Events

    2023 Nov 03

    Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    This conference, “Responsibility and Repair”—led by Harvard University’s Native American Program in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute—will bring together Native and university leaders to advance a national dialogue, expand research, and establish and deepen partnerships with Indigenous communities. Using the landmark Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (2022) as a starting point, the conference and its participants—activists, scholars, Native leaders, tribal historians, and others—will explore the responsibility of...

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    2023 Nov 02

    Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond Evening Event

    7:30pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    This conference, “Responsibility and Repair”—led by Harvard University’s Native American Program in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute—will bring together Native and university leaders to advance a national dialogue, expand research, and establish and deepen partnerships with Indigenous communities. Using the landmark Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (2022) as a starting point, the conference and its participants—activists, scholars, Native leaders, tribal historians, and others—will explore the responsibility of...

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    2023 Oct 13

    Carceral Landscapes

    1:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    Imprisonment, quite literally, is all around us. The American criminal legal system, especially as it disproportionately incapacitates Black and Brown communities, forms a landscape of retribution and inequity. Carceral Landscapes focuses on the network of prisons, jails, detention centers, and their attendant infrastructure that comprises the backbone of the United States legal system. This symposium aims to expand conversations on the criminal legal system beyond law and police, centering the pivotal—though often unacknowledged—role of design in the construction of carceral...

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    2023 Sep 28

    Day 1: Truth and Transformation Conference 2023

    10:00am to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School—Online

    This fall, the Truth and Transformation conference returns for a two-day virtual program bringing together changemakers across diverse sectors. Together, we’ll explore lessons and strategies for institutional accountability for racial equity and the threads that connect them.

    Under the leadership of Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad and organized by the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center, the convening’s fifth edition will take place across two half-days, each beginning at 9 AM EST, on September 28 and October 4...

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    2023 Sep 22

    Black in Design 2023: The Black Home

    Fri Sep 22 (All day) to Sun Sep 24 (All day)

    Location: 

    Gund Hall, 42-48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Yaad, ile, lakay, all languages have a word for home, shelter, a claim to a place, to a delineated territory of heritage. However, the experience of Black people across the world has created a unique yet divergent practice of creating and claiming home.

    This year's Black in Design conference explores the Black home's multidimensionality — as a literal structure that shelters, as a reflection of culture and traditions, and as spaces that are not entirely physical. The conference brings together keynote panels, workshops, and conversations that discuss and expand these...

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    2023 May 22

    The Annual Harvard/Glenn Virtual Symposium on Aging

    1:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    Each year, the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research hosts the Harvard Symposium on Aging with a mission to present new advances in aging research and to stimulate collaborative research in this area. The symposium has become a significant forum for aging research at Harvard Medical School.

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    2023 May 11

    GEM23 Conference: Growing in a Green World

    8:45pm

    Location: 

    Harvard's Center for International Development—Online

    Join Harvard University’s Center for International Development (CID) for its flagship Global Empowerment Meeting, where change-makers from academia, government, business, civil society, and philanthropy will gather to share insights and develop action-focused strategies and solutions to combat climate change.

    GEM23: Growing in a Green World will explore different dimensions of climate change, with a particular lens on both the challenges and opportunities emerging from developing countries. The emphasis will be on action so that we have pathways to pursue evidence – driven...

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    2023 May 08

    Climate, Health & Equity: Toward a Sustainable Future

    1:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Spangler Center, Harvard Business School Campus

    Climate change is actively harming human health — not in some distant future, but now, in communities around the globe. The more we understand these harms, the better we can confront and overcome them. That’s the goal of this symposium.

    We’re bringing together leading scientists, policy makers, and activists to examine our most urgent challenges and explore the most promising solutions. The audience will include professionals from a wide array of disciplines engaged in issues of climate, health, and environmental justice. We expect the afternoon to inform and inspire, to spark...

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    2023 Apr 21

    Mayors Imagining the Just City: Volume 3

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    Concluding the third annual Mayors Institute on City Design (MICD) Just City Mayoral Fellowship–a collaboration between the MICD and Harvard GSD's Just City Lab–the Fellows discuss strategies for using planning and design interventions to address racial injustice in each of their cities.

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    2023 Apr 12

    The Harvard Global Health Institute's Inaugural Global Health Symposium

    9:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Global Health Institute—Online

    The Harvard Global Health Institute is thrilled to announce that registration is now open for virtual attendance to our Inaugural Global Health Symposium! While in person capacity is limited, we invite our longstanding global and Harvard-based community to join us virtually on April 12 for a series of conversations centered around the theme "Global Health Equity through Community Engagement." 

    Our inaugural symposium will bring together experts from across the globe and from within Harvard University to highlight innovative, community-driven approaches aimed at achieving...

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    2023 Apr 04

    When the Science Says Children But the Law Says Adults: Trying and Sentencing Youth as Adults

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online

    All 50 states have transfer laws that either allow or require children to be prosecuted in adult criminal court for certain offenses.

    Attorney Marsha Levick Esq. will provide an overview of the transfer law legal landscape and potential legal challenges to transfer laws. Neuroscientist BJ Casey, Ph.D. will speak about the science of adolescence and explore whether there is a neuroscientific basis for transfer laws as an effective deterrent to delinquency and consistent with rehabilitation. Stephanie Tabashneck, Psy.D., JD will then lead a discussion on the role science can...

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    2023 Apr 04

    "Five on Five" / "Books and Looks"

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

    "Five on Five" is a series of conversations organized by The Architecture Department at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where architects are invited to present five projects that have been pivotal in their body of work.

    Taking the accumulation of experience and knowledge as a starting point , the conversations are titled after the series of polemical essays published in Architectural Forum in the 1970's.

    "Five on Five" features architects of different backgrounds or generations presenting five projects of theirs or of others. The live conversations...

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    2023 Feb 09

    Rebuilding Ukraine, Rebuilding the World

    Thu - Fri, Feb 9 to Feb 10, 9:00am - 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

    The 2023 TCUP Conference looks to the future. After victory, what will rebuilding Ukraine look like? Panels will focus on truth, justice, and accountability, as well as the economic and physical challenges of reconstruction. The conference will combine virtual and in-person panels for a hybrid discussion about how Ukraine can move forward when the war is over.

    Keynote Address by Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist.

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    2023 Jan 27

    The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America (Day 2)

    9:15am to 4:15pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute will hold a major public conference January 26–27, 2023, to probe the complex and unpredictable ways that Roe v. Wade and its aftermath shaped the United States and the world beyond it for nearly half a century. The existential issue of abortion—and the galvanizing impact of Roe in particular—transformed the nation’s politics and public policy and its social movement energies, as well as the operations of the courtroom and the clinic.

    In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, eminent...

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    2023 Jan 26

    The Age of Roe: Voices from the Front Lines (Day 1)

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute will hold a major public conference January 26–27, 2023, to probe the complex and unpredictable ways that Roe v. Wade and its aftermath shaped the United States and the world beyond it for nearly half a century. The existential issue of abortion—and the galvanizing impact of Roe in particular—transformed the nation’s politics and public policy and its social movement energies, as well as the operations of the courtroom and the clinic. 

    This opening session of the conference features speakers with a range of perspectives from the front lines of...

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    2023 Jan 13

    What Magic Can Teach Us About Misinformation

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online

    This panel joins together the fields of medicine, magic, and ethics. We will explore how misinformation and disinformation about health is created and spread, and how expectation violation theory, a theory of communication that analyzes how individuals respond to unanticipated violations of social norms and expectations, can help to counteract these narratives.

    The panel will also discuss what can be learned from magicians, who are often seen as ethical disinformation designers. Panelists will point to how magic acts as fertile ground to approach the topics of misinformation...

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    2022 Oct 21

    A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World

    9:15am to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    Climate change is one of the, if not the, most significant threats facing our planet today. It affects life on Earth in countless known, and many still unknown, ways—from atmospheric health to wellness; natural ecosystems to small businesses; global security to neighborhood food insecurity; and international policy to individual decision-making—while exacerbating underlying patterns of inequality.

    This conference will explore these interconnected issues through sessions investigating global climate systems and climate disasters, public policy, health, climate justice and...

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    2022 Oct 14

    Olmsted: Bicentennial Perspectives (Day 1)

    10:00am to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    The Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in partnership with the Arnold Arboretum, is hosting a two-day academic conference as part of the national Olmsted 200 celebration. While Olmsted was central to the conceptual formation of the degree program in landscape architecture at Harvard University and the design of the Arnold Arboretum, the interpretive ambitions of the conference are anything but parochial.

    Day 1 of the conference (Friday, October 14) will occur at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

    Attendees are...

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