2019 Oct 29
Women in Sports, Leadership, and Empowerment
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston
Despite the improvements over the years in reaching greater gender equity, women still face numerous obstacles. Sports provide women with an amazing opportunity to learn to navigate and overcome these obstacles. Join us for an engaging discussion which will cover strategies to handle adversity and touch on topics such as leadership, confidence, and taking initiative to make positive changes in your career and beyond.
Learn from these leaders in sports, who will share the barriers they’ve overcome and the lessons they’ve learned from sports to inspire and empower women of today...
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2019 Oct 22
Lecture: “The Challenge of Applying Theory to Planning Practice”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a public lecture with Susan Fainstein, Sai Balakrishnan, and Cuz Potter. They will discuss the challenges of applying theory to urban planning practice.
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2019 Sep 19
Jeanne S. Hall Lecture and Reception: Language is Access
5:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
For young African American children growing up in poverty, access to social and educational opportunities can be impeded by the interaction between educational assessments, poverty, and dialectal variation. Dr. Washington's research has demonstrated that the growth of literacy skills, both reading and writing, are impacted in major ways. Washington will discuss how current educational policy combined with the impact of these sociocultural variables has influenced both research and practice.

Following the lecture will be an award presentation of the Jeanne S. Chall Doctoral Student...
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2019 Sep 17
Sarah Whiting and K. Michael Hays: A Conversation
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, is well-known in the academy and the design professions. This lecture will introduce her in a more informal and personal way, inviting the GSD community to sit in on a conversation with her long-time friend and colleague, Michael Hays. They will cover topics ranging from her own history to a broader discussion about contemporary design and design education.
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2019 Sep 16
The End of the World as We Know It? Russia and Ukraine Confront and Challenge Change
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South Building, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
The year 2019 has not turned out as expected for the political elite in Russia and Ukraine. Local elections in Russia have triggered stubborn street protests set amidst falling living standards. In Ukraine, political neophyte and comedian Zelensky has been rapidly consolidating power—though whether he can resolve Ukraine’s numerous political, economic, and geopolitical problems remains to be seen.
Join the Davis Center as Harvard’s top specialists on Russia and Ukraine discuss contemporary developments in Eurasia and their import for the rest of the world.
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2019 Sep 10
Into a Daybreak: Eve Ewing and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on Thinking and Writing through Black Feminism
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
Writer and sociologist Eve L. Ewing creates work in multiple genres and forms: academic writing and scholarship, teaching, cultural organizing, poetry, comic books, and fiction. But one thing that unites all of her works is the underlying thread of black feminism.
In this Askwith Forum, Ewing and her former doctoral advisor, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, discuss the influence of black feminist ideas on Ewing’s work in multiple arenas and consider the ways all of us might learn, grow, care for ourselves and each other, and challenge systems of power through the radical potential of...
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2019 May 22
Doing Business with Government Agencies and Higher Education
9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Harvard Ed Portal for an information session 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. This free information session is presented in partnership with Harvard Strategic Procurement and the City of Boston Small Business Administration office.
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2019 May 08
The Prescription Drug Cost Dilemma: Perspectives from Harvard Faculty
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
What is the reason behind the rising costs of pharmaceuticals and prescription drugs? How does drug approval and pricing differ internationally? The new HarvardX course, "The FDA and Prescription Drugs", explores the rules and regulations that govern the pricing, marketing, and safety monitoring of approved prescription drugs.
Join the Harvard Ed Portal and the Harvard faculty behind the HarvardX course, Jonathan Darrow, Ameet Sarpatwari, and Ariel Stern, for an engaging panel discussion about the prescription drug market. The panel will be moderated by Michael Sinha.
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2019 Apr 28
Census Challenge! Biodiversity Sampling
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
North Woods, Arnold Arboretum, Boston
Arnold Arboretum Staff and Volunteers
This is part of the new Science in Our Park Series. Come to the Arnold Arboretum and be a scientist! Get your hands onto scientific tools, use your observation skills and share your findings with others.
Census Challenge will test your categorizing and observational skills. Join us in the North Woods and help us catalog the diversity of living organisms found in a small area. You will be surprised!
One adult may bring a maximum of three children; suitable for children ages five and up. This...
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2019 Apr 25
Spring 2019 Harvard-Allston Public Realm Flexible Fund
Thu Apr 25 (All day) to Fri May 10 (All day)
Applications are now being accepted for the Harvard Allston Public Realm Flexible Fund. Applications are encouraged from public entities and non-profits interested in implementing projects on public property in conjunction with public agencies.
The Harvard Allston Public Realm Flexible Fund supports projects that enhance the public realm and for which public sources of financing may be unavailable or inadequate. Projects may include improvements in public parks and open space, neighborhood beautification, streetscape improvements, public safety projects, and public art,...
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2019 Apr 24
Lives Still in Limbo: UnDACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Harvard Ed Portal and Professor Roberto Gonzales, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for a faculty speaker presentation, Lives Still in Limbo: UnDACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures.
Gonzales’ talk will draw from a seven-year national study assessing the impact of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. His findings have important implications for immigration policy and educational and community practice.
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2019 Apr 18
Meet a Scientist at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Come see the world through the eyes of a scientist and explore what research reveals about life and our planet. Graduate students from the departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Human Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University will share their research through hands-on activities in the museum galleries. This program is designed to actively engage families in learning more about science and exciting new discoveries in our natural world.
Note: Regular museum admission rates apply....
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2019 Apr 12
First Projects: An Unplugged Conversation
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Join First Projects, a candid roundtable conversation with leading designers hosted by the Practice Platform. Unplugged and off-the-record, designers will share an inside glimpse into the origins of practice, revealing stories behind first projects and the seminal efforts that launch remarkable careers.
This unique Beer & Dogs event, co-sponsored by the GSD Alumni Council and the Practice Platform, will not be broadcast or recorded.
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2019 Apr 09
Advanced Film Screening: The Pursuit
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Spangler Auditorium, Harvard Business School, Batten Way, Boston
Please join the Harvard Business School Free Enterprise Club for an exclusive advance screening of the upcoming film The Pursuit. The film premieres in cities across America the week of April 28th, however we are pleased to provide you with an advance showing.
The Pursuit features Arthur Brooks as he crosses three continents in search of the secrets to a happier, more prosperous world, starting with those at the margins of society.
This screening will include an introduction and remarks by AEI President Arthur Brooks. Snacks and refreshments will be provided...
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2019 Apr 06
Arboretum for Educators
9:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Arboretum for Educators monthly explorations are a professional development opportunity for elementary and middle school teachers to introduce the Arboretum landscape as an outdoor classroom. Participants learn about specific hands-on life science topics that may be used or adapted by teachers for their own classrooms and outdoor spaces. Meet and network with other like-minded educators, and engage in life science learning.
April 6: What are Flowers? Form and Function Through Dissections
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2019 Mar 29
Conference: Unsettled Citizens
9:00am
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Populism, global crisis, and modernity have rendered citizenship an ever-more fluid and troubled concept. This conference will explore all of these themes. In the first panel, we will debate the concept of economic citizenship, asking to what extent citizenship can be bought, constituted, or even lost by means of variation in wealth. In a second panel on citizenship and its gatekeepers, our discussion will explore how states, tribes, and other communities regulate belonging. And in the third panel, we will examine how migration and cross-border identity challenge the concept of...
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2019 Mar 07
International Women’s Day Lecture: Demita Frazier
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
A personal exploration of the impact the city landscape of the city of Chicago had on one precocious and observant African American midcentury woman’s aesthetic evolution. This talk, designed to raise questions without an expectation of finding answers, will hopefully provide the Harvard Graduate School of Design community with the opportunity to reflect on who architecture is designed for, toward what purpose, and the resulting impacts on communities & how they interact with the built environment.
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2019 Feb 10
Exploring Culture Together: Olives! (Afternoon Session)
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Olive fruit and oil have been used for more than 6,000 years as much more than food. In this active experience led by a museum educator, parents and kids will discover the importance of olives in ancient Israel. Families will explore the Houses of Ancient Israel exhibit, craft working olive-oil saucer lamps to take home, handle artifacts, and crown themselves winners in a gallery game with victory wreaths. End the program with an optional olive taste test of products provided by Salt & Olive (Harvard Square).
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2019 Feb 10
Exploring Culture Together: Olives! (Morning Session)
10:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Olive fruit and oil have been used for more than 6,000 years as much more than food. In this active experience led by a museum educator, parents and kids will discover the importance of olives in ancient Israel. Families will explore the Houses of Ancient Israel exhibit, craft working olive-oil saucer lamps to take home, handle artifacts, and crown themselves winners in a gallery game with victory wreaths. End the program with an optional olive taste test of products provided by Salt & Olive (Harvard Square).
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2019 Feb 08
Personal Statement: Film Screening & Panel
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA
Personal Statement is a documentary film about three high school seniors determined to help their entire classes get to college -- they served as college counselors to...
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