Advocacy

By bringing together scholars from across Harvard, this panel discussed the importance of a critical, nuanced, and interdisciplinary understanding of refugee, asylum, and immigrant issues, while highlighting activist efforts. Learn more about the event...

Despite malaria remaining a major disease, infecting more than 200 million people and killing nearly 500,000 a year, such great progress was made against it that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently set a global target for eliminating the illness...

Simran Jeet Singh was running home from his office at New York University when he heard the slur. His first impulse was to ignore it as he had so many times in the past. Then he stopped, stiffened, and turned back to the young man who had shouted at him...

Rakesh Rajani, MTS ’91, grew up in the African nation of Tanzania. As a young man, he returned home from college during breaks and noticed an uptick in children living on the streets. Day after day he saw them harassed, even beaten. He vowed not to stay...

This interfaith conference addresses the issues and challenges of maintaining a sustainable planet. Focused on ways to engage, panelists examines the overlapping moral issues of climate change, sustainability, social justice, and mindfulness through the...

Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, a panel of HDS professors explores tensions and creative possibilities professors face in the role of public intellectuals. The panel, moderated by Francis X. Clooney, S.J...

Overcoming tough times, former surfing champion and new HDS grad Mary Setterholm helps others turn their lives around.