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2021 Mar 25

Writing for the Web (IT Academy)

10:00am to 11:30am

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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 Mar 24

ABCD OpenScholar March

3:30pm to 4:30pm

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Online

How To Join Our Group:

Officially sign-up to be part of the ABCD-OpenScholar group. You will receive email reminders of upcoming meetings and any materials from past events.

To sign-up:

  1. Go to the ABCD Membership page
  2. Sign-up to be a member of ABCD OR log-in to using your ABCD credentials
  3. Once you get access to the ABCD Database page, select "yes" next to the abcd-openscholar option.
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2021 Mar 23

Web Accessibility for Developers

10:00am to 12:00pm

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Web Accessibility for Developers is a training based on 10 Essentials for Developers. Meant as a follow-up to "Digital Accessibility for Content Creators" or another introduction to accessibility, we survey some essentials for developers with code examples, demonstrations, and an emphasis on testing.

This training will be held virtually via Zoom in two sessions: 10 am - 12 pm, and 2 pm - 4 pm. 

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2021 Mar 19

Crimson Kitchen Cooking Class: Cooking with Beans

2:00pm to 3:00pm

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Plant-based proteins are a unique group of foods that contain nutrients similar to vegetables but have enough protein per serving to make them comparable to animal-based foods. Plant-based proteins include beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, nuts and seeds. Today, we're focusing on beans and their almost endless versatility. Learn how to incorporate delicious bean dishes into your meal rotation with Bush's Best Beans.

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2021 Mar 18

Harvard Dance Center Spring '21 Artist Talk

4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Online

ARTISTRY. IDENTITY. ADVOCACY.

“Artists have a really bad habit of being resilient.” --Toni Morrison

Choreographers and dancers are problem-solvers. They move through crises rather than around them. Join us this spring for community gatherings with Harvard Dance Center’s exceptional teaching artists in a series of artist-led dialogues that explore how artistry, identity, and advocacy take shape in turbulent times.

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2021 Mar 17

Privatizing Public Health: A Panel Discussion

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Can private companies effectively serve public health functions?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, private companies have stepped into public health roles traditionally held by government agencies and non-governmental organizations.

For example, Google and Apple collaborated to create exposure notification software that has been adopted domestically and internationally; Verily, the life sciences division of Google's parent company Alphabet, opened COVID-19 testing centers in fifteen states; Facebook created an elaborate system for suicide prevention while simultaneously...

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2021 Mar 16

The Vaccine Rollout: Perspectives from the States

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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More than 18 percent of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the CDC. And with a third vaccine, another tool has been added to help curb the pandemic’s impact. How do states plan COVID-19 vaccine prioritization and distribution? What’s worked well and not so well? And what are next steps on statewide vaccine rollouts, event as coronavirus variants spread? Hear firsthand insights from state health commissioners and health policy experts in this dynamic discussion presented by The Forum at the Harvard Chan School jointly with Reuters....

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2021 Mar 15

Mass Incarceration and the Human Rights Implications of AI

3:00pm to 4:00pm

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Join us for a conversation with Laurin Leonard, where she will discuss her and her mother, Teresa Hodge's, work on software that aims to uphold human rights and create opportunities for those living with criminal convictions, to gain self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship.

Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

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2021 Jun 01

Art Talk Live: Käthe Kollwitz and the South African Left

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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German artist Käthe Kollwitz’s reception in the Global South has only recently begun to be considered. Known for its socialist and anti-war sentiments, her work was largely introduced to South Africa by exiles fleeing Nazism, and her prints became an important touchstone for many of the country’s politically minded artists in the years leading up to and during apartheid.

Looking to Kollwitz’s 1905 cycle, Peasant’s War, Jessica Williams will explore how these images circulated among South Africa’s Left and how her work came to influence an entirely new generation of lesser-...

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2021 May 18

Art Talk Live: Reframing the Tianlongshan Cave Temple Fragments

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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In 1943, the museum was gifted 25 stone fragments from the Tianlongshan cave temples in China’s northern Shanxi province. Beginning in the late 1920s, the reliefs and sculptures were removed from the site and published by art dealer Sadajirō Yamanaka, sparking interest among collectors worldwide. This talk will highlight a collaboration with Harvard students that investigates the creation of the works, their meaning in Buddhist medieval China, their sale and journey to their current home, and the ravaged site they left behind.

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2021 May 04

Art Talk Live: Reframing Japonisme

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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The fable of the 19th-century European “discovery” of Japanese prints and their catalytic effect on Impressionist painting is by now comfortably worn, threadbare even. But what were painters in Europe actually encountering?

In this talk, curator Rachel Saunders will take a close look at a major new acquisition that shines a distinctly different light on European interest in “Japanese art,” and the ways in which this new category was constructed in Japan itself.

Led by:
Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art, Division of...

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2021 Apr 20

Art Talk Live: Up Close and Personal—Looking at Ancient Textiles

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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Egyptian makers were skilled at using only a few materials to create a rich variety of textiles, but we rarely have detailed information about the people who made them or their artistic processes.

Join conservation fellow Julie Wertz to explore what close looking, microscopy, and micro-analytical techniques can teach us about the materials and methods these unknown makers used to create beautiful and functional art objects.

Led by:
Julie Wertz, Beal Family Postgraduate Fellow in...

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2021 Apr 16

Art Study Center Seminar at Home: From Portable Studio to Digital Archive—A Look at Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks

11:00am to 12:00pm

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Since we are unable to welcome you into the museums at this time, we are bringing our experts to you in the online series Art Study Center Seminars at Home.

Otto Piene (1928–2014) was a pioneer in multimedia and technology-based art, creating a large, kaleidoscopic body of work based on the intersections of art, science, and nature. In this session, curatorial fellow Lauren Hanson and museum data specialist Jeff Steward share their research into the 2019 gift of Piene’s sketchbooks—a visual archive of over seven decades of artistic practice—and how the bound pages of these “...

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