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 14
Unleashing the Potential of Those You Lead
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Business School
Join the Harvard Business School for a conversation with Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You.
Leadership isn't easy. It takes grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.
Frances Frei argues that this...
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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 Aug 15
Visit an Artist and Demonstration - Christina Erives
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
This week, we visit the studio of sculptor Christina Erives! Christina believes that ceramics as material has permanence, it is one of the ways we were able to learn about ancient...
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2020 Aug 15
Visit an Artist and Demonstration: Delanie Wise
10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
Time for tea! Teapots are the focus during this very special 2-hour event with Delanie Wise from her home studio just outside of Boston. Delanie will demonstrate her very special technique of combining both hand built and thrown forms to create...
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2020 Aug 14
Visit an Artist - Salvador Jiménez-Flores
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a discussion about their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
This week we travel to Chicago to visit former Harvard Ceramics Program Artist-in-Residence (2015-2017) Salvador Jiménez-Flores. We are looking forward to catching up with...
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2020 Aug 07
Visit an Artist and Demonstration - Paul Andrew Wandless
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
We are thrilled to travel to Chicago to visit multi-media artist, author and educator Paul Andrew Wandless. Our discussion will be around materiality and the...
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2020 Aug 04
Book Talk: Gish Jen
4:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
Gish Jen ’77, BI ’87, RI ’02, author of The Resisters (Knopf, 2020)
Reading will be followed by discussion with Margot Livesey RI ’13, a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of eight novels, including, most recently, Mercury (Harper, 2016). The event will also feature...
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2020 Aug 01
Visit an Artist Surface Special with Suze Lindsay
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
We had a wonderful visit with Suze Lindsay in Session 1 and many of you reached out for a second visit to focus on surface! Once again, we travel to the beautiful mountains of North Carolina to visit the one and only ...
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2020 Jul 31
Visit an Artist - Linda Lopez
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
This week we will visit the studio of prolific sculptor and Assistant Professor of Art, Ceramics and Foundations at University of Arkansas Linda Lopez!
Cost:...
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2020 Jul 24
Visit an Artist and Demonstration - Nicki Green
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
During this 2-hour event, we will travel to San Francisco to the studio of Nicki Green. Nicki will be featured soon at...
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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 Jul 15
Creative Coping for Older Adults during COVID-19: How to Stay Safe and Sane
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on everyone, especially "at-risk" groups, such as older adults. Sheltering in place orders and public health mandates have greatly limited the degree to which older adults can interact with their family or friends and reduced their involvement in activities within the community. These restrictions can lead to feelings of stress, sadness, and loneliness.
The aim of this forum is to discuss the effects of the pandemic on older adults and to offer tips on how older adults can stay mentally and physically healthy during this unique time...
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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 17
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Online Event
Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet empire, the West faces a new era of East-West tensions. Any vision of a modern Russia integrated into the world economy and aligned in peaceful partnership with a reunited Europe has abruptly vanished. Two opposing narratives vie to explain the strategic future of Europe, one geopolitical and one economic, and both center on the same resource: natural gas. In The Bridge, Thane Gustafson, an expert on Russian oil and gas, argues that the political rivalries that capture the lions share of media attention...
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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 08
When “Stay at Home” Isn’t Safe: Domestic Violence During COVID-19
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Although communities have been asked to stay home to stay safe, for many domestic violence victims, home can be a dangerous place. Spikes in intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse have been noted across the country and around the world since the onset of the COVID-19 stay-at-home directives as victims and witnesses of IPV and child abuse find themselves isolated within their homes and confronted with difficult decisions about when and how to seek care or shelter. In this Radcliffe webinar, scholars, public officials, community activists, and...
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2020 Jun 04
Democracy, Pandemic, and How We Move Forward
7:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join the Ash Center for a International Festival of Arts and Ideas event. Former Connecticut Secretary of State Miles Rapoport will moderate a conversation with political commentator and author Heather McGhee, political activist and CEO of Voto Latino María Teresa Kumar, and political scholar Archon Fung, all of whom have spent their lives working to strengthen our democracy. Together they will explore the question: Where do we go from here?
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