Month: November 2015

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities will present a series of Research & Innovation Talks. Given by members of the CGBC Research Team, talks will highlight and discuss projects underway at the Center. On Tuesday, November 24th, CGBC Postdoctoral Fellow Bin Yan will present: “Data-oriented Modeling for Buildings and Systems.” 1:15 pm – 2:15pm 20 Sumner Road, Room 1D Lunch will be provided. Talks are open to members of […]

On Monday November 16, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics will present a forum “Bringing the Global Community to the Table: Paris 2015 UN Climate Change Conference.” Moderated by renowned former CNN news anchor Candy Crowley, the forum will explore what progress can be made in dealing with and adapting to climate change. Speakers include: Drew Faust; President, Harvard University; Daniel Bodansky; Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College […]

On November 7th at 2:00PM at the Science Center “Hall C”, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, the Harvard Brain Science Initiative, the Harvard Art Museums  and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, will present a discussion about the importance of light in both daily life and built environments, as well as its impact on overall well-being. Dragana Rogulja, Assistant Professor in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and Holly W. Samuelson, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of […]

On November 6 at the Asia Society in New York, Harvard faculty leaders, representing Harvard Business School, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, will discuss their experience studying the world’s largest festival, the Kumbh Mela in India. Because of its size and complexity, the 2013 Kumbh Mela, inspired the Harvard South Asia Institute’s flagship multi-year interdisciplinary research project in a number of […]

On November 4, Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at American Enterprise Institute, will discuss the history and development of Chinese urbanization, cities and their governance. This lecture, entitled “Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: China’s National Patterns in International Perspective,” is a part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series and is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The […]

On November 3 at 4:00 p.m. at the Harvard Kennedy School, Scott Smith, the former Mayor of Mesa, Arizona — a large suburb of Phoenix and the 38th largest city in the U.S.– will discuss the role his previous business executive experience and novice status played in dealing with urban issues, including development, governance and sustainability. In his lecture, Smith will explore and attempt to answer two common questions he has received after his […]

On November 2 from 04:00pm – 05:30pm at CGIS South, S153, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, an emerging artist will present an arts seminar, “cityinflux” chaired by Chitra Venkataramani, a South Asian Studies Fellow at the South Asia Institute. Kandalgaonkar’s art practice focuses primarily on unseen or ignored processes of urbanization. In his work, he draws upon contemporary visual arts media, archival documentation and historical artifacts to document, represent and critique urban flows. […]