Shenggen Fan
Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Understanding the challenges associated with reliably providing food and nutrition in the context of a growing population and changing climate is integral when considering the global food system. The Future of Food Lecture Series, organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, highlights the interactions between agriculture and climate and their consequences for health and stability in an ongoing series of discussions with speakers from...

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: Daniel Wikler (HSPH, Ethics and Population Health)

Speaker: Kenneth Oye (MIT, Political Science)

Speaker: Sarah Richardson (Harvard, History of Science)

Speaker: Meera Subramanian (MIT, Knight Science Journalism Fellow).

Speaker: William Deringer (MIT, HASTS)

Speaker: Matthew Hersch (Harvard, History of Science).... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard: The Strange Life of Film-Return Spy Satellites, 1946–1986

Speaker: Kara Swanson (Northeastern University, Law)

Title: "Characterization of black holes with gravitational waves,"