2022 May 07
Harvard Art Museums: Student Guide Tour
2:00pm to 2:50pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.
Tours are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The Student Guide Tour reservation will also serve as your...
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2022 May 07
Ukrainian Plants of the Arboretum Tour
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum (Hunnewell Building), 125 Arborway, Boston
Ukrainian culture is rich with references to the natural world. Join a one-hour walking tour with Arboretum Horticulturist Brendan Keegan. Learn about plants within the Arboretum's collections that are notable in Ukrainian history, cuisine, agriculture, and more. The tour is in support of our colleagues at botanical institutions throughout Ukraine.
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2022 May 05
Ceramics Program Spring Show and Sale 2022
Repeats every day until Sun May 08 2022 .
10:00am to 7:00pm
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10:00am to 7:00pm
10:00am to 7:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Twice a year in May and December, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard hosts an exhibition and sale featuring thousands of pieces of original ceramic artwork by participants in Ceramics Program classes. From pottery to sculpture, ceramic jewelry, planters, and more, this popular exhibition has something for everyone!
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2022 May 03
Abolition, Activism, and the University: Practitioner Perspectives on Transformative Justice in Boston
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard—Online
Grassroots organizers in Greater Boston are at the forefront of ongoing statewide movements for a world without predatory policing and mass human caging. Join us for a virtual panel discussion with Transformative Justice...
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2022 May 03
Planning for an Equitable Recovery: Using COVID Funding to Lift Learning and Support Every Student
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
New research from Professor Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is bringing the impact of the pandemic into stark relief — and adding fuel to the call for comprehensive, equitable, and effective solutions. Kane’s work — part of an ongoing collaboration with NWEA and AIR — reveals the consequences of remote and hybrid learning for student achievement in high- and low-income schools, using data from 10,000 schools in 49 states plus the District of Columbia.
Join us as we explore the findings and outline state and district strategies to help students...
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2022 May 27
Art Exhibit | Stoneroot Epistle: Collage and Words in Conversation
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum (Hunnewell Visitor Center), 125 Arborway, Boston
Visit the Arnold Arboretum's newly reopened Hunnewell Visitor Center and immerse yourself in this truly unique exhibition. The book, Stoneroot Epistle, was born out of Joyce Swagerty (Harvard class of '78) and Daina Swagerty's desire to understand the connection between themselves, the natural world, and the universal journey inspired by the African diaspora. The project by this mother and daughter was a spiritual adventure.
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2022 Apr 30
MassQ Ball 2022: Origin | SOUL: An Ancestor Workshop
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Led by poet and Castle of our Skins’ Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative in Residence Marlanda Dekine, this participatory workshop will use writing and meditation to consider how our individual origin stories and ancestries influence our being.
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2022 Apr 29
Harvard Public Art Tours: Allston
Fri Apr 29 (All day) to Sun Apr 30 (All day)
Location: 
Multiple locations along Western Avenue, Allston
Named after Washington Allston—a visionary painter and 1800 Harvard graduate—the town of Allston features vibrant, eclectic art that reflects the neighborhood's creativity and diversity. On this self-guided tour, you'll discover "can't-miss" public art installations along Western Avenue and learn the stories behind them and their artists. Follow along to explore hand-painted murals, sky-high sculptures, 25-cent art prints, and more!
Tour Stops: 27
Tour Length: 1 hour (shorter routes included)
Tour Distance: Up to 2 miles...
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2022 Apr 28
Colliding Worlds: How Cosmic Encounters Shaped Planets and Life
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Signs of ancient collisions are widespread in the solar system, from the barren, once-habitable Mars to rugged asteroids. In this talk, physicist Simone Marchi, discussing his recent book, Colliding Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2021), will explore the key role that collisions in space have played in the formation and evolution of our solar system, the development of planets, and possibly even the origin of life on Earth. Analyzing our current understanding of the surfaces of Mars, the Moon, and asteroids—drawn from recent space missions—Marchi will present the dramatic...
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2022 Apr 28
Harvard Art Museums at Night
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!
This evening marks the launch of Harvard Art Museums at Night, which will take place the last Thursday of every month, from 5 to 9pm. Each night will feature a new mix of local talent and community partners to make this a festive occasion for all.
Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, chat over a snack or drink at Jenny’s Cafe, browse the shop, and of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class collections of art.
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2022 Apr 27
In-Person Gallery Talk: Ella Hurd’s Botanical Cyanotypes—Camera-less Photography and Scientific Discovery in the 19th Century
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
The talk will highlight amateur botanist Ella Hurd and the process she used to make her cyanotypes. It will also explore the importance of camera-less photography to scientific research and documentation in the 19th century.
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2022 Apr 27
The Descendants (A Novel)
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Ladee Hubbard is a writer whose most recent novel is “The Rib King” (Amistad, 2021). In this lecture, she will discuss her current project, a novel that examines the implications of the ways in which Black people in the United States have historically been represented as an internal threat to both public health and safety, placing the 1980s War on Drugs in dialogue with the larger history of African Americans being used in drug trials and medical experiments.
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2022 Apr 22
Mayors Imagining the Just City
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Concluding the second annual Mayors Institute on City Design (MICD) Just City Mayoral Fellowship–a collaboration between the MICD and Harvard GSD’s Just City Lab–the Fellows discuss strategies for using planning and design interventions to address racial injustice in each of their cities.
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2022 Apr 22
In-Person Exhibition Tour: White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join curator Lynette Roth and conservator Penley Knipe for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.
Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) made significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe. The camera-less photograph, or photogram, is an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close proximity to)...
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2022 Apr 21
John Portman Lecture: Bruther // Stéphanie Bru et Alexandre Thériot
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot founded Bruther in Paris in 2007. They belong to the generation of architects who started their careers at the beginning of the recession, a condition likely to be reflected in the way they define architecture: as a Swiss Army knife, a tool to be used in the most disparate circumstances, an aid that reconciles all fields of knowledge.
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2022 Apr 21
The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt?
In this talk, Wendy Doyon will discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad) Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal,...
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2022 Apr 21
In-Person Gallery Talk: Washington and the Power of Clothes
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join curator Horace D. Ballard for fresh perspective on two of the museums’ iconic portraits of George Washington through the meaning of gesture and the materialities of fashion. Inspired by Ballard’s recent research on Washington and his rewriting of the portraits’ gallery labels, the talk will explore the important role artists played in shaping the nation’s sense of self after the partisan politics of the Revolutionary War.
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2022 Apr 20
Mexican Red: The Perfect Color that Changed the World
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a small insect that produces a brilliant red pigment. Found in textiles, paintings, cosmetics, and many other objects that span the globe, cochineal is an integral part of world history. Cochineal pigment was used by Mesoamerican peoples long before the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century. After being introduced to Europe, it quickly became a precious commodity and control over its global trade was a source of conflict and competition for over three centuries. In this lecture, Gabriela Soto Laveaga will trace the fascinating history of cochineal...
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2022 Apr 20
Education Now – Navigating Trauma for Teachers and Learners
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the next episode of Education Now focused on navigating trauma for teachers and learners.
Speakers:
• Mark Tappan, Professor of Education, Colby College
• Aysha Upchurch, Lecturer on Education and Artist in Residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Host: Uche Amaechi, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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2022 Apr 20
Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Mélanie Lamotte is an assistant professor of French at Tulane University. After completing her first book, under contract with Harvard University Press, she is undertaking a research project that examines the material life of the enslaved across the early modern French empire, thereby reconstructing the cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of slave communities. Join her to learn more about her work.
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