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SUMMARY:BEFORE 1776:  KING PHILIP'S WAR AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA
DESCRIPTION:Massachusetts soil holds two stories. One is celebrated every July 4th. The other\, older\, bloodier\, and deliberately buried\, is the one we need to understand first. \n  \nOne hundred years before the American Revolution\, King Philip’s War engulfed the Indigenous nations of southern New England\, Wampanoag\, Nipmuc\, Narragansett and others\, in one of the deadliest conflicts in North American history relative to population. When it ended\, the colonial winners didn’t just claim the land\, they also claimed the story. A narrative of inevitable destiny\, of brave but doomed resistance\, of a continent naturally passing from one civilization to the next. A story designed to be mourned\, not questioned. \n  \nBut what happens when you question it? In Wampanoag country\, the war’s end was total: leaders killed\, survivors enslaved. Or was it? What did colonists find when they arrived\, and what did they dismantle? What was lost that we still don’t fully understand? The Indian wars didn’t end in New England; they migrated westward with the expanding nation. Was the logic of dispossession already present in the Pilgrims’ earliest encounters with the First Nations? Does Mary Rowlandson’s celebrated captivity narrative tell us as much about the making of American racial and gender identity as it does about war? \n  \nHosted by journalist Phillip Martin\, this conversation features Indigenous panelists from local tribal communities and asks what it means that we still carry this story\, and what it costs us that we’ve never fully told the other one. \n  \nJoin the conversation.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/before-1776-king-philips-war-and-the-making-of-america/
LOCATION:Cambridge Forum\, 3 Church St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:BIRDING\, A CULTURE IN FLIGHT
DESCRIPTION:Everyone notices birds. But how many of us are birders? \nThere is a difference\, and it comes with its own language. Lifers and listers. Twitchers and stringers. Spark birds and nemesis birds. Birding is a subculture with its own rules\, its own ethics\, and its own obsessions\, and right now\, it is one of the fastest-growing communities in America. \n  \nSomething unexpected is fueling this growth. Technology. The same force often blamed for pulling us indoors has become an unlikely ally. Platforms that track sightings\, map migrations\, and connect birders across the world\, are transforming a solitary pastime into a global community. And they are raising new questions about ethics\, competition\, and what it means to love birds responsibly. \n  \nScientists are also paying attention. What birding does to the brain\, who is joining the community and why\, and what this ancient practice of patient attention offers a generation raised on overstimulation. These are open questions\, and the answers are only beginning to emerge. \n  \nJoin John W. Fitzpatrick\, Director Emeritus of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology\, and Erik Wing\, neuroscientist at York University\, for a conversation about birds\, brains\, and a culture in flight. \n  \nJoin the conversation. \n  \n  \nJohn Fitzpatrick is the Director Emeritus\, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. \nJohn Fitzpatrick served as Executive Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology from 1995 to 2021\, where he also held a professorship in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He holds a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Princeton\, and his research has long focused on bird ecology and conservation\, including ongoing work on the Florida Scrub-Jay. A lifelong birder since childhood\, he is also an occasional bird painter. \n \nErik Wing is a research associate at York University and Baycrest Hospital in Toronto\, where he studies how prior knowledge and expertise shape human perception and cognition. He completed his doctoral work at Duke University focusing on brain representations during visual experience and memory retrieval. Working with birders across North America\, he has explored how learning bird identification shapes attention\, memory\, and new learning through behavioral and brain imaging research.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/birding-a-culture-in-flight/
LOCATION:Cambridge Forum\, 3 Church St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:THE END OF LONELINESS?  AI AND THE FUTURE OF CONNECTION
DESCRIPTION:Can a machine love you? Can you love it back? And if millions of people already believe the answer is yes\, does the distinction still matter? \n  \nAI companion platforms now count tens of millions of users\, many of them young adults who say these relationships feel safer\, more attentive\, and more reliable than human ones. At the same time\, the U.S. Surgeon General has declared loneliness a public health epidemic. These two trends may not be unrelated. \n  \nAs artificial companions grow more emotionally fluent\, more patient\, more present\, more perfectly attuned\, new questions emerge. What are we actually getting from these relationships? What might we be giving up? And what does it say about us\, and about the world we’ve built\, that so many people find it easier to connect with a machine than with each other? \n  \nJoin Dr. Jen Hartstein\, psychologist\, and Oluwaseun Sanwoolu\, PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Kansas\, for a moderated conversation about loneliness\, technology\, and what it means to truly connect in the age of artificial intelligence. \n  \nJoin the conversation.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/the-end-of-loneliness-ai-and-the-future-of-connection/
LOCATION:Cambridge Forum\, 3 Church St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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SUMMARY:Can Democracy Survive the Data Economy? Privacy\, Power\, and the Right to Dissent
DESCRIPTION:“’Cause we have a nice little database. And now you’re a domestic terrorist.”\nOn January 23\, 2026\, in Portland\, Maine\, that was the response a masked agent gave when a protester asked a simple question: “What are you taking my information down for?” The blunt\nadmission marked a chilling shift in the American public square.\nWhat was once a marketplace for personal information has evolved into a permanent\, powerful infrastructure: one that federal agencies\, law enforcement\, and even the Department of Defense\nincreasingly rely on to monitor\, classify\, and track people in ways the public rarely sees. \nAt the center of this shift is the data-broker economy\, a vast\, lightly regulated industry that buys and sells the intimate details of our lives. These datasets now feed into AI systems used for policing\,\nimmigration enforcement\, and risk assessment. More recently\, they have also begun informing the Pentagon’s exploration of autonomous technologies capable of identifying and targeting\nindividuals without direct human oversight. \nThe implications for democracy are profound. When participation in a protest leads to an entry in a “nice little database\,” what happens to the right to dissent? \nJoin Cindy Cohn\, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and Kade Crockford\, Director of Technology and Justice Programs at the ACLU of Massachusetts\, for a timely\ninvestigation into how these systems work\, who they empower\, and what they mean for the future of democratic participation.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/can-democracy-survive-the-data-economy-privacy-power-and-the-right-to-dissent/
LOCATION:Cambridge Forum\, 3 Church St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Medicated Appetite: How GLP‑1s Are Reshaping the Food System
DESCRIPTION:Curious how GLP‑1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are reshaping what—and how—we eat? Join Cambridge Forum on February 24 for a fast‑moving conversation about how these medications are transforming food habits\, industry incentives\, and public health. Featuring leading experts Marion Nestle\, Trey Malone\, and Alexandra Brewis. Free and online—don’t miss it. Register here.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/the-medicated-appetite-how-glp-1s-are-reshaping-the-food-system/
LOCATION:Cambridge Forum\, 3 Church St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T170000
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SUMMARY:Is humor democracy’s best defense?
DESCRIPTION:American democracy is under threat and CF considers if humor is our last best resort. Much has happened to the political landscape in recent weeks\, including the No Kings protests on October 18 which drew several million people into city streets all over America. It was thought to be the largest day of protest in U.S. history and sent a strong voice of opposition to Trump’s most recent propaganda efforts to declare all dissent illegal. The finale of the Right’s wild rhetoric culminated in an AI-generated video on social media depicting Trump piloting a fighter jet\, while wearing a crown\, and dumping feces on protesters from the air. Is this all just good “clean” fun and were the protests just a feel-good exercise for liberals\, that don’t actually change a thing? \nIn an age of memes\, late-night talk shows\, and viral takedowns\, satire has become a serious weapon – as witnessed by what happened to comedians\, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. But what happens when humor masks deeper political truths? Cambridge Forum explores how we navigate this new world of clownish propaganda; do we dare ignore Trump’s silliness and buffoonery\, risking its veracity at our peril? CF ask our guest speakers from different disciplines to discuss the power behind the politics of ridicule. Different formats are used by both the Right and Left\, not just to entertain\, but to demonize\, distract and derail debate. But what does this humor reveal about the state of our democracy – and is laughter our last best defense? Join the conversation.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/is-humor-democracys-best-defense/
LOCATION:Cambridge Forum\, 3 Church St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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