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Gutman Library Book Talk | The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections

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Harvard Graduate School of Education, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential skills. The Career Arts provides a corrective to the widespread and misleading notion that there is a direct trade-off between going to college and acquiring practical job skills.

Drawing on evidence-based research, illuminating case studies, and in-depth interviews, Ben Wildavsky shares the most vital lessons of what he calls the career arts, which include cultivating a mix of broad and targeted skills, taking advantage of...

Gutman Library Book Talk: Everyone Wins!

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Online or at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gutman Conference Center, Event Room 3, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

Engaging families in education benefits everyone. Student achievement goes up, families get stronger, and teachers and administrators can do their job more effectively. Everyone wins! In this highly readable roundup of the latest research, a Harvard-based team makes a compelling case for investing in evidence-based family-engagement practices-and suggests powerful ways to put those practices into action at your school or district.

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Call, Respond, and Serve: The Role of Spirituality in Public Theology and Politics

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Online or at Harvard Divinity School, James Room (Swartz Hall), 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

Major religious traditions call on their adherents to respond to the causes of suffering, those who suffer, and the prevention of suffering. The ways we respond and serve can take many forms including activism and holding political office. How does spiritual practice support the difficult work of speaking truth to power as well as being in positions of power without losing focus on the relief of suffering?

In this book talk and conversation, Lori E. Lightfoot, Esq., 56th Mayor of Chicago, and Pamela Ayo Yetunde, J.D., Th.D., author of Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual...

Future of Cities: Extreme Heat

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Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record. What do we do next?

Rising air temperatures are now a fact of life in the world's cities, with major implications for public health and urban design. Join a panel of global experts, innovators, and practitioners to learn more about the impacts of extreme heat on our bodies, our buildings, and our cities–and what individuals and institutions can do to prepare.

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Supporting Teen Well-being in a Tech-Filled World: A Conversation with the U.S. Surgeon General

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Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

With the growing concern about social media's impact on teen mental health, what can we do to support the teens in our lives? Join us as we launch HGSE’s new Center for Digital Thriving by welcoming the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, to the Askwith Education Forum for a conversation that gets to the heart of how families and educators can help young people build and sustain their digital wellbeing.

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Water Stories: Panel Discussions

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Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Artists whose works are represented in the Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis exhibition will engage with scholars of religion, anthropology, and transnational studies to discuss aesthetic and spiritual experiences of water in the age of climate crisis. Participants will discuss traditional paintings depicting mythological stories along with contemporary works evoking different aesthetic and spiritual experiences of water in the age of climate crisis.

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Art, Data, and Surveillance: A Colloquium

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

In this conversation, Simone Browne and Mimi Ọnụọha will examine how artists have critically grappled with the hidden infrastructures of surveillance today, and explore the consequences of what is made visible through data.

A reception will follow in the related Surveillance exhibition at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, second floor, Cambridge, MA, from 7:30pm–8:15pm.

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Seeing in Art and Medicine: A Conversation

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join us for a lively conversation about the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine and the museums’ medical humanities program that inspired it. Presenters include the program’s founders, Hyewon Hyun and David Odo, and exhibition curator Jen Thum. The talk will also include interactive segments based on the work of the program.

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Gutman Library Book Talk – Introduction to Design Education: Theory, Research, and Practical Applications for Educators

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Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gutman Conference Center, Event Room 3, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

This practical, engaging book offers design educators a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to design education and pedagogy in higher education. Featuring instructional strategies and case studies from diverse design disciplines, including fashion design, architecture, and industrial design, from both the US and abroad, award-winning author Steven Faerm contextualizes design pedagogy with student development—a critical component to fostering successful teaching, optimal learning, and student success in this ever-evolving industry.

Author Steven Faerm, Ed.M.’15, is...

Black in Design 2023: The Black Home

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Gund Hall, 42-48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Yaad, ile, lakay, all languages have a word for home, shelter, a claim to a place, to a delineated territory of heritage. However, the experience of Black people across the world has created a unique yet divergent practice of creating and claiming home.

This year's Black in Design conference explores the Black home's multidimensionality — as a literal structure that shelters, as a reflection of culture and traditions, and as spaces that are not entirely physical. The conference brings together keynote panels, workshops, and conversations that discuss and expand these...

Book Talk: "When Democracy Breaks"

Location:

Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School

The Ash Center invites you to a book talk with contributors to the forthcoming When Democracy Breaks (Oxford, 2023), a new edited volume intended to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility -- by focusing on the latter.

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College Admissions and Generational Privilege | Askwith Education Forum

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

Are private colleges amplifying the persistence of privilege across generations — and what changes in admissions policies might achieve greater socioeconomic representation on campus and across society? Join us for a conversation with Harvard economist Raj Chetty, hosted by Thomas Kane and featuring remarks by Lawrence Bobo and Susan Dynarski.

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Will Industrial Policies Lead to a Manufacturing Renaissance?

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Online or at Wexner 434AB, Harvard Kennedy School

This hybrid panel discussion will include Robert Z. Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at HKS; and Anna Stansbury, Class of 1948 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The panel will be moderated by Edoardo Campanella, M-RCBG research fellow and senior global economist at UniCredit Bank.

This event will take place in Wexner 434AB for those who wish to attend in person. Other may join us remotely via Zoom.

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Food Politics 2023: What Matters and Why

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Online or at Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein 414AB, 1 Eliot St., Cambridge

This hybrid seminar will be given by Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University. It will be moderated by Bill Clark, Harvey Brooks Research Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at HKS.

Lunch will be served for those joining in person in Rubenstein 414AB. Others should register to join remotely via Zoom.

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The Appetizer - Evita

Location:

Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge

The Appetizer is pre-show experience designed for high school students by high school students from A.R.T.’s Youth Action Team. Before a performance of Evita, participants will enjoy refreshments and engage in a guided conversation around the themes of the play and reflect on how influential women in history and their legacies are perceived.

Participants will receive a free ticket to attend Evita after the event. Following the show, celebrate the end of the school year and Youth Action Team’s first season.

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26th 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 26th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival, the longest-running youth film festival in the country. A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers and a short reception in the Calderwood Courtyard will follow the screening.

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Exhibition Preview and Conversation: "Shehuo: Zhang Xiao’s Photography of Rural China"

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Contemporary photographer Zhang Xiao explores the impact of rapid economic change and urbanization on Chinese rural landscapes and traditions. In this conversation with artist and scholar Ou Ning, Zhang will share his aesthetic approach to documenting Shehuo (社火, “community fire”), a cultural festival held in Northern China that commemorates the Chinese Lunar New Year.

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Building Our Resilient Future: Education Driving Hope, Innovation, and Action

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Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

In conversation with national and local leaders, we'll highlight an action-oriented agenda for the education sector with innovation and engagement as drivers for climate resilience and mitigation. We'll show how schools and communities are already making an impact in confronting climate change — altering our use of resources, creating exciting learning opportunities, and advancing equity in community approaches. We'll explore ways to accelerate progress, to spur collective effort, and to act with urgency. And we'll ask participants to share stories of where they are finding hope and...

Climate, Health & Equity: Toward a Sustainable Future

Location:

Spangler Center, Harvard Business School Campus

Climate change is actively harming human health — not in some distant future, but now, in communities around the globe. The more we understand these harms, the better we can confront and overcome them. That’s the goal of this symposium.

We’re bringing together leading scientists, policy makers, and activists to examine our most urgent challenges and explore the most promising solutions. The audience will include professionals from a wide array of disciplines engaged in issues of climate, health, and environmental justice. We expect the afternoon to inform and inspire, to spark...

Gutman Library Book Talk - Brave Community: Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination

Location:

Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

At the core of the intractability of racism is the persistent cultivation of our collective ignorance of it. The author responds directly to this challenge by introducing Brave Community—a research-based and learner-tested method that leverages learning as a vehicle to increase the bravery and empathy that we need to both imagine and pursue a world beyond racism.

Speakers:

Janine de Novais, Ed.D.'17, Author
Aaliyah El-Amin, Ed.D.'15, Lecturer on Education at HGSE

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