Events

    2022 Feb 16

    Towards Health Equity: Dismantling Racist Barriers for Black Healthcare Students

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School—Online

    Black students have played a pivotal role in pioneering programs and in pushing their institutions to act in ways that move towards health equity. This student-led session will illuminate diverse perspectives, building from understanding history, about ways institutions can enact a clear “action agenda”, including concrete opportunities and responsibilities, through which everyone concerned about these issues can see ways to promote action to accelerate long-overdue progress.

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    2022 Feb 16

    Cohort Effects and Adolescent Mental Health Trends

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online

    Adolescent mental health in the United Stated has shown unprecedent changes over recent years. A key issue in attempting to understand trends over time in in adolescent’s mental health symptoms is the extent to which trends reflect age, period, or cohort effects. Dr. Katherine Keyes will join us in the next Population Mental Health forum to discuss whether mental health problems in adolescents are really on in the increase, drawing on her important research in this area.

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    2022 Feb 15

    Safe, Sacred, Free: Queer Movements and Religious Spaces

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard—Online

    Heather R. White, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Gender and Queer Studies and 2021-22 Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate, will deliver the lecture, "Safe, Sacred, Free: Queer Movements and Religious Spaces."

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    2022 Feb 15

    Incarceration and its Impact on Health

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    The Equity and Social Justice (ESJ) is a series of lectures and dialogues which targets the Harvard Longwood community as well as communities in the greater Boston area. The series provides context to the historical, current, and future state of equity and social justice in health and health care, and engages and equips participants with tools to take action. ESJ events focus on four areas: (1) History and Context, (2) Culture and Environment, (3) Health Disparities, and (4) Leadership and Skills Development.

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    2022 Feb 11

    Should Alexa Diagnose Alzheimer’s?: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online

    Technology is now part of our lives in ways that were not possible only 10-20 years ago. Smart devices, like watches, phones, and speakers, can gather vast amounts of information about their users, often without the user’s knowledge or consent. As technology continues to improve, many of these devices may also be leveraged to serve diagnostic functions. Technologies such as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant can ambiently and continually monitor a variety of information about an individual’s location, voice, and movement. As this technology merges with wearables, such as the Apple...

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    2022 Feb 09

    Educated in a White Space: African American Graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1925

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School—Online

    During the first seventy-five years, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania graduated eighteen African American women – more than any other predominantly white medical school. This talk will examine the lives and careers of these “sisters of a darker race” who encountered racial and sexual discrimination as they demonstrated that medicine was Black women’s work.

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    2022 Feb 08

    Black Medical Illustrations and Their Importance in Medicine

    1:00pm to 2:15pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Countway Library of Medicine—Online

    Join Harvard Countway Library to hear from Forbes-featured medical illustrator Chidiebere Ibe as he discusses his work, how he taught himself to draw Black medical illustrations, and why diversity and representation in medical texts is so important.

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    2022 Feb 07

    Memento: Virtual Panel Discussion

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard—Online

    Christopher Nolan's film Memento depicts a character (Leonard Shelby) who seeks to find the man he believes murdered his wife in a violent attack that also left Leonard with an inability to remember recent events - he cannot recall who he has met just a few minutes earlier, or what has just been said in a conversation with them. Yet Leonard can recall what happened before the attack and remembers how to perform learned skills such as driving a car or using a camera.

    Memento raises several important questions about memory: What different kinds of memory are...

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    2021 Nov 29

    The Climate of Community

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker for this community tea ceremony is Brian Kirbis of Theasophie.

    Tea Master Brian Kirbis, who will open each of our sessions with a tea pouring to set a tone of well-being and attention, will take us through a formal tea ceremony. As a global community online, we will be able to sit and sip in collective silence to contemplate all we have heard and taken into our minds during these sessions....

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    2021 Nov 18

    Beyond COP26: Next Steps in the Fight Against Climate Change

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Chan School of Public Health—Online

    Scientists, health leaders, and politicians alike have described COP26 as our last, best chance to slow global warming and stave off some of the worst health effects of climate change. But the political environment remains fraught. And it’s unclear how rhetoric will translate into action.

    Our expert panel brings together leading voices in the fight against climate change, fresh from the halls of the COP26 Summit. They’ll talk through key outcomes and next steps. Bring questions!

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    2021 Nov 13

    Harvard Dance Center Showing: Initiation – In Love Solidarity

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Dance Center—Online or in-person

    Initiation – In Love Solidarity is a choreographic narrative exploring the embodiment of the Middle Passage, and the resilience and evolving identities of women in the African diaspora. A film component of the work was created at historic sites in New England related to the transatlantic slave trade and emancipation. The imagery of the cowrie shell is present throughout, chosen as an emblem of the transformative identity of the Black female body.

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    2021 Nov 10

    Where Does Our Leftover Food Go? A Conversation About Food Recovery at Harvard

    4:30pm

    Location: 

    Food Literacy Project—Online

    Every day, Harvard Dining Services operates more than a dozen dining halls at Harvard College, and every day, a certain amount of hot food goes untouched. What happens to this leftover food? Join us for a discussion with Sasha Purpura, Executive Director at local non-profit, Food for Free, and Crista Martin, Director for Strategic Initiatives and Communications at HUDS. Learn more about what happens to leftover food in dining halls, how food insecurity affects the local community, and how Harvard students can reduce food waste and combat food insecurity.

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    2021 Nov 08

    The Climate of Resistance

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speakers are Chloe Aridjis, award-winning novelist, Sea Monsters (2020) and organizer for Writers Rebel, and Wanjira Mathai, Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute.

    Activists Aridjis and Mathai are powerful, fierce, compassionate leaders in the global environmental movement. A writer and an organizer, they are also the daughters of iconic conservation heroes: Homero Aridjis,...

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    2021 Oct 26

    COVID-19, Science, and the Media: Lessons Learned Reporting on the Pandemic

    12:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School—Online

    In January 2020, reports began to circulate internationally of a pneumonia-like illness spreading in China. Little was known about the novel pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, at that time.

    As scientists and public health experts worked to understand the virus, reporters worked to communicate to the public the state of the knowledge — an ever-shifting ground.

    From the transmission debate, to the origins investigation, to changes in mask guidance, to vaccine safety...

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    2021 Oct 22

    Decoding AI: The Science, Policies, Applications, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    10:00am to 4:20pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly permeating many facets of our lives, raising both hope and concern about possibilities for our future. AI is transforming domains as disparate as science, medicine, commerce, government, law, the military, and the arts, and in doing so, it is forcing us to grapple with practical, political, and philosophical questions about humans and the nature of human interaction. The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Science Symposium, featuring speakers from disparate disciplines and industries, will examine AI, its impact, and its ethics by exploring current and...

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    2021 Oct 20

    The Healing Power of Friendships and Relationships

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online

    The pandemic has caused many of us to recognize the power of relationships—for ourselves, and for our children. Have your children's friendships changed—or suffered? Are your students finding it hard to re-ignite their stalled connections? How can schools help to foster friendship—and prioritize strong relationships and a sense of belonging for every student? And what are the lessons we can take with us into our own adult lives?

    Join us as we explore the sustaining power of friendships and relationships. Let's identify the ways in which relationships give us strength, help us...

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    2021 Oct 18

    The Climate of Compassion for All Beings

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker is Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Harvard Divinity School.

    We are not the only species that lives and loves and grieves on this planet. Janet Gyatso will focus on the phenomenology of being not just among humans but with all other sentient beings. How we can cultivate the capacity to have such experiences, in ways...

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    2021 Oct 07

    Waymaking Women in Times of Crisis: Showing Up for Community Care

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard—Online

    Please join the Committee on the Concerns of Women (CCW) in a conversation about how to manage the burnout and grief from the multiple crises we find ourselves living through. What can we do from a distance to care for ourselves and each other? How we can foster a space for community care in moments that are fraught and exhausting?

    We will convene a panel of Harvard experts in international humanitarian crises to share their care strategies with us. Moderated by Dr. Natascha Saunders of the Harvard Kennedy School, the panel will include Dr. Jocelyn Kelly of the Harvard...

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    2021 Oct 04

    The Climate of Relationships and Intersectionality

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speakers are climate activist Morgan Curtis, MDiv '24, and brontë velez, Black-latinx transdisciplinary artist.

    Morgan Curtis and brontë velez will discuss the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and climate collapse, and how seeing the world whole through the lens of relationships creates communities of care rather than conflict. They will consider what reparations might look like on behalf...

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