2021 Jan 28
Racial Equity in Urban Climate Action
7:00pm
Location: 
Online—Arnold Arboretum
Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at Northeastern University, will build on key concepts in her new book, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change (2020). She’ll discuss how cities are rethinking their approach to climate action by placing racial justice at the forefront. She’ll draw from recent experiences with Providence, Austin, and Oakland in creating participatory planning processes and new priorities for a just transition to a carbon-free society. She’ll conclude by discussing how the transition can be linked to jobs in the green economy.
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2021 Jan 22
The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: What’s Ahead?
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines unfolds in the United States, numerous questions around distribution, supply, hesitancy, and efficacy persist. And the stakes have never been higher, as numbers of deaths and cases repeatedly break records. In this discussion, experts will review the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, address safety concerns, explore upcoming expected vaccines, and discuss implications of virus variants.
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2021 Jan 21
Art Talk Live: Setting the Fans Afloat
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Art Museums
Exhibition designer Elie Glyn and production specialist Sean Lunsford will explain the creative process behind the planning and installation of a display of framed fans by Suzuki Kiitsu, featured in the special exhibition Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection.
Led by:
Elie Glyn, Assistant Director for Exhibitions, Collections Management
Sean Lunsford, Exhibition Production Specialist, Collections Management...
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2021 Jan 14
Art Talk Live: Ben Shahn and Folk Music
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
During the Great Depression, artist Ben Shahn produced hundreds of photographs while working for the Farm Security Administration. Among his most common subjects were musicians. In this talk, curatorial fellow Kappy Mintie will examine Shahn’s interest in folk music in the context of concurrent government efforts to record this important strand of American music.
Led by:
Katherine “Kappy” Mintie, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
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2021 Jan 07
Art Talk Live: Love at the Margins
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Members of the itinerant Roma, or Romani, people arrived in Europe by the Middle Ages and have held a prominent place in Western art and literature, from the work of Shakespeare and Hieronymus Bosch to that of the many Roma artists and writers active today. This talk will focus on an unusual and moving depiction of a Roma woman and child by Dutch artist Jacques de Gheyn, exploring it in relation to the broader visual and literary tradition and to the realities of the lives of the Roma in the 17th-century Netherlands.
Led by:
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein,...
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2020 Dec 17
Art Talk Live: Erased!
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Public images of rulers serve as potent symbols of power and propaganda. In ancient Rome, tyrannical emperors were deposed and assassinated, their likenesses defaced by angry citizens and sometimes by official decree.
This talk is part of a series investigating power dynamics in artworks across the collections. Considering intersections of art and power, our curatorial team discusses how artists engage with social and political crises, use art to upset systems of power, and imagine more equitable futures.
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2020 Dec 17
US Health Policy After the 2020 Election
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
The 2020 election will have profound effects on the direction of U.S. health policy. Harvard Medical School physician and health economist Zirui Song, MD, PhD, will outline the potential implications of the election results on health insurance coverage, payment policy for health care providers, and key considerations for the Medicare and privately-insured population.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 
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2020 Dec 16
Antique Inspirations, Fresh Creations
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
James S. Snyder, HKS/MEI Senior Fellow, in conversation with award-winning Palestinian-Israeli architect Senan Abdelqader on the influences of Arab culture across time on art, architecture, and design in Israel, Palestine, and the world today. This event is part of the fall 2020 MEI series, James Snyder in Conversation: A series of dialogues on art, culture, politics, and the possibilities for transcending conflict through cultural connection in the modern Middle East.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 
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2020 Dec 15
Book Talk: Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
Reshaping health insurance is a divisive topic in American politics today. Our current system expects patients to bear substantial health costs through deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance, creating a tradeoff for patients that can keep them from accessing the care they need. In his book, Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It,...
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2020 Dec 14
Members: Digging Harvard with Trish Capone & Nam Hyun Kim
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Students have been digging up and learning about Harvard's past through the Harvard Yard Archaeological Project. Meet the Peabody's Trish Capone and current Harvard student Nam Hyun Kim as they talk about the objects they have found and the larger history of what has been uncovered in this long-standing dig on campus.
 
To register, send an email to members@hmsc.harvard.edu. If possible, please include your member number. A...
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2020 Dec 14
Author Discussion with Francis X. Clooney, S.J.: Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Online Event
Please join us as Francis X. Clooney, S.J., HDS Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, discusses his recent publication, Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters.
Jon D. Levenson (HDS) and Sarah Coakley (Australian Catholic University) will serve as respondents. 
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 
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2020 Dec 12
A Materials Wonderland: A Celebration of How Materials Science Makes our Holidays Fun
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences—Online
Join us for a virtual celebration of materials, and their importance in our lives. Professor Howard Stone and team will investigate the wonders of common materials, and delve into the science of some materials that make our holidays special. Get ready to learn some interesting science about materials you use every day; we will then go into the lab and check out some not-so-everyday materials.
This 1-hour presentation is designed for children ages 7 and up and their families, but all are welcome to join and learn something new! Visit our website for registration and some...
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2020 Dec 10
Student Guide Alumni Tour: Why Museums Matter
8:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Alumni of the Ho Family Student Guide Program talk about works of art they still think about, how their museum experience affected their path after graduation, and how this experience feeds into their current work in architecture, social justice, and environmental policy.
Join David Kurlander ’15, Catarina Martinez ’15, and John Wang ’15—all members of the first Student Guide cohort in our renovated building—for an interactive conversation with Camran Mani, the Cunningham Curatorial Fellow in Academic and Public Programs, about how they have carried forward their museum...
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2020 Dec 10
In Conversation: Kemi Adeyemi with Jessica Bell Brown, Lauren Haynes, and Jamillah James
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts—Online
Join the Carpenter Center for a conversation between Kemi Adeyemi, Director of the Black Embodiments Studio, and curators Jessica Bell Brown, Lauren Haynes, and Jamillah James. This conversation is a continuation of Adeyemi's oral history project “Black Women Curators, A Brief Oral History of the Recent Past,” which documents the perspectives of Black women curators working in the United States from the mid-2000s onward.
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2020 Dec 10
What Old Chimps Can Tell Us About Healthy Aging
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Alumni Association—Online
Humans are living longer lives than ever before and so it is critical to understand the process of aging. It has become increasingly recognized that successful aging is not just about physical health but also about our social lives.
Chimpanzees are our closest living relative and also lead long and complex lives. In this talk, you’ll learn what chimpanzee aging can tell us about human aging.
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2020 Dec 10
Women and the Making of the U.S. Foreign Policy Community
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
Who made the foreign policy community in the United States, and why does the answer matter? Scholars have traditionally looked to the men clustered around the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller and Carnegie philanthropies, and the Ivy League faculties to find the roots of the foreign policy "elite" or "establishment" in the years after World War I. But this seminar will show that this focus has obscured the absolute centrality of progressive white women in the making of the U.S. foreign policy community, particularly those former suffragists, trained scholars, and expert...
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2020 Dec 09
Schism 2.0: China and America’s Trade Conflict in the Next U.S. Administration
8:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Paul Blustein
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Senior Associate (non-resident), Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Moderator: Christina Davis
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
This seminar is part of the...
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2020 Dec 09
Of Scholarship and Song
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
Join Maggie Paxson and Alexandra Vacroux for a wide-reaching, long-looking, spirit-warming conversation and mini-concert as we prepare for this strangest of holiday...
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2020 Dec 09
The Future of Education
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
As we look ahead to a post-pandemic world, with educational disparities laid bare by COVID-19, the Harvard Graduate School of Education ends its Centennial year by asking: What will education look like five years from now? What about 25 years from now? What are the innovations — fueled by the pandemic’s necessities, or powered by the world’s push for racial justice and equal access — that will take us forward? What should we do now to work toward that future we want to build? And what factors, both positive and challenging, will help to determine that future?
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2020 Dec 08
Observations on Urban Nature
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum—Online
Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus at the Arnold Arboretum, and Rosetta Elkin, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at McGill University, converse about the nature of urban environments. Peter will begin the program with a brief overview of the plant observations he makes in his book, Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast. Following this, Peter and Rosetta will discuss both ecological and design elements that come into play in the cities and suburbs that we call home. Up for discussion are the environments that humans intentionally and unintentionally...
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