Events

2020 Jun 08

When “Stay at Home” Isn’t Safe: Domestic Violence During COVID-19

1:00pm to 2:00pm

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Online Event

Although communities have been asked to stay home to stay safe, for many domestic violence victims, home can be a dangerous place. Spikes in intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse have been noted across the country and around the world since the onset of the COVID-19 stay-at-home directives as victims and witnesses of IPV and child abuse find themselves isolated within their homes and confronted with difficult decisions about when and how to seek care or shelter. In this Radcliffe webinar, scholars, public officials, community activists, and...

2019 Oct 25

Making the Cut: Promises and Challenges of Gene Editing

9:00am to 5:00pm

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Gene editing holds extraordinary promise but also raises serious legal and ethical issues. In this science symposium, leading scientists, clinicians, and ethicists will explore case studies of particular therapies and the legal and bioethical implications of gene editing.

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2019 Sep 25

Sydney Conservatorium Composing Women

12:30pm to 2:15pm

Location:

Harvard ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston

From an exploration of musical memories to a work that draws from the intricate patterns of stuttered speech, excerpts of four new works for solo flute will be presented in a lecture-performance format featuring four flute students of Professor Claire Chase: Jessica Shand, Mai Nguyen, Jennifer Wang and Taiga Ultan. Chase and guest composer Liza Lim will moderate a discussion with...

2019 May 02

ARTS FIRST 2019

Thu May 2 (All day) to Sun May 5 (All day)

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Harvard University

Each ARTS FIRST festival is unique, but every year combines the exuberance of Harvard students, faculty and affiliates who are passionate about the many art forms presented in four rousing days of performances, exhibitions and community.

Enjoy free, family-friendly performances, dance styles from around the world, public art walks, hands-on artmaking, and much more! We look forward to celebrating the artists of Harvard community with you during ARTS FIRST on May 2–5, 2019.

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May 2,...

Film Screening: Lobster War: The Fight Over the World's Richest Fishing Grounds

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Lobster War is an award-winning documentary film about a conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the Revolutionary War. The disputed 277 square miles of sea known as the Gray Zone were traditionally fished by U.S. lobstermen. But as the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than nearly any other body of water on the planet, the area’s previously modest lobster population has surged. As a result, Canadians have begun to assert their sovereignty, warring with the Americans to claim the bounty.

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2019 Apr 12

First Projects: An Unplugged Conversation

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Join First Projects, a candid roundtable conversation with leading designers hosted by the Practice Platform. Unplugged and off-the-record, designers will share an inside glimpse into the origins of practice, revealing stories behind first projects and the seminal efforts that launch remarkable careers.

This unique Beer & Dogs event, co-sponsored by the GSD Alumni Council and the Practice Platform, will not be broadcast or recorded.

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2019 Mar 07

Poetry Reading: Rootedness

5:00pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

A distinct group of five poets will read selected works from their collections and participate in a moderated discussion about reinventing worlds and reimagining belongings.

Learn more about and RSVP for Poetry Reading: Rootedness.

2019 Feb 28

Loreta Castro Reguera

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Born in Mexico City in 1979, she studied Architecture at the School of Architecture of UNAM, has a Master in Architecture form Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, and a Master in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard GSD. She has been awarded with several scholarships and prizes for both her trayectory and her independent work such as the FONCA Young Creators Program in Mexico, a Fulbright scholarship, and the CEMEX Marcelo Zambrano scholarship. As a result of focusing her research on water and design, she received...

David Hartt, “Urban Futures of the Recent Past”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

This talk borrows the sub-title from Reyner Banham’s seminal book Megastructure, published in 1976. As a reference, Banham’s text critiques the failure of translating the energy and optimism of 60’s era civic projects into lasting institutions; thus creating fertile conditions for the seeds of our own post-ideological crisis to germinate in the capitalist restructuration of the mid 70’s. Hartt will focus on the relationship between the speculative and documentary aspects of his practice and, in particular,...

2018 Nov 16

Accessibility & Art-Making: A Talk on Inclusivity in the Arts

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St., Cambridge, MA

A panel discussion with Professor Michael Stein, Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and one of the world’s leading experts on disability law and policy; Heidi Latsky, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Heidi Latsky Dance, a physically-integrated dance company; Tiffany Geigel, dancer with Heidi Latsky Dance; Dr. Debra Levine, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media; and other Harvard faculty. This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required due to...

2018 Nov 15

The High Line: A Debate

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

HGSD, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

In conjunction with the 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, a panel discussion with some of those most closely involved with realizing the High Line will allow a deeper understanding of its value as an urban design prototype being disseminated and adopted worldwide.

The panel will feature John Alschuler (Chairman, HR&A), ...

Conference: Disability and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives

9:00am to 1:30pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

This conference will explore the ways in which contemporary notions of disability are linked to concepts of citizenship and belonging. Leaders in advocacy, education, medicine, and politics will consider how ideas of community at the local, national, and international levels affect the understanding of and policies related to disability—and how this has manifested itself, in particular, in higher education.

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2018 Nov 05

Next in Evolution

2:30pm to 5:30pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose creative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area. The focus of this year’s program is in the study of evolution. In this program, two leading researchers will explore the genetic impact of Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans and consider how people migrated, adapted, and mixed over the course of human history. Two...

Schlesinger 75th Anniversary Celebration

7:00pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

In this performance and discussion, “The Suffragists” captures the power and passion of American women’s fight for the vote through song. Created by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shaina Taub, the musical tells the story of the last decade of the struggle through the rivalry between Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul. Taub’s musical gives voice to these women in ways that powerfully resonate in today’s political landscape. The performance will be followed by a multidisciplinary panel discussion.

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2018 Oct 26

The Undiscovered

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

To paraphrase Louis Pasteur, sometimes luck favors the prepared mind, as when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by noticing that mold growing accidentally in his lab seemed to kill bacteria. This 2018 Radcliffe Institute science symposium will focus on how scientists explore realities they cannot anticipate. Speakers from across the disciplines of modern science will present personal experiences and discuss how to train scientists, educators, and funders to foster the expertise and open-mindedness needed to reveal undiscovered aspects of the world around us.

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Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Fritz Haeg, Nils Norman, and Julieta González

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Please join us for a conversation between visual artists Fritz Haeg and Nils Norman and Julieta González, Artistic Director of Museo Jumex. They will discuss their recent project Proposals for a Plaza at Museo Jumex. Proposals for a Plaza was commissioned as part of the series Agora: Blueprints for a Utopia, and the temporary sculptural installation invites the public to imagine and...

2018 Sep 19

The Open University’s Course A305 and the Future of Architecture Education

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138

Taking The Open University's Course A305 as a starting point, this panel discussion will interrogate the role of online learning in the future of architecture education. Participants include Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays,...

2018 Sep 13

Feminisms Now!

4:15pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

What do millennial feminists want? This panel invites rising artists, thinkers, and organizers to share their visions of gender equality for the 21^st century. Panelists will reflect on their art and activism in the service of intersecting and sometimes competing feminisms. They’ll also discuss the ways they do—and don’t—engage the legacy of their 19^th- and 20^th-century foremothers as they work to move society forward.

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Translating Research for Better Policy

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Leadership Studio, 10th floor Kresge Building, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA

Join us for the first “Voices in Leadership” event of the fall semester, featuring Dr. Patricia García, current Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow and former Minister of Health of Peru. During her appointment as Minister, she introduced new public health policies in sexual and reproductive health, HPV vaccination, food labelling, cervical cancer, electronic medical records, telemedicine etc. Prior, Dr. García served as Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH (2011-2016), and as chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health (2006-2008). She will be interviewed by Dr. Rifat Atun....

2018 Sep 05

Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Please join us for a conversation among the curators, Eve Blau and Robert Pietrusko, and invited media theorists, Laura Kurgan,...

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