Events

    2023 Feb 13

    Harvard Divinity School and Slavery: Family Stories

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    Building beyond the work of the 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Report, Harvard Divinity School will host a series of online conversations with members of the HDS faculty to engage these vital questions from their expertise within the study of religion. Expand your understanding of the history and continuing implications of slavery in service of advancing racial justice in our own time and context.

    On February 13, Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, will consider the stories of many of Harvard Divinity School’...

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    2023 Feb 09

    Gallery Talk: Reframing Indigenous Presence at the Harvard Art Museums

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    In this tour, associate curator Horace D. Ballard will explore the complicated history of 19th-century portraits of Indigenous delegates to Washington, D.C., by painter Henry Inman, and the recurring display of a selection of the paintings at the Harvard Art Museums.

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    2023 Feb 09

    Rebuilding Ukraine, Rebuilding the World

    Thu - Fri, Feb 9 to Feb 10, 9:00am - 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

    The 2023 TCUP Conference looks to the future. After victory, what will rebuilding Ukraine look like? Panels will focus on truth, justice, and accountability, as well as the economic and physical challenges of reconstruction. The conference will combine virtual and in-person panels for a hybrid discussion about how Ukraine can move forward when the war is over.

    Keynote Address by Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist.

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    2023 Feb 08

    Artist Reception | Derealization: Kurdistan, Art & Memory

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

    Join us at the artist talk and reception for Derealization: Kurdistan, Art & Memory, an exhibition presented in partnership with Artisans Asylum.

    Hear from Allston artist Kamal Ahmad about the inspiration and stories behind his artwork. Then learn more about the new-to-the-neighborhood makerspace, Artisans Asylum, from Executive Director Antonio Viva. See the art,...

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    2023 Feb 07

    John Hejduk Soundings Lecture: Stan Allen, "Situated Objects"

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Situated Objects, published in 2020, is a book of buildings, drawings and projects realized by Stan Allen since 2012. Well known for his essay "Field Conditions," and for work at the scale of the city, these projects represent a complementary approach that addresses nature, the ex-urban landscape, design process and construction through a series of small-scale works on rural sites.

    The book—and the lecture—argue that buildings are best understood as "situated" objects: object-like in that they have fixed limits and stand free; situated, in that buildings always...

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    2023 Feb 06

    Religion, Race and the Double Helix of White Supremacy

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    This conversation is the first of the six-part series Religion and the Legacies of Slavery | A Series of Public Online Conversations. The featured speakers are David F. Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at HDS, and Kathryn Gin Lum, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Stanford University.

    It has long been a historical truism that, in the early modern West, pseudoscientific racial hierarchies replaced religious hierarchies as the...

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    2023 Feb 06

    There is No Table for My Seat

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Center for African Studies, 1280 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor, Cambridge

    On Monday February 6 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm the Center for African Studies will host their African Studies Workshop. The workshop is open to the public and focuses broadly on the general theme of Reflections on Africa's Political Economies and Cultures and their Global Implications. South African scholar and curator, Khanyisile Mbongwa, will present a paper and Peabody curator, Sarah Clunis, will moderate a discussion drawing on Mbongwa's current work.

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    2023 Feb 03

    Tour: Witch-Hazels with Andrew Gapinski

    1:00pm to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    In the Arnold Arboretum, there is something blooming every month of the year—including February! Join Andrew Gapinski, Director of Horticulture, to explore the beauty of the Arboretum’s witch-hazel family collection and its captivating history of development, evaluation, and scientific study here at the Arboretum.

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    2023 Jan 31

    Rama S. Mehta Lecture by Elisa Loncón Antileo

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute is pleased to welcome Elisa Loncón Antileo to deliver the Rama S. Mehta Lecture for 2022–2023.

    In 2021, Loncón was elected as one of the representatives of the Mapuche people to the Chilean Constitutional Convention, and was then named the Convention’s first president (July 2021–January 2022). The Convention was tasked with rewriting the dictatorship-era constitution, a process that began after mass protests across the nation in 2019 and a national vote in favor of replacing the old constitution in 2020. Although Chilean voters rejected the proposed...

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    2023 Jan 31

    Chilean Constitutional Reform: Mother Nature, Mapuche Women, and Decolonial Perspectives

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute is pleased to welcome Elisa Loncón Antileo to deliver the Rama S. Mehta Lecture for 2022–2023. In 2021, Loncón was elected as one of the representatives of the Mapuche people to the Chilean Constitutional Convention, and was then named the Convention’s first president (July 2021–January 2022).

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    2023 Jan 26

    Book Talk: Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Arnold Arboretum—Online

    In her New York Times bestseller Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, Amy Stewart takes on Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, Stewart presents tales of bloodcurdling botany that will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

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    2023 Jan 23

    Religion and the Legacies of Slavery | A Series of Public Online Conversations: Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    Building beyond the work of the 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Report, Harvard Divinity School will host a series of online conversations with members of the HDS faculty to engage these vital questions from their expertise within the study of religion. Expand your understanding of the history and continuing implications of slavery in service of advancing racial justice in our own time and context.

    On February 27, Terrence L. Johnson, Professor of African American Religious Studies, will examine how the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Toni Morrison establish a framework...

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    2022 Nov 30

    Exit Wounds: American Guns, Mexican Lives, and the Vicious Circle of Violence on Both Sides of the Border

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Ieva Jusionyte is the 2022–2023 Maury Green Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Watson Family Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University, and an author. In this lecture, Jusionyte will present the findings from a multisited ethnographic and archival research project following guns that cross the US–Mexico border. She will examine the impact that American weapons leave on Mexican society—its body politic as well as individual lives—and grapple with US complicity in violence south of the border.

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    2022 Nov 14

    Re-Writing the Middle Ages: Why Study the Middle Ages?

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies, Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), Cambridge

    Author Kisha Tracy, Associate Professor of English at Fitchburg State University, discusses her new book Why Study the Middle Ages? (ARC Humanities Press, 2022) with Sean Gilsdorf, Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies at Harvard University. This event...

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    2022 Nov 10

    Fall 2022 Hofer Lecture: My Comrade Magazine — The Gay Underground

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    The Fall 2022 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture at Houghton Library will be given by Linda Simpson, drag queen and editor/publisher of the underground gay magazine My Comrade, whose production archives were acquired by Houghton in 2021. My Comrade served as a symbol of hope and frivolity in New York City’s East Village during the AIDS crisis by celebrating the queer community in its cut-and-paste mishmash of articles and photo spreads. Simpson’s lecture will recall the zine’s history, New York’s avant-garde drag scene in the 1980s and 90s, and the queer activism and...

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    2022 Oct 26

    Conversations around Funerary Portraits

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Join curatorial fellow Caitlin Clerkin and Lissette Jiménez, assistant professor of museum studies from San Francisco State University, for a virtual conversation on how grief is expressed in ancient Egyptian portraits and teaching about loss.

    Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward is a collaborative effort drawing from the expertise of staff across the museums and other members of our community. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect upon...

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    2022 Oct 25

    Obsessions: Fellow Organisms in the Arnold Arboretum

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston

    Join the Arnold Arboretum’s Director William (Ned) Friedman for the annual Director’s Series! To celebrate the Arboretum’s sesquicentennial, this year’s series will explore the Magic and Meaning of a Garden of Trees. Over the course of four sessions, we will trace the Arnold’s significance in the landscape architecture movement, value for the people of Boston, and leadership in creating global connections between plants and people. This final session will feature a talk from Director Friedman on fellow organisms in the Arboretum.

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    2022 Oct 16

    Flesh and Fabric: New Light on a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    At the top of a painting of a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280–1348), an angel holds in one hand an unfurled scroll and in the other a bloody tunic. Never previously noted, let alone explained, this unique combination of motifs provides the key to understanding the panel’s unusual imagery. It sheds fresh light on the complex nexus between art, piety, and theology in 14th-century Italy, in particular at Assisi—the site of the mother house of the Franciscan order, where the panel most likely was made.

    This talk integrates the...

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    2022 Oct 15

    Olmsted: Bicentennial Perspectives (Day 2)

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston

    The Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in partnership with the Arnold Arboretum, is hosting a two-day academic conference as part of the national Olmsted 200 celebration. While Olmsted was central to the conceptual formation of the degree program in landscape architecture at Harvard University and the design of the Arnold Arboretum, the interpretive ambitions of the conference are anything but parochial.

    Day 2 of the conference (Saturday, October 15) will take place at the Arnold Arboretum’s Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St, Boston, MA 02131.

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