This public discussion will highlight key challenges of racism, misogyny, and other discrimination faced by our Asian and Asian-American community from the perspective of Harvard alumni. The panel will share insights on their own experiences while here at Harvard, in the professional world, and relate what has changed over time – progress, regress – as well as highlight current work that remains to be done.
Featuring:
Kei Ashizawa (MC/MPA 2017) U.S – Japan Relations Community Organizer and Attorney at Law
Activists exist everywhere - it’s in the secondary school, the community based organization, and for-profit company. This engaging panel examines the roots of individual activist’s experiences, the success they’ve seen, but also the pitfalls and failures of our social movements. This will be a unique “behind the scenes” look at the people who have been doing this work for decades.
Sponsored by the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Woman, Gender, and Sexuality, the Program in General Education, the Division of Social Sciences, and the Regan Fund.
Join us for the first of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of "The Music of Black Americans: A History" and founder and editor of "The Black Perspective in Music." In 1976, Eileen Southern (1920–2002) became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Southern played an important institutional role at Harvard. She was central in developing the Department of Afro-American Studies (now African and African American Studies), serving as an early chair, and was on the faculty of the Department of Music, where...
Sponsor: The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
The future of abortion access in America is not secure, as recent developments have shown. In September, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to enjoin Texas’ SB8, allowing a sweeping abortion ban to go into effect. Later this fall, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case which threatens to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Bring your questions about these ongoing issues to this townhall discussion. Panelists...
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or STEM, has the power to inspire and the power to change the world. But those world-changing opportunities have not consistently reached enough of our learners, and the pathway to careers in STEM has not been fully accessible to all of the talented problem solvers the world needs. Now, with online learning and new digital tools rapidly advancing, educators, learners, job seekers, and industry professionals can help to expand access to STEM education and create a more inclusive and equitable STEM workforce by embracing these new tools,...
Camille Robcis will present findings from her new project, tentatively entitled The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation. Robcis explores the protests against the so-called “theory of gender” that have raged in various parts of the world since the 1990s, especially in their conceptual links to populism.
Too often, transgender and gender diverse youth can get caught up in various legislative bills or institutional practices that can affect their health and well-being. Meet three physicians who will discuss their thoughts and experiences around clinical advocacy and care.
Panel Speakers: Deanna Adkins, MD, Director of Child and Adolescent Gender Care Clinic, Duke University Children’s Hospital Frances Grimstad, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Gynecology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Ellie Kim, MD, Researcher...
Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition, Elect/Ability: Pride, Prejudice, and the Female Candidate, will open with an online conversation between historian Susan Ware, curator of the exhibition, and Sumbul Siddiqui, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. They will discuss the hurdles facing women candidates in politics and public life, beginning before the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution through the present day....