Events

    2024 Mar 23

    Film Screening: The Last Human--Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    WINNER OF THE NORDIC:DOX AWARD 2022 Denmark, Greenland / 2022 Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. Life began in Greenland. At the same time, its melting ice masses are disintegrating day-by-day, and scientists around the world agree that it could drown our entire civilization if it continues. Director Ivalo Frank’s new film is a tribute to a vast,...

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    2024 Mar 16

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

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

    The Natural World of Latin America

    February 10: Special: Visit the I Heart Science Festival

    March 16: Ants in Action

    April 13: Flying High

    May 11: Shark Frenzy
     

    Teen Saturdays! is designed for teens interested in Latino culture, history, and community. This spring, high school students are invited to free monthly workshops to explore and learn about the natural world of Latin America and contribute thoughts on making the...

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    2024 Mar 16

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

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

    The Natural World of Latin America

     

    February 10: Special: Visit the I Heart Science Festival

    March 16: Ants in Action

    April 13: Flying High

    May 11: Shark Frenzy
     

    Teen Saturdays! is designed for teens interested in Latino culture, history, and community. This spring,...

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    2024 Jan 17

    Inspired by Nature: Drawing from Your Imagination

    9:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

    Looking closely at nature can inspire a broad range of imaginative artwork, from abstraction and decorative work to illustration and cartooning. In this workshop, we will use a variety of examples from nature as inspiration, and then explore techniques for unleashing our creativity through the drawing process.

    Cost: $30 members / $35 nonmembers

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    2023 Nov 18

    Film Screening: In the Whale – The Greatest Fish Story Ever Told

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    In the Whale is a feature-length film about, arguably, the greatest true fish story ever told. It's the account of a man, Michael Packard, who survived to tell the tale of being swallowed and then spit out by a whale.

    A Q&A with filmmaker David Abel will follow the screening.

    Learn more and RSVP.

     

    2023 Nov 18

    Water Stories with the Artist Evelyn Rydz

    1:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Join the artist and educator Evelyn Rydz for an afternoon of conversation and collective artmaking within the exhibition Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis, on view September 18–December 16, 2023.

    The exhibition presents artworks that tell alternative stories of water experience in the context of climate change, while encouraging viewers to appreciate the multivalent meaning of water and their own relationship to it. Rydz has repeatedly observed the increasing impacts on natural and cultural ecosystems throughout her various field...

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    2023 Nov 13

    Film Screening: Wild Life

    6:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School, James Room (Swartz Hall), 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

    Join us for a public screening of Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhely and Jimmy Chin's extraordinary film Wild Life—a story of love, wildness, and restoration in Patagonia, Chile. The film follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting.

    A discussion on the film will follow the screening. Special guests include Kris Tompkins and Chai Valarhelyi in conversation with guest curator Geralyn Dreyfous and HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.

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    2023 Nov 01

    Climate Justice Universities: Another Education Is Possible

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    A presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow Jennie C. Stephens.

    At Radcliffe, Stephens is completing her book manuscript, provisionally titled Climate Justice University: Another Education Is Possible (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), which reimagines how higher education could accelerate transformative social innovation toward a more just, healthy, and stable fossil fuel–free future. The book proposes a paradigm shift to leverage the untapped potential of institutions of higher education to advance systemic social change to reduce...

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    2023 Oct 07

    National Fossil Day

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    What treasures are found in the Harvard University paleontology collections? Meet Harvard paleontologists to find out! See their favorite fossils, learn about their research, and ask them your questions.

    Learn about local fossils and where to find them, see what new techniques and technologies are being used to study fossils, and hear about current research projects. Join us to celebrate National Fossil Day with short talks and table-top presentations for all ages.

    Regular museum admission rates apply.

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    2023 Oct 05

    Protecting the World’s Penguins

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Join Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner for animal conservation, as he recounts his lifelong journey to save penguins. Dr. Borboroglu will highlight the challenges of conservation work, from protecting 32 million acres of ocean and coastal habitat to cofounding the Global Penguin Society, an international conservation coalition for the world’s penguin species. Hear about the risks and rewards he has experienced while trying to save penguins in some of nature’s wildest places.

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    2023 Sep 17

    ¡Celebremos El Salvador!

    12:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Celebrate the vibrant culture and natural history of El Salvador. Enjoy captivating folk dances by Grupo Torogoz and try hands-on activities including corn grinding and painting with cochineal insects. Go on a scavenger hunt and discover the rich heritage of animals, minerals, and artifacts from the region. Join an archaeologist for a live-streamed tour of Joya de Cerén, the Pompeii of Latin America. Take a break with Spanish Story Time, enjoy traditional Salvadoran cuisine (available for purchase), and enter a raffle to win a museum gift basket.

    All are welcome to explore,...

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    2023 Sep 14

    Sylvester Baxter Lecture: Kongjian Yu

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St. Cambridge)

    Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a Sylvester Baxter Lecture featuring Kongjian Yu.

    Kongjian Yu, DDes '95, is Professor and founding dean of Peking University College of Architecture and Landscape, and founder and design principal of Turenscape. Yu’s guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embrace of nature—even of its potentially destructive aspects, such as flooding. His projects have won numerous international design awards, including 14 ASLA Excellence...

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    2023 Sep 05

    Flower Giveaway

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Smith Campus Center Arcade, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

    Common Spaces welcomes you back to campus for fall semester! Come by to pick up your fresh flower for free! One flower per person, while supplies last.

    Learn more.

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    2023 Jun 21

    Summer Solstice 2023: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

    5:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

    Join the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture on the longest day of the year—free of charge—to explore the galleries and new exhibitions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

    Step outdoors to enjoy lively musical and circus performances, play mini-golf, and make a flower crown. Ice cream, mocktails, and snacks will be available to purchase from food trucks and vendors. Don’t miss out on this popular event for all ages...

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    2023 Jun 12

    Climate Health Summer Welcome Reception

    5:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge

    Are you a student or resident looking to plug into the climate space in Boston? Please join climate-passionate students, interns, residents, fellows, and faculty from across the Harvard health sciences schools and the affiliated hospitals for a welcome reception. At this event, you will have the opportunity to learn about the climate landscape at Harvard and find ways to plug in during your time in Boston. Refreshments will be served.

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    2023 May 13

    Science Spotlights

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks. Perhaps you’ll discuss how studying dog reactions help us learn about the evolution of social behavior? Maybe you’ll consider the regrowth of a microscopic worm after injury and what that can teach us about any animal cell. Will you look at how trees manage the tradeoffs of building woody tissue or look for geological evidence of Earth’s first billion years? Each Science Spotlight in the series will include several short research talks.

    Ages 10–Adults....

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    2023 May 08

    Next in Food Sustainability and Climate Change

    2:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    What does climate change mean for our food systems? How do our food production and consumption habits contribute to the climate crisis? Speakers will explore the complex interplay of food and climate change, challenging and illuminating our unsustainable relationships with meat and water, soil and sea.

    Learn more and RSVP.

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    2023 May 07

    Frog-Legged Beetle Dome

    1:30pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Prepare and pose an iridescent frog-legged beetle specimen and mount it in a miniature environment of your creation, all enclosed within a three-inch glass dome. Materials are included but participants are encouraged to bring rocks, crystals, dried flowers, or other materials to further enhance their insect’s home.

    Open to children with adult supervision and those ages 12 and up.

    Cost: $95 members / $115 nonmembers

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    2023 Apr 26

    Postindustrial Ecology: New Values in Recovering Marine Ecosystems

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Joe Roman is a conservation biologist and researcher. In this lecture, he will examine how recent studies of animal ecology have changed our views of the role of marine vertebrates in ocean ecosystems through the lens of "postindustrial ecology"—a term he has coined for the transition from extractive industries to cultural and supporting services, such as ecotourism and recreational fishing.

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