2022 Feb 16
Towards Health Equity: Dismantling Racist Barriers for Black Healthcare Students
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School—Online
Black students have played a pivotal role in pioneering programs and in pushing their institutions to act in ways that move towards health equity. This student-led session will illuminate diverse perspectives, building from understanding history, about ways institutions can enact a clear “action agenda”, including concrete opportunities and responsibilities, through which everyone concerned about these issues can see ways to promote action to accelerate long-overdue progress.
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2022 Feb 16
Cohort Effects and Adolescent Mental Health Trends
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online
Adolescent mental health in the United Stated has shown unprecedent changes over recent years. A key issue in attempting to understand trends over time in in adolescent’s mental health symptoms is the extent to which trends reflect age, period, or cohort effects. Dr. Katherine Keyes will join us in the next Population Mental Health forum to discuss whether mental health problems in adolescents are really on in the increase, drawing on her important research in this area.
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2022 Feb 15
Benin Bronzes in Context
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online
In Benin Bronzes in Context, Sarah Clunis will look at objects currently in the care of Harvard and discuss the way that these objects represent an iconographic and contextual story of trade, contact, and crossroads between cultures. Diana Loren will moderate a discussion after the presentation.
The bronze, ivory, and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes” were taken from Benin City as part of the British Punitive Expedition of 1897 and dispersed to private collections and museums around the world. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology...
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2022 Feb 15
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront—its most treasured asset? The book’s authors study the lakefront’s evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Their findings have significance for understanding not only Chicago’s history but also the law’s part in determining the future of significant urban resources such as waterfronts.
Join us for a discussion on Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago with authors Joseph Kearney and Thomas Merrill and panelists Henry Smith, Richard...
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2022 Feb 15
Incarceration and its Impact on Health
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
The Equity and Social Justice (ESJ) is a series of lectures and dialogues which targets the Harvard Longwood community as well as communities in the greater Boston area. The series provides context to the historical, current, and future state of equity and social justice in health and health care, and engages and equips participants with tools to take action. ESJ events focus on four areas: (1) History and Context, (2) Culture and Environment, (3) Health Disparities, and (4) Leadership and Skills Development.
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2022 Feb 15
Afghanistan After the Collapse: Where Are We Now, and What Comes Next?
11:00am to 12:15pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
On the six-month anniversary of the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan, this Negotiation Task Force virtual event, moderated by NTF Fellow Fara Abbas, explores Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Together with our expert panel of speakers, we will address the political, economic, and security developments in Afghanistan and the way forward. The consequences of a Taliban failure to govern are far reaching.
This event will address the following questions: What can be expected from the...
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2022 Feb 11
Should Alexa Diagnose Alzheimer’s?: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Technology is now part of our lives in ways that were not possible only 10-20 years ago. Smart devices, like watches, phones, and speakers, can gather vast amounts of information about their users, often without the user’s knowledge or consent. As technology continues to improve, many of these devices may also be leveraged to serve diagnostic functions. Technologies such as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant can ambiently and continually monitor a variety of information about an individual’s location, voice, and movement. As this technology merges with wearables, such as the Apple...
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2022 Feb 09
Joint Panel with Krzysztof Wodiczko: A Dialogue on Art, Technology, and Spectacle
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Join us for two consecutive panels and a conversation with internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko.
In this joint panel, we will first explore how creative practices and institutions navigate audience participation and how they enter into spaces of co-production. Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will discuss how his practice, use of technology, and processes of community participation are in dialogue with Krzysztof Wodiczko’s own practice. In her presentation, Jill Medvedow, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, will discuss the role of...
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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 08
HLS Library Book Talk: Civil Rights Queen
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
Join Harvard Law School for a book talk on "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" by HLS Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin with panelists Kenneth Mack, Sheryll Cashin, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
Learn more and register for this virtual event.
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2021 Nov 15
The Climate of Attention
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker is Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker staff writer.
Few have covered the climate crisis as deeply and as thoughtfully as Elizabeth Kolbert. Her work includes Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2007), the Pulitzer-prize winning The Sixth Extinction (2016), and her latest Under a White Sky (2021), “a book about people trying to solve problems caused by people...
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2021 Nov 15
Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join us for a one-hour webinar exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of The Music of Black Americans: A History and founder and editor of The Black Perspective in Music. In 1976, Eileen Southern became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Southern played an important institutional role at Harvard. She was central in developing the Department of Afro-American Studies (now African and African American Studies), serving as an early chair, and was on the faculty of the Department of Music, where she taught...
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2021 Nov 12
Interrogative Designs: Conversations with Krzysztof Wodiczko
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Heralding the exhibition "Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko," the artist joins architectural historian and GSD professor Erika Naginski for an exploration of architecture's role in the construction and performance of memory (12pm) and art historian Rosalyn Deutsche to discuss the role of trauma, healing, and survival in his work over the last five decades (2:30pm).
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2021 Nov 08
The Climate of Resistance
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speakers are Chloe Aridjis, award-winning novelist, Sea Monsters (2020) and organizer for Writers Rebel, and Wanjira Mathai, Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute.
Activists Aridjis and Mathai are powerful, fierce, compassionate leaders in the global environmental movement. A writer and an organizer, they are also the daughters of iconic conservation heroes: Homero Aridjis,...
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2021 Oct 28
Harvard Design Magazine #49: “Publics” Issue Launch and Conversation
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
In a world of increasing polarization and boundary-drawing manifest at multiple scales, what has happened to the notion of “the public”? Is there evidence that collective understanding of who belongs in our neighborhoods, cities, regions, and nations is changing? And to what extent have the urban planning and design professions enabled or constrained these transformations? The 49th issue of Harvard Design Magazine, guest-edited by Anita Berrizbeitia and Diane Davis, addresses “the status of the...
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2021 Oct 20
“We know and walk together”: Contemporary Indigenous Art in Brazil
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
This event will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous English translation.
One of the most exciting developments in Brazilian art and art history today is the emergence of Indigenous self-representation. The growing presence of Indigenous artists and art curators in exhibitions and museums in the country challenges traditional narratives and modes of display as it generates new spaces for the silenced voices of the over three-hundred Indigenous ethnic groups that inhabit the territories of Brazil. In 2017, the Rio de Janeiro Museum (MAR) organized the exhibition...
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2021 Oct 20
Kenzo Tange Lecture: Christ & Gantenbein and OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, interviewed by Jeannette Kuo
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for an interview by Jeannette Kuo (Assistant Professor in Practice at Harvard GSD and founding partner of KARAMUK KUO) with Swiss architects Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, and OFFICE founders Kersten Geers and David Van Severen.
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2021 Oct 07
Waymaking Women in Times of Crisis: Showing Up for Community Care
12:00pm
Location: 
Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard—Online
Please join the Committee on the Concerns of Women (CCW) in a conversation about how to manage the burnout and grief from the multiple crises we find ourselves living through. What can we do from a distance to care for ourselves and each other? How we can foster a space for community care in moments that are fraught and exhausting?

We will convene a panel of Harvard experts in international humanitarian crises to share their care strategies with us. Moderated by Dr. Natascha Saunders of the Harvard Kennedy School, the panel will include Dr. Jocelyn Kelly of the Harvard...
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2021 Oct 05
Monuments Reimagined: Public Art in Our Communities
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Join policy makers, urban designers, and artists in Boston and Cambridge for a discussion about the future of public art!
Public art has the potential to make a community a more vibrant and welcoming place. Free and accessible to all, it also has the power to provoke debate about our shared cultural experience. As engaged citizens call for the removal of certain public monuments that evoke harmful systems, the conversation about the role of public art in our communities gains momentum.
On October 5, join City of Boston Chief of Arts & Culture Kara Elliott-Ortega...
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2021 Oct 04
The Climate of Relationships and Intersectionality
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speakers are climate activist Morgan Curtis, MDiv '24, and brontë velez, Black-latinx transdisciplinary artist.
Morgan Curtis and brontë velez will discuss the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and climate collapse, and how seeing the world whole through the lens of relationships creates communities of care rather than conflict. They will consider what reparations might look like on behalf...
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