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    Infinite Possibilities Part 2

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    Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., Cambridge

    Infinite Possibilities Part 2 is a continuation of a two-day free event series, presented by Harvard Dance Center, on the history, culture, and concepts behind freestyle dance. Both days feature Boston-based dancer, educator, curator, and community organizer Ashton Lites, aka Stiggity Stackz, founding creative director of Stiggity Stackz Worldwide, and curated into three parts: panel discussion, workshop, and mini battle.

    Infinite Possibilities Part 2 will be held at Lowell Lecture Hall and begin with a conversation with Stiggity Stackz, Chad Shabazz, and...

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    There is No Table for My Seat

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    Online or at Center for African Studies, 1280 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor, Cambridge

    On Monday February 6 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm the Center for African Studies will host their African Studies Workshop. The workshop is open to the public and focuses broadly on the general theme of Reflections on Africa's Political Economies and Cultures and their Global Implications. South African scholar and curator, Khanyisile Mbongwa, will present a paper and Peabody curator, Sarah Clunis, will moderate a discussion drawing on Mbongwa's current work.

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    Screening: Smooth Talk (Director in person)

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    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Transforming the spare Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” into a rich coming of age drama with a dark center, Chopra collaborated with her screenwriting husband Tom Cole to tenderly craft and perfectly cast her feature debut. The heart of Smooth Talk is the complexity of Laura Dern’s performance as Connie, who is awakening to her sexual desires and those she elicits in men.

    Speaker: Joyce Chopra, filmmaker

    Cost: $15 / Free for Harvard students

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    Evaluating the Role of the Paycheck Protection Program During COVID-19

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    Online or at Rubenstein 414AB, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge

    This hybrid event will be a panel discussion between R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; and David Autor, Ford Professor and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT Department of Economics. It will be moderated by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Aparna Mathur. Refreshments will be served for those joining us in person in the Democracy Lab (R414AB). Others should register to join us remotely via Zoom.

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    Screens for Teens: Portraits from a Fire

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Watch, Portraits from a Fire, a film about the nuances and complexities of being a young Indigenous filmmaker.

    This series of contemporary and classic films is specially curated for teenagers in and around Cambridge. The selection, including both short and feature-length films, is meant to provide teens with an opportunity to watch work focused explicitly on their experiences. Covering a range of topics, emotions, and nuances, these free films—depending on length and scope—will be followed by conversation with faculty from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School....

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    Panel Discussion: In Search of Thoreau's Flowers

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    Harvard Museum of Natural History, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    How can an imaginative fusion of art and science help us reach a meaningful understanding of the relationship between our actions, climate change, and diminishing biodiversity? This panel features the artists and scientists who collaborated in developing In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, an exhibition now on view at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The inspiration for this project was a set of 648 plant specimens in the Harvard University Herbaria that were collected by Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond...

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    Louise Glück and David Stern in Conversation

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    Paine Hall (Harvard Music Building), 3 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Join us for the 2023 annual Doft Lecture: Louise Gluck, 2020 Nobel Prize winner in conversation with Professor David Stern.

    Louise Glück is the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the 2014 National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night and many more.

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    The Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award

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    Agassiz Theater, 5 James St., Cambridge

    Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor and educator Tania León is the recipient of the Fall 2022 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award, which will be conferred in a special ceremony 4:00pm–5:30 p.m. Monday, November 14 at Agassiz Theatre at Harvard University. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature bassist Devon Gates ‘23, flutist Mai Nguyen '23 and founder of the Harvard Students Composer Festival Veronica Leahy '23. The award is administered by the Office for the Arts at Harvard University, in consultation with the Department of...

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    Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Lucy Raven, "State Change and Old Gags"

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    The GSD welcomes visual artist Lucy Raven to deliver the fall Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture.

    In this presentation, artist Lucy Raven will present materials relating to several recent moving image installations, including Ready Mix, which was commissioned by and premiered at Dia Chelsea in 2021, and Demolition of a Wall (Album 1 and Album 2), which premiered at the 2022 Whitney Biennial and at WIELS. Together, these pieces explore the properties of extreme pressure and material state change occurring respectively at a concrete plant in central Idaho and an...

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    Film Screening: In the Name of God (Filmmaker in-person)

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    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Anand Patwardhan will screen and discuss his vital documentary on the rise of religious fundamentalism in India.

    In The Name of God records the rising tension around the destruction of the 16th century Babri Masjid Mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh by the Hindu nationalist group Vishva Hindu Parishad in 1992. Many consider this event an inflection point in the rise of religious fundamentalism in India. Offering rare last glimpses of the mosque in its final days, the film exposes how political pundits took advantage of ordinary people to turn a place of worship into an...

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    Screens for Teens: Ice Breakers and Olga

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Watch two films about teenage athletes overcoming cultural barriers, Ice Breakers and Olga.

    This series of contemporary and classic films is specially curated for teenagers in and around Cambridge. The selection, including both short and feature-length films, is meant to provide teens with an opportunity to watch work focused explicitly on their experiences. Covering a range of topics, emotions, and nuances, these free films—depending on length and scope—will be followed by conversation with faculty from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

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    Beyond Recovery: Seizing Opportunities to Transform Education in a Post-Covid Era

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    Online or at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

    After nearly three years of tumult caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and massive disruptions to learning, the education sector stands at a crossroads. With growing achievement and opportunity gaps, deep concerns about mental health, and stark pressures on teachers and education leaders throughout the country, the repercussions of the crisis are now evident. But the past three years have also shown surprising innovation, resilience at all levels of the education system, and a renewed commitment to supporting students, families, and educators. Today, there are new opportunities for...

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    The War in Ukraine

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    Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

    It’s been over six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. What has the war taught us about Ukraine, Russia, and geopolitics in the 21st century? Join The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University for a conversation between Professor Timothy Colton and Professor Serhii Plokhii, moderated by Davis Center Executive Director Alexandra Vacroux.

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    Latino Pioneers in Boston

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    Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

    In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Phillips Brooks House Association, Ethnicity, Migration, & Rights, the Department of Romance Languages, and Fuerza Latina invite you to a documentary screening of "Latino Pioneers in Boston," a fireside conversation with documentary maker Blanca Bonillo and Latino Pioneers: Tony Molina, Jaime Rodriguez, Carmen Paola, Frieda Garcia, and Regla Gonzalez. There will also be a reception afterwards for students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members to socialize and eat delicious food...

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    Book Launch: "Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer"

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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online or at 9 Bow St., Cambridge

    Join the editors for a conversation about a challenge that many Americans are facing—and will be confronting—in the years ahead: is a delayed retirement a realistic, practical and tenable option for all of us as we attempt to become better financially prepared for retirement? Policymakers are assuming that working longer is the solution to not being financially ready to retire, but the nearly thirty experts across the fields of economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and epidemiology who collaborated to produce this volume explain why delayed retirement is not an adequate...

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    Unprecedented Realism: Selections from the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection Panel Discussion and Reception

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    To mark Jorge Silvetti’s retirement from the GSD and the opening of the exhibition Unprecedented Realism: Selections from the Rodolpho Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection, the School will host a discussion and celebration featuring voices from the GSD community past and present. The evening will unfold first with a conversation between the curators of the exhibition, Mark Lee and Remi McClain, and a group of historians and...

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    Harvard Science Book Talk: "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions"

    Location: 

    Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The author of the beloved web comic xkcd, as well as bestselling books "What If?" and "How To," answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask!

    Cost: $34-$44, copy of the book included

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    25th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for the premiere screening of Community Art Center’s 25th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival, the longest-running youth film festival in the country. Come early for a musical performance by Lisa Bello and snacks in the Calderwood Courtyard. A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers will follow the screening.

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