Events

    Film Screening and Conversation: Artist Dario Robleto with Jennifer Roberts

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    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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    Caring for Navajo Culture: In Museums and Beyond

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

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    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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    In Their Own Voices: Black Women's Lives from the Archives Opening Event

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    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    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...

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    Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond

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    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...

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    Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond Evening Event

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    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...

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    Objects of Addiction: A Conversation about Opium and Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws in the U.S.

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    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Award-winning author and Harvard history professor Erika Lee will be in conversation with students Jolin Chan ’25 and Madison Stein ’24 about the role of opium in the restrictions on Chinese immigration in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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    Beautiful Was the Fight: Film Screening and Filmmaker/Artist Q&A

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    Harvard Business School, Klarman Hall, 113 Western Ave., Boston

    Please join us for a screening of Beautiful Was the Fight followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, David Habeeb, and some of the artists featured in the film. The film showcases stories of several women in the Boston music scene and their struggle to achieve equality and success while embracing their identities and finding a voice in the community.

    Doors open at 6pm, movie starts at 6:30pm. Movie snacks will be served.

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    Seeing in Art and Medicine: A Conversation

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    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.

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    Exhibition Preview and Conversation: "Shehuo: Zhang Xiao’s Photography of Rural China"

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    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Contemporary photographer Zhang Xiao explores the impact of rapid economic change and urbanization on Chinese rural landscapes and traditions. In this conversation with artist and scholar Ou Ning, Zhang will share his aesthetic approach to documenting Shehuo (社火, “community fire”), a cultural festival held in Northern China that commemorates the Chinese Lunar New Year.

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    Father's Day

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    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Kivu Ruhorahoza, the 2022-23 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking, takes us on an exploration of masculinity through one of its most institutionalized forms: fatherhood. In the film, he figures Rwandan societal debates around the interrogation of fatherhood in a post-genocidal context, one in which the hands that held the machetes and struck, the voices that aided and abetted, the gestures that betrayed and denounced were primarily those of men.

    Cost: $15

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    Documentary Discussion | Lessons in Leadership from The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights

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    Harvard Business School—Online

    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...

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    Film Screening: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (co-director Nancy D. Kates in person)

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    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Co-director Nancy D. Kates and Associate University Librarian for Antiracism Jerome Offord will discuss the life of civil rights trailblazer who was excluded from history based on his decision to live as an openly gay man.

    Cost: $10 for general admission; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; Free for Harvard ID holders

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    Infinite Possibilities Part 2

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    Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., Cambridge

    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...

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    Infinite Possibilities Part 1

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    ArtLab, 140 N Harvard St., Boston

    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.

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    Latino Pioneers in Boston

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    Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

    In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Phillips Brooks House Association, Ethnicity, Migration, & Rights, the Department of Romance Languages, and Fuerza Latina invite you to a documentary screening of "Latino Pioneers in Boston," a fireside conversation with documentary maker Blanca Bonillo and Latino Pioneers: Tony Molina, Jaime Rodriguez, Carmen Paola, Frieda Garcia, and Regla Gonzalez. There will also be a reception afterwards for students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members to socialize and eat delicious food...

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    Inclusions: Imagining Justice on Harvard's Campus

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    Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online

    Inclusions, an art installation created by Kiana Rawji '23, Cecilia Zhou '23, and Luke Reeve MDE '23, affirms that just as Harvard has shaped its students, so too have the students shaped Harvard; the student bricks will serve as records of formative contact between entities, expressions of individual identity, presence, and power in public space. During the month of April 2022, the bricks will be used to create a cohesive installation in Harvard Yard near Thayer Hall.

    Join Kiana and Cecilia, with special guest commentator Professor Tracy K. Smith and moderator...

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    Black Music and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story

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    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Join us for the second of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of “The Music of Black Americans: A History” and founder and editor of “The Black Perspective in Music.” In 1976, Eileen Southern (1920–2002) became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She was central in developing the Department of Afro-American Studies (now African and African American Studies), serving as an early chair, and was on the faculty of the Department of Music, where she taught courses on Black music and Renaissance musical...

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