2022 Apr 07
Black Music and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join us for the second of two one-hour webinars 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 (1920–2002) became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). 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 courses on Black music and Renaissance musical...
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2022 Apr 07
Reimagining Our Radical Roots
(All day)
Location: 
Online or at Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge,
Join us for a two-day convening to celebrate the bold life and continuing legacy of William Monroe Trotter- a Harvard University alumnus who advanced the cause of civil rights and social justice. The convening will to introduce attendees to Trotter’s legacy and provide an opportunity for academics, activists and artists to consider how Trotter’s radical activism can address critical issues facing us today, and offer opportunities to hear from distinguished professors and practitioners.
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2022 Apr 06
Exploring Humanity's Technological Origins
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo, approximately 2.4–2.3 million years ago, and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands. In the last decade, fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has revealed evidence of much earlier technological behavior.
Sonia Harmand will discuss the discovery of stone tools in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in Kenya known as Lomekwi 3. She will show how this discovery is reshaping our...
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2022 Apr 06
After-School Animal Encounters: Super Skeletons
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Free Virtual Family Program
Do snakes have bones? Can a turtle crawl out of its shell? How far could you jump if you were a frog? Looking at skeletons can help us answer these questions! Comparing the skeletons of different animals can help us learn more about how they live and move. Join human museum staffers Arielle and Javier as they lead you in a 45-minute program with live animals and specimens from the museum collections. This event will be fun for the whole family so bring your questions and sense of wonder.
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2022 Apr 06
Education Now: Hope and Resilience in Childhood
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join us as we explore new approaches to nurturing resilience, amplifying strengths, and building hope — in children and in the schools and communities that nurture them.
Speakers:
• Suniya Luthar, Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer, Authentic Connections; Professor Emerita, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Robert Sege, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and Director, Center for Community-engaged Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Host:
Junlei Li, Saul Zaentz Senior...
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2022 Apr 06
The Impact of Gold Mining on the Feasibility of Malaria Elimination in the Amazon
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Caroline Buckee is a professor of epidemiology and the associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is writing a book focused on the impact of gold mining on the epidemiology and control of malaria in the Amazon rainforest while concurrently examining infectious disease epidemiology as a field of study, using malaria as an example. Join her to hear more about her current research.
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2022 Apr 05
TERREMOTO – David Godshall and Jenny Jones, "Radical Gardens of Love and Interconnectedness"
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
TERREMOTO is presently navigating a transitional period within its practice towards making omni-positive gardens and landscapes that are fair, just and generous in their relationships to labor, materials and ecology. We believe that we are at a cultural, environmental + civilizational fork in the road, and through deep internal self-interrogation of landscape history and practice (including our own), we are creating a constantly evolving set of metrics that will allow us (and you!) to create gardens that can lock horns with the BIGNESS of this moment. What a time to be alive! And what a...
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2022 Apr 05
2022 David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics: "A personal historical view of the theory of deterministic chaos"
5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Department of Physics—Online
Classical deterministic time evolutions exist with apparent random features, as is seen in hydrodynamic turbulence. Such phenomena have been called deterministic chaos, and are associated with sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
We discuss chaos theory with emphasis on the multidisciplinary work concerning chaos in natural phenomena during the three decades 1970-2000. Work in that period has involved developments in pure mathematics, new experimental techniques, and the use of digital computers. The problems addressed include hydrodynamical turbulence, meteorology,...
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2022 Apr 05

The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Learning for Achievement Gaps

4:30pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Harvard Center for Education Policy Research—Online

Join this PIER Public Seminar about the consequences of remote and hybrid learning for achievement gaps, with speaker Thomas Kane (Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education).

2022 Apr 05
Art Talk Live: The Secret Life of Ptahshepses Impy
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Join Egyptologist Jen Thum for an engaging look at the results of new research on the tomb relief of Ptahshepses Impy, an Egyptian official. Thum will explore the implications of this research, including possible changes to the display of the relief to indicate missing portions.
Learn more about and register for this virtual event.
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2022 Apr 05
Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been profoundly influential in the region since its inception in 1979. Since 2017, the Court has built up case law on the right to health, addressing an array of issues including: access to emergency care, HIV treatment, and health services for prison inmates; informed consent in physical and mental health care; and State duties to regulate private health providers and insurance companies.
This event will be a moderated panel discussion among scholars who have been directly involved as experts in one or more of...
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2022 Apr 04
Information Equity and Freedom Of Speech: U.S. Latino Communities
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
The prevalence of “fake news” in the media and across social networks has received widespread scrutiny, while the implications of fake news on equity for the U.S. Latino communities has received less attention. U.S. Latino communities have been targeted by misinformation campaigns and are particularly vulnerable to its harms.
This conversation, moderated by C. Yulin Cruz Soto, will explore the intersections between fake news, freedom of speech, and equitable access to information. Speakers include Jorge Ramos, a Mexican-American journalist, author, and Univision news anchor...
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2022 Apr 04
Health Equity in Native America Summit
1:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online
Please join medical, community and academic leaders from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and institutions across the United States for a conversation about the health and the resilience of Indigenous communities.
Learn more and register for this virtual event.
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2022 Apr 04
Gutman Library Book Talk - Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Confidence and Skill of Principals
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principals Confidence and Skill lays out the case for the development of robust mentorship programs to support new school leaders. With principal turnover at an all-time high, it is urgent that schools and districts find ways to help newly appointed leaders grow into effective supervisors, managers, and strategic thinkers who can also find personal and professional satisfaction in their careers.
Using examples from several established and successful state programs, Leadership Through Mentoring shows how...
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2022 Apr 03
Arnold Arboretum: Guided Tours
Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun Apr 24 2022 .
1:00pm to 2:30pm
1:00pm to 2:30pm
1:00pm to 2:30pm
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
On Saturdays and Sundays in April, join us for a 90-minute walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent.
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2022 Apr 01
Sandra Barclay & Jean Pierre Crousse, "Transversal Grounds"
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
In Transversal Grounds, Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse follow the traces of Alexander Von Humboldt, the scientist who realized that the section, and not the plan, is the only way to understand the Central Andes region. Their journey from the barren landscapes of the desert coast through the steep Mountain range into the Amazon jungle helped them rethink architecture challenges from geographical and cultural conditions. The projects done in the last years through this territorial section understand architecture as a sensitive way of adding meaning to the cultural construction...
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2022 Mar 31
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Printmaking and Womanhood, with Sinead Danagher, Calla Bai, and Alexis Boo
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In celebration of Women's History Month, Sinead Danagher '22, Calla Bai '22, and Alexis Boo '22, three Ho Family Student Guides who were classmates in Harvard's Critical Printing seminar last fall, will explore printmaking and how it relates to womanhood. They will examine a variety of works from the collections.
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2022 Mar 31
Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
One of ancient Egypt's high points of cultural, intellectual, and social life was the period referred to as the Middle Kingdom (2030–1650 BCE). The ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) was the Egyptian capital during the early stage of this period and the site of multiple funerary temples and tombs. In this lecture, Egyptologist Antonio Morales will discuss an international and multidisciplinary project that is conducting archaeological, historical, and cultural research, as well as conservation work, in Deir el-Bahari and Asasif—two funerary areas at Thebes—to better understand the...
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2022 Mar 31
Fossil Fuels, Health, and Frontline Indigenous Communities
9:15am
Location: 
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health—Online
Indigenous communities have a long history of living with and learning from the environment, but the extraction and transportation of fossil fuels near their communities, along with unjust policies, have put their health and the climate at risk and impacted tribal sovereignty. Join us for a discussion of how we can uplift Indigenous voices and curb the impacts of fossil fuel extraction on frontline communities.
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2022 Mar 30
Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Sam Olbekson, “Culture, Community, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Indigenous Design”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Creating a strong sense of place is critical to cultural identity in Native American communities. New tribal building and planning projects provide significant opportunities for tribal communities to reinforce cultural revival efforts while advancing economic, educational, and healthcare initiatives. This session will encourage an open and interactive discussion of the central issues in tribal design and efforts to lead a fundamental shift toward culturally appropriate design solutions and self-determination. Plus, this session will highlight diverse Native American projects that have...
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