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2020 Jul 23

Superheroes and Moral Leadership: What Costumed Avengers Can Teach Us About Power and Responsibility with Chris Robichaud

7:00pm to 8:00pm

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This session will use superhero narratives to explore some positive and negative lessons in moral leadership that these stories offer us. It will also examine several broad topics in ethics through a superhero lens. For instance, was the Joker correct in The Dark Knight when he claims that our morals are really just "a bad joke dropped at the first sign of trouble"? In the last panel of Amazing Fantasy 15, which introduces us to Spider-Man, Stan Lee writes that "in this world, with great power there must also come--great responsibility!" What is the exact link between the two? These...

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2020 Jul 22

Fast Forum with Tom Steyer

6:00pm to 6:30pm

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On Wednesday, July 22nd at 6pm ET climate activist, NextGen America Founder, and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer joins the IOP to reflect on his experiences in the presidential primary, work to combat climate change, and commitment to philanthropic causes.

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2020 Jul 22

HGSE Education Now: What “Reopening” Means for Early Education

3:00pm to 3:30pm

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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?

Join us on Wednesday 7/22 at 3 PM ET for “What ‘Reopening’ Means for Early Education,” an event in collaboration with HGSE’s Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative. HGSE’s Nonie Lesaux, co-director of the Zaentz initiative, will be joined by Samantha Aigner...

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2020 Jul 22

The Power of Art: Black Artists Respond to Pandemic, Demands for Racial Justice, and Threats to Democracy

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Art has the power to provoke, inspire, inform, and force new ways of thinking - particularly in times of crisis. Over the last few years, artists have been engaged in resistance movements, encouraging political participation through their art, and calling attention to issues and tragic events that confront us in novel and affecting ways.

Join us for a discussion on how artists, particularly artists of color, are responding to the current fight for racial justice in the midst of a global pandemic. We will explore how they are expressing what is happening in creative ways that...

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2020 Jul 20

What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?

7:00pm to 8:00pm

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Does everybody know what they’re going into right out of college? We get the idea that by choosing a college, and choosing a major course of study while in college, we are choosing a career—a life-long career—as though we know at age or 18 or 20 what it is we’ll be excited about doing in our 30s and 40s—even our 80s. But does anybody really know that?

Hear what Harvard faculty across the arts, sciences, and social sciences have to say in response to the question, “is there a right way to choose, and pursue, a career?” The panel will consider the relationship between college,...

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2020 Jul 29

Virtual "Fix a Flat" Workshop

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Are you ready to take your bike out? As Massachusetts is beginning to ease restrictions, CommuterChoice is providing some more at-home activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please remember to practice your local social distancing guidelines if you are going out for a walk, bike or jog.

The dreaded "flat tire" is one of the most common problems faced when out on a bike ride. But with a little know-how and the right tools you can fix your own flat and keep rolling to make it home safe and sound. On this webinar we'll cover the basics of changing out your tires and tubes, and...

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2020 Jul 14

HKS Summer Teach-In

6:00pm to 7:00pm

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The United States is currently engaged in a time of rebirth, a “great awakening.” Citizens across the world are leading the charge in critical mass against the intolerance of racial injustice. Ignited by the murder of George Floyd, champions from every class, ethnicity, religion and age, as well as leaders in activism, grassroots organizers, and private and public industries are emerging in power and growing in strength. They are bound by their purpose—to hold our country accountable to the standards of what it truly means to be a united nation of one and to demonstrate that Black lives...

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2020 Jul 13

Is Now the Time to Build a Better System? K–12 Education and Systemic Racism in the Era of COVID-19

2:00pm to 3:00pm

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The current coronavirus crisis has illuminated long-standing inequities in US education, conditions that have been well-documented for decades but remained unrecognized by many until now.

As public schools and districts plan for the 2020–2021 school year and beyond, should their primary aim be to recover what they have lost, returning to a pre-COVID baseline? Or is now the time to reinvent our public educational systems to establish a new, more equitable baseline? Can and should we attempt such reform during the continuing political, health, and economic crises? If not now,...

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2020 Jul 13

Equity and Social Justice Webinar - COVID-19 and Its Impact on Latinx Communities

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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The Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School is hosting an Equity and Social Justice event of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Latinx Communities. COVID-19 continues to impact communities of color disproportionately with higher burdens of disease and mortality rates. This webinar will explore the impact of health inequities in COVID19 and the interventions needed to support Latinx communities.

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2020 Jul 15

Biking and Birding with a Mission

6:00pm to 7:00pm

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Join us for a live conversation with Scott V. Edwards, Professor in Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Since June 6, Professor Edwards has been pedaling across the United States to fulfill a long-held wish to traverse the country on a bicycle, and to also raise awareness for #BlackBirdersWeek and Black Lives Matter. In this program, he discusses the motivations for his journey, what he has learned along the way, and the similarities between cycling and doing science.

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2020 Jul 13

Black America and COVID-19: Documenting The Impact

6:30pm to 8:00pm

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Join us for the launch of The Black America and COVID-19 Library Guide. This library guide documents the contemporary effects of COVID-19 on the Black community as it is tied to the historical legacy of race in America.

This guide is designed to assist students, faculty, staff, and researchers in exploring this topic from multiple social and cultural perspectives as a place to begin inquiry. Join the launch event to hear from black leaders in education, business, healthcare, and the arts as they describe the impact of COVID-19 on their respective fields. This guide is open...

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