Events

    2024 Mar 20

    JFK Jr. Forum | A Conversation with Cassidy Hutchinson

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

    Please join us for a conversation with Cassidy Hutchinson, author and former White House Aide, who served as assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, during the Trump administration. During this conversation, she will reflect on her time in the White House, and discuss themes in her book 'Enough'.

    This conversation will be moderated by Setti Warren, Director of the Institute of Politics, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and former Mayor of Newton, MA from 2010-2018.

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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 19

    JFK Jr. Forum | Leveling the Playing Field: Sports and Racial Equality in the United States

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

    In the United States, sports and patriotism go hand in hand. For decades, expressions of national pride have been common at sporting events — starting with national anthem renditions in 1918 and including military flyovers since 2001. Once considered a 'politically neutral' space, the sports industry is now a contested stage for American patriotism and dissent — as well as power struggles between white owners and managers, and the vast majority of players, who are of color. How are players and journalists using this stage to advance racial equity in the U.S. today?

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    2024 Mar 16

    Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes en el Museo!

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

    The Natural World of Latin America

    February 10: Special: Visit the I Heart Science Festival

    March 16: Ants in Action

    April 13: Flying High

    May 11: Shark Frenzy
     

    Teen Saturdays! is designed for teens interested in Latino culture, history, and community. This spring, high school students are invited to free monthly workshops to explore and learn about the natural world of Latin America and contribute thoughts on making the...

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    2024 Mar 16

    Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes en el Museo!

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

    The Natural World of Latin America

     

    February 10: Special: Visit the I Heart Science Festival

    March 16: Ants in Action

    April 13: Flying High

    May 11: Shark Frenzy
     

    Teen Saturdays! is designed for teens interested in Latino culture, history, and community. This spring,...

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    2024 Mar 13

    Landscape Sketching

    9:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

    Landscapes are an appealing subject for drawings, but it can be difficult to know where to start. In this program we will learn how to select a landscape, create a sense of depth and volume, and use a variety of marks to capture a dynamic variety of textures.

    Cost: $30 members / $35 nonmembers

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    2024 Mar 09

    Nature Journaling: A Creative Exploration of the Arboretum Landscape

    12:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Hunnewell Lecture Hall, 125 Arbor Way, Boston (Arnold Arboretum)

    Nature journaling is all about expressing your curiosity and wonder through sketching, calligraphy, writing, or other forms of art-making. Tap into your creativity and let yourself be surprised by the diversity of forms on display in the winter landscape.

    Free, Registration Required

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    2024 Mar 08

    Do You Mind? Developing the Ethics of New Neurotechnologies--Center for Bioethics

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    New neurotechnologies, including deep brain stimulation and implants, offer the promise of improving treatment for psychiatric conditions, disorders of consciousness, and brain injury. Simultaneously, they raise new questions about the ethics and policy implications of directly intervening in the brain. In this session, experts in neurotechnologies and ethics will explore how they integrate neuroethics alongside clinical research advances.

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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 07

    International Womxn's Day Keynote Address: Jack Halberstam, “Trans* Anarchitectures 1975 to 2020”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    International Womxn’s Week includes a weeklong series of events organized by Womxn in Design that gather members of the GSD community to learn about and challenge notions of gender and power from within the framework of design.

    Celebrating Trans In Design’s (TID) inaugural lecture as a new student organization, TID has organized this year’s International Women’s Week Keynote Address, welcoming Jack Halberstam, to explore the impact that trans artist and designers have in expanding the field.

    Free

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    2024 Mar 07

    An Evening with Ursula von Rydingsvard & Film Screening

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

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

    We hope you will join us for this very special event as we celebrate Women's History Month. Organized in conjunction with the 2023-2025 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, this event will feature a film screening of the 2019 documentary Into Her Own. Movie snacks will be served.

    This live, in-person event is free and open to the Harvard community and the public. Registration is required.

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    2024 Mar 07

    Maren Hassinger in Conversation with Chassidy A. Winestock: On the Occasion of A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Knafel Center, 10 Garden St, Cambridge OR Online via Zoom

    In conjunction with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. The works in this exhibition demonstrate the ways in which their creators—Maren Hassinger, Howardena Pindell, Liliana Porter, and Thompson—navigated art-making during times of social rupture and sought their way with novel, reparative gestures.

    Free, Registration required for online or in-person

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    2024 Mar 07

    Debra Spark, “Falling Out: Narrating the Neutra-Schindler Story”

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    GSD, Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby Lecture

    A fiction writer whose “day job” includes freelance writing for shelter magazines, Debra Spark will talk about how an article for Dwell led to her desire to tell the story of the Richard Neutra/Rudolph Schindler friendship, collaboration, and falling out. A Writer-at-Work type discussion, she’ll describe the writing and research of this particular piece, touching on earlier architectural historians, present-day filmmakers, and both men’s heirs.

    Free, open to the public

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    2024 Mar 06

    India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy? Part 1 of a 4-part series

    5:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

    This spring, the Mittal Institute will host a four-part series on the Indian elections, from how they are covered to what it means regionally and globally. This is the launch of the series, focusing on “How should we assess India’s standing as the 'world’s largest democracy,' in theory and practice?” The series is led by Harvard Professors Arunabh Ghosh, Maya Jasanoff and Vastal Naresh.

    Free; Registration Required

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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 Mar 05

    Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Daniel Fernández Pascual, “Being Shellfish: Architectures of Intertidal Cohabitation”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    Tidal zones are liminal spaces that challenge the ecological, legal and financial thresholds of coastal areas. They appear, disappear, reappear, and constantly change in size and chemistry, while shaped by new human-made seasons of wetland draining and ocean pollution. Following CLIMAVORE, a framework that investigates ways of metabolizing climate breakdown, these littoral spaces are at the core of entanglements between risk and social security, profit margins and contamination struggles, geological processes and weather events; between what is used and what is refused. Thinking with...

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    2024 Mar 05

    Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World: What Should Harvard and Higher Ed Do?

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Knafel Center, 10 Garden St, Cambridge OR Online via Zoom

    The role of universities in public debates has been front-page news in recent months. Questions about whether institutions of higher education, including Harvard, should take a stance on public issues—and, if so, what they should say—have been of interest on campus, in our communities, and in Washington, DC. Some universities, including the University of Chicago, have for years observed a policy of neutrality in which the institution declines to take a public position on political matters. Other institutions may choose to make statements on certain local, national, or international...

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    2024 Mar 04

    Film Screening of 'Bucha' and Conversation with Oleksandr Shchur

    6:30pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge St.

    Join the Davis Center for Russian Studies to screen the movie "Bucha."  The film is based on the true story of an unlikely hero and refugee from Kazakhstan who, in the spring of 2022, risked his life to save hundreds of Ukrainians in Bucha and other cities and towns occupied by Russian troops. This event will feature a brief introduction by Serhii Plokhy and Natasha Dukach, followed by a conversation with the film's writer, Oleksandr Shchur.

    Free; Registration Required. 

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    2024 Mar 04

    Visiting Artist Fellows Art Exhibition Spring 2024

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St.

    Join the Mittal Institute for the launch of the Spring 2024 Visiting Artist Fellows Art Exhibition with Amra Khan, an interdisciplinary visual artist, and Waleed Zafar, a visual artist and curator – both from Lahore, Pakistan. The evening will start with a panel discussion with Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture and Faculty Director of the Arts Advisory Council, Mittal Institute, Harvard University. The talk will be followed by a reception with regional snacks and beverages.

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