2021 Jun 02
Multilateral Cultural Diplomacy: A Conversation with UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online
In the third installment of the Future of Cultural Diplomacy Series, UNESCO’s Director-General Audrey Azoulay will offer her unique perspective on cultural diplomacy as the leader of one of the world’s largest multilateral agencies focused on education, scientific and cultural issues.
In a conversation co-moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns and Carla Dirlikov Canales, Director-General Azoulay will discuss UNESCO’s current priorities, including education, culture, gender equality, and freedom of expression, and discuss how UNESCO has provided multilateral approaches to...
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2021 Jun 02
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Making Faces, with Cecilia Zhou
11:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Student Guide Cecilia Zhou’s art-inspired makeup tutorials have appeared on the social media channels of the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this tour, she will spend time with three paintings that inspired her: the 20th-century Head of a Woman by Russian Expressionist Alexei von Jawlensky, the 3rd-century Egyptian ...
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2021 May 28
Radcliffe Day 2021
12:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
On Radcliffe Day 2021—Friday, May 28—Harvard Radcliffe Institute will award the Radcliffe Medal to Melinda Gates. 
Expert panelists will then discuss achieving gender equity in the United States, each offering her own perspective informed by deep expertise and unique experience. The discussion will be moderated by the distinguished American historian and Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University Drew Gilpin Faust, who was founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute and the first woman to serve as president of Harvard.
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2021 May 27
Pottery Chill Out
Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Jun 24 2021 .
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Remember Play Doh when you were a kid? What if we told you you're never too old to play with clay? Sign up for our 5-session Zoom clay class, where we will make and decorate mugs, phone holders, sculptures—whatever you want, really!—using our hands and objects you can find at home. No experience necessary!
We'll teach you everything you need to know, PLUS we'll mail you all the stuff you'll need! You'll get to keep your final product and, as an added bonus, we'll chat about how working with clay can help you relax and knead-out some of the stress you may be feeling.
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2021 May 26
Koru Mindfulness
Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Jun 16 2021 .
5:30pm to 7:00pm
5:30pm to 7:00pm
5:30pm to 7:00pm
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, or anxious? Come relax with us!
Mindfulness is simple and can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere—this Koru Mindfulness series can help you learn how! These 4 mindfulness classes can help you identify stress whenever you feel it and reduce its effects. We will do a range of guided activities so that you can pick what works best for you.
Practices include mindful walking, guided imagery, breathing exercises, and mindfulness of thoughts and feelings. There will also be space in each session for group reflection and...
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2021 May 26
Mapping Your Heart: A Zine Making Workshop
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
*For high school students living or attending school in Allston, Brighton, or Cambridge!*
Reflect on where you are right now to where you want to be. What comes easily to you? What do you love the most about yourself? Where do you want to put your energy?
Explore these questions and learn more about your inner world in this hands-on workshop led by Brighton artist Deborah Johnson. Start with a short meditation, look at examples of self-published...
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2021 May 22
Forest Bathing with Toadstool Walks
Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun May 30 2021 except Sun May 23 2021.
9:00am to 11:00am
9:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
Bussey Street Gate, Arnold Arboretum, Boston
Join Tam Willey of Toadstool Walks as you slow down and awaken your senses on a guided therapeutic experience in the Arnold Arboretum. Forest bathing is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, a restorative sensory exploration that supports health and healing for all beings. Each walk is limited to 8 participants. Meet at the Bussey Street Gate. Participants must follow COVID guidelines including wearing a mask and practicing social distancing, as well as sign a liability and release form.
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2021 May 22
Spring Bird Walk
8:00am to 9:30am
Location: 
Peters Hill Gate, Arnold Arboretum, Boston
Join three experienced birders for a 90-minute walk suitable for beginners and experienced birders alike. Meet at the Peters Hill Gate for this walk in the landscape to see Arboretum birds. Space is limited to 30 and the group will be divided into three sections. COVID-19 guidelines of masks and social distancing will be required. Bring binoculars if you have them.
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2021 May 20
Observatory Night: All That Glitters is Gold
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—Online
The cosmic origin of gold has fascinated humans for millennia. In this talk, Professor of Astronomy Edo Berger will explore the long-standing question of how gold (and other rare elements) are created in the universe, showing that this process is intimately connected to the collision of neutron stars (the remnants of powerful supernova explosions)—and the production of gravitational waves.
The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian sponsors Observatory Nights on the third Thursday of select months. Observatory Nights feature a nontechnical lecture intended for...
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2021 May 20
Wild Collection and Propagation of Rare and Endangered Plants
10:30am
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum—Online
In Massachusetts alone, plants make up more than half of the total native species that are officially considered Endangered, Threatened, and Rare. In this talk, we will focus on how ex-situ plant conservation, coordinated plant collection efforts, and plant propagation play vital roles in preserving biodiversity and slowing the deleterious effects of climate change.
We will discuss how collection trips are planned—and how citizen science now plays a role in these efforts—while providing a behind-the-scenes look at the planning process. A large focus will be plant propagation...
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2021 May 19
After-School Animal Encounters: Movement
3:00pm to 3:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Can you slither, hop, jump, climb, or even fly? How would you do these things with zero, two, four, or even a hundred legs? As winter melts away and warmer springtime weather blows in, all animals big and small are as excited to get out and move around as we are! Join human museum staffers Javier and Ryan in this live 45-minute family program as they discuss and take a look at some of our amazing animals in motion.
Advance registration for this family friendly program is required.
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2021 May 18
¡A Bailar! Zumba con Abe—Let's Dance! Zumba with Abe
Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Jun 29 2021 except Tue Jun 01 2021.
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Si te intimida el gimnasio porque no sabes por donde empezar, pero la música Latina te pone a bailar, entonces prepárate para una fiesta inolvidable desde tu propia casa! Ven a reír y moverte al ritmo de Zumba con Abe, una clase energética, donde lo más importante es estar presente y olvidarse de lo demás!
Con más de 6 años de experiencia enseñando Zumba a personas de todas edades, Abe modifica cada clase para que todos puedan participar! No hay que ser bailarín profesional. Solo únete a la clase, sube el volumen, y deja que la música te mueva! Te esperamos!! La clase se da en...
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2021 May 18
How To Plan Your Online Meeting
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Been to a lot of online meetings lately? Feeling like many are a waste of time? Don't let people think this about your meetings! Learn how to prepare for a productive, well organized meeting and set an engaging meeting culture.
Our agenda includes:
How to Start
• Define meeting objectives
• Determine if a meeting is necessary
• Schedule for time differences
• Create agenda
• Establish role of timekeeper and minute-taker
Reading the Zoom Room...
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2021 May 17
My Octopus Teacher: Virtual Panel Discussion
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard—Online
"My Octopus Teacher", Oscar winner for Best Documentary, follows filmmaker and naturalist Craig Foster as he develops an unusual bond with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest. Come hear four experts discuss the unique human/animal connection captured in this film.
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2021 May 17
Sakharov Centenary Seminar: Sakharov, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights
Repeats every 4 days until Fri May 21 2021 .
12:30pm to 2:00pm
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
May 21 marks the centenary of the birth of Andrei Sakharov, one of the great physicists of the twentieth century who was also one of the world’s most courageous and renowned proponents of freedom and human rights. His name nowadays is universally linked with the quest for human rights and democracy.
As the key figure in the Soviet Union’s development of a thermonuclear bomb, Sakharov could have enjoyed a life of privilege and luxury. But to do so would have meant closing his eyes to the injustice and repression around him. This was something that Sakharov, unlike the vast...
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2021 May 13
A Perpetual Crisis: Reflections on Renewed Public Health Failures at the U.S./Mexico Border
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
The Harvard Global Health Institute & FXB Center for Health and Human Rights—Online
In March 2021, a record number of children arrived at the U.S./Mexico border, challenging capacity at US Customs and Border Protection facilities and placing newfound pressure on the Biden Administration to act promptly. However, this humanitarian crisis is not new, nor is it a direct result of a new U.S. government administration. For decades, the U.S. has failed to improve a system ill-equipped to handle the needs of vulnerable refugees and migrants. As children wait in overcrowded jail-like structures and COVID-19 remains a threat, concerns about who will continue to suffer at the...
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2021 May 11
A Season of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
1:00pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum—Online
Lilacs come in a wide range of color, size, flower form, and leaf. Arnold Arboretum docent Chris McArdle will take you on a free, virtual tour of many of these varieties, by way of images from the actual plants in our landscape. From her long years of experience in the lilac collection, and as a docent, she will introduce you to many fascinating histories, anecdotes, as well as the people instrumental in bringing us these much-anticipated May bloomers. From their 17th century beginning in North America, up to some fabulous present-day cultivars, you will experience the breadth of our...
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2021 May 11
Using Your Voice: Speak Up and Speak Out at Meetings
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Your voice needs to be heard at meetings. If you are invited to attend a meeting, you are expected to participate. However, it can be challenging to be recognized and engaged in an online meeting. In this workshop you will learn the attributes of a good participant and how to speak up and speak out.
Specifically:
• How to your use your voice and not feel intimidated;

• Manage your nerves, shyness, and introversion;

• Speak first to share your ideas, opinions, and information.
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2021 May 06
Beyond Brown: Leading for Racial Equity in a Southern Context
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
The Southern Black community catalyzed the movement for free public schools for all children. This community also led the efforts to desegregate schools. Despite these efforts, the South remains home to some of the largest educational inequities within our nation. Yet, many discussions about educational equity are devoid of Southern representation. This is problematic considering that Southern states have higher rates of poverty and are home to one-third of all K-12 students, 56% of all Black students, and one-third of our nation’s ELL and migrant student populations.
This...
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2021 Apr 29
This Space Holds a Story
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
*For high school students living or attending school in Allston, Brighton, or Cambridge!*
Do you daydream about places you've loved or imagined? Are you curious about how writers turn ideas into stories? Join author Abdul-Razak Zachariah for a glimpse into the children’s book writing process. Write your own story idea for a new generation of readers based on your life and experiences. Abdul will read from his children’s book "...
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