2021 Mar 08
The Future of Diplomacy is Female: A Conversation with Secretary Madeleine Albright
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
The U.S. and the world are at an inflection point, where resilient leadership and strategic reimagining of alliances, competition, and power are needed to rebuild at home and abroad. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, with her steady voice of reason and analysis, consistently warning of the dangers of fascism and championing the ideals of democracy, is a source of inspiration to women and girls around the world.
Drawing on her decades of experience, Secretary Albright will discuss the leadership qualities needed to face new diplomatic challenges of the 21st century...
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2021 Mar 08
Lessons Learned from Anti-Equality Mobilization
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
The 21st century Central European illiberal transformation is a process deeply reliant on gender politics. A feminist analysis is central to understanding the current regime changes, both in terms of their ideological underpinnings, and with respect to their modus operandi. Key aspects of this phenomenon are: 1. opposition to the liberal equality paradigm has become a key ideological space where the illiberal alternative to the post-1989 (neo)liberal project is being forged; 2. family mainstreaming and anti-gender policies have been one of the main pillars on which the illiberal state...
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2021 Mar 05
The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
1:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
The stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war, migration, inequity, and difference, the accounts and perspectives of Asian American women have often been overlooked in formal records, and the tangible objects providing critical evidence of their histories have been ignored. This program will bring...
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2021 Mar 04
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Julie Bargmann, “Modesty”
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Toxic Beauty. Troubled Allure. Fallow Fairness. Not Vacant, Open. Not Abandoned, Changing.
D.I.R.T. cultivates a perverse attraction and an unapologetic approach to wrecked landscapes.
Not Restorative, Regenerative.
The work holds back. It doesn’t make everything perfectly okay. The work listens. It hears them above trying to make sense, below the ground producing heritage. The work hurts. It flips preconceptions of stuck minds. The work is messy. It’s all about finding. The work emerges.
It doesn’t descend. The work leaves. It lets you in....
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2021 Mar 04
The Last Common Ancestor
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and modern humans is believed to have evolved in Africa six to eight million years ago. Finding fossil apes and hominins—extinct members of the human lineage—from this period has been challenging. Ashley Hammond will discuss her approach to identifying key evolutionary adaptations of this last common ancestor using 3D technology, analyses of known fossils, and field research at six-million-year-old sites in Kenya. Hammond’s research aims to clarify the origins of bipedality, a key adaptation in human evolution.
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2021 Mar 02
Members: Discover Oceania with Ingrid Ahlgren
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online
Join us for a casual evening of conversation with the Peabody Museum’s Curator of Oceanic Collections. Ingrid Ahlgren stewards one of the largest and most historically significant collections in the U.S. from the Pacific Islands, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Hear her share some of her recent work, including the exhibit Uncovering Pacific Pasts and the important roles that Harvard University and the state of Massachusetts have played in the history of Oceania. Ingrid will also discuss her upcoming collaboration with Pacific Islanders living in Utah.
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2021 Mar 01
Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, “Homage and Refusal”
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Wolff is a design studio concerned with developing an architectural practice of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research and documentation. The Wolff team is led by Ilze & Heinrich Wolff who work collaboratively with a group of highly skilled, committed and engaged architects, creative practitioners and administrators.
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2021 Feb 24
The History of Structural Racism in Charlottesville: Legally-Enforced Segregation and Its Impact on Health
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
Using Charlottesville as a case study, Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, explores the theory, mechanisms, and impact on health of legally-mandated residential segregation and how we can identify and redress historical inequities.
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2021 Feb 24
Latinx Modernism and the Spirit of Latinoamericanismo
12:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
John Alba Cutler, associate professor of English and Latinx studies at Northwestern University, is working on a new book examining the prodigious literary archive of early-20th-century Spanish-language newspapers in the United States. Newspapers in Latinx communities from New York to San Diego published tens of thousands of poems, short stories, chronicles, and serialized novels. These works show how Latinx communities grappled with the collision of Latin American and US modernities long before the advent of what we think of as “modern” Latinx literature.
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2021 Feb 23
Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: Walter Hood
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
The Senior Loeb Scholars program invites prominent individuals whose expertise is outside the typical disciplines of the GSD or whose practice displays a unique focus. Scholars are welcomed for a short-term residency at the School, during which they present a public lecture, workshops, and other engagements. Since its inception, the program has offered the GSD community opportunities to learn from and engage with visionary designers, scholars, and thought leaders.
Walter Hood is the Spring 2021 Senior Loeb Scholar. Hood joins a cohort of previous Senior Loeb Scholars, which...
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2021 Feb 23
Art Talk Live: Picturing the Modern Home—Lucia Moholy’s Bauhaus Living Room
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In 1920s Germany, the progressive Bauhaus school of art, architecture, and design sought to create art, objects, and environments that would revolutionize everyday life. This talk will focus on Lucia Moholy’s carefully constructed photograph of her own living room in one of the newly built Bauhaus faculty residences. In addition to providing housing, the home served as an important publicity tool, showcasing Walter Gropius’s architecture as well as the Bauhaus products with which it was meticulously furnished.
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2021 Feb 22
The COVID “Next Normal”: Lessons from the NBA Bubble and Vaccine Modeling
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
As the coronavirus pandemic enters a new phase, science that can guide vaccination prioritization and business’ return-to-work strategies are more important than ever. In this webinar, we will explore the experience of the NBA bubble, in which players were sequestered at the Walt Disney World Resort. Data from this longitudinal testing program has important implications for our understanding of the natural history of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the utility of frequent testing strategies. In addition, we will discuss modeling studies that compare different...
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2021 Feb 21
Grafting Woody Plants: An Overview
1:00pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum—Online
Arnold Arboretum propagator Sean Halloran will provide an overview of dormant season grafting principles: reasons to graft, how it works, and the materials and environment required for success with this propagation technique.
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2021 Feb 19
Art Study Center Seminar at Home: The Botany of a Buddhist Sculpture
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Angela Chang, Stephen Schneider, and Rachel Saunders will discuss ongoing collaborative research into the sculpture Prince Shōtoku at Age Two.
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2021 Feb 18
Kate Thomas, “Lesbian Arcadia: Desire and Design in the Fin-de-Siècle Garden”
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
At the end of the nineteenth century, British and American lesbian artists settled around Florence, Italy, renovating neglected Renaissance estates. Contemporary accounts describe the hillside region as colonized by a “cult of women.” These women restored, refashioned and theorized gardens as places of queerly mythic erotic encounter.
In this lecture Professor Thomas will explore how design features such as nymphaeums, water parterres, secret gardens, grottos and boscos provided both refuge and open-air expression for lesbian subjectivity. Remembering that the first documented...
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2021 Feb 17
The Politics of Health Policy: Integrating Racial Justice into Health Care and Clinical Research
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
What are political determinants of health? How have they driven inequities in the U.S. health care system? Daniel Dawes, JD, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute Morehouse School of Medicine, shares an inclusive approach to addressing health issues impacting the most vulnerable populations in an increasingly complex...
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2021 Feb 17
The Popularization of Doubt: Scientific Literacy & Alternative Forms of Knowledge in the Soviet Union after World War II
12:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Alexey Golubev, assistant professor of Russian history and digital humanities at the University of Houston, is working on a new book project: a history of Soviet efforts to produce mass scientific literacy after World War II, when tens and later hundreds of thousands of members of the Soviet intelligentsia were recruited to communicate scientific knowledge to the public through popular science lectures, publications, public experiments and debates, and television shows.
This mass scientific literacy campaign resulted in a diverse and autonomous network of people and ideas in...
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2021 Feb 16
COVID-19 and the Law: What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Health Justice and the Path Forward
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of life in the United States and around the world, disrupting the global economy as well as countless institutions. The issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic present a critical juncture for the U.S. and other countries around the world. Our actions now have the potential to shape responses to future pandemics, and to ensure institutions serve all of our populations.
How have our institutions, including the structure of our health care system and its attendant regulations, affected the evolution of the pandemic? What...
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2021 Feb 15
I Heart Science: Faraway Worlds
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Break out of the winter doldrums and welcome Harvard science into your home with the all-virtual I Heart Science festival lasting from Friday, February 12 to Monday, February 15. This day’s “Faraway Worlds” theme looks at exploration of places hard to get to such as space, deep oceans, and the distant past.
During the live webinar, starting at 1:00 pm ET, meet Harvard researchers studying how we study the sun and what we hope to learn from missions to Mars.
At home, try your hand at investigating light, explore what we know about coelacanths and hear the story...
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2021 Feb 14
I Heart Science: Love the Earth
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Break out of the winter doldrums and welcome Harvard science into your home with the all-virtual I Heart Science festival lasting from Friday, February 12 to Monday, February 15. This day’s “Love the Earth” theme looks at how we are taking care of our planet and the geology that makes it all possible.
During the live webinar, starting at 1:00 pm ET, meet Harvard researchers studying how we can design batteries large enough to power a building and investigate what it takes to save endangered species.
At home, try your hand at growing crystals, modeling volcanos, and...
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