2020 Nov 20
Art Study Center Seminar: Finding Solace in Rituals
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Due to the pandemic, many communal rituals that commemorate, whether in joy or grief, major occasions in life have been disrupted, rerouted, and, at times, reinvented. We now feel the heightened poignancy of such rites.
In this seminar, chief curator Soyoung Lee will contemplate the symbolisms and practices of rituals through a selection of objects in the Harvard Art Museums collections.
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2020 Nov 19
Building Career Connections: The Informational Interview
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
The informational interview is a personal way to gain workforce information, discover career options, and receive job search guidance. It is also a way to expand your professional network and assist others. In this dynamic online workshop, hosted by experienced career development specialist Sabrina Woods, we will explore how you can ignite your curiosity and make the most of networking meetings.
Topics include:
• How to find people to talk with
• What to write when making “the ask”
• Research to do before hand
• What to...
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2020 Nov 02
Monday Job Seekers Connection
11:00am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join other job seekers each week for mutual support, encouragement, inspiration, and empowerment in your job search. Job Seekers Connection energizes and motivates participants by teaching valuable career search strategies and techniques.
Facilitator: Michele Rocray, Harvard Ed Portal
Topic: The Secret to Great Opportunites? The Person You Haven't Met Yet.
Please watch the following video as it will be the basis for our discussion and come to the session prepared to network.
Tanya Menon is a Harvard University graduate and Professor of...
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2020 Oct 31
Visit An Artist: En Iwamura
10:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online
We are off to Japan to visit with the incredibly prolific sculptor En Iwamura! 
En Iwamura's current research investigates how he can influence and alter the experience of viewers who occupy space with his installation artworks. When Iwamura describes the space and scale in his works, he references the Japanese philosophy of Ma. Ma implies meanings of distance, moment, space, relationship, and more. People constantly read and measure different Ma between themselves, and finding the proper or comfortable Ma between people or places can provide a specific relationship at a...
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2020 Oct 30
Visit an Artist: Brad Schwieger
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online
We're off to Ohio to visit the studio of master potter and sculptor Brad Schwieger. During this one-hour studio visit, Brad will discuss his...
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2020 Oct 29
Voting, Participation, and Why it Matters
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online via Zoom
 
Join Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, Tova Wang, a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center, Michelle Tassinari, Director and Legal Counsel of the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Elections Division, and Eneida Tavares the Interim Commissioner for the City of Boston’s Elections Department for a conversation on the importance of local voter participation, education and civic engagement, and to learn more about what’s at stake for our...
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2020 Oct 29
Education Justice: Why Prison Classrooms Matter
4:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
“What college does, it helps us learn about the nation,” said Rodney Spivey-Jones, a 2017 Bard College graduate currently incarcerated at Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York, in the docuseries College behind Bars. “It helps us become civic beings. It helps us understand that we have an interest in our community, that our community is a part of us and we are a part of it.”
The Bard Prison Initiative and programs at other institutions of higher learning across the country have brought together teachers and learners in incarcerated spaces for years. This panel will gather...
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2020 Oct 29
Digital Scavenger Hunt with Prizes and Surprises!
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
Take a break and learn new skills with this fun, interactive virtual scavenger hunt! Solve a series of clues and discover a hidden webpage that will give you an exclusive digital reward. These clues will take you through useful online security tips as well as interesting pieces of history from Harvard's Digital Collections. You will experience everything from speeches from well-known Harvard graduates to images of Allston from over a century ago!
This event is part of our celebration of National Cyber Security Awareness Month in collaboration with Harvard Information Security...
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2020 Oct 27
Building Career Connections: Introduction to American Networking
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
If you are new to the U.S. and navigating the job search process, this introductory online workshop will be just right to help you understand the basics of networking.
With instruction from Life Coach Sabrina Woods, you will walk through what networking is and how it can be beneficial to building your career. Topics will include:
• What are the different kinds of networking?
• What is meant by a “networking event”?
• Where can I go to network?
• What do I say about myself and what do I ask others?
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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 24
Visit an Artist: April Felipe
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online
This week, we'll go to Albany, Ohio to visit April Felipe. April explores themes of personal history, identity and belonging through her ceramic work. In this 1-hour studio visit, April will invite us into her home studio to discuss her incredibly crafted sculptural work as well as give us a look at what she is working on now!
Cost:
Free for Harvard Undergraduates
$25.00 for Harvard Graduate Students, Harvard Staff, and Adult Community
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2020 Oct 23
Next in Water
11:00am
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
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 speakers in this program will discuss water’s vital role across four areas of modern inquiry: biology, earth science, public health, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
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2020 Oct 22
Diving with a Purpose: A Fifteen-Year Odyssey
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Diving with a Purpose is an organization dedicated to the documentation and protection of African slave-trade shipwrecks and the maritime history and culture of African Americans. Jay Haigler and Albert José Jones will share a documentary on the organization’s work and recent discoveries. They will discuss the importance of submerged heritage resources in advancing the fields of maritime archaeology and ocean conservation and the need for a better understanding of the transatlantic slave trade and its global, cultural, and social-economic impact on society.
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2020 Oct 22
New Blocs, New Maps, New Power
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
By the early 1980s, a new political landscape was taking shape that would fundamentally influence American society and politics in the decades to come. That year, the long-standing effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment—championed by suffragist Alice Paul and introduced to Congress in 1923—ran aground, owing in significant measure to the activism of women who pioneered a new brand of conservatism.
This panel will draw together strands and stories that are often kept separate: the ideas and growing influence of conservative women, the political activism of gay communities...
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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 22
National Fossil Day
9:00am to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Celebrate National Fossil Day—a celebration organized by the National Park Service—by taking a closer look at museum fossils with Harvard paleontologists. What can we see on ancient seafloors? How do modern animals help us understand extinct animals? What fossils still amaze scientists? What is it like to be a practicing paleontologist? Bring your curiosity and questions to this online event for all ages!
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2020 Oct 21
The Brand Called You!
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
• What is my personal brand?
• What’s the difference between my brand and my skills?
• Do I have a “reputation,” and what am I known for?
• How do I enhance my brand for career success?
Success at work involves not only what you do (skills) but also how you do it (brand). Your reputation at work—whether positive, neutral, or negative—has a major impact on your career goals and direction. This session will give you the insights you need to build your brand, increase your influence, and expand your career success.
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2020 Oct 21
James Baldwin: The Making of an American Icon
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Robert F. Reid-Pharr is a professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality and of African and African American studies at Harvard University. During his Radcliffe fellowship year, Reid-Pharr is completing a draft of "James Baldwin: The Making of an American Icon." Drawing heavily on archival materials housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Houghton and Beinecke Libraries of Harvard and Yale Universities, the book follows the story of Baldwin’s life from birth to death. Join Reid-Pharr as he explores how Baldwin achieved his celebrity status and why...
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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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