2021 Nov 15
Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern’s Story
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join us for a one-hour webinar 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...
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2021 Nov 15
ArtsBites: Actor & Playwright John Cariani
12:00pm
Location: 
Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online
ArtsBites is the OFA round-table discussion series with undergraduate students and visiting artists. Discover and explore how you can create an expressive career and a performative life. Join us for a conversation with John Cariani, Tony-nominated actor and playwright for Almost, Maine, featured this fall in Caroline, or Change on Broadway. This event is in partnership with Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club.
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2021 Nov 15
Aude-Line Dulière, "The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Stories on Dismantling and Reuse"
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Dulière, winner of Harvard Graduate School of Design's 2018 Wheelwright Prize, presents the conclusion of her research proposal, offering a collection of stories on the use and reuse of materials across building sites, demolition sites, salvage yards, quarries, film sets, and other out-of-the-way locations.
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2021 Nov 13
Harvard Dance Center Showing: Initiation – In Love Solidarity
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Dance Center—Online or in-person
Initiation – In Love Solidarity is a choreographic narrative exploring the embodiment of the Middle Passage, and the resilience and evolving identities of women in the African diaspora. A film component of the work was created at historic sites in New England related to the transatlantic slave trade and emancipation. The imagery of the cowrie shell is present throughout, chosen as an emblem of the transformative identity of the Black female body.
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2021 Nov 12
Application Deadline: Harvard-Allston Partnership Fund
5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
A total of $100,000 is available in one-year grants to community-based organizations that provide programs and services to residents of Allston-Brighton. The Harvard Allston Partnership Fund is committed to offering more flexible funding this year as a way of helping local grantee partners support emergency needs prompted by the COVID-19 crisis. This change will also allow grantees to apply for funds to be used to support COVID-19 relief efforts. The HAPF is looking forward to seeing the myriad ways partners generate thoughtful and immediate responses that will best serve our affected...
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2021 Nov 12
Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic: Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Part 2)
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Arts and sciences flourished in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century. Women such as Anna Maria van Schurman, Margareta van Godewick, and Anna Roemer Visscher excelled in scholarly pursuits and art practice. They were greatly admired, but they were nonetheless categorized as exceptional cases and never possessed the freedom to voice ideas enjoyed by their male counterparts. Working in a variety of art forms, including miniature painting, drawing, embroidery, and paper cutting, these women often meant to address no other audience than the artist herself.
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2021 Nov 12
Interrogative Designs: Conversations with Krzysztof Wodiczko
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Heralding the exhibition "Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko," the artist joins architectural historian and GSD professor Erika Naginski for an exploration of architecture's role in the construction and performance of memory (12pm) and art historian Rosalyn Deutsche to discuss the role of trauma, healing, and survival in his work over the last five decades (2:30pm).
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2021 Nov 12
Film Screening: Corporate Accountability
Fri Nov 12 (All day) to Mon Nov 15 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive—Online
In collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums' current exhibit Devour the Land, the Harvard Film Archive presents a program of films that critically engage landscape as a site where deeper political, socio-cultural and historical forces are powerfully legible.
Jonathan Perel’s latest work is a systematic and forensic study of Argentina’s brutal dictatorship that dissects the insidious support given to the repressive regime by a wide range of still operating national and multi-national companies.
Cost: $10 / Free for Harvard affiliates.
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2021 Nov 10
Li Hu + Huang Wenjing | OPEN, "Imagine"
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Through stories behind six recent cultural projects from the studio, Hu and Wenjing, Founding Partners of OPEN, discuss the changing role and opportunity for architects in a transformative society, and the importance of being radical yet poetic at the same time.
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2021 Nov 10
Biogeography across Broken Continents and Sunken Islands
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
The major continents of the Southern Hemisphere—Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica—as well as India and islands in the Pacific, were once part of Gondwana, an ancient supercontinent that began to break up about 180 million years ago. How did this breakup influence the evolution of ecosystems and organisms found on modern continents and islands? This is one of the questions that biogeography, the study of how organisms are distributed across space and time, seeks to answer. Gonzalo Giribet will discuss how he uses biogeography and tiny invertebrate species to understand the...
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2021 Nov 10
Tell the truth but tell it slant—Behind the Scenes of Apple TV+’s Dickinson
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Houghton Library—Online
Join Houghton Library for a peek behind the scenes of Apple TV+’s Dickinson, a biographical comedy about poet Emily Dickinson. Show creator Alena Smith, Set Decorator Marina Parker, and Costume Designer Jennifer Moeller will be joined by Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Deidre Lynch to delve into the research and creativity driving the show. The show’s archive—scripts, set and costume designs, tone books, and more—are now housed at Houghton Library as part of its Emily Dickinson Collection.
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2021 Nov 10
Where Does Our Leftover Food Go? A Conversation About Food Recovery at Harvard
4:30pm
Location: 
Food Literacy Project—Online
Every day, Harvard Dining Services operates more than a dozen dining halls at Harvard College, and every day, a certain amount of hot food goes untouched. What happens to this leftover food? Join us for a discussion with Sasha Purpura, Executive Director at local non-profit, Food for Free, and Crista Martin, Director for Strategic Initiatives and Communications at HUDS. Learn more about what happens to leftover food in dining halls, how food insecurity affects the local community, and how Harvard students can reduce food waste and combat food insecurity.
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2021 Nov 10
Gutman Library Book Talk: 100 Days in Vietnam: A Memoir of Love, War, and Survival
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Painstakingly recreated from wartime letters and remembrances and contextualized by contemporary news accounts, 100 Days in Vietnam is a collaboration between Joe and his son Matthew A. Tallon, Ed.M.'09, Administrative Director of Faculty Support Services at HGSE, also an Army veteran.
Here we experience the war through the emotions of the man who survived it: the drudgery and monotony of airfield life, the heartache of a newlywed missing his wife, the terror of combat missions, the agony of injury and rehabilitation, and the bittersweet relief from the completion of...
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2021 Nov 10
The Biology of Intimacy: A Synthesis
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join Steven Phelps, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, Austin, for a discussion of his work using evolutionary neurobiology and social neuroscience to probe how and why species form attachments.
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2021 Nov 09
College Apps 101: The Application
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Online via Zoom
What's the 411, the down and dirty, the need-to-know about college applications? What kinds of schools are even out there? How do we pick where to apply? Can I just copy-and-paste the same essay over and over? Get the deets from our college application pros!
This college preparation workshop is for Allston, Brighton, Cambridge, and Boston high school students.
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2021 Nov 09
After-School Animal Encounters: Teeming Tidepools
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Tidepools exist where the land meets the ocean and the amazingly resilient creatures that live there manage the challenges of both environments. From swimming and climbing to burrowing, animals in tidepools have adapted many behaviors to live in an ever-changing world. Join human museum staffers Javier and Ryan as they lead you in a 45-minute program with live ocean invertebrates. This event will be fun for the whole family so bring your questions and sense of wonder.
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2021 Nov 09
New Pathways to STEM: Increasing Access and Opportunity in Science Education
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Harvard in the Community & LabXchange—Online
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or STEM, has the power to inspire and the power to change the world. But those world-changing opportunities have not consistently reached enough of our learners, and the pathway to careers in STEM has not been fully accessible to all of the talented problem solvers the world needs. Now, with online learning and new digital tools rapidly advancing, educators, learners, job seekers, and industry professionals can help to expand access to STEM education and create a more inclusive and equitable STEM workforce by embracing these new tools,...
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2021 Nov 08
The Climate of Resistance
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speakers are Chloe Aridjis, award-winning novelist, Sea Monsters (2020) and organizer for Writers Rebel, and Wanjira Mathai, Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute.
Activists Aridjis and Mathai are powerful, fierce, compassionate leaders in the global environmental movement. A writer and an organizer, they are also the daughters of iconic conservation heroes: Homero Aridjis,...
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2021 Nov 07
Handel's Italy
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
A selection of works celebrating Handel's time in Italy! We’re thrilled to return to the Memorial Church Sanctuary with this joyful program on the other side of the pandemic year. Featuring Benjamin P. Wenzelberg and Phoebe Carrai.
Handel: Selections from Rodrigo
Handel: Selected arias
Porpora: Cello concerto
Dall' Abaco: Concerto Grosso in D Major
Porpora: Selected arias
Free and open to the public. All attendees must be masked and will be asked to present either their Harvard ID at the door, or to show proof of vaccination, or to show a proof of...
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2021 Nov 05
Michael Twitty, "Beyond 'Slave Food': Re-Organizing the Perceptions and Potential of African American Foodways"
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Culinary historian Michael Twitty, author of the James Beard-winning book, The Cooking Gene, discusses the impact of the collective perceptions of African American foodways on how we experience a broader vision of healing. With such foodways often stigmatized as a continuation of socio-cultural trauma or defended with a mark of "authentic" racial identity, Twitty offers alternative ways to see how the revitalization of ancestral foodways and culinary justice is a necessary part of our collective national experience.
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