Events

    2024 Mar 29

    Joel Sanders, “From Stud to Stalled!: Inclusive Design through a Queer Lens”

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby

    In his talk, Joel Sanders will trace the evolution of his thinking about gender, human identity and space over the past twenty-five years from the publication of STUD: Architectures of Masculinity (1996), which examined the role that architecture plays in the construction of masculinity through a gay male lens, to recent projects like Stalled! Public Restrooms, created by JSA/MIXdesign, an inclusive design studio dedicated to considering the intersecting needs of a broad segment of the population that the discipline of architecture has traditionally overlooked: people of different ages,...

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    2024 Mar 28

    John Hejduk Soundings Lecture: Mario Carpo, “Generative AI, Imitation, Style, and the Eternal Return of Precedent”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    Generative AI does not create new images out of thin air; it generates images that have a “certain something” in common with a selection of images we have fed into it. This selection, often called a “dataset,” can be generic or custom-made; either way, Generative AI automates the imitation and replication of some of its common visual features, often known in the past as styles. Imitation was for centuries the backbone of the classical tradition in European art, and it was de facto banned by 20th-century modernism for many good reasons. As the rise of Generative AI is bringing the...

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    2024 Mar 27

    Pedro Gadanho, “Priorities Reversed: From Climate Agnosticism to Ecological Activism”

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    GSD, Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby

    Rather than slowly immersing in the subject of the ecological emergency, if one suddenly dives into its depths, the experience can be irreversibly transformative. Based on a personal trajectory of exhibitions, books and projects, this talk dwells on how such a radical reversal can alter not only one’s worldview, but also what kind of action and practice one accepts to pursue after their priorities have undergone a radical change.

    Free, Open to the public

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    2024 Mar 26

    Lauret Savoy, “Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us is also a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. Lauret Savoy’s Trace interweaves journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time to explore how this country’s still unfolding history has marked the land, this society, and her. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds to names on the land, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often-unvoiced...

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    2024 Mar 26

    2024 Loeb Lectures in Physics - Sir Andre Geim - "Exploring 2D Empty Space"

    4:30pm

    Location: 

    Jefferson 250, 17 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA , and via Zoom

    It is now possible to create angstrom-scale channels that can be viewed as if one or a few individual atomic planes are pulled out of a bulk crystal leaving behind a 2D space. I shall overview my work on this subject over the last few years, which covers studies of gases, liquids and ions under the extreme angstrom-scale confinement. Sir Andre Geim is Regius Professor at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on graphene, a one-atom-thick material made of carbon. He also received numerous international awards and distinctions,...

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    2024 Mar 25

    Ritual Effect book Launch with Faculty Band show opener

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston, MA

    Join us for an extraordinary evening as we delve into the captivating elements of "The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions," authored by Michael Norton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration. This event will center on a thought-provoking conversation moderated by Arthur Brooks, the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. The opening act will feature a performance from “The...

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    2024 Mar 25

    2024 Spring Loeb Lectures in Physics - Sir Andre Geim - "Wonder Materials"

    4:30pm

    Location: 

    Jefferson 250, 17 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA

    Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, is not only the thinnest but also probably the simplest material one can imagine. Nonetheless, graphene has acquired so many superlatives to its name and revealed such a cornucopia of new phenomena that it is often called a wonder material. Following its advent, many other one-atom or one-molecule thick crystals have been isolated and investigated. These so-called two-dimensional materials have become one of the hottest topics in materials science and condensed matter physics. Aiming at an audience unfamiliar with 2D materials, he will briefly...

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    2024 Mar 20

    The Art of Resistance: Sacred Visual Creations of New Orleans’ African American Mardi Gras Maskers

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Kim Vaz-Deville is a professor of education at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her work in New Orleans studies focuses on the lives of African Americans from the early 20th century to the present, explicitly on their material and intangible culture. In this lecture, Vaz-Deville will draw on a decade of research to explore how African American masks produce awareness among Mardi Gras revelers of their community’s African and Afro-Caribbean heritage and shared global struggles.

    Free, virtual 

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    2024 Mar 19

    Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Petra Blaisse, “Art Applied, Inside Outside”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    In Conversation with Grace La, Niels Olsen, and Fredi Fischli

    Designer Petra Blaisse discusses her forthcoming publication Art Applied, Inside Out (2024), a kaleidoscopic view of her work across interior, exhibition, and landscape design over three decades. This comprehensive survey encompasses renowned projects, including the recently completed Taipei Performing Arts Center; the Kunsthal Rotterdam; Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan, a park spanning almost ten hectares; and LocHal Library in Tilburg, a vast factory repurposed using an architecture of...

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    2024 Mar 08

    Malkit Shoshan and Womxn in Design: “Designing Within Conflict: Building for Peace”

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby


    Malkit Shoshan is a designer, author, and educator. She is the founding director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST), which initiates and develops projects at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and human rights. In her work, she uses spatial design tools to make visible systemic violence, engage with various publics to co-design alternatives that center social and environmental justice, and advocate for systemic change.

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    2024 Mar 06

    Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Caroline J. Smith on the Changing Gender Politics of the Kitchen

    4:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Caroline J. Smith will be part of the Food Literacy Project guest speaker series to discuss her new book, Season to Taste. "Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs explores women’s food memoirs with recipes in order to consider the ways in which these women are rewriting this kitchen space and renegotiating their...

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    2024 Feb 29

    Book Launch Event--The Everything Token

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Book launch for The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create, written by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers.

    During this event, the authors will; • Demystify NFTs, blockchains, and web3 in simple terms; explaining what they are and why they're valuable; • Explain how NFTs enable new markets by allowing people to...

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    2024 Feb 29

    Mark Shapiro on the Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter, Thomas W. Commeraw

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

    Potter and writer Mark Shapiro will talk about his research and co-curation of the exhibition Crafting Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw, at the New-York Historical Society (January–May 2023). Commeraw was a master craftsman who made some of the most iconic stoneware in early America. Born enslaved, he rose to prominence as a free Black entrepreneur, owning and operating a successful pottery, though for more than a century his racial identity would be...

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    2024 Feb 28

    Causal Inference: A Statistics Playground

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Judith Lok is a tenured associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Boston University. Her research focuses on causal inference methods and their applications, including HIV/AIDS, bacterial infections, and maternal-and-child health. At Radcliffe, Lok is writing “Causal Inference: A Statistics Playground,” a textbook designed for students and statisticians within and outside academia who work or intend to work in causal inference. Causal inference methods seek to address questions like “what would happen if” through data analysis.

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    2024 Feb 27

    Book Talk with Drew Gilpin Faust

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association welcome Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University president emerita; Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor; and founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute, to discuss her book, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury. Faust’s reading will be followed by a conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; and professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences....

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    2024 Feb 26

    Public Observatory Night at the Harvard College Observatory | Jupiter

    6:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips Auditorium, Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge

    Jupiter, the colossal gas giant, captivates with its iconic Great Red Spot and dynamic storms. As a cosmic guardian, its gravity protects inner planets, fostering life on Earth. Beyond its awe-inspiring features, Jupiter hosts a diverse family of moons, each with its own mysteries, adding to the planet's celestial allure.

    Embark on an evening with two captivating talks centered around Jupiter, followed by the opportunity to observe the gas giant and other cosmic wonders through high-powered telescopes (weather permitting). This event is sponsored by the Harvard College...

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    2024 Feb 23

    Jenny Peace on Studying Onggi in Korea

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    This lunchtime lecture is free. There is currently a waitlist for in-person attendance, register to attend via Zoom

    Join Ceramics Program Instructor Jenny Peace and her coil building class for a lunchtime slideshow describing the two-week onggi workshop she attended in Icheon, South Korea. She will offer an overview of the large-scale coiling method she learned from onggi master Kwak Kyungtae, and share contact information with anyone who might be interested in traveling to Korea to learn about onggi first hand.

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    2024 Feb 21

    Yu-Wen Wu in Conversation with Sarah Laursen

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
    Join the Harvard Art Museums for a discussion between artist Yu-Wen Wu and curator of Chinese art Sarah Laursen. Wu’s subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her artwork. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wu immigrated to the United States at an early age. Her experiences have shaped her work in areas of migration, examining issues of displacement, assimilation, and the shape of identity in a new country.

    At the intersection of art, science, social and culture issues, and the natural world, Wu’s projects include large-scale drawings, site-specific video installations, community-engaged...

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    2024 Feb 21

    The Campaign for the Future: The Long Road to the Inflation Reduction Act

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    A lecture with Leah C. Stokes, the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been published in top scholarly journals as well as in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Stokes was named to the 2022 TIME100 Next list. She is a senior policy consultant at Rewiring America and cohost of the popular climate podcast A Matter of Degrees

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    2024 Feb 20

    The Rematch for the White House

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Livestream – Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School

    With anticipation building for a likely rematch between President Biden and former President Trump, join us for an insightful conversation with former Congressman, 2024 Presidential candidate, and Harvard IOP Resident Fellow, Will Hurd, alongside Chief Correspondent at the Washington Post and Senior IOP Fellow, Dan Balz.

    Hurd and Balz will delve into the current landscape of the 2024 Presidential race, exploring possible developments and offering their seasoned perspectives on what lies ahead.

    This discussion will be moderated by award-winning journalist and Harvard...

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