[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - December 1, 2019

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Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater
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Monday, December 2 - Friday, December 13
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COP25 Live  

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Monday, December 2
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10am  New England Energy Summit 
10:30am  Machine Learning: New Challenges and Connections
11:45am  The Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxes
12pm  Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate [PAOC] Colloquium 
12pm  The Future of Home Energy Storage: A Conversation with sonnen, Inc
12pm  Civic Life Lunch – The Age of Spin: Political Communications in the Trump Era
12:15pm  Listening Like a Computer: Computational Psychiatry and the Re-coding of Psychiatric Screening
12:30pm  Drivers of Health Cambridge Meeting
4pm  Automating the Digitization of Historical Data on a Large Scale
4:30pm  Book talk: 'The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt’
4:30pm  Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars
4:30pm  Conservation Law Foundation's Holiday Celebration
5pm  Pizza and Politics with Ruth Buffalo, North Dakota State Representative
5pm  The Indian Ocean’s Port Cities in the Anthropocene
6pm  How to Survive the End of The World
6pm  AUTHORS at MIT | Kathryn D. Sullivan Presents Handprints on Hubble
6pm  FORUM: Civic Tech Challenge
6pm  An Allston Forum
6pm  Soup Supper XVI
6pm  naeem mohaiemen | a missing can of film
7pm  Sorting Out the Mixed Economy:  The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
7pm  Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture:  Frederick Douglass:  Prose Poet of American Democracy
7pm  Searching for Life in Deep Space
8pm  Imagine Boston 2030

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Tuesday, December 3 - Wednesday, December 4
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The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction:  Prospects and Challenges

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Tuesday, December 3
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8am  #SpreadingFacts: Communicating Science for a Better World
9am  Plaza, Parklets, & Pop-ups in the Public Realm
12pm  Recreational Marijuana and CBD: Public Attitudes, Science, and the Law
12pm  Que pasó: A review of the crises in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru
12:30pm  Democracy, today: Fake news, social networks, and algorithms
1pm  Amazon Rainforest IdeaJam
2pm  Julia Greer: Materials by Design: 3D Nano-Architected Meta-Materials
3pm  LivingLab Tour
4pm  The Call of Migratory Things
4pm  Harvard, Startup R&D Demo Day: Fall 2019
5pm  Advocacy Hour with Conservation Law Foundation
5:15pm  Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
6pm  FORUM: American Reconciliation and Its Alternatives
6pm  Can Caribbean Environmental History Teach Us Anything About Resilience?
6pm  A Conversation with Stacey Abrams
6pm  The Food Podcast Colloquium
6pm  Black & Pink: The Records of Prison Activism and Boston's LGBTQ
6:30pm  13th Annual Clean Energy Prize @ MIT Kickoff Event at Greentown Labs
7pm  Revolutionary Love:  A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World
7pm  Green Infrastructure and Policy/Outreach Meeting
7:30pm  AI for Social Impact: Learning and Planning in the Data-to-Deployment Pipeline

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Wednesday, December 4
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9am  Symposium on Blockchain for Robotics and AI Systems
11:30am  Arc Fusion Future of Humans Summit 2019 for Genomes2People
11:45am  The Next Step? NREL and Malta discuss Thermal Energy Storage Solutions
12pm  The science of incarceration: A realistic look at the cost of imprisonment
12pm  A World Safe for Autocracy? China’s Rise and the Future of Global Politics
12pm  Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare Developmental States in the Americas
1:30pm  Red Flags: Assessing the Security Implications of China’s Economic Slowdown
3pm  Decarbonizing the Electricity Sector
4pm  Civilizing the Internet of Things
4pm  Discriminatory and Liberatory Algorithms: Restructuring Algorithmic “Fairness”
4pm  Sustainable Nanotechnology: Bio-inspired, nature derived and non toxic nanomaterials for agri-food applications 
4pm  Research on Tap: Accelerating the Energy Transition: Transformative Pathways to Decarbonization and Sustainability
4pm  A Moral Budget for America
4:15pm  Raising Wages, Raising Pollution: Unintended Environmental Consequences of Anti-Poverty Programs
4:15pm  Turkey, the Kurds, the United States and the Future of Northeast Syria
4:30pm  Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
5pm  On Having Self-Knowledge while Lacking Self-Understanding
5:30pm  Launch Clinic with Artificial Intelligence Startups
6pm  The Jonathan Moore Memorial Lecture on Moral Global Leadership with Amb. Samantha Power
6pm  Boston Food Access Council 
6pm  Sustainability in the Philanthropic Sector
6pm  Spotlight on Palau with Daniel Mandell A05
6pm  Boston Tech Workers Coalition Social with TWC, Science For The People, TWFJ, TecsChange, and others
7pm  How to Start a Revolution
7pm  Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
7pm  Resilience and Recovery - "Solving Complex Problems" (Subject 12.000) Final Presentation

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Thursday, December 5
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12pm  Climate Change and Coffee: What Will We Be Drinking in Thirty Years?
12:15pm  When David Challenges Goliath: Insubordination from Smaller States, Rising Power Status Dissatisfaction, and Conflict
1pm  Nanolecture event: Global Health Impacts of Nanotechnology Law
3pm  Mobility Innovation Night, Transforming our Transportation Future
3:45pm  Opportunities and Challenges in China's Carbon Market: From Model to Reality
4pm  African Twilight: Vanishing Ceremonies of the African Continent
5pm  T.L. Taylor, “Play as Transformative Work”
5pm  World Film Premiere: Mining the Deep Sea
5:30pm  Future of Work Debate: American Factory Documentary
6pm  FORUM: The Avoidable War

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Friday, December 6
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10:30am  Boston Climate Strike
12pm  Air Pollution in the East Mediterranean and the Middle East: Current Status and Future Work
12pm  Protecting Global Health Progress in the Era of Climate Change
12pm  Initiative on Cities: Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
12pm  Adventures in environmental plasmonics - The application of surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for environmental analyte detection
1pm  Managing Misinformation About Science
3pm  Strike to Win Action
4pm  TEDxMIT: Operation Earth
5pm  MIT D-Lab Fall 2019 Student Showcase
5:30pm  The Social Innovation Forum's Winter Reception
7pm  Blockchain in the Environmental and Sustainability Industry

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Saturday, December 7 – Sunday, December 8
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MIT Hacking Arts 2019

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Saturday, December 7
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10am  Sunrise Boston and 350 MA Racial and Climate Justice Training
7pm  Playing For The Planet: World Music Against Climate Change

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Sunday, December 8
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1:30pm  When Facts Are Not Enough: Reading Atheist Fiction
4pm  Extinction Rebellion [XR] Ecosattvas Meetup
7pm  Dual Interviews with Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Experts Helen Riess and Richard Boyatzis

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Monday, December 9
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12pm  Lunch Roundtable with Kate DeWolf on hybrid energy systems, solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities, microgrids, digesting toilets, and more in Afghanistan
12pm  CS50 Fair
12:30pm  HCED Discussion Series with Marc Doussard
6pm  Boston Network for International Development Holiday Party
6pm  Boston New Technology HealthTech Startup Showcase #BNT108 (21+)
6pm  Lightning Talks, Demos, and Magic Leap
7pm  Floating Coast:  An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
7pm  The Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series
7pm  This Is What Democracy Looked Like
7:30pm  2.009 final prototype launch

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Tuesday, December 10
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12pm  Systems Thinking Webinar: Atanu Mukherjee, “Enabling a gasification-based sustainable industrial economy for India”
3:30pm  Books at Baker:  The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society 
4pm  SystemsThatLearn at CSAIL Lecture Series: Using Technology to Track and Trace Live Goods from Supplier to Retailer
4pm  AgConnect: Social Innovation Ecosystems
5pm  DNI Greenhouse Celebration & Fundraiser
6pm  The Constitution: Changes and Challenges in US History
6pm  Great Decisions | The Middle East: Regional Disorder
6pm  Mass Innovation Nights 129
6pm  Sports Rehabilitation – Game Changing Innovations
7pm  The Great Democracy:  How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
7pm  SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Catalytic Combinations for Prostate Cancer and Beyond
7pm  The Future of Learning: A Multidisciplinary Panel with The Knowledge Society
7pm  The Way of the Problem Solver

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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

Impeachment Was Inevitable No Matter Who Won in 2016
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/25/1901923/-Impeachment-Was-Inevitable-No-Matter-Who-Won-in-2016

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Monday, December 2 - Friday, December 13
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COP25 Live  
We Don't Have Time invites you to take part in what's happening in Madrid and in Stockholm online.
All you need to do is sign up to get daily email of the Nordic Co-operation's program and development during COP25 Dec. 2-13th at https://www.wedonthavetime.org/cop25#register
 
We will broadcast more than 20 live events online from Madrid and Stockholm. Having signed up for updates and by following us on YouTube (http://wedonthavetime.tv), Twitter (https://twitter.com/wedonthavetime0) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/wedonthavetime.org/) - you will get the information before the rest of the world.

Program December 2: Climate Action and Youth
Program December 3: Making the Paris agreement a reality
Program December 4: My Fossil Free Community
Program December 5: Eating our way to a sustainable future
Program December 6: Reaching the Agenda 2030
Program December 7: My Fossil Free Community
Program December 9: Ocean, Air and Artic Issues
Program December 10: Financing and Climate Investment
Program December 11: Climate Clever Citizens challenge parliamentarians - Nordic Council Day
Program December 12: Green Transition and Carbon Neutrality
Program December 13: Climate Solutions

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Monday, December 2
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New England Energy Summit 
Monday, December 2
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST
Seaport Hotel, 1 Seaport Lane, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-england-energy-summit-tickets-67498952183
Cost:  $55

New England Power Generators Association (NEPGA) in collaboration with The Dupont Group will host the New England Energy Summit, a half-day event that will bring together industry leaders, end users and policymakers to address emerging issues and engage in impactful discussion. The Summit will be held at the Seaport Hotel Boston on Monday, December 2ndfrom 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Attendees will include industry professionals, trade association representatives and public officials from legislatures and regulatory agencies from across New England. The event will be open to the media as we set the stage for larger public policy conversations that will emerge in the 2020 legislative session.

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Machine Learning: New Challenges and Connections
Monday, December 2
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
BU, Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-new-challenges-and-connections-tickets-83705688969

Maria-Florina Balcan, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will talk about recent developments in machine learning.

Over the past decades, machine learning has evolved into a highly successful discipline that has significantly influenced several fields, including vision, information retrieval, and biology. The field of machine learning is maturing: interactive learning procedures where the learning algorithm and the domain expert collaborate to facilitate most efficient learning without relying on massive amounts of human input, and techniques for learning much more complex objects beyond simple classifiers, such as computational procedures for solving hard combinatorial problems. In this talk, Maria-Florina Balcan will discuss recent advances in these directions.

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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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The Future of Home Energy Storage: A Conversation with sonnen, Inc
Monday, December 2, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T9GFzbdWQru0LvQUNvwIgg

Ani Backa, Director of Regulatory Strategy and Utility Initiatives at sonnen, Inc, will discuss developments in home energy storage, including how sonnen collaborates with utilities to execute their strategy.

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Civic Life Lunch – The Age of Spin: Political Communications in the Trump Era
Monday, December 2
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
RSVP at https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/content/philippe-reines

Philippe Reines has been a spokesman and adviser to Hillary Clinton since 2002, including famously acting as Donald Trump's stand-in during her 2016 presidential debate preparations. Reines served with Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State, U.S. Senator, and as a presidential candidate in 2008 and 2016.

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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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Drivers of Health Cambridge Meeting
WHEN  Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, 12:30 – 4 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Conferences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Global Health Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Julie Morita, RWJF Executive Vice President
Austin Frakt, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Alva Ferdinand
Linda Goler Blount
Kathy Ko Chin
Harold Pollack
Bechara Choucair
Gary Sing
Betsey Tilson
Shola Olatoye
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	driversofhealth at gmail.com
DETAILS  Our third meeting will be held in Cambridge on Dec. 2, 2019. We’ll hear from two panels of experts, the first of which will focus on the health-related needs of different populations and the barriers to addressing them, and the second of which will focus on the role of the health system in serving the needs of various populations.
LINK  https://driversofhealth.org/cambridge/

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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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Book talk: 'The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt’
WHEN  Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series
SPEAKER(S)  Jennifer L. Derr, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Jennifer L. Derr is an associate professor of History at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history, environmental history, history of science, history of medicine, and critical geography. She received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University, her M.A. in Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and her B.S. in Biological Sciences at Stanford University. Her publications include "The Lived Nile: Environment, disease, and material colonial economy in Egypt" (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019); “Labor-time: Ecological bodies and agricultural labor in 19th and early 20th-century Egypt” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 50 no. 2 (May 2018): 195-212; “The Dirty Subject of the First World War” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 46 no. 4 (November 2014): 781-783; and “A Draft of the Colony: Historical Imagination and the Production of Agricultural Geography in British-Occupied Egypt”, In Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa, Edited by Edmund Burke III and Diana K. Davis, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed.
LINK  https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-lived-nile-environment-disease-and-material-colonial-economy-egypt

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Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars
Monday, December 2
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
BU, HAR, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 404, Boston

This talk is the second public lecture in the Seeing and Not Seeing series. Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars by Janet Vertesi (Sociology, Princeton). This event is free and open to the public. No registration necessary. 

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Contact Name	Jeffrey Rubin
Phone  617-353-1675
Contact Email	jwr at bu.edu

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Conservation Law Foundation's Holiday Celebration
Monday, December 2
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Citizens Bank Opera House (Boston Opera House), 539 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conservation-law-foundations-holiday-celebration-tickets-79722465039

Celebrate with CLF this holiday season!

Join CLF on December 2nd for an evening of holiday cheer!
Conservation Law Foundation invites you to join us for our annual Holiday Celebration at the Boston Opera House on Monday, December 2nd from 4:30-7:30pm. We’d like to take the opportunity to celebrate with our friends and colleagues another momentous year in our collective work to solve some of the most pressing environmental challenges facing the people and natural resources of Massachusetts and the region. We welcome you and a guest for refreshments and holiday cheer to celebrate our shared efforts and successes!
Please register by Tuesday, November 27th. 
Dress is business casual. 
Arrive anytime between 4:30pm-7:30pm. We hope you can join us!

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Pizza and Politics with Ruth Buffalo, North Dakota State Representative
WHEN  Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Littauer Building Room L-166, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S)  Ruth Buffalo, North Dakota State Representative
COST  N/A
DETAILS  The final Pizza and Politics of the semester will feature Ruth Buffalo, North Dakota State Representative. Representative Buffalo made history in the 2018 Midterm Elections as the first Native American Democratic woman to be elected to North Dakota’s legislature, defeating a four-term Republican incumbent.
LINK  https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/#/?i=8

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The Indian Ocean’s Port Cities in the Anthropocene
Monday, December 2
5:00pm to 6:30pm
MIT, Building 9-255, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Please join us for the final lecture in the Engaged Urban Histories Series!

Sunil Amrith, Harvard University, History Department, Interim Director, Mahindra Humanities Center, Director, Center for History and Economics
About the Speaker:  Sunil Amrith is Mehra Family Professor of South Asian History, Interim Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and a Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics. His research is on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions across South and Southeast Asia. Amrith's areas of particular interest include the history of migration, environmental history, and the history of public health. He is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and received the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities.

Amrith's most recent book is Unruly Waters (Basic Books and Penguin UK), a history of the struggle to understand and control water in modern South Asia. His previous book, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard University Press, 2013) was awarded the American Historical Association's John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History in 2014. He is also the author of Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Decolonizing International Health: South and Southeast Asia, 1930-1965 (Palgrave, 2006), as well as articles in journals including the American Historical Review, Past and Present, and Economic and Political Weekly.  
 
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How to Survive the End of The World
Monday, December 2
6:00 PM
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://artsemerson.org/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=5B91492A-CDDE-4819-A353-15A7ECB503E5

Join us for a live recording of How to Survive the End of the World, where hosts adrienne maree brown (Emergent Strategy) and Autumn Brown will be joined by singer/songwriter Toshi Reagon for a conversation on climate apocalypse and transformative responses to climate change.

Featuring emcee, Amalia Gonzalez (Flawless Brown) and a live performance by Emerson College's The SkinTones.

Reception to follow: The Lion's Den, 25 Boylston Place, Boston

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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.

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.

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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FORUM: Civic Tech Challenge
WHEN  Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S)  Shomik Dutta, Co-Founder and Partner, Higher Ground Labs
Alfred Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO, MobilizeAmerica
Steven Johnston, COO, FlexPoint Media
Jordan Wilson, Co-Founder of Politicking App; Public Service Scholar at Harvard College
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	benjamin_hull at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Twelve undergraduate student teams will have the chance to pitch their civic tech ideas at the inaugural Civic Tech Challenge on Dec. 2.  A distinguished panel of civic tech leaders will judge the entries Shomik Dutta, co-founder and Partner of Higher Ground Labs, Alfred Johnson, CEO of Mobilize America, and Steven Johnston '09, COO of FlexPoint Media.
LINK  https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/civic-tech-challenge

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An Allston Forum
Monday, December 2
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-allston-forum-tickets-80670488603

A moderated panel discussion on Harvard in Allston.

Please join the Harvard Ed Portal for an Allston Forum, an engaging panel discussion on Harvard in Allston.
The Forum will feature:
Frank J. Doyle, John A. Paulson Dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Tom Glynn, Chief Executive Officer of the Harvard Allston Land Company
Katie Lapp, Executive Vice President, Harvard University
And will be moderated by:
Mark Ciommo, Allston-Brighton City Councilor

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Soup Supper XVI
Monday, December 2
6 PM – 8 PM
Lamplighter Brewing Co., 284 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.flipcause.com/hosted_widget/hostedWidgetHome/MzAyNzA=?fbclid=IwAR3uS8WqQhozUqdtq3OtDq7l-1qXZR9pb94h5sbTNjQMfM4uXJny8ik83Z8#/donation/MzAyNzA=

Please join Climable.org at our 16th Soup Supper! We enjoy these conversations about climate change, clean energy, and our role as responsible stewards of the environment. We would love for you to attend and participate as we host our 16th installment. Please swing by any time after 6 pm (when soup is served); the convo starts shortly after 7! (Please note that this event is 21+!)

Admission for this event is a suggested $5 donation to reserve a seat, but of course, additional donations are welcome. Registration includes discussions about our planet, new friends, and tasty vegetarian soup, bread, and snacks!

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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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Sorting Out the Mixed Economy:  The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
Monday, December 2
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes AMY C. OFFNER—Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania—for a discussion of her book, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas.

About Sorting Out the Mixed Economy
In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In Colombia, Latin Americans and U.S. advisors ended up decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. By the 1960s, they had remade the country’s housing projects, river valleys, and universities. They had also generated new lessons for the United States itself. When the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty, U.S. social movements, business associations, and government agencies all promised to repatriate the lessons of development, and they did so by multiplying the uses of austerity and for-profit contracting within their own welfare state. A decade later, ascendant right-wing movements seeking to dismantle the midcentury state did not need to reach for entirely new ideas: they redeployed policies already at hand.
In this groundbreaking book, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding. The untold story of how the road from the New Deal to the Great Society ran through Latin America, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy also offers a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism.

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Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture:  Frederick Douglass:  Prose Poet of American Democracy
Monday, December 2	
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm 
BU, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://bostonu.imodules.com/s/1759/2-bu/2col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=7487&cid=14359&ecid=14359&crid=0&calpgid=1050&calcid=2086

This year’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture will be presented by David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

David W. Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. At Yale University he is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. His latest book is a new full biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, published in October, 2018 by Simon and Schuster. For a full biography, visit www.davidwblight.com

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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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Imagine Boston 2030
Monday, December 2 
8:00pm
Northeastern, Blackman, 342 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Discussion Topics:
What role will participatory democracy play in the future of Boston's urban planning? Defining meaning and significance and history of participatory democracy in Boston.
How is sustainable citizenship being accounted for in Imagine Boston 2030?
What are the greatest challenges facing Boston, and how will diversity and inclusion be part of the future?
Panel Discussants:
Natalia Urtubey: Director of Small Business, Executive Director of Imagine Boston 2030 in Mayor's Office of City of Boston. Natalia Urtubey served as the Executive Director of Imagine Boston 2030, working to implement the first citywide plan. She was responsible for ensuring the first planning process in more than 50 years was representative of Boston residents’ vision and concerns.
Professor Michael Dukakis: Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. Professor Dukakis was the three-term governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
Professor Ted Landsmark: Distinguished Professor and Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. As Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s first appointment to the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s Board of Directors, he has brought to the board a wealth of expertise in architecture, urban design, civic leadership, architectural and construction law, and community advocacy.
City Councilor Matt O’Malley: City Councilor Matt O’Malley was elected as the District 6 representative to the Boston City Council in a special election on November 16, 2010. He was reelected to the seat on November 8, 2011 and on November 5, 2013. Councilor Matt O’Malley was named Chair of Environment & Sustainability Committee and Vice Chair of the City, Neighborhood Services & Veterans Affairs Committee in January 2016. He also serves on the City Council Committees on Arts, Culture and Special Events.

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Tuesday, December 3 - Wednesday, December 4
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The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction:  Prospects and Challenges
Livestream
Tuesday, December 3 - Wednesday, December 4
RSVP at http://sites.bu.edu/climate-change/ 

On December 3rd and 4th, 2019, Boston University will host a workshop aimed at assessing the extent to which Synthetic and Systems Biology (SSB) can contribute to addressing the climate change challenge.  A small group of thought leaders will gather to determine whether there is a consensus on the extent to which SSB can contribute to reduction in the atmospheric CO2 concentration, and discuss the many potential direct and indirect responses such approaches might provoke.

Participants will include leaders in ethics, science, policy and economics, so that any consensus reached will reflect consideration of a broad spectrum of complex challenges and potential benefits of biologically driven CDR.

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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 https://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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Recreational Marijuana and CBD: Public Attitudes, Science, and the Law
WHEN  Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Leadership Studio, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S)  Robert Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
Andrew Freedman, Co-Founder and Partner, Freedman & Koski; Former Director of Marijuana Coordination for the State of Colorado
Staci Gruber, Director, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core; Director, Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) Program at McLean Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Moderator: Paul Demko, POLITICO
TICKET WEB LINK  RSVP:  https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/recreational-marijuana-and-cbd/
CONTACT INFO	theforum at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In the last decade, Americans’ relationship with cannabis has transformed: today, dozens of states have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use and American farmers can grow hemp on an industrial scale. Meanwhile, shoppers can find cannabidiol (CBD), which is derived from cannabis but does not produce a “high” like marijuana, in everything from oils to vapes, chocolate bars, cosmetics—even dog treats. Some say CBD can relieve stress, pain, anxiety, and more, with no side effects. But the evidence for many of these claims is limited, and state and federal laws around the sale of CBD are still evolving. Drawing on a newly-released poll by POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School, this Forum will examine public attitudes toward CBD products and recreational marijuana. Panelists will discuss the current state of policy and research regarding recreational marijuana in particular, and consider various solutions that have emerged to understand and regulate these rapidly growing industries.
LINK	https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/recreational-marijuana-and-cbd/

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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

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Democracy, today: Fake news, social networks, and algorithms
WHEN  Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Wexner 434, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S)  David Lazer, Professor in Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
DETAILS  The Internet is increasingly the home of democracy. It is where people turn for civic information, engage in political discourse public and private, and turn to mobilize collectively. The virtual structures of the Internet are, in some ways, quite distinct from what preceded; and in other ways, they reproduce and amplify those pre-existing patterns. The Internet can be the ultimate disseminator of misinformation; as well as the ultimate educator. People have at their fingertips more diverse sources of information than ever before; yet many of the institutions for the production of political and civic information are being eviscerated. This talk will discuss the informational and social logics of the Internet — what is our democracy, today?– how they support and undermine democracy, and concludes with a discussion of what structures and practices we need from the Internet to support democracy, today.
LINK  https://shorensteincenter.org/event/democracy-today-fake-news-social-networks-algorithms/

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Amazon Rainforest IdeaJam
Tuesday, December 3
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amazon-rainforest-ideajam-tickets-82263515389

“I want to help preserve the Amazon Rainforest , but how?” Join the IdeaJam, where we’ll build solutions from the ground up.

Care about the Amazon Rainforest but not sure where to start? Dive into action at the i-lab IdeaJam. We’ll use Design Thinking to brainstorm tangible solutions for preserving the Amazon. 

Join us: 1-3 pm on Dec 3, inside the Confronting Climate Change exhibit at the Harvard i-lab (we’ve got food!) Sponsored by the Harvard Brazil Office and the i-lab.

After the event take a LivingLab tour of the i-lab and the various green experiments Harvard is doing to make the campus more sustainable. 3-4pm on Dec 3.

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Julia Greer: Materials by Design: 3D Nano-Architected Meta-Materials
Tuesday, December 3
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
MIT, Building 4-349, Pappalardo Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/julia-greer-materials-by-design-3d-nano-architected-meta-materials-registration-82279912433

This talk will discuss the design & fabrication of 3D nano-architected materials and their beneficial properties at the nanoscale.

Julia Greer, the Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering, Caltech and the Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech will present on the creation of extremely strong and simultaneously ultra lightweight materials that can be achieved by incorporating architecture into material design.
Greer's research at Caltech focuses on fabrication and synthesis of 3D nano-architected meta-materials using 3D lithography, nanofabrication, and additive manufacturing (AM) techniques. She and her team also investigate the materials' mechanical, biochemical, electrochemical, electromechanical, and thermal properties as a function of architecture, constituent materials, and microstructural detail.
In her talk, Greer will also describe examples where unusual mechanical properties of these nano-architected materials enable creating stimulus-responsive reconfigurable materials through electrochemistry.

This event is free and open to the public. Advance registration required.

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LivingLab Tour
Tuesday, December 3
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Lobby Area, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livinglab-tour-tickets-82516730763

Tour the i-lab building, and see what makes it a Living Lab.

Harvard is using its own operations to pilot more sustainable practices - discover them throughout Batten Hall. 
Sponsored by the HBS Business and the Environment Initiative and the i-lab.

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The Call of Migratory Things
WHEN  Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Nina McConigley, 2019–2020 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; Fiction Writer; Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In this talk, Nina McConigley will talk about her new novel, “The Call of Migratory Things,” which considers the intersection of race, immigration, colonialism, post-frontier America, motherhood and fertility, and place. The landscape of the American West is the framework of this different kind of pioneer narrative.
LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-nina-mcconigley-fellow-presentation

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Harvard, Startup R&D Demo Day: Fall 2019
Tuesday, December 3
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST
Harvard, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Room 301, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-rd-demo-day-fall-2019-tickets-80370487291

Come meet our student-innovators, learn about their startups, and engage with emerging ideas that are already shaping our world. Our students' startups range from a high-tech fashion consultancy to AI-driven water safety technology to a classroom tool for visually-imparied students. At this event, you can explore teams' science-fair style presentations, speak one-on-one with the founders, and enjoy great food.

Teams are from the ES95r: Startup R & D course at the Harvard School of Engineering.
View a preview of the presenting teams at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zTM43p4dr_Y_5u-_3utTbmsUgxZfp1vaE2Zx8hpmXe8/edit?usp=drive_open&ouid=106577273019917054718

Please sign up through this Eventbrite page to get your ticket. Signing up helps us order the right amount of food, too. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Advocacy Hour with Conservation Law Foundation
Tuesday, December 3
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Conservation Law Foundation, 62 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/advocacy-hour-with-conservation-law-foundation-tickets-79337459477

Celebrate #GivingTuesday offline with fellow CLF members and guests!

Join CLF for our 1st ever Advocacy Hour! Enjoy after work drinks while learning more about what YOU can do to protect the environment!
On December 3rd, come learn how Conservation Law Foundation is revolutionizing recycling, transforming transportation, saving the sea, and rethinking resiliency. Our Advocates will be available to answer your questions and talk about their current work across New England. 
We look forward to having you in our fossil-free building for drinks and hors d'oeuvres! Check back here soon to learn more about what vendors will be providing beer and wine for the event.
Don't forget, December 3rd is also #GivingTuesday! Join us in celebrating our online fundraising campaign reaching its goal!

Please enter Conservation Law Foundation at our Otis Street entrance. The event is located on the 2nd floor. This event is handicap accessible and there is an elevator. 

Contact Katie Ardrey 617-850-1729 or kardrey at clf.org

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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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FORUM: American Reconciliation and Its Alternatives
WHEN  Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S)  Danielle Allen, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; James Bryant Conant University Professor
Adam Serwer, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Moderator: Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/774128883000409/
CONTACT INFO	benjamin_hull at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  With the ties that bind us fraying at alarming speed, join the Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center Danielle Allen in a conversation with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writer Adam Serwer for a conversation about the division in America civic life and the prospects for rebuilding a more civil, functional, and unified society.
LINK	https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/american-reconciliation-and-its-alternatives

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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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A Conversation with Stacey Abrams
Tuesday, December 3
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
JFK Library, Columbia Point, Dorchester
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-stacey-abrams-tickets-74833576241

Stacey Abrams, New York Times bestselling author, nonprofit CEO, former Georgia House Democratic Leader and 2018 Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, discusses her distinguished career and continuing work on voting rights and social issues.

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The Food Podcast Colloquium
Tuesday, December 3
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
BU, Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 106 B, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-food-podcast-colloquium-tickets-78648258057

Food Podcasting Symposium sponsored by the Boston University Gastronomy Program. Panelist include
Cynthia Graber - Gastropod
Sara Joyner and Kaitlin Keleher - Proof, from America's Test Kitchen
ohn Rudolph - Feet in 2 Worlds
Moderated by Kathy Gunst, Resident Chef for NPR’s Here and Now and author of the upcoming book Rage Baking—The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury and Women’s Voices.
Refreshments will be served.

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Black & Pink: The Records of Prison Activism and Boston's LGBTQ
Tuesday, December 3
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
The History Project, 29 Stanhope Street, 4th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-pink-the-records-of-prison-activism-and-bostons-lgbtq-community-tickets-72098030149

Join The History Project and Black and Pink as we explore the history of the Boston LGBTQ community's role in prison activism and prisoner pen-pal programs. We'll be discussing highlights from our collection, including Mike Riegle's Prison Project through Gay Community News, and some of the materials recently donated by Boston's Black and Pink chapter. 
Doors and reception at 6:00pm. Reading begins at 6:30.
Free and open to the public, but tickets are required.

Talks in the Out of the Archives Series are intimate events featuring focused topics, lively discussions, and selected photos and documents from the History Project Archives. All events in this series are held at The History Project, 29 Stanhope Street in Boston, unless otherwise noted. Events are free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required.

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13th Annual Clean Energy Prize @ MIT Kickoff Event at Greentown Labs
Tuesday, December 3
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/13th-annual-clean-energy-prize-mit-kickoff-event-at-greentown-labs-tickets-78985272075

Join the Clean Energy Prize @ MIT, the largest and longest-running student cleantech competition, for our annual kick-off event! Engage with student entrepreneurs and industry veterans while learning about the latest clean energy innovations. This event is meant for both potential CEP at MIT applicants and general cleantech enthusiasts alike! 
Hosted at Greentown Labs, the largest clean technology incubator in the United States.
Event Schedule:
6:30-7pm: Check-In and Networking
7-7:30pm: Welcome Address & Startup Pitches
(Sign up to pitch your idea here) 
7:30-8:30pm: Networking

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AI for Social Impact: Learning and Planning in the Data-to-Deployment Pipeline
Tuesday, December 3
6:30pm - lecture; 6pm - refreshments;  7:30pm - dinner
MIT, Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence, MP Room 70 Pacific Street, Cambridge
Refreshments and dinner are provided! Please RSVP here:  https://tinyurl.com/Distinguish-Lecture

With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. We focus on the problems of public safety and security, wildlife conservation, and public health in low-resource communities, and present research advances in multiagent systems to address one key cross-cutting challenge: how to effectively deploy our limited intervention resources in these problem domains. We present case studies from our deployments around the world as well as lessons learned that we hope are of use to researchers who are interested in AI for Social Impact. In pushing this research agenda, we believe AI can indeed play an important role in fighting social injustice and improving society.

Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Director "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India. Prof. Tambe's research focuses on advancing AI and multiagent systems research for Social Good. He is a recipient of the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, AAAI Robert S Engelmore Memorial Lecture award and the International Foundation for Agents and Multiagent Systems influential paper award; he is also a fellow of AAAI and ACM. For his research in and pioneering real-world deployment of security games, Prof. Tambe has received the INFORMS Wagner prize, the Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research Society, the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award, as well as Commendations from the US Coast Guard, LA Airport Police, and US Federal Air Marshals Service. Prof. Tambe received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

For more information contact: 
Neil Gaikwad at gaikwad at mit.edu or sp-cosi-chair at mit.edu

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Revolutionary Love:  A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World
Tuesday, December 3
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes Rabbi MICHAEL LERNER—bestselling author of Jewish Renewal and The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right—for a discussion of his latest book, Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World.

About Revolutionary Love
From social theorist and psychotherapist Rabbi Michael Lerner comes a strategy for a new socialism built on love, kindness, and compassion for one another. Revolutionary Loveproposes a method to replace what Lerner terms the “capitalist globalization of selfishness” with a globalization of generosity, prophetic empathy, and environmental sanity.

Lerner challenges liberal and progressive forces to move beyond often weak-kneed and visionless politics to build instead a movement that can reverse the environmental destructiveness and social injustice caused by the relentless pursuit of economic growth and profits. Revisiting the hidden injuries of class, Lerner shows that much of the suffering in our society—including most of its addictions and the growing embrace of right-wing nationalism and reactionary versions of fundamentalism—is driven by frustrated needs for community, love, respect, and connection to a higher purpose in life. Yet these needs are too often missing from liberal discourse. No matter that progressive programs are smartly constructed—they cannot be achieved unless they speak to the heart and address the pain so many people experience.

Liberals and progressives need coherent alternatives to capitalism, but previous visions of socialism do not address the yearning for anything beyond material benefits. Inspired by Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, and Carol Gilligan, Revolutionary Love offers a strategy to create the “Caring Society.” Lerner details how a civilization infused with love could put an end to global poverty, homelessness, and hunger, while democratizing the economy, shifting to a twenty-eight-hour work week, and saving the life-support system of Earth. He asks that we develop the courage to stop listening to those who tell us that fundamental social transformation is “unrealistic.”

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Green Infrastructure and Policy/Outreach Meeting
Tuesday, December 3
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
20 Academy Street, Arlington

Calling all volunteers, advocates, and Mystic River enthusiasts!

Want to learn more about our mission and upcoming initiatives? Want to speak to a member of our team to discuss ways in which you can help? Join us at our next public meeting taking place in Arlington on Dec 3. At this special presentation we will discuss a new green infrastructure project in the Town of Arlington designed to reduce stormwater flooding and pollution in East Arlington neighborhoods. Come to learn about, and provide feedback on, the designs and locations of these gardens and tree trenches.

Speaker from 7-8pm
Policy Committee Meeting from 8-9pm

Each month we invite incredible speakers to share their stories with us. Stick around after the presentation to learn more about our policy and outreach committees. Find out how you can advocate for the Mystic!

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AI for Social Impact: Learning and Planning in the Data-to-Deployment Pipeline
Tuesday, December 3
7:30pm
MIT, Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence, MP Room 70 Pacific Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/Distinguish-Lecture
Refreshments and dinner are provided! 

With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. We focus on the problems of public safety and security, wildlife conservation, and public health in low-resource communities, and present research advances in multiagent systems to address one key cross-cutting challenge: how to effectively deploy our limited intervention resources in these problem domains. We present case studies from our deployments around the world as well as lessons learned that we hope are of use to researchers who are interested in AI for Social Impact. In pushing this research agenda, we believe AI can indeed play an important role in fighting social injustice and improving society.

Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Director "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India. Prof. Tambe's research focuses on advancing AI and multiagent systems research for Social Good. He is a recipient of the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, AAAI Robert S Engelmore Memorial Lecture award and the International Foundation for Agents and Multiagent Systems influential paper award; he is also a fellow of AAAI and ACM. For his research in and pioneering real-world deployment of security games, Prof. Tambe has received the INFORMS Wagner prize, the Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research Society, the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award, as well as Commendations from the US Coast Guard, LA Airport Police, and US Federal Air Marshals Service. Prof. Tambe received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Wednesday, December 4
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Symposium on Blockchain for Robotics and AI Systems
Wednesday, December 4
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST
MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-blockchain-for-robotics-and-ai-systems-tickets-65056169755
Cost:  $0 – $250 [Discounted tickets: $20 (Normally $250), use discount code BRAIS2019-Meetup]
Discounted tickets: $20 (Normally $250), use discount code BRAIS2019-Meetup

Robotics and AI systems are starting to revolutionize many applications, from transportation to health care, assisted by technological advancements such as cloud computing and novel hardware design.

However, several of the characteristics that make these systems ideal for certain future applications such as autonomy, self-learning, knowledge sharing, can also raise concerns in the evolution of the technology from academic institutions into the public sphere. Blockchain is starting to show great potential to make robotics and AI operations more secure, autonomous, flexible, and even profitable. Therefore, bridging the gap between purely scientific domains and real-world applications.
This symposium seeks to move beyond the classical view of distributed systems to advance our understanding about the possibilities and limitations of combining state-of-the art robotics and AI systems with blockchain technology. This is a one day event (9:00 AM - 6:00 PM) and will take place at the MIT Media Lab (Dec. 4th 2019).
More details about the symposium can be found here: http://www.blockchainrobotics.org/

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Arc Fusion Future of Humans Summit 2019 for Genomes2People
Wednesday, December 4
11:30 AM – 7:30 PM EST
New England Conservatory: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre, 255 St. Botolph Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arc-fusion-future-of-humans-summit-2019-for-genomes2people-tickets-82664081493
Cost:  $99 – $439

Speakers include George Church, Robert Green, Safi Bahcall, Agnieszka Czechowicz, Jamie Heywood, Seema Kumar, David Liu, NPR's Andrei Codrescu and more! 
Agenda (Subject to Change) 
11:30 AM – Doors Open: Light Lunch
Arts Offering: Images: Five Years of Arc
12:30 PM – Summit Opens 
Film: The Lyme Trials (Trailer), Directed by Lindsay Keys – Presented by FiRE Films

Welcome - David Ewing Duncan, Journalist and Curator of Arc
Sponsor Welcome - Julia Angeles, Investment Manager, Baillie Gifford
“Wither Humans?” - David Ewing Duncan, Journalist and Curator of Arc
1:00 PM - POD I: Human Possibilities
Arc Fusion Talk - Ana Maiques, CEO, Neuroelectrics
Arc Fusion Talk - David Liu, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT 
Panel - Moderator – TBA 
2:05 PM – POD II: AI and Robots
Arc Fusion Talk - Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and Co-Founder, Affectiva; former Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab 
Arc Fusion Talk – Dina Katabi, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Panel - Moderator - Christian Bailey, Founder and Chief Scientist, Curated Innovation
2:55 PM - BREAK
3:15 PM – POD III: BioHacking Humans
Arc Fusion Talk - Robert Green, Geneticist and Physician at Harvard Medical School 
Arc Fusion Talk - Alexis Borisy, Third Rock Ventures
Panel - Moderator - Luba Greenwood, Google Ventures
4:05 – Fireside Chat: Women Who Rock - Seema Kumar, Editor of “Seema,” Vice President of Innovation, Global Health and Policy Communication at Johnson & Johnson:  - TBA
Interviewer - Mary Alice Miller, Associate Editor, Vanity Fair
4:30 PM - Arts - Andrei Codrescu, Author and Poet, NPR Commentator 
4:40 PM - POD IV: The Future of Humans 
Arc Fusion Talk - Safi Bahcall, Author of Loonshots; Co-Founder, Synta Pharmaceuticals
Arc Fusion Talk - George Church, Geneticist, Harvard Medical School
Panel - Moderator - David Ewing Duncan, Journalist and Curator of Arc
5:30 PM - Voices from the Future 
Nabiha Saklayen, CEO and Co-Founder of Cellina, Google Scholar
Agnieszka Czechowicz, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University; pediatric hematologist/oncologist
5:40 PM - Wrap-Up - David Ewing Duncan, Journalist and Curator of Arc 
5:45 PM – Arts - Music
6:00 PM – Reception: Future Fusion - DJ
7:15 PM – Summit Close 
Additional details can be found here as well: http://arcfusion.org/dinners/future-humans
We hope to see you soon!

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The Next Step? NREL and Malta discuss Thermal Energy Storage Solutions
Wednesday, December 4
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i-UPTGjfTd-XVl3-Br2juA

Next, we welcome Adrienne Little from Malta Inc. and Joshua McTigue from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to discuss innovative thermal energy storage solutions. Join us as we discuss thermal energy storage and its potential to balance energy demand as the global energy mix shifts towards renewable energy!

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The science of incarceration: A realistic look at the cost of imprisonment
Wednesday, December 4
12 noon Eastern
Webinar 
RSVP at https://view6.workcast.net/register?cpak=4894172042183790&referrer=ScienceWebsite

Speaker: Catherine Heard, Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research, London, United Kingdom
Speaker: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D., The Sentencing Project, Washington, D.C.
When a person commits a crime and is incarcerated, they are displaced to an environment that in theory should be designed to effect long-lasting behavioral change whereby criminality does not recur. But is this the reality? When a human being is forcibly detained, what are the impacts on their behavioral and mental health, their physiology and neurochemistry? What can we learn from the science of incarceration that better informs us about crime prevention and recidivism reduction? What can studies on incarceration teach us about how people respond to their environments, good or bad? In this webinar, the expert panel will tackle these difficult issues that compel us to examine how society’s need for redress can be balanced with our moral obligation to treat all human beings with respect and dignity.

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A World Safe for Autocracy? China’s Rise and the Future of Global Politics
Wednesday, December 4
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT,  Building E40-496 (Pye Room), 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
With the future of the U.S.-led international order in question, how will China use its growing power and influence to reshape world politics? Weiss argues that domestic political imperatives have structured Chinese interests and foreign policy behavior, reflecting a defensive effort to ensure the Chinese Communist Party’s continued rule. Drawing on her recent article in Foreign Affairs and a book-length project on China’s rise, autocracy, and the shape of international order, Weiss develops a theoretical framework to explain China’s international contributions and the domestic drivers of those efforts, with illustrations from a range of issue areas, including cyber sovereignty and digital authoritarianism, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and climate change.

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Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare Developmental States in the Americas
WHEN  Wednesday, Dec. 4, 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 in collaboration with the Charles Warren Center for American History
SPEAKER(S)  Amy C. Offner, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
COST  Free and Open to the Public
CONTACT INFO	drclas at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In Colombia, Latin Americans and U.S. advisors ended up decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. By the 1960s, they had remade the country’s housing projects, river valleys, and universities. They had also generated new lessons for the United States itself. When the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty, U.S. social movements, business associations, and government agencies all promised to repatriate the lessons of development, and they did so by multiplying the uses of austerity and for-profit contracting within their own welfare state. A decade later, ascendant right-wing movements seeking to dismantle the midcentury state did not need to reach for entirely new ideas: they redeployed policies already at hand. In this talk, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, offering a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism.
LINK  https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/sorting-out-mixed-economy-rise-and-fall-welfare-developmental-states-americas

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Red Flags: Assessing the Security Implications of China’s Economic Slowdown
Wednesday, December 4
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
BU, 232 Bay State Road Room 312b, Boston

The Project on the Political Economy of Security hosts a talk with Michael Beckley of the Fletcher School at Tufts University

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Decarbonizing the Electricity Sector
Wednesday, December 4
3:00–6:00 pm
MIT, Building E51, Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge

2019-2020 MIT Climate Action Symposia Series

The third of MIT's six Climate Action Symposia, Decarbonizing the Electricity Sector, will be held on Wednesday, December 4, 2019. Topics will include:

developments in solar energy, energy storage, and nuclear energy;
electrification in the building and transportation sectors; and
innovation opportunities for zero-carbon electricity technologies in the coming decades.

The Climate Action Symposia series aims to advance our community’s understanding and expand our capacity to generate solutions for the urgent global challenge of climate change. Over the 2019-2020 academic year, the six symposia examine the current state of climate science and policy, as well as pathways for decarbonization of the global economy. We will also look at how universities can and should contribute solutions, including MIT’s efforts under our Plan for Action on Climate Change.

Schedule, speaker bios, livestream, and more will be available at http://climatesymposia.mit.edu

Can't attend in person? Watch the livestream.

Schedule
Introduction and overview
Variable renewable energy (VRE) developments and challenges
Moderator: Jessika Trancik, MIT
Speakers:
Solar energy:
Vladimir Bulović, MIT
Moungi Bawendi, MIT
Energy storage:
Fikile R. Brushett, MIT
Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT
David Danielson, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Yang Shao-Horn, MIT 
Advances in fission and fusion
Moderator: Paul Joskow, MIT
Speakers:
Harlan Bowers, President, X-energy
Jacopo Buongiorno, MIT
Earl Marmar, MIT
Anne White, MIT
Electric vehicles: Market analysis with VRE at scale
Moderator: Jessika Trancik, MIT
Speakers:
David R. Keith, MIT
Christopher Knittel, MIT
Elsa Olivetti, MIT 
Chelsea Sexton, EV industry consultant
Expanding access to electricity in a carbon-constrained world
Moderator: Robert Stoner, MIT
Speakers:
Kate Steel, COO, Nithio
Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga, MIT and Comillas University
Conclusion

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Civilizing the Internet of Things
WHEN  Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Francine Berman, 2019–2020 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Professor in Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	events at radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In this lecture, Francine Berman will discuss her current work, which focuses on the social and environmental impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) — a deeply interconnected ecosystem of billions of devices and systems that are transforming commerce, science, and society, but that also has the capacity to disrupt, exploit, bias, bully, and intrude. Berman explores the larger social and environmental ecosystem needed to develop an IoT that maximizes benefits, minimizes risk, and promotes individual protections, the public good, and planetary responsibility.
LINK  https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-francine-berman-fellow-presentation

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Discriminatory and Liberatory Algorithms: Restructuring Algorithmic “Fairness”
Wednesday, December 4
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G575, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Manuel Sabin , CSAIL MIT 
Abstract: The nascent field of Algorithmic Fairness recognizes that algorithms have the potential to perpetuate and codify systemic discrimination and attempts the noble goal of defining notions of “Fairness” that will mitigate this. The past year, however, has seen many critiques of the field’s direction and methodologies, illustrating how the field itself is in danger or perpetuating and codifying systems of discrimination.

This talk will review Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems, a work that outlines five sociotechnical “traps” that Algorithmic Fairness seems to routinely fall into. I will then present ongoing work where we introduce Discriminatory & Liberatory Algorithms (DLA): a framework to restructure the terminology, methodology, and role of Algorithmic “Fairness” through a sociotechnical lens. The merit of this will be argued via its lack of susceptibility to these five “traps.”

Contact: Rebecca Yadegar, ryadegar at csail.mit.edu

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Sustainable Nanotechnology: Bio-inspired, nature derived and non toxic nanomaterials for agri-food applications 
Wednesday, December 4
4:00pm to 5:00pm

Henry L. Pierce Seminar Series with Prof. Philip Demokritou
Abstract:  The rapid expansion of nanotechnology is a powerful scientific and economic force. However, how balance the potential benefits of advanced nanomaterials with the potential environmental health and safety (EHS) hazards from such emerging and often inadequately characterized materials and products remains a challenge. Sustainable nanotechnology is an emerging field of interdisciplinary research that focuses on the development of “green” and non toxic nanomaterials and technologies that can be used to tackle major societal challenges in various fields and applications. This seminar will present highlights from current sustainable nanotechnology research projects at the Harvard Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology (www.hsph.harvard.edu/nano) in the agriculture and food domain. Projects include among other the development of green, nano-carrier platforms for targeted precision delivery of nature-derived antimicrobials for food safety   applications using engineered water nanostructures (EWNS) and development of non toxic, nano-modulating platforms to engineer interfacial processes in the gut to reduce absorption of unwanted substances using natured-derived biopolymers. (Note: The research was funded by the US National Institutes of Health [NIH] and United States Department of Agriculture [USDA])  and the NTU/Singapore-Harvard SusNano Initiative.)

 Dr. Demokritou’s research interests are primarily in the areas of nano-aerosol science and technology with an emphasis on the elucidation of particle-bio interactions and  health effects. His particle research spans across the exposure-disease continuum and includes the development of personal monitoring (PM) systems for use in exposure assessment and epidemiologic

Bio:  His current research focuses on interactions of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) with biological systems, assessing the nano-bio interface  and the role of ENM structure on bioactivity both in terms of nanosafety research and biomedical applications. His nanosafety research has involved development of in-vitro screening approaches for nano-specific effects (DNA damage, epigenetics, translocation of ENMs across biological barriers, etc), “safer-by-design” approaches for families of ENMs, development of advanced tools and framework approaches for in-vitro/in-vivo dosimetry, life cycle specific risk assessment studies for nano-enabled products (NEPs).  and fate of ENMs in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). 

His current nanoscience research also includes synthesis of nanomaterials using flame spray pyrolysis, nature derived biopolymers for agri-food applications and environmental nanotechnology applications for pathogen inactivation, sustainable food package materials and agri-chemical delivery using nature derived biopolymers. Dr. Demokritou is currently the Director of two interdisciplinary research Centers at Harvard University: Harvard-NIEHS Nanosafety Research Center (www.hsph.harvard.edu/nanosafety) and the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology at (www.hsph.harvard.edu/nano). He is also currently the Program Director for the Harvard-Nanyang Technological University/Singapore Sustainable Nanotechnology Initiative. In the past, he served as a co-PI of the Harvard-EPA PM Health Effect Center (1999-2010, US EPA star grant) and the Director of the Harvard-Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health from 2005-2008.  He served as PI, co-PI, or co-investigator on several grants funded by NIH, EPA, NIOSH, NSF, USDA/NIFA, CPSC, and EU research framework (FP7). He holds eight international/US patents and inventions. He is a co-author of two books, numerous kookok chapters and more than 150 articles in lead ing journals in nanoscience, particle health effect, and aerosil engineering fields.  Dr. Demokritou’s innovative research was highlighted in major mainstream media and online magazines, including articles published in the Economist, NanoWerk, Chemistry world, The Scientist, ACS C&EN News, MIT News, Harvard Gazette, and NPR news. Dr. Demokritou is currently an associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and a founding co-editor in chief of NanoImpact (Elsevier), a journal that focuses on all aspects of nanosafety research.

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Research on Tap: Accelerating the Energy Transition: Transformative Pathways to Decarbonization and Sustainability
Wednesday, December 4
4-6 p.m.
BU, Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.bu.edu/research/featured-events/research-on-tap-meet-greet-and-learn/accelerating-the-energy-transition-transformative-pathways-to-decarbonization-and-sustainability-in-the-next-decade/

As the effects of climate change increase in frequency and severity, the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions is more pressing than ever. Globally, the fossil-fuel dependent energy sector is the top source of emissions.

Join us as BU researchers explore solutions and challenges for accelerating our energy future, including electric vehicle infrastructure, emerging technologies, just transitions to clean energy, sustainable water management, and the relationship between technological innovation and environmental regulation.

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A Moral Budget for America
Wednesday, December 4
4:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge

Join us in conversation with Shailly Gupta Barnes as she discusses a moral budget for America and the crucial need for a shifting of priorities on both the state and federal level. She is the Policy Director at the Kairos Center and for the National Poor Peoples Campaign. She coordinated and edited the Souls of Poor Folk: Auditing America report for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, working closely with the Institute for Policy Studies. This report looked at the evolution of the key themes of the Campaign over the past 50 years and its findings informed the current Campaign’s Moral Agenda and Demands. Read more about the Souls of Poor Folk  and Moral Agenda at the poorpeoplscampaign.org.

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Raising Wages, Raising Pollution: Unintended Environmental Consequences of Anti-Poverty Programs
Wednesday, December 4
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Littauer, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Patrick Behrer, Harvard University

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

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

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Turkey, the Kurds, the United States and the Future of Northeast Syria
WHEN  Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Belfer Building, Land Hall, 4th Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S)  Amy Austin Holmes, Fall 2019 Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Middle East Initiative and Associate Professor of Sociology, American University in Cairo
LINK  https://www.belfercenter.org/event/turkey-kurds-united-states-and-future-northeast-syria

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Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
Wednesday, December 4
4:30PM
Harvard, CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Joshua Specht, Monash University, will give a talk as part of the History and Economics Seminar series.

https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_hec.htm
Contact Name:  Emily Gauthier
gauth at fas.harvard.edu

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On Having Self-Knowledge while Lacking Self-Understanding
Wednesday, December 4
5 p.m.
BU School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 325, Boston 

Paul Katsafanas, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston University

Lecture presented by the Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion.
Contact: 6173533067
Email: ipr at bu.edu

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Launch Clinic with Artificial Intelligence Startups
Wednesday, December 4
5:30pm to 8:30pm
Cambridge Innovation Center , 5th Floor Havana Room, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.mitforumcambridge.org/event/launch-clinic-with-artificial-intelligence-startups/
Cost:  $10 - $30

At the AI Themed Launch Clinic, startups present a 15-minute pitch for feedback from our panel of experts + the audience.

Launch Smart Clinics are a great place for startups to get constructive feedback on their pitch from a board-of-directors-level panel of experts and thoughtful audience members. The focus on early-stage ventures encourages a sympathetic and supportive atmosphere. Audience and panel feedback often helps presenters understand their problems and offers useful tips and solutions.

Even if you’re not quite ready to present, we encourage entrepreneurs to attend the clinics to see what our panel of experts (investors and others) are looking for in a pitch, what kind of questions they ask and their suggestions for refining the business plan.

Are you an AI company interested in presenting at this Launch Clinic?  Apply here 

Why Apply to Present at a Launch Clinic?

Get feedback on what people look for when they hear pitches
Prepare yourself for the critical questions savvy investors, strategic partners and potential employees will ask you
Get tips on how to refine your business plan (it’s the business plan, not the tech, that’s under review)
Moderators
Terri Mock, COO, Cybba Inc
Nadia Shalaby, CEO, ITE Fund

Launch Clinic Schedule
5:30-6:00 pm – Networking + Pizza
6:00-6:15 pm – Introductions & Insurtech Overview
6:15-6:30 pm – Startup 1 Presents
6:30-6:45 pm – Small Breakouts: Audience + Experts
6:45-7:00 pm –  Experts Share Consolidated Feedback From Breakouts
7:00-7:15pm –  Startup 2 Presents
7:15-7:30 pm –  Small Breakouts: Audience + Experts
7:30-7:45 pm –  Experts Share Consolidated Feedback From Breakouts
7:45-8:00 pm – Startup 3 Presents
8:00-8:15 pm –  Small Breakouts: Audience + Experts
8:15-8:30 pm –  Experts Share Consolidated Feedback From Breakouts
8:30 pm – Wrap-up

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The Jonathan Moore Memorial Lecture on Moral Global Leadership with Amb. Samantha Power
Wednesday, December 4
6 – 7PM
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, Asean Auditorium, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford

The Institute is pleased to announce that the inaugural Jonathan Moore Memorial Lecture on Ethics and Global Leadership will be held on Wednesday, December 4, at 6:00 p.m., in the ASEAN Auditorium at The Fletcher School. Ambassador Samantha Power will give the inaugural lecture.

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Boston Food Access Council 
Wednesday, December 4
6 - 8pm
Boston City Hall, Room 801, O'Neill Conference Room, 1 City Hall Square, Boston

You might have previously been aware of the BFAC and attended meetings in the past. Since our last public meeting in December 2018 we have been working with a Transition Committee to develop a new structure for the council that will amplify the voices of community members and leaders and ensure a council structure that can effectively and collaboratively tackle food access issues in Boston. 

Anyone is welcome to be a part of the BFAC and there will be many opportunities to be involved in shaping the BFAC’s goals and strategies in addressing Boston’s food insecurity issues. At varying levels of involvement and commitment you can bring your voice to the table, as a BFAC Member, Voting Member, Steering Committee member, or by participating in one of the BFAC Working Groups. It’s an exciting time for the BFAC and we are looking forward to focusing the work of the BFAC on food access topics most important to you. 

Please note: If you would like to become a Voting Member of the BFAC, you must attend both the September and December meetings. If you would like to become a Steering Committee member, you should also attend the September meeting to learn how to run for the Steering Committee in December. More about the new structure of the BFAC will be discussed on September 25th. Please share this information with anyone in your network who might be interested in contributing to this conversation. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to respond to me, reach out at bostonfoodaccesscouncil at boston.gov or call 617-635-3717. 

Look forward to seeing you at the BFAC meeting in September.

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Sustainability in the Philanthropic Sector
Wednesday, December 4
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
WeWork, 31 Saint James Avenue, #6th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-in-the-philanthropic-sector-tickets-81544029387
Cost:  $0 – $30

Philanthropy experts present on “Sustainability” from the RISE Framework for Social Change

Join the Learning by Giving Foundation (LxG) and its Emerging Leaders Council for an in-depth conversation on sustainability in the community; “Is the organization financially healthy and stewarding the resources entrusted to it responsibly?” This event is the third in a four-part series of events for emerging leaders in New England who are interested in philanthropy and social impact, and want to learn how to make their giving impactful.

At this event, philanthropy experts will present on “Sustainability” from the RISE Framework for Social Change, an evaluation tool developed by Rebecca Riccio, Director of the Social Impact Lab at Northeastern University which focuses on the nonprofit hallmarks of Relevance, Impact, Sustainability, and Excellence in Management and Operations.

This event is free but all attendees are strongly encouraged to support LxG and our partner nonprofits with a donation of $30. Drinks and food will be provided.
Speakers: Stephen Pratt, Impact Catalysts

Stephen M. Pratt is the President of Impact Catalysts, a partner to social enterprises and philanthropies. Impact Catalysts helps people who have dedicated their lives to social impact develop the systems, tools, and processes that catalyze impact.

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Spotlight on Palau with Daniel Mandell A05
Wednesday, December 4
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Tufts, Tisch Library - Austin Conference Room, 35 Professors Row, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spotlight-on-palau-with-daniel-mandell-a05-tickets-82820559523

Learn about volunteer and research opportunities in Palau!

At the forefront of the climate emergency, and an increasingly important player in security concerns in the Pacific, Palau is an exciting place to be these days! This information session with Daniel Mandell A05, currently Legal Counsel to the President, Republic of Palau, will feature discussion of the volunteer and research opportunities in Palau, along with details on how to apply for funding through the IR Program and other University resources. 
Dinner to be provided by Picante!

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Boston Tech Workers Coalition Social with TWC, Science For The People, TWFJ, TecsChange, and others
Wednesday, December 4
6:00 PM 
The People's Republik, 878 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Join us for a social with Boston TWC, Science for the People, Tech Workers for Justice, TecsChange, and others!
More information at https://boston.techworkerscoalition.org
Email pankajmehta at protonmail.com with any questions

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How to Start a Revolution
Wednesday, December 4
7:00pm
The First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Writers Lauren Duca and Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, discuss collective action and non-violent protest with members of the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion. 

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Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
WHEN  Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE  Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Arnold Arboretum
SPEAKER(S)  Robert Spengler, Director of the Paleoethnobotany Laboratories, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
COST  $5; free for students
TICKET WEB LINK  https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=2092&DayPlannerDate=12/4/2019
CONTACT INFO	adulted at arnarb.harvard.edu
617-384-5277
DETAILS  From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in East Asia. The exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient routes extends back five thousand years, and organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century BC. Robert Spengler presents a broad array of archaeological, botanical, and historical evidence, narrating the story of the origins and spread of agriculture across Inner Asia and into Europe and East Asia. Through the preserved remains of plants found in archaeological sites, he identifies the regions where our most familiar crops were domesticated and follows their routes as people carried them around the world, shaping the course of human history.
LINK  https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=2092&DayPlannerDate=12/4/2019

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Resilience and Recovery - "Solving Complex Problems" (Subject 12.000) Final Presentation
Wednesday, December 4
7:00pm to 10:00pm
MIT, Building 10-250, Huntington Hall ,  77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Come see this year’s Terrascope students present their proposals for making recovery from future storms in Puerto Rico faster, more sustainable, and more equitable. Questions welcome from the audience as well as the panel.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Can’t make it? Watch our live stream on our Twitter or Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MITTerrascope/

The class "Solving Complex Problems" (Subject 12.000) is part of MIT's Terrascope program.

For more information, contact:
Elise Chambers (617-253-4074) - terrascope at mit.edu

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Thursday, December 5
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Climate Change and Coffee: What Will We Be Drinking in Thirty Years?
Thursday, December 5
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Multi-purpose Room, Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford

Kim Elena Ionescu, Chief Sustainability Officer, Specialty Coffee Association
Are you a coffee drinker? If so, you’re in good company – coffee is the most popular beverage (besides water) in the United States. And while it’s easier than ever for coffee lovers to find a good cup of coffee in unlikely places (think: airports), coffee farming is becoming increasingly difficult: chronically low market prices in coffee-producing countries, the rising cost of farming inputs like fertilizer, and labor scarcity are all taking a toll on growers worldwide and prompting many farmers to leave coffee altogether. Certifications (like fair trade), producing-country institutions, and popular press articles have succeeded in raising some awareness of these threats to coffee’s future, but our focus on immediate economic needs risks may lead us to underestimate the role of climate change as a contributing factor to the obvious instability, as well as a complicating factor to any solutions that fail to consider its current and potential impacts.

In her role as Chief Sustainability Officer of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), a membership association for the coffee industry worldwide, Kim Elena Ionescu raises awareness, develops strategy, and leads action to address the social, environmental, and economic challenges facing the coffee industry. Prior to joining the SCA in 2015, Kim spent a decade buying coffee and directing sustainability for Counter Culture Coffee, a roasting company based in Durham, North Carolina, where she resides with her husband and two daughters. Kim graduated from Tufts University in 2003 with a BA in English and Spanish and promptly began working in a coffee shop to support herself while she looked for a “career-path job”, never suspecting that a career in coffee awaited her.

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When David Challenges Goliath: Insubordination from Smaller States, Rising Power Status Dissatisfaction, and Conflict
WHEN  Thursday, Dec. 5, 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)  Alex Yu-Ting Lin, 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/when-david-challenges-goliath-insubordination-smaller-states-rising-power-status

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Nanolecture event: Global Health Impacts of Nanotechnology Law
WHEN  Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  HSPH building 1, floor 13, room 1302, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	HSPH-NIEHS Nanosafety Center
SPEAKER(S)  Ilise Feitshans, Fellow, International Law of Nanotechnology; European Scientific Institute, Archamps Technopole
CONTACT INFO	harvardchannano at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Europe is creating methods for regulating nanotechnology which may become a prototype for science governance globally. When nanotechnology applications pose unquantified risk, several Paneuropean projects attempt to balance two competing social needs: creating a culture of innovation and discovery while protecting safety of consumers and workers and protecting environmental and human health. The European Food Safety Authority, several agencies involved in the Registration Evaluation and Assessment of Chemicals (REACh) and the European Medical Agency are examples of established areas of law creating a new system that allocate responsibly before any harm occurs rather than using retrospective tools such as enforcement penalties and litigation. Additionally, the NANORIGO (NANOtechnology Risk Governance) project has a broad mission that includes creating a Risk Governance Council for nanotechnology. The project is mandated to address: Commercial application of Safe by Design Moving from Nanosafety to Governance. This lecture describes nanotechnology’s basic laws and NANORIGO plans with a view understanding nanotechnology's impact for health systems implementing precautionary principles under law, which holds implications for European federalism and may change the face of trade law governing commerce globally.
LINK  https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nano/events/nanolecture-series/next-lectures/

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Mobility Innovation Night, Transforming our Transportation Future
Thursday, December 5
3:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Venture Cafe Cambridge, One Broadway, Fifth Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cics-mobility-innovation-night-transforming-our-transportation-future-tickets-80281894307

In partnership with CIC, save the date for Venture Cafe’s Mobility Innovation Night conference, taking place on December 5, 2019. Mobility is defined broadly as the movement of people and goods and includes innovations around autonomous vehicles, urban air mobility, vehicle electrification, urban micro-mobility, logistics, telematics, shared mobility, public transit, and other important topic areas.

Mobility Innovation Night will convene entrepreneurs, corporates, the public sector, academia and investors working to create new technologies and solutions, and to solve some of the most pressing problems centered around transportation in the Greater Boston area. Come and join the dialogue!

Full details coming soon @ https://venturecafecambridge.org/event/mobility-innovation-night-transforming-our-transportation-future/

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Opportunities and Challenges in China's Carbon Market: From Model to Reality
Thursday, December 5
3:45PM TO 5:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Cecilia Han Springer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources and Science, Technology and Public Policy, HKS.
Abstract:  Can China's policies promote economic growth and environmental protection at the same time? I examine the economy vs. environment dichotomy in Chinese policymaking through the lens of the national carbon market, a market-based policy mechanism that aims to put a price on carbon in China and could soon be the largest carbon market in the world. First, I explore the relationship between post-industrial economic transition and the national carbon market in China. Sustained economic reform still underpins China’s efforts to transition from middle-income to high-income status, and the trajectory of changing economic structure will interact with the carbon market's efforts to decarbonize the economy over time. I simulate the interaction of these two policies in a CGE model to understand their combined effects on economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions. Second, recognizing the shortcomings of computational models, I draw from my fieldwork experiences in China to explore recent delays in the carbon market's implementation. I discuss the conceptual and operational challenges in translating the global concept of a carbon market into the Chinese context, as well as the tremendous opportunities that have arisen in emissions accounting and capacity building. I explore the role of expertise in the policymaking process and show how China's national carbon market has generated a highly productive policy market even though it has yet to deliver its policy goals.

Cecilia Han Springer is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. Cecilia studies the economic and environmental impacts of China’s energy policies. At the Belfer Center, her research focuses on the Belt and Road Initiative. Cecilia holds a PhD and MS in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in environmental science from Brown University.

Sponsored by China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School

https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/springer12052019
Contact Name:  Cody Yiu
cyiu at seas.harvard.edu

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African Twilight: Vanishing Ceremonies of the African Continent
WHEN  Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Center for African Studies Lounge, 3rd Floor, 1280 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Art/Design, Humanities, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Harvard Center for African Studies, Harvard Art Museums, Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center, Houghton Library, Peabody Museum
SPEAKER(S)  Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	africa at harvard,edu
DETAILS  For the last forty years American born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher have journeyed over 300,000 miles travelling through 44 countries and recording over 150 cultures on the African continent. Their recently published double volume book, African Twilight, the subject of this lecture, is the magnum opus of these two pioneering documentary photographers of African tribal cultures and ceremonies.
Their lecture will feature highlights from African Twilight, a fifteen-year study and visual homage to the vanishing traditions of the continent. Fisher and Beckwith seek out remote communities to record sacred ceremonies, celebrating Africa’s powerful art forms and boundless creativity. Their presentation will range from Maasai warrior initiations in Tanzania to the courtship rituals of the Ariaal of Kenya, from the masquerades of the spirit world in Burkina Faso to the royal rituals of the Kuba Kingdom in DR Congo.
LINK  https://africa.harvard.edu/event/african-twilight-vanishing-ceremonies-african-continent

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T.L. Taylor, “Play as Transformative Work”
Thursday, December 5
5:00pm
MIT, Building E15, Tables opposite room 320, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Professor of Comparative Media Studies T.L. Taylor will explore the ways game live streamers are transforming their otherwise private play into public entertainment. She will focus on this new form of creative labor and offer a challenge to current models of IP and fandom, suggesting the work of professional live streamers is not easily captured by non-commercial frameworks nor simple work/play dichotomies.

T.L. Taylor is Professor of Comparative Media Studies and co-founder and Director of Research for AnyKey, an organization dedicated to supporting and developing fair and inclusive esports. She is a qualitative sociologist who has focused on internet and game studies for over two decades. Dr. Taylor’s research explores the interrelations between culture and technology in online leisure environments. Her book Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming (MIT Press, 2012) chronicles the rise of esports and professional computer gaming. Her book about game live streaming – Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming (Princeton University Press) – is now out and is the first of its kind to chronicle this emerging media space.

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World Film Premiere: Mining the Deep Sea
Thursday, December 5
5:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT, Building 4-370, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Mining materials 15,000 feet below sea could help secure a low-carbon future - 
but at what cost?

You're invited to a world-premiere screening of a film about deep-sea mining produced by John Freidah, followed by a panel discussion with experts from the film. 

Watch film trailer: https://youtu.be/92JDVW0_hpU

Expert Panelists
Thomas Peacock, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Richard Roth, Director, MIT's Materials Systems Laboratory
Mathew Alford, Physical Oceanographer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Diego
Chris Brown, Consultant, International Seabed Authority
John Freidah, Filmmaker, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 
Cindy Van Dover, Professor of Biological Oceanography, Duke University

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Future of Work Debate: American Factory Documentary
Thursday, December 5
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EST
Harvard Business School, Batten Hall, Hive 306, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-work-debate-american-factory-documentary-tickets-82668446549

Join us to debate the hot topics around Future of Work brought up in the film American Factory (TOM film screening)!

Interested in the future of work and its implications on society? Want to learn more from your peers and hear what their views are? The HBS Future of Work club is hosting a student debate following the TOM faculty's screening of the film American Factory to discuss these topics with your peers.
Using a highly interactive debate format (no case method here, folks), everyone will have the chance to enter a deep debate around topics such as:
Is Chinese work culture the work culture of the future?
Should the US adopt the Chinese approach to labor unions?
Will automation be a bigger problem for China than for the US?
Please RSVP, we look forward to seeing you there!

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FORUM: The Avoidable War
WHEN  Thursday, Dec. 5, 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)  Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Jane Perlez, Joan Shorenstein Fellow; New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief
Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia; President of the Asia Society Policy Institute
COST  Free - no ticket required
TICKET WEB LINK  https://www.facebook.com/events/2534072793377429/
CONTACT INFO	benjamin_hull at hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Former PM of Australia Kevin Rudd, in conversation with Professor Graham Allison, New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief Jane Perlez on the future of U.S.-China strategic competition and world order.
LINK  https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/avoidable-war

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Friday, December 6
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Boston Climate Strike
Friday, December 6
10:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Copley Square, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/458155358153001/

On December 6th, thousands of people will gather in Boston to strike from school and work to kick off a revolution of change that will be strong enough to fight for climate justice. Join us to stand for a Massachusetts Green New Deal and an end to this climate emergency!

#StrikeWithUs #StrikeWithUsBoston #ClimateStrike #ClimateStrikeMA
DONATE: bit.ly/strike_donate
For up to date information, check out our other social media platforms @climatestrikeMA on Instagram and Twitter!
To access all of our resources (flyers, toolkits, and more) go to linktr.ee/bostonclimatestrike!
Please contact @ClimateStrikeMA or bostonclimatestrike at gmail.com with any questions.

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Air Pollution in the East Mediterranean and the Middle East: Current Status and Future Work
Friday, December 6
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge 

Zongbo Shi, University of Birmingham, will give a talk.

Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar
Contact Name:  Maryann Sargent
mracine at fas.harvard.edu

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Protecting Global Health Progress in the Era of Climate Change
Friday, December 6
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard Global Health Institute, 42 Church Street, Cambridge

How can global investments drive the response to climate change? Can investment management protect or hurt global health progress? Join us for a discussion about the value of global investment in fighting today's climate emergency with one of the world's leading voices on the issue, Dr. Howard Frumkin.

As Chair of the “Our Planet, Our Health” (OPOH) program at the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest foundations in Europe funding research, Dr. Frumkin has for years worked in global and planetary health. He is a trained physician and epidemiologist, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health. From 2005 to 2010 he held leadership roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, first as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and later as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. During his tenure NCEH/ATSDR created programs in Climate Change and in Healthy Community Design; launched training programs for college students, doctoral students, and post-docs; expanded its Biomonitoring and Environmental Public Health Tracking programs; and launched its National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures.

https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/protecting-global-health-progress-era-climate-change?admin_panel=1
Contact Name:  globalhealth at harvard.edu

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Initiative on Cities: Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
Friday, December 6
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
BU, Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston
RSVp at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egqelgwo91f414f8&llr=sgxoeyrab

Have cities become synonymous with the Left—and if so, does America’s growing urban-rural divide limit the political reach and success of the Democratic Party?In Why Cities Lose, Jonathan Rodden demonstrates that the Left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography. He argues that urban interests are systemically underrepresented in state legislatures and in Congress: with Democrats clustered in cities, Republicans often win legislative majorities despite losing the overall popular vote. The reasons why cities lose are therefore often the reasons why the Left loses too.Join the Initiative on Cities and Professor Rodden on Friday, December 6th at 12pm for a book talk on Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide.Lunch provided.

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Adventures in environmental plasmonics - The application of surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for environmental analyte detection
Friday, December 6
12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT, Building 48-316, Ralph M Parsons Laboratory, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Dr. Peter Vikesland, Virgina Tech
Abstract: Clean air and clean water are critical requirements for environmental sustainability. To assure the quality of these matrices, we currently rely upon a broad range of monitoring techniques - many of which are outdated, unreliable, or excessively expensive. Recent advances in both nanotechnology and biotechnology, however, are poised to provide novel and previously unattainable alternatives that have the potential to be more sensitive as well as more cost-effective than many existing methods.  In this presentation, I will present work conducted to develop gold enabled plasmonic platforms that facilitate detection of inorganic, organic, biologic, and nanoparticulate contaminants.  As will be shown, both light spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy can be used to detect and quantify environmental contaminants in a range of different media. A particular focus will be on detection of antibiotic resistance genes in water.

Bio: Dr. Peter J. Vikesland is the Nick Prillaman Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received his B.A. from Grinnell College in Chemistry in 1993 and M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Iowa in 1995 and 1998. Dr. Vikesland’s research interests examine the fate of nanomaterials in the environment and their use to improve sensors for environmental quality assessment. He is a past President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), is a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER awardee, is the recipient of the 2018 Walter Weber Research Innovation Award from AEESP, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Science: Nano.

Environmental Science Seminar Series

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Managing Misinformation About Science
Friday, December 6
1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
BU, Kilachand Center Room 101, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Disinformation as Strategic Bullshit
Quassim Cassam, Philosophy, University of Warwick, U.K.

The Subtleties of Industrial Propaganda
Cailin O’Connor, Logic & Philosophy of Science, University of California-Irvine

Defending Science from Denial and Pseudoscience
Lee McIntyre, CPHS, Boston University

Managing Misinformation in the Arena of Ideas: Market, Garden or Landscape?
Erin Nash, Philosophy, U. of New South Wales, Australia

Public Acceptance of Science in a ‘Post-Truth’ World
Stephan Lewandowsky, Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol, UK

Contact Name	Karen Sargent
Phone  (617) 353-2604
Contact Email  cphs at bu.edu

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Strike to Win Action
Friday, December 6
3 PM – 6 PM
MA statehouse, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1211212605756481/

Directly after the Boston Climate Strike March and Rally, Sunrise Boston will be taking action to support our youth climate strikers!! Join us on 12/6 at 3:00pm at the Statehouse to demand action on climate change and to get the GREEN NEW DEAL!!

This is going to be the biggest Sunrise Boston action ever!! We are trying to get at least 300 people to demand a GND for our generation! We will be making history and we need YOU!!!! Sign up for the action here → bit.ly/sunrisebos-stw

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TEDxMIT: Operation Earth
Friday, December 6
4 pm-9:30 pm
MIT, Stata Center
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKbwOvrcD5we3s10GVegdRz8V6IWKhyFFF8l8y-TQ7FfBs0A/viewform

TEDxMIT will be featuring talks from various speakers, including Karthish Manthiram, an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering; David McGee, a paleoclimatologist and Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science; Noelle Selin, an Associate Professor in the Institute of Data, Systems, and Society, and in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science; and Thomas Peacock, the Director of the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. 

At this conference, students will also be sharing their ideas and passion for Operation Earth. Come listen to Mohamadou Bella Bah, an EECS junior who is interested in multi-agent systems and power grids; Vibha Agarwal, an EECS senior who will be talking about MIT Engineers without Borders’ lessons learned while installing solar-powered water pumps in Tanzania; and Darya Guettler, a Mechanical Engineering junior who will be focusing on fossil fuel divestment and MIT’s role in renewable energy use and education. 

The evening will also consist of multiple performances by MIT’s talented acapella, dance, and improv comedy groups. Come listen to and watch the MIT Ohms, Syncopasian, Resonance, Ridonkulous, Asian Dance Team, Bhangra, and Roadkill Buffet!

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MIT D-Lab Fall 2019 Student Showcase
Friday, December 6
5:00pm to 7:00pm
MIT D-Lab, Building N51-310, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor, Cambridge

Final presentations and working prototypes from students in nine fall 2019 MIT D-Lab classes! Following a welcome from D-Lab, attendees will have the opportunity to speak with student teams and view all the working prototypes on display throughout the D-Lab space! Refreshments served.

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The Social Innovation Forum's Winter Reception
Friday, December 6
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Microsoft New England Research & Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-social-innovation-forums-winter-reception-registration-73291764641

Join us on Friday, December 6 for our 16th Annual Winter Reception!

We invite our community of investors, supporters, and portfolio organizations to join us for the formal announcement of the 2020 Social Innovators and a celebration of the achievements of our portfolio organizations! 
This celebratory evening will feature cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. 
We look forward to raising a glass to each of you - our incredible community of leaders, volunteers, and supporters. 

Email rsvp at socialinnovationforum.org with questions.

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Blockchain in the Environmental and Sustainability Industry
Friday, December 6
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
MIT, Building E51-145, Tang Center, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Blockchain-and-Decentralized-Finance/events/266600122/

Food and drinks will be provided during the event!!!

Did you know that every dollar spent restoring degraded forests can result in $30 in economic benefit?

The upcoming seminar will focus on discussions around blockchain and crypto use cases to promote green energy, environmental, sustainability initiatives. Elion Resources Group, established in 1988, engages in Desert Ecology & Salt Chemical Engineering, Ecological Industry & Energy Recycling, and Eco-environment & Green Finance. With a total asset of 15 billion US dollars, Elion has been recognized by the Chinese government and the international society, as the “National Award of Poverty Alleviation”, “National Award for Outstanding Contribution to Land Greening” and “Global Dryland Champion”. From the desert to the city, Elion aims to realize the vision of Eco-homeland featuring green mountains and clear water through its eco-environment restoration programs and related sectors of sustainable ecological industry as well as ecological finance service.

As the new venture arm of Elion, the Treelion Foundation is delivering on a mission to create a green digital finance infrastructure powered by a safe, reliable, and scalable blockchain, where carbon footprint can be digitized and exchanged. Treelion has partnered with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), British Petroleum (BP), and the Saudi Arabian government on dessert restoration and carbon emissions reduction initiatives.

Mr. Plato K. T. Yip is the CEO of the Treelion Foundation promoting blockchain-based fintech and green financing projects and the Vice Chairman of Elion International Investment Limited under Elion Resources Group, a conglomerate with a diverse portfolio spanning from ecological restoration, to clean energy and technology, investment banking, and asset management with total assets and revenue over USD 15BN and 5BN respectively. He has extensive working relationships with international organizations, governmental agencies, financial institutions and policy banks. Mr. Yip is a seasoned investment professional working primarily in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and managing companies in China. He has extensive domain expertise in strategic consulting and business development particularly in the space of clean energy, biotechnology, and environmental services.

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Saturday, December 7 – Sunday, December 8
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MIT Hacking Arts 2019
Saturday, December 7, 5:00 PM – Sunday, December 8, 7:00 PM EST
MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-hacking-arts-2019-tickets-72952602197
Cost:  $25 – $85

If you have a passion for technology, gaming, film/tv, fashion, arts, music or design-- you need to be a part of this conversation. Panels will explore innovations in a variety of creative industries, from the immersive technologies in gaming and film to sustainability in fashion. 

Tickets to the Conference give you access to innovative panels and speakers, featuring experts spanning the creative industries. Plus access to live performances and interactive workshops.
Check out our website for more details: http://mithackingarts.com/
Apply here to compete in the Hackathon: https://forms.gle/zbji3kocDsYkK3dU7

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Saturday, December 7
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Sunrise Boston and 350 MA Racial and Climate Justice Training
Saturday, December 7
10 AM – 3:30 PM
BU, Stone Science Building, Room STO 453, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://forms.gle/DUszJ7JgBtmgiZNp7

Topics that will be covered: How do racial justice and climate justice principles fit into our campaign for a Green New Deal? How do we campaign for racial, economic, and social justice while also working towards climate justice?

This training will be capped at 30 participants and we will be sending out confirmation emails to the people that we have space for at the training. 
FOOD: Breakfast, Lunch, and Snacks will be provided

Reach out to Owen Woodcock at owengw at bu.edu with any questions / concerns

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Playing For The Planet: World Music Against Climate Change
Saturday, December 7
7:00 PM – 10:30 PM EST
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/playing-for-the-planet-world-music-against-climate-change-tickets-76832775901
Cost:  $15 – $20

Great Music For A Great Cause! Masters of three different world musical traditions join to benefit the fight against global climate change.

The twentieth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert showcases master musicians from three different musical traditions, in a benefit for the environmental advocacy group http://350MA.org

Featured performers include the cross-cultural violin master Beth Bahia Cohen, the Hindustani singing of Warren Senders, and the intimate jazz improvisations of Stan Strickland & Josh Rosen.

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Sunday, December 8
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When Facts Are Not Enough: Reading Atheist Fiction
Sunday, December 8, 2019
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Phillips Brooks House, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

Rick Heller, operations manager at the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and author of the nonfiction book Secular Meditation, will lead a discussion of novels related to atheism and will read from his work-in-progress, a novel about a secular mindfulness teacher who is charged with murder.

Is there such a thing as an “atheist novel?” Are atheists less inclined to read novels because they prefer facts to fiction? Many or most novels ignore religion but that wouldn’t make them atheist fiction. Which novels address issues and themes of particular interest to atheists? Works by Albert Camus and Salman Rushdie surely qualify. What books would you nominate?

Join us for a discussion and sharing of the arts as part of the humanist life.

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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Ecosattvas Meetup
Sunday, December 8
4 p.m.
TBA.
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-ecosattvas-meetup/

December 8, 4-6pm. This is the first community-wide meeting of XR Ecosattvas, XR members participating in One Earth Sangha's Ecosattva Training

If you'd like to join our group for the training, but have not yet participated in any XR MA meditator events, please email Karin (karin.L.meyers at gmail.com) for more information.

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Dual Interviews with Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Experts Helen Riess and Richard Boyatzis
Sunday, December 8 
7:00pm
Trident Booksellers, 338 Newbury Street, Boston

This event will feature two leaders in the emotional intelligence and empathy arenas for an exciting exchange of ideas and will show the intersection between The Empathy Effect and Helping Others Change.

n The Empathy Effect, Dr. Riess champions the idea that empathy can dramatically change our lives for the better, and in 2012, The New York Times agreed, spotlighting Dr. Riess’s revolutionary empathy training research as the first study to demonstrate that empathy can be taught; this discovery was the answer to 20 years of major media headlines demanding more empathic care from medical professionals.Brilliant, relevant, and timely, The Empathy Effect provides the essential tools to improve every aspect of our lives—from our most intimate relationships to family, work, and community life—and, in turn, promote a more tolerant, inclusive, and peaceful world. 

Helping People Change: In this powerful, practical book, Emotional Intelligence expert Richard Boyatzis and Weatherhead School of Management colleagues Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten, present a message of hope. The way to help people to learn and change, they argue, cannot be focused primarily on problems that need to be addressed, but rather, must connect to a person’s positive vision of themselves, to an inspiring dream or goal they’ve long held. This is what great coaches do – they know that humans draw energy from such visions and dreams, which sustains our efforts to change, even through difficult times. 

The authors use rich and moving real-life stories, as well as decades of original, published research on coaching and helping relationships, to show how coaching others around their dreams and vision – what they call “coaching with compassion” – opens people up to thinking creatively, to learning and growing in meaningful ways and increases the stickiness of change. In contrast, problem-centered approaches trigger physiological responses that make a person defensive and more closed to new ideas. 

About the Authors
Dr. Helen Riess is a psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Empathy and Relational Science Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a core member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. She has devoted her career to the art and science of healing relationships. Her research has been published in leading medical journals and has won many awards. Dr. Riess’s TEDx talk “The Power of Empathy,” has been viewed by nearly 500,000 viewers.  Her new book, The Empathy Effect  has been licensed in nine foreign countries. In 2012, Dr. Riess Founded Empathetics Inc., an organization that provides evidence-based empathy and communication skills training for healthcare,  education and business. Dr. Riess and her teams are dedicated to transforming systems into compassionate care systems.

Richard E. Boyatzis is Distinguished University Professor of Case Western Reserve University, Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science, HR Horvitz Professor of Family Business, and Adjunct Professor in People/Organizations at ESADE. He has a BS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, a MS and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Using his Intentional Change Theory (ICT), he studies sustained, desired change at all levels of human endeavor from individuals, teams, organizations, communities and countries, specifically has been researching helping and coaching since 1967. He was ranked #9 Most Influential International Thinker by HR Magazine in 2012 and 2014. He is the author of more than 200 articles on leadership, competencies, emotional intelligence, competency development, coaching, neuroscience and management education. His Coursera MOOCs, including Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence has about a million enrolled from 215 countries. His 9 books include: The Competent Manager; the international best-seller, Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee; and Resonant Leadership, with Annie McKee, and Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion or Lifelong Learning and Growth with Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten. He is Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 

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Monday, December 9
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Lunch Roundtable with Kate DeWolf on hybrid energy systems, solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities, microgrids, digesting toilets, and more in Afghanistan
Monday, December 9
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
BU, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-roundtable-with-kate-dewolf-tickets-81498318665

Join the New England Women in Energy and the Environment (NEWIEE) Boston Chapter for a lunch roundtable with Kate DeWolf, Expeditionary Resource Efficiency Manager (eREM) Contractor at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait!

For the past two years, NEWIEE community member Kate DeWolf has lived in Kuwait working for the U.S. Army to develop initiatives regarding renewable energy, energy efficiency, water and waste. Join us for lunch with Kate to learn more about the hybrid energy systems, solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities, microgrids, digesting toilets, and other projects she has helped develop during her time overseas.

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CS50 Fair
WHEN  Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, 12 – 4 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Richard and Susan Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	CS50
COST  Free and Open to the Public
DETAILS  The CS50 Fair is an epic display of CS50 students' final projects. On display will be web apps, mobile apps, and more, all made by students.
Come see friends. Come chat with alumni, engineers, and recruiters. Squeeze a CS50 stress ball. Eat popcorn and candy. Win fabulous prizes in the raffle.
Also live-streamed at: live.cs50.io.
For a look at last year's CS50 Fair, see:  https://youtu.be/D0JW6pnBUdg
LINK  https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/

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HCED Discussion Series with Marc Doussard
Monday, December 9
12:30pm to 2:00pm
MIT, Building 9-450, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

HCED will host a discussion with Marc Doussard.
Marc Doussard's research examines urban economic development through changes to footloose and placebound industries. His book Degraded Work (University of Minnesota Press) documents the restructuring of local-serving industries and the paths to upward mobility opened and foreclosed by changing competitive practices.

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Boston Network for International Development Holiday Party
Monday, December 9
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
District Hall Boston, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-network-for-international-development-holiday-party-tickets-81224997153
Cost:  $10 – $25

A night of winter celebration and fellowship for the international development community in Boston.

Please join the Boston Network for International Development (BNID) for the annual winter celebration and holiday party!

Looking to get into the international development field? Do you care about global justice? Are you looking for an opportunity to connect with the international development community in Boston? This is the holiday party for you. 
Everyone is welcome to join for this night of fellowship and holiday cheer. 
Refreshments will be provided and a cash bar will be available. 
Want to learn more about BNID? Check out our website that features job and internship opportunities along with hundreds of events each year. 

Want to join 8000 other folks in receiving the weekly BNID newsletter? Sign up!

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Boston New Technology HealthTech Startup Showcase #BNT108 (21+)
Monday, December 9
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Foley Hoag, LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-new-technology-healthtech-startup-showcase-bnt108-21-tickets-79353310889
Cost:  $0 – $99

See 6 innovative and exciting local HealthTech demos, presented by startup founders
Network with attendees from the Boston-area startup/tech community
Get your free headshot photo (non-intrusively watermarked) from The Boston Headshot!
Enjoy dinner with beer, wine and more
Each company presents an overview and demonstration of their product within 5 minutes and discusses questions with the audience.
Free tickets for startups and Investment Firms! See ticket page for details.
Register at least 2 days prior to save 50%. Only $15!

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Lightning Talks, Demos, and Magic Leap
Monday, December 9, 2019
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Venture Cafe, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Virtual-Reality/events/265871753/
Cost:  $6

Come join the local XR community as we share our best work and ideas. We'll have a series of lighting talks (10 minutes each), demos, and pizza!

MAGIC LEAP
Stuart Trafford (Magic Leap) will demo and discuss the Magic Leap AR headset, a truly amazing tool.
GESTURALLY INTERACTIVE MUSIC
Gregory Osborne (Berklee) will discuss the new possibilities of using your body and in particular hand gestures to direct both visual and audio systems, opening up the possibility for gesturally interactive music videos.
MIXED-MEDIA LIVE PERFORMANCE IN VR
Professor Lori Landay (Berklee) will talk about real-time performance combining live and recorded assets in actual and virtual spaces with co-located and remote participants using the virtual reality headset Oculus Quest.
VR RACING SIMULATORS
Robert Moore (VR Motion Labs) will talk about VR racing simulators for sim racing and race driver training and race preparation. I’m currently working with the Porsche Club Of America on their eDE (electronic Driver Education) program. I do this in my Plymouth MA based 3DOF motion simulator, in VR with a Pro level instructor who is in his simulator in New York. We schedule shared private iRacing sessions where our 2 cars on on the same track and I can follow him, he can follow me or I can jump in his car or he can jump in mine. We’re discussing the track, the race line, the braking points, etc. as he brings me up to speed on the track. It’s a new initiative by the PCA and it is a very effective way to bring new drivers up to speed on the track with other drivers.
MICROTASKING IN VR
Casey Armstrong will talk about what could happen, hypothetically, if microtasking platforms came to VR in the future and why he thinks developers should start experimenting now. What is microtasking? Microtasking is work done in bite-sized chunks on platforms like Mechanical Turk, Swagbucks, and Fold.it. Microtasks can come in any form. However, in their most popular forms, microtasks range from labeling-and-cleaning data for data-science, to writing short product-descriptions, to answering surveys, to playing video games that train AI.

WRAPVR
John Joseph will talk about wrapVR; a lightweight toolkit that abstracts the specifics of VR SDK / hardware interaction in Unity, making it easier for developers to start creating interactions and behaviors in VR.

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Floating Coast:  An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Monday, December 9
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes environmental historian BATHSHEBA DEMUTH for a discussion of her book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. She will be joined in conversation by poet JOAN NAVIYUK KANE.

About Floating Coast
Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years.
The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: how, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved?

Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history.
Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought, and will continue to bring, to a finite planet.

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The Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series
Guest Speaker: Jose Andrés, Think Food Group, minibar, Jaleo
Jose Andrés (@chefjoseandres), Think Food Group, minibar, Jaleo
Monday, December 9
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Harvard, Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

The Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series, organized by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter;” however, public lectures do not replicate course content.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Seating for all lectures is first come, first seated
Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course
The lectures are free and open to the public

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This Is What Democracy Looked Like
Monday, December 9
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Katherine Small Gallery, 108 Beacon Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/this-is-what-democracy-looked-like-tickets-83073700675
Cost:  $10

A visual history of the printed ballot in America, illuminating the noble but often flawed process at the heart of democracy

Our ninth Standing-Room Only Lecture is a visual history of the printed ballot in America, illuminating the noble but often flawed process at the heart of democracy. The talk celebrates the colorful and sometimes outlandish US ballots from the 19th and early 20th century, when election tickets were printed by political parties and casting your vote was a public act.

Our speaker, Alicia Cheng, is a founding partner of MGMT. She has worked as a senior designer for Method, New York and was the co-design director at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She has taught and served as a visiting critic at Yale University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons School of Design, Barnard College, the Cooper Union, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Our Standing-Room Only Lectures aim to present short talks about graphic design, typography, and collecting. The lectures are kept to about twenty minutes because—true to its name—the series takes place in our standing-room only gallery. So, wear comfortable shoes and bring a short attention span.
Doors open at 6p for pre-talk mingling.

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2.009 final prototype launch
Monday, December 9
7:30pm to 10:30pm
MIT, Building W16: Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://009ignite.com/notify

8 teams launch their new product prototypes in the annual final presentation event

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Tuesday, December 10
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Systems Thinking Webinar: Atanu Mukherjee, “Enabling a gasification-based sustainable industrial economy for India”
Tuesday, December 10
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Webinar
RSVP at http://sdm.mit.edu/news-and-events/webinars/

Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday, December 10 at 12:00 PM EST with Atanu Mukherjee, SDM alumnus and president of the engineering consulting firm M. N. Dastur & Co. (P) Ltd. 

About the talk: The need for cheap and sustainable energy will continue to expand as industrial and economic growth accelerates. The challenge is to architect energy systems and feedstocks for a future industrial economy which is sustainable, economically viable, socially integrative and future-proof while leveraging the resource endowments of the nation. While renewables are a good carbon neutral energy complement, a growing industrial economy will need cost-effective and clean primary or base load energy. Similarly, as India is completely dependent on imported crude and crude based feedstocks for its industry and the economy, crude volatility and geo-political disruptions can severely destabilize the nation. The country has limited gas or oil reserves but has the 5th largest coal reserves in the world. By gasifying the vast reserves of Indian high ash coal and by cost effectively capturing the carbon using carbon capture technology, use and sequestration, India can enable an entire gasification value chain based on syn-gas and clean coal technology. The synthesis of such an energy and industrial feedstock system requires systemic architectural considerations on technology options, sustainability, economics, trade, finance, logistics and – importantly – government policy. 

About the Speaker: Atanu Mukherjee is the President of M. N. Dastur & Co. (P) Ltd, an engineering consulting firm. He advises the energy, materials and commodity industry globally in the areas of strategy, technology, operations and finance, working with governments, national and international institutions, private equity firms, and investors. He also serves as visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management. Prior to his work in the energy and commodity industry, Atanu was in senior leadership positions at Microsoft and Digital Equipment Corporation. He is an alumnus of the System Design and Management program and holds a graduate degree from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Bombay.

About the series: The MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series, sponsored by the System Design & Management (SDM) program, features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges. Recordings and slides from prior SDM webinars can be accessed on our website:  http://sdm.mit.edu/news-and-events/webinars/

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Books at Baker:  The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society 
WHEN  Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Business School, Aldrich Hall 210, Soldiers Field Road, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Business
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	Baker Library and HBS Working Knowledge
SPEAKER(S)  William R. Kerr, The D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO	For more information, please contact Dina Gerdeman at: dgerdeman at hbs.edu
DETAILS  William R. Kerr, The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society 
In the global race for talent, the United States has managed to compete with other countries for the best and brightest, attracting people who have transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. Yet while America is getting caught up in thorny debates about immigration policy, countries like China and India are catching up. In "The Gift of Global Talent," William R. Kerr takes the reader on America’s bumpy ride, from a joyous celebration at the Nobel Prize ceremony to angry airport protests against the Trump administration’s travel ban. The book explains the controversies of the H-1B visa used by firms like Google and Apple, delves into the superstar firms that global talent flows produce, and explores how the United States can become even more competitive in attracting tomorrow’s talent.
LINK  https://www.library.hbs.edu/Articles/Books-Baker

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SystemsThatLearn at CSAIL Lecture Series: Using Technology to Track and Trace Live Goods from Supplier to Retailer
Tuesday, December 10
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 32-D463 , Star Conference Room, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

This talk covers work being done in the Retail and Consumer Products industries where there is a need to track and trace live goods including plants and food. The technical aspects of how to implement this will be covered including where Internet of Things (IoT) sensors are leveraged to provide location, status, and state to know previous, current, and future provenance of products materials, and consumer goods. Blockchain, sensors, and analytics will be covered in specifically how they are used in various examples.

Speaker: Martin Wolfe, IBM
Martin Wolfe is currently the Global CTO for Retail, Consumer Products, and Agribusiness at IBM. He is a Distinguished Engineer with backgrounds in systems engineering, software development, cloud computing, Blockchain technology and leads the definition of architecture standards in Consumer focused industries.

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AgConnect: Social Innovation Ecosystems
Tuesday, December 10
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
610 Main Street, Cambridge (Entrance at 10 Portland Street.  Please bring a photo ID to enter the building.)
RSVP at https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=e7Oy_KBda0abgwAUtnp8eAKy4yTPtINNjxsebOCLd_1UODQ2SzFOMlJaOFZYMTVHS1ZMNkJZRTQ4Ny4u

Join LifeHub Boston for our fourth and final AgConnect Sustainability Series event, Social Innovation Ecosystems. We'll be joined by our friends at J-WAFS at MIT to bring you a lively discussion on how Social Innovation Ecosystems are shaping the sustainable future of Agriculture. Don't forget to bring your best to our Open Mic Nite, which is your time to pitch your passion project and get feedback from the community! This is your last chance to visit us for our Sustainability Series, and to network with us in 2019--don't miss out!

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DNI Greenhouse Celebration & Fundraiser
Tuesday, December 10
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Dudley Greenhouse, 9 Brook Avenue, Boston
RSVp at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dni-greenhouse-celebration-fundraiser-tickets-83354835557

Learn about how you can support the community land trust movement and double your impact through the Community Investment Tax Credit !

Are you an activist, philanthropist, or community member looking to fight gentrification in Boston? Join DNI in the Dudley Greenhouse to learn more about the community land trust model as a tool to fight displacement and stabilize neighborhoods. We will discuss opportunities for you to join the movement by making a donation to DNI through the Community Investment Tax Credit (CITC) program. 
Our community land trust provides permanently affordable housing for almost 1,000 people and stabilizes the Dudley neighborhood in the face of skyrocketing rents and housing prices. But we need your support to expand our model and ensure "Development without Displacement." 
DNI has been awarded $150,000 in tax credits meant to leave $300,000 in donations through CITC, which is designed to support high-impact, community-led economic development initiatives. For every $1,000 that a donor gives to DNI, they receive $500 back in tax credits. In the end, you give $500 and the Dudley community receives $1,000. 

This a way to double your impact! All donations must be made by December 31 2019. Join us to learn more about the program, whether you are a DNI supporter, homeowner, donor or prospective donor.
Refreshments will be provided. A brief program will begin at 6:00pm. 
The greenhouse is wheelchair accessible.

Are you unable to attend but want to make a donation? Visit: http://www.dudleyneighbors.org. 
For more information contact: Joceline Fidalgo, JFidalgo at dsni.org

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The Constitution: Changes and Challenges in US History
Tuesday, December 10
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-constitution-changes-and-challenges-in-us-history-tickets-74351813275

Akhil Amar, professor of law and political science at Yale University, and Eric Foner, professor emeritus of history at Columbia University and author of The Second Founding: How Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, discuss constitutional changes and challenges throughout our nation’s history.

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Great Decisions | The Middle East: Regional Disorder
Tuesday, December 10
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-the-middle-east-regional-disorder-tickets-82050331751

Join us for the last Great Decisions of 2019!
As the presidency of Donald J. Trump passes the halfway point, the Middle East remains a region in turmoil. The Trump administration has aligned itself with strongmen in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, which along with Israel have a common goal of frustrating Iranian expansion. What will be the fallout from policy reversals such as withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear accord and moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? Does the United States see a path forward in troubled states such as Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq? Is the United States headed toward war with Iran?

Michele Dunne directs the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policies in the Middle East. Previously she was the founding director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council, as well as editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin at Carnegie. Before her think tank career, Dunne was a Middle East specialist at the U.S. Department of State for nearly 20 years, serving in assignments that included the National Security Council staff, the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem. She also served as a visiting professor of Arabic language and Arab studies at Georgetown University, where she obtained her Ph.D.

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Mass Innovation Nights 129
Tuesday, December 10
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Alley Powered by Verizon, 10 Ware Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-innovation-nights-129-tickets-77148927519

Mass Innovation Nights #129, sponsored by Verizon 5G, will feature emerging products in healthcare technology.

Mass Innovation Nights is a well-known monthly Boston area showcase event that helps tech startups gain visibility, social media engagement, and professional connections.

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Sports Rehabilitation – Game Changing Innovations
Tuesday, December 10
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Cambridge Innovation Center, 5th Floor Havana Room One Broadway, Cambridge

Winning in This Growth Marketplace
Learn from a panel of experts in the sports rehabilitation space about how they started their companies and how they funded, grew, and protected their innovations.

The goal of the sports rehabilitation industry is to provide innovations that allow people to achieve their athletic goals by preventing injuries, maintaining health, and alleviating pain during exercise.  Sports rehabilitation technology provides relief to professional and amateur athletes suffering from pain, injury, or illness involving the musculoskeletal system.

Hear from our panel of experts:
Moderator
Mark Solomon, Principal, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds – Protecting Rehabilitative Innovations Through Patent and IP Strategy
Speakers
Michael Emmerling, CEO-Founder-Inventor, K-Neesio LLC, NuNee– An Innovative Solution to Relieve Knee Pain
Samuel A. Miller, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Boston Biomotion - Advanced Movement Training to Maximize Sport Performance
Michael Salerno, Co-founder, Hatchleaf– Connecting the Life Science Innovation Ecosystem to Accelerate Technology Commercialization
David Santopietro, Founder and CEO, EvenKeel-  Advanced Orthotics System to Support Foot Injuries
Darrell Wong, Counsel, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds

Agenda
6:00-6:30pm - Registration
6:30-8:00pm - Panel discussion
8:00-9:00pm - Networking with refreshments in the Venture Cafe

Mark Solomon, Principal, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds – Protecting Rehabilitative Innovations Through Patent and IP Strategy
Michael Emmerling, CEO-Founder-Inventor, K-Neesio LLC, NuNee– An Innovative Solution to Relieve Knee Pain
Samuel A. Miller, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Boston Biomotion – Advanced Movement Training to Maximize Sport Performance
Michael Salerno, Co-founder, Hatchleaf– Connecting the Life Science Innovation Ecosystem to Accelerate Technology Commercialization
David Santopietro, Founder and CEO, EvenKeel- Advanced Orthotics System to Support Foot Injuries
Darrell Wong, Counsel, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds

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The Great Democracy:  How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
Tuesday, December 10
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes GANESH SITARAMAN—Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and author of The Counterinsurgent's Constitution—for a discussion of his latest book, The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America.

About The Great Democracy
Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to the 1970s, followed by the neoliberal era of privatization and austerity ever since. In each period, the dominant ideology was so strong that it united even partisan opponents. But the neoliberal era is collapsing, and the central question of our time is what comes next.
As acclaimed legal scholar and policy expert Ganesh Sitaraman argues, two political visions now contend for the future. One is nationalist oligarchy, which rigs the system for the rich and powerful while using nationalism to mobilize support. The other is the great democracy, which fights corruption and extends both political and economic power to all people. At this decisive moment in history, The Great Democracy offers a bold, transformative agenda for achieving real democracy.

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SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Catalytic Combinations for Prostate Cancer and Beyond
Tuesday, December 10
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, 76-156, Auditorium, 500 Main Street, Cambridge

Illuminating the science behind an ongoing clinical trial, Professor Michael Yaffe and his clinical and biotech collaborators tell the story of how a synergistic drug combination discovered at the Koch Institute revived an all but forgotten drug class and shows great promise for combatting resistant tumors. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s David Einstein shares clinical perspectives from the trial, and Trovagene’s Mark Erlander talks about the Plk-1 inhibitor that proved crucial for the introduction of this combination into prostate cancer. Achieving more together than they ever could on their own, this dynamic team embodies the powerful synergy they are bringing to patients.

Presenters:
Michael B. Yaffe. MD, PhD, Director, MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine
David H. Koch Professor of Science, Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
Jesse Patterson, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yaffe Lab, Koch Institute
David Einstein, MD, Medical Oncologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Instructor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mark Erlander, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Trovagene Oncology
Check-in opens at 6:45pm. Coffee & dessert will follow the presentations.

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The Future of Learning: A Multidisciplinary Panel with The Knowledge Society
Tuesday, December 10
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Global Silicon Valley Labs, 2 Ave de Lafayette, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-learning-a-multidisciplinary-panel-with-the-knowledge-society-tickets-79667799533

Are you an educator and want to see youth actively engaged in high-level research? Are you a scientist or researcher in machine learning, neuroscience or biotechnology - and enjoy supporting youth with a passion for these fields? Perhaps you are a high school student and wish to embark on similar research? Harvard Alumni for Education and The Knowledge Society invite you to join us for an exciting night featuring the students of The Knowledge Society on December 10th from 7 to 8:30pm at The Global Silicon Valley Labs at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Boston, MA.

Event Flow:
30 minutes of networking and snacks
60-minute panel of 4x students with Q+A
1x Machine Learning researcher
1x Neuroscience researcher
1x Biotechnology researcher
1x Bonus Specialty Presentation
Q+A with The Knowledge Society Student Presenters

Seating is limited, please secure your ticket on eventbrite THEN fill out this form to let us know more about you!

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The Way of the Problem Solver
Tuesday, November 10
7pm - 9:15pm
Arc'teryx Boston, 352 Newbury Street, Boston
RSVP at http://community-events.arcteryx.com/ProblemSolvers-Boston

Of all the good people and deeds done, we selected four whose work is extraordinary. At our evening event, these four candidates will present their vision and how they realized how to make things better.

Be inspired and show your support—Vote for the project that hits closest to your heart. Winners receive a cash reward and an Arc’teryx gift card.
Schedule:
7:00 pm - doors open
7:30 pm - presentations begin
8:45 pm - votes are collected
9:00 pm - results are announced
9:15 pm - free raffle concludes

PROBLEM SOLVER NOMINEES:
Join us in store to meet these four local Problem Solvers from the Boston community. We will hear presentations from each speaker and learn about what inspires their work. Come and show your support—Vote for the project that hits closest to your heart. Good times guaranteed!

Greg Austin - Inclusive Fit
A year ago, Greg Austin took a leap of faith. He quit his job as a corporate executive to spend more time with his teenage son with autism and to start a business. Greg and his wife Kristina, who are both avid marathoners and triathletes, found that Lucas, like most of us, functions best when he is physically active. Unfortunately for neurodiverse people like Lucas, access to fitness programs tailored to their physical and sensory needs is extremely limited. This leads to many avoidable long-term problems and a lower quality of life. So, Greg is launching Inclusive Fitness, a business focused on creating healthy lifestyles for neurodiverse people, families and communities through exercise, nutrition, and wellness centers around the country. Key to their mission is to hire as many neurodiverse people as possible. They are launching a pilot program in January and are seeking funds to purchase exercise equipment.

Ari Iaccarino - Ridj-it
Ari is an English teacher turned entrepreneur when he noticed a huge problem: access to the outdoors via reliable transport. After hiking the famous Franconia Ridge in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, he and Co-founder Rik Ganguly decided to dedicate their time to getting more people outside through carpooling. Three years later, over 3,500+ rides and hundreds of adventures through non-profits, small businesses, and individuals have occurred on Ridj-it, the platform used to carry out this mobile community. Ari’s dream is to expand beyond Boston and connect the rest of North America’s metropolises to the beautiful mountains, lakes, and lands we call home.

Hilary Johnson - Braille-It
Braille-It is a handheld tool that makes braille labels accessible and affordable. More than just a label maker, the patented Braille-It tool enables independence. Hilary’s goal is to empower people with visual impairment to make their homes, workplaces and schools accessible with labels.
 
Hilary is driven by impact-focused problem solving, and thrives at the confluence of systems thinking and human centered design. As a PhD student at MIT in mechanical engineering, she applies machine design to sustainable energy systems, turbomachinery and assistive technologies.

Adam LaReau - One Summit
One Summit was founded by Adam La Reau in 2013 as a result of his experience serving as a Navy SEAL and losing his mother to breast cancer in 2004 during his first deployment. After volunteering with a variety of organizations, Adam realized that young kids battling cancer face an especially unfair fight and that a mentor could help them build the courage and strength required to tackle the disease. Adam knew the skills embedded in Navy SEALs could even the odds and – at the same time – be an experience that would help his fellow teammates transition to civilian life. The idea to match pediatric cancer patients with Navy SEALs as mentors was born.

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Wednesday, December 11
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Put Out the Fires!
Wednesday, December 11
8am - 9:30am
South Station, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/brazil-action/

JOIN WITH XR BRAZIL SAVING THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
Marching to the Brazilian Consulate, 175 Purchase St.

XR Brazil is calling for help. Come to the Brazilian Consulate and demand Bolsonaro stop the fires, preserve the rainforest, and prevent the murders of indigenous leaders. Every tree felled represents more species lost and more carbon released into the atmosphere, accelerating climate breakdown. The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest and is a massive carbon-sink and cloud factory which produces much of our fresh water and regulates the global climate. It is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point of transitioning to a drier savannah-like ecosystem.

We will stand in solidarity with those in resistance. We call on the Brazilian government and world leaders to respect the territorial rights and prevent the abuse and murders of indigenous peoples. We call on citizens in the U.S. to boycott U.S. commodities and financial services complicit in this destruction.

Featuring: lots of signs, Brazilian music (we hope live), a few speakers, leafletting at South Station, followed by a march to Consulate for brief stop.

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Climate Equity: MetroCommon 2050 Speaker Series
Wednesday, December 11
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
District Hall Boston, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-equity-metrocommon-2050-speaker-series-registration-75686090133

Join us for the MAPC Clean Energy Forum on climate equity, part of the MetroCommon 2050 Speaker Series.

Climate Equity x MetroCommon 2050
To preserve our communities and create opportunity for future generations, we must eliminate carbon emissions and green our cities and towns. We also must advance equity, resilience, public health, and economic growth.
How do we align those critical needs for mutual benefit? That's the question the MAPC Clean Energy Forum will dig into on December 11. Join us!
Light breakfast and beverages will be served. Further event details to come!
Learn more about MetroCommon 2050, Greater Boston's next regional plan: https://metrocommon.mapc.org.

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Investing in Cleantech Is a Sustainable Business 
December 11 
12:00pm EST
Webinar
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6859073894808189452

Investing in early-stage startups is challenging in any sector. In the case of cleantech, many investors opted out after suffering significant losses in the past decade. The number of cleantech IPOs is far from the one generated by the healthcare or IT sectors, for instance. Nonetheless the ecosystem is changing.

SPEAKERS
Connell McGill, Co-Founder and CEO, Enertiv (moderator)
Abe Yokell, Co-Founder and Managing Partnerm Congruent Ventures
Shayle Kann, Managing Director, Energy Impact Partners
Michael Shimazu, Senior Advisor for Innovation, NYSERDA

Youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/theNECEC/playlists

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Curbing Gun Violence: Strategies for Change
WHEN  Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Leadership Studio, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S)  David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Mike McLively, Senior Staff Attorney and Urban Gun Violence Initiative Director, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Chana Sacks, Internist at Mass General and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Co-founder, Mass General Gun Violence Prevention Coalition
Ted Strickland, 68th Governor of Ohio
Moderator: George Zornick, Deputy Enterprise Editor, HuffPost
COST  Free webcast
TICKET WEB LINK  RSVP to attend the studio audience:  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1GMEnLZNULOO5iR
CONTACT INFO	theforum at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Nearly 40,000 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S. in 2017 —the most in 20 years. And while mass shootings grab headlines, they account for a small part of gun-related murders in the country. Urban gun violence remains a tremendous — and too often overlooked — burden on underserved communities. And suicides persist as accounting for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. As the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting approaches, this Forum event will examine contrasting facets of gun violence in America. Seeking to move the discussion past partisan debates, panelists will grapple with ways to prevent gun violence in the most impacted communities and offer key, actionable steps that we can take now to reduce gun violence in the U.S.
LINK  https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/curbing-gun-violence/


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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible
Wednesday, December 11
4:00 pm
Radcliffe, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Lecture by Chanan Tigay RI '20
Free and open to the public.
As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Chanan Tigay is working on a book about antiquities looting in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.

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Dudley Herschbach Teacher/Scientist Lecture:  Engaging our Students in Science via Flipped Classes, Science Fiction, and MOOCs
Wenesday, December 11
4:00PM TO 5:00PM
Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Room B23, Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Mohamed Noor, Dean of Natural Sciences and Professor of Biology, Duke University
Professor Noor will share stories of his ongoing efforts to improve student learning and engagement in science classes. After years of teaching a large introductory lecture course in biology, he created a MOOC that has reached a broad audience of learners and that also enabled him to flip his classroom. Noor will reflect on his experience of introducing extensive active learning into a lecture course, and his observations of how a flipped classroom benefited students from diverse backgrounds.

To make biology more accessible to introductory-level students, Noor has begun to use science-fiction television and movies as case-studies for learning biological principles. Along these lines, he recently published, “Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds.” Noor will relate his experience using this book as the textbook for a non-majors biology course for first-year students, and will discuss the benefits of drawing on popular culture to increase student interest and understanding.

https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/herschbach-lecture
Contact Name:  bokcenter at fas.harvard.edu
617-495-4869

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Policy options to promote electric vehicles: Evidence from China
Wednesday, December 11
5:15pm to 6:15pm
MIT, Building 66-110. 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/policy-options-to-promote-electric-vehicles-evidence-from-china-tickets-82246879631

This talk discusses the factors that are driving the development of the electric vehicle market in China, including state and local government policies and changes in consumer demand and automobile manufacturing. Li will discuss the impacts of the policies and unintended consequences, based on detailed data analysis and economic simulations. His research demonstrates that consumer and firm responses need to be carefully considered and factored into policy design to effectively promote technology adoption.

About the Speaker:
Shanjun Li is the Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is a co-founder and co-director of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a university fellow at Resources for the Future. His research focuses on understanding the impacts of energy and transportation policies and efficient policy design in promoting adoption of new technologies such as electric vehicles.

Reception with light refreshments will follow.

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

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

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Architecture - Between Ecology and History
Wednesday, December 11
6:00pm
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Pankaj Vir Gupta, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia

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Social Media Strategy for Businesses
Wednesday, December 11
6:00pm
Cambridge Community Television, 438 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

In this workshop you'll be creating and executing an effective social media strategy that works for you.

Figuring out how to make your business stand out on social media can be overwhelming. In this workshop you'll be creating and executing an effective social media strategy that works for you. We'll review best practices in social media, determine the goals for your business and brainstorm creative content ideas that will maximize your message. You'll leave with a draft of a social media plan that you can start using immediately!

Presenter: Mo Abdo.
Free to Cambridge residents and business owners, $10 for non-Cambridge participants.

* Workshops fill up fast Pre-registration is highly recommended for workshops.
To pre-register and for more information, please contact:
Rona Abrahams: 617-349-4637 or rabrahams at cambridgema.gov

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Heading for Extinction (and What to Do about It)
Wednesday, December 11
6:30 p.m.
Encuentro5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-talk-encuentro5-dec-2019/

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

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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Community Meeting
Wednesday, December 11
7 p.m.
Ruggles Baptist Church, 874 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-community-meeting-12-11-19/

You’re invited to XR’s Community Meeting!

Join us as all of Boston Area Rebels - newbies and vets, young and old, at all levels of engagement - come together to share a meal, learn skills, get updated on what’s happening across the movement, and create community.

Whether you’re new to XR or have been actively involved, this is an opportunity to come together to learn more about the self-organizing system (SOS), hear updates from the working groups, and find out more about how to get involved and support the Rebellion! Then, we'll have a different skills share, mini trainings, speaker, or other activity to continue learning and growing together.

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Thursday, December 12
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The Contest for the "Free Sea": Variation and Evolution in the Global Maritime Order
WHEN  Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, One Brattle Square, Room 350, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION	Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR	International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)  Rachel Esplin Odell, 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/contest-free-sea-variation-and-evolution-global-maritime-order

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Social + Impact Connect 2019
Thursday, December 12
3:00 – 8:30 PM
One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-impact-connect-2019-tickets-54044637967
 
Save the date for Venture Cafe’s Social + Impact Connect mini-conference, “Sustainability”, taking place on December 12, 2019. Social + Impact Connect recognize and celebrate innovators and companies looking to solve big problems as ‘social impact’ or ‘impact enterprises’. This special ‘conference night’ event seeks to bring together the brightest minds who are building, funding and innovating to Solving the world’s toughest problems in the Greater Boston area. Come prepared to not only hear the best ideas and see the latest technologies but also to participate in building social and impact innovation.
 
If you are interested in sponsoring Social + Impact Connect please contact Chandra Briggman at Chandra.Briggman at vencaf.org.
 
AGENDA AT A GLANCE
3:00 – 8:30 PM NETWORKING   
3:00 – 5:00 PM OFFICE HOURS
5:00 – 6:00 PM ENTREPRENEUR ROUND ROBIN
5:30 – 8:00 PM SOCIAL + IMPACT DEMOS
6:15 – 7:15 PM SOCIAL + IMPACT MINI HACKS
7:00 – 8:00 PM SOCIAL + IMPACT FUNDING

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MetroBridge Showcase
Thursday, December 12
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egp6rn2l3277d98d&oseq=&c=&ch=
 
BU’s MetroBridge program embeds real-world projects for local governments into courses across the university. Join us for a showcase of recent student work on behalf of cities and towns on issues ranging from transportation and economic development to mental health services and inclusive civic engagement. Reception to follow.

Thank you to all of our MetroBridge faculty partners in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Communication, Metropolitan College, Questrom School of Business, Sargent College, the School of Public Health, and the School of Social Work and to all our MetroBridge city and town partners in Arlington, Chelsea, Easton, Everett, Milton, New Bedford, Quincy, Randolph, Watertown, West Springfield, and Winthrop.

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MIT CLEAN ENERGY PRIZE KICKOFF
DECEMBER 12
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-clean-energy-prize-kickoff-tickets-52865365732

Join us on December 12th to formally kick off the 2019 MIT Clean Energy Prize!

Hosted at Greentown Labs, the event will consist of:
A welcome address given by a Greentown Labs representative;
A blitz pitch session for up to 10 potential participants;
Networking with entrepreneurs, investors, startups, and members of the cleantech community;
Details about the CEP application and main events that occur in the Spring.
You do NOT need a business plan to attend this event. Come, meet, and learn!

Dave’s Fresh Pasta will be catering a casual dinner. Guests must have a valid government ID to consume alcohol.

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A Curious Person's Guide to Earth Repair: Regenerating Soil and Water Landscapes
Thursday, December 12
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Biodiversity-for-a-Livable-Climate/events/266728569/

Over the past year the public has grown increasingly aware of the ways we have inadvertently harmed the biodiversity and ecosystems upon which life depends. The United Nations, having declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, presents the opportunity for a global focus on regenerating natural systems.

Journalist/author Judith D. Schwartz has travelled widely to find people who are successfully restoring healthy soil and water ecosystems. She will have a fireside chat with activist and entrepreneur Nicola Williams about her books Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight, and a forthcoming book about the global ecosystem restoration movement.

Meet Judy, Nicola and your many friends and collaborators in bringing Nature back to life!

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Talk Data to Me: Changing The Way Businesses Run & People Live
Thursday, December 12
6:30 – 8:30 pm EST
GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor.Boston, MA 02110
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/talk-data-to-me-changing-the-way-businesses-run-people-live/boston/92032

Talk Data to Me is an event series where we host thought-leaders from the Boston data community to discuss the possibilities that data brings to life. 
Data plays an important part in every aspect of our lives today. We live in a data-driven world, where analytics, numbers, and figures can provide us greater insight into the programs, processes, and business that we all engage in.
Join us for a panel featuring industry-leading experts, who will dive into how data is being utilized today. Learn about the latest trends in data, from data analytics to data science, and learn how technological advancements and access to greater data will continue to drive change. Whether you work with data yourself, or are just interested in the topic, this event will leave you with questions answered, and hopefully will pique some greater interest in all things data!

Why It Matters:  We live in a world with seemingly infinite data, and if you can learn the right balance of skills, there are lucrative opportunities available to you. Data affects not only how we run our businesses, but how we live as individuals. Understanding the ways you can leverage data in your personal and professional life can help you find key insights, make smarter decisions, and elevate your career.

By signing up for this event, you're giving our sponsors permission to contact you about upcoming events and promotions.

About the Speakers
Cathy Slesnick.Senior Manager, Data Science, Agero
Catherine Slesnick currently leads a world class Data Science and Data Engineering team at Agero in Medford, MA. In this role, she directs the development of Python and Spark machine learning models that help to safeguard drivers on the road. Prior to joining Agero, she worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as a data scientist and before that at Draper Laboratory as a data analyst. Catherine completed her Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology in 2007.

Gildas Bah, Data Engineer Analyst, Harvard Business School | HBX
Gildas Bah is a Data Scientist with 15 years of experience specializing in data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
He has an MBA and a Master's Degree in Actuarial Science. He currently is on the Data Management team at Harvard Business School Online. His current projects include student’s enrollment forecasting using Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing and Text Analytics to develop composite metrics for measuring student engagement. One of his recent projects included the development of quantitative and visual computation graphs for explaining multiple stages and concurrent A/B Testing results.
Gildas has a passion for sharing his expertise with others to help advance their careers in order to further data science initiatives and improve data science methodologies.

Gildas will be speaking about Machine Learning at General Assembly in Boston and at the DataX conference in NY.

Nathan Johnson, PhD. Associate Research Scientist in Bioinformatics and Data Analysis, Harvard Medical School
As a Research Scientist at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Nathan Johnson is currently responsible for merging his biological expertise with computer science and data science in order to achieve breakthroughs in breast cancer and Alzheimer’s therapeutic research. He uses AI in order to drive new insight into how to recognize relevant patterns that would be difficult to impossible without it. He has been involved in research for almost 15 years across a number of challenges for diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, and on how to prevent parasites from infecting soybeans. Prior to pursuing his graduate studies, he worked as a microbiologist testing food products such as Hershey's, baby formula, and meat for pathogens. He holds a BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Evangel University in Springfield, MO, an MS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO, and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA.

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Listening Partnerships for climate activists: tools for sustaining and renewing ourselves
Thursday, December 12
7 p.m.
Small Planet Institute, 12 Elliot Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/listening-partnerships-climate-activists-dec/

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

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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists
Thursday,  December 12
7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mikki-kendall-at-brookline-booksmith-tickets-78096297127
Cost:  $20

Mikki Kendall
This event will be in conversation with Margaret H. Willison.

Join us for a talk and signing with Mikki Kendall to celebrate her new book! Each ticket includes a copy of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights.

Mikki Kendall is a writer, historian, and diversity consultant who writes about intersectionality, policing, gender, sexual assault, and other current events. Kendall’s nonfiction can be found at Time.com, the Guardian, Washington Post, Ebony, Essence, Salon, XoJane, Bustle, Islamic Monthly, and a host of other outlets. Her media appearances include BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, WVON, WBEZ, TWIB, and Showtime. Her comics work can be found in the Swords of Sorrow anthology, the Princeless charity anthology, and in the Columbus College of Art and Design anthology of 2016.

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Connecting With Your Electeds:  Help Your Representatives Get To Know *You*
Thursday December 12
7:30–9PM
The Village Works, 202 Washington Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecting-with-your-electeds-help-your-representatives-get-to-know-you-tickets-82274648689

We're kicking off a three-part series of Civics Nights at The Village Works. Tickets are free but limited. RSVP.

It’s 2019. You care about an issue, and you want your electeds to care about it, too.

You’ve signed a petition, written a personal letter, or showed up at a protest, but what’s the best way to influence their priorities? Help them get to know you!

We’ll hear from four passionate officials, both local and state, about what moves the needle for them—and the support they need from constituents when they’re doing the work you care about.

We’ll also ask some tough questions. How can we communicate effectively when our officials have a position we disagree with? And when our views are aligned, how can we encourage them to really stand up for our issues?

We’ll start with a laid-back 45-minute panel chat with questions and answers, followed by time to connect with fellow civic-minded individuals over special sips and delectable cheese from Brookline Village favorite Curds & Co.

7:30–8:15PM Panel Discussion and Q&A
8:15–9:00PM Invigorating Chats, Special Sips, and Delectable Cheeses from Curds & Co.

Panelists
Massachusetts State Representative Tommy Vitolo
Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley
Brookline Select Board Members Heather Hamilton + Raul Fernandez
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The Village Works is a neighborhood coworking space in Brookline Village with meeting rooms, and events, and flexible memberships for shared workspace.

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Friday, December 13
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FERC Commissioner Keynote & Future of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in New England
Friday, December 13
9 am-12:30 pm
Livestream
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ferc-commissioner-keynote-and-future-of-distributed-energy-resources-in-new-england-tickets-76847152903
Cost:  $45

Keynote Address by FERC Commissioner Richard Glick 
The commissioner will speak on DERs, QFs, and a range of other topics of great importance to New England regulators and stakeholders

DER Panel #2: 
Policy Evolution & Integration with Wholesale Markets  
New England is at a bit of a crossroads with respect to DERs. Some state subsidy programs are over-subscribed and many distribution feeders (and now transmission lines too) are nearing saturation, causing increasing interconnection-related delays and costs. Meanwhile, DER technologies, such as storage, don't neatly fit into existing state programs or wholesale markets.
 
As a result, New England states (and stakeholders) are in the process of refining how DER-related policies, programs, and markets can more adeptly help DERs to locate in the places where they will have the most value, and with decreased subsidies/costs to ratepayers. Interconnection standards 
in many New England states are currently being updated; incentive programs (such as SMART in MA) are being refined and recalibrated; FERC is requiring ISO New England to integrate storage in all wholesale markets; and Massachusetts is unleashing the first-in-the-nation Clean Peak Standard.

Commissioner Judith Judson, MA Department of Energy Resources
Penni McLean-Conner, Sr. VP. & Chief Customer Officer, Eversource Energy
Janet Gail Besser, Managing Director, Reg.Innovation/Utility Biz. Models, SEPA
Henry Yoshimura, Director, Demand Resource Strategy, ISO New England

DER Panel #1: 
Innovative Projects/Use Cases

With its top-ranked energy efficiency programs and ground-breaking work on demand response, New England has been a national leader on distributed energy resources. More recently, thanks to supportive state policies, solar is thriving and energy storage now looks poised to flourish. The introduction of storage is opening up a bevy of potential new and innovative opportunities and use cases (assuming we resolve the issues addressed in the other panel).

Join us to hear about several of these innovative projects and use cases, including: 1) solar plus storage fueling transportation electrification; 2) aggregating residential solar plus storage & bidding into capacity markets; and 3) using DERs as non-wires alternatives.
 
Phil Martin, Vice President, Enel X
Christopher Rauscher, Director, Policy & Storage Market Strategy, Sunrun
Michael Stoddard, Executive Director, Efficiency Maine 

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Making Pig-to-Human Transplantation a Clinical Reality with CRISPR Genome Editing
Friday, December 13
4:00 pm
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://radcliffe-nenmf.formstack.com/forms/2019_luhan_yang_lecture

Xenotransplantation is a promising strategy to address the shortage of organs for human transplantation. Concerns about pig-to-human immunological compatibility and the risk of cross-species transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) have impeded the clinical application of this approach.

Using CRISPR-Cas9, we inactivated all the PERVs in a porcine primary cell line and generated PERV-inactivated pigs via somatic cell nuclear transfer. Our study highlights the value of PERV inactivation to prevent cross-species viral transmission and demonstrates the successful production of PERV-inactivated animals to address safety concerns in clinical xenotransplantation. Using our genome editing platform, we are creating pigs with advanced immunological modifications to address immunological and functional compatibility issues.

Free and open to the public.

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Extinction Rebellion [XR] Boston Film Series Presents:  The Reluctant Radical
Friday December 13
7 pm
Beacon Hill Friends House, 6-8 Chestnut Street, Boston
RSVP at https://xrmass.org/action/xr-boston-film-series-presents-reluctant-radical/

If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary?
THE RELUCTANT RADICAL follows activist Ken Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. Ken breaks the law as a last resort, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. After twenty years leading environmental organizations, Ken became increasingly alarmed by both the scientific evidence of climate change and the repercussions for civilization as we know it. Ken pushed for a crisis level response from inside environmental organizations. Those efforts failed, and he now embraces direct action civil disobedience as the most effective political tool to deal with catastrophic circumstances.

Watch the trailer at https://vimeo.com/248062039 and then come to see the full length movie.

This is the first film in a series of documentaries we will be screening over the coming months.

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Hail Satan? - Film Screening and Q&A with Lucien Greaves
Friday, December 13
7:00pm
MIT, Building 2-190, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

On Friday the 13th (yes, we know) of December, the Secular Society of MIT is pleased to host a screening of Hail Satan?, a humorous and timely documentary about an oft-misunderstood organization called The Satanic Temple, and its tactically unique campaign to protect religion-state separation in America from the designs of the country's Christian Right. In the battle for justice and equality, the Satanic Temple is putting up a hell of a fight.

A discussion and audience Q&A with Lucien Greaves, co-founder and spokesperson of the Temple, follows the screening.

Free entry. Free concessions. Edgy dark attire encouraged.
The event will be photographed and recorded.
Film running time: 95 minutes
Film website: http://www.hailsatanfilm.com/
Film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amB2Ol6wihg
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/847522335650688/

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Saturday, December 14
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Global AI Bootcamp 2019 - Boston edition
Saturday, December 14
8:30am to 5:00pm
MIT, Morris and Sophie Chang Building, E52-164 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

First time in Boston - Global AI Bootcamp. This is a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on Microsoft Azure. 

Learn how to implement AI solutions using pre-trained AI services like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, or by building your own machine learning models with Azure ML and Open-Source framework like PyTorch and ML.NET

By the end of the day, you will be able to infuse AI into your applications.

Get ready to have an awesome time and learn from the best. Lots of great sessions and workshops all day on Saturday, December 14th.

More information https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp

This event is sponsored by WIT ERG (Women In Technology Employee Resource Group)

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Monday, December 16
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Physics PhD Thesis Defense: Physics and Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms and Applications
Monday, December 16
10:00am
MIT,Building 4-331,  Duboc Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

You are cordially invited to attend the following thesis defense presented by Li Jing
Committee:   Marin Soljacic, Max Erik Tegmark, John Joannopoulos

Best of luck to Li!

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Tuesday, December 17
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Code for Boston Demo Night 2019
Tuesday, December 17
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM EST
CIC Boston, 50 Milk Street, Lighthouse, 20th floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-boston-demo-night-2019-tickets-79884092471

Teams from Code for Boston and affiliated organizations will demo the software projects they have been working on this year.

Code for Boston Demo Night is an opportunity to see what the results of the volunteer work that members have been putting in throughout the year.
Snacks and pizza will be served.
Agenda
6 p.m. - Registration, Food, Networking
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Demos + Q&A
The following projects will demo:
Migrant Service Map
Community Connect
Safe Drinking Water
Boston Info Voice App (Alexa + 311)
Windfall Elimintation Act Awareness
Plogalong
Muckrock/GovLens
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Networking
To ensure that Code for Boston is a welcoming space for all, staff and participants are held to our Code of Conduct.

All Code for Boston events are on the record by default. Participants should be made aware that they may be quoted, photographed, videotaped, and otherwise recorded. Exceptions must be agreed to by all parties present in a conversation in order for the conversation to be off the record.

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Environmental Voter Project's Spring Internship Program is now accepting applications at https://www.environmentalvoter.org/jobs/intern

Can you help us spread the word by forwarding this email to anybody who might be interested in joining us this winter/spring?

Located in our Boston office, our Spring Internship Program is great for anybody who's interested in learning more about environmental politics, cutting-edge voter turnout techniques, and data analytics.

All interested parties are encouraged to apply.

Click here for more information and details on how to apply.

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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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Living With Heat - Urban Land Institute report on expected climate impact in Boston
https://boston.uli.org/about/impact/

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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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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.