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Upcoming Events

2024 Mar 27

Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

Repeats every week on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday until Sun Jun 23 2024 .
11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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2024 Mar 27

Pedro Gadanho, “Priorities Reversed: From Climate Agnosticism to Ecological Activism”

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

GSD, Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby

Rather than slowly immersing in the subject of the ecological emergency, if one suddenly dives into its depths, the experience can be irreversibly transformative. Based on a personal trajectory of exhibitions, books and projects, this talk dwells on how such a radical reversal can alter not only one’s worldview, but also what kind of action and practice one accepts to pursue after their priorities have undergone a radical change.

Free, Open to the public

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2024 Mar 27

2024 Loeb Lectures in Physics - Sir Andre Geim, "Science of flying frogs"

4:30pm

Location: 

Jefferson 250, 17 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA , and via Zoom

Magnetic response of the very majority of materials is diamagnetic, billion times smaller than that of “real” magnetic materials such as iron or nickel. No wonder then that most things including humans are generally considered to be non-magnetic. However feeble, the ubiquitous diamagnetism is strong enough to support such dramatic phenomena as true levitation. In this talk - intended to be both informative and entertaining - I will show how to use strong magnets to let live frogs fly and, vice versa, how to use your fingertips to levitate magnets in between.

Sir Andre Geim is...

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2024 Mar 27

JFK Jr. Forum | Young and Running for Office

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School—Online

A conversation with a group of young people who are leading the charge to give a voice to their generation and tackle the numerous issues facing America and their respective communities.

Join us to hear from:

  • Joe Mitchell, Founder and President of Run Gen Z, and former State Representative (R-IA)
  • David Hogg, Founder of Leaders We Deserve
  • Anna Thomas, Candidate for State Representative (D-PA)
  • Valerie McDonnell, State Representative (R-NH)
  • Rachel Janfaza (moderator), Journalist and Founder of The...
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2024 Mar 28

Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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2024 Mar 28

Black Bell: A Quartet for the End of Time

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

 presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Alison C. Rollins

Rollins will discuss her work toward the completion of her second poetry collection, titled "Black Bell," and a creative nonfiction project, titled "Outside: Fieldnotes for Living Beyond Survival." Imploring investigations of time and space through the lenses of love and liberation, Rollins will showcase performance art practices, including metalwork, which are in conversation with Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and historical...

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2024 Mar 28

John Hejduk Soundings Lecture: Mario Carpo, “Generative AI, Imitation, Style, and the Eternal Return of Precedent”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

Generative AI does not create new images out of thin air; it generates images that have a “certain something” in common with a selection of images we have fed into it. This selection, often called a “dataset,” can be generic or custom-made; either way, Generative AI automates the imitation and replication of some of its common visual features, often known in the past as styles. Imitation was for centuries the backbone of the classical tradition in European art, and it was de facto banned by 20th-century modernism for many good reasons. As the rise of Generative AI is bringing the...

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2024 Mar 28

Public Observatory Night at the Harvard College Observatory| Stars

7:00pm

Location: 

Phillips Auditorium, Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge

Born from vast clouds of gas and dust, stars embark on a fascinating life cycle, evolving from brilliant birth to fiery demise. As these stellar furnaces forge elements, they seed the cosmos with stardust, the very essence from which we arise. Our connection to the stars is profound—we are all made of stardust, a testament to the universal magic woven into the fabric of our existence.

Embark on an evening with two captivating talks delving into the mesmerizing world of stars. Following discussions, elevate your experience with rooftop stargazing using powerful telescopes,...

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2024 Mar 29

Peabody Museum Tours by Harvard Students

Repeats every week on Sunday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Apr 21 2024 except Fri Nov 24 2023, Sat Nov 25 2023, Sun Nov 26 2023.
(All day)

Location: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?

Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes. Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.

Offered on: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00pm and Sundays at 11:00am
Regular museum admission...

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2024 Mar 29

Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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