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“Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro’s profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the Senate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. With Richard Nixon having stilled the liberal wind that once propelled Kennedy’s—and his fallen brothers’—political crusades, Ted Kennedy faced a lonely battle. As Republicans pressed Reaganite dogmas of individual freedom and responsibility and Democratic centrists fell into line, Kennedy was left as the most powerful voice legislating on behalf of those society would neglect or punish: the poor, the working class, and African Americans.
Gabler shows how the fault lines that cracked open in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam were intentionally widened by Kennedy’s Republican rivals to create a moral vision of America that stood in direct opposition to once broadly shared commitments to racial justice and economic equality. Yet even as he fought this shift, Ted Kennedy’s personal moral failures in this era—the endless rumors of his womanizing and public drunkenness and his bizarre behavior during the events that led to rape accusations against his nephew William Kennedy Smith—would be used again and again to weaken his voice and undercut his claims to political morality.
Tracing Kennedy’s life from the wilderness of the Reagan years through the compromises of the Clinton era, from his rage against the craven cruelty of George W. Bush to his hope that Obama would deliver on a lifetime of effort on behalf of universal health care, Gabler unfolds Kennedy’s heroic legislative work against the backdrop of a nation grown lost and fractured. In this outstanding conclusion to the saga that began with Catching the Wind, Neal Gabler offers his inimitable insight into a man who fought to keep liberalism alive when so many were determined to extinguish it. Against the Wind sheds new light both on a revered figure in the American Century and on America’s current existential crisis.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:07 - Conversation Starts
1:05:59 - Q&A
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How can we learn to speak across generational divides? How can we be seen and heard as we hope to be understood? How do we create trust and genuine bonds? How do we honor the experiences, creativity, and wisdom of one another?
We invited a number of EP community members to reflect on the intergenerational challenges they face in their families, at their workplaces, on campuses, and in their faith communities. Then, a multi-generational panel of expert EP practitioners will offer insights, tips, and frameworks for improving the way we communicate—old, young, and everything in between.
Featured Speakers
Patrick J. Couillard Hale, Bentley University, Director of Diversity & Inclusion
Brendan Kealey, Newburyport High School, EP Youth Facilitator
Sierra Leahy, Newburyport High School, EP Youth Facilitator
Ryan Nave, Reckon, Editor-in-Chief
Matt Perusse, ZOLL Medical Corporation, Talent Development Manager
Barbara Simonetti, Meetings That Matter, President & Conversation Architect
Nehemiah Strawberry, Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, EP Youth Facilitator
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0:00:00 - Introduction
4:08:24 - First Panel on Communication Within Inner Circle
21:14:21 - Take away 1st Panel
28:07:11 - 2nd Panel on Communication with Community Members
53:12:17 - Take Away 2nd Panel and Q&A
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This video is designed to provide some answers. AARP gives a brief overview of Medicare – what it is, what it does and does not provide for retirees? It's followed by a slide presentation from Maureen Harty of Paine Senior Services, who will talk about the latest changes in Medicare provisions and the period of open enrollment, which enables users to make changes to their coverage.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:50 - Welcoming Remarks
0:02:34 - Welcome Mike Festa
0:14:32 - Welcome Maureen Harty
0:29:17 - Discussion/Q&A
1:01:18 - Closing Remarks
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Thomas Jefferson once asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” His cousin John Adams said that without him “the true history of the American Revolution could not be written.” Now Stacy Schiff, one of the few and most prominent women writing American history, reveals how Adams rose to become one of the most successful revolutionaries of all time. Don’t miss her illustrated presentation and discussion with Ryan J. Woods about the dazzling life of this American original.
Presented by the American Inspiration Series of American Ancestors/NEHGS in partnership with the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS), Porter Square Books, and GBH Forum Network.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:05 - Welcoming Remarks
0:04:23 - Stacy Schiff Presentation Start
0:16:45 - Welcome Ryan J. Woods
0:27:56 - Presentation 2
0:43:12 - Discussion/ Q&A
0:58:00 - Closing Remarks
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These meme wars stir strong emotions, deepen partisanship, and get people off their keyboards and into the streets–and the steps of the US Capitol.
Join disinformation and media manipulation experts Dr. Joan Donovan and Brian Freidberg, from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, in a discussion about how far-right extremist communities online are using memes and social media to bring new people to their ideologies, and drive real-world actions.
Moderated by Technology and Innovation Boston Globe reporter, Anissa Gardizy.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:15 - Welcoming Remarks
0:05:59 - Discussion Start
1:01:28 - Audience Q&A
1:22:27 - Q&A
1:29:06 - Closing Remarks
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The panel will also delve into a powerful discussion around Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), “work”, “citizen science”, and share their visions for regenerative bioregional cultures and economies of care.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:02 - Program Start
0:05:31 - Welcome Jon Schull
0:07:15 - Jess Alvarez Parfrey Presentations
0:26:14 - Nathan Lou Presentation
0:41:10 - Welcome William Wildcat (Coakí)
0:53:00 - Panel Discussion/Q&A
1:07:26 - Closing Remarks
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:55 - Program Start
0:05:07 - Welcome Rev. Dr. Emmett G. Price III
0:53:19 - Saxophone Performance
1:00:28 - Panel Discussion
1:22:27 - Q&A
1:32:37 - Closing Remarks
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Michael Twitty is in conversation with Robin Washington, an acclaimed veteran journalist and The Forward’s Editor-at-Large.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:28 - Program Start
0:03:12 - Discussion Start
1:19:17 - Closing Remarks
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Join us as we hear from a political strategist, a turnout expert, young people, activists and officeholders, from across the political and geographic spectrum to examine what happened, why it matters, and what the implications may be.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:53 - Program Start
0:07:49 - Panel Start
0:24:27 - Discussion Start
0:27:57 - Q&A
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Join us for this installation of our Great Decisions series, when we host Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:50 - Program Start
0:03:05 - Welcome Tom Andrews
0:24:27 - Discussion Start
0:27:57 - Q&A
0:54:51 - Closing Remarks
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However, working longer is not a one-size fits all solution especially when you factor in economic and social inequalities, precarious working conditions, family care-giving responsibilities, poor health, and age discrimination. All of these make it difficult or impossible for many to consider working past the age of 65. Marginalized groups in particular face special challenges and society’s legislative responses affect us all. Is there a way to find a path toward better working lives and improved retirement security for all Americans – and if so, what it is?
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:39 - Program Start
0:02:41 - Welcome Beth Truesdale
0:08:09 - Presentation Start
0:30:51 - Steady Employment in Your 50's
0:57:22 - Closing Remarks
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Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an award-winning fashion historian and curator. She is the author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette; Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History; The Way We Wed; and Red, White, and Blue on the Runway. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico; and she has appeared on NPR and the Biography Channel.
Sofi Thanhauser teaches in the writing department at Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, and Ucross Foundation. Her writing has appeared in Vox. Her writing has appeared in Vox, The Guardian, and other publications.
Petra Slinkard is the Director of Curatorial Affairs and The Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. She oversees the museum’s Fashion and Design gallery and most recently served as the coordinating curator for the exhibition Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love, which opened June 25, 2022.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:33 - Program Start
0:03:17 - Welcome Sofi Thanhauser
0:15:25 - Welcome Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
0:08:58 - Panel Discussion Start
0:49:03 - Author Reads
0:53:10 - Closing Remarks
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Join Abundant Housing Massachusetts and Suffolk University Law School for a panel featuring national experts on housing, zoning, and local government.
Panelists are:
Professor Vicki Been of New York University School of Law previously served as Deputy Mayor of Housing and Economic Development for the City of New York and will speak on possibilities for reform at the city and state level.
Professor Anika Singh Lemar leads the Community and Economic Development clinic at Yale Law School and will discuss her work with affordable housing developers to bring needed housing to communities throughout Connecticut.
Maxwell Palmer, a Professor of Political Science at Boston University, will discuss his groundbreaking research examining who participates in local land use decision making and how homeowners entrench their own interests by opposing new housing.
Jenny Schuetz is a Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro. An expert in urban economics and housing policy, she will discuss how statewide zoning reform could improve housing affordability and more.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:47 - Program Start
0:02:25 - Welcome Molly Goodman
0:03:55 - Welcome Jenny Schuetz
0:08:58 - Welcome Vicki Been
0:15:40 - Welcome Anika Singh Lemar
0:23:55 - Welcome Maxwell Palmer
0:29:47- Panel Discussion
0:51:57 - Q&A
1:22:36 - Closing Remarks
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This event will be held in person in the Commonwealth Salon, Central Library. We invite you to visit the Map Center’s current exhibition, More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape, before the discussion.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:47 - Program Start
0:05:51 - Panel Discussion Start
0:43:53 - Q&A
0:56:42 - Closing Remarks
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Join us for a discussion of this complex topic with Lori Garver, former Deputy Administrator of NASA.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:33 - Program Start
0:03:22 - Welcome Lori Garver + Presentation
0:17:20 - Importance of Taiwan Relations
0:38:20 - Q&A
0:48:21 - Closing Remarks
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And we’re feeling the heat.
By learning from nature we can improve the climate where we live. We can learn from plants and trees which provide air conditioning for the Earth. They help drive the water cycle, tame damaging wind and rain storms and even address giant heat islands over the Midwest and forest fires.
Climate scientists Anastassia Makarieva and Andrei Nefiodov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute) and botanist Jan Pokorny (co-author of the New Water Paradigm) discuss these issues and answer audience questions.
Anastassia Makarieva, Andrei Nefiodov and Jan Pokorny are instrumental in advocating for land management policy changes. Ms. Makarieva is a senior analyst at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute and a fellow at the Technical University of Munich. Her work co-developing the Biotic Pump theory of atmospheric moisture transfer is of singular importance.
Jan Pokorný is a leading researcher on solar energy conversion and photosynthesis, founder of Enki NGO, and co-author of the book New Water Paradigm. They have both published numerous papers in peer-reviewed publications.
This event is co-hosted by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and GBH Forum Network. Voices of Water for Climate, a program of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, co-organized the event.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:50 - Program Start
0:04:06 - Welcome Jon Schull (Moderator)
0:06:38 - Jan Pokorny Presentation
0:22:42 - Anastassia Makarieva Presentation
0:38:41 - Andrei Nefiodov Presentation
0:49:48 - Panel Discussion
1:05:59 - Closing Remarks
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“RESISTANCE” is a collection of 88 portraits of individuals who have resisted political, racial or cultural oppression over the past two centuries ranging from Frederick Douglass, Rachel Carson and Nelson Mandela to Emmeline Pankhurst, Sitting Bull and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Sacks, who began as a poet and still teaches at Harvard University produced all the portraits in the past two years, a prolific output for someone who did not pick up a paintbrush until he was 48 years of age.
Drawing from his anti-apartheid activism and multicultural experiences, Sacks creates an inspiring cast of writers, artists, philosophers and activists from around the world, who all resisted oppression in various ways. Each portrait consists of a face embedded in a tactile composition of fabric, paint, personal items and text. The exhibit is immersive; alongside the visuals, there is an audio collage of voices of numerous contemporary literary, social, political and cultural figures.
“Many of these figures have inspired me over a lifetime, in ways at once intimate and public. Many of the portrayed individuals became each other’s powerful guides and sources of courage. I hope they will do the same for viewers and conjure a community among them.”
Peter Sacks: Resistance pays tribute to generations of resisters using the power of art to transmit their legacies to future generations.
This is a collaboration with the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis Museum.
The Rose Art Museum exhibit runs until December 30, 2022 and admission is free.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:48 - Program Start
0:02:44 - Welcome Peter Sacks
0:06:31 - Nelson Mandela
0:19:00 - Clint Smith Reads Harlem
0:28:57 - Anna Akhmatova
0:43:21 - Rachel Carson
0:30:32 - Q&A
0:55:10 - Closing Remarks
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Join us for this installation of our Great Decisions series, when we host Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society and former Primer Minister of Australia.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:34 - Program Start
0:02:25 - Welcome Kevin Rudd
0:17:20 - Importance of Taiwan Relations
0:30:32 - Q&A
1:09:07 - Closing Remarks
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Join our panelists as we discuss the methods being used to engage young people and harness their power, while at the same time fostering a healthy civic culture.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:37 - Program Start
0:03:19 - Panel Introduction
0:06:54 - Student Vote Percentages
0:45:05 - Student Q&A
1:09:07 - Closing Remarks
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:37 - Program Start
0:04:08 - Panel Introduction
0:19:43 - Finding a Voice
0:42:36 - Student Q&A
1:17:56 - Closing Remarks
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Fortunately, there is affordable hope on the horizon. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) was discovered in 1987 by psychologist, Francine Shapiro who found a novel method for aligning people’s “thinking brains” with their “emotional brains”, to help process traumatic events. Since then, it has been providing hope and healing to countless sufferers of PTSD and other emotional and stress-related problems; these include depression, chronic pain, anxiety, phobias, substance abuse and addictions. Studies demonstrate EMDR’s clinical effectiveness in dealing with trauma in a limited number of sessions and it is rated the most cost-effective treatment among the top 11 trauma therapies.
With Deborah Korn, PsyD, an internationally renowned expert in EMDR and Michael Baldwin, co-author of the book with Deborah Korn : Every Memory Deserves Respect”, also branding and communication professional in New York.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:44 - Program Start
0:03:36 - Welcome Dr. Deborah Korn, PsyD
0:06:56 - Types of Trauma
0:12:35 - EMDR Session
0:26:40 - Welcome Michael Baldwin
0:37:55 - Functions of the Brain
1:00:01 - Closing Remarks
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Join the conversation with Milos Gringlas, Associate, Generation Citizen, Nancy Thomas, Director of the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Mia Payne, Peer Facilitator at YVote and Syeeda Rahman, Suffolk University Political Science Student.
The conversation will be moderated by Katie Lannan, GBH News State House reporter.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:56 - Program Start
0:03:22 - Panel Introduction
0:22:31 - Feeling Disconnected from the Government
0:35:47 - Student Q&A
1:06:45 - Closing Remarks
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What’s broken? Who is responsible? What are the short-, medium-, and long-term solutions?
Join a conversation moderated by GBH Transportation reporter Bob Seay and Josh Ostroff, Transportation for Massachusetts Interim Director, with Monica Tibbits-Nutt, Executive Director of the 128 Business Council; Collique Williams, Organizer at Community Labor United;Transportation Committee Co-chair Senator Brendan Crighton; and Brian Kane, Executive Director of the MBTA Advisory Board.
This program is presented in collaboration with the Transportation for Massachusetts coalition (T4MA).
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:32 - Program Start
0:03:50 - Rebuilding the T
0:22:01 - Will the T get better?
0:30:15 - The Difference of Reduced Fairs
0:48:42 - The Golden Age of the T
0:58:33 - Closing Remarks
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Natsu Taylor Saito’s book, Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists, provides a timely analysis of structural racism at the intersection of law and colonialism. Noting the grim racial realities still confronting communities of color, and how they have not been alleviated by constitutional guarantees of equal protection, this book suggests that settler colonial theory provides a more coherent understanding of what causes and what can help remediate racial disparities. By providing a functional analysis that links disparate forms of oppression, this book makes the case for the oft-cited proposition that racial justice is indivisible, focusing particularly on the importance of acknowledging and contesting the continued colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. (Book review on Perlego )
This talk will be recorded and published on our website. Cosponsored by the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:17 - Program Start
0:04:50 - Welcome Natsu Taylor Saito
0:52:52 -Q&A
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With Elise A. Mitchell who is a historian of the early modern Black Atlantic and currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History Department at Princeton University. Broadly, her work examines the social and cultural histories of slavery, the body, medicine and healing, disease, race, and gender in the early modern Atlantic World.
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With :
- Joshua P. Darr, associate professor of political communication in the Manship School of Mass Communication and Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University
- Renée Loth, opinion columnist for The Boston Globe
- Charles St. Amand, Vice-President of the New England Society of News Editors’ Board of Governors
- Dan Kennedy, Professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University (moderator)
-- About the Masterman Speaker Series --
Some of the most polarizing and provocative issues of our time involve matters rooted in the First Amendment. Edward I. Masterman, JD ‘50, LLD ‘90 and his wife Sydell, established the Masterman Speaker Series on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate to provide a forum for robust debate and exchange of ideas on freedom of the press and its attendant responsibilities. The Speaker Series brings together representatives from government, the legal profession, and the press for the purposes of informing, educating, and engaging those who care deeply about these issues.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:02 - Program Start
0:02:24 - Welcome James Masterman
0:05:21 - Panel Introduction
0:11:50 - Welcome Joshua Darr
0:19:19 - Welcome Reneé Loth
0:30:14 - Welcome Charles St. Amand
0:43:15 - Begin Panel Discussion
1:01:59 - Q&A
1:36:36 - Closing Remarks
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Moderated by GBH News Senior Editor Peter Kadzis, this special afternoon program features a subject matter policy expert, Noorya Hayat, Senior Researcher at Tufts CIRCLE, a voting rights advocate, Vanessa Snow,Director of Policy and Organizing at MassVote, a political campaign strategist, John Griffin, advisor to Priorities For Progress and Danielle Allen, and a minority youth activist group representative, Lina Cañon, director of operations for the Chica Project.
With audience participation, the panel takes on issues relating to political persuasion, mobilization, and the power of generational change. Among the enduring questions to be addressed are: how is my voice heard; who speaks for me; and what is my recourse if I am silenced or marginalized.
The program will thus aim to explore the who, what, where, when, how, and why of voting among young people in America today.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:25 - Program Start
0:03:15 - Welcome Peter Kadzis (Moderator)
0:06:04 - Panel Discussion Begins
0:19:48 - The Impact of Social Media
0:37:43 - Campaigning in MA
0:48:35 - Q&A
1:08:51 - Program End
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In this talk, Robin DiAngelo explains how racism is at play in white people and how to bring awareness on our condition, own racism to make change and stop living a segregated life.
About Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Based on her second NYT Bestselling book, Dr. DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unawarely perpetuate racial harm. These patterns include rushing to prove that we are “not racist,” downplaying white advantage, romanticizing Black, Indigenous and other peoples of color (BIPOC), pretending white segregation “just happens,” expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism, carefulness, guilt and shame. She offers a series of reflection questions, an assessment tool, and a list of the skills and perspectives that can counter “nice” racism.
About White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
White people in the U.S. live in a racially insular social environment. This insulation builds our expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering our stamina for enduring racial stress. I term this lack of racial stamina “White Fragility.” White Fragility is a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silence, withdrawal and claims of being attacked and misunderstood.GBH Forum Network ~ Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:00 - Program Start
0:01:45 - Dr. DiAngelo bio
0:10:25 - About White Fragility
0:15:00 - Systemic Racism
0:23:00 - Roots of Racism
0:35:10 - Nice Racism
0:46:49 - Audience Questions
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Since the heart is at the nexus of feeling we use the word in everyday conversation – heartfelt, heartache, the heart of the matter, a good heart. E E Cummings, the poet, famously wrote “I carry your heart with me” but writers have obsessed with this organ for centuries.
Dr Fady Joudah practices Internal Medicine at St Luke’s Baylor Medical Center in Houston, TX. When not administering to his patients, Joudah is an award-winning poet who first starting writing when working for Doctors Without Frontiers in Africa and published “Earth in the Attic”. He has now published five collections of poems and will read from his work and discuss how poetry informs his mission as a physician.
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0:00:47 - Program Start
0:03:15 - Welcome Professor Sian Harding
0:29:02 - Welcome Dr. Fady Joudah
0:48:20 - "The Mother Between Us"
1:02:15 - Q&A
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This talk explores what the American Revolution meant to British colonial subjects in these lesser-studied parts of the Americas. Indigenous, enslaved, and free people seized the opportunity to ally with Great Britain’s chief rival, France, and many used this moment of disruption to seek freedom, sovereignty, or autonomy.
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Featuring:
- Celia Johnston Blue, President and CEO, MA Women of Color Coalition
- Sasha Goodfriend, Executive Director of MassNOW
- Diana Hwang, Founder and Executive Director of the Asian American Women’s Political Initiative
- Melissa Ferretti, Chair, Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe
- Dr. Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, Director of the UMass-Boston Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy
- Eneida M. Roman, Esq., Chair, Amplify Latinx
This event is the second of a two-part conversation started on June 27 with moderator and GBH News reporter, Saraya Wintersmith. The video of Momentum Part 1 is available to watch on forum-network.org
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0:00:22 - Program Starts Lee Hill
0:04:35 - Welcome Deloris Pettis
0:13:35 - Panel 1 Introduction & Discussion
0:39:47 - Panel 2 Introduction & Discussion
0:59:37 - Q&A
1:20:47 - Closing Remarks
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Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: how Francis Scott Key was inspired to pen his famous lyric as he saw the Stars and Stripes flying proudly over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry following the daylong bombardment of British navy ships during the War of 1812. The anthem’s use in sports, at times of war, and for political protest, have imbued it with further meaning, says historian Mark Clague. The anthem reflects—and is reflected by—the nation’s quest to become a more perfect union. From victory song to hymn of sacrifice and vehicle for protest, the story of Key’s song is the story of America itself. Don’t miss this enlightening presentation and discussion about our beloved anthem, and about America from 1814 to the present.
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0:00:46 - Program Starts
0:02:45 - Welcome Mark Clague
0:05:59 - Presentation Start
0:33:25 - Welcome Kristina R. Gaddy & Discussion
0:54:56 - Final Read from Mark
0:56:47 - Closing Remarks
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This lecture will explore how these reverberations of American claims to their revolutionary rights influence our understanding of liberty and equality from the eighteenth century to the present.
This lecture is part of the Paul Revere House Lowell Series called "Beyond the 13: The American Revolutionary Era Outside the Emerging United States".
Prof. Janet Polasky is a Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire Durham. Prof. Polasky has multiple fields of expertise, including comparative history, European women’s history, urban history, and Eighteenth-century Atlantic Revolution in particular. Prof. Polasky has authored numerous books and articles over her storied career. Her most recent book, Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World (2015), was a Washington Prize Finalist. Her other books include Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country (2010), The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde, Between Reform and Revolution (1995), Le Patron (1995), and Revolution in Brussels, 1787-1793 (1985).
Prof. Polasky has won a multitude of awards and fellowships over her career at UNH Durham, including the Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College in 2018, the Jean Brierley Award for Excellence in Teaching, University ff New Hampshire in 2018, and the Presidential Professorship Award from UNH in 2008. Prof. Polasky received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University.
Prof. Polasky’s forthcoming book, Asylum between Nations: Refugees in a Revolutionary Era, will be published by Yale University Press in April 2023.
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Using an elegantly simple set of management practices, farmers can grow new trees quickly by utilizing the root systems beneath existing tree stumps. He will describe the path to this solution to land degradation and the history, development and impact of the global movement called Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration. The work he began in Niger in 1983 has now been linked to the regrowth of 200 million trees on five million hectares of degraded farmland in Niger alone.
More than an effective, low cost, rapid and scalable method of land and environmental restoration, FMNR is restoring livelihoods and food security across tens of thousands of communities and in the process, restoring hope.
Environmental journalist Judith D. Schwartz joins Tony in this conversation.
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0:00:27 - Program Starts
0:03:20 - Welcome Judith Schwartz
0:06:56 - Tony Rinaudo Presentation
0:33:25 - Discussion and Q&A
1:07:41 - Concluding Remarks
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Sloss provides a careful analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms for the sole purpose of subverting the liberal international order, both in America and Europe. In this forum, we’ll examine questions about the 2016 US election and also explore Russia’s use of foreign infiltration to meddle with Western democratic elections.
What can be done to mitigate the damage?
David L. Sloss is an educator, author, and national security expert. His latest book, Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare focuses on Russian and Chinese information warfare. Sloss is currently Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. Before entering academia, in 2008, he spent nine years in the federal government, working on U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations and nuclear proliferation issues.
Sloss will be joined in the discussion by John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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0:00:27 - Program Starts
0:03:12 - Welcome David Sloss
0:07:34 - Regime Type Presentation
0:23:50 - Welcome John Feffer
0:47:36 - Opinion vs. Fact Journalism
1:05:30 - Concluding Remarks
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The book is a paean to the glory of the arts and the evolution of Brooklyn: in Karen’s words, “the coolest neighborhood on the planet.” Through personal stories and raw reflections, tales of glamour and of grit, Karen looks back upon her career’s twists of fate, the total failures, and great triumphs along the way. Hopkins’s view of arts as a critical driver for the post-pandemic economy and her emphasis on diverse partnerships could be a blueprint for Boston and beyond.
This conversation is moderated by Myriam Cyr, artistic director, Puntuate4 with a special introduction by Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., executive director, American Repertory Theater, (A.R.T.), Harvard University.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:36 - Program Starts
0:08:34 - Welcome Karen Hopkins Presentation pt.1
0:19:26 - Round Table Discussion 1 Start
0:37:37 - Karen Hopkins Presentation pt.2
0:41:19 - Round Table Discussion 2 Start
0:48:54 - Audience Q&A
1:07:06 - Concluding Remarks
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What are the roots and the bureaucratic logic behind today's dominant drug policies in Latin America? Is it time to reconsider punitive drug policies that disrupt supply chains and punish drug possession?
Join WorldBoston at the Boston Public Library for the latest installment in the Great Decisions series, focusing on "Drug Policy in Latin America" and featuring Dr. Evan Ellis Research Professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:22 - Program Starts
0:03:43 - Welcome Dr. Evan Ellis
0:04:29 - Presentation Start
0:20:37 - Effects of Covid-19 and War in Ukraine
0:26:29 - Policy Response
0:32:59 - Audience Q&A
0:50:06 - Concluding Remarks
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With Dr. Jennifer D. Sciubba, Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
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0:00:37 - Program Start
0:02:57 - Welcome Jennifer D. Sciubba
0:07:56 - Understanding Demography
0:10:49 - Life Expectancy
0:20:18 - Country Fertility
0:32:33 - Audience Q&A
0:49:27 - Concluding Remarks
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For this discussion of Public Diplomacy, we are delighted to feature Stacy White, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional and Cultural Exchanges at the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Farah Pandith, Fellow of the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, former first Special Representative to Muslim Communities at the U.S. Department of State; and bestselling author of How We Win: How Cutting Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:03:47 - Stacy White's Bio
0:05:02 - Farah Pandith's Bio
0:06:46 - White's Presentation
0:21:14 - Pandith's Presentation
0:25:49 - Conversation Starts
0:48:50 - Audience Q&A
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David Hackett Fischer is a University Professor and Warren Professor of History emeritus at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous books, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner Washington’s Crossing and Champlain’s Dream. In 2015, he received the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
He is in conversation with Johanna Li, Associate Editor at Simon and Schuster.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:15 - Program starts
0:02:56 - Welcome David Hackett Fischer
0:05:20 - Welcome Johanna Li
0:10:05 - Different of slavery throughout the US
0:21:12 - Regional Commonalities
0:30:00 - Merging of Culture
0:43:10 - Inspirations for the Book
1:01:12 - Concluding Remarks
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Danielle Dolan, Deputy Director of the Mass Rivers Alliance, and Beth Lambert, Director of the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration, will join Slovakian hydrologist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner Michal Kravcik in conversations about our connection to the global water crisis. Dr. Kravcik will introduce the new water paradigm, which explains the role of small water cycles and the importance of restoring them in urban, agricultural and forest settings to prevent drought and floods, and to cool the planet.
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0:00:46 - Program starts
0:03:20 - Danielle Dolan Presentation
0:17:21 - Beth Lambert Presentation
0:37:20 - Michal Kravcik Presentation
0:58:57 - Panel discussion
1:07:30 - Concluding Remarks
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One species that is attracting great attention is psilocybin mushrooms, which have been part of religious rituals for thousands of years. The Aztecs referred to these mushrooms as “God’s flesh” in homage to their believed sacred power. In 1957, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working for the pharmaceutical company Sandoz, isolated psilocybin from a mushroom and unleashed all sorts of interesting discoveries. During the 60s, Sandoz sold psilocybin and LSD for research in medical trials, but the substances were soon outlawed after they became associated with Timothy Leary and the 60’s counterculture.
Well Psilocybin has been making a steady comeback within the medical community who have conducted clinical trials showing remarkable success in treating patients with severe depression, anxiety and PTSD. Many individuals speak of life-changing experiences during a single session and emerge with new-found awareness including author Michael Pollan, author of “How to Change your Mind”.
Giuliana Furci, Founder, The Fungi Foundation and field mycologist, gives the full scope of this amazing world while Professor, Sharmin Ghaznavi, Scientific Director at the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics (CNP) at Massachusetts General Hospital, explains CNP’s inaugural studies of how psychedelics impact neural mechanisms in patients with treatment resistant depression.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:40 - Program start
0:04:00 - Giuliana Interview Start
0:16:18 - Death Threats
0:23:33 - Welcome Dr. Ghaznavi
0:36:50 - Q&A
0:59:20 - Closing Remarks
1:12:59 - Concluding Remarks
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Join award-winning Boston Globe cultural columnist Jeneé Osterheldt as she moderates a discussion among journalist Clarissa Brooks, writer, cultural critic, and community organizer, Erica Campbell, News Editor at NME, and Candace McDuffie, journalist and cultural critic, as they explore this topic in depth.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:49 - Program start
0:06:34 - Getting into the Business
0:16:18 - Death Threats
0:36:30 - How has Criticism Changed?
1:01:46 - How do you protect your mental health?
1:06:17 - A Beautiful Resistance
1:12:59 - Concluding Remarks
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Celebrated for her research and revelations in her prize-winning book "The Hemingses of Monticello", Annette Gordon-Reed now tells a tale closer to home. The Texas native combines her own scholarship with a personal and intimate reflection of an overlooked holiday that has suddenly taken on new significance. In "On Juneteenth" she writes, “it is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.” Yet Texas, the last state to free its slaves, has long acknowledged the date of June 19, 1865, when US Major General Gordon Granger proclaimed from his Galveston headquarters that slavery was no longer the law of the land. Don’t miss Gordon-Reed’s discussion with Lisa Baldez about her research process, her childhood in Texas, and the circuitous path to national recognition of the Juneteenth holiday.
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family", she lives in New York and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lisa Baldez is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Her research and published works examine the prospects for finding common ground between left-wing and right-wing women in the U.S. and around the world.
This event is presented in the American Inspiration Author Series in partnership with the Boston Public Library, the State Library of Massachusetts, and GBH Forum Network.
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0:00:22 - Program Start
0:02:49 - Panel Introductions
0:04:56 - Welcome Annette
0:09:20 - Welcome Lisa
0:13:14 - Becoming a Historical Figure
0:29:19 - What was cut from the Book
0:36:38 - Audience Q&A
0:52:38 - Annette Reading
0:56:19 - Concluding Remarks
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Join us for a presentation by two authors whose celebrated works reveal the lives of women in the Gilded Age.
It was the era in which many wealthy Americans were married off to foreign aristocrats: the beautiful heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt joined in a loveless marriage to become the savior and head of Blenheim Palace, outside London. Mrs. Frank Leslie, head of lucrative publishing empire, was as impactful in her time as the Rockefellers and Carnegies, yet her story of success and scandal has been forgotten--until now.
Don’t miss hearing from authors Laura Thompson and Betsy Prioleau and moderator Esther Crain about the women who glittered most brightly in Gilded Age--their experiences as daughters, wives, trend-setters, and entrepreneurs.
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0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:32 - Program Start
0:02:51 - Panel Introductions
0:06:05 - Laura Thompson Presentation
0:14:59 - Betsy Prioleau Presentation
0:28:50 - Panel Discussion
1:07:08 - Laura Reading
1:09:24 - Betsy Reading
1:10:57 - Concluding Remarks
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Filloux and Bernardi show clips from the virtual workshop of the play and share how they embarked on this collaboration of trust, having first met in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
They discuss aspects of the play including its historical perspectives, Bernardi’s participation with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, as well as the community art model Bernardi has shared with communities that suffered political violence in many parts of the world.
The conversation is moderated by Toni Shapiro-Phim, PhD, a Brandeis University professor whose work focuses on efforts at the nexus of the arts, human rights, and social justice concerns, and who has worked with Filloux and Bernardi in theatrical, educational, and community endeavors.
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0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:41 - Intro Moderator
0:03:51 - Bio Catherine & Claudia
0:05:55 - Genesis & Circumstances
0:10:59 - Clip 1 of the Play
0:15:53 - Exhumations & Disappearances
0:25:26 - Research for the Play
0:28:00 - Justice
0:33:58 - Clip 2 of the Play
0:40:45 - Impact on Artistic Work
0:48:30 - Poetry of the Play
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Biodiversity for a Livable Climate hosts Miyawaki-Method advocates Hannah Lewis (Bio4Climate Compendium editor) and Daan Bleichrodt (The Netherlands’ Tiny Forest initiative leader), as they talk about mini-/tiny-forests and their role in climate resilience, urban beautification, and connecting all of us to nature.
Dave Morimoto, Professor of Biology and Chair of Natural Science and Mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Lesley University will moderate the discussion.
Hannah’s new book, “Mini-Forest Revolution” will be published by Chelsea Green on June 9, 2022.
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0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:01 - Panelists Bio
0:04:10 - Hannah Lewis' Presentation
0:20:07 -Daan Bleichrodt's Presentation
0:49:28 - Discussion - Q&A
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The political environment is challenging, with pain at the gas pump, inflation stretching pay checks, pandemic fatigue, disappointment with what Biden has not been able to deliver, the war in Ukraine, and bitter partisan divisions over hot button issues.
Will Biden’s performance amidst all this bad news be rewarded or punished at the polls? The closing episode of this series will examine the state of the state —and the race— as we approach midterms. Experts in political economy, polling, campaigning, and presidential politics will unpack what’s important and pull out their crystal balls to look ahead to what will happen in November.
With:
* Julia Azari, Associate professor of Political Science, Marquette University
* Roger Fisk, Democratic Strategist / Obama Administration Alum
* David Paleologos, Director of the Political Research Center, Suffolk U.
* Stephanie Murray, Author, Politico’s Morning Score and moderator.
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0:00:00 - Intro
0:06:37 - Opening Statements
0:13:18 - Polling
0:21:59 - Biden's mandate
0:28:31 - Worst Political Environment
0:37:38 - Wrong Strategy?
0:41:23 - Questions from Students
1:07:17 - Closing remarks
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