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2021 Jan 27

Expanding Your Career Network

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Online

Building a broad and strong career network takes strategy and skill.  During this session we’ll explore ways to expand your career network virtually and in person.

Objectives

  • Define a strong career network
  • Use tools and strategies to expand your network virtually.  
  • Set concrete networking goals 

Audience: Benefit Eligible Employees 

Pre-Requisite: None

Cost: None

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2021 Apr 07

Building Resilience into Your Career

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Online

In today’s ever-changing work landscape, it is important to consider the resiliency of your career.  During this session we’ll explore the skills and knowledge that you can leverage when the needs of the workplace change.  We’ll also address the value of on-going skill development and relationship-building.

Objectives

  • Identify the qualities, skills, and knowledge that help create career resiliency.
  • Pinpoint specific skill development resources and tools
  • Share and coach with peers best practices for...
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2021 Feb 11

Building Resilience into Your Career

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Online

In today’s ever-changing work landscape, it is important to consider the resiliency of your career.  During this session we’ll explore the skills and knowledge that you can leverage when the needs of the workplace change.  We’ll also address the value of on-going skill development and relationship-building.

Objectives

  • Identify the qualities, skills, and knowledge that help create career resiliency.
  • Pinpoint specific skill development resources and tools
  • Share and coach with peers best practices for...
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2021 Jan 21

Art Talk Live: Setting the Fans Afloat

2:00pm to 2:30pm

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Online

Exhibition designer Elie Glyn and production specialist Sean Lunsford will explain the creative process behind the planning and installation of a display of framed fans by Suzuki Kiitsu, featured in the special exhibition Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection.

Led by:
Elie Glyn, Assistant Director for Exhibitions, Collections Management
Sean Lunsford, Exhibition Production Specialist,...

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2020 Dec 17

Art Talk Live: Erased!

2:00pm to 2:30pm

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Online

Public images of rulers serve as potent symbols of power and propaganda. In ancient Rome, tyrannical emperors were deposed and assassinated, their likenesses defaced by angry citizens and sometimes by official decree.

This talk is part of a series investigating power dynamics in artworks across the collections. Considering intersections of art and power, our curatorial team discusses how artists engage with social and political crises, use art to upset systems of power, and imagine more equitable futures.

Led by:
Amy Brauer, Curator of the...

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2020 Dec 16

Composing with Collections: A Concert by Students of Music 4

7:00pm to 8:00pm

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Online

Join us for the premiere of art-inspired compositions by Harvard students!

This semester, students from Professor Yvette Jackson’s Introduction to Composition course (Music 4) virtually explored the Harvard Art Museums collections to complete their final assignment: composing an original piece of music inspired by a work of art.

This special online premiere will feature an introduction from Professor Jackson and short presentations by the student composers about their creative process. Each composition will then be brought to life by the ...

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2021 Jan 14

Art Talk Live: Ben Shahn and Folk Music

2:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Online

During the Great Depression, artist Ben Shahn produced hundreds of photographs while working for the Farm Security Administration. Among his most common subjects were musicians. In this talk, curatorial fellow Kappy Mintie will examine Shahn’s interest in folk music in the context of concurrent government efforts to record this important strand of American music.

Led by:
Katherine “Kappy” Mintie, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art

This talk will take place online via Zoom...

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2020 Dec 10

Harvard Neighbors Speaker Event: "The Economist as Detective"

7:00pm

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Online

Professor Goldin is an economic historian and a labor economist and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. Her research covers a wide range of topics including the female labor force, immigration, income inequality, technological change, education, and the economic gender gap.

Harvard Neighbors is a volunteer and membership organization that for over 120 years has worked to create a sense of community for the members of this large University. Our mission is to enrich the lives of members of the Harvard community through...

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2020 Dec 09

The Future of Education

3:00pm to 4:00pm

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Online

As we look ahead to a post-pandemic world, with educational disparities laid bare by COVID-19, the Harvard Graduate School of Education ends its Centennial year by asking: What will education look like five years from now? What about 25 years from now? What are the innovations — fueled by the pandemic’s necessities, or powered by the world’s push for racial justice and equal access — that will take us forward? What should we do now to work toward that future we want to build? And what factors, both positive and challenging, will help to determine that future?

Join HGSE Dean...

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2020 Dec 08

The Future of COVID-19 Epidemiology

4:00pm to 5:15pm

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Online

To what extent is our future with COVID-19 knowable? As new information about the transmission, demographics, and treatment of COVID-19 emerge, epidemiologists continue to address complex data and generate new predictive models to better understand the dynamics of the virus. Join leading epidemiologists for a panel discussion as they assess the current and future state of the epidemic.

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2020 Dec 07

Human Bridges in the Study of Race, Religion, Art, and Politics with K. Healan Gaston & Steven Harris

5:00pm to 6:00pm

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This talk will explore teaching about difference in a Divinity School course that looks at connections between the Harlem Renaissance and Mexican Modernism during the 1920s and 1930s. Using holiday-themed examples and compelling visual images, we will juxtapose the lives and works of two important figures in the course: Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican-born caricaturist who spent most of his life in New York City illustrating for Harlem Renaissance texts and popular magazines, and Elizabeth Catlett, a U.S.-born Black sculptor and printmaker who spent her life in Mexico where she created...

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2020 Dec 03

Design Impact: Straight-Up Talk: Homelessness – Ethics / Policy / Action

11:00am to 3:00pm

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Online

Design Impact Vol. 2: Straight-Up Talk: Homelessness – Ethics / Policy / Action, sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council, will be a direct, real-talk dialogue on homelessness in the United States that explores the myriad causes of rising homelessness and innovative solutions to eradicate it. It will consist of 3 distinct panels followed by a summary dialogue. The panels will be prefaced by keynote remarks from Binyamin Appelbaum, lead writer on business and economics for the Editorial Board of The New York Times.

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