Panelists

Peter L. Galison
Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
Title: What Are Technical Lands?

Caroline A. Jones
Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Roy Scranton
Assistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (2015)

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities,...

Global Food+ 2017 is an event open to all that will feature an afternoon of “speed talk” presentations by two dozen top scholars in the Boston area. This event will highlight current research findings at the important nexus between food, agriculture, health, society, and the environment.

The twenty-four presenters include scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, political science, history, sociology, engineering, biology, and environmental sciences. Each will deliver a seven-minute summary of his or her most recent research...

Title: On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon

Speaker: Martin Weitzman (HKS)

Panelists

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

Moderated by Edward Morris,...

Speaker: Ateya Khorakiwala (Harvard, GSD)
 

Live Podcast from Radio Contact Exhibit

Sponsored by SIT’N Listen & Academic Ventures of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.    

The oceans cover 70% of our planet, but did you know that less than 5% of the ocean floor has been explored?  In the face of...

Title: “The Materials of Imperialism: Engineering Arid Landscapes in Washington’s Columbia Basin and Afghanistan’s Helmand Valley”
Linda Nash, University of Washington
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Title: "Experimental Camps, Parallel Development, and Archives: Constructing the Narrative of Scientific Agriculture in 1960s Mexico"
Gabriela Soto Laveaga, History of Science Department, Harvard University

The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate

http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2016-04-30-040000/biodiversity-livable-climate-conference

Title: "Late Lessons from Early Warnings about Hazards to Health and Environments"

David Gee, Institute of Environment, Health, and Societies, Brunel University, London.

http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2016-05-19-203000-2016-05-19-220000/harvard-center-risk-analysis-seminar

Title: Natural and Induced Earthquakes: The Hidden Threat to Large Cities in the United States

Marine Denolle, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, who will discuss how scientists are applying new tools to predict and model earthquakes.

http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/natural-and-induced-earthquakes-hidden-threat-large-cities-united-states

Title: "Energy Cooperation in China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative" with Kaho Yu, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS.

http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2016-05-02-160000-2016-05-02-173000/hks-energy-policy-seminar-series