2021 Jan 22
The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: What’s Ahead?
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines unfolds in the United States, numerous questions around distribution, supply, hesitancy, and efficacy persist. And the stakes have never been higher, as numbers of deaths and cases repeatedly break records. In this discussion, experts will review the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, address safety concerns, explore upcoming expected vaccines, and discuss implications of virus variants.
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2021 Jan 21
Art Talk Live: Setting the Fans Afloat
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Art Museums
Exhibition designer Elie Glyn and production specialist Sean Lunsford will explain the creative process behind the planning and installation of a display of framed fans by Suzuki Kiitsu, featured in the special exhibition Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection.
Led by:
Elie Glyn, Assistant Director for Exhibitions, Collections Management
Sean Lunsford, Exhibition Production Specialist, Collections Management...
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2021 Jan 14
Art Talk Live: Ben Shahn and Folk Music
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
During the Great Depression, artist Ben Shahn produced hundreds of photographs while working for the Farm Security Administration. Among his most common subjects were musicians. In this talk, curatorial fellow Kappy Mintie will examine Shahn’s interest in folk music in the context of concurrent government efforts to record this important strand of American music.
Led by:
Katherine “Kappy” Mintie, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
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2021 Jan 07
Art Talk Live: Love at the Margins
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Members of the itinerant Roma, or Romani, people arrived in Europe by the Middle Ages and have held a prominent place in Western art and literature, from the work of Shakespeare and Hieronymus Bosch to that of the many Roma artists and writers active today. This talk will focus on an unusual and moving depiction of a Roma woman and child by Dutch artist Jacques de Gheyn, exploring it in relation to the broader visual and literary tradition and to the realities of the lives of the Roma in the 17th-century Netherlands.
Led by:
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein,...
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2020 Dec 17
Art Talk Live: Erased!
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Public images of rulers serve as potent symbols of power and propaganda. In ancient Rome, tyrannical emperors were deposed and assassinated, their likenesses defaced by angry citizens and sometimes by official decree.
This talk is part of a series investigating power dynamics in artworks across the collections. Considering intersections of art and power, our curatorial team discusses how artists engage with social and political crises, use art to upset systems of power, and imagine more equitable futures.
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2020 Dec 15
Book Talk: Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
Reshaping health insurance is a divisive topic in American politics today. Our current system expects patients to bear substantial health costs through deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance, creating a tradeoff for patients that can keep them from accessing the care they need. In his book, Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It,...
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2020 Dec 14
Members: Digging Harvard with Trish Capone & Nam Hyun Kim
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Students have been digging up and learning about Harvard's past through the Harvard Yard Archaeological Project. Meet the Peabody's Trish Capone and current Harvard student Nam Hyun Kim as they talk about the objects they have found and the larger history of what has been uncovered in this long-standing dig on campus.
 
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2020 Dec 10
Student Guide Alumni Tour: Why Museums Matter
8:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Alumni of the Ho Family Student Guide Program talk about works of art they still think about, how their museum experience affected their path after graduation, and how this experience feeds into their current work in architecture, social justice, and environmental policy.
Join David Kurlander ’15, Catarina Martinez ’15, and John Wang ’15—all members of the first Student Guide cohort in our renovated building—for an interactive conversation with Camran Mani, the Cunningham Curatorial Fellow in Academic and Public Programs, about how they have carried forward their museum...
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2020 Dec 10
In Conversation: Kemi Adeyemi with Jessica Bell Brown, Lauren Haynes, and Jamillah James
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts—Online
Join the Carpenter Center for a conversation between Kemi Adeyemi, Director of the Black Embodiments Studio, and curators Jessica Bell Brown, Lauren Haynes, and Jamillah James. This conversation is a continuation of Adeyemi's oral history project “Black Women Curators, A Brief Oral History of the Recent Past,” which documents the perspectives of Black women curators working in the United States from the mid-2000s onward.
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2020 Dec 10
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson! A Celebration of Poetry and Cake
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Houghton Library—Online
Every year the Houghton Library throws a birthday party for Emily Dickinson, featuring her famous 20lb black cake, the autograph recipe of which can be found in the collection. Sadly, we cannot gather in person this year to party and eat cake, so this fall we encouraged intrepid bakers and Dickinson fans from around the world to join us, together at home, in baking her black cake. Our collective efforts will culminate in a live Zoom birthday party on December 10. (You don’t have to bake the cake to attend, but you still have time to try it if you want!)
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2020 Dec 10
What Old Chimps Can Tell Us About Healthy Aging
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Alumni Association—Online
Humans are living longer lives than ever before and so it is critical to understand the process of aging. It has become increasingly recognized that successful aging is not just about physical health but also about our social lives.
Chimpanzees are our closest living relative and also lead long and complex lives. In this talk, you’ll learn what chimpanzee aging can tell us about human aging.
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2020 Dec 10
Women and the Making of the U.S. Foreign Policy Community
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
Who made the foreign policy community in the United States, and why does the answer matter? Scholars have traditionally looked to the men clustered around the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller and Carnegie philanthropies, and the Ivy League faculties to find the roots of the foreign policy "elite" or "establishment" in the years after World War I. But this seminar will show that this focus has obscured the absolute centrality of progressive white women in the making of the U.S. foreign policy community, particularly those former suffragists, trained scholars, and expert...
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2020 Dec 09
Of Scholarship and Song
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
Join Maggie Paxson and Alexandra Vacroux for a wide-reaching, long-looking, spirit-warming conversation and mini-concert as we prepare for this strangest of holiday...
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2020 Dec 09
The Future of Education
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
As we look ahead to a post-pandemic world, with educational disparities laid bare by COVID-19, the Harvard Graduate School of Education ends its Centennial year by asking: What will education look like five years from now? What about 25 years from now? What are the innovations — fueled by the pandemic’s necessities, or powered by the world’s push for racial justice and equal access — that will take us forward? What should we do now to work toward that future we want to build? And what factors, both positive and challenging, will help to determine that future?
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2020 Dec 08
The Future of COVID-19 Epidemiology
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
To what extent is our future with COVID-19 knowable? As new information about the transmission, demographics, and treatment of COVID-19 emerge, epidemiologists continue to address complex data and generate new predictive models to better understand the dynamics of the virus. Join leading epidemiologists for a panel discussion as they assess the current and future state of the epidemic.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 
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2020 Dec 05
Student Guide Tour: Transcendence—A Guide on How to Escape Your Current Reality, with Franklin Hang
11:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Online Event
Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!
Franklin Hang ’21 explores how artistic periods and traditions have had an impact on the world in ways that exceed bodily limitations. He will lead an interactive discussion of a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, Emperor Napoleon I by Jacques-Louis David, ...
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2020 Dec 03
Election 2020: Youth in Power
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
Join the Institute of Politics for a discussion on the unprecedented turnout and impact from young voters 18–29 years old.
Ashley Allison, former National Coalitions Director for Biden for President, and Peter Hamby, host of Snapchat’s Good Luck America and contributing writer for Vanity Fair, will join in a conversation moderated by John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at the Institute of Politics who was on leave in the fall semester from the Harvard Youth Poll to advise the Biden-Harris campaign. They will examine Biden’s communications and organizing strategy from the end...
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2020 Dec 03
2020 Visions
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Too often, the story of women’s suffrage unfolds in a vacuum, seemingly unconnected from the general contours of American history. This panel discussion looks back from the present, asking experts working in a variety of disciplines and organizations to briefly unfold, TED-talk style, a single “big idea” that captures the significance of the 19th Amendment for voting rights, citizenship, and democracy today.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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2020 Dec 03
Art Talk Live: Sculpture as Witness (Doris Salcedo)
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
During these unsettled times, art allows us to reflect on and confront sociopolitical uncertainties through close looking at objects. Doris Salcedo’s sculpture Untitled (2004–5), recalling a worn, simple chair, marks the absence of countless victims lost to political violence in Colombia’s civil war. Curator Mary Schneider Enriquez will examine Salcedo’s work and will consider how an everyday object speaks to the power wielded by those whose victims remain silent.
This talk is part of a series investigating power dynamics in artworks across the collections. Considering...
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2020 Dec 03
Violence After Victory: Explaining Human Rights Outcomes After Conflict Termination
12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
What stops human rights abuse? Christopher Shay explores this question in the context of conflict terminations, moments when leaders can plausibly turn away from repressive tactics. Many leaders fail to seize this opportunity, however, even in cases of democratization. Drawing on cross-national quantitative findings and qualitative research conducted in Nepal, Shay argues that these leaders' options are often constrained by powerful security institutions—and that civil-military relations are critical to understanding human rights outcomes.
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