Events

    Water Stories with the Artist Alia Farid

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    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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    Art Study Center Seminar: Versos and Marks—Exploring the Past of Paintings

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curatorial assistant Casey Monahan to explore how investigating the verso (reverse side) of a painting can sometimes help construct the history and provenance of a work. Monahan will share how details such as labels, numbers, and other elements that are normally “unseen” are essential for curators as they research and catalogue works in the collections.

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    Water Stories with the Artist Evelyn Rydz

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    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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    View from Above with Colonel Terry Virts

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    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston

    This talk features astonishing aerial images of Earth from Colonel Terry Virts' book and takes of life from the edge of the atmosphere.

    Colonel (USAF retired) Terry Virts has spent over seven months in space during his two spaceflights, piloting the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2010 and commanding the International Space Station in 2014/2015. He served in the US Air Force as a fighter pilot, test pilot, NASA astronaut, and is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Harvard Business School General Management Program.

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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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    Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Angela D. Brooks, "No Place Like Home"

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture presented by Angela D. Brooks.

    Angela Brooks is the Director of the Illinois office of the Corporation for Supportive Housing and the President of the American Planning Association. She currently serves on the Chicago Board of Zoning Appeals, the Illinois Affordable Housing Advisory Commission, and is co-chair of the national Housing Supply Accelerator, helping communities meet the housing needs of residents.

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    Fall 2023 Hofer Lecture | Writing the History of Bookbinding: The Suave Mechanicals Essay Series

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    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    Houghton Library welcomes conservator Julia Miller, editor of the Suave Mechanicals history of bookbinding series, who will give this fall's Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.

    The lecture covers the inception of Suave Mechanicals, its goals and challenges, with a brief description of how the series is managed—the nuts and bolts of editing and publishing nine volumes of essays over twelve years (2013–2025). Miller describes the series' impact on research and writing on the history of bookbinding and the history of the book, as viewed through its broad...

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    Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture: Manuel Salgado, "City-Making"

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    “City-making” can be approached from different points of view and disciplines, whether starting from global theoretical reflections or from a particular and pragmatic approach to solving concrete problems. One can contribute to ‘city-making’ as a thinker, sociologist, economist, legislator, planner, developer, policymaker, or even an agitator. Architect Manuel Salgado will discuss how he has contributed to this process in three different ways: as a planner, architect, and policymaker.

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    WAX POETIC: Audre Lorde LP Launch Party with Tongo Eisen-Martin

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    Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, 11 Quincy St., Cambridge

    The Woodberry Poetry Room invites you to a launch party for Audre Lorde at Fassett Studio, 1970, our latest collaborative release with Fonograf Editions: Here to help us celebrate is current Poet Laureate of San Francisco and Lorde LP contributor Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of Blood on the Fog (City Lights, 2021) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017).

    Eisen-Martin will get the event rolling with a brief reading of his own poems (and a selection of Lorde's works) and then we will cue up the record for its premiere on the Aalto turntables. Come one, come all to this evening of...

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    Loeb Lecture: David Gissen with Sara Hendren

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    The Architecture of Disability, David Gissen’s newly published book, situates experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for “the construction of disability,” this book fundamentally reconsiders how we conceive of and experience disability in our world. Gissen will be joined by GSD alum Sara Hendren for a conversation surrounding the publication and how we might look beyond traditional notions of accessibility to positively reimagine the roots of architecture.

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    Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History: "Arthurian Immobilities: Disabled Kings and Nobles in the Lancelot Prose Cycle"

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    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    Houghton Library and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies present Christopher Baswell on "Arthurian Immobilities: Disabled Kings and Nobles in the Lancelot Prose Cycle."

    While the lived reality of disability in the Middle Ages was surely a wretched one, at the same time we encounter persistent associations between disabled and royal or aristocratic bodies in medieval culture, its imagery, and narratives. Nowhere is this truer than in the Arthurian world, at whose core there lies a powerful but immobile figure, the Rich Fisher King. In this talk, Christopher Baswell will...

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    The Living Dead in Ancient Egypt

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    Online or at Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    “Oh Unas, you have not gone away dead, but alive.” The Pyramid Text quoted here tells us that the ancient Egyptians believed in the continued influence of the dead in the lives of the living. The dead in ancient Egypt were supernatural intermediaries, folk heroes, and some were even deified, worshiped as gods in the Egyptian pantheon.

    This talk will build on the research found in Dr. Troche’s first book, Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt (Cornell University Press, 2021) and invite audiences to learn about the spectrum of deceased actors in ancient Egypt....

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    Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Anita Berrizbeitia, "The Blue Hills: Charles Eliot’s Design Experiment (1893-1897)"

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    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    This lecture explores how developments in the earth sciences—specifically geology, evolutionism, and biogeography—ushered in advances in design methodologies for large public–realm landscapes in late nineteenth-century Boston.

    Speaker: Anita Berrizbeitia
    Berrizbeitia is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She served as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture between 2015-2022 and as Program Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Degree Programs between 2012-2015. Her research explores...

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    Artist Talk and Opening Reception for This Machine Creates Opacities

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

    Join us for an Artist Talk and Opening Reception to celebrate the opening of This Machine Creates Opacities: Robert Fulton, Renée Green, Pierre Huyghe, and Pope.L.

    Artist Pope.L will present an artist talk that touches on his project Corbu Pops, which was originally commissioned for the Carpenter Center’s level 1 space in 2009. Various installation elements of this pivotal work have been restaged for This Machine Creates Opacities.

    Following the conversation, there will be a reception and community dinner in the sunken terrace on Level 1...

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    T. S. Eliot Memorial Reading: Kim Hyesoon with Don Mee Choi

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    Online or at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    The Woodberry Poetry Room's 2023 Eliot Memorial Reading will honor one of the pre-eminent voices in South Korean poetry and the trailblazing author of fourteen inimitable books of poetry: Kim, Hyesoon.

    Kim will read with her long-time translator -- the award-winning poet Don Mee Choi. Introductory remarks will be delivered by acclaimed poet, translator, and Harvard graduate Jack Jung.

    In-Person Attendance: Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University, at 6:00pm. Free and open to the public. A book-signing provided by Grolier Poetry...

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    Michele De Lucchi, "Earth Stations – Future Sharing Architectures"

    Location: 

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

    Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a lecture presented by architect Michele De Lucchi:

    "What can we as architects do for the world to come? We can use eco-friendly materials, and we can adopt the most sophisticated technologies, but if we do not get used to thinking with a sustainability mindset, building the greenest house in the world will not make the slightest difference, because, ultimately, we will continue to behave like irresponsible consumers. Consequently, we must intervene with a new way of thinking, one born today for the world of tomorrow. By attending...

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    Bookmaking: Irma Boom and Rem Koolhaas

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

    The exhibition The Book in the Age of … presents the outcomes of an intensive research seminar on the history and future of the book co-taught by Irma Boom, Phillip Denny, and Rem Koolhaas at the GSD in the spring of 2023. Over the course of the semester, the seminar assembled a collective history of the book and developed a dozen original conjectures for its future evolution. Drawing on the experiments in the classroom, and in celebration of the exhibition, Boom and Koolhaas will come together to deliver a lecture on the book in the age of globalization.

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