Events

    2024 Feb 27

    Global Challenges and a Divided Congress

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Livestream and Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

    Join us for a conversation with recent members of Congress Joe Crowley (D-NY), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Bob Dold (R-IL), and Jeff Denham (R-CA). We'll hear differing perspectives from two Democrats and two Republicans on some of the major issues facing our nation and world today, including former President Trump's current influence on the House of Representatives; aid to Israel and Ukraine; the death of Alexei Navalny; and a look ahead to the 2024 presidential election.

    Livestream available for all on YouTube...

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    2024 Feb 27

    Race, Police, and the Media in America

    5:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Livestream and Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

    Join us for an examination of the infamous Charles Stuart murder case that rocked Boston and the nation in the early 1990s, and the repercussions that are still felt across numerous facets of society today. We will be joined by Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project; Adrian Walker, Associate Editor of the Boston Globe, and Boston Globe investigative reporter Elizabeth Koh and Assistant Managing Editor for Special Projects Brendan McCarthy, who will discuss...

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    2024 Feb 22

    The State of Black America

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Livestream – Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School

    Join us for an important and wide-ranging conversation with leading scholars on multiple issues facing Black communities across the country.

    We will be joined by Cornell Brooks, former President and CEO of the NAACP and Director of the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project; and Sandra Susan Smith, Faculty Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and...

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    2023 Dec 09

    Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes en el Museo!

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street) and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue)

    Teen Saturdays is designed for Latino high school students. Workshops delve into four fascinating traditional celebrations from Central America. Participants will embark on a journey to discover diverse festivals that shape societies in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. During each workshop, teenagers will visit exhibits, use art and language to create original works, and challenge their sense of what a tradition can be through discussion. We will learn about the historical and social contexts behind these festivities, their cultural symbolism, and the values they embody...

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    2023 Dec 09

    Fall 2023 Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join the fall 2023 Public Building & Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, led by architecture students. Walk through and learn more about the layered history of the building, its brutalist and modernist structural features, and the educational and cultural legacy of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University.

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    2023 Dec 09

    Exhibition Tour—Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curator Sarah Laursen for a tour of the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade. The exhibition explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Laursen will share how these two commodities—acquired through both legal and illicit means—have had a lasting impact on the global economy, public health, immigration law, education, and the arts.

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    2023 Dec 08

    Water Stories with the Artist Alia Farid

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden St., Cambridge

    Join the artist Alia Farid for a tour of Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis and a discussion of the artwork Chibayish, 2023. Chibayish is part of a larger group of works that Farid has developed since 2018, focused on the impact of extractive industries on southern Iraq and Kuwait's ecological and social fabric.

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    2023 Nov 30

    Film Screening and Conversation: Artist Dario Robleto with Jennifer Roberts

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a screening of artist Dario Robleto's film The Aorta of an Archivist, followed by a conversation between Robleto and art historian Jennifer Roberts, in conjunction with the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023.

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    2023 Nov 30

    Gallery Talk: Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Our galleries are full of stories—this series of talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

    Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.

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    2023 Nov 21

    Exhibition Tour—Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curator Sarah Laursen for a tour of the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade (September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024). The exhibition explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Laursen will share how these two commodities—acquired through both legal and illicit means—have had a lasting impact on the global economy, public health, immigration law, education, and the arts.

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    2023 Nov 18

    Objects of Addiction: Collecting Chinese Art—Past, Present, and Future

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Why do the Harvard Art Museums have a collection of Chinese art? In conjunction with the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, curators and specialists will explore early collecting of Chinese art in Massachusetts, historical interpretations of cultural heritage, and how contemporary museum collecting practices have changed and will continue to change in the future.

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    2023 Nov 17

    Fall 2023 Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join the fall 2023 Public Building & Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, led by architecture students. Walk through and learn more about the layered history of the building, its brutalist and modernist structural features, and the educational and cultural legacy of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University.

    Addtional tour date: December 9

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    2023 Nov 16

    Gallery Talk—Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curator Sarah Laursen for a closer look at artworks in the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade (September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024). The exhibition explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Laursen will share how these two commodities—acquired through both legal and illicit means—have had a lasting impact on the global economy, public health, immigration law, education, and the arts.

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    2023 Nov 15

    Caring for Navajo Culture: In Museums and Beyond

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge and Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

    Join Stephanie Mach (Diné), Peabody Museum Curator of North American Collections and Diné (Navajo) guests for a panel conversation about the ways they each care for Navajo cultural heritage within their various areas of work and interest.

    Following the panel conversation, attendees are encouraged to visit the Hall of the North American Indian at the Peabody Museum where Harvard students will be available to share information about key cultural items on display.

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    2023 Nov 15

    Gallery Talk: A Tale of Two Vessels

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curatorial assistant Casey Monahan to explore how two 19th-century ceramic vessels tell different stories of the United States. One vessel is made by enslaved potter David Drake and shows us both the artist’s agency and the lack of it. The other vessel is a presentation vase created for the U.S. centennial; it includes narrative imagery intended to evoke a shared American identity after the Civil War.

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    2023 Nov 14

    Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences: Conversation with Ruth J. Simmons

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    Join a discussion for Ruth J. Simmons' (former president of Prairie View A&M University) new book, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Random House, 2023), as well as her personal journey, her pioneering work researching and sharing publicly universities' historical ties to slavery, and her perspectives on the future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and higher education in light of recent Supreme Court rulings.

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    2023 Nov 11

    Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes en el Museo!

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street) and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue)

    Teen Saturdays is designed for Latino high school students. Workshops delve into four fascinating traditional celebrations from Central America. Participants will embark on a journey to discover diverse festivals that shape societies in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. During each workshop, teenagers will visit exhibits, use art and language to create original works, and challenge their sense of what a tradition can be through discussion. We will learn about the historical and social contexts behind these festivities, their cultural symbolism, and the values they embody...

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