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2021 Apr 22

Digital Accessibility for Content Creators

9:30am to 12:00pm

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Online

This training will introduce learners to digital accessibility, demonstrate its importance, and provide guidance about Harvard’s Digital Accessibility Policy. We will discuss best practices for creating accessible web content, and also for updating existing content to make it accessible to all users. 

The audience for this training is anyone who develops, edits, or publishes content for a website at Harvard, even if it's not your main job responsibility. There will be some...

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2021 Apr 22

Writing for the Web (IT Academy)

10:00am to 11:30am

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Online

Writing for websites and digital platforms is different from writing for print and other more traditional (offline) formats. The Writing for the Web 1.5 hour course, offered by Harvard Web Publishing, offers insights and best practices on online content consumption, content strategy, and how you can improve your website's usability by following simple proofreading, readability, and accessibility practices.

Audience: University-Wide
Pre-Requisites: None
Cost: None
Late Drop/Cancel Fee: None

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2021 Apr 22

Site Building with OpenScholar

9:30am to 12:00pm

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Online

Intended Audience: Those working independently or participating in building an OpenScholar website.

In this interactive training we will work through a series of hands on activities showing you how to use the OpenScholar software to build a website (such as research projects, initiatives, or department sites).

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to use the administrative interface of OS to build a website on OpenScholar. No previous experience creating websites is needed.

Sign up is required. This training will be held remotely....

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Fireside Chat around The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

April 21, 2021
Please Join Hubert Joly, Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer and Bill George, Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School on April 29 for a fireside chat about putting people at the center of the business, create an environment where every employee can blossom, and treat profit as an outcome, not the goal. Read more about Fireside Chat around The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
2021 Apr 20

Free Speech & Mutual Respect: The First Amendment, Social Justice, and Inclusion

4:00pm

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Online

How does free speech and open expression impact our ability to advance the equity, inclusion, and social justice imperative movements? First Amendment experts Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, and Emerson Sykes, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, will join Sherri Ann Charleston (Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer) and Sigal Ben-Porath (Fellow in Residence, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics) in a conversation about the possibilities and challenges of advancing social justice and protecting speech in an academic environment. The Community Dialogue...

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2021 Apr 21

Time, Money, and Happiness

5:00pm to 6:00pm

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There's an 80 percent chance you're poor. Time poor, that is. Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress produced a stronger negative effect on happiness than unemployment. How can we escape the time traps that make us feel this way and keep us from living our best lives? Award winning Harvard Business School Professor Ashley Whillans discusses the relationship between...

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2021 Apr 14

Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Online

Join Thea Riofrancos, an assistant professor of political science at Providence College and a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, as she discusses her current project, “Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition,” which explores the politics of the transition to renewable energy through the lens of one of its key technologies: lithium batteries. Based on multisited fieldwork following lithium’s global supply chains from the point of extraction in the Chilean desert, “Brine to Batteries'' will be the first scholarly account of the rapidly moving processes...

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2021 Apr 13

Perspectives on Performance with Casting Director Victor Vazquez

6:30pm to 8:00pm

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Theater, Dance & Media welcomes Victor Vazquez, Casting Director and Founder of X Casting, in a talk entitled "Casting the Imagination," for the last Perspectives on Performance talk of the academic year.

About X Casting:

Through a shared purpose towards collective liberation & anti-racism, X Casting re-imagines the art of casting. X Casting is dedicated to supporting projects led or created by Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Women, Trans & Queer creators in NYC, Los Angeles and globally. X Casting upholds joy & excellence.

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2021 Apr 12

English Pronunciation Teaching & Learning in a Globalized Context

10:30am to 11:30am

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Being able to pronounce a language well is vital for effective communication. In our current globalized world, English is used by and taught to millions if not billions worldwide and has emerged as a Lingua Franca. Despite how important English pronunciation is to communicate between global interlocutors, the teaching of English pronunciation has largely been sidelined in English as a Second/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) classrooms. In this talk, we seek to establish an understanding of current ESL/EFL English pronunciation teaching and learning dilemmas, reflect on how it has been dealt...

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