Online or at Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
On Radcliffe Day 2023, the Radcliffe Medal will be awarded to Ophelia Dahl to honor her work advancing global access to healthcare and championing the rights of the poor. Dahl is a cofounder of Partners In Health, which currently serves millions of patients in 11 countries on four continents around the world.
Join Radcliffe prior to the ceremony for a panel of internationally recognized experts on a theme related to the work of the Radcliffe Medalist. This year, speakers will examine the essential role women leaders play in addressing global health.
Join us for a discussion about our special exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, featuring artist Richard Tuttle, who contributed to the exhibition catalogue, and members of the curatorial team.
Registration is open for this event on Saturday, May 13, after 10:00am.
Join the staff of the Harvard Art Museums Archives for a look into the experiences of women who worked and studied at the museums between 1920 and 1990.
Drawing on documents, photographs, and oral history recordings, this talk will explore the Fogg Museum’s and Busch-Reisinger Museum’s legacy as the premier training ground for the next generation of museum professionals. Staff will also share findings from an ongoing project to expand the names of women previously referred to only by their husbands’ names in archival descriptions.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks. Perhaps you’ll discuss how studying dog reactions help us learn about the evolution of social behavior? Maybe you’ll consider the regrowth of a microscopic worm after injury and what that can teach us about any animal cell. Will you look at how trees manage the tradeoffs of building woody tissue or look for geological evidence of Earth’s first billion years? Each Science Spotlight in the series will include several short research talks.
In this family-friendly talk, we’ll explore the colors, shapes, and lines of animal sculptures.
Creature Feature, an ongoing series from the Harvard Art Museums, offers a chance for families to explore magical creatures across the collections through close looking and curious exploration with museum staff. Creature Feature talks are free and open to explorers ages 6 and up.
Join us for a guided look at works of art in the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean, with associate curator Horace D. Ballard. Ballard will share insights about the ways in which the idea of “America” and the canon of American art are inseparable from the histories of Spanish colonialism across the hemisphere.
Online or at Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge,
Professor Henry Lee will conduct a fireside chat with Nat Keohane, the president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, former Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate in the Obama White House, and an alum of the political economy and government doctoral program at Harvard.
They will discuss recent progress in the U.S. climate policy space (including the Inflation Reduction Act and U.S. participation in international climate agreements), and the actions that must be taken to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Online or at Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
What does climate change mean for our food systems? How do our food production and consumption habits contribute to the climate crisis? Speakers will explore the complex interplay of food and climate change, challenging and illuminating our unsustainable relationships with meat and water, soil and sea.
Climate change is actively harming human health — not in some distant future, but now, in communities around the globe. The more we understand these harms, the better we can confront and overcome them. That’s the goal of this symposium.
We’re bringing together leading scientists, policy makers, and activists to examine our most urgent challenges and explore the most promising solutions. The audience will include professionals from a wide array of disciplines engaged in issues of climate, health, and environmental justice. We expect the afternoon to inform and inspire, to spark...
Join us for a tour of the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean, with associate curator Horace D. Ballard. Ballard will share insights about the ways in which the idea of "America" and the canon of American art are inseparable from the histories of Spanish colonialism across the hemisphere.
Join the Loeb Fellowship Class of 2023 as they reflect on their year as Loeb Fellows at the GSD and at Harvard, and as they look ahead to bringing their experiences back into their communities, and expanding their impact in the world.
The 2023 Fellows are nine innovators who work across activism, horticulture, real estate development, technology, architecture, visual arts, and other fields that engage with the built environment and social outcomes.
This event is open to the public and can be watched online on the GSD and Loeb Fellowship websites via...
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
The program in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce Atmospheres of Violence, a graduate conference that asks: In a world teeming with images of brutality and destruction, how can we look away from spectacular violence and toward the atmospheres that produce its representations?
The conference begins on May 3 at 6:00pm with a screening program and artist talk by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, and continues with keynote addresses by Pooja Rangan on May 4 at 4:30pm and Yuriko Furuhata on May 5 at 4:30pm.
Online or at CGIS South, S-216, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
This talk will discuss the crisis of Peruvian democracy as an extreme case of 'Democratic Hollowing' in Latin America. Unlike conventional views that focus on power concentration as the natural threat to democracy, the concept of democratic hollowing instead focuses on the threats stemming from power dilution.
Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea Carpio, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica del Uruguay...