Date
December 7, 2024
Time
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Location
Attendance Policy
Open to students, Open to alumni, Registration required
Accessibility
Wheelchair-accessible event, Wheelchair-accessible parking, Wheelchair-accessible restrooms
Contact
HAA Alumni Education
| haa_alumnieducation@harvard.edu
| 617-495-1920
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Saturday of Symposia 2024
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Saturday of Symposia features Harvard faculty members doing research across the University in fields ranging from social and natural sciences to the humanities for its 44th year.
View more info at https://alumni.harvard.edu/programs-events/saturday-of-symposia-2024
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Saturday of Symposia features Harvard faculty members doing research across the University in fields ranging from social and natural sciences to the humanities. This year's 44th program will feature a keynote address and two concurrent morning lectures followed by lunch in Harvard Hall and happy hour at the Club Pub. This year, Saturday of Symposia will offer both in-person and virtual opportunities for learning.
The program is not only a longstanding tradition of the Harvard Club and HAA, but also an enormously popular one. Please make your reservations early.
Marla Frederick is the John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity and 18th Dean of Harvard Divinity School, the first woman to hold this position in the school’s 207 year history. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology from 2019-2023. She returns to Harvard having served there as a professor of Religion and African and African American studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2003-2019. A graduate of Spelman College with a BA in English, Dr. Frederick earned her PhD in cultural anthropology at Duke University. She continued her work as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion and at the Interdenominational Theological Center’s Office of Black Women in Church and Society.
Sharmin Ghaznavi is associate director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics and the Center’s director of cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Ghaznavi also serves as a psychiatrist at the Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include the neural correlates of rumination, self-related processing and other cognitive processes underlying mental illness. She has also been leading an initiative within the Department of Psychiatry to research rumination as a transdiagnostic phenomenon.
Stephen J. Haggarty is Scientific Director, Chemical Neurobiology at the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics and Director of the Chemical Neurobiology Laboratory within the Center for Genomic Medicine at Mass General. Dr. Haggarty is also Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and has appointments at the Broad Institute and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. In 2017, Dr. Haggarty was named the Stuart & Suzanne Steele Research Scholar within the Mass General Research Institute.
Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the exploration of historical problems that have contemporary policy implications. His book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. A significantly revised and updated edition of The Right to Vote was published in 2009. His 1986 book, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, was awarded three scholarly prizes. Keyssar is coauthor of The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000 (2008), and of Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history. In addition, he has co-edited a book series on Comparative and International Working-Class History. In 2004/5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections, and he writes frequently for the popular press about American politics and history. Keyssar's latest book, entitled Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? (2020), is published by Harvard University Press.
Rebecca Richman Cohen is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker who teaches courses on media theory and advocacy. Through her work, she has examined a range of topics, including the prosecution of war crimes in Sierra Leone, responses to sexual violence in the US, cannabis legalization, and biodynamic winemaking. Her most recent film, The Recall: Reframed (broadcast on MSNBC) is the first in a trilogy of short films about mass incarceration, sexual violence, and racial justice. Her SXSW and Tribeca-award winning documentaries have been hosted on platforms including HBO, Amazon, Netflix, New York Times, LA Times, Al Jazeera, public television, and more. She has taught at RISD, American University’s Human Rights Institute, and Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and has held fellowships with Open Society Foundations, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard’s Film Study Center, and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her very good dog and some nice humans too.
Until 2019 and for 20 years, Dr. Rosenbaum, Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, chaired a department of 600 clinicians and researchers, and 150 trainees, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as #1 in the United States in 2019 and for 20 of the prior 24 years, with 60 specialty clinical and research programs and over 70 million dollars of annual research spending. At MGH, the nation's largest hospital-based research institution, with over 1 billion dollars of annual research, he served as Chair of the Executive Committee on Research. 2007 recipient of the C. Charles Burlingame Award for lifetime achievement in psychiatric research and education, he was 2016 recipient of the Joseph B. Martin Dean's Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty for Harvard Medical School. Emeritus Fellow of the ACNP, he is a 2018 Ellis Island Medal of Honor awardee. Past President/Board Chair of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), he served as Chair of the Scientific Council, President and Board member of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He served a 6-year term as Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 3 years as Trustee of the Partners Healthcare System, and now co-Chair of Development at MGH. Co-author of more than 400 original articles and reviews, and editor of 20 books, he led longitudinal studies of children at risk for anxiety disorders and depression, examining behavioral differences, risk factors, longitudinal outcomes, treatment, genetics, and brain structure and function of children of parents with mood and anxiety disorders. He currently is directing the MGH Center for Neuroscience of Psychedelics (CNP), to understand how psychedelics change the brain and to explore novel mechanisms for treatment of psychiatric disorders. He co-founded 
Ying Xu is an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on designing AI technologies that promote language and literacy development, STEM learning, and wellbeing for children and families. Xu’s current projects investigate the design and effectiveness of conversational AI technologies to serve as language partners and learning companions for children, and how AI affects children’s social interactions and developmental processes. Additionally, she explores human-AI collaborative approaches to empower education stakeholders to engage in the development of AI technologies for their specific needs and contexts.