Harvard University (videos of April 2017)

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2:31:46 1. Educating Millennials for Ethical Leadership and Trust | IECO – RCC – AAI – Harvard On March 23, 2017, the Fifth Annual IECO-RCC International Colloquium at Harvard University addressed the topic of “Educating Millennials for Ethical Leadership and Trust." This series of colloquia...
27:38 Public Health, Science and Leadership: A Conversation with Gina McCarthy The former administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, discusses her career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program.
1:28:45 Game Changers | 4 of 4 | Gender, Media, and Popular Culture || Radcliffe Institute GENDER, MEDIA, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Michael Messner (7:18), professor of sociology and gender studies, University of Southern California
Rachael Miyung Joo (24:30), assistant professor of American...
1:17:26 Game Changers | 3 of 4 | Conversation with Laila Ali || Radcliffe Institute KEYNOTE CONVERSATION
Laila Ali (5:18), four-time undefeated super-middleweight boxing world champion, fitness and wellness expert, and author
Christine Brennan (7:00), national sports columnist, ...
1:28:49 Game Changers | 2 of 4 | Gender, Sports, and Health/Wellness || Radcliffe Institute GENDER, SPORTS, AND HEALTH/WELLNESS
Brian Hainline (6:34), senior vice president, Sports Science Institute; chief medical officer, National Collegiate Athletic Association; clinical professor of n...
1:50 An Economic Case for Acting on Climate Jisung Park, who receives a PhD in economics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in May 2017, researches how the impacts of climate change will affect human productivity and economi...
4:02 Backstage with the Lowell House Opera at Harvard Every year, the ornate chandeliers and checkered floors of the Lowell House dining hall witness a dramatic transformation, known well to local-dwellers yet practically undetectable to the outside w...
36:02 Game Changer: Toni Stone | Panel Discussion || Radcliffe Institute This panel discussion followed the staged reading of scenes from the play Toni Stone by the playwright Lydia R. Diamond RI ’13, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, director-in-residence, Merrimack R...
1:35:48 Game Changers | 1 of 4 | Who Gets to Play? || Radcliffe Institute
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute; Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
WHO GETS TO PLAY?
Donna A. Lopiano (15:...
28:51 ArtScience Talks @ Le Lab – Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines Wyss Core Faculty member David Mooney presents a talk with Mary Mooney, titled Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines. Marshalling a patient’s immune system to recognize and destroy cance...
1:08:38 The Poet's Voice: Karen Weiser & Alice Notley "A reading for the ages," as Fanny Howe (who introduces this event) called it, featuring Alice Notley (author of CERTAIN MAGICAL ACTS/Penguin and BENEDICTION/Letter Machine Editions) and Karen Weis...
1:09:58 The Poet's Voice: Borzutsky, Girmay & Hutchinson A dynamic triumvirate of voices, this evening featured readings by National Book Award-winning poet Daniel Borzutsky (author of THE PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING HUMAN/Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), Araceli...
1:52:24 Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art Keynote panel with Peter L. Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University), Caroline A. Jones (Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a...
2:03 Harvard researchers study what causes falls among elderly For over 50 years, scientists at the Institute for Aging Research, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have been studying what causes falls among the elderly, and how to prevent them. According...
1:17:34 Fathers and Work Family Balance Although there is still a gender division of labor in post-industrial countries, evidence seems to suggest that there is a growing number of fathers that want to be more involved with their childre...
26:52 Leadership: Public Health and Criminal Justice: Leadership Lessons – R. Gil Kerlikowske The former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gil Kerlikowske, discusses his career path, successes and leadership lessons learned during his time as Seattle’s Chief of Police, Pre...
32:48 Leadership: Daring to Fail – A Conversation with Steven Beshear The former Governor of Kentucky, Steven Beshear, discusses his career path, successes and leadership lessons learned as he guided Kentucky through the historic recession to become a leader in job c...
2:42 John Lithgow talks about his art-making experiences The award-winning actor and Harvard Arts Medalist discusses his success on stage and screen, and at Harvard.
1:44:29 Hrant Dink Memorial Peace and Justice Lecture | Minorities and Human Rights in Turkey Participants: Ayşe Gül Altınay (Professor of Anthropology, Sabancı University), Gerard Libaridian
(Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History, University of Michigan, retired), Etiyen Mahçupya...
1:01:48 Lead Contamination Beyond Flint: Drinking Water and Children's Health On the whole, American drinking water is safe. However, more than a year after toxic lead levels forced a federal state of emergency in Flint, MI, 63 percent of Americans report that they worry a g...
33:43 The Opioid Epidemic and Bipartisanship: A Conversation with Senator Kelly Ayotte The former United States Senator from New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte, discusses her career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program.
1:36:11 Text Mining & Libraries: What can we learn from HathiTrust, digital scholars, and the ASHE project? A discussion of libraries' use of full-text metadata for research including copyright issues, scholars' text mining practices, and lessons to be learned from ASHE (Automatic Subject Heading Extract...
2:07 The Harvard Arts Medal Since 1995, Harvard University has awarded the Harvard Arts Medal to a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts and has made a contribut...
1:37:49 Writers Speak | Daniel Alarcón and Francisco Goldman in Conversation with Claire Messud Daniel Alarcón
Author of the novels Lost City Radio (2008) and At Night We Walk in Circles (2014); founder of Radio Ambulante and the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship
Francisco Goldman
Author of t...
1:12:54 Quotas Matter: The Impact of Gender Quota Laws on Work-Family Policies with Ana Catalano Weeks Do gender quotas matter to policy outcomes, or are they just `window dressing'? In this seminar, Ana Catalano Weeks discusses her findings from one of the first studies of the relationship between ...
3:50 New Jersey student uprooted by Hurricane Sandy makes the most of his opportunity at Harvard When Michael Wingate earned his diploma as valedictorian of his high school class, he didn’t have a wall to hang it on. Hurricane Sandy had destroyed the Union Beach, N.J., house where he lived wit...
2:08:04 BOSTON ORIGINALS: Spring 2017 Reading Set One: Oni Buchanan, Jim Dunn, Boyd Nielson & Natalie Shapero
Set Two: Joshua Bennett, David Blair, Steph Burt & Lloyd Schwartz
Our popular Boston Originals series continues with a reading by e...
1:20:19 Jane Kamensky | John Singleton Copley's Declaration of Interdependence || Radcliffe Institute In this lecture, Jane Kamensky (7:36), the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and a professor of histor...
56:18 A.K. Burns | Negative Space || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, A.K. Burns RI ’17 provides a definition of negative space as something unfixed: it's dynamic, ch...
1:58 Learning from the masters: Cassandra Wilson Acclaimed jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson passes down to Harvard students what she’s learned from her decades in music as part of the University’s “Jazz Master in Residence program.”
1:24:45 Naomi Oreskes: "The Scientist as Sentinel" Naomi Oreskes, "The Scientist as Sentinel"
March 29, 2017
Scientists are often reluctant to speak in public on contested issues, for fear that this will "politicize" their science and have a...
1:01:27 Race and Policing: State and Local Perspectives Building on two previous Forums about race, criminal justice and health (from February 2015 and October 2015), this event examined specific approaches and models to address the complexities of race...
1:16:15 Major Jackson | Urban Renewal: A Poetry Reading and Discussion || Radcliffe Institute The poet Major Jackson RI ’07 reads selected poems from across his catalogue that share a recurring theme: urban renewal.
Introduction by Julie A. Buckler, the faculty director of the humanities ...
57:47 Marijuana: The Latest Scientific Findings and Legalization California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada became the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana, bringing to 28 the number of states that have okayed the drug for medicinal use, recreation...
3:32 Harvard Professor takes Alzheimer’s fight personally Harvard Medical School Professor Reisa Sperling talks about the personal impact of Alzheimer’s disease, which killed both her father and grandfather. Sperling, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Ho...
1:59:40 20 Questions | Heather Cox Richardson on Shock Events and the Trump Presidency Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History, Boston College.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shock-e...