Bray Room, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue, Louis Pasteur, Boston
Speakers: Marcia Castro, Associate Professor of Demography, Department of Population and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Celina M. Turchi, Researcher, Fundaçāo; Olswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) C. ; Jessica Metcalf, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Anne Rimoi, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles; Pardis Sabeti, Professor of...
Please join President Drew Faust and a panel of experts in a conversation about the future of cities.
Moderator: John Macomber, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Panelists: Diane Davis, Chair Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design; John Fernandez, Professor, MIT; Urban Metabolism Group, African Urban Metabolism Network; Christian Irmisch, Principal, Siemens AG Mobility Division; Stefan Knupfer, Senior Partner ,McKinsey & Compan, Leader Sustainability Resource...
With grant support from the French-American Jazz Exchange Program, Cuban-American saxophonist/percussionist/composer Yosvany Terry and French pianist Baptiste Trotignon present a unique and exciting program inspired by the rich and diverse musical traditions that emerged from...
Peabody Museum, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Speaker: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies, Department of Anthropology and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
The idea of building a wall on the U.S./Mexico border serves as a potent symbol across the political spectrum—a means of assuaging social and economic anxieties by placing them onto a remote frontier. Ieva Jusionyte will consider how an anthropological analysis of the state borders and security can help people understand the...
Speaker: Sonia Netto Salomão, Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Language and Literature, Sapienza University of Rome
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
The lecture illustrates the synthesis of foreign visions of Brazil and their influence on the Brazilian construction of identity best summarized in Macunaíma the novel which is a specific example of the coming together of literature history and theory. Sonia Netto Salomão has been a Full...
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