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Event Series Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series

Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Sanjay Seth on Careers in Government Climate Action and Equity

Harvard University Center for the Environment 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Interested in a career in climate and sustainability? This Fall semester, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability is launching the Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series, featuring leading climate and sustainability practitioners — many of them Harvard alumni — from a broad range of industries and sectors.

Speakers will reflect on their work and career path, providing students from across Harvard with valuable insights needed to launch a climate career. Each event will include a one hour Q&A with the speaker followed by a dinner reception.

Colloquium Lecture: “Climate Change, Intergenerational Tyranny and Solar Geoengineering”

Colloquium Lecture Hall

Hear from Steve Gardiner, author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), and co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016) and Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, in press). He is also the editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005) and the Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford, in press), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford, 2016), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010) and The Ethics of “Geoengineering” the Global Climate: Justice, Legitimacy and Governance (Routledge, 2020).

Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Climate & Health

Zoom

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present Harvard Speaks on Climate Change, a new series featuring Harvard faculty working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this upcoming session, Professor Kari Nadeau will delve into the critical intersection of climate and health. Her insights will shed light on the significance of this relationship, especially as we approach COP28, where the topic of health is being addressed for the first time. Professor and Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability Jim Stock will host. This series is part of the collection of VPAL Signature Events and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association.

Rising Tides: Integrating Situated Visualization, Augmented Reality, and Public-Participation Technology to Create an Accessible Platform for Localized Climate Change Visualization and Discourse

Zoom

Narges Mahyar is an assistant professor at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose research is situated at the intersection of human-computer interaction, information visualization, social computing, applied machine learning, human-centered artificial intelligence, and design. She applies a community-centered design approach to build novel social computing and visualization tools to empower the general public to engage in real-world sociotechnical issues, such as urban planning and climate change, by enabling them to share their ideas and comments for shaping future policies.

In this lecture, Mahyar will speak about her project to discover innovative techniques to integrate situated visualization, augmented reality, and civic technology to design and build a mobile platform that simulates the localized impact of climate change, thereby providing Boston residents with an immersive experience of climate change visualizations and empowering them to contribute comments and ideas on climate change issues. The platform will benefit the movement towards more equitable resilience by creating new opportunities for the public, especially the underserved communities, to raise their voices and join the discourse.

Her recognition in the field has been repeatedly confirmed through many accolades for her research, including seven best or honorable mention paper awards from top conferences in her field. She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Victoria. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Computer Science department at the University of British Columbia from 2014 to 2016 and in the Design Lab at the UC San Diego from 2016 to 2018.

Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Climate Politics and the Energy Transition

Zoom

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present Harvard Speaks on Climate Change, a new series featuring Harvard faculty working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this session, Professors Dustin Tingley and Gordon Hanson will explore the political, economic, and social challenges surrounding the energy transition. Dustin will share insights from his recently released book co-authored with Alexander Gazmararian, Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse, and Gordon will discuss his research on mitigating the economic impacts of the energy transition on workers, a key initiative of the Kennedy School’s Reimagining the Economy Project, which he co-directs with Dani Rodrik. Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Director of the Salata Institute, Jim Stock, will host. This series is part of the collection of VPAL Signature Events and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association.

Event Series Religion in Times of Earth Crisis

Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: A Procession of Catastrophes

Zoom

Environmental catastrophes can create a break in the experience of time, they can rupture the possibility of collective meaning. Yet for communities shaped by colonialism and racism, this rupture can only be understood in relation to the past, as an event in the “unceremoniously archived procession of our catastrophes,” to use Édouard Glissant’s words. Histories of colonial and racial devastation teach us that environmental futures are linked to our pasts. We may describe them as “ancestral catastrophes,” as Elizabeth Povinelly suggests. In this session, Mayra Rivera explores the question, “How may we engage those stories in ways that honor our pasts and open possibilities for different futures?”

Speaker: Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies
Moderator: Diane L. Moore, Diane L. Moore, Associate Dean of Religion and Public Life

A Healthy Childhood in a Changing Climate | Askwith Education Forum

Askwith Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education

As the effects of climate change become more visible in settings around the world, researchers, educators, and communities are starting to assess — and respond to — the consequences for children. Join us as we welcome Chelsea Clinton to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, moderating a panel conversation with early childhood and health experts to focus attention on the impacts of environmental change on early childhood development. The discussion will outline cross-disciplinary solutions and actions to respond to, mitigate, and lessen the threat of climate change and help ensure all children can get a healthy start.

Climate Change and Planetary Health Equity

Bell Hall (B-500), Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

Hear from Elizabeth Willetts, Visiting Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is an internationally recognized expert in interdisciplinary policy analysis and communications for planetary health. She has more than 20 years of experience mobilizing knowledge and engagement on biodiversity, climate change, pollution, food systems, and community health for marginalized populations. In 2021, she designed and led a landmark global policy guide Health in the Global Environmental Agenda published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Federal Climate Rules – A Status Report

Zoom

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present Harvard Speaks on Climate Change, a series featuring Harvard faculty working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this session, Professor Jody Freeman will discuss the EPA’s greenhouse gas rules for the auto, power, and oil and gas sectors and the SEC’s final rule on climate-related financial risk. Professor Freeman will also explore if these rules were weaker than expected and what lies ahead in the courts. Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Director of the Salata Institute, Jim Stock, will host.

Film Screening: The Last Human

Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. Life began in Greenland. At the same time, its melting ice masses are disintegrating day-by-day, and scientists around the world agree that it could drown our entire civilization if it continues.

Director Ivalo Frank’s new film is a tribute to a vast, scenic country caught between two extremes: the beginning and the end of life on Earth as we know it. Frank’s film is anchored by an encounter with a group of children from the village of Kangaatsiaq who fall in love, form friendships, and struggle with loss and longing.

A Q&A with filmmaker Ivalo Frank and Sussi Adelholm, Head of School in Kangaatsiaq, Greenland, will follow the screening.

What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Climate Change?

Zoom

Join us for a live, virtual event to hear from Harvard faculty about the possible implications of the 2024 U.S. elections. Speakers will address U.S. and global climate policy, the outlook for corporate climate action, and more. Register now and submit a question for the speakers!

Speakers include:
Jim Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University (moderator)
Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Robert Stavins, A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School