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  • 2021 Sep 24

    2021 HILT Conference “Tackling Global Challenges from the Harvard Classroom and Beyond”

    9:00am to 2:15pm

    Location: 

    Online Event. Registration Required.

    The last two years have emphasized the importance of active learning principles, working collaboratively in groups, and engaging with local communities on important issues. Given the ongoing worldwide challenges that were at the forefront of 2020 – 2021 (pandemics, racial justice, climate change, divided nations, food insecurity, equity, etc.), students want to talk about tough problems. How can we best prepare students to address global challenges in thoughtful and creative ways?

    The 2021 annual HILT Conference will explore how we teach students to become global agents of...

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  • 2021 Aug 25

    Course Materials Through the Library

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Event. Registration Required.
    Librarians are prepared to help instructors assemble course readings, resources, and reserves for the upcoming semester. This may involve obtaining digital materials, linking to articles in licensed databases, setting aside physical copies of a key text, or incorporating films and special collections in Canvas. Bring your questions to this information session designed for instructors, where librarians J Armstrong and Sarah DeMott will be available to answer your questions, recommend strategies, guide you to key tools, and assist you as you prepare to incorporate library resources and... Read more about Course Materials Through the Library
  • 2021 Aug 24

    Course Materials Through the Library

    10:00am to 11:00am

    Location: 

    Online Event. Registration Required.
    Librarians are prepared to help instructors assemble course readings, resources, and reserves for the upcoming semester. This may involve obtaining digital materials, linking to articles in licensed databases, setting aside physical copies of a key text, or incorporating films and special collections in Canvas. Bring your questions to this information session designed for instructors, where librarians J Armstrong and Sarah DeMott will be available to answer your questions, recommend strategies, guide you to key tools, and assist you as you prepare to incorporate library resources and... Read more about Course Materials Through the Library
  • 2021 Aug 17

    Course Materials Through the Library

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Event. Registration Required.
    Librarians are prepared to help instructors assemble course readings, resources, and reserves for the upcoming semester. This may involve obtaining digital materials, linking to articles in licensed databases, setting aside physical copies of a key text, or incorporating films and special collections in Canvas. Bring your questions to this information session designed for instructors, where librarians J Armstrong and Sarah DeMott will be available to answer your questions, recommend strategies, guide you to key tools, and assist you as you prepare to incorporate library resources and... Read more about Course Materials Through the Library
  • 2021 May 21

    Special Seminar for HMS & HSDM: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Online webinar. Registration required.

    Mahzarin Banaji, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology, Senior Advisor to the Provost

    From a leading experimental social psychologist, a discussion of “implicit bias," and what we can do to outsmart it. Using lab and real-world examples, Mahzarin will show how our barely conscious assumptions affect our decisions about others, especially those unlike ourselves--in age, gender, race, social class, or...

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  • 2021 Jan 21

    University-wide Seminar: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Online event

    Mahzarin Banaji, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology, Senior Advisor to the Provost, and one of the country’s leading experimental social psychologists on the enduring evidence of “implicit bias,” is offering a general session for the Harvard community, including faculty, staff, students, postdoctoral fellows, trainees, and others, on Thursday, January 21, 2021, from 3-5pm.

    The...

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  • 2021 Jan 14

    Leveling Up: More Strategies for Teaching Remotely with the Harvard Art Museums

    10:00am to 11:15am

    Location: 

    Online event
    Led by: Staff from the Harvard Art Museums and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
     
    More than 45 classes across the university—ranging from economics to comparative literature—collaborated with the Harvard Art Museums in Fall 2020. Some faculty used the collections on their own; some invited museums staff for virtual visits; and others developed assignments centered on object-based learning. If you attended one of our workshops on strategies for teaching remotely with objects, or if you’re curious to learn about teaching resources unique to the Harvard Art Museums, we... Read more about Leveling Up: More Strategies for Teaching Remotely with the Harvard Art Museums
  • 2021 Jan 12

    Teaching Remotely with Museum Collections Across Disciplines

    2:00pm to 3:15pm

    Location: 

    Online event
    Led by: Staff from the Harvard Art Museums, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
     
    Museum collections are valuable tools for teachers of any topic: they can give tangible expression to ideas and questions, illustrate arguments, and help students build practical and analytical skills. No matter your discipline, you can encourage students to “read” works of art and cultural heritage critically and connect them to the themes of your course. In this workshop, we will use works from the collections of the Harvard Art Museums... Read more about Teaching Remotely with Museum Collections Across Disciplines
  • 2020 Dec 02

    Faculty Seminar and Q&A: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

    Wed Dec 2 (All day) to Thu Dec 10 (All day)

    Location: 

    Online webinar. Registration required.

    Mahzarin Banaji, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology, Senior Advisor to the Provost

    From a leading experimental social psychologist, a discussion of “implicit bias," and what we can do to outsmart it. Using lab and real-world examples, Mahzarin will show how our barely conscious assumptions affect our decisions about others, especially those unlike ourselves--in age, gender, race,...

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  • 2020 Nov 13

    "Texts in Transition" at the Harvard Art Museums

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Online webinar. Registration required.

    The Harvard Art Museums collections play an important role in the popular undergraduate course Texts in Transition, co-taught by history professor Ann Blair and English professor Leah Whittington, as part of the Harvard College Program in General Education.

    In this conversation, professors Blair and Whittington will discuss this ongoing collaboration with Laura Muir and Jen Thum of the Harvard Art Museums. Together, they will explore the role that close examination—in person and virtual—of a diverse array of objects plays in helping students consider how texts have traveled...

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