HDS Virtual Tea Home

March 24, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST

How can AI accelerate social impact? Ted Ladd, Instructor at Harvard’s DCE and Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Hult International Business School, and Milind Tambe, Harvard’s Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society (SEAS), will discuss how can - and cannot - address some of society's most pressing challenges. Join us for this opportunity to explore the future of technology-driven change and gain insights about where technology meets humanity.

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Thriving in College: Managing Stress, Perfectionism, and Mental Health Tickets, Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite

Join Harvard University Counseling and Mental Health Service clinicians Doris Iarovici, MD, and Tara Cousineau, PhD, for an engaging discussion on the mental health challenges university students face today. Moderated by Harvard College students, this conversation will explore key issues affecting student well-being, share insights from their new books—Coping on Campus and The Perfectionist’s Dilemma—and offer practical strategies for navigating college life with resilience and self-compassion.

Doris Iarovici, MD, a writer and psychiatrist at Harvard University (CAMHS), is the author of Coping on Campus: Mental Health and the University Student, and two short fiction collections. She has been a subject matter expert for a national organization focused on student suicide prevention and wellbeing, and cared for students at Duke University, in private practice, and in a residential eating disorder treatment program. Her essays on college mental health have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Psychiatric Times, and more.

Tara Cousineau, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at Harvard University (CAMHS) and the author of The Perfectionist’s Dilemma: Learn the Art of Self-Compassion and Become a Happy Achiever. She specializes in mind-body medicine, energy psychology, and mindfulness-based approaches, helping students and high achievers navigate self-criticism and perfectionism with greater ease and self-compassion.

This student-led discussion will provide valuable insights for students, educators, and mental health professionals seeking to support well-being in the college experience.

Lovestruck Books has 3 exciting events coming up that we wanted to share with you:

Single Player: on Wednesday, February 12, Lovestruck Books is hosting Tara Tai to celebrate the recent release of Single Player—A Delightful Queer Enemies-to-Lovers Workplace Romance. Throughout this conversation with author Kim Swizz, Tara will dive into gamer Easter eggs, razor-sharp wit, and heartfelt storytelling. Get ready for an evening of passion, rivalry, romance, and gaming!  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-single-player-a-night-with-tara-tai-tickets-1207566787769

Rainbow Romance: Join us on Friday, February 21, at Lovestruck Books for Rainbow Romance: Writing Steamy Scenes in LGBTQ+ Love Stories. Anna Burke will lead a discussion with authors M.A. Wardell, who will share insights on writing spicy queer rom-coms with adult gay love stories and Xio Axelrod, who will discuss queer love stories including the editing and publishing of the Love is All books, an annual anthology that celebrates diverse love stories and happily-ever-afters for everyone in the LGBTQ+ community.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rainbow-romance-writing-steamy-scenes-in-lgbtq-love-stories-tickets-1218393009289?aff=oddtdtcreator

Love and Literature: We’re hosting author and veteran journalist Judith Rosen on Thursday, February 27, to celebrate her newly released book, Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes. In conversation with novelist Laura Zigman, Judith will share the heartwarming stories behind the real-life fairy tales of 24 couples who found their happily-ever-afters in bookstores and made bookstores the backdrop to their most unforgettable moments.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/love-and-literature-conversation-with-judith-rosen-tickets-1222289012339?aff=oddtdtcreator

February 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Belfer Case Study Room S020, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.

Speaker: Jianbo Huang, Professor of Anthropology, East China Normal University

Jianbo Huang is Professor of anthropology at East China Normal University (ECNU), director of the Institute of Anthropology, and the Center of Ethnicity and Development. Before joining ECNU in 2014, he was a faculty member of anthropology institute, Renmin University of China since 2005. After receiving his PH.D. in anthropology from Central Minzu University in 2003, he was post-doc fellow at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in 2003-2005, and at the Institute of Studies of Religion, Baylor University, in 2007-2008. He received numerous funds from both the state social science foundation of China and international funds, and was named as Shanghai Shuguang Scholar in 2015.

Details

Date:

February 19

Time:

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Event Categories:

Critical Issues Confronting China, Critical Issues Confronting China Series

Organizer

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Venue

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room

1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138United States

Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 4:00pm

Location: 

HIPHOP ARCHIVE & RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT THE HUTCHINS CENTER, 104 MOUNT AUBURN STREET, FLOOR 2R, CAMBRIDGE, MA

Tuesday, February 25 2025 at 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Location: Virtual

Moderator

Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD MPH

Michele and Howard J Kessler Chair and Director, MGH Division of Public and Community Psychiatry

Please register here!

This webinar will focus on suggested practices for LGBTQIA+ staff, faculty and trainees at HMS to optimize well-being and resilience in a challenging sociopolitical environment. The webinar will also focus on how all HMS community members can serve as effective allies for LGBTQIA+ people.

Panelists
Chelsea Cosner, MD Child and adolescent psychiatrist in Massachusetts General Hospital Gender Identity Program

Cary Crall, MD Associate Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Gender Identity Program; Medical Director for Headway

Cecil Webster, MD Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital; Board

Thursday | February 13, 2025 | 8:00pm
Sanders Theatre
 

PARTY WITH THE OFA!
Celebrate Five Decades of Student Artmaking at the Office for the Arts 50th Birthday Party!  

Experience a dazzling evening of live music, dance, storytelling, poetry and visual arts by students and alums who have helped shape Harvard’s vibrant arts landscape.

Featured student groups include Harvard Undergraduate Bhangra, Harvard University Band, Omo Naija X Wahala Boys, First-Year Musical, Kuumba Singers of Harvard College and the Harvard Choruses, Mariachi Véritas de Harvard, Harvard RAZA Folklórico, The Handsome Boys Pickin’ Band, Celtic music and dance, opera and more!

The party continues afterward in Annenberg Dining Hall with drinks, desserts, festivities and more arts including an OFA Ceramics Program Pop-Up Arts Installation and "make art" stations with Printmaking by OFA Arts in the Houses, Community Mural with Black Arts Collective, Poetry-on-Demand with students from TDM-90BR Spring Production Studio and music by DJ Gabriel Brock '26.

Feature Image: Original Artwork by Olivia Data ‘26

For more information, please visit the Office for the Arts.

Join the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety this February for a “Month of Malcolm,” a series of events marking the 60th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination on Sunday, February 21, 1965. Few figures in American history have provoked as much admiration, controversy, and debate as Malcolm X. His incisive critiques of systemic racism, advocacy for self-determination, and calls for justice remain both inspiring and challenging. This symposium explores Malcolm’s transformative legacy while engaging with the complexities and controversies that surround his life and ideas, particularly in the context of contemporary struggles for racial justice, policing reform, and democracy.  

A LIMITED NUMBER OF FREE BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT EACH EVENT

February 7 (Friday): A Conversation with Peniel Joseph, Elizabeth Hinton, and Brandon Terry 
The symposium begins with a dynamic conversation featuring Peniel Joseph, the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, in dialogue with Elizabeth Hinton, Professor of History, Law, and African American Studies at Yale University, and Brandon Terry, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.  

Professor Joseph, a leading scholar of African American history and the author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., will explore Malcolm’s evolution from a polarizing figure to a global symbol of resistance. Praised by The New York Times for his nuanced portrayal of Malcolm’s intellectual growth and relationship to Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph will reflect on how Malcolm’s vision for racial justice and structural transformation resonates today. A lunch discussion will follow.  

February 13 (Thursday): A Talk with Cornel West
In the second event, Cornel West, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary, will reflect on the prophetic and transformative dimensions of Malcolm X’s ideas. Dr. West, a philosopher, cultural critic, and author of Black Prophetic Fire, has long been a leading voice in conversations about race, democracy, and justice. Described by NPR as “reviving a grand tradition,” his work captures the moral urgency of figures like Malcolm X and their relevance to contemporary political and social movements.  

Dr. West will grapple with both the power and the controversy of Malcolm’s ideas, exploring how his unflinching critique of systemic injustice continues to provoke necessary, albeit uncomfortable, debates. Participants will be challenged to consider how Malcolm’s vision of liberation, empowerment, and accountability informs today’s struggles for Black freedom and justice in a rapidly shifting political and cultural landscape.  

SPIRIT AND SOLIDARITY

Organizing Training for Seminary Students & Faith Leaders  

Bargaining for the Common Good, the AFL-CIO and the Wendland-Cook Project at Vanderbilt are excited to announce - Spirit + Solidarity - an organizing training to teach faith leaders and seminary students concrete organizing and power-building skills to win campaigns for economic and racial justice. Join us in summer of 2025 to skill-up and win big! 

WHO: Faith Leaders + Seminary Students

WHERE: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN

WHEN: June 15th - 20th, 2025

The next four years are going to challenge our movement like never before.  With the rise of the religious-right, xenophobia, and attacks of working people, it is critical that our movement has a plan to engage faith communities across the political spectrum.  This organizing training will train faith leaders in transformational organizing skills that deeply engage congregations, worker organizations, and communities.  There will also be a number of opportunities for 7-week paid field site placements after the training.

Please mark your calendar, stay tuned for more details, apply using the link below, and email Ash Hagerty (ashenhagerty@gmail.com) with any questions.

In solidarity,

Bargaining for the Common Good, the AFL-CIO and Wendland-Cook Teams

 Apply here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1epAyzRc4q6cRZmg-aGNEozuDnA4BV6c_vWN1xBdWVU8/edit

Call for Papers

The climate crisis, global pandemics, natural disasters, wars, economic uncertainty, energy shortages and crises of pluralistic democratic societies are among the oft-mentioned crises permeating the contemporary, global public discourse and policy debates of the last decade. Read more in Call for Papers for 2025 conference.

NEW Extended Deadline: 14 February 2025

Notification of acceptances: 15 March 2025

A New Seminar: Join us for a Jewish Learning Fellowship seminar: Sex, Love, and Relationships starting next week -- come dive into deep subjects and pose your curiosities in an inclusive and intimate environment.

Chock full of delicious snacks, coffee machine, hot chocolate, and plenty of plugs for your laptop.

Open for ALL GRADS -- free booze and bartender, followed by free Shabbat dinner -- sign up at the QR code below to make sure you have a nametag for the event!

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
12:00 PM
Gutman Library - Room 302

Join us for a talk with Dr. Chávez-Moreno on her book, How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America! We will consider the ways schools shape ideas about race and, in turn, efforts towards educational equity. Through her talk, Dr. Chávez-Moreno will rethink race and reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group—namely by shifting attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness.

Hosted by the HGSE Scholars of Color Collective 

(The HGSE Scholars of Color Collective is an officially recognized student organization.)

With support from 

• Harvard's Contemporary Ethnography and Inequality Workshop

• The Harvard Culture Lab

• Harvard Education Press

• Harvard Educational Review