Tag: ” Lectures

  • Nation & World

    Harvard launches city lecture series

    Harvard is launching a lecture and program series in the Boston and Cambridge public libraries. President Drew Faust will give the inaugural address of the new John Harvard Book Celebration on Jan. 10.

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    FAS presents Diversity Dialogues

    Leadership in a diverse community, unintended bias, and the impact of devaluing messages that can impair productivity are among the issues that will be addressed in Diversity Dialogues, a series of seminars to be offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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    Askwith Forum offers exciting guests, talks this season

    The schedule for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum features an exciting array of guest speakers — from Anne Sweeney of Disney Media Networks, to “Waiting for ‘Superman’” filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, and more.

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  • Nation & World

    E.O. Wilson to lecture, co-host conservation benefit dinner

    E.O. Wilson will host a lecture and dinner with biologist Daniel H. Janzen on Oct. 1 to benefit Area de Conservación Guanacaste, 163,000 hectares of tropical treasure in northwestern Costa Rica.

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  • Nation & World

    The march is on

    The Earthwatch Institute will bring its scientists to the Allston-Brighton community on Aug. 30 for a discussion titled “Saving the Penguins of Robben Island, South Africa.”

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    Sherry Turkle to give centennial year Lowell Lecture May 14

    Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and Self, will give this centennial year’s Lowell Lecture, titled “The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,” on May 14 (8 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall), hosted by the Harvard University Extension School.

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    Bringing faiths together

    Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions celebrates its 50th anniversary of mining the commonalities of faith.

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    Harvard launches on iTunes U

    Harvard University today launched its own content on iTunes U, a dedicated area within iTunes that allows students, faculty, alumni, and visitors to tap into the University’s wealth of public lectures and educational materials on video and audio.

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    Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Cherry A. Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, hosted her first “all-hands” community meeting on Oct. 16 to outline her ambitious 10-year plan for the School.

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School

    A new lecture series presented by the Center for the Study of World Religions explores ecology in light of religion.

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