Research & Teaching

Emmanuel Akyeampong

Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Peter K. Bol

Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost for Advances in Learning
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Janet Browne

Aramont Professor of the History of Science [On Leave]
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Lawrence Buell

Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature [Emeritus]
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Steph Burt

Professor of English
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Joyce Chaplin

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Verena Conley

Long Term Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Diana L. Eck

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies; Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard Divinity School

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James Engell

Gurney Professor of English Literature; Professor of Comparative Literature
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Peter L. Galison

Joseph Pellegrino University Professor; Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments; Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Sharon Harper

Professor of Visual Art, Visual and Environmental Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Alison Frank Johnson

Professor of History; Director of Graduate Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Robin Kelsey

Dean of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Yukio Lippit

Professor of History of Art and Architecture; Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts; The Radcliffe Institute
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Michael McCormick

Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History; Chair, The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Daniel McKanan

Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity
Harvard Divinity School

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Ian J. Miller

Professor of History
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Elisa New

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Naomi Oreskes

Professor, History of Science; Affiliated Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Alexander Rehding

Fanny Peabody Professor of Music; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Music
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Emma Rothschild

Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History; Director, Center for History and Economics
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Marc Shell

Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of English and American Literature and Language
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Mariano Siskind

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Doris Sommer

Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African & African American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish; Director, Cultural Agents Initiative
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Lucas Stanczyk

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Karen Thornber

Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Chair, Harvard University Council on Asian Studies; Director, Harvard Global Institute Environmental Humanities Initiative
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Epistemological Questions about Science

A profile on Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Naomi Oreskes
May 25, 2017

Five-Minute Warnings

Video project by HUCE channels wide range of climate change knowledge at Harvard
April 24, 2017

Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene

HUCE Fellow Laura Martin and research team explore the role of artificial intelligence in conservation
March 24, 2017

First 100 Days: Narratives of Normalization and Disruption

The Program on Science, Technology, and Society (STS) launches a new blog aimed at bringing scholarship into closer conversation with practice, and creating allowances for imagining different futures by critically reflecting on our present moment
February 3, 2017

Drawing the Eye to Extinction

Artist’s perspective gives HMNH exhibit ‘gut level’ power
January 31, 2017

Global Concerns on Climate Change

Harvard experts gather at event co-hosted by President Faust, HUCE, and the Harvard Global Institute to discuss urgency, complexity of growing problem
November 17, 2016

Incorporating Environmental History

A profile on Professor of Early American History Joyce Chaplin
May 24, 2016

Students Bring Fresh Perspective to Environmental Issues

HUCE funding supports undergrads from across disciplines
October 5, 2015

Climate Change: A Risk Assessment

New report, commissioned by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and co-authored by HUCE, provides stark assessment of wide-ranging dangers posed by unchecked global warming
July 17, 2015

Environment Takes Center Stage

An interview with Diane Paulus, Ryan McKittrick, and Diane Borger of the American Repertory Theater
May 27, 2015

Finding Poetry in Nature

Harvard scholars explore the relationship between literature and the environment
May 27, 2015

New Energy and Environment Secondary Attracts Students from Diverse Fields

New program has drawn 20 students from concentrations across Harvard
February 9, 2015

Harvard Rolls Out Plan for the Future

Roadmap for building healthier, more sustainable campus community
October 23, 2014

How Universities Can Tackle Climate Change

A Op-Ed by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust and Stanford University President John L. Hennessy
September 24, 2014

Destination: Doom

Professor Naomi Oreskes’ novella imagines a world done in by climate change
July 29, 2014

Charting China's Course

Harvard faculty probe the nexus between environment, energy, and economic growth
June 9, 2014

Air Pollution's Invisible Toll

Two decades later, pivotal Harvard School of Public Health Six Cities Study key in fight for clean air
June 9, 2014

Annals of Climate

Professor Michael McCormick will lead a project aimed at constructing the most detailed historical record yet of European climate
April 23, 2014

How Boston Is—and Should Be—Preparing for Rising Seas

Joyce Rosenthal comments on preparing Boston for climate change
April 10, 2014

Fund to Tackle Climate Change

President Drew Faust issues challenge to help find environmental solutions
April 9, 2014

Advising on Climate Change

When government ponders helpful policies, Harvard faculty members are front and center
April 9, 2014

Harvard Takes Steps to Promote Environment

President Drew Faust unveiled several new initiatives to strengthen the university’s commitment to environmental sustainability and renewable energy
April 9, 2014

Scientists and Aid Experts Plan for a Warmer Future

Public health expert Jennifer Leaning analyzes the results of this past May's Humanitarian Action Summit
August 16, 2013

Climate Change as a Facet of War

Uruguay holds lessons for avoiding civil conflict, says Environmental Fellow Nathan Black
August 15, 2013

A Patio Space Transformed

GSD students create a gathering spot that also cleans stormwater
July 29, 2013

Designing a Cleaner Future

Award-winning thesis project could change Ghana’s landscape
July 10, 2013

Introducing the 2013-15 Environmental Fellows

HUCE welcomes new cohort of postdoctoral researchers, bids farewell to outgoing Fellows
June 17, 2013

Reflections on Rio

Sachi Oshima '13 recalls her experience at last summer's Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil
June 17, 2013

Humanitarian Response to Climate Disasters

An interview with professors Jennifer Leaning and Michael VanRooyen
June 17, 2013

Social Movements and Climate Change

Activists and scholars debate the role of social movements in confronting climate issues
June 17, 2013

Urgent Prep Work

Climate science, disaster relief converge at HUCE co-sponsored conference
May 19, 2013

With Nature in Mind

Landscape architect specializes in finding environmental solutions to China’s urbanization problems
April 24, 2013

Earth Feels Impact of Middle Class

Future of Energy speaker Sir David King says problem isn’t just population, it’s lifestyle
April 22, 2013

New England Colleges Win Awards for Reducing Food Waste

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized Harvard for cutting food waste below previous years' levels
April 8, 2013

HUCE Welcomes New Environmental Fellows

September 11, 2012

Bon Bini

July 24, 2012

Destination: Antarctica

July 23, 2012

Profile: Richard Hornbeck

November 18, 2011

Profile: Emma Rothschild

November 15, 2011

Probing the Future of Energy, Across the Disciplines

A profile on the Graduate Consortium on Energy & Environment
May 13, 2011

Harvard Professor Spearheads Global Sustainability Course

February 28, 2011

HUCE Scholarships Support Summer Research

February 28, 2011

HUCE Welcomes Incoming Environmental Fellows

September 17, 2010

From the Gene to the Globe

June 30, 2009

Spring/Summer 2009 Newsletter

June 15, 2009

HUCE Associates Named Top Young Innovators Under 35

September 1, 2008

Center Seed Grants Spur Innovative Environmental Research

April 1, 2008

PHIL 24. Ethics of Climate Change

How should governments respond to the problem of climate change? What should happen to the level of greenhouse gas emissions and how quickly? How much can the present generation be expected to sacrifice to improve conditions for future generations?

*HISTSCI 131V. Environments in Crisis

Our understanding of the relationship between humans and the environment has been forged in moments of crisis: natural and human-made disasters, technological failures, political disputes, scientific controversies.

*HIST-LIT 90CB. Environmental Change in American History and Literature

This course examines American environmental literature from the period of colonization through the era of climate change.  Our focus will be on how people from an array of different backgrounds experienced and inscribed North American environments.  We will pay particular attention to issues of r

[*COMPLIT 146. Space and Place: The Environment in Film]

Focuses on the effect of the environment in film. Reads films grouped according to environmental themes (humans, nature and animals, water, consumption, pollution, climate change) side by side with critical articles.

Expos 20.218; 20.219: Expository Writing 20: Humans, Nature, and the Environment

An intensive seminar that aims to improve each student’s ability to discover and reason about evidence through the medium of essays. Each section focuses on a particular theme or topic, described on the Expos Website.

[History 1914. The History of Environmental Activism]

Why do some human beings step forward to defend the non-human?

HIS 4304: North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present

Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as artistic subject; the shape of coastal landscape for conflicting uses over time; and the perception of the seashore as marginal zone in litera

[HDS 2798: Introduction to Religion and Ecology]

This course will explore the intersection between religious traditions and ecological activism, with special attention to current conversations about "ethical eating." We will consider both the resources that religious traditions provide to ecological activists and the ways these activists have c

HIS 4105: Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present

North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs, and as depicted in fiction, poetry, cartography, television, cinema, and advertising and cybernetic simulation.

*Visual and Environmental Studies 107. Studies of the Built North American Environment since 1580

North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs, and as depicted in fiction, poetry, cartography, television, cinema, and advertising and cybernetic simulation.

*Visual and Environmental Studies 166. North American Seacoasts and Landscapes, Discovery to Present: Seminar

Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as artistic subject; the shape of coastal landscape for conflicting uses over time; and the perception of the seashore as marginal zone in litera

[*History 79e. Commodities in International History]

Introduces students to international history through the study of commodities ranging from oil, coal, and cotton to potatoes, rum, coffee, and sugar.

May 3, 2018
Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, 11 Quincy St., Cambridge

Environmental Poetry Pop-Up

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and Poetry in America invite you to a poetry share. Join us for a reading and the opportunity to share your own poem that addresses the theme "Just Looking: What does it mean to just look, or to look 'justly,' at the natural world?"
Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 12:00pm
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April 17, 2018
Room 102, Harvard Hall, 1465 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

The River is In Us: Achieving Environmental Reproductive Justice in a Mohawk Community

Folklore and Mythology and Harvard University Native American Program invite you for a talk by Elizabeth Hoover, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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April 26, 2018
Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

Environmental Poetry Pop-Up @ ARTS FIRST

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and Poetry in America invite you to a poetry share as a part of Harvard's ARTS FIRST festival. We invite you to join us for a reading and the opportunity to read your own poem or other "nature writing" that addresses the theme: WILDERNESS, CONSERVATION, & ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM – What is wilderness and what does it mean to conserve it? 
Thursday, April 26, 2018 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
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April 23, 2018
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center

"The Floral Archive: Climate, Empire, and the Problem of Scale" with Deborah R. Coen, Professor of History and Chair of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University.
Monday, April 23, 2018 - 6:00pm
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April 19, 2018
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Through Fish Eyes: Dance Exploring Marine Life

Using the versatile movement vocabulary of the classical Indian dance form, Bharata Natyam, Prakriti Dance will perform representations of marine creatures and their underwater interactions. Through dance, the group will bring to life ecosystems that exist beneath the surface of the ocean and will involve museum visitors in the process of developing the piece.
Thursday, April 19, 2018 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
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March 30, 2018
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge

Toxic Tales, Body Burdens, and Climatic Conundrums

2018 Folklore & Mythology Symposium with keynote speaker Tiffany Lethabo King, WGSS, Georgia State University. Hosted by Folklore & Mythology and The Office of the Provost, Harvard University.
Friday, March 30, 2018 (All day)
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March 27, 2018
Stubbins (112), Gund Hall, 42 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction

Join Jeannette Sordi, Luis Valenzuela, and Felipe Vera for a discussion of their new book, which aims to articulate a discussion about territories of extraction in order to set up concepts and provide a general overview of their common challenges throughout different landscapes.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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March 28, 2018
CGIS Knafel Bldg, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Care Tactics: Environmental Practice of Everyday Life

The Weatherhead Center for International Studies welcomes Verena Conley, Director of Graduate Studies; Long-Term Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literature, Dept. of Comparative Literature.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
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February 8, 2018
Room 105, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge

The ’68 Years and the "Wind from the West"

The France and the World seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center welcome Kristin Ross, who will present a re-evaluation of the French and global 60s in the light of contemporary territorial and land-based struggles like the zad (zone-à-défendre, or zone to defend) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. She will argue that ’68 was a movement that began in the cities whose intelligence and future leads to the earth/Earth. In other words: "De boue, les damnés de la terre."
Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 5:00pm
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February 16, 2018
Littauer Center, 1805 Cambridge Street, M16

Economic History Workshop

"The Slaughter of the Bison and the Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains" with Donna Feir, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Victoria.
Friday, February 16, 2018 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
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March 1, 2018
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, GSD, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

“A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice

Harvard's Graduate School of Design welcomes Aaron Sachs, Professor of History and American Studies, Cornell University, for the Spring 2018 Frederick Law Olmstead Lecture.
Thursday, March 1, 2018 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
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April 19, 2018
HUCE Seminar Room 429, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"An American Colony in 18th-century France: Les Nantuckois of Dunkirk and the Spread of Enlightened Illumination" with Darrin M. McMahon, Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College. 
Thursday, April 19, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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April 11, 2018
Harvard University Science Center, Room 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"Ocean Development Policy, Climate Change, and Floating City Projects: The Ups and Downs of Oceanic Urbanization since the 1960s" with Stefan Huebner, Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, hosted by Modern Sciences Working Group. 
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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March 29, 2018
HUCE Seminar Room 429, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"Shaky Ground: The Untold Story of the Largest Earthquake Surge in Modern History" with Conevery Bolton Valencius, Professor of History, Boston University; David Corcoran, Associate Director, MIT’s Knight Science; and Anna Kuchment, Journalist, Dallas Morning News and Scientific American. 
Thursday, March 29, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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March 8, 2018
HUCE Seminar Room 429, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"Resource Anxieties" with Victor Seow, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science.
Thursday, March 8, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
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February 8, 2018
Room 335, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

France and the World Seminar

The Mahindra Humanities Center welcomes Thangam Ravindranathan, Brown University, who will discuss “The Elephant in the Text.” Romain Gary's les raciness du ciel, Conrad, Orwell, Babar the Elephant, colonization and elephants, species vulnerability/preservation, the ivory trade then and now, elephant jokes, and more.
Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 5:00pm
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February 15, 2018
HUCE Seminar Room 429, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"Ecology, Extinction, and the End of the Second Pandemic: Plague in the Ottoman Empire" with Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor, Rutgers University.
Thursday, February 15, 2018 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
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February 14, 2018
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Bldg, 2nd Floor, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial in the Trump Era is Threatening our Planet, Politics, and the Public

The university community and the public are invited to a lively Harvard Kennedy School conversation with award-winning Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 -
4:15pm to 5:45pm
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October 7, 2017
Harvard Forest, 324 North Main St., Petersham

Hemlock Hospice Art Exhibition Opening

The Harvard Forest will host an opening reception for Harvard Forest Bullard Fellow David Buckley Borden’s Hemlock Hospice installation on the Prospect Hill Tract and his parallel exhibition of prints, drawings, and sculptures in the Fisher Museum.
Saturday, October 7, 2017 -
12:00pm to 4:00pm
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November 2, 2017
HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

HUCE Special Lecture: Selections from "Black Maps" with David Maisel

American photographer and visual artist David Maisel will discuss "Black Maps," an ongoing multi-chaptered series of aerial photographs of environmentally impacted sites exploring the aesthetics and politics of radically human-altered environments currently on display in the Center lounge.
Thursday, November 2, 2017 - 4:00pm
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October 12, 2017
Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge

Foodbetter Harvard 2017

Foodbetter Harvard invites you to ask questions about the food system and how to improve it: how to grow better, eat better, shop better, conserve better . . . how to Foodbetter. Join a Lightning Round of 5-7 minute Foodbetter Ideas shared by a cross-section of the community, as well as a discussion about how industry leaders are reinventing the food system and their communities from their Boston-area restaurants.
Thursday, October 12, 2017 -
3:30pm to 6:00pm
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September 14, 2017
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

Thoreau Bicentennial: Celebrating Henry David’s 200th Birthday at HDS

To honor the life of Henry David Thoreau in the year of his 200th birthday, Harvard Divinity School will host Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life and Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees to discuss Thoreau's life and work. Respondents include Barry Andrews, a Unitarian Universalist minister who is the author of several books on Transcendentalism and a longtime participant in the Thoreau Society, and Terry Tempest Williams, who is an author, conservationist, and activist who will be a writer-in-residence at HDS during the 2017–18 academic year.
Thursday, September 14, 2017 -
7:00pm to 9:30pm
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February 13, 2018
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston

Boston Environmental History Seminar

The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts Benjamin Kochan, Boston University, who will discuss "Governor Francis W. Sargent: Fisheries Manager" with comment by Brian Payne, Bridgewater State University. 
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 5:15pm
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January 16, 2018
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston

Boston Environmental History Seminar

The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts Jeffrey Egan, University of Connecticut, who will discuss "The Fight Before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Debate Over Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927" with comment by Karl Haglund, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 5:15pm
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December 12, 2017
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston

Boston Environmental History Seminar

The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts Hannah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania, who will discuss "Lived Botany: Settler Colonialism, Household Knowledge Production, and Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania" with comment by Thomas Wickman, Trinity College.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 5:15pm
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November 14, 2017
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston

Boston Environmental History Seminar

The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts Jacqueline Gonzalez, Historical Research Associates, who will give a talk on "Drafting the Cape Cod Formula" with comment by Steven Moga, Smith College.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 5:15pm
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October 10, 2017
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston

Boston Environmental History Seminar

The Massachusetts Historical Society hosts James Rice, Tufts University, who will give a talk on "Early American Environmental Histories" with comment by Chris Parsons, Northeastern University.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 5:15pm
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November 27, 2017
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

STS Circle at Harvard

"Grapes from Zion: Biblical Prophesy and Quality Wine in the West Bank" with Ian McGonigle (Harvard, Anthropology).
Monday, November 27, 2017 -
12:15pm to 2:00pm
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June 17, 2017
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Thoreau and the Language of Trees

The Harvard Museum of Natural History welcomes author Richard Higgins.
Saturday, June 17, 2017 - 2:00pm
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May 3, 2017
Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center

Tiya Miles, University of Michigan, will present “'I've Known Rivers': Slave Resistance and Environmental Consciousness."
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 6:00pm
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April 18, 2017
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, GSD, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Jonathan Franzen, “So Do We Just Give Up on Nature?”

The Graduate School of Design presents “So Do We Just Give Up on Nature?” with Jonathan Franzen, as part of the Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
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May 2, 2017
Harvard Forest Fisher Museum, 324 North Main Street, Petersham

Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak

Join veteran Seattle Times reporter Lynda Mapes for a public presentation during her brief return to Petersham for the launch of her new book, "Witness Tree," written during her fellowship at the Harvard Forest in 2014-2015
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 7:00pm
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April 29, 2017
Harvard Forest Fisher Museum at 324 North Main Street, Petersham

Climate Week: Open Studio at Harvard Forest with David Buckley Borden

The Harvard Forest invites you to meet the artist, tour the studio, and view works in progress installed in the landscape around the studio. Borden’s work includes landscape installations in the woods and data-driven maps and prints in galleries.
Saturday, April 29, 2017 -
12:00pm to 4:00pm
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April 20, 2017
The Broad Institute, 415 Main St., Cambridge

Tipping the Scales on Climate Change: Covering and Communicating an Unthinkably Big Problem

In its physical, political, and ethical dimensions, the climate change problem is mind-boggling — and perhaps more complex than any other humanity has ever faced. Join the Knight Science Journalism Program and Undark Magazine for a short film and panel discussion aimed at bringing the problem down to size.
Thursday, April 20, 2017 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
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April 6, 2017
Fisher Family Commons, CGIS Knafel Bldg, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Collapse The Distance: A Climate Change Storytelling Project

The Weatherhead Center for International Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center invite you to an opening reception and viewing of "Collapse The Distance: A Climate Change Storytelling Project," a photography exhibit by Mattea Mrkusic, Kenneth I. Juster Fellow 2015–2016, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Harvard College 2017 Special Concentrator in Human Rights and the Environment.
Thursday, April 6, 2017 -
4:30pm to 6:00pm
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April 6, 2017
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

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

The Mahindra Humanities Center hosts a panel discussion featuring 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.
Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 6:00pm
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March 30, 2017
Room S-030, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Ecology, Art and Politics in the 1970's in Brazil

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies hosts a lecture by Claudia Mattos Avolese, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Campinas and DRCLAS Cisneros Visiting Scholar.
Thursday, March 30, 2017 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
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March 22, 2017
4-163, MIT, 182 Memorial Dr., Cambridge

People & the Planet Lecture

The Environmental Solutions Initiative at MIT presents "The Making of The Narrow Bridge" with ESI Visiting Scholar Deborah Cramer, author of A Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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February 25, 2017
Hunnewell Bldg, 125 Arbor Way, Boston

Botany Blast: A Look at Tree Architecture

Bundle up for this walk in the Arboretum to consider the architecture of trees. Andrew Gapinski, Manager of Horticulture, Arnold Arboretum, will explain tree growth patterns, from pointy to broad, and encourage participants to make quick, 20-second sketches to focus on branching patterns, overall shape, and direction of growth.
Saturday, February 25, 2017 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
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February 16, 2017
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Bldg, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Film Screening: "Containment"

Containment, a film by Harvard Professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss, brings together observational footage with graphic novel and 3D animation to explain our uneasy present and an imaginative, troubled far future.
Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 5:45pm
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February 6, 2017
CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Environment in Asia Speaker Series

The Environmental Humanities Initiative of the Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies welcomes Julie Klinger, Asst. Professor of International Relations, Boston University, who will give a talk on "On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of Our Possible Futures."
Monday, February 6, 2017 -
4:30pm to 6:00pm
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February 22, 2017
Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Weathering: Toward a Sustainable Humanities

A lecture by Stephanie LeMenager, Radcliffe Institute '17, as part of the 2016–2017 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellows' Presentation Series.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 4:00pm
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February 22, 2017
Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Arctic Ghosts: Ecocruising the Death Spiral

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center welcomes Roy Scranton, Assistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, and author of "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization."
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 6:00pm
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March 6, 2017
Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Oceans Lecture Series

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies presents "Ocean Photography: Inspiring Conservation," a lecture by Keith Ellenbogen, underwater photographer.
Monday, March 6, 2017 - 5:00pm
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February 22, 2017
Geological Lecture Hall (100), 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Next of Kin: Seeing Extinction through the Artist’s Lens

The Harvard Museum of Natural History invites you to a panel discussion with Carrie Lambert-Beattie, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and History of Art and Architecture; Director of Graduate Studies, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University; Christina Seely, Artist and Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Dartmouth College; Ross Virginia, Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science; Director, Institute of Arctic Studies, The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College; and moderated by Edward Morris, Artist; Professor of Practice, Department of Transmedia; Co-Director of The Canary Lab, Syracuse University; Co-Director of The Canary Project.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 6:00pm
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January 30, 2017
Asia Centers Lounge, First Floor, CGIS South Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Traces: Dark Cloud - Special One-Day Photography Exhibition

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies welcomes award winning photographer Ian Teh for a special one-day exhibition and talk.
Monday, January 30, 2017 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
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December 1, 2016
Gund Hall 123, GSD, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime

The Urban Theory Lab at the Graduate School of Design presents a lecture by photographer David Maisel, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Neil Brenner and featuring Pierre Bélanger, Rosetta Sarah Elkin, and Sharon Harper.
Thursday, December 1, 2016 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
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November 15, 2016
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Bldg, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Film Screening: "Containment"

Imagine a society 10,000 years from now. Can we protect them from the deadliest, most long-lasting radioactive substances ever produced? The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School invite you to a film screening of "Containment" followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, Harvard Professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 -
4:15pm to 6:45pm
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October 29, 2016
Hunnewell Bldg, 25 Arborway, Boston

Trees: Intimate Portraits

Artist Jennifer Weigel sheds light on the often overlooked details of trees in this new exhibition of photographs coming to the Hunnewell Building.
Saturday, October 29, 2016 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
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November 17, 2016
237 Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

Wanton Extinction: Foucault, Wynter, and the Anthropocene

Lynne Huffer, Emory University, will give a talk that draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Sylvia Wynter to rethink the Anthropocene. Critically responding to the renaturalizing turn in recent feminist and queer thought, it seeks to articulate an ethics of living through a genealogical lens, engaging deep time and the fossil record as an archive of extinction.
Thursday, November 17, 2016 -
4:30pm to 6:30pm
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October 20, 2016
Weld Hill Research Bldg, 1300 Centre St., Roslindale

Wild by Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes

Can nature—in all its unruly wildness—be an integral part of creative landscape design? With beautiful images, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick offers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach that challenges the entrenched belief that natural processes cannot complement high-level landscape design. Hosted by the Arnold Arboretum.
Thursday, October 20, 2016 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
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October 13, 2016
Emerson Hall 210, 19 Quincy St., Cambridge

HEEC Film Screening: Young Voices for the Planet

The Harvard Extension Environmental Club (HEEC) invite you to a special screening of the film "Young Voices for the Planet."
Thursday, October 13, 2016 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm
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October 19, 2016
Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

Pre-Release Screening & Discussion: Before the Flood

HUCE and National Geographic invite you to a special pre-release screening and discussion of the documentary film, Before the Flood. From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, environmental activist and U.N. Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio, Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 5:30pm
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November 17, 2016
Hunnewell Bldg, 125 Arborway, Boston

Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane that Transformed New England

The Arnold Arboretum welcomes author, journalist, and natural historian, Stephen Long for a special talk on the forests and the people of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont who were faced with acre after acre of blown down trees after the devastating 1938 hurricane.
Thursday, November 17, 2016 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
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September 26, 2016
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge

Alchemical Ecology: Rudolf Steiner and the Environmental Movement

The Mahindra Harvard Humanities Center invites you to attend a meeting of the Philosophy, Poetry and Religion Seminar with guest speaker Daniel McKanan, HDS.
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 5:30pm
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September 21, 2016
Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

ARTS@DRCLAS Film Series: Death by a Thousand Cuts

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies hosts a screening of Death by a Thousand Cuts, followed by a discussion with Juan Mejía Botero, the film's director, and Jake Kheel, the film's co-director and producer. The talk will be moderated by Brian D. Farrell, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 5:30pm
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September 19, 2016
Hunnewell Bldg, 125 Arborway, Boston

Water—and Climate—Solutions in Plain Sight

The Arnold Arboretum welcomes Judith D. Schwartz, journalist and author, who looked deeply into the challenges and solutions around Earth’s soil in her 2013 book, Cows Save the Planet, and has now turned her sights towards water and restoring ecological cycles in her new book, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World.
Monday, September 19, 2016 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
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September 22, 2016
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Saving Eden: A Work in Progress

The upcoming film, Saving Eden from the Sixth Extinction, tells the story of how animals such as northern white rhinos, polar bears, African elephants, and bonobos have been pushed to the brink of extinction and it highlights the critical work that scientists and activists are doing to save these species.
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 6:00pm
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December 5, 2016
HUCE Seminar Room (440), MCZ, 29 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"Street Tree Stories: On the Politics of Nature in the City" with Sonja Duempelmann (GSD).
Monday, December 5, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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HUCE Seminar Room (440), MCZ, 29 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"The Political Ecology of China's First Empire" with Brian Lander (Harvard University Center for the Environment).
September 19, 2016
HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ, 26 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

“The Materials of Imperialism: Engineering Arid Landscapes in Washington’s Columbia Basin and Afghanistan’s Helmand Valley” with Linda Nash (University of Washington).
Monday, September 19, 2016 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
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September 15, 2016
HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ, 26 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge

Environmental History Working Group

"Bikini Atoll as 'the World in Miniature': Ecological Fieldwork and World War" with Laura Martin (Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment).
Thursday, September 15, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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September 14, 2016
Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center

Terry Tempest Williams will discuss her book "The Hour of Land: Our National Parks As Breathing Spaces," which honors the centennial of the National Park Service.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 6:00pm
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June 12, 2016
Oak Collection, 125 Arborway, Boston

Inuksuit

The Arnold Arboretum and Kadence Arts will host the Boston premiere of Inuksuit —a 75-minute work for percussion ensemble that is designed to heighten awareness of the sights and sounds that surround us every day
Sunday, June 12, 2016 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
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May 26, 2016
Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge

In the Body of the World

Playwright and activist Eve Ensler returns to the A.R.T. with a one-woman show, exploring how her work with women brutalized by sexual violence in the Congo helped her fight uterine cancer. HUCE Director Dan Schrag will be featured in May 26th's Act II conversation.
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 7:30pm
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May 4, 2016
Room 2-135, 77 Massachusetts Ave., MIT, Cambridge

The Ethics of Collecting in International Agricultural Biodiversity Preservation Projects

MIT's Literature Section hosts Courtney Fullilove, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University, for this special lecture.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
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February 11, 2016 to February 12, 2016
Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture, Princeton University

Environmental Humanities Symposium, Princeton Environmental Institute

"After the Spectacular Image: Art, Architecture, and the Media of Climate Change"
Thursday, February 11, 2016 (All day) to Friday, February 12, 2016 (All day)
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March 3, 2016
Hunnewell Building, 125 Arbor Way, Boston

Civic Ecology: Healing and Growing in Community

Marianne E. Krasny, Cornell University, will share narratives of the emerging grassroots environmental stewardship, arguing that humans’ innate love of nature and attachment to place compels them to restore nature and places that are threatened, destroyed, or lost.
Thursday, March 3, 2016 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
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April 4, 2016
HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge

STS Circle at Harvard

Alden Young (Drexel University) presents "Sudanese Economics: Between an Environmental and a Political Imagination."
Monday, April 4, 2016 -
12:15pm to 2:00pm
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December 4, 2015
Emerson Hall Room 108, 19 Quincy St., Cambridge

Screening of “The Cove”

Presented by the Harvard University Environmental Action Committee and PETA.
Friday, December 4, 2015 -
7:30pm to 9:30pm
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November 20, 2015
59 Shepard St., Community Room 105 at the Student Organization Center at Hillies, Cambridge

The True Cost Documentary Screening and Panel on Sustainable Fashion

A Green Exchange event.
Friday, November 20, 2015 -
6:00pm to 9:00pm
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November 12, 2015
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

English Department Fall Graduate Symposium

Margaret Cohen, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Stanford University, will be delivering a talk on “Underwater Adventures: The Inspiration of Toxic Atmosphere.”
Thursday, November 12, 2015 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
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October 8, 2015
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church Street, Cambridge

Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum

Featuring a screening of the movie, “Off + On: The Climate Movement and the Road Through Paris.”
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 7:00pm
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October 9, 2015
Harvard Community Garden, 27 Holyoke Street, Cambridge

INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective

A special movie screening presented by the Harvard Extension Environmental Club.
Friday, October 9, 2015 -
6:00pm to 8:00pm
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October 19, 2015
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Center for Health and the Global Environment Special Lecture

John Mandyck, Chief Sustainability Officer of United Technologies, will speak about his new book, "Food Foolish"
Monday, October 19, 2015 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
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October 2, 2015
The Ritz-Carlton Boston Common Grand Ballroom, 10 Avery St., Boston

Know Tomorrow: The Climate Change Music Festival

Know Tomorrow Boston is a free outdoor concert and environmental festival dedicated to turning up the volume on climate change. Our goal is to end the debate and band together to propose solutions that can help save our planet.
Friday, October 2, 2015 -
2:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 10, 2015
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Making North America

Join the Harvard Museum of Natural History and NOVA Senior Science Editor Evan Hadingham for a preview of the new NOVA-WGBH series, “Making North America”, an eye-opening adventure through our continent's three-billion-year geological history.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 2:00pm
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September 30, 2015
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge

Super Subs, Not Superbugs

Screening of Michael Graziano’s Documentary, “Resistance”
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 5:00pm
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September 18, 2015
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, 324 N. Main Street, Petersham

Harvard Forest Seminars

David Buckley Borden, Artist & Landscape Architect, Cambridge, will discuss “Hybrid Vigor: Ecology x Art x Design.”
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 11:00am
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October 30, 2015
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, 324 N. Main Street, Petersham

Harvard Forest Seminars

Laura Martin, HUCE Environmental Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard, will discuss “Why Do Restorationists Care About Community Ecology?”
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 11:00am
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November 23, 2015
Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre St., Boston

Arnold Arboretum Seminar Series

Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab, Harvard, will discuss “Biogeographic Influences on Grassland Community Structure and Function.”
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 12:10pm
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September 25, 2015
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge

Talks by the Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellows

The Program in Global American Studies, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, presents talks from postdoctoral fellows Megan Black, Samantha Iyers, Justin Leroy, and Stuart Schrader.
Friday, September 25, 2015 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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September 22, 2015
Science Center Room 469, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

History of Science Seminar Series

Fiona Smyth, Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard; and Laura Martin, HUCE Environmental Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard, will discuss “The History of Ecological Restoration.”
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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November 23, 2015
Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

STS Circle at Harvard

Stu Marvel, Emory University, will discuss “The 'Nature' of Queer Families: Tracking the Socio-Technics of the Fertility Clinic.”
Monday, November 23, 2015 -
12:15pm to 2:00pm
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November 9, 2015
Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

STS Circle at Harvard

Joseph Rouse, Hedding Professor of Moral Science, Wesleyan University, will discuss “What is a Scientific Conception of the World?”
Monday, November 9, 2015 -
12:15pm to 2:00pm
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November 2, 2015
Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

STS Circle at Harvard

Andrew Jewett, Associate Professor of History and Social Studies, Harvard, will discuss “Of Science and Scientism: Framing Science in the Postwar American Humanities.”
Monday, November 2, 2015 -
12:15pm to 2:00pm
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September 21, 2015
Milstein East A, Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

STS Circle at Harvard

Thorsten Trimpop, Fellow, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, will discuss “Meanwhile in Japan – Filming in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone.”
Monday, September 21, 2015 -
12:15pm to 2:30pm
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September 20, 2015
TBA

Book Discussion and Dinner with Dr. Arlene Blum

The Harvard Extension Environmental Club (HEEC) presents a roundtable discussion with mountaineer, environmental health scientist, and author Arlene Blum.
Sunday, September 20, 2015 -
6:00pm to 9:00pm
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September 29, 2015
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science

The Harvard Museum of Natural History presents a talk with Brian D. Farrell, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 6:00pm
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October 5, 2015
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Andrea Wulf reveals in her new book the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today.
Monday, October 5, 2015 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
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October 22, 2015 to October 23, 2015
Harvard University, Cambridge

The History of Energy and the Environment Conference

The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, will hold its fourth conference on October 22-23, 2015 at Harvard University.
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 10:30am to Friday, October 23, 2015 - 3:30pm
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April 28, 2015
Tufts University, Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room, 15 Talbot Ave, Medford

An Evening with Author Per Espen Stoknes

Why does knowing more about the facts of climate change mean believing-- and doing-- less? Join us for a lesson in the psychology of climate (in)action, an evening with Norwegian eco-psychologist Per Espen Stoknes discussing his new book "Why Climate Guilt Doesn't Help"
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 6:30pm
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April 8, 2015
Boston College, McGuinn Hall 121, Chestnut Hill

Religion and the Roots of Climate Change Denial

Katharine Hayhoe, associate professor in the department of Political Science at Texas Tech University and director of the university’s Climate Science Center
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm
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April 8, 2015
Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Climate Week: Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal, Professor, English, University of Utah
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 2:00pm
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April 6, 2015
Longfellow Hall, Room 429, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

Climate Week: "Educating for Climate Change in K-12: Discussion and Sharing of Resources" with Tina Grotzer

Tina Grotzer, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 12:00pm
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April 2, 2015
Harvard Kennedy School Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Bldg, Ground Fl. 79 JFK St. Cambridge

"Sexism in Science & Science Writing: Promoting Women Leaders in the Lab and Newsroom"

A panel discussion with Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism; Meg Urry, Yale astrophysicist & Pres. Amer. Astronomical Soc; Jennifer Bogo, Popular Science Exec. Ed. & VP Soc. of Environmental Journalists
Thursday, April 2, 2015 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
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February 27, 2015
Harvard Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge

Harvard Food+ Research Symposium

The Symposium will feature 20 Harvard faculty members from 8 schools and a dozen departments giving 7 minute "speed presentations" on their current Food+ research
Friday, February 27, 2015 -
12:30pm to 4:30pm
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February 10, 2015
HKS Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4th Floor, ​79 ​John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

HKS Seminar on Media, Energy & Environment

Coral Davenport, New York Times Energy​/​Environment Correspondent, Washington ​DC​, on "Controversy! Covering Climate & Energy from the Nation's Capital"
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
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February 4, 2015
Office of Career Services, Conference Room, 54 Dunster St, Cambridge

Science Pathways Beyond the Bench

Come to this panel discussion to explore pathways into scientific careers beyond bench research. You'll hear from scientists who are using their scientific background in business, technology, and other fields.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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December 18, 2014
Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge

O.P.C Post-Performance Discussion with Professor Dan McKanan

In exploration and celebration of the issues explored in O.P.C., the A.R.T. welcomes you to a series of free events, including skillshares, post-show discussions, and an interactive lobby experience featuring artists from our community. Open to those that have purchased a ticket to any O.P.C performance.
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 7:30pm
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December 16, 2014
Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge,

O.P.C Post-Performance Discussion with Professor Stephen Ansolabehere

In exploration and celebration of the issues explored in O.P.C., the A.R.T. welcomes you to a series of free events, including skillshares, post-show discussions, and an interactive lobby experience featuring artists from our community. Open to those that have purchased a ticket to any O.P.C performance.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 7:30pm
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December 17, 2014
Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge

O.P.C Post-Performance Discussion with Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the New York Times and #1 international bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 2:00pm
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December 1, 2014
Brookline Booksmith, 27 Harvard Street, Boston

"New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City" Reading and Book Discussion

With author Williams Powers
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 6:30pm
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December 3, 2014
Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge

O.P.C - Opening Night

A new Harvard A.R.T. comedy from Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues, O.P.C. is an exploration of consumption and politics that asks, “How are we to survive as a species if we insist on destroying the world we love?”
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 7:30pm
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November 14, 2014
CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

New Directions in Energy History

Panel presentations and a roundtable discussion presented by the Joint Center for History and Economics
Friday, November 14, 2014 -
1:00pm to 5:30pm
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November 12, 2014
Askwith Hall @ HGSE, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

Free Screening of Maker: A Documentary on the Maker Movement

Panel discussion to follow with Edward Clapp and Erika Halverson
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
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November 13, 2014
Harvard Graduate School of Education (Larsen 203), 14 Appian Way, Cambridge

"The Last Mountain" - Film Screening & Talk

A screening of the Sundance documentary film about coal, extreme energy extraction and wind power, featuring a discussion with HGSE professor Tina A. Grotzer, PI for Causal Learning in a Complex World Lab, Project Zero, and Producer of "The Last Mountain" & cleantech entrepreneur, Eric Grunebaum
Thursday, November 13, 2014 -
5:30pm to 7:30pm
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November 15, 2014
Haller Hall, enter at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

The Art of Science of The Unfeathered Bird

In a program intended for artists, scientists, and bird lovers alike, artist and ornithologist Katrina van Grouw will explain her approach to preparing and drawing the specimens featured in her book and share her insights into bird anatomy and biomechanics.
Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 1:00pm
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October 28, 2014
HKS Starr Auditorium, Belfer Bldg., 2nd floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Environmental Film Screening & Panel Discussion

"A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet:" Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Environmental Activism with Chloe Maxmin, Harvard'15, co-founder Divest Harvard; Mick Power, HKS'15, Australian lawyer & activist; Cristine Russell, environment writer & HKS senior fellow.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
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October 2, 2014
Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

A South Asia Institute Book Talk with Luke Patey, Senior Researcher at the Dan­ish Insti­tute for Inter­na­tional Studies; Discussants: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School; Ahmad Al-Mahi, MPA candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Thursday, October 2, 2014 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
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October 2, 2014
Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

A South Asia Institute Book Talk with Luke Patey, Senior Researcher at the Dan­ish Insti­tute for Inter­na­tional Studies; Discussants: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School; Ahmad Al-Mahi, MPA candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Thursday, October 2, 2014 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
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October 16, 2014
Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Building, Room B-01, 24 Cummington Street

Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change

"Shooting Science" with Graham Chedd, Producer, Visiting Professor, The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University
Thursday, October 16, 2014 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 9, 2014
Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Building, Room B-01, 24 Cummington Street, Boston

Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change

"Heroes, Villains, and Nerds: How Science is Portrayed in the Media, and How Portrayals Have Changed" with James Shanahan, Associate Dean, College of Communication, Boston University
Thursday, October 9, 2014 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
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September 30, 2014
BU Photonics Center, Floor 9, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston

Oil and the International History of the 20th Century

A Mellon Sawyer Series Lecture by David Painter
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 7:00pm
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October 9, 2014
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hal, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

Strung Together: Multicellularity and String Quartets

Andrew Berry, Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Ariel Mitnick, Luke Hsu, DJ Cheek, Rainer Crosett, and Alan Toda-Ambaras, Project LENS
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 7:00pm
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November 18, 2013
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington, "Securing the Islands of the Sea: Race, Radicalism, and the U.S. Empire Across the Pacific"
Monday, November 18, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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June 19, 2014
George Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

GSD Executive Education Course: Urban Agriculture and the Form of the City

Urban agriculture is rapidly joining the fabric of cities as an economically viable contributor to sustainable buildings, sites and neighborhoods. This course includes detailed case studies and technical information for planning and design professionals to help craft imaginative and sustainable dimensions to their projects.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 -
9:00am to 5:00pm
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October 26, 2013
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Alfred Russel Wallace Day

Join the Harvard Museum of Natural History to learn more about a brilliant scientist, a heroic naturalist, and a passionate social reformer.
Saturday, October 26, 2013 -
11:00am to 8:00pm
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November 14, 2013
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge

Illustrating Thoreau's Maine Woods: A Photographer's Journey

A Harvard Museum of Natural History exhibition opening lecture with Scot Miller
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 6:00pm
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October 12, 2013
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

The Race to Save Bonobos

A Harvard Museum of Natural History author talk and book signing with Deni Béchard
Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 2:00pm
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September 10, 2013
Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Bee Day at Harvard

Participate in a day of events and activities highlighting the importance of honey bees and beekeeping to biodiversity, the food supply, and human health.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 -
1:00pm to 9:00pm
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September 15, 2013
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Chasing Giraffes

A Harvard Museum of Natural History author talk and lecture with Dale Peterson
Sunday, September 15, 2013 - 2:00pm
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November 25, 2013
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Ed Baptist (Cornell University), “Towards a Theory of Slave Labor”
Monday, November 25, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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November 18, 2013
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington)
Monday, November 18, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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November 13, 2013
CGIS-South, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Jennifer Burns (Stanford University), “On the Long History of Neoliberalism”
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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November 11, 2013
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Shaun Nichols (Harvard University), “Making Class Work: Migrant Labor, mobile Capital, and the Creating of an Industrial Regime in Massachusetts”
Monday, November 11, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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November 7, 2013
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Neil Maher (N. J. Institute of Technology and Rutgers/Newark), Excerpt of “Ground Control: How the Space Race Scrubbed the Revolution” (in progress)
Thursday, November 7, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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November 4, 2013
CGIS North/Knafel, Room K-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt University)
Monday, November 4, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 28, 2013
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Suresh Naidu (Columbia University), “The Economics of Unfree Labor in the Nineteenth Century”
Monday, October 28, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 17, 2013
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Sarah Luria (College of the Holy Cross), Excerpt of “Block Stories: A Field Guide to Where You Live” (in progress)
Thursday, October 17, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 16, 2013
CGIS-South, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute, Geneva), “Beyond Relief in the Near East: The Near East Relief Humanitarian Practices and Visions during the 1920s”
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 4, 2013
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Albert Camarillo (Stanford University), “American Ethnic Studies: Reflections on a Generation of History”
Friday, October 4, 2013 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
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October 3, 2013
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

“Where Do We Begin? Problems and Prospects in Pre-Columbian North American Environmental History.” Presented by the Workshop on The Environment and the American Past
Thursday, October 3, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 2, 2013
CGIS-South, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Jessica Gienow-Hecht (University of Cologne), "‘Saving Women and Children’: Gender and the Rhetoric of Humanitarian Intervention”
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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September 18, 2013
CGIS-South, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lecture

Serhii Plokhii (Harvard) and Mary Sarotte (USC), "The Collapse of Communism in Europe: New Perspectives"
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
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October 1, 2013
The Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway Street, Lecture Hall B029, Cambridge

Himalaya: Mountains of Life

A Harvard Museum of Natural History lecture and panel discussion with Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 4:00pm
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Special Lecture with Zaria Forman

Friday, December 2 - "Stillness and Momentum Through Climate Change"
Artist  Zaria Forman

The inspiration for Forman's drawings began in early childhood when she traveled with her family throughout several of the world's most remote landscapes, which were the subject of her mother's fine art photography.

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Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the humanities and the sciences

May 13, 2016 - "Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the humanities and the sciences"

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Climate Week: Poetry Reading with Paisley Rekdal

Wednesday, April 8 – Climate Week Poetry Reading
Paisley Rekdal, Professor, English, University of Utah

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China 2035: Kevin Rudd

Wednesday, April 30 – "Imagining China's Future: Politics, the Economy, and Climate Change"
Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia

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China 2035: Michael Spence

Tuesday, March 11 – "Challenges to the Sustainability of China's Evolving Growth Model"
Michael Spence, former Dean of FAS; Nobel Laureate in Economics; currently Professor of Economics at New York University

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HUCE Special Lecture: Ken Burns

November 14, 2012 – "The Dust Bowl"
Ken Burns, Academy Award-winning documentarian

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Green Conversations: Andrew Revkin

February 9, 2012 - “FINDING YES: Creating A Constructive Global Conversation about Our Planet's Future”
Andrew R. Revkin, New York Times Dot Earth columnist.

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The EPA @ 40 - Panel 4

December 3, 2010 – "Confronting Climate"
The EPA @ 40: Protecting the Environment and Our Communities

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The EPA @ 40 - Panel 3

December 3, 2010 – "From Science to Policy"
The EPA @ 40: Protecting the Environment and Our Communities

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The EPA @ 40 - Panel 2

December 3, 2010 – "Global Problems, Local Solutions"
The EPA @ 40: Protecting the Environment and Our Communities

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The EPA @ 40 - Keynote Address

December 3, 2010 – Keynote Address
Lisa P. Jackson, EPA Administrator

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The EPA @ 40 - Panel 1

December 3, 2010 – "A Legacy of Environmental Protection"
The EPA @ 40: Protecting the Environment and Our Communities

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Biodiversity: Richard T.T. Forman

September 9, 2011 - "How Could Nature Thrive in Urban Regions? Could the Future of Roads Have No Driving, No Emissions, and Nature Reconnected?”
Richard T. T. Forman, PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Future of Energy: Maxine Savitz

November 17, 2009 – "America’s Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities"
Maxine Savitz, Vice President, National Academy of Engineering; retired general manager, Technology Partnerships, Honeywell, Inc.

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Green Conversations: Max Page

October 16, 2008 – "The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction"
Max Page, Author, The City’s End

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Green Conversations: Lester Brown

February 22, 2008 – "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"
Lester Brown, President and Founder, The Earth Policy Institute

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Environmental Humanities Initiative

A principal purpose of the metadiscipline of environmental humanities is to promote the cultural transformations necessary for reducing ecological devastation and anticipating an increasingly uncertain and potentially traumatic future. The Harvard Global Institute Environmental Humanities Initiative (HGI EHI) is dedicated to developing a multifaceted interdisciplinary research program focused on how human communities from earliest times to the present, within and across national borders, grapple with ecological challenges.

Center for History and Economics

The objective of the Center is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance. In conjunction with its counterpart Centre at King's College, Cambridge, the Harvard Center undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars, and exchanges of faculty and graduate students.

Program on Science, Technology, and Society

Through integrated, cross-disciplinary initiatives in research, teaching, training, and public outreach the Program seeks to develop foundational, policy-relevant insights into the nature of science and technology, and the ways in which they both influence and are influenced by society, politics, and culture. 

Harvard Office for Sustainability

The Office for Sustainability at Harvard connects people across the University with information, tools, and inspiration for the challenge at hand: making Harvard sustainable for the long term.

Harvard Forest

From a center comprised of 3000 acres of land, research facilities, and the Fisher Museum the scientists, students, and collaborators at the Forest explore topics ranging from conservation and environmental change to land-use history and the ways in which physical, biological and human systems interact to change our earth.

China Project

The China Project is a research program focused on China’s atmospheric environment, collaborating across the schools of Harvard University and with Chinese universities. It conducts interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed studies on air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from the root causes in the demand for and supply of energy powering its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on human health and the economy.

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