating events showcasing multicultural food experiences by gathering people around ephemeral and convivial shared moments.

Hannah Clark (with Brendan Kenny & Josephine Wermuth) // The Dinner Table Project (a MassArt Student Group)
The Dinner Table Project began in the fall of 2018 by Hannah Clark as a response to the food crisis in Boston, while Hannah was still a student at MassArt. The project addresses student food insecurities, the politics of agriculture and the validity of functional craft. An invitation went out to makers and craftspeople across the college for table linens, serving dishes, plates, bowls, cups and spoons all to live in a handmade table made from fallen pine trees in MA. A collective of makers then doubled as kitchen cooks, preparing a meal with donated produce from FairFoods and dry goods from The Shelf, MassArt’s food pantry. Collaboratively the artists created an evening of nourishment. 

The Dinner Table Project fed over 70 students at its first dinner. Each guest washed their dishes and reset them on the table so that new spaces are always available. There is always another seat at the table. The collective hosts dinners once a semester and invites students campus-wide to help prep, cook, serve and share a meal together. The project has traveled to the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA and is stored on campus. The Dinner table project is a space for makers by makers. Activism does not start and stop in our studios, it spills out into our cups and bowls. 

Since leaving Mass Art, Hannah has been working as a Butcher's apprentice at Savenor’s Butcher and Market in Cambridge. She has been learning the craft of whole-animal butchery from master butchers, with a commitment to reducing waste, utilizing and honoring the entire animal and working in collaboration with small farms across Massachusetts to bring locally sourced sustainable meat to Boston. Her practice continues to transform as an artist, igniting conversation and solution to the current language of food in American agriculture through performances of nourishment.

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The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
Wednesday, November 20
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Simons Theatre New England Aquarium, Aquarium Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=108105&view=Detail

Dr. Alex Dehgan, CEO, Conservation X Labs
Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Alex Dehgan arrived in the country in 2006 to build the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan Program, and preserve and protect Afghanistan’s unique and extraordinary environment, which had been decimated after decades of war. 

The efforts of Dehgan, an evolutionary biologist and former diplomat working for the Wildlife Conservation Society, were central to the creation of the first Afghanistan National Park Program. In his book, The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation, Dehgan takes readers along with him and his team through some of the most dangerous places in postwar Afghanistan as they work to establish the country’s first national park, complete some of the first extensive wildlife surveys in 30 years, and act to stop the poaching of the country’s iconic endangered animals, including the snow leopard. 

Dehgan will reflect on innovative approaches to advancing the environment and security in some of the most politically and ecologically fragile places in the world, while exploring connections between conservation and political stability. This talk will also consider the larger changes of the political landscape and evolving U.S. positions toward Afghanistan, while showing spectacular imagery from Afghanistan that never crosses our televisions or computers.

Doors open at 6 p.m., and there will be a cash bar from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

A book signing of The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation will be held in the lobby after after his presentation.

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Using Probabilistic Machines Learning towards Diagnosing Neurodegenerative Diseases
Wednesday, November 20
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, November 21 -  Friday, November 22
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MIT Water Summit 2019: Drowning in Plastic
Thursday, November 21 -  Friday, November 22
MIT, Building E51, Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mit.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1114&p=1
Cost:  $20 - $200

We use plastic every day, but where does it all go? This year’s MIT Water Summit explores the many ways in which plastics have become intertwined with our water environment, the challenges created by plastic pollution, and potential solutions to tackle emerging challenges. The Summit will bring together leaders from academia, government, NGOs, and industry to provide diverse insights on plastics in the water environment. The MIT Water Summit is a two-day conference hosted annually by the MIT Water Club.   

Topics that will be addressed include, but are not limited to:
Microplastics in our water
Health & ecological impacts of marine and freshwater plastics
Plastic’s path to our water (life cycle and history of plastic pollution)
Policies concerning plastic pollution 
Ocean cleanup & remediation efforts
Relevant market & economic opportunities

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Thursday, November 21
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AI and the Work of the Future Congress
Thursday, November 21
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-the-work-of-the-future-congress-tickets-61872886469
Cost:  $100 – $595

“We must proactively and thoughtfully reinvent the future of work."
- L. Rafael Reif, President of MIT

The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), MIT Work of the Future (WOTF), MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) present the MIT AI & the Work of the Future Congress.

The AI age is here, transforming work and the skills required for humans to thrive. Join us as we gather leading academics, business leaders, entrepreneurs, education and labor leaders, and policy makers to explore the impact and future trends of technological disruption, rethink the nature of work, and chart a course for catalyzing innovation for inclusion and economic opportunity for all.

Join MIT on November 21 to explore, rethink, and chart a course for the work of the future.

The remarkable progression of technological innovation is ushering in a new era of unprecedented health, convenience, and prosperity. But the machines imbued with human and superhuman capabilities also bring a flood of collective uncertainty and anxiety about the impact on work and economies. How can we create a future of work that complements and augments human potential while contributing to shared economic prosperity? 

To help us understand and meet this grand challenge, three of MIT’s most innovative, future-focused initiatives have joined forces to present the MIT AI & the Work of the Future Congress. This year’s Congress will convene the leaders and visionaries on the front line that are:
Rigorously measuring technological impact on enterprises, governments, and societies
Generating solutions for organizations and policymakers that are working today
Crafting strategies and guidelines for the future

MIT believes the challenge of building an equitable and prosperous future of work is an urgent imperative. The question we should be asking ourselves at this historic moment isn’t “what is technology going to do to our economy and society,” but rather “what will we do with technology?” Audience participation and break out sessions will be available.

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet the leaders reinventing the work of the future and to engage in this important conversation.

http://workofthefuturecongress.mit.edu/

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Artist Talk: Metaphor, Meaning, Antarctica, and the Anthropocene (Oh my!)
Thursday, November 21
12:00-1:00pm 
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford

Georgie Friedman, Artist
Can visual and experiential metaphors in contemporary art encourage people to contemplate or connect with our planet and changing climate? As a part of the 60th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty, video installation artist Georgie Friedman will present highlights from the last decade of her art practice and share art and her experiences from her 2017 SMFA/Tufts Artist Traveling Fellowship to Antarctica. Friedman investigates our complex relationships with our changing planet, and her pieces focus on the   hurricanes, blizzards, polar ice melt, and raising sea levels
utilizes video, sound, sculpture, existing architecture, and the physics of light, all in order to create new experiences for viewers.

Georgie Friedman earned her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University ('08), and her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz ('96).
The Geneva International Film Festival (Switzerland); The Cleveland Museum of Art (OH);  Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea (Bari, Italy); Georgetown University (DC); Boston City Hall – exterior (MA); Burlington City Arts (VT); Union College (NY); Lesley University College of Art and Design (MA); deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum (MA); College of the Holy Cross (MA); Shelburne Museum (VT); Transylvania University (KY); and The Armory Center for the Arts (CA). Friedman's work has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, NPR, CBS News, The Atlantic, Orion Magazine, among many others. Currently she is Part-Time Faculty in the Art, Art History and Film Department at Boston College and a Visiting Lecturer in the Film/Video Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

She has traveled to five continents to film for her projects, and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibition, Georgie Friedman: She is currently based in Boston and has lived, worked and exhibited nationally/

Fragments of Antarctica, was on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from April – September 2019. She has been awarded Mass has created over fifteen short and long-term video-based public art pieces. In 2016 Friedman was an Artist-in-Residence with the City of Boston and created a site-specific, public art project: Altering the City, Video Landscape – Traces of Wind and Water in Dorchester, MA. 

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Commerce and Coercion in Contemporary China
WHEN  Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, One Brattle Square, Room 350, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)  Kacie Miura, Research Fellow, International Security Program
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/commerce-and-coercion-contemporary-china

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Artificial Intelligence and the “Barrier of Meaning” 
Thursday, November 21
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G882 (Hewlett Room), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Melanie Mitchell , Portland State University, Santa Fe Institute 
Abstract:  In 1986, the mathematician and philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota wrote, “I wonder whether or when artificial intelligence will ever crash the barrier of meaning.” Here, the phrase “barrier of meaning” refers to a belief about humans versus machines: humans are able to “actually understand” the situations they encounter, whereas AI systems (at least current ones) do not possess such understanding. The internal representations learned by (or programmed into) AI systems do not capture the rich “meanings” that humans bring to bear in perception, language, and reasoning. 

In this talk I will assess the state of the art of artificial intelligence in several domains, and describe some of their current limitations and vulnerabilities, which can be accounted for by a lack of true understanding of the domains they work in. I will explore the following questions: (1) To be reliable in human domains, what do AI systems actually need to “understand”? (2) Which domains require human-like understanding? And (3) What does such understanding entail?

Speaker Biography: 
Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and complex systems, and she is the author of numerous scholarly papers and several books in these fields. Her general-audience book, Complexity: A Guided Tour, won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award and was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best science books of 2009. Her newest book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, was recently published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 

Melanie can be contacted via her website, melaniemitchell.me, and on Twitter, @melmitchell1.

Contact: Nicole Hoffman, nicolem at csail.mit.edu

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Digital Equity and Climate Resilience
Thursday, November 21
4-5pm
UMass Boston, McCormack, 1st floor, Room 0213, Dorchester

SSL welcomes Greta Byrum, Co-Director of the Digital Equity Laboratory at the New School, a university center advancing digital equity through organizing, applied research, and policy strategy. As former director of the Resilient Communities program, Byrum led Resilient Networks NYC, a project supported by New York City's Economic Development Corporation. Resilient Networks provides training, tools, and equipment to community organizations in five Hurricane Sandy-impacted New York City neighborhoods so they can build storm-hardened local WiFi. This event is free and open to the public.

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Manshel Lecture "Toward a Politics of Responsibility: The Case of Climate Change" with Kathryn Sikkink
WHEN  Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, 4:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Chair: Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs; Acting Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chair, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University.
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	Sarah Banse
sarahbanse at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Kathryn Sikkink will share the climate change discussion from her forthcoming book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibility. In light of the US federal government’s unwillingness to make urgent domestic and foreign policy changes to address climate change, all actors socially connected to the problem and able to act must step up and take responsibility for change. The talk will both draw on theories of forward-looking responsibility for justice, and provide practical and evidence-based ideas for the most effective actions for individuals and institutions to address climate change.
Speaker:  Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Chair:  Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs; Acting Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chair, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University.
The event is free and open to the public. It will be streamed live through the WCFIA Facebook page.
Bio:  Kathryn Sikkink works on international norms and institutions, transnational advocacy networks, the impact of human rights law and policies, and transitional justice.
Her publications include Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century; The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics (awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award and the WOLA/Duke University Award); Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America; Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (coauthored with Margaret Keck and awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order and the ISA Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book in the area of International Organizations); and The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance (coedited with Thomas Risse and Stephen Ropp).
She holds an MA and a PhD from Columbia University. Sikkink has been a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and a Guggenheim fellow. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the editorial board of International Organization.
The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy was established at the Center for International Affairs in 1993 by members of the Manshel family and by many of their friends. It stands as a memorial to the Manshels’ longstanding commitment to public affairs and their desire to advance greater understanding of the international relations of the United States. The lecture series honors Warren Manshel’s role as a founder of both The Public Interest and Foreign Policy, his service as ambassador to Denmark, and his deep involvement over many years in the work of the Center. It also serves to recognize Anita Manshel as Warren’s full partner and enthusiastic supporter in these endeavors, which he so often acknowledged.
LINK  https://wcfia.harvard.edu/events/manshel19-sikkink

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Starr Forum: Digital Feminism in the Arab Gulf
Thursday, November 21
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
MIT Wiesner Building E15 - 070 Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starr-forum-digital-feminism-in-the-arab-gulf-tickets-76306381441

Featuring Mona Eltahawy, American-Egyptian journalist, speaker, and author of "The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls"

Speaker:  Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is based in Cairo and New York City. She is the author of "The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls," released September 2019.
Discussant:  Hala Aldosari is a Saudi scholar and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights in Arab societies, violence against women, and the “guardianship” system in Saudi Arabia. She joined the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) as its 2019 Robert E Wilhelm Fellow.

Books will be signed and sold by MIT Press Bookstore at the event.
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS), MIT Press Bookstore, MIT History
Free & open to the public | Refreshments served

Can't attend in person? Watch it on Facebook live or on-demand on YouTube at http://bit.ly/CISYouTube.

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Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”
Thursday, November 21
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building E15, tables opposite room 320, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

How do Cuban culture and media register the defining aspects of its transformation at the turn of the 21st century: the expansion of transnational capitalist markets, the proliferation of digital media, and the simultaneous reorganization of its official state ideology and its social imaginaries? This talk will explore competing narratives about Cuba’s postsocialist moment across a range of cultural and media practices—from music to memes—inviting us to consider whether we can continue to frame Cuba as a regional exception. We will also examine how revisiting our assumptions about digital media and cultural agency, both in Cuba and in the broader hemispheric context, can speak to the dreams and demands of constituencies that operate between, beneath, and beyond the pressures of global markets and the nation-state.

Paloma Duong is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at MIT. At the intersection of cultural studies, media theory, and political philosophy, Paloma researches and teaches modern and contemporary Latin American culture. She works with social texts and emergent media cultures that speak to the exercise of cultural agencies and the formation of political subjectivity. She is currently writing Portable Postsocialisms: Culture and Media in 21st century Cuba, a book-length study of Cuba’s changing mediascape and an inquiry on the postsocialist condition and its contexts. Her articles have been published in theJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Art Margins, and Cuban Counterpoints: Public Scholarship about a Changing Cuba.

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Gender Equity and Climate Roundtable
Thursday, November 21
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, 2300 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gender-equity-and-climate-roundtable-tickets-78177945339

Join our discussion with other community members on how climate change impacts our most vulnerable first and worst

The Gender Equity & Climate Roundtable is meant to encourage conversation around the connection between climate change and gender equity. Though climate change will affect all Bostonians, many Bostonians are more vulnerable to climate change. Climate change will have a greater negative effect on these groups. The Equity Dialogues focus on the most climate vulnerable populations to encourage greater dialogue on the importance of social equity in addressing climate change. This is with the goal of utilizing the conversations to foster greater social resilience among Boston communities.
These populations include:
Older Adults,
Youth,
People of Color,
Women,
People with Disabilities (Mobility, Cognitive, Sensory), and
Citizens experiencing Homelessness.

The conversation will go over the impacts the city is expecting, connect how existing social structures disparately impact women, and how that will impact preparation against climate change. We will then end with a roundtable conversation having communal dialogue around the connection and what we can all do to address the disparities. 
RSVP HERE - https://forms.gle/6G28fo6DvFkXoNGx7
If you have any questions, feel free to email David Corbie at David.Corbie at Boston.Gov.

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What Makes a City Great for 8-yer-olds and 80-year-olds Alike
Thursday, November 21
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Fairmont Copley Plaza, 138 Saint James Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-keynote-with-gil-penalosa-tickets-76045256409

An Evening Keynote with Gil Penalosa, Founder of 8 80 Cities
Thriving cities are places that everyone can call home, regardless of age and ability. These cities prioritize the happiness, health, and overall well-being of its residents over car mobility.

Join us for an evening keynote and reception with Gil Penalosa, founder and chair of 8 80 Cities. Gil advises decisionmakers and communities around the world on how to create vibrant and healthy cities for all.

Engage your imagination in creating safer, healthier places to live, work, and play.

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Presenting “Insights into Future Mobility,” an MIT Energy Initiative report
Thursday, November 21
5:15 PM – 7:00 PM EST
MIT, Ray and Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Kirsch Auditorium - Room 123, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting-insights-into-future-mobility-an-mit-energy-initiative-report-tickets-76089384397

Presenting "Insights into Future Mobility," an MIT Energy Initiative report
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) will present its Insights into Future Mobility report to members of the greater MIT community. This report is the culmination of the three-year Mobility of the Future study that examined how the complex interactions between advanced drivetrain options, alternative fuels, refueling infrastructure, consumer choice, vehicle automation, and government policy may shape the future for personal mobility. Study leaders and researchers will share key findings, supported by detailed research involving advanced modeling; analysis of primary survey data; and interviews with government officials. They will provide insights into how evolving environmental policies, urban regulations, disruptive technologies, economics, and consumer behaviors and attitudes may transform mobility systems.

Schedule
Thursday, November 21, 2019
5:15 pm
Welcome 
Maria T. Zuber – E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics; Vice President for Research, MIT
Framing Remarks 
Robert C. Armstrong – Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering
5:25 pm
Study introduction
Randall Field – Executive Director, Mobility of the Future study and Mobility Systems Center, MIT Energy Initiative
5:35 pm 
Light-duty vehicles in the context of global economics and carbon policy
Jennifer Morris – Research Scientist, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
5:50 pm 
Transition to “alternative fuel vehicles”: Why, which, where, when, how, and at what cost?
William H. Green – Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering, MIT and Faculty Chair, Mobility of the Future study
Lisa (I-Yun) Hsieh – Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
6:05 pm
The urbanization and motorization challenge: The role of new mobility technologies, services, and policies in shaping sustainable cities
Jinhua Zhao – Edward and Joyce Linde Associate Professor of City and Transportation Planning, MIT 
Joanna Moody – Research Program Manager, Mobility Systems Center, MIT Energy Initiative
6:20 pm 
Q&A with all speakers
Moderator: Randall Field
6:45 pm
Reception
Meet the study researchers

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Can Journalists Save the Planet?
Thursday, November 21
6:00pm to 8:00pm
MIT, Building 3-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Seating for this event is first come, first served

The Amazon is burning. Coral reefs are dying. Glaciers are melting, and as Earth gets pushed to its brink, journalists who can translate the impact of climate change and hold the powerful accountable are more needed than ever. On Thursday, November 21, the MIT Communications Forum welcomes climate reporters Kendra Pierre-Louis (New York Times) and Lisa Song (ProPublica) for a far-reaching discussion on the media’s role in illuminating environmental issues, promoting environmental justice and ethics, and the future of climate journalism. Beth Daley, Editor and General Manager for The Conversation, will moderate.

Speakers
Kendra Pierre-Louis is a Climate Reporter with the New York Times and author of the book, Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet. Previously she was a staff writer for Popular Science where she wrote about science, the environment, and, occasionally, mayonnaise. Her writing has also appeared in FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Modern Farmer, and Slate.

Lisa Song is an investigative reporter at ProPublica who covers the environment, energy and climate change. She joined ProPublica in 2017 after six years at InsideClimate News, where she covered climate science and environmental health. She was part of the reporting team that revealed Exxon’s shift from conducting global warming research to supporting climate denial, a series that was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for public service. From 2013 to 2014 she reported extensively on air pollution from Texas’ oil and gas boom as part of a collaboration between several newsrooms. Lisa is a co-author of “The Dilbit Disaster,” which won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

Beth Daley is Editor and General Manager of The Conversation. She covered the environment, science, and education for almost two decades at The Boston Globe, was an investigative reporter at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, and then was head of strategic development at InsideClimate News before coming to The Conversation. Daley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has won awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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Spatial Perception for Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
Thursday, November 21
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
MIT, Building 31-270, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ieee-robotics-and-automation-society-talk-mit-tickets-77362572537

Speaker: Prof. Luca Carlone
Spatial perception has witnessed an unprecedented progress in the last decade. Robots are now able to detect objects, localize them, and create large-scale maps of an unknown environment, which are crucial capabilities for navigation and manipulation. Despite these advances, both researchers and practitioners are well aware of the brittleness of current perception systems, and a large gap still separates robot and human perception. While many applications can afford occasional failures (e.g., AR/VR, domestic robotics) or can structure the environment to simplify perception (e.g., industrial robotics), safety-critical applications of robotics in the wild, ranging from self-driving vehicles to search & rescue, demand a new generation of algorithms. This talk discusses two efforts targeted at bridging this gap. The first focuses on robustness: I present recent advances in the design of certifiably robust spatial perception algorithms that are robust to extreme amounts of outliers and afford performance guarantees. These algorithms are “hard to break” and are able to work in regimes where all related techniques fail. The second effort targets metric-semantic understanding. While humans are able to quickly grasp both geometric and semantic aspects of a scene, high-level scene understanding remains a challenge for robotics. I present recent work on real-time metric-semantic understanding, which combines robust estimation with deep learning. I discuss these efforts and their applications to a variety of perception problems, including mesh registration, image-based object localization, and robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.

Luca Carlone is the Charles Stark Draper Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Principal Investigator in the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS). He received his PhD from the Polytechnic University of Turin in 2012. He joined LIDS as a postdoctoral associate (2015) and later as a Research Scientist (2016), after spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2013-2015). His research interests include nonlinear estimation, numerical and distributed optimization, and probabilistic inference, applied to sensing, perception, and decision-making in single and multi-robot systems. His work includes seminal results on certifiably correct algorithms for localization and mapping, as well as approaches for visual-inertial navigation and distributed mapping. He is a recipient of the 2017 Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award, the best paper award at WAFR’16, the best Student paper award at the 2018 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, and was best paper finalist at RSS’15.

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Ujima & Faith Communities for a Solidarity Economy
Thursday, November 21
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
JPCH, 65 Cornwall Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ujima-faith-communities-for-a-solidarity-economy-registration-77424798657

Faith Communities for a Solidarity Economy. Come celebrate and continue the work of building the Boston Ujima Project’s Faith Network.

We are growing a network of faith organizations as part of the Boston Ujima Project, which organizes neighbors, workers, business owners and investors to bring a community-controlled Boston-based economy to fruition. We are on our way! And you are the most important part of the equity-equation! 
Whether you came to the first kick-off event in Nov 2018, or are engaging for the first time with us, or anywhere in between, we urge you to engage with us as a broader body of faith communities. We gather to encourage making commitments to the equitable distribution of decision-making power and resources in our city, and to grow and be joyful together, in pursuit of racial and economic justice. 

Dinner will be provided, from one of our Ujima Business members! 
RSVP today via EventBrite! And mark your calendars. 
Invite others in your or other organizations/congregations who you want to be part of Ujima's work! 

And if you have made purchases with Ujima’s businesses or partners, please record them on this Google Form: https://forms.gle/ganRYv5wUbdrX9817

See our list of partners and businesses at http://www.UjimaBoston.com
At this event, we will learn from and celebrate how some faith communities have been engaging with Ujima, including over $80,000 of direct investment into the Ujima Investment Fund, and over $15,000 (and counting) purchased of goods and services from the Ujima Business Alliance businesses! You did this, and we can continue to do so much more together! 

This will also be the space to meet some of the Ujima business owners, and familiarize and network with the other efforts within the Ujima ecosystem. 

And what would be a faith communities meeting if we didn’t have a little fun and laughter together, to foster goodwill and ignite collaboration among the faith communities represented amongst us. 

All are welcome including but not limited to members, staff and leaders of congregations and faith organizations. Location is TBD. 

Co-hosted by Kavod, a community of young adults committed to local social justice organizing and meaningful Jewish practice. 
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Nadav at partnerships at kavodhouse.com or Seona at seonaboston at yahoo.com

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Water Innovation Prize 2020 Kickoff Dinner
Thursday, November 21
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
MIT Wang Auditorium, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/water-innovation-prize-2020-kickoff-dinner-tickets-7939323831

RSVP to join us for an evening of food, fun and education as we celebrate the launch of the 2020 MIT Water Innovation Prize with industry leading investors, researchers, multinational corporations and startups. The kickoff dinner will be held on Thursday evening as part of the annual MIT Water Summit.

MIT Water Innovation Prize
The MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP) is a startup competition focused on water innovation that awards up to $35K in innovation grants annually to student-led teams from across the country and internationally. The Prize started in 2015 and has since awarded $100K to 12 teams.
The official Water Innovation Prize application opens in November 2019 and shortlisted teams will receive mentorship in February and March of 2020. Winners are selected at the final pitch event in April 2020.

CALL FOR STARTUPS
We welcome individuals or teams to pitch their ideas at the Kickoff Dinner (3-5 min). All approaches to water innovation are welcome, from engineering and product design to policy and data analytics! Please contact us at: waterinnovation at mit.edu to learn more.

What to Expect
6:00-7:00 PM - Opening Reception and Dinner
7:00-7:10 PM - Introduction to MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP)
7:10-7:20 PM - Keynotes by John Robinson of Mazarine Ventures and Alex Loucopoulos of Sciens Water
7:20-7:30 PM - Keynote by WIP alumni
7:30-7:50 PM - Startup Rapidfire Pitch
7:50-8:00 PM - Closing

More about the MIT Water Summit
MIT Water Summit: Drowning in Plastic
We use plastic every day, but where does it all go? This year’s MIT Water Summit explores the many ways in which plastics have become intertwined with our water environment, the challenges created by plastic pollution, and potential solutions to tackle emerging challenges. The Summit will bring together leaders from academia, government, NGOs, and industry to provide diverse insights on plastics in the water environment. The MIT Water Summit is a two-day conference hosted annually by the MIT Water Club.
Topics that will be addressed include, but are not limited to:
Microplastics in our water
Health & ecological impacts of marine and freshwater plastics
Plastic’s path to our water (life cycle and history of plastic pollution)
Policies concerning plastic pollution
Ocean cleanup & remediation efforts
Relevant market & economic opportunities
Full program and tickets at mitwatersummit.com

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Gene Editing as a Therapy for Human Blood Diseases
Thursday, November 21
6:30pm 
Aeronaut, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville

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

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Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it)
Friday, November 21
6:30 p.m.
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/hfe-11-21-19/

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

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Antarctica: Climate, Penguins and International Cooperation
Thursday, November 21
6:30-8:00PM
Tufts, Barnum Hall, Room 008, Dana Laboratory, Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antarctica-climate-penguins-and-international-cooperation-tickets-78685655915

International cooperation has expanded our understanding of Antarctica and provided a guide for effective peace building. On Dec 1st, 1969 the Antarctic Treaty was signed at the height of the cold war to unite nations in the “interests of science and the progress of all mankind” by setting aside this territory “for peaceful purposes only.” This event commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the Treaty and aims to reflect on lessons learned to improve the health of our planet. Short presentations by world-class scientists Prof. Paul Mayewski (University of Maine), Prof. Susan Solomon (MIT) and Prof. Paul Berkman (Tufts University) will be followed by a discussion moderated by Ronit Prawer (UK Government’s Science and Innovation Network). Our panelists will reflect on their research experiences in Antarctica, enabling Earth system observations over time that underscore the progress and challenges with international cooperation in our globally-interconnected civilization.

A reception will follow after the event – Please RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antarctica-climate-penguins-and-international-cooperation-tickets-78685655915

This event is hosted by the Environmental Studies Program, the Foundation for the Good Governance of International Spaces, the Science Diplomacy Center at the Fletcher School and the Tufts Institute of the Environment.

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Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision
Thursday, November 21
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-author-brendan-mcquade-tickets-78654855791

The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation.

About the Author: Brendan McQuade is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Southern Maine.

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30th Anniversary Commemoration of the Martyrs of El Salvador
Thursday, November 21
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Boston College, Gasson Hall 100, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill
RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/SalvadorRSVP

Special event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the murders of six Jesuits and their two companions who stood in solidarity with the poor of El Salvador duing the country’s brutal civil war.  The killings, which took the life of Jesuit Ignacio Martin-Baro, were the occasion for establishment of the Ignacio Martin-Baro Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights  http://martinbarofund.org/, a partner project of the CHRIJ.

Speakers:
US Representative *James McGovern*, representing Massachusetts? 2nd congressional district
Walberto Tejeda, Fundacion Centro Bartolomeo de Las Casas (CBC), San Salvador, El Salvador, MBF Grantee
Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, Grassroots International
 Brinton Lykes, Co-Director, BC Center for Human Rights & International Justice; Professor of Community Cultural Psychology, BC Lynch School; & Martin-Baro Fund co-founder

And a greeting from Spain from Carlos Martin-Baro, brother of slain Jesuit, Ignacio Martin-Baro

A reception will follow the lecture.  

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Thursday, November 21 – Friday, November 22
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Conference on New Media and Democracy
Thursday, November 21,5:00 PM – Friday, November 22, 7:30 PM EST
Tufts, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conference-on-new-media-and-democracy-registration-75895295873

A global, multi-sector conversation on the shifting landscape of public diplomacy, cybersecurity and civic engagement in the digital age

The Future of Democracy in the Age of Disinformation
Innovating Policy Solutions for a Networked World
Through keynote speakers and a series of interdisciplinary panels, the conference will address questions such as: How do state actors now use the internet as a tool to influence public opinion and shape the political terrain, often in malign ways? What are governments doing both to defend against information warfare from without, and control the flow of information from within? And what is the role of the private sector in advancing and ensuring the flow of news and information to a global audience?
Registration is required to attend. Please note registration will close November 18 at 5:00pm ET.
Join the conversation using #MurrowNewMedia19
View full agenda and conference details
Panels
US Information Strategy in the Cyber Era: Promoting US Interests andPreserving American Values
Balkanization of the Internet: The Growing Popularity of the Chinese Firewall
Can the Platforms Save Us? The Strengths and Limits of the Private Sector
Can the Government Save Us? Emerging Global Models of Regulation and Free Speech

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Friday, November 22
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Building Climate Resilience into Infrastructure
Friday, November 22,
7:15 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
Forum - 8:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
University of Massachusetts Club, One Beacon Street, Boston
RVSP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/building-climate-resilience-into-infrastructure/
Cost:  $15 - $45

The undeniable reality of climate change has forced planners of infrastructure projects to design for increased temperatures, wind and water in the near future and farther on. This forum presents speakers grappling with how to incorporate climate resilience into planning, financing and maintaining infrastructure systems.

Keynote Speaker Jesse Keenan is a social scientist and a member of the faculty at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Professor Keenan has written, consulted and spoken widely on climate adaptation as it affects the built environment. His remarks will frame the morning’s program by providing a compelling overview of the methodologies and criteria under development in the public and private sectors about how to evaluate public and private investments under the name of resiliency and adaptation.

Keynote Presentation: Evaluating Investments in the Name of Resilience
Jesse M. Keenan, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., Faculty of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Speakers:
Greta Byrum, Co-Director, Digital Equity Laboratory at The New School
Rob Evans, CFM, Manager, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Rivers Program
Mia Mansfield, Director of Climate Adaptation and Resilience, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
John Sullivan, Chief Engineer, Boston Water and Sewer Commission

Forum Co-Chairs
Lauren Miller, Principal, Climate Change Services, CDM Smith
Aaron Weieneth, AICP, Manager of Climate Change and Resilience, AECOM

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3rd Annual Massachusetts Food System Forum
Friday, November 22, 2019
9:30am - 4:00pm
College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, 1 College Street, Worcester
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-ma-food-system-forum-registration-66681087929
Cost:  $30
Early bird registration (through Oct 31) is $30 and includes a locally-sourced breakfast and lunch. 

Hosted by the MA Food System Collaborative

Attend the 3rd Annual MA Food System Forum to learn new skills, celebrate successes, and collaborate across disciplines to increase equity and sustainability in the MA food system.

Morning Sessions
The day will begin with an optional networking breakfast at 9:00am. After an overview of the MA Food System Collaborative's work and selected food system topics, there will be the opportunity to attend breakout groups which will provide updates and brainstorm next steps around the Healthy Incentives Program, food waste, agricultural issues, and more.

Lunch
During the locally-sourced lunch, Massachusetts Representative Hannah Kane, co-chair of the Legislature’s Food System Caucus, will speak about her work and priorities around nutrition and agriculture legislation.

Keynote: Tensions and Trade-offs in Food System Work
Food system work requires some challenging balancing acts. Improving market opportunities for farmers while at the same time expanding access to healthy affordable food for low-income consumers. Promoting the local economy and protecting the environment while maintaining jobs and the tax base. It often feels like trade-offs are inevitable. Becca Jablonski, Assistant Professor and Food Systems Extension Economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University, will discuss her research around these trade-offs, and how communities can best work together to promote win-win scenarios.

Afternoon Sessions
In the afternoon, a panel of community groups will present on their work. The day will conclude with skill-building workshops and discussions on topics including advocacy, fundraising, communications, and the state budget process. 

Email Brittany Peats with questions at brittany at mafoodsystem.org.

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In assessing vulnerablitities to climate change, how sensitive are system sensitivities to our assumptions about how the future might evolve?  A case study in the Upper Colorado River
Friday, November 22
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 48-316, Ralph M Parsons Laboratory, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia

Environmental Science Seminar Series

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Being and the Screen:  How the Digital Changes Perception
Friday, November 22
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes professor, author, and editor STÉPHANE VIAL and translator, editor, and former MIT Media Lab librarian PATSY BAUDOIN for a discussion of Stéphane's new book, Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception, translated from the French by Patsy.

About Being and the Screen
Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structures of perception. They determine the way in which the world appears to us. For nearly half a century, technology has provided us with perceptions coming from an unknown world. The digital beings that emerge from our screens and our interfaces disrupt the notion of what we experience as real, thereby leading us to relearn how to perceive.
In Being and the Screen, Stéphane Vial provides a philosophical analysis of technology in general, and of digital technologies in particular, that relies on the observation of experience (phenomenology) and the history of technology (epistemology). He explains that technology is no longer separate from ourselves— if it ever was. Rather, we are as much a part of the machine as the machine is part of us. Vial argues that the so-called difference between the real and the virtual does not exist and never has. We are living in a hybrid environment which is both digital and nondigital, online and offline. With this book, Vial endows philosophical meaning to what we experience daily in our digital age.

This book is published with the support of the University of Nîmes, France.

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Synthesizing Human-centric Architectural Layouts
Friday, November 22
5pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Craig Yu
In this talk, I will discuss the recent progress of my team in devising computational design approaches for automatically generating human-centered architectural layouts for real-world design and virtual reality applications. For example, I will talk about the state-of-the-art procedural modeling techniques for generating large-scale architectural layouts that are optimized with respect to human navigation properties; and techniques for automatically generating interior designs for furnishing indoor scenes with furniture objects. In particular, I will discuss how human intentions and affordance considerations can be employed as the key criteria in generating 3D worlds. I will also discuss how human perceptual data tracked from virtual reality can be employed for creating personalized workspace design and virtual training environments.

Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu is an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department at George Mason University, where he leads the Design Computing and Extended Reality (DCXR) group. He works on computer graphics, vision, human-computer interaction, and virtual reality, particularly in AI and data-driven techniques for computational design. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2013 with an Outstanding Recognition in Research Award. His research has been featured by New Scientist, the UCLA Headlines, and the IEEE Xplore Innovation Spotlight; and has won Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards at 3DV and CHI conferences. His lab is supported by the NSF, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Oracle.

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Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style
Friday, November 22
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline 

Suzanne McConnell
Author, editor and writing teacher Suzanne McConnell was a student of Kurt Vonnegut’s at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop during its heyday, the period from 1965-67, when Vonnegut, along with Nelson Algren and other notable authors were in residence. This was also the period when Vonnegut was writing his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, and had a lot to say about the writing process. Vonnegut and McConnell became friends, and stayed in touch over the years. She has published short memoirs of him in The Brooklyn Rail and The Writer’s Digest, and led a panel at the 2014 AWP conference titled “Vonnegut’s Legacy: Writing about War and Other Debacles of the Human Condition.”

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Saturday, November 23
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TEDxBeaconStreet
Saturday, November 23
8:00 am – 7 pm
WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxbeaconstreet-wgbh-tickets-78879999201

Join us for a day of ideas, innovations and stories with some of the most inspiring minds and speakers in the world. WGBH and TEDxBeaconStreet have teamed up to present inspiring and engaging talks in the state-of-the-art Yawkey Theatre at WGBH’s Brighton studios.

Come hear three idea tracks: Education, Innovation, and Science, moderated by WGBH News’ Kirk Carapezza, Kara Miller and Heather Goldstone.
Join us at the WGBH Studios in Brighton for exhilarating talks and stimulating conversations with speakers on some of the most pressing issues.

Speakers include Eliza Reid, First Lady of Iceland; Jaylen Brown, Boston Celtics; Leonard Kleinrock, Father of the Internet; Principal Musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and others sharing the latest thinking on education, innovation and science. See list of all speakers here. 

8:25am-11:45am
Education Track, hosted by WGBH’s Kirk Carapezza
12pm-4:45pm
Innovation Track, hosted by WGBH’s Kara Miller
4:45pm-7pm
Science Track, hosted by WGBH’s Heather Goldstone
Please RSVP for as many tracks as you would like to attend.

We request that you arrive 15 minutes early to allow time to check in before your track starts.

Help us to continue to produce free events by donating to WGBH when you RSVP.

Snacks will be available for purchase.

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Climate Crafts: A Zine-Making Workshop
Saturday, November 23
7 PM – 10 PM
Friends Meeting At Cambridge - Quakers, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge

Come make a zine with Sunrise Boston! This event is a collaboration between the crafts team and the climate impact team. Zines are small, handmade magazines, which were popularized during the Riot Grrl movement of the' 90s. We will be making pages of art and writing about all the feelings that climate change and climate activism bring up, as well as our visions of a better world.

We will provide craft supplies and snacks, and feel free to bring your own as well (especially scissors and glue sticks, if you have them). No prior artistic experience necessary.

The Friends Meeting is wheelchair-accessible, and is located about a 10-min walk from Harvard Square. We will be meeting in the Friends Room.

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Monday, November 25
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The Welfare Implications of Carbon Price Certainty
Monday, November 25
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Bldg, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Sarah Armitage and Joe Aldy, Harvard University. Lunch is provided.

Contact Name:  Julie Gardella
julie_gardella at hks.harvard.edu

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium
Monday, November 25
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

Alberto Naveiro Garabato

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Public Security and the Fate of Brazil’s Democracy
WHEN  Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Brazil Studies Program at David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S)  Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Cofounder and Executive Director, Igarapé Intitute
COST  Free
DETAILS  Brazil is the world's most homicidal country. Over 65,000 people were murdered in 2017 and more than 6,000 citizens were killed by police in 2018. A significant proportion of Brazilians are also victimized, which undermines their faith in the legitimacy of the rule of law and democratic institutions. This presentation will highlight the scope and scale of Brazil's public security crisis, the dangers of excessively repressive responses, and the threats this poses to democracy.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/public-security-and-fate-brazil’s-democracy?delta=0

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The Way We Trust Today: Encryption as an Instrument of Decentralization
Monday, November 25
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Gili Vidan, History of Science/Harvard STS.

Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to via the online form by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

sts at hks.harvard.edu
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/

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Building energy innovation systems in Latin America: Insights from Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Monday, November 25
12:30pm - 1:45pm 
Tufts, Crowe Room, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford

Zdenka Myslikova, Predoctoral Fellow, The Fletcher School

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American Factory: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Monday, November 25
1:25 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Harvard Business School, Klarman Hall, Kresge Way, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-factory-documentary-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-80070269331

American Factory screening and discussion with film's directors, HBS Faculty, and NE Director of AFSCME

Screening followed by discussion with Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, American Factory Directors; Meg Rithmire, HBS BGIE Professor and China Expert; and Kris Rondeau, Director of AFSCME New England

The film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine, Ohio, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese factory workers to Ohio to train their U.S. counterparts. The film provides the economic and social issues this sparked, including management challenges associated with labor dynamics, a unionization effort, and managing an operation with workers from two very different cultures.

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Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household
Monday, November 25
3:00pm to 4:15pm
Harvard, Emerson Hall 210, 19 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern)

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WISE-Boston November Meeting: Perspectives on Environmental Social Governance
Monday, November 25
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Brown Advisory, 100 High Street, #27th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wise-boston-november-meeting-perspectives-on-esg-tickets-81312791749

For our November monthly meeting, we are excited to feature perspectives on ESG research and integration!

Our guest speakers (and WISE-Boston members!) Annie Chor Joyce of MSCI, Emily Dwyer of Brown Advisory, and Emily Howes of Bank of America will share their insights this WISE-favorite topic from their perspectives as ESG Consultant, Portfolio Manager, and ESG Analyst, respectively. 

To ensure active participation and meaningful dialogue, this event will include dedicated Q&A breakout sessions. Whether you are a long-time practitioner or newer to the conversation, it's a great chance to take a deep dive on this subject with fellow practitioners. 
Topics will include:
Tools/frameworks for ESG measurement    
Challenges and best practices of ESG integration across asset classes
Trends in client interest

Doors will open at 5:30pm for refreshments and networking. Many thanks to WISE Co-Leader Katherine Kroll and Brown Advisory for hosting and refreshments!

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AUTHORS at MIT | Rebecca Thompson: Fire, Ice, and Physics
Monday, November 25
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, Building N50, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming physicist and author Rebecca C. Thompson to discuss her latest book, Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones. 

Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science—fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin's fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake science in Game of Thrones, might think, “But how would it work?” In Fire, Ice, and Physics, Rebecca Thompson turns a scientist's eye on Game of Thrones, exploring, among other things, the science of an ice wall, the genetics of the Targaryen and Lannister families, and the biology of beheading. Thompson, a PhD in physics and an enthusiastic Game of Thrones fan, uses the fantasy science of the show as a gateway to some interesting real science, introducing GOT fandom to a new dimension of appreciation.

Even the most faithful Game of Thrones fans will learn new and interesting things about the show from Thompson's entertaining and engaging account. Fire, Ice, and Physics is an essential companion for all future bingeing.

Rebecca C. Thompson, PhD, is a physicist and author of the popular Spectra series of comic books about physics. She is Head of the Office of Education and Public Outreach at Fermilab, the particle physics research facility near Chicago. She served as Director of Public Engagement for the American Physical Society from 2008 to 2019.

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GREAT LIVES WORTH RELIVING WITH MO ROCCA
Monday, November 25
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
JFK Library, Smith Hall, Columbia Point, Dorchester
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/great-lives-worth-reliving-with-mo-rocca-tickets-74351048989

Mo Rocca, correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and frequent panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, discusses his new book, Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving, featuring remarkable lives of leaders, innovators, and artists worthy of greater attention. Rick Berke, co-founder and executive editor of STAT and former longtime reporter and editor at The New York Times, moderates.    

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Designing Sustainable Urban Development
Monday, November 25
7:00 PM
Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington

Christoph Reinhart, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture, Director, Building Technology Program and Sustainable Design Lab, MIT. Dr. Reinhart is an international leader in urban design, especially recognized for architectural “daylighting”—the use of natural light to illuminate building interiors—and urban-level environmental building performance analysis. The design tools developed by the Reinhart lab are used by architects and urban planners in more than 90 countries.

Modern urban development requires a multi-dimensional design approach to encompass energy-efficient architecture, pedestrian-friendly access to shops, entertainment, work and schools, and vibrant outdoor spaces. Using sophisticated computer-modeling, the Sustainable Design Lab at MIT combines and analyzes many elements for optimal, healthy urban environments.  In this presentation, Dr. Reinhart outlines such a model based on a neighborhood proposal in Boston.

More information at http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/energy-and-resources/designing-sustainable-urban-development

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Tuesday, November 26
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The Last Sacred Place of Poetry: Film Screening & Discussion (Central Square)
Tuesday, November 26
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Central Square Branch, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge

Join us for a screening of the documentary "The Last Sacred Place of Poetry" about the renowned independent Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square.The film explores the unique place in literary and Cambridge history that the Grolier Poetry Book Shop occupies from its one-room location in Harvard Square. Following the screening, director and producer Weiying Olivia Huang will discuss the making of the film with Patrick Sylvain who is a poet, writer, translator, and academic as they discuss the film and “the Grolier.”

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Friday, November 29
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FINAL Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.) Chain Reaction
Friday, November 29
1:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Rockwell Gymnasium 120 Vassar Street, Cambridge

For more than 20 years, the MIT Museum has hosted the Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T) Chain Reaction, a wild and whimsical feat of community engineering. This F.A.T will be the last F.A.T, so come to the grand finale and help make this the biggest, fattest F.A.T ever!

During the weeks before the event, students, families, and adults form teams and build contraptions that serve as links in the final chain. On November 29, the links will be connected to trigger a spectacular chain reaction. Once again, artist/engineer Arthur Ganson will be our host.

Learn more on the MIT Museum website at https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/fat

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Sunday, December 1
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Solidarity Event: Sitting for Survival
Sunday, December 1
noon
Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/solidarity-event-sitting-surival-Dec-1/

Join our friends from Awakening for Earth Sunday, December 1, from 12-1pm in front of Cambridge City Hall to hold meditative space for our planetary emergency. From Awakening for Earth:

We'll sit or stand in silence, bearing witness to the destruction the earth we love and the hope for a better future.
Come for 5 or 50 minutes...however long you can. 
Show up for our children, families, ancestors, and for all living things.
We welcome you to bring signs that express your wish for our planet.

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Monday, December 2
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The Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxes
Monday, December 2
11:45AM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building,79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University and James Stock, Harvard University. 
Lunch is provided.

Contact Name:  Amanda Sardoni
amanda_sardonis at hks.harvard.edu

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Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium 
Monday, December 2
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915, 21 Ames Streete, Cambridge

Gabe Vecchi

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Listening Like a Computer: Computational Psychiatry and the Re-coding of Psychiatric Screening
Monday, December 2
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Beth Michelle Semel, HASTS, MIT.

Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to via the online form by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
sts at hks.harvard.edu

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Automating the Digitization of Historical Data on a Large Scale 
Monday, December 2
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building E18-304, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge

IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Melissa Dell, Harvard University
Over the past two centuries, we have transitioned from an overwhelmingly agricultural world to one with vastly different patterns of economic organization. This transition has been remarkably uneven across space and time, and has important implications for some of the most central challenges facing societies today. Deepening our understanding of the determinants of economic transformation requires data on the long-run trajectories of individuals and firms. However, these data overwhelmingly remain trapped in hard copy, with cost estimates for manual digitization totaling millions of dollars for even relatively modestly sized datasets. Automation has the potential to massively scale up the extraction of historical quantitative data from hard copy documents, significantly expanding and democratizing access. However, the synthesis of methodology required to digitize and catalog most historical data is not available off-the-shelf through commercial OCR software, which performs poorly at recognizing irregular document layouts. Off-the-shelf tools for assembling raw unstructured output into structured databases likewise do not exist.

We develop methods for automating the digitization and classification of historical data on a large scale, illustrating their application to a rich corpus of historical Japanese documents about firms and individuals. An array of methods from computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning are used to detect complex document layouts and assemble a rich structured dataset that tracks the evolution of network relationships between Japanese managers, government officials, and firms across the 20th century.

About the Speaker: Melissa Dell is a professor in the Economics Department and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on long-run economic development, primarily in Latin America and Asia. She has examined the impacts of weather on economic growth and is currently conducting research about the long-run effects of agrarian reform and agricultural technology investments in Mexico and East Asia. She received a PhD in Economics from MIT, a master's degree in Economics from Oxford, and a BA from Harvard College.

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AUTHORS at MIT | Kathryn D. Sullivan Presents Handprints on Hubble
Monday, December 2
6:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT Press Bookstore, Building N50, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

The 1st American woman to walk in space tells her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, and repaired the Hubble Telescope.

About this Event
Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming former NASA astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, author of the new book, Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention.

About the book
The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all of this possible. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built.

Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a “Sputnik Baby,” her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of “thirty-five new guys.” (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA's storied astronaut corps.) She describes in vivid detail what liftoff feels like inside a spacecraft (it's like “being in an earthquake and a fighter jet at the same time”), shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster.Sullivan explains that “maintainability” was designed into Hubble, and she describes the work of inventing the tools and processes that made on-orbit maintenance possible. Because in-flight repair and upgrade was part of the plan, NASA was able to fix a serious defect in Hubble's mirrors—leaving literal and metaphorical “handprints on Hubble.”

Kathryn D. Sullivan is a NASA astronaut (retired), former Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and an inductee in the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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naeem mohaiemen | a missing can of film
Monday, December 2
6pm - 8pm
MIT, Building e15-070, Wiesner Building, Bartos, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

In December of our war year, a Communist filmmaker disappeared. Later, a rumor circulated: He was making a different war film, embarrassing to our own side. He had left behind a 16 mm film, hidden inside a can of cooking flour. It may not have been the enemy army that killed him.

Mohaiemen’s work over the last decade has included a search for mirages such as this missing film canister. At the inflection point of digital dystopia, we still attach hope onto the analog. The revealed futility of these quests leads to new stories to take away the bitter.

BIO  Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays,  films, drawings, and installations to research left insurgencies and incomplete decolonizations– framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism. Despite underscoring a left tendency toward misrecognition, a hope for a future international left, against current silos of race and religion, is a basis for the work. He is author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014), editor of Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism(Drishtipat, 2010), co-editor (w/ Lorenzo Fusi) of System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (Sylvana, 2007) and co-editor (w/ Eszter Szakacs) of Solidarity Must be Defended (Tranzit/ Van Abbe/ Salt/ Tricontinental, forthcoming). Naeem was a Guggenheim Fellow, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Villem Flusser Award (for the essay “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic roots of Hip-Hop,” Sound Unbound, MIT Press) and the 2018 Turner Prize. His work recently exhibited at SALT Beyoglu (Istanbul), Mahmoud Darwish Museum (Ramallah), Tate Britain (London), Vasas Federation of Metalworkers’ Union (Budapest), MoMA PS1 (New York), Abdur Razzaq Foundation (Dhaka), and documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel). He received his PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University.

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Searching for Life in Deep Space
Monday, December 2
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
CIC Venture Cafe, 1Broadway, Venture Cafe 5th floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/searching-for-life-in-deep-space-tickets-80478819315
Cost:  $0 - $15

On December 2, 02019, Professor Avi Loeb takes Long Now Boston to the frontiers of cosmic discovery and exobiology!
Professor Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science and Chair of Astronomy at Harvard, Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, Founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative, Chair of both the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. 

Join Avi and other Long Now thinkers at the Long Now Boston Conversation Series event at the Cambridge Innovation Center. 
Doors open @ 6pm -- Come early and meet other Long Now thinkers. Presentation starts @ 7pm.

In the past few years, scientists have made huge progress probing ever more deeply into space. They have confirmed the existence of a vast multitude of earth-like planets. They have found evidence of complex chemistry in deep space and validated the claim that all life on Earth is made of stardust. Yet there is still no evidence of life originating anywhere other than on Earth. 
This may change soon. Upcoming searches will aim to detect markers of life in the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system. We also have unprecedented technologies to detect signs of intelligent civilizations through industrial pollution of planetary atmospheres, space archaeology of debris from dead civilizations or artifacts such as photovoltaic cells that are used to re-distribute light and heat on the surface of a planet or giant megastructures.

At the same time, we continue to launch interplanetary and even interstellar explorations of our own. Others may notice and seek to contact us --- or we may find messages that confirm we are not alone.

Among the questions:
What are some of the advanced scientific tools and techniques we are developing in the search for extraterrestrial life? How might these benefit other scientific disciplines?
What are some of the explanations scientists have proposed to account for the discrepancy between the apparent readiness for life and the lack of evidence for life?
What are the implications of finding extraterrestrial life? Of not finding it?
Join the conversation and help us see into our future!

$15 in advance // $20 at the door. Students w/ID admitted free.
Audience participation is encouraged.
If Eventbrite tickets sell out, seating for walk-ups will unlikely be available due to room size.

About the speaker:
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He has published 4 books and over 700 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the universe. He serves as chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is a Faculty Member of Harvard’s Origins of Life Initiative. He also chairs the advisory committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee, serves as the science theory director for all initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, as well as chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. We’re proud and excited to welcome Avi to the Long Now Boston community.

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

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Tuesday, December 3
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#SpreadingFacts: Communicating Science for a Better World
Tuesday, December 3
8:00am to 6:30pm
MIT, Samberg Conference Center, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at xhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/spreadingfacts-communicating-science-for-a-better-world-registration-71677528417
Cost:  $22.50 - $100

The MIT Press, Technology Review, and Knowledge Futures Group present a conference on the art and practice of science communication.

There is widespread concern today that the gap between scientific and public understanding on issues such as climate change, GMOs, and vaccine safety may be growing, and ample recent evidence that lies, unfortunately, spread faster than truths.

At #SpreadingFacts, you’ll join experts in the practice and art of science communication and journalism for a day focused on understanding and maximizing the public trust in — and impact of — evidence-based research. Advances in science and technology are, after all, our strongest ammunition in facing urgent global challenges, and effective public communication a critical ingredient in ensuring and amplifying research impact.

Co-hosts: Amy Brand, Director, The MIT Press and Co-founder, The Knowledge Futures Group; Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher, MIT Technology Review; Gideon Lichfield, Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review

Keynote: Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences
Speakers include:
Paula S. Apsell, Senior Executive Producer Emerita NOVA
Deborah Blum, Director, Knight Science Journalism Program, MIT
Chris Bourg, Director, MIT Libraries
Dianna Cowern, Creator, Physics Girl
Beth Daley, Editor and General Manager, The Conversation US
Mariette DiChristina, Dean, Boston University College of Communication
Cathy Drennan, Professor of Chemistry and Biology, MIT
Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Host, Reset (A podcast from Recode by Vox)
Linda Henry, Managing Director, Boston Globe Media Partners
Carolyn Johnson, Science Reporter, The Washington Post
Clifford Johnson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California
David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, and Professor of Physics, MIT
Imran Khan, Head of Public Engagement, Wellcome
Thomas Levenson, Professor of Science Writing, MIT
Sunshine Menezes, Executive Director, Metcalf Institute and Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Communication, Metcalf Institute, University of Rhode Island
Seth Mnookin, Director, Graduate Program in Science Writing, MIT
Christine O’Connell, Executive Director, Riley's Way Foundation
Ainissa Ramirez, Scientist and Author of The Alchemy of Us
John Randell, John E. Bryson Director of Science, Engineering, and Technology Programs, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Daniel M. Russell, Senior Research Scientist, Search Quality and User Happiness, Google
David Rotman, Editor at Large, MIT Technology Review
Grant Sanderson, Creator, 3Blue1Brown
Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning, MIT
Arvind Satyanarayan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT
Charles Seife, Professor, New York University
Gabe Stein, Product Lead, PubPub
Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Rick Weiss, Director, SciLine
Ethan Zuckerman, Director, Center for Civic Media, MIT

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Plaza, Parklets, & Pop-ups in the Public Realm
Tuesday, December 3
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Fort Point Room, 290 Congress Street #200, Boston

Join us to learn about the new tactical public realm projects that have moved from design to implementation this year. In September 2018, the City of Boston released the “Tactical Public Realm Guidelines,” which have been instrumental for creating new spaces across the city. Learn from a panel of experts who have worked on public realm projects, including a pedestrian plaza on Birch Street in Roslindale, parklet in Jamaica Plain, and one-day pop-up plazas across the city. There will be breakout groups to discuss project specifics, including permitting, project costs, funding, timelines, community input, and materials.

8:30 AM REGISTRATION
9:00 AM PANEL PRESENTATIONS
Ginger Brown, JP Centre/South Main Street
Mark Chase, Neighborways Design
Alia Hamada Forest, Roslindale Village Main Streets
Jessica Robertson, Utile (Moderator)
Jacob Wessel, City of Boston
Stephanie Weyer, Toole Design
10:00 AM BREAK OUT SESSIONS
11:00 AM KEYNOTE SPEAKER Mike Lydon, Street Plans

For more information, please contact: Michelle Moon, Project Manager, mmoon at abettercity.org

The event is free of charge— a light breakfast will be provided.

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Que pasó: A review of the crises in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru
WHEN  Tuesday, Dec. 3, 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)  Alisha Holand, Associate Professor of Government
Julie Weaver, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government
Ariel Azar, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In this panel, Alisha Holand, Julie Weaver, and Ariel Azar discuss the ongoing political crises in Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, respectively. They help the audience to understand what happened in the three countries, discuss what the three crises have in common and on what they differ, and offer insights into the near future.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/que-pasó-review-crises-chile-ecuador-and-peru?admin_panel=1

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Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
Tuesday, December 3
5:15PM - 7:30PM
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=3033&fbclid=IwAR0PCvYsvvCDiowJRQigM79E5_g8Fyu224mA-qcCkQnnticywAqyeRcFZWo

Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
With support from the Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Chaplin is compiling a database of manuscript notes about weather in early American almanacs, 1647-1820. Her talk focuses on how people recorded weather in numbers (including degrees Fahrenheit) and in words, ranging from “dull” to “elegant!” These notations are significant as records of a period of climate change, the Little Ice Age, also as records of how people made sense of and coped with that climatic disruption.

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Can Caribbean Environmental History Teach Us Anything About Resilience?
Tuesday, December 3
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Northeastern Renaissance Park 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston

Talk by Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Visiting Professor in the MacMilan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University; Professor of History, University of Havana

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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Science for the People seeks proposals for articles, art, and other content for the upcoming issue, “A People’s Green New Deal” (Volume 23, Number 2, Summer 2020).   Deadline for submissions: Friday, January 10, 2020.

More information at https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/submissions/

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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

Thanks to
MIT Events:  http://calendar.mit.edu
Harvard Events:  http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment:  http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard:  http://green.harvard.edu/events
Boston Science Lectures:  https://sites.google.com/view/bostonsciencelectures/home
Meetup:  http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite:  http://www.eventbrite.com/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events:  http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal:  http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings:   http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar:  https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub:  https://www.universalhub.com/
Extinction Rebellion:  https://xrmass.org/action/
Sunrise Movement:  https://www.facebook.com/SunriseBoston/events/

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

If you have an event you would like to see here, the submission deadline is 11 AM on Sundays, as Energy (and Other) Events is sent out Sunday afternoons.