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    2021 Mar 05

    One Year Later: COVID-19 and the Road Ahead

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School—Online

    On the eve of the first anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown, the Institute of Politics gathers the experts from our final in-person Forum event last March to reflect on the past year. Our guests analyze the government and public health response, vaccine development and distribution, and what the future holds with a mutating virus and worldwide variants. How well did the government do with public messaging? Did the public heed the warnings and do their part to stop the spread of the virus?

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    2021 Feb 24

    The History of Structural Racism in Charlottesville: Legally-Enforced Segregation and Its Impact on Health

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    Using Charlottesville as a case study, Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, explores the theory, mechanisms, and impact on health of legally-mandated residential segregation and how we can identify and redress historical inequities.

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    2021 Feb 17

    The Politics of Health Policy: Integrating Racial Justice into Health Care and Clinical Research

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    What are political determinants of health? How have they driven inequities in the U.S. health care system? Daniel Dawes, JD, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute Morehouse School of Medicine, shares an inclusive approach to addressing health issues impacting the most vulnerable populations in an increasingly complex...

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    2021 Feb 17

    The Popularization of Doubt: Scientific Literacy & Alternative Forms of Knowledge in the Soviet Union after World War II

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online

    Alexey Golubev, assistant professor of Russian history and digital humanities at the University of Houston, is working on a new book project: a history of Soviet efforts to produce mass scientific literacy after World War II, when tens and later hundreds of thousands of members of the Soviet intelligentsia were recruited to communicate scientific knowledge to the public through popular science lectures, publications, public experiments and debates, and television shows.

    This mass scientific literacy campaign resulted in a diverse and autonomous network of people and ideas in...

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    2021 Feb 16

    COVID-19 and the Law: What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Health Justice and the Path Forward

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School—Online

    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of life in the United States and around the world, disrupting the global economy as well as countless institutions. The issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic present a critical juncture for the U.S. and other countries around the world. Our actions now have the potential to shape responses to future pandemics, and to ensure institutions serve all of our populations.

    How have our institutions, including the structure of our health care system and its attendant regulations, affected the evolution of the pandemic? What...

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    2021 Feb 11

    Crimson Kitchen Cooking Class: North Coast Seafoods

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Crimson Kitchen—Online

    If you're looking to switch up your at-home rotation of meals, Chef Andrew Wilkinson from North Coast Seafood will be demonstrating a favorite fish dish that you can recreate at home! North Coast fish are locally sourced from communities around the globe, using the sustainable, long-line method of catch. The small boats they partner with deliver their fish within hours of catch, each and every day.

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    2021 Feb 03

    Toxic Speech and Damaged Bodies

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard—Online

    What does it matter if our speech practices abandon truth, license violence, instill fear? Toxic speech has the power not only to shape the social body—our very practices of being and interacting—but also to injure individual bodies. When a political or cult leader, for example, licenses his followers to commit violent crimes against those deemed Other, we see an overt case of speech engendering physical harm. More insidious and ubiquitous are the everyday speech practices that generate harms ranging from physical violence to social exclusion and damaged health. Using tools from both...

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    2021 Feb 02

    COVID-19 and the Law: COVID-19’s Legacy & Evolving Legal Doctrines

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of life in the United States and around the world, disrupting the global economy as well as countless institutions. The issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic present a critical juncture for the U.S. and other countries around the world. Our actions now have the potential to shape responses to future pandemics, and to ensure institutions serve all of our populations.

    How have our institutions, including the structure of our health care system and its attendant regulations, affected the evolution of the pandemic? What...

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    2021 Feb 02

    Building a Large-Scale SARS-CoV-2 Test Lab: Scientific and Leadership Lessons

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    Stacey Gabriel, PhD, senior director of the Genomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, led the Broad’s COVID-era pivot to becoming one of the foremost SARS-CoV-2 testing centers in the country (now closing in on nine million tests performed). Realizing this vision in such a short time frame required strong leadership skills, as well as the ability to solve myriad technological, supply chain, IT and clinical workflow challenges. In this webinar, Stacey Gabriel will share her behind-the-scenes perspectives about the keys to her organization’s...

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    2021 Feb 01

    ‘A Catalyst for Humanity’: A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online

    What are the invisible social strata that define and divide America? How does this unseen ranking underlie racism? And how do caste dynamics systematically lessen the value of Black lives? Join Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, and esteemed social scientist David Williams for a conversation about embedded power inequities–and their cost to us all. Moderated by CNN anchor, Don Lemon.

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    2021 Jan 22

    The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: What’s Ahead?

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Online—Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines unfolds in the United States, numerous questions around distribution, supply, hesitancy, and efficacy persist. And the stakes have never been higher, as numbers of deaths and cases repeatedly break records. In this discussion, experts will review the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, address safety concerns, explore upcoming expected vaccines, and discuss implications of virus variants.

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    2020 Dec 15

    Book Talk: Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School—Online

    Reshaping health insurance is a divisive topic in American politics today. Our current system expects patients to bear substantial health costs through deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance, creating a tradeoff for patients that can keep them from accessing the care they need. In his book, Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It,...

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    2020 Nov 09

    The Science of Indian Culinary Traditions

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences—Online

    The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series, organized by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.

    November 9 Speaker:
    Garima Aroa (@arorgarima), first Indian woman to win a Michelin Star, Asia’s Best Female Chef 2019 by World’s 50 best, Restaurant Gaa, India...

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    2020 Nov 09

    Music, Medicine, & Happiness

    5:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Business School—Online

    Fighting the coronavirus pandemic has brought Medical professionals across the country together in unexpected ways.

    At this event you will meet John Masko an HBS Case Researcher, Conductor and Founder of the National Virtual Medical Orchestra (NVMO) , who brought together over 50 medical professionals from across the country to build the first of its kind, a virtual orchestra.

    He will share a virtual performance which will be followed by a discussion around happiness as it relates to music with Arthur Brooks, a Harvard Professor, PHD Social Scientist, Best Selling...

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    2020 Nov 05

    We Dance Either Way: Post Election Dance Party

    8:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Common Spaces—Online

    E​lection season has you stressed? No matter what the results will be, we plan to dance either way! Join Harvard Common Spaces for 30 minutes of Zumba with Harvard Rec instructor, Sandra, and cool down with DJ Leah V while she takes live requests!

    Co-sponsored by HGSE and the Graduate Commons Program, this event is open to the entire Harvard community.

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    2020 Oct 26

    Science and Cooking Public Lecture: "The Science of Indian Culinary Traditions"

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Event

    The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.

    Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "The Science of Indian Culinary Traditions."

    This event is free and open to the public...

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    2020 Oct 26

    Science and Cooking Public Lecture: “Viscosity, Pastry, and Chocolate”

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Event

    The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.

    Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "...

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    2020 Oct 22

    CCDD COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Event

    The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has disproportionately affected communities of color, people living in poverty, and other marginalized groups. Speakers will explore how COVID-19 exposure risk, the quality of COVID-19-specific medical care, and social determinants of health contribute to disparate trends in COVID-19 infection and mortality seen in the United States. Speakers will be asked to comment on the major public health needs, such as data collection and studies performed, that are required to support a more equitable pandemic response.

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    2020 Oct 19

    Science and Cooking Public Lecture: “Honorary Book Celebration Lecture”

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Event

    The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.

    Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "Honorary Book Celebration Lecture."

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