2022 Feb 15
Shrinking Civic Space in Africa: Lessons from Uganda
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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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
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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 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 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 01
Apply to Volunteer at the Arnold Arboretum
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Location: 
Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Make a difference as an Arnold Arboretum Field Study Guide! Training for the spring season of school programs at the Arboretum begins March 29. We are looking for outgoing and mature adults who can commit to two years of volunteering. You do not need to know about plants, but experience working with children is preferred. If you are interested, please complete an application by March 11 for an interview.
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2021 Nov 23
College Apps 101: The Possible Pathways
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 19
Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic: Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Part 3)
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
The new genre of interior painting enjoyed great popularity among 17th-century Dutch citizens. Its indoor scenes featuring people involved in mundane activities resemble the domestic settings in which they were hung. Other art forms such as perspective boxes and dollhouses further reinforce the link connecting physical, pictorial, and mental space by relating home to the interiority of the individual.
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2021 Nov 19
Afghanistan and Its Consequences
1:00pm to 2:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online
Ryan Crocker, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon, will share his unique perspective on Afghanistan and offer insight into the implications of the 2021 Taliban takeover for the country and the region at large.
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2021 Nov 18
Reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto’s Musical Instruments
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Double reed pipes, known as auloi, were popular musical instruments in the ancient Mediterranean. In 1921, archaeologists exploring the necropolis of Meroë (northern Sudan)—as part of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition—found a large collection of auloi in the pyramid of Nubian Queen Amanishakheto. Susanne Gänsicke will discuss the discovery’s importance and what it reveals about the connections between Nubia and the Mediterranean world as well as the significance of far-reaching musical traditions. She will also share recent efforts to conserve...
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2021 Nov 17
Useful Objects: Nineteenth-Century Museums and American Culture
4:30pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
What can the history of museums tell us about their role in American culture today? What kinds of objects were considered worth collecting, and who decided their value? Join Reed Gochberg, author of Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, September 2021) to learn about the early history of American museums, including Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. In conversation with HMSC...
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2021 Nov 17
Education Now: Our Earliest Learners & their Caregivers
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
The early education landscape continues to shift under the weight of pandemic impacts. Join us as we take a look at where things stand for our young learners, their families, and the early educators who are trying to serve their needs.
We’ll highlight all that we know about the current challenges in early learning that need critical attention. We'll explore how our caregivers are managing their own stresses and helping young children navigate disruption and instability. And we’ll also offer strategies for perseverance and even innovation, focusing in on the solutions that...
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2021 Nov 17
Indian Collectibles: Appropriations and Resistance in the Haudenosaunee Homelands
12:00pm
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Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Scott Manning Stevens is an associate professor and director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. In this lecture, he will discuss his new project, which focuses on ways Indigenous communities can confront cultural alienation and appropriation in museums, galleries, and archives.
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2021 Nov 16
College Apps 101: The Essay
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal—Online
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 15
Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—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 became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Southern played an important institutional role at Harvard. 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...
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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 13
Harvard Dance Center Showing: Initiation – In Love Solidarity
4:00pm
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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
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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