2020 Oct 07
‘Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World’
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Immigration Initiative at Harvard—Online
Join the Immigration Initiative at Harvard for a webinar with Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto, as part of their ongoing Immigration Speaker Series.
Speaker Bio: Tahseen Shams is Assistant Professor of Sociology and author of Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World (Stanford University Press). Her research explores how transnational, global forms of inequality intersect with race and ethnicity to affect immigrant groups, particularly those coming from Muslim-majority countries to the United States and...
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2020 Oct 05
Gutman Library Book Talk: Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Gutman Library—Online
Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile environments in an effort to make the field more inclusive.
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2020 Oct 01
On Account of Sex (1920)
4:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not "give" women the vote. Rather, it established a negative: that the right to vote could not be abridged on account of sex alone. This session brings together diverse participants who will each illuminate one facet of women’s political history at this key transitional moment. Together, participants will emphasize the radical achievement of the amendment, exploring the full implications of what it meant to remove sex as a barrier to voting, which resulted in the largest-ever one-time expansion of the electorate and mobilized a...
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2020 Oct 01
Race and Economic Justice
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center—Online via YouTube Live
Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice.
Panelists: Brandon M. Terry | Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies,...
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2020 Oct 01
What Studying Putin’s Russia Can Teach Us about the United States: Masculinity, Misogyny, and U.S. Elections in the Trump Era
12:30pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
Vladimir Putin has long been known for his macho displays, and Donald Trump for his misogynist pronouncements. In both the U.S. and Russia, machismo and misogyny play fundamental roles in politics; the former is used to legitimize particular politicians as strong leaders, and the latter to undermine opponents as weak. In their lecture, while drawing parallels to Russia, Professors Robert Boatright and Valerie Sperling will focus on their new book about masculinity and misogyny in the U.S. political context, exploring how Donald Trump’s misogyny in the 2016 presidential race changed the...
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2020 Sep 23
Gutman Library Book Talk: Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Graduate School of Education
Written by two leading experts in education research and policy, Common-Sense Evidence is a concise, accessible guide that helps education leaders find and interpret data and research, and then put that knowledge into action.
Moderated by: Dr. Bridget Terry Long, Dean and Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The panel discussion will feature:
• Carrie Conaway, one of the book's authors and a senior lecturer on education at HGSE
• Sonja Santelises, CEO of...
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2020 Sep 17
Observatory Night: What Stars Are Made Of
7:00pm
Location: 
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—Online
Join the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for a virtual Public Observatory Night with guest lecturer Donavan Moore, author of "What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin."
It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early twentieth-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what...
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2020 Sep 17
Reconstructing the Polity (1870)
4:00pm
Location: 
Online—Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
The reconstruction of the American polity after the Civil War—in particular, the adoption of the 15th Amendment in 1870—marked a key moment in the long history of the 19th Amendment, women’s political mobilization, and the contested boundaries of United States citizenship.
During the campaign for the 15th Amendment, and the campaign of racial terror that accompanied its passage, Black women mobilized to defend themselves and their communities, innovating ideas and strategies that would reshape the women’s suffrage movement. As federal troops moved from the South to the West,...
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2020 Sep 17
COVID-19 and the Stakes for Democracy in South America
12:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Law School, The Petrie-Flom Center
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis, or even an economic crisis, but also a critical inflection point for democracy and the rule of law. The pandemic has presented a test for the legitimacy of democratic governance, and perhaps nowhere are the stakes higher than in Latin America, which as of August 5, as a region had the world’s highest death toll per population.
Even before the pandemic, the region as a whole faced staggering levels of social inequality...
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2020 Sep 15
Perfecters of This Democracy: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones
4:00pm
Location: 
Online—Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and creator of the 1619 Project, will engage in conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, about pressing issues of race, civil rights, injustice, desegregation, and resegregation.
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2020 Sep 14
John Hedjuk Soundings Lecture: Rafael Moneo with Sarah Whiting, "Learning Architecture"
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Graduate School of Design
Join Harvard Graduate School of Design for a virtual lecture with Rafael Moneo and Sarah Whiting. 
Rafael Moneo, AM '85, was born in Tudela, Spain, in 1937. He graduated in 1961 from the Architecture School of Madrid. He was a professor in the Architecture Schools of Barcelona and Madrid, and he was appointed Chairman of the Architecture Department of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he is now Emeritus Josep Lluis Sert Professor in Architecture...
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2020 Sep 11
Book Talk: "Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness"
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Law School
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present a virtual book talk with Max Bazerman on his forthcoming book, Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness. 
 
Every day, we make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. This book explores how we can better make principled choices. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make...
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2020 Sep 10
Getting Out the BIPOC Vote: Digital Strategies to Build Power
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center
Activists and practitioners were already preparing for a tumultuous election year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit our shores. Now, the months ahead present immense challenges—and opportunities—for redefining how civic engagement is practiced for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
Join the Harvard Kennedy School for a timely discussion with leading practitioners who are effectively integrating digital strategies with authentic power-building while navigating a never-before-seen civic environment. All share a mission of giving real agency to vulnerable...
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2020 Aug 26
Voting Matters: Origin Stories: Keynote Address (1848)
4:00pm
Location: 
Online—Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Join the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for the beginning of the series Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th Amendment with a keynote address by the historian Martha S. Jones, who will root the generations-long movement for women’s suffrage in the activism of African American women from the 1830s. Jones will explore the tangled intersections of gender and race in the battle for the ballot while considering the evolution of birthright citizenship, more broadly, as itself a gendered origins story about constituting the American people.
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2020 Jul 22
Education Now: What “Reopening” Means for Early Education
3:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Early education administrators, center directors, and families are encountering many complex challenges and decisions as they are faced with reopening centers. What does high-quality early education look like in the era of COVID-19? How do we create and comply with protocols that will keep children and early educators safe?
HGSE professor and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative, Nonie Lesaux, explores these and other questions with Samantha Aigner-Treworgy, Commissioner of Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, and Maria Gonzalez Moeller,...
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2020 Jul 20
Lift Every Voice: The Urgency of Universal Civic Duty Voting
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center—Online
In 26 countries across the world, there is some form of civic duty voting. What would this system look like in the United States? How could universal civic duty voting change the dynamic of our elections and campaigning? Does this proposal pass constitutional muster? What do Americans think of civic duty voting? These questions and more are addressed in a forthcoming report, "Lift Every Voice: The Urgency of Universal Civic Duty Voting."
On July 20, Governance Studies at Brookings and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School will cohost...
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2020 Jun 22
Gutman Library Book Talk: The 60 Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
The 60-Year Curriculum explores models and strategies for lifelong learning in an era of profound economic disruption and reinvention. Over the next half-century, globalization, regional threats to sustainability, climate change, and technologies such as artificial intelligence and data mining will transform our education and workforce sectors. Speakers will include:


• Jim Honan, Ph.D.'89, Senior Lecturer on Education, HGSE
• Chris Dede - Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Technology, Innovation, and Education Program, HGSE
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2020 Jun 18
Ahhhhh!: How to Negotiate the Nonnegotiable in an Era of Discontent
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online via Zoom
Our world is awash in conflict and tension. The combusting mix of the pandemic, economic turmoil, political divisiveness, and emotional turbulence has turned negotiation on its head. What seemed easy to deal with in the old normal is no longer so. Why is this, and what can we do about it? Drawing on his global research in conflict resolution, Dr. Shapiro will explore a framework he has developed that illuminates underlying psychological complexities fueling present-day conflict—and will offer insight on how to move forward.
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2020 Jun 12
Webinar: The Labor of Fashion, the Global COVID-19 Crisis, and the Politics of Resistance in Bangladesh
9:00am to 10:30am
Location: 
Online Event
The global apparel industry is currently facing an unprecedented crisis resulting from the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Major fashion retailers in the Global North are closing their stores and laying off workers. The same brands that demonstrated strong public commitment for protecting the safety and security of Bangladeshi garment workers after the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 are not hesitating to cancel or suspend orders or delay payments. Thousands of workers are currently out of work and facing a unique livelihood, as well as a health threat. 
Bangladeshi local labor...
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2020 Jun 11
Crimson Kitchen: Free Cooking Classes with Harvard Dining Services
Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Jul 02 2020 .
1:00pm
1:00pm
1:00pm
1:00pm
Location: 
Online via Zoom
Have time to cook and a kitchen at your disposal? Let HUDS Chefs Martin Breslin and Akeisha Hayde and Registered Dietitian Emily Bridges walk you through some basic kitchen skills and nutrition information to level up your culinary confidence. Learn and practice techniques using simple recipes that will make you more comfortable in the kitchen.
Schedule:
• June 11, 1pm EST - Harvard's Healthy Eating Plate and Legumes 101 with RD Emily (Featured recipe:...
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