Events

The Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative (MBB) is an interdisciplinary community of investigators whose research aims to elucidate the structure, function, evolution, development, and pathology of the nervous system in relation to human behavior and mental life. The MBB community draws broadly from all the schools of the University to bring together scholars – from undergraduates to faculty – with a common commitment both to empirical research and to multidisciplinary dialogue.

On Monday, November 14th at 1 p.m ET, The Shorenstein Center will host a discussion with Neal Gabler centered on the second volume of his two-volume biography on Ted Kennedy, entitled “Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009,” which publishes Tuesday! The first volume “Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975” published in 2020. The in-person event is in Wex G02, Wexner Building, HKS campus. This event will also be live streamed.

In this one-hour discussion, Shorenstein Center fellows Kathy Gannon and Brian Stelter debate the role of the media in a democracy.

Join Shorenstein Center Research Director Dr. Joan Donovan and Technology and Social Change Researcher Brian Friedberg in this event hosted by the Forum Network at GBH.

This event is part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern University.

The Shorenstein Center is co-sponsoring this upcoming JFK Jr. Forum event about the reporting that helped ignite the #MeToo movement, with Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, and Ashley Judd, moderated by Professor Iris Bohnet.

This event, held on the first day of Transgender Awareness Week, November 14, 2022, celebrated the accomplishments of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people while raising awareness on the bills, policies, structural racism, transphobia, and violence that affects the LGBTQIA+ community and the work that still needs to be done to achieve justice.

This event is part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern University.

This event took place on November 2, 2022 as part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern University.

Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian joined Walter Shorenstein Fellow Brian Stelter for a conversation about congressional coverage just one week before the 2022 midterm elections.