Exhibition Tour: Small Steps, Giant Leaps

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Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

Join curator John Overholt for a guided tour of the exhibition Small Steps, Giant Leaps to learn about the ways early modern science inspired and made possible the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.

Following this tour will be a a screening of The Right Stuff (1983) at the Harvard Film Archive at 5:30pm

An Exhibition Tour will also be offered on...

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The Care of Foreigners: Immigrant Physicians and the U.S. Health Care System

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

In 1965, the United States invited thousands of physicians from other countries to fill vacancies...

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Conflict and the Global Threat of Pandemics

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Michele Barry, Professor of Medicine; Senior Associate Dean of Global Health; Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University

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Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises

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TBD

Jeremy Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Senior Scientist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution

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Unnatural Selection

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Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

When Charles Darwin considered how best to introduce his controversial new theory of evolution to the general public, he chose to liken it... Read more about Unnatural Selection

Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

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Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge

A discussion of origin stories with Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), Meredith Reiches (University of Massachusetts Boston), and Richard... Read more about Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

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First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave

The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard present the Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Bryan... Read more about Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

Egypt's Old Kingdom

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Abusir, the “Place of Osiris,” is a necropolis (burial site) near the Old Kingdom’s city of Memphis, known for its pyramids and sun... Read more about Egypt's Old Kingdom

Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?

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Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

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Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?

Location: 

Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

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