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2020 Nov 23

Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant

12:30pm to 1:30pm

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Writing in the vibrant voice of “A Russian Immigrant” and employing a rich variety of poetic forms, award-winning author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer offers thirty-six interconnected poems about the impact of election-year politics and COVID-19 on American society. Through a combination of biting satire and piercing lyricism, Of Politics and Pandemics delivers a translingual poetic manifesto of despair, hope, love, and loss.

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Maxim D. Shrayer, Director, Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center; Professor of Russian, English,...

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2020 Nov 19

Make Us Great Again: The Causes and Consequences of Declinism in Great Powers

12:15pm to 2:00pm

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Speaker: Robert Ralston, Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow, International Security Program

This seminar explores the causes and consequences of declinism in great powers. Why does the topic of the nation's international decline emerge in the political discourse of great powers? Why do leaders choose to focus on the nation's decline during some periods and not others? What are the foreign policy consequences of such declinist discourse? After outlining a theory of declinism's emergence and its consequences, this seminar focuses on 1970s Britain, the emergence of...

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2020 Nov 18

Antiracism in Higher Education: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi

4:30pm to 5:30pm

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Join us for a discussion about antiracism in higher education with Ibram X. Kendi, the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller "How to Be an Antiracist."

Kendi, currently the Francis B. Cashin Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be joined in conversation by Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana, after which they will explore questions posed by current Harvard College students....

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2020 Nov 18

Dorion Sagan, “Dissipative Spacescapes and Living Buildings: Four Billion Years of Architectonic Earth”

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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As astronauts have sublimely recognized, Earth is a place – indeed, one that disappears when, orbiting, they pass to its “dark side” and it becomes a black circle where there are no stars. Tracing the amazing more-than-human distributed architectonics of Earth, Dorion Sagan does his own fly-by of the history of this extraordinary planet, not built so much as grown, from sunloving bacterial skyscrapers known as stromatolites to the living buildings we are.

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2020 Nov 17

Roundtable: Implications of the 2020 Elections

5:00pm to 6:30pm

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Five experts in American politics discuss the implications of the outcome of the 2020 general elections for the United States. How will its results affect government policies? How will the campaign and its results affect American politics?

Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Stephen Ansolabehere, Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies

Ryan Enos, Professor of Government

Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government...

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2020 Nov 23

Managing Diversity: A Conversation with Roger Ferguson- President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA, and Hubert Joly, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at HBS and former CEO of Best Buy

5:30pm

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The “Managing Diversity” speaker series brings together leading scholars and businesspeople in conversations on the Impact of systemic racism in business and in society, the policies and practices that have worked (and that haven’t) to ameliorate racism, and the critical ongoing leadership role that business must play.

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2020 Nov 12

TIAA-CREF Webinar - Responsible Investing: Portfolios with a Purpose

3:00pm

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Make an impact with a social choice. Did you know that responsible investing (RI) enables investors to align their social and environmental principals with their financial goals? Learn the factors that make an investment socially responsible, the history of RI and ways for individuals to incorporate RI into their investment strategy.

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Records Management Office Hours for Retiring Staff

November 9, 2020
Records Management Services is holding special virtual group office hours for Harvard staff who are retiring as part of the 2020 Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Plan. RMS staff will be available to answer your questions about what to do with your records before you leave. These meetings will take place via Zoom. A link will be sent with the confirmation. Learn more. Read more about Records Management Office Hours for Retiring Staff
2020 Nov 13

Food for Thought Seminar European Wine Politics

12:30pm to 1:30pm

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Join CES for this new monthly series which is inspired by the Center’s long tradition of bringing the community together for lunch on Fridays. The series will aim to explore a diverse array of topics relative to food – from European food culture to food’s environmental, social, security and public policy implications and impacts.

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Today, quality wines are produced throughout the globe. At the same time, consumers struggle to find reliable methods to differentiate wine quality. Why, then, do French producers have a singular dominance on the premium wine market...

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2020 Nov 12

Does Food Have a Gender?

6:00pm to 7:00pm

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Food is an indispensable part of culture and a symbol of profound social and political realities. Using Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own as a jumping point, Barbara Haber and Lydia Shire will discuss the connections among culinary history, women’s history, and social history, highlighting how food and cooking have been—and continue to be used—to mark gender roles. Barbara Haber, Food Historian

Lydia Shire, Chef, Restaurateur, and Entrepreneur

Moderated by Louisa Kasdon, CEO and Founder of Let’s Talk About Food

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2020 Nov 10

Next Gen Success = Harvard Success: Inclusive Practices for Supporting First-Gen, Lower-Income Students In and Beyond the Classroom

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Join members of the Harvard Next Gen Initiative to learn more about their Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund pilot program that consolidates, aligns, and enhances Harvard’s institutional supports for Next Gen student populations (predominantly first-gen, low-income students) in and beyond the classroom. This session presents an overview of the Next Gen student population, pedagogical tools that promote Next Gen Student Success, and how each one of us plays a role in strengthening Harvard’s commitment to inclusive excellence.

Amanda Sharick, PhD, Project Lead for Next Gen...

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2020 Nov 09

A Post-Election Conversation with Gen (Ret.) James Clapper

12:00pm to 1:15pm

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The outcome of the 2020 presidential election will have a lasting impact on critical domestic and national security and intelligence issues. Questions surrounding the use and role of intelligence in combatting climate change, domestic extremism, and pandemic will play an important role in shaping the future of United States national security policy and the nature of the intelligence community itself. At the same time, never has the role of intelligence in formulation of national security policy been more important, or more under attack.

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2020 Dec 05

Sketching and Mindfulness

9:30am to 11:30am

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Taught by professional artist and mindfulness practitioner, Erica Beade, this two-hour online workshop will explore how sketching can be a practice for deepening mindful awareness of our surroundings, and how mindful awareness can enrich our sketching practice by helping us quiet inner voices. Using natural objects as our subject matter, we will explore ways to focus our attention, learn to see more deeply, and record our observations more carefully. Groups will be limited to 10, allowing ample time for individual feedback. All skill levels are welcome.

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2020 Nov 17

Entangled

6:00pm to 8:00pm

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Free Virtual Film Screening and Q&A with Director

Entangled is an award-winning, feature-length film (75 min.) about how climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world’s most endangered species, North America’s most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both. The film chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction, the impacts of those efforts on the lobster industry, and how regulators have struggled to balance the vying interests. Directed by David Abel and Andy Laub—...

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