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2021 Nov 22

The Climate of the Future

7:00pm

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Online

Zoom registration required.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s thriller The Ministry for the Future (2020) is science fiction that reads as hard-edged journalism. With short chapters and a myriad of characters, Robinson creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives on a global climate collapse coming in 2025. Bill McKibben writes “In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel, climate change is the crisis that finally forces mankind to deal with global inequality.” At heart an optimist,...

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2021 Nov 15

The Climate of Attention

7:00pm

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Few have covered the climate crisis as deeply and as thoughtfully as Elizabeth Kolbert. Her work includes Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2007), the Pulitzer-prize winning The Sixth Extinction (2016), and her latest Under The White Sky (2021), “a book about people trying to solve problems caused by people trying to solve problems.” She discusses what “a good Anthropocene” might look like, from managing...

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2021 Nov 08

The Climate of Resistance

7:00pm

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Activists Aridjis and Mathai are powerful, fierce, compassionate leaders in the global environmental movement. A writer and an organizer, they are also the daughters of iconic conservation heroes: Homero Aridjis, a Mexican poet who started Grupo de Cien to save the monarch butterflies in the forests of Michoacán where he was born; and Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Mathai of Kenya, founder of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 51 million trees...

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2021 Nov 01

The Climate of Consciousness

7:00pm

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Online

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Michael Pollan has been educating us with illuminating prose on “the botany of desire” for a very long time. He will discuss his latest book This Is Your Mind On Plants and his landmark bestseller How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Pollan’s call for change, restoration, and resiliency may be the very thing we need to...

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2021 Oct 25

The Climate of Grief

7:00pm

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Online

Zoom registration required.

Victoria Chang writes in her New York Times Notable Book of 2020, Obit, “I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.” After the deaths of her parents, she refused to write elegies; instead, Chang wrote poetic obituaries of the beautiful, broken world that surrounds her (many see them as love letters). How does poetry illuminate this time of...

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2021 Oct 18

The Climate of Compassion for All Beings

7:00pm

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We are not the only species that lives and loves and grieves on this planet. Janet Gyatso will focus on the phenomenology of being not just among humans but with all other sentient beings. How we can cultivate the capacity to have such experiences, in ways that might reform our ethical and spiritual practices? How might compassion and an understanding toward animals heighten and mirror reciprocal relationships toward each other. What does it mean not only to be...

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2021 Oct 26

HRE Waste Reduction at Harvard 101

12:00pm to 12:45pm

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Online

The Harvard Real Estate Sustainable Workplace Initiative invites Harvard employees to join on Tuesday, October 26 at 12 pm ET Waste Reduction at Harvard 101, a webinar about waste reduction, recycling and composting basics. 

Learn from the Harvard Recycling Coordinator Dailey Brannin and Republic Services' Gretchen Carey about how, and if, these services...

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2021 Oct 14

Arboretum Guided Tour

Repeats every month on the 16 of October until Sat Oct 16 2021 . Also includes Thu Oct 21 2021, Thu Oct 28 2021, Sat Oct 30 2021, Thu Nov 04 2021.
10:30am to 12:00pm

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10:30am to 12:00pm

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Arnold Arboretum

Join us for a free, 90-minute walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent. The walk is geared toward adults, and starts from the kiosk in front of the Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway.

This tour is limited to 15 participants. We ask that you only register if you are sure you will attend, and only register one person per form submission. Please bring a mask with you, regardless of vaccination status, in the event that you can't maintain a six foot distance from others.

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2021 Oct 15

15th Annual Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture & Award

6:30pm to 8:00pm

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Online

Join us to honor Mia Mingus, a writer, educator, and trainer for disability and transformative justice.

We are thrilled to announce the honoree for the 15th Annual Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture & Award: Mia Mingus! Join us on Friday, October 15th at 6:30 PM ET to honor her as our 15th awardee and lecturer. The event is free, open to the public, will take place via Zoom webinar, and have an ASL interpreter available.

Mia has been involved in transformative justice work for...

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2021 Oct 11

Indigenous Peoples' Day in Harvard Yard

1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Harvard Yard

Yá'át'ééh, Shé:kon, Sengi tu, Halito, Haho, Waqaa!, Aloha, Aang, Aho, Han, Boozhoo, ᎣᏏᏲ (Osiyo), Hesci, Dá’go’téh, Loloma, Chokma, Deey, Háu, Håfa Adai, Hello! 

Natives at Harvard College and the Harvard University Native American Program would like to invite you to our annual Indigenous Peoples' Day event on Monday, October 11, from 1-4 PM in Harvard Yard. 

We would love to see you there on a drop-in basis as your schedule allows. We will have guest speakers, an open mic, fundraising and more....

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2021 Oct 28

Lost and Found: Community Gathering for Grieving and Hope - Virtual Event

5:00pm to 6:00pm

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Online

“Lost and Found” is a two-event series acknowledging the impacts of ongoing loss and unresolved grief. A space to begin healing as a community, each event includes time for writing, reflection, and storytelling, with opportunities share your stories online at: bit.ly/harvard-lost-found

All members of the Harvard community are welcome. Join us in consideration of all we have lost and what we have found.

Preparation

Bring a notebook and writing tool.

Accessibility

Live captioning is provided for Zoom events. ...

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2021 Oct 26

Lost and Found: Community Gathering for Grieving and Hope

5:00pm to 6:00pm

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In front of Memorial Church Steps, Harvard Yard

“Lost and Found” is a two-event series acknowledging the impacts of ongoing loss and unresolved grief. A space to begin healing as a community, each event includes time for writing, reflection, and storytelling.

All are invited to also share your reflections online at: bit.ly/harvard-lost-found

All members of the Harvard community are welcome. Join us in consideration of all we have lost and what we have found.

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2021 Oct 12

Historic Times: Addressing LGBTQ+ health successes and public health challenges ahead

6:00pm

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In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum is proud to host Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine '79, the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, for a conversation on LGBTQ+ achievements and her work on the COVID-19 pandemic, childhood illness, HIV, and the opioid epidemic. Prior to joining the Biden administration, Dr. Levine devoted her career to public service as the Physician General and the Secretary of Health in the Commonwealth of...

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