Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
"__positions" is a series of conversations convened by the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design aimed at revealing the positions taken by players on the field of contemporary architecture. The series unfolds the complexity of relations and metaphors to make them explicit, inviting faculty and guests to voice where they stand.
In conjunction with the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, Harvard faculty in Chinese history, business, politics, and law will take part in a roundtable discussion on the 19th-century Opium Wars and the legacy of the opium trade in U.S.–China relations.
The opening event for the Harvard Radcliffe Institute exhibition In Their Own Voices features Taryn Jordan (Colgate University), Kalimah Redd Knight (Tufts University), and Holly Smith (Spelman College) in conversation with the curator Petrina Jackson.
The exhibition celebrates the power of defining oneself while highlighting the lifework and legacies of Black women whose papers are held at the Schlesinger Library. The featured collections include those of graphic designer Louise E. Jefferson, civil and women’s rights activist Pauli Murray, and educator Rebecca Primus...
Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
This conference, “Responsibility and Repair”—led by Harvard University’s Native American Program in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute—will bring together Native and university leaders to advance a national dialogue, expand research, and establish and deepen partnerships with Indigenous communities. Using the landmark Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (2022) as a starting point, the conference and its participants—activists, scholars, Native leaders, tribal historians, and others—will explore the responsibility of...
Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
This conference, “Responsibility and Repair”—led by Harvard University’s Native American Program in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute—will bring together Native and university leaders to advance a national dialogue, expand research, and establish and deepen partnerships with Indigenous communities. Using the landmark Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (2022) as a starting point, the conference and its participants—activists, scholars, Native leaders, tribal historians, and others—will explore the responsibility of...
Harvard Graduate School of Education, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential skills. The Career Arts provides a corrective to the widespread and misleading notion that there is a direct trade-off between going to college and acquiring practical job skills.
Drawing on evidence-based research, illuminating case studies, and in-depth interviews, Ben Wildavsky shares the most vital lessons of what he calls the career arts, which include cultivating a mix of broad and targeted skills, taking advantage of...
Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
Artists whose works are represented in the Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis exhibition will engage with scholars of religion, anthropology, and transnational studies to discuss aesthetic and spiritual experiences of water in the age of climate crisis. Participants will discuss traditional paintings depicting mythological stories along with contemporary works evoking different aesthetic and spiritual experiences of water in the age of climate crisis.
In this conversation, Simone Browne and Mimi Ọnụọha will examine how artists have critically grappled with the hidden infrastructures of surveillance today, and explore the consequences of what is made visible through data.
A reception will follow in the related Surveillance exhibition at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, second floor, Cambridge, MA, from 7:30pm–8:15pm.
Join us for a lively conversation about the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine and the museums’ medical humanities program that inspired it. Presenters include the program’s founders, Hyewon Hyun and David Odo, and exhibition curator Jen Thum. The talk will also include interactive segments based on the work of the program.
In this opening discussion for the exhibition, Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis, exhibition curator and faculty director Jinah Kim will engage in conversation with art historian Yukio Lippit and Radcliffe’s curator of exhibitions, Meg Rotzel.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute's exhibition, Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis (on view September 18–December 16, 2023), presents artworks that tell alternative stories of water experiences in the context of climate change. They treat water not as a...
Online or at Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston
Join poets Jennifer Barber, Deborah Leipziger, and Charles Coe for an afternoon of tree-themed poetry readings and discussion. Each poet will read segments of their works, including the poetry anthology Tree Lines, interspersed with interactive dialogue with the audience. At the end of the event, audience members will be given prompts and encouraged to try their own hands at writing tree-inspired poetry.
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)
Concluding the third annual Mayors Institute on City Design (MICD) Just City Mayoral Fellowship–a collaboration between the MICD and Harvard GSD's Just City Lab–the Fellows discuss strategies for using planning and design interventions to address racial injustice in each of their cities.
Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Transgender Day of Visibility is here and our joy is contagious! Join us for a celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility in Harvard Commons at Smith Campus Center from 6-9pm. Hosted by a student speaker, this event will consist of speaking, performance, and live rock music! This event is free and open to the public of all ages, no alcohol is permitted.
Join the Harvard Art Museums Student Board for its annual public lecture, featuring Pao Houa Her in conversation with Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography.
Pao Houa Her is a Hmong American artist whose practice engages primarily with legacies and potentials of landscape, portraiture, and documentary photographic traditions and aesthetics. Her works examine identity, longing, and belonging in Hmong diasporic communities.
Harvard Business School celebrates Black History Month with a conversation with Bonnie Boswell (Harvard University 1972), the niece of Whitney Young, award winning journalist and executive producer of The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights.
Boswell will discuss the leadership lessons of Whitney Young, one of the most celebrated and controversial Black leaders of the civil rights era. Young took the fight directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government, including three presidents. His work helped erase stereotypes, opened...
Infinite Possibilities Part 2 is a continuation of a two-day free event series, presented by Harvard Dance Center, on the history, culture, and concepts behind freestyle dance. Both days feature Boston-based dancer, educator, curator, and community organizer Ashton Lites, aka Stiggity Stackz, founding creative director of Stiggity Stackz Worldwide, and curated into three parts: panel discussion, workshop, and mini battle.
Infinite Possibilities Part 2 will be held at Lowell Lecture Hall and begin with a conversation with Stiggity Stackz, Chad Shabazz, and...
Infinite Possibilities Part 1 is the first of a two-day event series, presented by Harvard Dance Center, introducing and inviting the public into the history, culture, and concepts behind freestyle dance. Both days feature Boston-based dancer, educator, curator, and community organizer Ashton Lites, aka Stiggity Stackz, founding creative director of Stiggity Stackz Worldwide, and curated into three parts: panel discussion, workshop, and mini battle.
Two time Boston Music Award nominee rocks the Harvard Ed Portal! Join Allston indie folk artist Grace Givertz for an intimate concert featuring songs from her forthcoming album—plus dinner, drinks and conversation in a cozy atmosphere.
For one night only, Grace will perform a new unplugged set on banjo, tambourine, guitar, and harmonica. Afterwards, fellow musician Jake Blount will team up with Grace for a heart-to-heart on the journey of a marginalized musician in a genre that has historically underrepresented...
Watch, Portraits from a Fire, a film about the nuances and complexities of being a young Indigenous filmmaker.
This series of contemporary and classic films is specially curated for teenagers in and around Cambridge. The selection, including both short and feature-length films, is meant to provide teens with an opportunity to watch work focused explicitly on their experiences. Covering a range of topics, emotions, and nuances, these free films—depending on length and scope—will be followed by conversation with faculty from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School....