Featured series 
Tag: Harvard Thinks Big
-
Nation & World
7 speakers, 12 minutes each
During Harvard Thinks Big 4, six professors and a student delved into their favorite ideas, ranging from a look at why dead Romans are so much fun to a detailed explanation of breast-feeding in mammals.
-
Nation & World
Emergency planning
Six of Harvard’s deep thinkers on climate change and sustainability took the stage Sept. 18 in the second annual Harvard Thinks Green.
-
Nation & World
A time was had by all
A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.
-
Nation & World
The Meaning of Life – Jill Lepore – Harvard Thinks Big
Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History
-
Nation & World
Making the World Smaller – Daniel Lieberman – Harvard Thinks Big
Daniel Lieberman Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology
-
Nation & World
Confusion, Play and Postponing Certainty – Eleanor Duckworth – Harvard Thinks Big
Eleanor Duckworth Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
-
Nation & World
Stimulating Cells – Doug Melton – Harvard Thinks Big
Doug Melton Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and co-Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
-
Nation & World
Act Big: Dare to See – Kaia Stern – Harvard Thinks Big
Kaia Stern Director of the Prison Studies Project Visiting Faculty at Harvard Divinity School Visiting Faculty in Sociology at Harvard University Visiting Faculty in African and African American Studies at Harvard University
-
Nation & World
Thinking green, and thinking big
At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to seek big solutions for complex and potentially intractable problems such as climate change.
-
Nation & World
It was a very good year
With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Escaping the Ivory Tower” – Caroline Elkins
Caroline Elkins, Professor of History; Chair of the Standing Committee on African Studies; Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Triumph in the City” – Edward Glaeser
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “From Eye to Mind: Affirming the Union of Science and Art” – Robert Lue
Robert Lue, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Tutor in Biochemical Sciences; Director of Life Sciences Education
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Beauty as a Call to Justice” – Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality” – Joshua Greene
Joshua Greene, Assistant Professor of Psychology
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Experiencing Time in Music” – Richard Beaudoin
Richard Beaudoin, Lecturer on Music
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big 2: Introductions
Steven Hyman, Provost; Member of the Board of Snydics of Harvard University Press; Professor of Neurobiology; Peter Davis ’12 and Zachary Richner ’11, Co-Producers and Co-Hosts of Harvard Thinks Big
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big: “It’s the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine” – Daniel Gilbert
Our planet is on the brink of an ecological catastrophe and you are sitting calmly in Sanders Theatre. Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology tells us why.
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big: “Religion in the Age of Pluralism” – Diana Eck
Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society on what everyone needs to know in a new era of faith and globalization.
-
Nation & World
Get ready, think big
Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.
-
Nation & World
Stalking the ‘big idea’
One of the organizers of the first “Harvard Thinks Big” session reflects on why the program that had 10 professors speak for 10 minutes about their one big idea proved so successful.
-
Nation & World
Harvard Thinks Big
Ten great ideas from 10 great professors in 10 minutes or less. Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion that paired leading lecturers with eager listeners, attracted these great minds to help explore and inspire new ways of thinking, in the first session of what organizers hope will become an annual experience.
