A female MP in Senegal slapped, kicked and knocked to the ground in the country’s National Assembly, this after allegedly insulting a pro-opposition religious leader. South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to fight for his position, after a preliminary investigation found he may have committed serious crimes. And we also bring you all of the football news from the world cup in Qatar.
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Part 1 of the 2022 Mike and Nina Patterson Science Symposium: A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World
Welcome Edo Berger, codirector of the science program at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of astronomy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Framing Remarks: Climate Change and Impacts Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter, New York Times
Discussant: Dustin Tingley, professor of government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; deputy vice provost for advances in learning, Harvard University
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0:00 Welcome 8:22 Introduction 11:05 Somini Sengupta 28:26 Discussion and Q&A
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A presentation from 2021–2022 Joy Foundation Fellow Ariela Gross
Ariela J. Gross is the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California and codirector of the USC Center for Law, History, and Culture.
While at Radcliffe, Gross is working on a new book, “The Time of Slavery: History, Memory, Politics, and the Constitution.”
Gross is the author of numerous books, most recently Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her book What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America (Harvard University Press, 2008) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and won the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize from the Law and Society Association; and the Lillian Smith Book Award. Gross is also the author of Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (Princeton University Press, 2000). Find out more at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/peo….
This program is presented as part of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort anchored at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
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Following the release of the report and recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery in April 2022, Harvard Radcliffe Institute and other schools across the University are engaging with the legacies of slavery, continuing to excavate the past and understand its contemporary effects.
While the report “uncovers Harvard’s complicity with slavery and its legacies,” it “also recognizes as a part of the University’s history enslaved people of African and Native descent whose contributions have been overlooked” and seeks to amplify stories of “Black resilience, agency, and achievement in the face of persistent discrimination.” In this panel discussion, Black Radcliffe and Harvard alumni from different generations explore and celebrate stories of resistance, excellence, resilience, and change-making from while they were students and after graduation.
Speakers -Beth Chandler ‘88, president and CEO, YW Boston -Antoinette Nwandu ‘02, playwright -Baratunde Thurston ‘99, writer, activist, and comedian -John Woodford ’63, journalist
Moderator Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Special Advisor Spencer Jourdain ’61, consultant and writer
This program is presented as part of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort anchored at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
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When high school students in Rockland County, New York, invited renowned activist and professor Angela Davis to speak, the event got shut down in two different venues over protests that she was “too radical.” But the students persevered, and Angela Davis addressed a packed church Thursday night. “I talked about the importance of recognizing that through struggle, through organized struggle, through the efforts of people who come together and join hands and join their voices together, we’ve made changes in this country,” says Davis. We also speak with community activist Nikki Hines, who supported students at Rockland County High School when they invited Davis to speak and who says “misinformation” drove the protests.
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Jurors in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election, resulting in the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Kelly Meggs, who led the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers, was also convicted of seditious conspiracy, and three other insurrectionists were found guilty of other felonies. The case marks the first time in nearly three decades that a federal jury has convicted defendants of seditious conspiracy, the crime of conspiring to overthrow, put down or destroy by force the government of the United States. “It’s a win for the Justice Department, and it also sends a message that illegal actions against the government will not go unpunished,” says Kristen Doerer, managing editor of Right Wing Watch. Doerer also discusses other upcoming trials for insurrectionists and how extremist groups have infiltrated military and law enforcement circles.
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The new future of food and agriculture report 2022 analyzes eighteen different, interconnected socioeconomic and environmental drivers of agrifood systems to better understand how their trends will impact the sustainability and resilience of these systems.
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Transition Studies 