2022 May 23
View from the Hill: A conversation with Sen. Michael Bennet
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
The Studio at the Harvard Chan School—Online
Sen. Michael Bennet has called for dramatically expanding the public health workforce by mobilizing and training hundreds of thousands of Americans to serve in a new ‘Health Force.’ The Colorado Democrat is also pushing for a comprehensive reform of our mental health care system to improve access, in part by leveraging services delivered through schools and workplaces. He’ll talk about these proposals and his other work in the health care arena including his efforts to spur development of new antibiotics — in this Q&A with POLITICO reporter Rachael Levy.
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2022 May 21
MassQ Ball 2022: Origin | Mythmaking Workshop
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Bradley Rosaceous Collection, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Led by Castle of our Skins’ Director of Education Taylor Lena McTootle, “Making a Mythos” focuses on the creative power of storytelling. Young participants will experience firsthand how fictional tales can reflect our cultural values and create them.
Appropriate for youth ages 8-12 years old.
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2022 May 20
European Politics Seminar: The 2022 French Presidential Election
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Center for European Studies at Harvard—Online
Join us to explore the latest developments in French politics following the first round of French presidential elections on April 10, 2022. A panel of experts on French politics will analyze the results and discuss the prospects for the impending legislative contest. What do the results indicate about the state of French society, France's place in the world, and the future of the European Union? What are the implications for France's political parties? How has France changed over the five years since Emmanuel Macron burst onto the scene in 2017?
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2022 May 20
Considering the Needs of the Vulnerable in the Next Stage of the Pandemic
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
How do we navigate this coming phase of the pandemic? Who bears the cost of decisions to remove mask mandates and vaccine requirements? What is the role of the individual and what is the responsibility of public health and medical leadership in the coming years? What are we accepting when we call this period "the new/next normal"?
Panelists:
• Introduction and moderator: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
• Jasmine Harris, Professor...
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2022 May 20
View from the Hill: A conversation with Rep. Lauren Underwood
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
The Studio at the Harvard Chan School—Online
Rep. Lauren Underwood brings a unique perspective to Capitol Hill. The youngest African-American woman ever to serve in the House, she is a registered nurse and former senior adviser to the Department of Health and Human Services, where she helped communities prepare for bioterrorism threats and other public health emergencies. The Illinois Democrat will discuss emergency preparedness, Black maternal health, gun violence, disinformation, and other issues at the top of her agenda in this Q&A with POLITICO reporter Lauren Gardner.
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2022 May 18
Education Now: Raising Children in Polarized Times
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Education Now is an HGSE webinar series that responds to the dramatic changes in the field of education in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our episodes provide insights and strategies to shape equitable new approaches to challenges across the education landscape.
This episode's speakers include:
• Richard Weissbourd, Faculty Co-Director, Human Development and Psychology...
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2022 May 16
Director’s Series | Life: The Arnold Arboretum as an Institution of Public Health
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum—Online
The Arnold Arboretum's sesquicentennial Director's Series traces the Arnold’s significance in the landscape architecture movement, value for the people of Boston, and leadership in creating global connections between plants and people.
Panelists include:
• Dr. Michelle Kondo, Research Social Scientist, UDSA-Forest Service

• Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space, City of Boston

• Laurence Cotton, Consulting Producer, “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing...
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2022 May 14
MassQ Ball 2022: Origin | African Folklore Lecture
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum (Hunnewell Building), 125 Arborway, Boston
Dr. Liseli A. Fitzpatrick, a Trinidadian-scholar in the field of African Diasporic cosmologies and sacred ontologies, will lead an engaging lecture and discussion exploring African mythologies and folkloric cultures.
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2022 May 12
The Quest to Image Black Holes
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—Online
Join the CfA live from the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC to learn about exciting new results from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the team that brought us the first-ever image of a black hole!
Moderated by Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science and Research and former Chief Scientist at NASA, Dr. Ellen Stofan, this event will be live streamed and is open to the public. Panelists will include Shep Doeleman, founding director of the EHT; Kari Haworth chief technology officer of the CfA; and astrophysicists Angelo Ricarte and Paul Tiede.
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2022 May 11
The Social Costs of Pretrial Detention
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Sandra Susan Smith is a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice at Harvard Kennedy School, where she also directs the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. An expert on urban poverty, race and ethnicity, and social capital and social networks, Smith’s most recent work has focused on criminal case processing, especially the consequences of pretrial detention and diversion.
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2022 May 07
Ukrainian Plants of the Arboretum Tour
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum (Hunnewell Building), 125 Arborway, Boston
Ukrainian culture is rich with references to the natural world. Join a one-hour walking tour with Arboretum Horticulturist Brendan Keegan. Learn about plants within the Arboretum's collections that are notable in Ukrainian history, cuisine, agriculture, and more. The tour is in support of our colleagues at botanical institutions throughout Ukraine.
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2022 May 03
Abolition, Activism, and the University: Practitioner Perspectives on Transformative Justice in Boston
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard—Online
Grassroots organizers in Greater Boston are at the forefront of ongoing statewide movements for a world without predatory policing and mass human caging. Join us for a virtual panel discussion with Transformative Justice...
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2022 May 03
Planning for an Equitable Recovery: Using COVID Funding to Lift Learning and Support Every Student
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
New research from Professor Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is bringing the impact of the pandemic into stark relief — and adding fuel to the call for comprehensive, equitable, and effective solutions. Kane’s work — part of an ongoing collaboration with NWEA and AIR — reveals the consequences of remote and hybrid learning for student achievement in high- and low-income schools, using data from 10,000 schools in 49 states plus the District of Columbia.
Join us as we explore the findings and outline state and district strategies to help students...
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2022 Apr 20
Education Now – Navigating Trauma for Teachers and Learners
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the next episode of Education Now focused on navigating trauma for teachers and learners.
Speakers:
• Mark Tappan, Professor of Education, Colby College
• Aysha Upchurch, Lecturer on Education and Artist in Residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Host: Uche Amaechi, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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2022 Apr 18
Gutman Library Book Talk - Trauma-Responsive Schooling: Centering Student Voice and Healing
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Trauma-Responsive Schooling outlines a novel approach to transforming American schools through student-centered, trauma-informed practices. The book chronicles the use of an innovative educational model, Trauma-Responsive Equitable Education (TREE), as part of a multiyear research project in two elementary schools in rural Maine. In this model, Lyn Mikel Brown,Ed.D.'89, Catharine Biddle, and Mark Tappan, Ed.D.'87, endorse whole-school change, encouraging educators to upend traditional classroom power dynamics by listening foremost to student voices, validating student...
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2022 Apr 13
Spring 2022 George Parker Winship Lecture: "Documenting Indigenous Nations, War, and Peace"
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Houghton Library, Quincy St. & Harvard St., Cambridge
The Spring 2022 George Parker Winship Lecture at Houghton Library will be given by Scholars at Risk and Harvard Library Fellow Binalakshmi Nepram. In 1949, Manipur—a southeast Asian nation state with a 2,000-year history—was forcibly “merged” with India. Still under martial law today, the history and culture of its Indigenous inhabitants have been suppressed through decades of state-sanctioned violence. In her lecture, "Documenting Indigenous Nations, War, and Peace: Discovering and Preserving the Stories, Struggles, and History of Manipur, Northeast India," Nepram will discuss efforts...
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2022 Apr 11
Not Paved for Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
'Not Paved for Us' highlights the experiences of Black educators as they navigate the racial and cultural politics of urban school reform. Ultimately, urban education scholar Camika Royal names, dissects, and challenges the presence of racism in school reform policies and practices while calling for an antiracist future.
Learn more about and register for this virtual event.
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2022 Apr 08
Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Half of the world’s 26 million refugees are children. Their formal education is disrupted, and their lives are too often dominated by exclusion and uncertainty about what the future holds. Even kids who have the opportunity to attend school face enormous challenges, as they struggle to integrate into unfamiliar societies and educational environments.
It turns out that policymakers, activists, and educators have a lot to learn from displaced children and teachers. Their stories point the way to better futures for refugee students and inspire us to reimagine education broadly,...
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2022 Apr 07
Reimagining Our Radical Roots
(All day)
Location: 
Online or at Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge,
Join us for a two-day convening to celebrate the bold life and continuing legacy of William Monroe Trotter- a Harvard University alumnus who advanced the cause of civil rights and social justice. The convening will to introduce attendees to Trotter’s legacy and provide an opportunity for academics, activists and artists to consider how Trotter’s radical activism can address critical issues facing us today, and offer opportunities to hear from distinguished professors and practitioners.
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2022 Apr 06
Education Now: Hope and Resilience in Childhood
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join us as we explore new approaches to nurturing resilience, amplifying strengths, and building hope — in children and in the schools and communities that nurture them.
Speakers:
• Suniya Luthar, Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer, Authentic Connections; Professor Emerita, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Robert Sege, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and Director, Center for Community-engaged Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Host:
Junlei Li, Saul Zaentz Senior...
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