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    2018 Sep 29

    Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family

    Repeats every day until Sun Mar 31 2019 .
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    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

    In the 1950s, the Cambridge-based Marshall family launched a groundbreaking effort to document the rapidly changing lives of Kalahari hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa. Explore the complex photographic history and the power of images to create and break stereotypes.

    Free for Massachusetts residents every Sunday morning (year-round) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and on Wednesdays from 3:00 pm...

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    2018 Sep 27

    Visual Storytelling, Visual Communication

    4:15pm

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    Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

    We rely on our eyes like never before: to navigate not only the physical world, but also the narrative and information landscapes we increasingly inhabit. In a fast-moving cascade of images and ideas, the author and cartoonist Scott McCloud shares why there are no neutral visual decisions, why all pictures are words, and why an era of misinformation calls for a new approach to visual education.

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    2018 Sep 19

    The Open University’s Course A305 and the Future of Architecture Education

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

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    Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138

    Taking The Open University's Course A305 as a starting point, this panel discussion will interrogate the role of online learning in the future of architecture education. Participants include Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays,...

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    2018 Sep 13

    Feminisms Now!

    4:15pm

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    Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

    What do millennial feminists want? This panel invites rising artists, thinkers, and organizers to share their visions of gender equality for the 21st century. Panelists will reflect on their art and activism in the service of intersecting and sometimes competing feminisms. They’ll also discuss the ways they do—and don’t—engage the legacy of their 19th- and 20th-century foremothers as they work to move society forward.

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    2018 Sep 08

    Learn to Observe: Tree Spotter Citizen Science

    12:30pm to 3:30pm

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    Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

    If you enjoy learning about plants and their unique characteristics, you can contribute to science as a participant in our Tree Spotters program. This citizen science project opens a window into the Arboretum's phenology: the timing of natural events, such as the leafing out and flowering of trees in the spring and changing foliage colors in the...

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    2018 Sep 06

    Translating Research for Better Policy

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

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    Leadership Studio, 10th floor Kresge Building, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA

    Join us for the first “Voices in Leadership” event of the fall semester, featuring Dr. Patricia García, current Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow and former Minister of Health of Peru. During her appointment as Minister, she introduced new public health policies in sexual and reproductive health, HPV vaccination, food labelling, cervical cancer, electronic medical records, telemedicine etc. Prior, Dr. García served as Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH (2011-2016), and as chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health (2006-2008). She will be interviewed by Dr. Rifat Atun....

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    2018 Jun 26

    Doing Business with Government and Higher Ed Partners

    9:30am to 12:00pm

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    Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

    This information session is designed for vendors, especially small businesses and entrepreneurs, interested in learning how to do business with Harvard University, federal, state, and local government agencies. The workshop includes a summary of their goods and services procurement processes and an overview of some of their purchasing programs and services.

    Panelists include:

    • Gladymar Parziale, Senior Advisor, Supplier Development and Diversity, Harvard University
    • Dan Hart, Sourcing Manager, Harvard University
    • Prayas...
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    2018 Feb 23

    Keys to Responsible Leadership in Troubling Times

    1:40pm

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    Livestream: hsph.me/Jenkins-Scott
    Join us for the next “Voices in Leadership” event of the Spring semester, featuring Jackie Jenkins-Scott, 13thPresident of Wheelock College. Under Jenkins-Scott’s leadership, Wheelock strengthened its core undergraduate and graduate academic programs, enhanced the undergraduate experience, elevated community and civic engagement projects, and expanded the College’s reach internationally. A renewed interest in public policy has improved the reputation and influence of the College. She emphasized cross disciplinary collaboration and community partnerships. Ms. Jenkins-Scott... Read more about Keys to Responsible Leadership in Troubling Times

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