Events

    2023 May 18

    Art Study Center Seminar: 20th-Century Women at the Harvard Art Museums

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join the staff of the Harvard Art Museums Archives for a look into the experiences of women who worked and studied at the museums between 1920 and 1990.

    Drawing on documents, photographs, and oral history recordings, this talk will explore the Fogg Museum’s and Busch-Reisinger Museum’s legacy as the premier training ground for the next generation of museum professionals. Staff will also share findings from an ongoing project to expand the names of women previously referred to only by their husbands’ names in archival descriptions.

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    2023 May 16

    Art Talk Live: Collecting, Curating, and Teaching: Photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Fogg Museum

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    This talk focuses on how curators Davis Pratt, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Fogg Museum, and Barbara Norfleet, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, collected and curated photographs as teaching tools beginning in the 1960s. Curatorial fellow Jackson Davidow will also consider what types of photography were prioritized in these early collections, and whose images and voices were left out.

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    2023 May 11

    Gallery Talk: De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American art from the Spanish Empire

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a guided look at works of art in the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean, with associate curator Horace D. Ballard. Ballard will share insights about the ways in which the idea of “America” and the canon of American art are inseparable from the histories of Spanish colonialism across the hemisphere.

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    2023 May 11

    [CANCELED] Out of Many: American Stories

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    A Conversation with the writer Anand Giridharadas, who is the author of the international best seller Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Knopf, 2018) and the forthcoming The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (Knopf, 2022). A former foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and Time, and he is the publisher of the popular newsletter The.Ink.

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    2023 May 07

    Exhibition Tour: De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American art from the Spanish Empire

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a tour of the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean, with associate curator Horace D. Ballard. Ballard will share insights about the ways in which the idea of "America" and the canon of American art are inseparable from the histories of Spanish colonialism across the hemisphere.

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    2023 May 02

    When Leaders Become Parties: Populism, Charisma, and Party Building in the Andes

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online or at CGIS South, S-216, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

    This talk will discuss the crisis of Peruvian democracy as an extreme case of 'Democratic Hollowing' in Latin America. Unlike conventional views that focus on power concentration as the natural threat to democracy, the concept of democratic hollowing instead focuses on the threats stemming from power dilution.

    Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea Carpio, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica del Uruguay...

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    2023 Apr 20

    Gallery Talk: De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American art from the Spanish Empire

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a guided look at works of art in the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean, with associate curator Horace D. Ballard.

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    2023 Apr 18

    Divine Mortals: Royal Ancestor Worship in Deir el-Medina

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Yasmin El Shazly will discuss the importance of ancestor worship in Deir el-Medina—particularly of Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari. Prominently featured in homes, artwork, and tombs, these two royal figures held important positions in the Egyptian "hierarchy of being" and exerted great influence over the daily lives of Deir el-Medina residents.

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    2023 Apr 12

    Rebellious Migrants: Forging Abolition, Cosmopolitan Identities, and Postcolonial Spaces in West Africa, 1840–1960

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Ndubueze L. Mbah is a West African Atlantic historian. He will examine how marginal West African intra-regional and trans-colonial migrants across Sierra Leone, southeastern Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon used forgery, smuggling, human trafficking, and intransigent itinerancy to express anti-imperial and abolitionist notions of freedom as well as to articulate rebellious Afropolitan belonging in ways that redefined British, Spanish, and French colonial labor and subjecthood policies in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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    2023 Apr 11

    Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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    2023 Apr 09

    Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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    2023 Apr 06

    HUNAP Annual Lecture: Tommy Orange

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join the Harvard University Native American Program for a lecture by Tommy Orange, titled "The View From Here: POV, Its History and Uses in Fiction." 

    Tommy Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the author of There There, one of the New York Times' top books of 2018 and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. This will be the third installment of the HUNAP Annual Lecture, a series of talks intended to elevate and promote the sophistication of Native ideas, arts, literature, and culture.

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    2023 Apr 06

    Gallery Talk: De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American art from the Spanish Empire

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join exhibition designer Madelyn Albright for an in-depth discussion about one of the works in the exhibition De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, on view until July 30, 2023.

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    2023 Apr 05

    Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

    3:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join graduate student intern Sammi Richter for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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