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 11
Black Ed Scholars Speak
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Education Solidarity Collective for Black Lives to highlight the invaluable scholarship of Black HGSE Doctoral Candidates as they discuss their commitments to racial justice in education and research.
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2021 Feb 11
Black Voters Matter: A Post-Election Conversation
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History—Online
Join a post-election conversation with Latosha Brown, Black Voters Matter) and Warren Center American Democracy Fellow. 
Moderated by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS; Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe.
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2021 Feb 10
Enduring Unethical Lessons from the Past: Learning from the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
The United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee is used as a case study of the exploitation of communities of color at the hands of medical professionals. What are the lessons learned and how far has medical ethics really come in terms of the treatment of Black and other communities of color? Lillie Head, president of Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, and Riggins R. Earl, Jr...
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2021 Feb 09
Edo Avant-Garde
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Edo Avant-Garde (2019) reveals the story of how Japanese artists of the explosively creative Edo period (1615–1868) pioneered innovative approaches to painting that many in the west associate most readily with so-called modern art of the 20th century. The Edo Avant-Garde documentary will be available to stream for free through the Harvard Art Museums from Friday, February 5 to Friday, February 12. Upon registration, you will receive a link and password to access the film. We encourage you to view the film in advance of the discussion!
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2021 Feb 05
Shaping the Future for Learners Around the World: The Opportunities, Innovations, and Challenges of Higher Education Now
9:00am to 10:00am
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join two of Harvard's most innovative higher education leaders to explore the decision-making, curricular changes, pedagogical opportunities, and digital reinventions prompted by the pandemic and the shift to remote learning over the past year. How will the mass experiment on Zoom alter the landscape of higher education in the future, for learners around the world? What are the opportunities for increased engagement, participation, and collaboration? What are the advantages and challenges, and what are the lessons learned, both at Harvard and at institutions around the world?
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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
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard—Online
Book Panel on Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic by Álvaro Santana-Acuña
Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives...
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2021 Feb 02
Making Meaning in 2021 at the Crossroads of Business and Capitalism, Ethics, Faith, and Justice
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
Speakers:
• John P. Brown, MBA '74, MDiv '88, Practitioner in Residence in Religion, Business Ethics, and the Economic Order, Harvard Divinity School
• Katherine Collins, MTS '11, Head of Sustainable Investing, Putnam Investments
• Karim Hutson, MBA '03, MTS '08, Founder & Managing Member, Genesis Companies
• Al-Husein Madhany, MTS '01, Head of Global People Operations, Moveworks.ai
This event will be recorded. Closed captioning will be provided, and persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations...
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2021 Feb 01
What Does Public Service Mean To You?
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Public Leadership—Online
Public service comes in many forms. Whether through non-profits, government, or the military, our students have served in diverse ways all across the globe. Following a special introduction by CPL director Amb. Wendy R. Sherman, hear from three of the Kennedy School's own in a discussion over the different forms of public service as we kick off Public Service Week.
PANELISTS:
Hassaan Ebrahim MPP 2021, CEO, Hikma Health
Charlene Han MC/MPA 2021, Former Policy Director, Singapore Ministry of Social and Family Development
Bill Walker MC/MPA 2021, Former Marine...
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2021 Feb 01
‘A Catalyst for Humanity’: A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
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 Feb 01
Human Rights and the Future World Order
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online
The issue of human rights presents a special challenge for any effort to construct a workable world order. Can democracies and their publics remain true to their stated values within a world where human rights abuses are still widespread, without meddling into other nations' domestic political affairs or presuming to know exactly how to achieve these ends globally? To what extent will differences over basic notions of human rights undermine efforts to cooperate on trade, climate, arms control, or other pressing global problems?
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2020 Dec 08
The Future of COVID-19 Epidemiology
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
To what extent is our future with COVID-19 knowable? As new information about the transmission, demographics, and treatment of COVID-19 emerge, epidemiologists continue to address complex data and generate new predictive models to better understand the dynamics of the virus. Join leading epidemiologists for a panel discussion as they assess the current and future state of the epidemic.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 
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2020 Dec 03
2020 Visions
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Too often, the story of women’s suffrage unfolds in a vacuum, seemingly unconnected from the general contours of American history. This panel discussion looks back from the present, asking experts working in a variety of disciplines and organizations to briefly unfold, TED-talk style, a single “big idea” that captures the significance of the 19th Amendment for voting rights, citizenship, and democracy today.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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2020 Nov 19
The Impact of 2020 on Higher Education: Colleges, COVID-19, and a Time of Racial Reckoning
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
How should universities respond to the many crises facing our nation and our students today? COVID-19, protests for racial justice, and structural inequality all directly affect student populations.
Speakers on this panel will discuss the challenges faced by students today, the role of university presidents and leadership during turbulent times, and the ethical costs of upward mobility in higher education.
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2020 Nov 18
Antiracism in Higher Education: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Join us for a discussion about antiracism in higher education with Ibram X. Kendi, the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller "How to Be an Antiracist."
Kendi, currently the Francis B. Cashin Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be joined in conversation by Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana, after which they will explore questions posed by current Harvard College students.
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2020 Nov 10
Education Justice: Centering Student Voices
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
As detailed in the docu-series, College Behind Bars, the power of education has profound positive ripple effects, and traditional classrooms are not always accessible or attainable for all learners.
This student-led panel will highlight students with a range of educational experiences, both positive and negative, who will attest to the power of education in various forms. Their stories illuminate the critical importance of meeting the needs of all students and of ensuring that our systems are reconsidered and redesigned to center compassion, equity, and opportunities...
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2020 Nov 10
Education Now: The Impact of the Election
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
More than most, the 2020 US election is a turning point for our country—and even for our democracy. Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, heightened awareness of racial injustice, and an increasingly divisive political climate, the typical trappings of our presidential transitions have taken on a new sense of urgency.
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Education as their panel of thought leaders look at the impact of the election on politics and policies that affect young people, families, and communities.
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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 09
Voices in Leadership During Crises: Mayor Keisha Bottoms
12:00pm to 12:45pm
Location: 
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms joins the program to discuss issues related to leadership during dual crises. She will address the issues of working to confront COVID-19 and systemic racism.
Speakers:
Keisha Lance Bottoms
60th Mayor of the City of Atlanta
Mary Bassett
Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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