How did the legacy of plantation slavery shape today’s environmental crises? Dr. Joy Banner will trace the “plantation to pollution” through line—from sugarcane cultivation built on extractive enslaved labor to the modern fertilizer and pesticide industries that now pollute the land, air, and water of Black communities along Louisiana’s Mississippi River corridor, often called "Cancer Alley."

Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, sat down with former news editor Marty Baron to discuss a life in politics, as outlined in his new book, "Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service."

The same forces driving tensions in South America - rich mineral resources, strategic one-upmanship, and shifting trade and military alliances - are now flaring in the far north. Cambridge Forum brings together Arctic geopolitical specialists to explore the key issues at stake in this rapidly changing territory.

This lecture will examine the evolution of U.S. engagement with Africa by critically comparing decades of aid-led diplomacy with an emerging emphasis on trade, investment, and commercial partnership.

The labor movement in the United States has been a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet the stories remain largely unknown to Americans.

What it means to be a Jew today feels more urgent than ever. For some, Jewish identity has become a source of connection and belonging; for others, it prompts searching questions about who we are and how we show up in the world. In this timely and thought-provoking conversation, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman sits down with Rabbi Charlie Schwartz, Director of Lehrhaus, to explore this enduring and pressing question. Drawing on a lifetime of deep engagement with Judaism, Feldman offers a wide-ranging and nuanced reflection on Jewish identity, examining how Jews navigate their relationships to God, to Israel, and to one another in an era of profound change and challenge.

Before the first shots of the American Revolution were fired, the battle for independence was already being staged—sometimes quite literally.

For two days in November 1872, a massive fire swept through Boston, leaving the downtown in ruins and the population traumatized.

Stephen Guerriero moderates a conversation on transportation, surveillance, and human adaptation in the age of autonomous mobility.

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, we are called upon to consider a profound and often overlooked truth: this nation was built on the backs of many and perhaps the greatest cost was borne by Native peoples. Sadly, today’s indigenous communities represent just 1% of the population, but their names, images and traditions are woven into the fabric of American culture — from place names and sports mascots to art and spiritual wisdom. How is it that the Native presence is so ubiquitous yet “unseen”, and its collective voice so marginalized?

Cambridge Forum will unravel the contradictions at the heart of American identity. We will examine how Indigenous knowledge and ways of life have been borrowed and celebrated by mainstream culture, even as Native peoples have faced dispossession, exclusion and erasure. We will also highlight how, despite all efforts to eradicate them over the centuries, Indigenous communities have continued to survive and exercise their sovereignty and sacred cultural ways.