In honor of Earth Day, the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Office of the Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability present a conversation about the path forward on climate change, featuring John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy, HKS; Jim Stock, Vice Provost for Climate & Sustainability; and Terry Tempest Williams, Writer-in-Residence, Harvard Divinity School.... Read more about Earth Day 2022: A Path Forward

Join the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice for a day of panel discussions and advocacy workshops aiming to provide an opportunity for academics, activists and artists to consider how Trotter's radical activism can address critical issues facing us today, and offer opportunities to hear from distinguished professors and practitioners.... Read more about Reimagining Our Radical Roots: A Global Classroom of Citizen Activism

Carlos Martín, Project Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, will discuss the complexities of housing as it relates to respecting vulnerable communities in the face of climate disasters.... Read more about Building Equity into Federal Investments for Housing Resilience

The Arctic Indigenous Youth Leadership Study Group features Indigenous and youth leaders as they share their experiences and expertise from life in the Arctic.... Read more about Arctic Initiative Study Group: Indigenous Youth Leadership

Ed Hackett, Brandeis, will present "Sociological Ambivalence Revisited."... Read more about STS Circle

Three leading journalists will discuss the challenges ahead in covering environmental and climate justice in the US and around the globe: Somini Sengupta of The New York Times; Justin Worland of Time Magazine; and Yessenia Funes of Atmos Magazine. Cristine Russell, ENRP Senior Fellow, will moderate.... Read more about The Challenges Ahead in Covering Environmental and Climate Justice

Lisa Messeri, Yale, will present "Technological Terroir: Tracing the Cultivation of 'Tech' in Los Angeles."... Read more about STS Circle

Continuing the conversation about racial and social injustice in the nuclear field, the Project on Managing the Atom has the honor to host a discussion about the multigenerational impact of uranium mining on the environment, health, and community life of Indigenous people.

Jayita Sarkar, Diplomatic History, Boston University, will give a talk on "Ploughshares and Swords: Technopolitics and Geopolitics in India's Nuclear Program."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Daniel Hirschman, Sociology, Brown, will present "The Costs of Climate Change."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

JoAnne Yates, MIT, and Craig Murphy, Wellesley, will give a talk on "The Evolving Interface between Voluntary Standards and Government Regulation in the US and Europe."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Noelle Eckley Selin, MIT, and Henrik Selin, Boston University, will present "Mercury Stories: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Analyzing Sustainability Challenges."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Ben Hurlbut, Center for Biology and Society, ASU, will present "Can't Stop Progress: Inevitability as Authorization in the Politics of Genome Editing."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Meg Perret, History of Science, Harvard FAS, will present "Climate Change Creates Female Super-Race": Male Extinction, Endangered Turtles & Coral Reef Collapse."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Noah Walker-Crawford, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, will give a talk on "The Politics of Personhood in Climate Change Litigation."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Andre Uhl, Visual Studies, Harvard FAS, will present "Shifting Baselines—Artificial Intelligence and the Ethical Singularity."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Whitney E. Laemmli, History, Carnegie Mellon, will present "'Alien Gesticulations': Movement Science in Germany, 1928-1936."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Janet A. Vertesi, Sociology, Princeton, will present "Shaping Science: Organizations, Cultures, and Decision-Making on NASA's Teams."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard