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Writers Speak | Jennifer Egan in conversation with Claire Messud

Title: Writers Speak | Jennifer Egan in conversation with Claire Messud
Runtime: 1:26:33
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, which was released as a feature film by Fine Line in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, Look at Me, nominated for the National Book Award in 2001, and The Keep. Her most recent novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Also a journalist, she has written frequently for the New York Times Magazine. Her new novel, Manhattan Beach, will be published in October 2017.

Jeremy Eichler | War and the Soundscapes of Memory || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Jeremy Eichler | War and the Soundscapes of Memory || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:09:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: War and the Soundscapes of Memory
2016–2017 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities

As the generation with a living memory of the Second World War recedes, the critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler RI '17 (7:26) asks us to open our ears. By exploring how the wartime past has been inscribed in music, he makes the case for hearing history and for reclaiming the power of sound as a unique carrier of meaning about the past.

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

The Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities was established to honor the late Julia S. Phelps, a longtime instructor in the Radcliffe Seminars, and is supported by the generous contributions of her family, friends, and colleagues.

Nick Horton: 2016 David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture Series

Title: Nick Horton: 2016 David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture Series
Runtime: 1:11:13
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: “Big Ideas to Help Statistics Students Learn to Think with Data” by Nick Horton, the 2016 David K. Pickard Memorial Lecturer

Title: Unraveling the mysteries of aging
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Research conducted by David Sinclair and colleagues shows that, in mice, treatment with the NAD precursor NMN mitigates age-related DNA damage and averts DNA damage from radiation exposure.

Keith Ellenbogen | Ocean Photography || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Keith Ellenbogen | Ocean Photography || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 56:09
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The acclaimed photographer Keith Ellenbogen showcases his beautiful and compelling ocean-based wildlife images, including his recent exploratory work using high-speed photography and 360-degree immersive camera systems.

Introduction by John Huth, faculty codirector of the science program at the Radcliffe Institute and Donner Professor of Science in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

A smartphone-based test for male fertility

Title: A smartphone-based test for male fertility
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed an automated smartphone-based diagnostic assay that offers an inexpensive way to measure sperm concentration and motility at home rather than in the clinic. Credit: Manoj Kumar Kanakasabapathy & Prudhvi Thirumalaraju

David Herskovits on "Against Mastery: On Knowing and Not-Knowing in the Theater"

Title: David Herskovits on "Against Mastery: On Knowing and Not-Knowing in the Theater"
Runtime: 1:15:34
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: avid Herskovits is Founder/Artistic Director at Target Margin Theater.

Cosponsored with the American Repertory Theater.

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/against-mastery-knowing-and-not-knowing-theater

Universities and Slavery | 5 of 5 | Slavery and Universities Globally || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Universities and Slavery | 5 of 5 | Slavery and Universities Globally || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:35:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: SLAVERY AND UNIVERSITIES GLOBALLY

Max Price (5:06), Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town

Christiane Taubira (17:31), Former Minister of Justice (France)

Hilary Beckles (36:55), Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies

Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente (1:09), Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies and of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University

PANEL DISCUSSION (58:17)

CONCLUDING REMARKS (1:27:09)
Daniel Carpenter, Faculty Director of the Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute; Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University

Universities and Slavery | 4 of 5 | Slavery and Harvard || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Universities and Slavery | 4 of 5 | Slavery and Harvard || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:19:32
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: SLAVERY AND HARVARD

Sven Beckert (3:05), Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University

Alexandra Rahman ’12 (15:47), Student Contributor, Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History

Daniel R. Coquillette (25:19), J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor, Boston College Law School

Julian Bonder (38:54), Principal, Wodiczko + Bonder and Julian Bonder + Associates; Professor of Architecture, Roger Williams University

Moderator: Annette Gordon-Reed RI '16, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School, and Professor of History, Harvard University

PANEL DISCUSSION (53:20)

Universities and Slavery | 3 of 5 | Poetry Reading || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Universities and Slavery | 3 of 5 | Poetry Reading || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 15:29
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: POETRY READING

Natasha Trethewey RI '01 (4:15), Former United States Poet Laureate; Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emory University

Introduced by: Vincent Brown RI '06, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Universities and Slavery | 2 of 5 | Slavery and Universities Nationally || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Universities and Slavery | 2 of 5 | Slavery and Universities Nationally || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:25:08
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: SLAVERY AND UNIVERSITIES NATIONALLY

James T. Campbell (4:12), Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History, Stanford University

Adam Rothman (13:43), Professor of History, Georgetown University

Craig Steven Wilder (23:47), Barton L. Weller Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

PANEL DISCUSSION (32:50)

Universities and Slavery | 1 of 5 | Keynote || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Universities and Slavery | 1 of 5 | Keynote || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:16:25
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University

OPENING REMARKS (12:07)
Drew Gilpin Faust, President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University

KEYNOTE (15:51)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Journalist; National Correspondent, the Atlantic: Author, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) and The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (Spiegel & Grau, 2008)

Conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Drew Gilpin Faust (34:37)

One potato, two potato: Contemporary work at Harvard Art Museums

Title: One potato, two potato: Contemporary work at Harvard Art Museums
Runtime: 1:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On view in the Harvard Art Museums is a clever work by the conceptual Argentine artist Victor Grippo. “Analgoia I" incorporates a series of potatoes connected to electrodes and a meter that registers the energy they produce. The piece is both an example of the artist's unusual use of everyday materials and a statement about how a united community could resist the nation’s repressive political regime. The potatoes are rotated roughly every three weeks.

Jennifer Finney Boylan | Gender, Politics, and Imagination || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Jennifer Finney Boylan | Gender, Politics, and Imagination || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:40:08
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Gender, Politics, and Imagination: An Afternoon with Jennifer Finney Boylan,
A Schlesinger Library Event

Jennifer Finney Boylan (16:27), the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University, speaks about privilege, politics, and poetics. The author of 15 books—including She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Broadway Books, 2003), the first best-selling work by a transgender American—Boylan is also the chair of the board of GLAAD and a New York Times op-ed page contributing writer.

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

Jane Kamensky (5:52), Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and professor of history, History Department, Harvard University

(54:17) After her remarks, Boylan engage...

Karin B. Michels | Is Epigenetics Inherited? || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Karin B. Michels | Is Epigenetics Inherited? || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 44:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Karin B. Michels ’17 explains that epigenetics changes as a result of the environment we live in and how we choose to live in it. Influences such as smoking, exercise, taking drugs, social interactions, air pollution, viruses, or the microbiome can all affect your epigenome. But what if your grandmother smoked? The question remains: Is epigenetics heritable?

Title: 360° video from Harvard Housing Day
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Harvard College’s 2017 Housing Day sees freshmen, who spend their first year living in and around the Yard, sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses.

Title: PGP-Lumosity Memory Study
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Researchers at the Wyss Institute and the Personal Genome Project are using Lumosity games to evaluate memory functions and response times. The genomes of high performers will be sequenced, with the goal of uncovering the relationship between genetics, memory, attention, and reaction speed.

This video featuring George Church, Core Faculty of the Wyss Institute and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, illustrates how engaging the games are as he becomes so engrossed in the them that he imagines them occurring in real life.

To learn more about the Wyss Institute PGP-Lumosity study, please visit wyss.harvard.edu/pgp-lumosity

TRANSLATING CUBAN POETRY: A COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP

Title: TRANSLATING CUBAN POETRY: A COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP
Runtime: 1:28:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Poets and translators gathered for a collaborative translative intensive focused on the work of Cuban poet and journalist Jorge Olivera Castillo who is currently a visiting writer with Harvard Scholars at Risk. The event featured a brief overview of contemporary Cuban poetry by Pablo Medina, a short reading by Olivera, followed by a workshop (facilitated by poet-translator Chloe Garcia Roberts) in which one of Olivera’s poems was collaboratively translated by all attendees.

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

Date: February 16, 2017, at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

Harvard Commencement speaker Mark Zuckerberg asks Bill Gates for advice

Title: Harvard Commencement speaker Mark Zuckerberg asks Bill Gates for advice
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, will be the featured speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 366th Commencement on May 25.

Title: Gravitational Waves Found! | CfA
Runtime: 1:13:34
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A billion years ago, two black holes collided and merged, sending powerful ripples across the fabric of space-time. In 2015 those gravitational waves reached Earth and tickled the detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). This first-ever detection of gravitational waves confirmed a long-standing prediction of Einstein's general relativity. It also was the culmination of a decades-long effort. Learn about the technical challenges of LIGO and the significance of this momentous event from one of the field's great pioneers, Dr. Rainer Weiss.

Original music by Mark C. Petersen, Loch Ness Productions. Used with permission.

Animations used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Title: Discover the Humanities at Harvard
Runtime: 5:07
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Join our students, faculty, and alumni on an intellectual and creative journey to discover the Humanities at Harvard. Through dancing, playwriting, hip-hop, and literature, these personal stories illuminate the power of the arts and humanities to ignite, inspire, and transform.

The 21st Century Cures Act: Implications for Research and Drug Development

Title: The 21st Century Cures Act: Implications for Research and Drug Development
Runtime: 58:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The passage of the 21st Century Cures Act has drawn both applause and criticism. A sweeping bipartisan effort with multiple components, the law dramatically boosts funding for medical research, particularly in areas such as cancer and brain disease. The law also relaxes regulatory processes for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. In doing so, the law’s supporters point to the potential for faster treatments benefiting from a streamlined approval process. Critics raise concerns that safety and efficacy might be compromised, with potentially devastating consequences. And the law also has been questioned for failing to explicitly address high drug prices, a growing public issue. These debates are unfolding as the Trump administration is expected to imminently announce its choice for a new FDA commissioner, who will head an agency directly impacted by the Cures act. In this Forum, experts will explore the implications of the law for biomedicine, regulation, pharmaceuticals and patient a...

Kaleomanuiwa Wong | Polynesian Voyaging Society || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Kaleomanuiwa Wong | Polynesian Voyaging Society || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:13:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In 1975, when the Hōkūleʻa was built and launched from the shores of Hawaii and set course for the nearest landfall 2,500 miles away with no GPS, no compass, and no modern day navigational assistance, both Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian spectators were convinced the project would be a failure. But thanks to traditional navigation techniques, which use the stars along with ocean swells, the canoe was able to successfully traverse through the middle of the ocean from Hawaii to Tahiti.

Forty-one years later, Hōkūleʻa is in the midst of a three-year, worldwide voyage established to create global relationships and explore how to care for our oceans. Sailing in the wake of its ancestors, the Polynesian Voyaging Society carries a message of mālama honua, caring for Island Earth and each other. Using their canoes as a platform, its members hope to bridge cultural tradition and modern technology, timeless values and new visions—and to inspire the next generation of leaders to b...

The Environment Forum | Roy Scranton on "Arctic Ghosts: Ecocruising the Death Spiral"

Title: The Environment Forum | Roy Scranton on "Arctic Ghosts: Ecocruising the Death Spiral"
Runtime: 1:30:09
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History, Harvard University).

Lamia Joreige | Under-Writing Beirut—Ouzaï || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Lamia Joreige | Under-Writing Beirut—Ouzaï || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 47:43
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Lamia Joreige ’17 assembles elements from such diverse fields as film, history, and urban and political studies to examine the relationship between the state and the diverse communities existing within Lebanon.

Joreige is the 2016–2017 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

Jeff Gelles | Seeing the Birth of an RNA Molecule || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Jeff Gelles | Seeing the Birth of an RNA Molecule || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 46:32
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jeff Gelles ’17 examines the ways that genetic information is processed in living cells. It turns out that the process is done by “machines” so tiny that they are made up of individual molecules. The biological world is a fascinating and beautiful place.

Gelles is the 2016–2017 Helen Putnam Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

Leadership in Academic Medicine: A Conversation with Elizabeth Nabel

Title: Leadership in Academic Medicine: A Conversation with Elizabeth Nabel
Runtime: 32:20
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Elizabeth Nabel has served as president of Brigham Health—comprised of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization—since 2010. A distinguished biomedical researcher and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Nabel brings a unique perspective to health care based on her experience as a physician, research scientist, academic medicine leader, and wellness advocate. In 2015, she was appointed chief health and medical advisor to the National Football League.

Hormone-Altering Chemicals: Fertility and Health Implications

Title: Hormone-Altering Chemicals: Fertility and Health Implications
Runtime: 55:00
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: How can commonly found chemicals impact our health? This Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health was presented jointly with The Huffington Post. Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

Harvard Medical School researchers look at cocoa for health

Title: Harvard Medical School researchers look at cocoa for health
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are conducting a massive, 18,000-person trial seeking answers to the question of whether cocoa is good for you. The COSMOS trial, which is also investigating the potential anti-cancer properties of multivitamins, is still signing up participants age 60 and over. It is examining whether flavanols in cocoa can protect against conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

A QUIET READING: Jen Bervin & Dan Beachy-Quick | Woodberry Poetry Room

Title: A QUIET READING: Jen Bervin & Dan Beachy-Quick | Woodberry Poetry Room
Runtime: 1:00:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: WPR Creative Grant recipient Dan Beachy-Quick presents excerpts from his project---"A Quiet Book"---and Jen Bervin presents her innovative erasures of Shakespeare’s sonnets, in addition to her “Silk Poems” project. Co-sponsored by Houghton Library and the WPR Creative Fellowship program.

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

Date: April 14, 2016, at Houghton Library.

Harvard professor and Nas discussing Walt Whitman

Title: Harvard professor and Nas discussing Walt Whitman
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Hip hop artist Nas and English professor Elisa New study Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” as part of New’s course “Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop.” Here, the pair discusses the line of the poem featuring the phrase “blab of the pave.”

Title: Folding the world record paper plane
Runtime: 0:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: John Collins, who designed the distance world record for paper airplane flight, presented a workshop for students in the master’s in design engineering program, a joint program of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. After the workshop, held at the GSD, Collins demonstrated how to fold his world record plane.

A long loop through Harvard’s design school

Title: A long loop through Harvard’s design school
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: John Collins, who holds the distance world record for a paper airplane flight, launches a plane over Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s “trays” after delivering a talk on paper airplane design to master’s in design engineering students.

Paper planes by world record holder soar from Harvard’s Science Center

Title: Paper planes by world record holder soar from Harvard’s Science Center
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Six paper planes gave their lives for this shot as John Collins, who designed the world’s longest-flying paper airplane — more than 226 feet — tried his hand at launching from the windy roof of Harvard’s Science Center. Collins was on campus to present a workshop on paper plane design to students in the master’s in design engineering program, a joint program through the Graduate School of Design and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era

Title: The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era
Runtime: 1:56:32
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Tuesday, January 31, 4–6 pm., Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy

Welcoming remarks Drew Gilpin Faust
President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University

Remarks William Kristol
Editor at large, The Weekly Standard

Story Kathleen Kingsbury
Managing editor, Digital, The Boston Globe

Conversation
Ann Marie Lipinski, Moderator
Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism

Gerard Baker
Editor in chief, The Wall Street Journal

Lydia Polgreen
Editor in chief, The Huffington Post

David Leonhardt
Op-ed columnist, The New York Times

Story Lolly Bowean
Reporter, Chicago Tribune

Remarks Brian Stelter
Senior media correspondent, CNN

Lolly Bowean on how journalism can inspire us

Title: Lolly Bowean on how journalism can inspire us
Runtime: 9:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Lolly Bowean, reporter from the Chicago Tribune and Nieman Fellow, shares an inspiring story about how journalism can show us ways to change and contribute to the world.

This clip is from "The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era"
Tuesday, January 31, 4 - 6 pm., Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy

Linking Non-Cognitive Skills & Educational Achievement to Girls in Developing Societies.

Title: Linking Non-Cognitive Skills & Educational Achievement to Girls in Developing Societies.
Runtime: 1:17:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Recent literature on non-cognitive skills provides promising evidence on the power of community and classroom based interventions for closing achievement gaps across school quality, race, and class. Yet, much of this work has been conducted on males that attend elite institutions in the U.S. There is very little work on how these same tactics can be implemented to overcome gender barriers and improve educational achievement of girls, particularly those that attend schools in non-western settings. In this seminar, Sally Nuamah investigates the experiences of girls from underprivileged backgrounds in Ghana striving to be the first in their families to go to college. She finds that school structure - leadership, curriculum, and peer networks - mediates the effects of their socio-cultural environments and individual background through the facilitation of positive academic identities (non-cognitive skills) that promote identity building and strategy development. These positive academic iden...

Title: When extinction stares you in the face
Runtime: 1:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History provides an artist’s view of extinction, a global crisis threatening many of our plant and animal companions on Planet Earth. The exhibit, Next of Kin: Seeing Extinction through the Artist’s Lens, runs through June 4 and presents specimens of creatures both long vanished and which may soon vanish, all selected and arranged by artist Christina Seely.

Title: Creativity, medicine, and the arts
Runtime: 1:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School presents a series of workshops about the value of an ongoing relationship with the arts while in pursuit of a study of science as part of Wintersession 2017.

Title: Making metallic hydrogen at Harvard
Runtime: 2:11
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating metallic hydrogen. In addition to helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the nature of matter, the material is theorized to have a wide range of applications, ranging from room-temperature superconductors to powerful rocket propellant.

Photographing our Galaxy’s Black Hole | CfA

Title: Photographing our Galaxy’s Black Hole | CfA
Runtime: 59:57
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A black hole is so dense that not even light can escape it. So we can’t possibly photograph one, can we? Yes, we can. More accurately, we can observe its silhouette or shadow against the glowing disk of material it’s swallowing. The Event Horizon Telescope will unite facilities around the globe to form an Earth-sized telescope. With it, we will get our first detailed look at the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And we will put Einstein’s theory to the ultimate test. Speaker Michael Johnson is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Stephanie LeMenager | Climate Citizenship and the Humanities || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Stephanie LeMenager | Climate Citizenship and the Humanities || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 2:19
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The 2016–2017 Radcliffe Institute fellow Stephanie LeMenager is interested in what it means to be human in the era of climate change. Understanding this challenging and often controversial topic is why the humanities are more important now than ever.

Stephanie LeMenager | What is Cli-Fi? || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Stephanie LeMenager | What is Cli-Fi? || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 2:34
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The 2016–2017 Radcliffe Institute fellow Stephanie LeMenager explains the broad and burgeoning genre of climate fiction and how artists, filmmakers, and authors alike are using it to tell the story of climate change.

How to Write an Op-Ed: Getting Published in the News Media

Title: How to Write an Op-Ed: Getting Published in the News Media
Runtime: 1:33:24
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Does your work show that headlines or clichés are wrong? Has your research revealed an unknown and timely story? If you would like to write an op-ed or an idea piece for a major newspaper, or talk well about it on radio, watch leading news editors and faculty colleagues discuss great advice. This event features:

Iris Adler, Executive Director for Programming, Podcasts and Special Projects, WBUR

James Dao, Op-Ed Editor, The New York Times

Kathleen Kingsbury, Managing Editor for Digital (former Ideas Editor), The Boston Globe

Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Moderated by Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

PRESENTING JANE & JOHN: FREILICHER & ASHBERY ON FILM & IN PRINT

Title: PRESENTING JANE & JOHN: FREILICHER & ASHBERY ON FILM & IN PRINT
Runtime: 51:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: John Ashbery’s biographer Karin Roffman presents selections from the Poetry Room’s 2014 oral history on the making of the short film, PRESENTING JANE (1952). Recently recovered after disappearing over 60 years ago, PRESENTING JANE was donated to the Woodberry Poetry Room/Harvard Film Archive by its creator Harrison Starr and featured the young John Ashbery, Jane Freilicher, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler.

Outtakes and excerpts from the 1952 film are shown during the event, overlaid with commentary recorded at the 2014 oral history. Roffman also reads excerpts from her much-anticipated biography, THE SONGS WE KNOW BEST: JOHN ASHBERY’S EARLY LIFE (FSG, 2017).

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

Bob Schieffer | Voices in Leadership | 2016 Election Recap

Title: Bob Schieffer | Voices in Leadership | 2016 Election Recap
Runtime: 30:13
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media & Democracy Fellow; former reporter and anchor for CBS News & former moderator of ‘Face the Nation’ spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on November 17, 2017.

Baroness Tessa Jowell | Public Health Leadership: Why Do We Know So Much and Do So Little

Title: Baroness Tessa Jowell | Public Health Leadership: Why Do We Know So Much and Do So Little
Runtime: 31:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Baroness Tessa Jowell Former Member of British Parliament; Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow spoke about mission driven leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public as part of the Voices in Leadership series Health on December 2, 2016.

Peter Staley | Voices in Leadership |Activism, Leadership & Health

Title: Peter Staley | Voices in Leadership |Activism, Leadership & Health
Runtime: 33:09
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Peter Staley, AIDS and LGBT rights activist; founder of the Treatment Action Group and AIDSmeds.com spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on November 22, 2016.

Ann Compton | Voices in Leadership | Journalistic Leadership from Watergate to 9/11 and Beyond

Title: Ann Compton | Voices in Leadership | Journalistic Leadership from Watergate to 9/11 and Beyond
Runtime: 30:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Ann Compton, journalist and former White House correspondent for ABC News spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on October 3, 2016.

Title: Pre-Texts: The Arts Teach (Anything)
Runtime: 1:12:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) held its Speaker Series event on November 30, 2016. The event featured FAS and HGSE instructors discussing Pre-Texts, a program for educational professionals to employ close reading and critical thinking skills by making art based on challenging texts.

Visit hilt.harvard.edu for more.

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