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 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 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 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 05

The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Learning for Achievement Gaps

4:30pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Harvard Center for Education Policy Research—Online

Join this PIER Public Seminar about the consequences of remote and hybrid learning for achievement gaps, with speaker Thomas Kane (Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education).

2022 Apr 04
Gutman Library Book Talk - Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Confidence and Skill of Principals
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principals Confidence and Skill lays out the case for the development of robust mentorship programs to support new school leaders. With principal turnover at an all-time high, it is urgent that schools and districts find ways to help newly appointed leaders grow into effective supervisors, managers, and strategic thinkers who can also find personal and professional satisfaction in their careers.
Using examples from several established and successful state programs, Leadership Through Mentoring shows how...
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2022 Mar 23
The Transition from High School to College for the Pandemic Generation
3:00pm
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 session's speakers include:
• Liya Escalera, Vice Provost for Academic Support Services and Undergraduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Mandy Savitz-Romer, Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Senior Lecturer in Human Development and...
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2022 Mar 21
The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
From a Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist, an invaluable guide that gives readers evidence-based tools and techniques to communicate more effectively with children in ways that let them foster relationships with less conflict and more joy and kindness.
Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, confident, kind, empathetic, and happy is by talking with them. Yet, so often, parents, educators, and caregivers have trouble communicating with kids. Conversations can feel trivial or strained — or worse, are marked by constant conflict...
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2022 Mar 09
Why Teachers Leave Teaching — and How to Support and Retain Them
3:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Amid the extraordinary challenges of the past two years, teachers have been innovative, flexible, and brave. But in many cases, they've also been pushed to their limits — leading to fears of a large-scale exodus. Join us to talk about whether and why teachers are leaving the profession, and how to fix the underlying causes.
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2022 Feb 28
Latinx Experiences in U.S. Schools: Voices of Students, Teachers, Teacher Educators, and Education Allies in Challenging Sociopolitical Times
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Edited by Margarita Jiménez-Silva, Ed.M.'92, Ed.D.'02 and Janine Bempechat, Ed.M.'79, Ed.D.'86, this important volume brings together voices of Latinx students, teachers, teacher educators, and education allies in Latinx communities to reveal ways in which today's sociopolitical context has given rise to politically-sanctioned hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. Contributors—key stakeholders in the education of immigrant Latinx children, youth, and college students—share how this rhetoric has exacerbated existing systemic injustices within K-Higher Education. Understanding that teaching and...
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2022 Feb 16
Book Talk: Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Immigration Initiative at Harvard—Online
Dr. Angela M. Banks will discuss her recent book Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice.
Angela M. Banks is a legal scholar specializing in membership and belonging in democratic societies. She is the Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of...
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2022 Feb 15
Shrinking Civic Space in Africa: Lessons from Uganda
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—Online
In this talk, Nicholas Opiyo—Carr Center Fellow, Scholar at Risk, and Human Rights Lawyer in Uganda—will analyze and explore the state arguments that have been made for limitations on the civic space in Africa. Throughout the discussion, he will trace relevant trends and examine the role of the international community in Africa’s political spheres. Noting that there are possible ways to push back against the shrinking of civic space, Opiyo will suggest new ways for civil society to organize effectively.
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2022 Feb 11
Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a 'Confiscated' Past
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard—Online
This lecture is part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series.
 
Shadreck Chirikure, Professor of Archaeology, University of Cape Town and British Academy Global Professor, School of Archaeology, Oxford University in conversation with Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT.
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2022 Feb 09
Education Now: Navigating Tensions Over Teaching Race and Racism
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
How can schools, educators, and families navigate the continued politicization and tensions around teaching and talking about race, racism, diversity, and equity? As laws banning critical race theory are passed, and the rhetoric grows intense, we'll discuss what educators and families can do to make sure students are supported, learning, and prepared with the knowledge they need to understand their own histories and the diverse and global society they’ll enter.
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2022 Feb 04
Patricia Sullivan, 'Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White'
1:00pm
Location: 
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard—Online
Former Hutchins Center Fellows discuss their recent works in. the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series.
Patricia Sullivan, Professor of History, University of South Carolina, in conversation with Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School.
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