2022 Feb 17
This Ain’t Normal: Virtual Film Screening & Discussion
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
Please join us for a free virtual film screening of the documentary film, "This Ain't Normal." Register for a link to see the documentary at your convenience between February 15 and 16. Then join us for a discussion on...
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2022 Feb 16
Book Talk: Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Immigration Initiative at Harvard—Online
Dr. Angela M. Banks will discuss her recent book Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice.
Angela M. Banks is a legal scholar specializing in membership and belonging in democratic societies. She is the Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of...
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2022 Feb 15
Benin Bronzes in Context
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online
In Benin Bronzes in Context, Sarah Clunis will look at objects currently in the care of Harvard and discuss the way that these objects represent an iconographic and contextual story of trade, contact, and crossroads between cultures. Diana Loren will moderate a discussion after the presentation.
The bronze, ivory, and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes” were taken from Benin City as part of the British Punitive Expedition of 1897 and dispersed to private collections and museums around the world. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology...
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2022 Feb 15
Why the Mississippi Delta Matters
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
W. Ralph Eubanks is a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi, where he is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Join Eubanks as he discusses his upcoming book, which weaves together personal history, archival research, reporting, blues and popular culture, and interviews with current Delta residents to tell the region’s history and explore why many residents of this iconic region of Mississippi persist in trying to transform a place that has been deemed broken and beyond repair.
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2022 Feb 15
Shrinking Civic Space in Africa: Lessons from Uganda
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—Online
In this talk, Nicholas Opiyo—Carr Center Fellow, Scholar at Risk, and Human Rights Lawyer in Uganda—will analyze and explore the state arguments that have been made for limitations on the civic space in Africa. Throughout the discussion, he will trace relevant trends and examine the role of the international community in Africa’s political spheres. Noting that there are possible ways to push back against the shrinking of civic space, Opiyo will suggest new ways for civil society to organize effectively.
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2022 Feb 15
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront—its most treasured asset? The book’s authors study the lakefront’s evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Their findings have significance for understanding not only Chicago’s history but also the law’s part in determining the future of significant urban resources such as waterfronts.
Join us for a discussion on Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago with authors Joseph Kearney and Thomas Merrill and panelists Henry Smith, Richard...
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2022 Feb 15
Afghanistan After the Collapse: Where Are We Now, and What Comes Next?
11:00am to 12:15pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
On the six-month anniversary of the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan, this Negotiation Task Force virtual event, moderated by NTF Fellow Fara Abbas, explores Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Together with our expert panel of speakers, we will address the political, economic, and security developments in Afghanistan and the way forward. The consequences of a Taliban failure to govern are far reaching.
This event will address the following questions: What can be expected from the...
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2022 Feb 11
Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a 'Confiscated' Past
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard—Online
This lecture is part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series.
 
Shadreck Chirikure, Professor of Archaeology, University of Cape Town and British Academy Global Professor, School of Archaeology, Oxford University in conversation with Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT.
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2022 Feb 10
Peril to Democracy: Racism and Nationalism in America
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
The after effects of the January 6 insurrection continue to reverberate across America. Since that fateful and disturbing day, pushbacks against the teaching of race in America, abortion rollbacks, and Covid denialism have swept across the country. What has been the role of evangelical Christianity in fueling these issues?
Professor Anthea Butler's lecture will explore the historical antecedents of Evangelical beliefs and political action leading up to today’s troubling times, and the prospects for the future of religion, peace and political action in America.
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2022 Feb 10
Book Talk with Anita Hill
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
This installment in the Radcliffe Institute’s winter series of book talks will feature Anita Hill, author of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking, 2021). Professor Hill is University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
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2022 Feb 09
Education Now: Navigating Tensions Over Teaching Race and Racism
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
How can schools, educators, and families navigate the continued politicization and tensions around teaching and talking about race, racism, diversity, and equity? As laws banning critical race theory are passed, and the rhetoric grows intense, we'll discuss what educators and families can do to make sure students are supported, learning, and prepared with the knowledge they need to understand their own histories and the diverse and global society they’ll enter.
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2022 Feb 08
HLS Library Book Talk: Civil Rights Queen
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
Join Harvard Law School for a book talk on "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" by HLS Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin with panelists Kenneth Mack, Sheryll Cashin, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
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2022 Feb 07
Precipitation for an Arid Landscape Opening Discussion
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
In this opening discussion for Radcliffe’s contemporary art exhibition, Precipitation for an Arid Landscape, the artist Gala Porras-Kim will engage in a wide-ranging conversation with art historian Martha Buskirk. The exhibition grows out of Porras-Kim’s 2019–2020 fellowship at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her fellowship project centered on items dredged from the Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá, a Maya site in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, and how they arrived in the collections of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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2022 Feb 04
Patricia Sullivan, 'Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White'
1:00pm
Location: 
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard—Online
Former Hutchins Center Fellows discuss their recent works in. the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series.
Patricia Sullivan, Professor of History, University of South Carolina, in conversation with Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School.
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2022 Feb 03
Kim and Judy Davis Dean's Lecture in the Humanities with Midori
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
The 2022 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Humanities will feature Midori—artist, activist, and educator who explores and builds connections between music and the human experience, which makes her one of the most outstanding violinists of our time. She has performed with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras and has collaborated with world-renowned musicians, including Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, and many others.
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2022 Feb 01
Clay—Modeling African Design
Tue Feb 1 (All day) to Sun Nov 13 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
On View:
November 17, 2018–November 13, 2022
University Collections Gallery, African Art, Harvard Art Museums
This exhibition highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. Countering the assumption that African arts and societies are largely unchanging and bound to traditions and customs, the remarkable diversity of objects and styles on display here tells a different story. A selection of more than 50 works on loan from the...
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2022 Feb 01
Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World
Tue Feb 1 (All day) to Wed Feb 1 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World explores how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around the ancient Mediterranean transformed the lives and livelihoods of people at all levels of society, driving innovations that had lasting impacts—even on the modern world.
Make an advance reservation to visit the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
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2022 Feb 01
Muchos Méxicos: Crossroads of the Americas
Tue Feb 1 (All day) to Thu Feb 2 (All day)
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 1 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Muchos Méxicos explores Mexico’s rich history as a site of human innovation, creativity and cultural diversity. Featuring Mexican objects from the Peabody Museum collections, this bilingual exhibit tells the story of Mexico as a multicultural and geographic crossroads—one where the exchange of resources, products, and ideas among Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas before the Spanish invasion, and then with cultures around the globe—have all created a vibrant nation.
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2022 Jan 22
Himalayan Art: Art of the Divine Abode
Sat Jan 22 (All day) to Sun May 8 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
On View:
January 22, 2022–May 8, 2022
University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
Drawn from the museums’ rich Asian art collections, this installation complements a Harvard undergraduate course that explores the art of the Himalayan region, focusing on the major cultural centers such as the Kathmandu Valley and Buddhist sites across the Tibetan plateau, while examining the history of reception and imagination of the Himalayas in the west. The course is taught by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art. In...
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2022 Jan 22
Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs
Sat Jan 22 (All day) to Sun May 8 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
On View:
January 22, 2022–May 8, 2022
University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
From swaddling newborns to enshrouding the deceased, woven fabrics touch nearly every aspect of human existence. The textiles in this exhibition are particularly meaningful, for they tell a bigger story about political and social power, class, trade, and concerns for the afterlife during a transformative period in Egyptian history. In the medieval era, control of the region shifted repeatedly, as Egypt was subsumed under a sequence of empires—Byzantine,...
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