"The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower, Renewable Energy, and Rural Development in the PRC, 1949-1979" with Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard University.... Read more about Harvard-China Project Research Seminar

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability invite you for a conversation with Emily Fischer, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, and Daniel Schrag, Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.... Read more about Climate Change Conversations: Science, Communication & Gender

The Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability, and the Environmental & Energy Program at HLS present a book release and lecture by John Leshy, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law & Former Solicitor, US Department of the Interior (Clinton Administration).... Read more about Our Common Ground: Why America’s Public Lands Are a Political and Conservation Success

Julia Adeney Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, will present "Frameworks for the Future: The Environment, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene."... Read more about Science and Technology in Asia Seminar

HUCE Environmental Fellow Joanna Linzer will present "The Problem with Dirt: Iron Mining and Environmental Politics in Early Modern Japan."... Read more about Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Lundy Braun, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, will present "Algorithms, Race, and Racism: Historical Perspectives."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Aniket De, History, Harvard FAS, will present "Racial Segregation and Colonial Self-Government: South Africa and British India, 1900–35."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Mistinguette Smith, founding director of the Black/Land Project, will discuss her ten years of interviews about how Black people outside the academy describe the meanings they ascribe to their practices of land use and care, followed by a participatory conversation about how race and land shape autonomy, community, and social and environmental regeneration.... Read more about Black/Land: A Conversation

How might historical narratives and literary analyses help us better make sense of the intensive extraction of the Earth’s resources that underlies our modern era? Historian of science Victor Seow and literary scholar Elizabeth Carolyn Miller will draw upon their recently published books to reflect on this question.... Read more about History & Literature in an Extractive Age

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