2022 Mar 31
Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
One of ancient Egypt's high points of cultural, intellectual, and social life was the period referred to as the Middle Kingdom (2030–1650 BCE). The ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) was the Egyptian capital during the early stage of this period and the site of multiple funerary temples and tombs. In this lecture, Egyptologist Antonio Morales will discuss an international and multidisciplinary project that is conducting archaeological, historical, and cultural research, as well as conservation work, in Deir el-Bahari and Asasif—two funerary areas at Thebes—to better understand the...
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2022 Mar 30
Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Sam Olbekson, “Culture, Community, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Indigenous Design”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Creating a strong sense of place is critical to cultural identity in Native American communities. New tribal building and planning projects provide significant opportunities for tribal communities to reinforce cultural revival efforts while advancing economic, educational, and healthcare initiatives. This session will encourage an open and interactive discussion of the central issues in tribal design and efforts to lead a fundamental shift toward culturally appropriate design solutions and self-determination. Plus, this session will highlight diverse Native American projects that have...
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2022 Mar 30
Field Studies: Hierarchy, Power Dynamics, and the Human Narrative
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Elizabeth A. Baker is a new renaissance artist who chiefly explores how sonic and spatial worlds can be manipulated to personify a variety of philosophies and principles, both tangible and intangible. In this lecture, she will discuss her new creation: Field Studies, which dismantles a human-centered narrative to foster dialogue and act as revolutionary resistance against systemic inequity.
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2022 Mar 28
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture: Anne Lacaton
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
French architect Anne Lacaton will deliver the inaugural Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture. Lacaton and partner Jean-Philippe Vassal received the 2021 Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor. 
Anne Lacaton (1955, Saint-Pardoux, France) and Jean-Philippe Vassal met in the late 1970s during their formal architecture training at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux. They established Lacaton & Vassal in Paris (1987), and have since demonstrated boldness...
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2022 Mar 27
Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave. & Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Special In-Person Family Event! Free with Museum Admission; Admissions Reservation Required.
Experience an epic day of archaeological events with the family! Activities are scattered across two museums so explore Native North American, Central American, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mediterranean archaeology. Throw a spear with a spear thrower. Talk to student archaeologists who excavate in locations around the world.
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2022 Mar 24
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Women and Health, with Eve Crompton
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In this tour, Eve Crompton ’23 will focus on works depicting women in poor health and what values were attributed to the figures. She will look at an Attic grave stele Woman Dying in Childbirth (c. 330 BCE); the painting Mother and Child (c. 1901) that Pablo Picasso was inspired to make after visiting a French prison hospital; and Erich Heckel’s painting ...
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2022 Mar 24
Feeding the Nation: Michael W. Twitty on American Foodways and the History of Enslavement
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Michael W. Twitty—food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter—is the author of the Afroculinaria blog and The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. He will discuss his insights about the role of enslaved people in shaping American foodways, as well as the critical importance of including stories of the enslaved prominently in public history and historical interpretation.
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2022 Mar 24
Bringing Digitalization Home: How Can Technology Address Housing Challenges?
Thu Mar 24 (All day) to Sat Mar 26 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Digitalization—the use of automated digital technologies to collect, process, analyze, distribute, use, and sell information—is spurring fundamental change in the way housing is produced, marketed, sold, financed, managed, and lived in. This symposium, organized by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, will feature leading scholars and experts from academia, industry, government, and advocacy groups. Participants will examine the nature and extent of technologically-driven changes and assess whether these changes are likely to further (...
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2022 Mar 23
Conservation in a Shifting Landscape: The Future of Modern Architecture in South Asia
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
“Conservation in a Time of Transition/ Shifting Landscape” is an event that aims to convene leading scholars working on architecture in South Asia to discuss what strategies and interpretations must conservation include to help cope with an increasingly contested and transitionary landscape that now characterizes the region. This event hopes to begin the process of reconceptualizing conservation practice in the face of such threats and current attitudes. It also aims to celebrate and build upon MoMA’s current exhibition focused on the architectural history of the region between 1947 and...
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2022 Mar 23
Women on the Frontlines of Revolution
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Erica Chenoweth is a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School. In this lecture, Chenoweth will present their ongoing research for their next book, written with Zoe Marks. Titled, “Rebel XX: Women on the Frontlines of Revolution,” the book is about the impact of women’s participation on revolutionary outcomes.
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2022 Mar 23
Women on the Frontlines of Revolution
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Erica Chenoweth is a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School. In this lecture, Chenoweth will present their ongoing research for their next book, written with Zoe Marks. Titled, “Rebel XX: Women on the Frontlines of Revolution,” the book is about the impact of women’s participation on revolutionary outcomes.
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2022 Mar 22
Equal Rights and Wrongs
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
On the 50th anniversary of the US Senate’s passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), leading experts on constitutional law, politics, gender, and race will explore the complex history and legacy of the ERA, female citizenship, and America's rights tradition more broadly.
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2022 Mar 22
Art Talk Live: Jozef Israëls—Drawing Toward Social Justice
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Figure drawing is often described by artists as a way of facilitating empathy and understanding another person’s vulnerability. A discussion of works by Jozef Israëls and his contemporaries, such as Vincent van Gogh, offers insights into the transformation of figure studies from an academic discipline into a vehicle for denouncing social injustice.
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2022 Mar 21
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Archive Matrix Assembly: Nana Last and Thomas Struth
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture with art and architecture theorist, Nana Last, and artist Thomas Struth. 
Nana Last MArch ’86 is an art and architecture theorist. She is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where she founded the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in the Constructed Environment. Her writing considers relations between architecture, art, philosophy and science in modern and contemporary society. Her books include:...
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2022 Mar 10
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Losing Your Head, with Sawyer Taylor-Arnold
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Sawyer Taylor-Arnold ’23 will highlight a few of the not-so-pretty subjects that have fascinated painters over the centuries—notably, head wounds, decapitated bodies, and severed heads. Moving through the museums’ collections, Taylor-Arnold will explore the symbolic and historical significance of Lorenzo Lotto’s portrait Friar Angelo Ferretti as St. Peter Martyr (1549), Gustave Moreau’s The Apparition (1876–77), and Johannes Molzahn’s...
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2022 Mar 10
Artists Surviving and Thriving in Recent Times
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
The upheaval of the past two years has acutely impacted artists’ careers and changed the ways in which they approach their work. In the next installment of our Radcliffe on the Road series, featuring Min Jin Lee RI ’19 and Ifeoma Fafunwa RI ’18, we will consider how artists have navigated the struggles and opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront.
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2022 Mar 09
Mexico Seminar: La Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and Their New Geographies of Mestizaje in the U.S.
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard—Online
Tens of thousands of indigenous peoples from Latin America have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority of those from Mexico and Mesoamerica traveling as family units. As a consequence, according to the 2020 US Census, the Native American population in the US increased by 86% since 2010. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken indigenous language in the United States, while Mixtec is taught as part of the bilingual education curriculum in New York City.
This is challenging how we define indigeneity in the United States, our official...
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2022 Mar 08
International Womxn’s Week Keynote Address: Nitasha Dhillon
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Womxn in Design‘s sixth annual International Womxn’s Week convenes a weeklong series of events that gathers members of the Harvard GSD community and beyond to celebrate and cultivate new ways of thinking about gender and power.
Speaker:
Nitasha Dhillon is a writer, artist, educator, and organizer. Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International...
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2022 Mar 08
Art Talk Live: A Conversation with Allan Edmunds
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Founded by Allan Edmunds in Philadelphia in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop and Archives provides a fertile environment for artists from diverse backgrounds to create cutting-edge prints. Reflecting on 50 years of artist residencies, educational outreach, and community building, Edmunds will discuss highlights from Brandywine’s history and share goals for new projects ahead.
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2022 Mar 07
Arrival: Panel Discussion
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard—Online
When aliens touchdown on Earth, linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and her team are tasked with determining why they are here and what they want. Our experts will discuss and debate the challenges that may arise in communicating with alien lifeforms and where the film succeeded and/or failed in this regard.
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