Unnatural Selection

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Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

When Charles Darwin considered how best to introduce his controversial new theory of evolution to the general public, he chose to liken it... Read more about Unnatural Selection

Cambridge Open Archives

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit... Read more about Cambridge Open Archives

Cambridge Open Archives

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit a... Read more about Cambridge Open Archives

Jewish Odessa: Trade, Community, and Culture in the Port City

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CGIS South Building, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Drawing on Odessa Recollected, a new collection of her Odessa articles, the historian Patricia Herlihy will discuss how in many respects Jews adopted... Read more about Jewish Odessa: Trade, Community, and Culture in the Port City

Daughter of the Cold War

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CGIS South Building, Room S050, Harvard University Campus, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Grace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the twentieth century, wife of the... Read more about Daughter of the Cold War

Henry N. Cobb, Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Moneo, “How Will Architecture Be Conceived?”

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Please join us for an evening with Rafael Moneo, Henry N. Cobb, and Peter Eisenman as they investigate the question, “How will architecture be conceived?” Each... Read more about Henry N. Cobb, Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Moneo, “How Will Architecture Be Conceived?”

Teotihuacan and the Making of a World City

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

In the first century CE, Teotihuacan became the capital of the area known today as Central Mexico. The city grew to include 100,000 people,... Read more about Teotihuacan and the Making of a World City

The Camp and the City

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Please join Luis Valenzuela and Felipe Vera for a discussion of their new book The Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction, co-edited by Jeannette Sordi.

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Thomas Phifer Evening Lecture

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

Since 1997, Thomas Phifer’s New York-based firm has designed numerous civic, cultural, and educational institutions including the Corning Museum of... Read more about Thomas Phifer Evening Lecture

Suad Amiry, "Reclaiming Space: Riwaq’s 50 Village Project in Rural Palestine"

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

In 2005 Riwaq made a significant shift from the conservation of single building to the rehabilitation of entire historic centers.... Read more about Suad Amiry, "Reclaiming Space: Riwaq’s 50 Village Project in Rural Palestine"

Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Ancient Egyptian kings conquered Lower Nubia—today northern Sudan—nearly 4,000 years ago, defending it with a string of monumental... Read more about Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti

Aaron Sachs, “A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice"

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

In recent years, environmental justice scholarship has exploded. But virtually every relevant piece of work has understood the history of... Read more about Aaron Sachs, “A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice"

The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger Library, this panel discussion features scholars, poets, and activists... Read more about The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Claudia Rankine is an American poet, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. In this talk, Rankine... Read more about The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

The Wrong Family Holocaust Story: Survival of Polish Jews in Stalin's Russia

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CGIS South Building, Belfer Case Study Room (Room S020), Harvard University Campus, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Ellen G. Friedman’s presentation centers on the largely unknown story of Polish Jews who were saved from Hitler by Stalin. This story is at the center of her new book, The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story. Of the 3.3 million Jews in Poland before WWII, only about 350,000 survived, most of them by being banished to remote areas in the USSR. The reasons for the obscurity of this Holocaust narrative relate to its being the “wrong” story. Not about concentration camps, this story was buried by historians and by Polish Jews, themselves, who felt they were low on the “hierarchy of...

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Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Ifeoma Fafunwa RI ’18 is the creator of the popular stage play HEAR WORD! Naija Women Talk True. In this presentation, Fafunwa will speak about her latest production... Read more about Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

US Foreign Policy from the Inside Out

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Former United Nations representative and member of President Obama’s cabinet Samantha Power will offer a comprehensive overview of US foreign policy.... Read more about US Foreign Policy from the Inside Out

Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

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Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge

A discussion of origin stories with Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), Meredith Reiches (University of Massachusetts Boston), and Richard... Read more about Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

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First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave

The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard present the Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Bryan... Read more about Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

Of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Story of Coevolution, Cultural History, and Conservation

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125 Arborway, Boston

What if your host truly didn’t want you to visit? Found you intolerable, in fact, and didn’t want you to stay? You’d think that you’d be kicked out, but... Read more about Of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Story of Coevolution, Cultural History, and Conservation

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