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Supplements and Health: Sorting the Facts

Title: Supplements and Health: Sorting the Facts
Runtime: 59:04
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: “Lose belly fat.” “Build muscle.” “Lower your cholesterol.” “Improve your sex drive.” Browse the shelves of any supermarket or pharmacy, and you will find dietary supplements that promise to do all this, and more. Supplements are a multi-billion-dollar business, and today more than half of American adults take them, many at the advice of their doctors. But dietary supplements can have real risks. They are not required by federal law to be proven safe “to the FDA’s satisfaction” before hitting the market, raising concern among critics about a perceived lack of safety oversight and consumer education.

Using the latest science as the basis for discussion, Forum experts examined the risks and benefits of supplements. How effective are they? What about dosages — or interactions with prescription medications? Should supplements be subject to more stringent rules and tests? What role should doctors, pharmacists, and drugstores have in helping consumers mak...

Title: Wyss Focus: Immuno-Materials
Runtime: 2:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Wyss Core Faculty member, Dave Mooney, explains the Wyss Institute’s new Immuno-Materials Focus Area, which adds a new dimension to immunotherapy in that it harnesses materials to make treatments more efficient and effective. These material-based systems are capable of modulating immune cells and releasing them into the body where they can treat diseases.

The Opioid Crisis: A Governors Roundtable

Title: The Opioid Crisis: A Governors Roundtable
Runtime: 1:00:37
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Opioid overdoses claim the lives of 91 Americans every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this Forum event, four former governors offered candid insights into how government policy can help, exploring what works and what doesn’t. They spoke about experiences within their own states, as well the broader national epidemic. Topics included prescription drug monitoring programs; treatment vouchers; naloxone use; and crackdowns on illegal supply streams. The governors also discussed the goals of the 21st Century Cures Act to fight the epidemic and the role of the Trump Administration’s opioid task force.

Presented May 5, 2017, jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH News.

Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

Zaid Jabri | Chamber Music || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Zaid Jabri | Chamber Music || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 58:20
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Zaid Jabri RI ’17 presents Chamber Music, a collection of compositions from 2008 to 2016.

(11:20) Glyptos 2 (2010) for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, piano, double bass, and tape
Commissioned by Brunel University London and premiered during the inaugural concert for the Institute for Contemporary Middle Eastern Music

(8:40) Fluctus (2016)* for oud, bass clarinet, and string quartet
Commissioned by the Egyptian Contemporary Music Ensemble (ECME) and premiered during the Heritage and Modernity festival in Cairo, Egypt

(23:22) Solo for Cello (2012)
Commissioned by Athil Hamdan

(31:40) Variations on (r)Evolution (2016)* for mezzo soprano, violin, and piano
Text by Yvette Christianse; premiered at the Beethovenfest Bonn, in Germany

(45:17) In Memoriam Solhi Al Wadi (2008) for clarinet, string ...

Dava Sobel | A Woman's Place at the Harvard Observatory || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Dava Sobel | A Woman's Place at the Harvard Observatory || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:07:05
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The acclaimed author of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Walker, 1995), Dava Sobel speaks about her new book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Viking, 2016), which tells the story of the women who worked at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.

A Schlesinger Library Event
This is a 2016–2017 Kim and Judy Davis Dean's Lecture

Educating Millennials – Insights from the panelists | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard

Title: Educating Millennials – Insights from the panelists | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 8:46
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The panelists and the organizer of the Colloquium give some insights on the importance of educating millennials for ethical leadership and trust.

Educating Millennials – Participants' short testimonial | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard

Title: Educating Millennials – Participants' short testimonial | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 17:20
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Several participants talk about their experience attending the Colloquium, what they take home and their ideas and suggestions regarding the education of millennials for ethical leadership and trust.

Are we preparing children to be caring and ethical citizens? Richard Weissbourd | IECO – Harvard

Title: Are we preparing children to be caring and ethical citizens? Richard Weissbourd | IECO – Harvard
Runtime: 9:24
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Richard Weissbourd, PhD, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, explains that achievement and happiness have become the primary goals of child-raising in homes and schools, while concern for others, and the common good, have been demoted. We need to become as intentional and systematic about promoting caring for others and the common good as we are intentional and systematic about promoting achievement and happiness.

Are we helping millennials to enjoy working at their best? Kevin Majeres | IECO – AAI – Harvard

Title: Are we helping millennials to enjoy working at their best? Kevin Majeres | IECO – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 6:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Kevin Majeres, MD, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, explained how the searching for meaning and purpose in work yields surprising benefits for task-related attention. Therefore, striving in pursuit of ideals, rather than good outcomes, turns each task into an opportunity for practice and growth. This approach helps millennials to enjoy working at their best, and for the best motives.

What are 'millennials' expecting from us as educators? Rita Jácome | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard

Title: What are 'millennials' expecting from us as educators? Rita Jácome | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 9:46
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Rita Jácome, PhD, IECO-UV Chair of Business Ethics, University of Valencia, illustrated that millennials want us to teach them something that they can’t find in Google, something more related to their desires and the fulfillment of their dreams. And they will become authentic leaders only when their 'doing', 'appearing' and 'being' are aligned, in a profound unity of life that will be a manifestation of the way they care about others

What is missing in our education of future leaders? Donna Hicks | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard

Title: What is missing in our education of future leaders? Donna Hicks | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 8:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Donna Hicks, PhD, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, defends that education has done a good job teaching students about the outside world, but has neglected the "world within.” They are searching for purpose and meaning, and the focus on dignity opens that door for them.

Has business ethics education failed? Leon Goldman | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard

Title: Has business ethics education failed? Leon Goldman | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 10:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Leon Goldman, MD, CBE Executive Fellow, Bentley University, pointed out that the idea that education has failed assumes that students learn everything we teach. But role modeling, both individual and organizational, is a far more powerful source of learning for all of us. Students need to hear from business leaders about successful business models based on values and ethical behavior.

Introduction to the Colloquium: Educating Millennials. Danilo Petranovich | IECO – AAI – Harvard

Title: Introduction to the Colloquium: Educating Millennials. Danilo Petranovich | IECO – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 4:41
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Moderator Danilo Petranovich, PhD, the Director of the Abigail Adams Institute, opened the colloquium introducing the institutions organizing the event and the panelists, and presenting a brief introduction of the topic.

1. Educating Millennials for Ethical Leadership and Trust | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard

Title: 1. Educating Millennials for Ethical Leadership and Trust | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard
Runtime: 2:31:46
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On March 23, 2017, the Fifth Annual IECO-RCC International Colloquium at Harvard University addressed the topic of “Educating Millennials for Ethical Leadership and Trust." This series of colloquia is an initiative of Manuel Guillén, IECO’s founding director and University of Valencia Representative at the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. And it has been generously supported by the Abigail Adams Institute, co-organizer of the event since 2016. This year, the question of millennials education on ethics and trust inspired another lively discussion among the speakers and the audience.

The guest speakers were:
• Danilo Petranovich, PhD, Director of the Abigail Adams (Moderator).
• Leon Goldman, MD, CBE Executive Fellow, Bentley University.
• Donna Hicks, PhD, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
• Rita Jácome, PhD, IECO-UV Chair of Business Ethics, University of Valencia.
• Kevin Majeres, MD, Harva...

Public Health, Science and Leadership: A Conversation with Gina McCarthy

Title: Public Health, Science and Leadership: A Conversation with Gina McCarthy
Runtime: 27:38
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The former administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, discusses her career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program.

Game Changers | 4 of 4 | Gender, Media, and Popular Culture || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Game Changers | 4 of 4 | Gender, Media, and Popular Culture || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:28:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: GENDER, MEDIA, AND POPULAR CULTURE

Michael Messner (7:18), professor of sociology and gender studies, University of Southern California

Rachael Miyung Joo (24:30), assistant professor of American studies, Middlebury College

Kavitha A. Davidson (37:34), writer, espnW; contributor, ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com

Moderated by Mary Jo Kane (1:15), professor in the School of Kinesiology, Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, University of Minnesota

PANEL DISCUSSION (54:18)

AUDIENCE Q&A (1:05:01)

CLOSING REMARKS AND RECEPTION (1:23:17)

Janet Rich-Edwards, faculty codirector of the science program, Academic Ventures, Radcliffe Institute; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Game Changers | 3 of 4 | Conversation with Laila Ali || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Game Changers | 3 of 4 | Conversation with Laila Ali || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:17:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: KEYNOTE CONVERSATION

Laila Ali (5:18), four-time undefeated super-middleweight boxing world champion, fitness and wellness expert, and author

Christine Brennan (7:00), national sports columnist, USA Today; commentator, ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour, and NPR's Morning Edition; author

Introduction by Yukio Lippit, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts, Radcliffe Institute; professor of history of art and architecture, Harvard University

AUDIENCE Q&A (39:43)

Game Changers | 2 of 4 | Gender, Sports, and Health/Wellness || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Game Changers | 2 of 4 | Gender, Sports, and Health/Wellness || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:28:49
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: GENDER, SPORTS, AND HEALTH/WELLNESS

Brian Hainline (6:34), senior vice president, Sports Science Institute; chief medical officer, National Collegiate Athletic Association; clinical professor of neurology, NYU School of Medicine and Indiana University School of Medicine

Travis T. Tygart (20:42), chief executive officer, US Anti-Doping Agency

Parissa Safai (37:55), associate professor, Faculty of Health, York University

Moderated by Cheri A. Blauwet (1:09), assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital; 2004 Paralympic gold medalist (800m, track and field)

PANEL DISCUSSION (53:51)

AUDIENCE Q&A (1:04:52)

Title: An Economic Case for Acting on Climate
Runtime: 1:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Jisung Park, who receives a PhD in economics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in May 2017, researches how the impacts of climate change will affect human productivity and economic health. Affiliated with the Harvard environmental economics program, Park has analyzed how the heat stress from rising temperatures due to global warming will impact labor productivity and academic performance. He also received one of the inaugural grants from the President’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, established by Harvard President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research that hastens the transition from carbon-based energy systems to those that rely on renewable energy sources, and to propel innovations that accelerate progress toward a cleaner and greener world.

Backstage with the Lowell House Opera at Harvard

Title: Backstage with the Lowell House Opera at Harvard
Runtime: 4:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Every year, the ornate chandeliers and checkered floors of the Lowell House dining hall witness a dramatic transformation, known well to local-dwellers yet practically undetectable to the outside world. As diners are quietly asked to finish their meals, and their tables and chairs hauled away, the room is swiftly reborn as a fully staged opera theater.

This is the home of the Lowell House Opera, the longest continually performing opera company in New England, in operation since 1938. The dining hall metamorphosis is one of many “details” that students manage in order to put on a conservatory-level performance every year, like this year’s production of the Richard Strauss opera, Ariadne Auf Naxos.

Organized by an eclectic group of students, community members, and professional artists – all volunteers – the opera offers students the opportunity to learn on the job while rubbing shoulders with seasoned professionals who are accustomed to, and expect, co...

Game Changer: Toni Stone | Panel Discussion || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Game Changer: Toni Stone | Panel Discussion || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 36:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This panel discussion followed the staged reading of scenes from the play Toni Stone by the playwright Lydia R. Diamond RI ’13, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, director-in-residence, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and based on the book Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by the historian Martha Ackmann RI ’09.

The staged reading was not recorded.

Featuring
Martha Ackmann (2:27), journalist and author, The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight and Curveball

Lydia R. Diamond (6:06), playwright, Huntington Theatre Company/Broadway's Stick Fly and Smart People

Nambi E. Kelley (11:50), actor (role of Toni Stone)

Megan Sandberg-Zakian (8:15), director-in-residence, Merrimack Repertory Theatre

Moderated by Sean O’Donnell, associate director of Academic Ventures, Radcliffe Institute.
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Game Changers | 1 of 4 | Who Gets to Play? || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Game Changers | 1 of 4 | Who Gets to Play? || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:35:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: WELCOMING REMARKS

Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute; Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

WHO GETS TO PLAY?

Donna A. Lopiano (15:22), president, Sports Management Resources; former chief executive officer, Women’s Sports Foundation

Anita L. DeFrantz (29:58), member, International Olympic Committee; former president, LA84 Foundation; 1976 Olympic bronze medalist (rowing)

Stephanie Wheeler (43:36), head coach, women’s wheelchair basketball, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; 2004 and 2008 Paralympic gold medalist (women’s wheelchair basketball)

Moderated by Susan Ware (10:55), general editor, American National Biography

PANEL DISCUSSION (59:05)

AUDIENCE Q&A (1:25:43)

ArtScience Talks @ Le Lab – Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines

Title: ArtScience Talks @ Le Lab – Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines
Runtime: 28:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Wyss Core Faculty member David Mooney presents a talk with Mary Mooney, titled Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines. Marshalling a patient’s immune system to recognize and destroy cancerous cells is an exciting strategy to attack cancer, and this talk will explore materials that engage the immune system through science and artistic representation.

Mary K. Mooney is a Massachusetts artist who spent many years working as a designer in the apparel industry. Now the Massachusetts landscape provides Mary with the inspiration for her Plein Air paintings. With the Boston area so rich in natural beauty and history, Mary finds peace being one with nature as she paints. Learning the history behind each scene has always been an important aspect in choosing a location. Classically trained in the traditional style of the French Atelier realist painters, the science of light and how it affects color plays an important role in her paintings. These techniques inform her more...

The Poet's Voice: Karen Weiser & Alice Notley

Title: The Poet's Voice: Karen Weiser & Alice Notley
Runtime: 1:08:38
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: "A reading for the ages," as Fanny Howe (who introduces this event) called it, featuring Alice Notley (author of CERTAIN MAGICAL ACTS/Penguin and BENEDICTION/Letter Machine Editions) and Karen Weiser (author of OR, THE AMBIGUITIES and TO LIGHT OUT, both by Ugly Duckling Presse). Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room/Catherine L. Morrissey Fund.

Recorded at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library, on April 12, 2017.

For additional information, visit the Woodberry Poetry Room's website at http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom

The Poet's Voice: Borzutsky, Girmay & Hutchinson

Title: The Poet's Voice: Borzutsky, Girmay & Hutchinson
Runtime: 1:09:58
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A dynamic triumvirate of voices, this evening featured readings by National Book Award-winning poet Daniel Borzutsky (author of THE PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING HUMAN/Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), Aracelis Girmay (author of THE BLACK MARIA/Boa Editions, 2016) and National Book Critics' Circle winner Ishion Hutchinson (author of HOUSE OF LORDS AND COMMONS/FSG, 2016).

Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art

Title: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art
Runtime: 1:52:24
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Keynote panel with Peter L. Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University), Caroline A. Jones (Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Rebecca K. Uchill (Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/technical-landscapes-aesthetics-and-environment-history-science-and-art

Harvard researchers study what causes falls among elderly

Title: Harvard researchers study what causes falls among elderly
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: For over 50 years, scientists at the Institute for Aging Research, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have been studying what causes falls among the elderly, and how to prevent them. According to researchers, one of the most promising interventions is Tai chi, the ancient Chinese martial art, also known as “meditation in motion.” It offers senior practitioners inner peace, and improves balance, flexibility, and mental agility. It also reduces falls, the largest preventable cause of death and injury among older adults.

Title: Fathers and Work Family Balance
Runtime: 1:17:34
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Although there is still a gender division of labor in post-industrial countries, evidence seems to suggest that there is a growing number of fathers that want to be more involved with their children. Using a Time Use Survey, this seminar analyzes how paternal time devoted to children under 10 years old differs across educational level, income, age, number of paid working hours, occupation, and partner’s occupation, among other independent variables. Understanding patterns of fathers, who are more involved with their children, will presumably give some clues on how to promote gender equality in parenting. Furthermore, while research shows that fatherhood involvement is positively related with child outcomes and gender equality, less is known about the benefits of having both work and family roles for working fathers themselves and their jobs. Using the conceptual framework of work-family enrichment, Marc Grau-Grau explores how resources developed at home are positively transferred and...

Leadership: Public Health and Criminal Justice: Leadership Lessons – R. Gil Kerlikowske

Title: Leadership: Public Health and Criminal Justice: Leadership Lessons – R. Gil Kerlikowske
Runtime: 26:52
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gil Kerlikowske, discusses his career path, successes and leadership lessons learned during his time as Seattle’s Chief of Police, President Obama’s drug policy advisor and Commissioner of CPB, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency.

Leadership: Daring to Fail – A Conversation with Steven Beshear

Title: Leadership: Daring to Fail – A Conversation with Steven Beshear
Runtime: 32:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The former Governor of Kentucky, Steven Beshear, discusses his career path, successes and leadership lessons learned as he guided Kentucky through the historic recession to become a leader in job creation, while also expanding the state’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act.

Title: John Lithgow's favorite phone call
Runtime: 0:46
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: John Lithgow ’67 Art.D. ‘05 will receive the 2017 Harvard Arts Medal, which kicks off the 25th anniversary of Arts First, the annual spring festival of free performances founded by the award-winning actor.

John Lithgow talks about his art-making experiences

Title: John Lithgow talks about his art-making experiences
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The award-winning actor and Harvard Arts Medalist discusses his success on stage and screen, and at Harvard.

Lead Contamination Beyond Flint: Drinking Water and Children's Health

Title: Lead Contamination Beyond Flint: Drinking Water and Children's Health
Runtime: 1:01:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On the whole, American drinking water is safe. However, more than a year after toxic lead levels forced a federal state of emergency in Flint, MI, 63 percent of Americans report that they worry a great deal about polluted drinking water. This statistic comes from a new Gallup poll indicating that water pollution ranks the highest of six environmental concerns among respondents. While pipes in Flint are expected to be replaced with the help of a $97 million settlement, there are other cities with histories of unsafe lead levels — or other toxins — in drinking water. These contaminants can threaten health, particularly among children. This Forum grappled with safekeeping American drinking water supplies. Does the drinking water infrastructure need replacement? How would such an effort look? Do public alert systems help? What about other potential lead exposure sources? What is the role of regulation in a time of proposed deep cuts to EPA funding? What does the public need to know? Th...

The Opioid Epidemic and Bipartisanship: A Conversation with Senator Kelly Ayotte

Title: The Opioid Epidemic and Bipartisanship: A Conversation with Senator Kelly Ayotte
Runtime: 33:43
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The former United States Senator from New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte, discusses her career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program.

Text Mining & Libraries: What can we learn from HathiTrust, digital scholars, and the ASHE project?

Title: Text Mining & Libraries: What can we learn from HathiTrust, digital scholars, and the ASHE project?
Runtime: 1:36:11
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A discussion of libraries' use of full-text metadata for research including copyright issues, scholars' text mining practices, and lessons to be learned from ASHE (Automatic Subject Heading Extraction), a project that has already used text mining to enhance discovery.

Title: The Harvard Arts Medal
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Since 1995, Harvard University has awarded the Harvard Arts Medal to a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts and has made a contribution through the arts to education or the public good. Here's a look back at this tradition, which kicks off the annual ARTS FIRST festival (http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts)—and a look forward to actor John Lithgow '67, ArD '05, the founder of ARTS FIRST, who will receive the Medal at a ceremony on Thursday, April 27, open to the public: http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/harvard-arts-medal.

Writers Speak | Daniel Alarcón and Francisco Goldman in Conversation with Claire Messud

Title: Writers Speak | Daniel Alarcón and Francisco Goldman in Conversation with Claire Messud
Runtime: 1:37:49
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Daniel Alarcón
Author of the novels Lost City Radio (2008) and At Night We Walk in Circles (2014); founder of Radio Ambulante and the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship

Francisco Goldman
Author of the novels The Long Night of the White Chickens (2013), The Ordinary Seaman (1998), and The Divine Husband (2005); the memoir Say Her Name (2012); and non-fiction books The Art of Political Murder (2008) and The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (2015)

in conversation with

Claire Messud
Novelist and Senior Lecturer in English, Harvard University

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

Download copies of the pre-circulated papers here. Contact Neal Adolph Akatsuka for the password.

Quotas Matter: The Impact of Gender Quota Laws on Work-Family Policies with Ana Catalano Weeks

Title: Quotas Matter: The Impact of Gender Quota Laws on Work-Family Policies with Ana Catalano Weeks
Runtime: 1:12:54
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Do gender quotas matter to policy outcomes, or are they just `window dressing'? In this seminar, Ana Catalano Weeks discusses her findings from one of the first studies of the relationship between quota laws and policy outcomes across countries. She argues that after a quota law, we should expect to see change on issues characterized by gender gaps in preferences, especially if they lie off the main left-right (class-based) dimension in politics -- like maternal employment. She finds that implementing a quota law increases public spending on child care (which encourages maternal employment) and decreases spending on family allowances (which tends to discourage it). Evidence from fieldwork in Portugal and Italy suggests that quotas work by increasing women's leverage within parties and raising the overall salience of gender equality issues with the public and male party elites.

Ana Catalano Weeks, WAPPP Fellow; College Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University

New Jersey student uprooted by Hurricane Sandy makes the most of his opportunity at Harvard

Title: New Jersey student uprooted by Hurricane Sandy makes the most of his opportunity at Harvard
Runtime: 3:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: When Michael Wingate earned his diploma as valedictorian of his high school class, he didn’t have a wall to hang it on. Hurricane Sandy had destroyed the Union Beach, N.J., house where he lived with his mother and siblings.

Title: BOSTON ORIGINALS: Spring 2017 Reading
Runtime: 2:08:04
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Set One: Oni Buchanan, Jim Dunn, Boyd Nielson & Natalie Shapero

Set Two: Joshua Bennett, David Blair, Steph Burt & Lloyd Schwartz

Our popular Boston Originals series continues with a reading by eight electrifying representatives of Boston-area poetry and of the vital work that is emerging among us.

Recorded on March 7, 2017, at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

Jane Kamensky | John Singleton Copley's Declaration of Interdependence || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Jane Kamensky | John Singleton Copley's Declaration of Interdependence || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:20:19
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In this lecture, Jane Kamensky (7:36), the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, looks at the era of the American Revolution through the eyes of the British-American painter John Singleton Copley.

Introduction by Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University

A.K. Burns | Negative Space || Radcliffe Institute

Title: A.K. Burns | Negative Space || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 56:18
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, A.K. Burns RI ’17 provides a definition of negative space as something unfixed: it's dynamic, changeable, and—ultimately—free to form and reform, making it an exciting space to explore.

Burns is the 2016–2017 David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Learning from the masters: Cassandra Wilson

Title: Learning from the masters: Cassandra Wilson
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Acclaimed jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson passes down to Harvard students what she’s learned from her decades in music as part of the University’s “Jazz Master in Residence program.”

Naomi Oreskes: "The Scientist as Sentinel"

Title: Naomi Oreskes: "The Scientist as Sentinel"
Runtime: 1:24:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Naomi Oreskes, "The Scientist as Sentinel"

March 29, 2017

Scientists are often reluctant to speak in public on contested issues, for fear that this will "politicize" their science and have a negative impact on their credibility. In this talk, I examine these concerns, by exploring historical examples of scientists who have spoken up on scientific issues of broad importance, including nuclear weaponry, ozone depletion and climate change. These examples suggest that, while becoming a public figure does entail risks, there is little basis in history for the concern that it undermines the credibility of one’s scientific work. Moreover, these examples suggest that society needs scientists to speak up to alert society to challenges that, without science, we would not understand and might not even recognize. Yet they also do point to certain limits to what scientists can and should do as public figures.

Race and Policing: State and Local Perspectives

Title: Race and Policing: State and Local Perspectives
Runtime: 1:01:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Building on two previous Forums about race, criminal justice and health (from February 2015 and October 2015), this event examined specific approaches and models to address the complexities of race and policing. Experts in law enforcement, public health, community relations and the law spoke. Subjects included safeguarding law enforcement and communities, promoting more effective communication and de-escalation techniques, and narrowing the social, economic and health gaps that persist between underserved and middle-class America. The emphasis was on local and state approaches.

This event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on March 27, 2017.

Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

Major Jackson | Urban Renewal: A Poetry Reading and Discussion || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Major Jackson | Urban Renewal: A Poetry Reading and Discussion || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:16:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The poet Major Jackson RI ’07 reads selected poems from across his catalogue that share a recurring theme: urban renewal.

Introduction by Julie A. Buckler, the faculty director of the humanities program at the Radcliffe Institute and Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literatures in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

This event is part of the Roosevelt Poetry Readings at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Roosevelt Poetry Readings are made possible by a donor gift that will help bring poets of recognized stature to the Institute.

Marijuana: The Latest Scientific Findings and Legalization

Title: Marijuana: The Latest Scientific Findings and Legalization
Runtime: 57:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada became the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana, bringing to 28 the number of states that have okayed the drug for medicinal use, recreational use, or both. Even more states have rules that allow certain kinds of cannabis extracts to be used for medical purposes. At the same time that state legalization is increasing, the Trump administration is signaling that it may ramp up enforcement of federal drug laws, even when they come into conflict with state laws allowing recreational marijuana use. State and local governments may find themselves on uncertain legal ground. Meanwhile, policymakers navigating this new landscape are also working largely without the benefit of a solid foundation of scientific evidence on the drug’s risks and benefits. In fact, a new National Academy of Medicine report describes notable gaps in scientific data on the short- and long-term health effects of marijuana. What do we know about the health impact...

Harvard Professor takes Alzheimer’s fight personally

Title: Harvard Professor takes Alzheimer’s fight personally
Runtime: 3:32
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Harvard Medical School Professor Reisa Sperling talks about the personal impact of Alzheimer’s disease, which killed both her father and grandfather. Sperling, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment, is leading a multi-national study testing whether intervening before Alzheimer’s disease’s decline becomes apparent can make a difference in treatment.

Acknowledgements:
The Harvard Aging Brain Study was supported by the National Institute on Aging. The A4 study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

20 Questions | Heather Cox Richardson on Shock Events and the Trump Presidency

Title: 20 Questions | Heather Cox Richardson on Shock Events and the Trump Presidency
Runtime: 1:59:40
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History, Boston College.

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shock-events-and-trump-presidency

“You Are An I”: On Elizabeth Bishop | Woodberry Poetry Room

Title: “You Are An I”: On Elizabeth Bishop | Woodberry Poetry Room
Runtime: 1:12:49
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Pulitzer Prize-winner Megan Marshall presents passages from her biography Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast (Houghton Mifflin, 2017) and discusses how she developed the innovative structure of her book. Interspersing her remarks with audio clips from the Woodberry Poetry Room’s recordings of “In the Waiting Room” and “Santarem,” Marshall offers new contexts for understanding these key works as both political and personal statements. Introduction by Heather Treseler.

For additional information, visit http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom

Date: February 27, 2017, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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