2022 Apr 19
Inclusions: Imagining Justice on Harvard's Campus
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online
Inclusions, an art installation created by Kiana Rawji '23, Cecilia Zhou '23, and Luke Reeve MDE '23, affirms that just as Harvard has shaped its students, so too have the students shaped Harvard; the student bricks will serve as records of formative contact between entities, expressions of individual identity, presence, and power in public space. During the month of April 2022, the bricks will be used to create a cohesive installation in Harvard Yard near Thayer Hall.
Join Kiana and Cecilia, with special guest commentator Professor Tracy K. Smith and moderator...
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2022 Apr 19
Harvard Design Magazine #50 Issue Launch and Conversation
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
“Today is global” is a rather banal truism, but what really is today’s globalism? In a conversation with contributors from across the globe, Harvard Design Magazine introduces issue #50: Today’s Global, guest-edited by Sarah M. Whiting and Rahul Mehrotra.
Today’s world has entered a phase of critical backlash against globalization, which is for some a critique of...
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2022 Apr 19
Art Talk Live: Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Last Act
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Yasuo Kuniyoshi once proclaimed that “an artist’s drawings are his first words.” Having emigrated from Japan to the United States at the age of 16, Kuniyoshi relied upon drawing as his most expressive medium. Through drawing, he translated the anxiety, disillusionment, and alienation faced by Japanese émigrés in the aftermath of World War II into a uniquely personal and dynamic American modernist style.
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2022 Apr 16
Yvonne Andersen and the Yellow Ball Workshop: Films By Kids
3:00pm to 4:10pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
An influential and acclaimed animator, teacher and author, Yvonne Andersen started the pioneering Yellow Ball Workshop in her home, teaching children every aspect of film animation so they could make their own films from start to finish. Yellow Ball distributed compilations of short films and gained international fame. This program features many entertaining examples of the workshop's unique output.
Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders
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2022 Apr 15
Screening: Expedition Content
Repeats every week on Sunday, Monday until Sun Apr 24 2022 except Sun Apr 17 2022.
7:00pm to 8:20pm
7:00pm to 8:20pm
7:00pm to 8:20pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Expedition Content is an exploration in “decolonizing the archive” through deep listening. The nearly imageless film is constructed from recordings made in 1961 in West Papua by Michael Rockefeller who was part of an expedition organized by filmmaker, professor and HFA co-founder Robert Gardner. Without dismissing the endeavors of their forebears, Karel and Kusumaryati open up the cinematic and ethnographic space to allow for more points of view, for questions and reconsiderations.
Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors;...
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2022 May 27
Mythical Creatures Scavenger Hunt
Repeats every day until Mon May 30 2022 .
11:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join us to hunt for mythical creatures across the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Can you find a genie, merfolk, or a centaur? What might have inspired a cyclops or a piranha plant? Travel through the galleries of four museums on your quest for these amazing creatures. Test your skills in the galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.
On April 15, let the adventure begin! Time is limited, so plan...
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2022 Apr 15
Mythical Creatures Scavenger Hunt Kick-Off
11:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join us to hunt for mythical creatures across the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Can you find a genie, merfolk, or a centaur? What might have inspired a cyclops or a piranha plant? Travel through the galleries of four museums on your quest for these amazing creatures. Test your skills in the galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.
On April 15, let the adventure begin! Time is limited, so plan...
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2022 Apr 14
The Trouble with Tragedy: Imagining the Native American Past, Present, and Future
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP) and the Harvard Art Museums present a lecture by author David Treuer.
David Treuer, an Ojibwe Indian, will offer a fresh and in-depth perspective on the current state of affairs for Native and Indigenous peoples in the Americas. Drawing from his experience growing up on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota and as an accomplished academic, Treuer’s work includes both nonfiction and fiction.
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2022 Apr 13
The Children Go (Novel in Progress)
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Lysley Tenorio, an English professor at St. Mary’s College of California, is the author of the novel “The Son of Good Fortune” (Ecco, 2021) and the story collection “Monstress” (Ecco, 2012). In this lecture, he will discuss the research and writing process of his next novel.
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2022 Apr 12
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 artist T. Deutch for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.
German artist 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...
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2022 Apr 11
Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity (Exhibition Opening)
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join us for a discussion featuring leading activists and scholars working toward menstrual justice. The program will open the exhibition Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity.
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2022 Apr 11
Joan Nogué, "A Journey through Landscape: From Theory to Practice"
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Drawing from experience accumulated over 40 years of academic and professional trajectory on the question of landscape, as a university professor, director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and ‘militant’ for landscape, Joan Nogué will reflect on the theory and practice of landscape today and into the future.
Professor Nogué defends an integral conception of landscape that considers both the tangible and intangible elements. Such conception highlights the geohistorical singularity of landscape –every landscape belongs to a specific space and time– while acknowledging...
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2022 Apr 10
Screening: Maidan
7:00pm to 9:10pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
As the unjust war against Ukraine rages, the Harvard Film Archive offers Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s powerful portrait of popular resistance as a means to reflect on the deeper history of the war, and as a tribute to the courage of a nation that has long been in the geopolitical crosshairs.
Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders
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2022 Apr 09
In-Person Gallery Talk: Art and Human Health—An Evolutionary Perspective
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join Ben Sibson, a graduate student at Harvard in human evolutionary biology, for a conversation about how art can enhance our understanding of the evolution of human health. Looking at works of art installed in the University Study Gallery this semester for the undergraduate course Human Evolution and Human Health, Sibson will show how the objects provide useful information about the physical activities performed by people across time and space, as well as the foods they ate, the clothes they wore, and the spaces where they lived.
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2022 Apr 07
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Painting’s Punchlines, with Sophia Clark
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In this tour, Sophia Clark ’23 explores the varied means and ends of humor in three works of art that, at first glance, may not seem funny. They are Mervin Jules’s 1937 painting The Art Lover; Charles Bird King’s 1830 painting The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream; and the Archaic Greek Eye cup: Athena (c. 530 BCE), which gives drinkers a different face...
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2022 Apr 07
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen English colonies. Conceived by photographer Wendel White, this project is a personal, selective reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public and private collections.
In this program, White will discuss his approach to finding, selecting, and photographing artifacts—from rare singular objects, to more quotidian materials—and highlight their...
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2022 Apr 07
Black Music and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join us for the second of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of “The Music of Black Americans: A History” and founder and editor of “The Black Perspective in Music.” In 1976, Eileen Southern (1920–2002) became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She was central in developing the Department of Afro-American Studies (now African and African American Studies), serving as an early chair, and was on the faculty of the Department of Music, where she taught courses on Black music and Renaissance musical...
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2022 Apr 06
Exploring Humanity's Technological Origins
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo, approximately 2.4–2.3 million years ago, and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands. In the last decade, fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has revealed evidence of much earlier technological behavior.
Sonia Harmand will discuss the discovery of stone tools in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in Kenya known as Lomekwi 3. She will show how this discovery is reshaping our...
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2022 Apr 05
TERREMOTO – David Godshall and Jenny Jones, "Radical Gardens of Love and Interconnectedness"
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
TERREMOTO is presently navigating a transitional period within its practice towards making omni-positive gardens and landscapes that are fair, just and generous in their relationships to labor, materials and ecology. We believe that we are at a cultural, environmental + civilizational fork in the road, and through deep internal self-interrogation of landscape history and practice (including our own), we are creating a constantly evolving set of metrics that will allow us (and you!) to create gardens that can lock horns with the BIGNESS of this moment. What a time to be alive! And what a...
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2022 Apr 05
Art Talk Live: The Secret Life of Ptahshepses Impy
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Join Egyptologist Jen Thum for an engaging look at the results of new research on the tomb relief of Ptahshepses Impy, an Egyptian official. Thum will explore the implications of this research, including possible changes to the display of the relief to indicate missing portions.
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