2019 Apr 12
First Projects: An Unplugged Conversation
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Join First Projects, a candid roundtable conversation with leading designers hosted by the Practice Platform. Unplugged and off-the-record, designers will share an inside glimpse into the origins of practice, revealing stories behind first projects and the seminal efforts that launch remarkable careers.
This unique Beer & Dogs event, co-sponsored by the GSD Alumni Council and the Practice Platform, will not be broadcast or recorded.
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2019 Apr 11
Film Screening: The Right to Memory
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South Building, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
"The Right to Memory," a documentary about Arseny Roginsky and the work of Memorial in Russia, presents excerpts from lengthy interviews with Arseny Roginsky (1946-2017), who offers his thoughts about Russia and Memorial. Roginsky was one of the co-founders and the long-time director of Memorial, which was set up in Moscow in 1988 to document the egregious crimes of the Stalin era and to push for respect of human rights in the USSR (and later in the Russian Federation). Roginsky discusses how Memorial sought to overcome the obstacles posed by official whitewashing under Putin and...
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2019 Apr 10
Great Russian Jews: Mikhail Botvinnik
4:30pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
CGIS South Building, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
This panel explores the life and legacy of the chess genius Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995).
Born in Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland (now Repino, Russian Federation), Botvinnik became Soviet Chess Champion in 1931 and World Chess Champion in 1948. One of the 20th century’s dominant chess players and teachers, Botvinnik trained generations of Soviet chess masters, among them world champions Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Vladimir Kramnik.
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2019 Mar 27
Music, Leadership and Activism: A Conversation with Meklit Hadero
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Rubenstein 414, David Ellwood Democracy Lab, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge
Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian American vocalist, singer-songwriter and composer, making music that sways between cultures and continents. She will join Alicia Anstead NF '08, associate director for programming at the Office for the Arts and arts journalist, for a conversation about the role of music in civic leadership and activism. 
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2019 Mar 13
A Conversation About Art, Music and Social Justice
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston
Deborah Borda, President of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and renowned cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, will engage in a wide-ranging conversation about “Art, Music, and Social Justice.” The panel discussion will be moderated by Harvard Business School Professors Rohit Deshpandé and Henry McGee.
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2019 Mar 13
Great Russian Jews: David Oistrakh
4:30pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
CGIS South Building, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
This panel examines the remarkable achievements of the great violinist David Oistrakh (1908-1974). Born and raised in Odessa, Oistrakh became one of the 20th century’s preeminent musical virtuosi. He collaborated with leading musicians and composers of his time, among them Aram Khachatourian and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Panelists will include: Oleh Krysa (Ukrainian-American Violinist; University of Rochester) and Harlow Robinson (Northeastern University).
Moderated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College; Davis Center).
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2019 Mar 11
Documentary Film Screening & Panel Discussion: "Why We Cycle"
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for the exclusive Boston-area premiere of “Why We Cycle,” exploring the hidden effects of cycling on our cities and ourselves. The one-hour film will be followed by a one-hour panel discussion with local cycling leaders on the health, sustainability, and equity benefits from cycling.
The screening begins promptly at 6:30pm.
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2019 Mar 07
Poetry Reading: Rootedness
5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
A distinct group of five poets will read selected works from their collections and participate in a moderated discussion about reinventing worlds and reimagining belongings.
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2019 Mar 05
Film Screening & Discussion: Women of the Gulag
7:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
The documentary film Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of six women as last survivors of the Gulag. Women of the Gulag features six women in their eighties and nineties as they tell their stories while going about their daily lives in remote villages in the Ural Mountains, in break-away Sukhumi, and in the Moscow suburbs. This film was short-listed for the Academy Award Documentary Short Subject nomination, 2019.
Following the film, Professor Terry Martin will moderate a conversation with Marianna Yoravskaya, the...
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2019 Feb 28
Loreta Castro Reguera
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Born in Mexico City in 1979, she studied Architecture at the School of Architecture of UNAM, has a Master in Architecture form Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, and a Master in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard GSD. She has been awarded with several scholarships and prizes for both her trayectory and her independent work such as the FONCA Young Creators Program in Mexico, a Fulbright scholarship, and the CEMEX Marcelo Zambrano scholarship. As a result of focusing her research on water and design, she received...
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2019 Feb 27
Documentary Night at Harvard Business School: "Bending the Arc"
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston
Please join us for the winter installment of Harvard Business School’s Documentary Night, featuring scenes from...
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2019 Feb 26
David Hartt, “Urban Futures of the Recent Past”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
This talk borrows the sub-title from Reyner Banham’s seminal book Megastructure, published in 1976.  As a reference, Banham’s text critiques the failure of translating the energy and optimism of 60’s era civic projects into lasting institutions; thus creating fertile conditions for the seeds of our own post-ideological crisis to germinate in the capitalist restructuration of the mid 70’s.  Hartt will focus on the relationship between the speculative and documentary aspects of his practice and, in particular,...
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2018 Nov 16
Accessibility & Art-Making: A Talk on Inclusivity in the Arts
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
A panel discussion with Professor Michael Stein, Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and one of the world’s leading experts on disability law and policy; Heidi Latsky, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Heidi Latsky Dance, a physically-integrated dance company; Tiffany Geigel, dancer with Heidi Latsky Dance; Dr. Debra Levine, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media; and other Harvard faculty. This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required due to...
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2018 Nov 15
The High Line: A Debate
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
HGSD, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
In conjunction with the 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, a panel discussion with some of those most closely involved with realizing the High Line will allow a deeper understanding of its value as an urban design prototype being disseminated and adopted worldwide.
The panel will feature John Alschuler (Chairman, HR&A), ...
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2018 Nov 09
Conference: Disability and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives
9:00am to 1:30pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This conference will explore the ways in which contemporary notions of disability are linked to concepts of citizenship and belonging. Leaders in advocacy, education, medicine, and politics will consider how ideas of community at the local, national, and international levels affect the understanding of and policies related to disability—and how this has manifested itself, in particular, in higher education.
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2018 Nov 05
Next in Evolution
2:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose creative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area. The focus of this year’s program is in the study of evolution. In this program, two leading researchers will explore the genetic impact of Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans and consider how people migrated, adapted, and mixed over the course of human history. Two...
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2018 Oct 29
Schlesinger 75th Anniversary Celebration
7:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
In this performance and discussion, “The Suffragists” captures the power and passion of American women’s fight for the vote through song. Created by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shaina Taub, the musical tells the story of the last decade of the struggle through the rivalry between Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul. Taub’s musical gives voice to these women in ways that powerfully resonate in today’s political landscape. The performance will be followed by a multidisciplinary panel discussion.
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2018 Oct 26
The Undiscovered
9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
To paraphrase Louis Pasteur, sometimes luck favors the prepared mind, as when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by noticing that mold growing accidentally in his lab seemed to kill bacteria. This 2018 Radcliffe Institute science symposium will focus on how scientists explore realities they cannot anticipate. Speakers from across the disciplines of modern science will present personal experiences and discuss how to train scientists, educators, and funders to foster the expertise and open-mindedness needed to reveal undiscovered aspects of the world around us.
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2018 Oct 23
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Fritz Haeg, Nils Norman, and Julieta González
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Please join us for a conversation between visual artists Fritz Haeg and Nils Norman and Julieta González, Artistic Director of Museo Jumex. They will discuss their recent project Proposals for a Plaza at Museo Jumex. Proposals for a Plaza was commissioned as part of the series Agora: Blueprints for a Utopia, and the temporary sculptural installation invites the public to imagine and...
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2018 Sep 19
The Open University’s Course A305 and the Future of Architecture Education
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Taking The Open University's Course A305 as a starting point, this panel discussion will interrogate the role of online learning in the future of architecture education. Participants include Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays,...
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